Claire Clutterham's recent appearances (OpenAustralia.org)
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date: 2026-02-05T22:06:04+00:00
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items: Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 2) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Copyright Amendment Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Sturt Electorate: Awards and Honours | Adjournment | House debates
items: Health Care | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: Medicare Urgent Care Clinics | Statements by Members | House debates
items: Bondi Beach Attack Victims | Condolences | House debates
items: Albanese Government | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 1) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Commonwealth Parole Board Bill 2025, Commonwealth Parole Board (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Domestic and Family Violence | Statements by Members | House debates
items: Aged Care | Motions | House debates
items: Tertiary Education | Private Members' Business | House debates
items: Mental Health | Private Members' Business | House debates
items: Highbury Primary School | Statements by Members | House debates
items: Strengthening Oversight of the National Intelligence Community Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Sicilia Social and Sports Club Inc. | Constituency Statements | House debates
items: Energy | Questions without Notice | House debates

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title: Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) Bill 2025, Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
description: The bill also provides the ATEC with the function of preparing reports and providing advice and recommendations on improving higher education, access, participation and outcomes for those facing...
encoded: The bill also provides the ATEC with the function of preparing reports and providing advice and recommendations on improving higher education, access, participation and outcomes for those facing systemic barriers to education. We are at a generational juncture, and this is the moment to design an enduring higher education system that serves Australia's interests for decades to come. In building on the strengths of the current tertiary education framework, the ATEC is part of a system that will underpin Australia's economic and social prosperity. The ATEC must cement public confidence in the higher education system and become a longstanding and trusted source of tertiary policy expertise and stewardship and be a strong, independent body operating under the strategic direction of government, facilitating the mission of universities to be places of high-quality teaching and research and development that drives innovation, productivity and economic prosperity. I stand with the Prime Minister and Minister for Education as they prosecute this agenda, and I commend the bill to the House. Debate adjourned.
date: 2026-02-05T16:13:00+00:00

g33.1
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title: Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) Bill 2025, Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
description: I rise today to speak in support of the Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) Bill 2025. In establishing the Australian Tertiary Education Commission as a steward of the...
encoded: I rise today to speak in support of the Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) Bill 2025. In establishing the Australian Tertiary Education Commission as a steward of the higher education system, the bill implements a key recommendation from the Australian Universities Accord final report of 2024. The review that resulted in that final report was asked to examine Australia's higher education system and create a long-term plan for reform. The overarching theme can be simply stated. If Australia is to prosper in the years ahead, Australian participation, performance and investment in tertiary education needs to improve in order to generate the knowledge, skills and research our nation needs to meet our current and emerging social, economic and environmental challenges. It noted that there were chronic shortages of skilled professionals, including early childhood educators, teachers, aged-care workers, nurses and doctors. Increasingly, Australia is going to need greater numbers of engineers and others to transform our energy grid, advance our manufacturing sector, drive new discoveries and innovations, make our agriculture more sustainable and build new public infrastructure for our growing cities and regions. The recommendations proposed in the final review were broad, and they were ambitious. In order to successfully implement them, stronger leadership, planning and collaboration than is possible under the current system arrangements will be required, with a far greater emphasis on understanding policy and reform priorities and understanding evidence about the state of the system. So, to implement this broad and ambitious change, the review recommended that the Australian government establish the Australian Tertiary Education Commission, which would be tasked with providing the leadership and stewardship necessary to transform the system. The breadth of the challenge and the breadth of the reform needed to meet the challenge must be coordinate…
date: 2026-02-05T13:16:00+00:00

Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 2) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I rise today to speak in support of the Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 2) Bill 2025, which continues the government's response to the recommendations arising...
encoded: I rise today to speak in support of the Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 2) Bill 2025, which continues the government's response to the recommendations arising from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. This bill, which is further designed to simplify the veterans entitlement system, goes hand in glove with the amendments made in the Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 1) Bill 2025, which was introduced into the parliament last year. Also a feature of last year was the passage of the Veterans' Entitlements, Treatment and Support (Simplification and Harmonisation) Act 2024, or the VETS act, which operates to streamline and simplify legislation relating to veterans from 1 July 2026 by removing the complex tri-act system. Under current arrangements, veteran entitlements are provided under three separate compensation acts—the MRCA, the Veterans' Entitlements Act and the DRCA—and eligibility under one of these acts depends on when the veteran served and which periods of service caused or contributed to the condition being claimed. The simplification act modifies these arrangements by providing that, from 1 July 2026, all claims for compensation and rehabilitation will be determined under an improved MRCA. Significant consultation was undertaken between 2022 and 2024 to ensure the simplification act reflected the lived experience of veterans and their families. The amendments made in this bill will implement certain aspects of the policy intention that was developed under that consultation. Pursuant to the VETS act, from 1 July 2026, all veterans' rehabilitation and compensation claims will be dealt with under a single piece of legislation—not three—which is known as the MRCA or the recrafted Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004. To ensure that that date can be met, a number of technical amendments to the VETS act are required, and that is what the bill before us does. In esse…
date: 2026-02-03T18:19:00+00:00

Copyright Amendment Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I rise today to speak in support of the Copyright Amendment Bill 2025. Like the member for Nicholls, I, too, was in a band in high school, but I'm confident that no-one would have been trying to...
encoded: I rise today to speak in support of the Copyright Amendment Bill 2025. Like the member for Nicholls, I, too, was in a band in high school, but I'm confident that no-one would have been trying to breach our copyright! This bill operates to amend the Copyright Act 1968 to introduce an Australian orphan works scheme; to clarify the scope of section 28, relating to the performance and communication of copyright material in the course of educational instruction; and to make other minor technical amendments. The two main measures in this bill arose from a series of ministerial copyright roundtables held in 2023 which brought together stakeholders from a range of sectors to identify and discuss copyright priorities and other emerging issues, and this was done with a view to developing practical and achievable copyright reform proposals for consideration by government. On 4 December 2023, the then attorney-general, the Hon. Mark Dreyfus KC, chaired the fourth and final of the series of roundtables on copyright, where 44 participating organisations from a wide range of sectors with an interest in copyright attended. The purpose of this roundtable was for the then attorney-general to hear from participants on the outcomes of discussions that had been held to date and to discuss potential next steps on five reform issues that had been considered in detail throughout the year. Those related to a scheme for the use of orphan works, quotations from copyright material, the use of copyright material in remote learning environments, the implications of AI for copyright law and the definition of 'broadcast' for the purposes of copyright law. So the reforms we're now being offered by this bill are intended to implement what was agreed as part of the roundtable process in relation to orphan works and section 28. We start with section 28, which covers the performance and communication of works or other subject matter in the course of educational instruction. This section provides that, …
date: 2026-02-03T17:47:00+00:00

Sturt Electorate: Awards and Honours | Adjournment | House debates
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description: I rise today to share stories of exceptional contributions being made by selfless and incredible people living in my electorate of Sturt. Sturt is home to seven local councils, and many of these...
encoded: I rise today to share stories of exceptional contributions being made by selfless and incredible people living in my electorate of Sturt. Sturt is home to seven local councils, and many of these local councils celebrated and recognised their outstanding citizens as part of their recent Australia Day awards. It was a privilege to be able to attend several of these ceremonies and to learn more about these remarkable people. The citizen of the year at the Port Adelaide Enfield city council Australia Day awards was Ms Debbie Grace. In 2007, Debbie founded the OC Challenge, which is a not-for-profit charity that supports South Australian women with ovarian cancer, raises funds, educates and raises awareness about this cruel illness. Through the efforts of the OC Challenge, not only can newly diagnosed patients at the Royal Adelaide Hospital access a psychologist but they can access a dedicated nurse and support staff who are available to patients throughout their treatment and afterwards. This free service has, so far, supported over 230 women from metropolitan and regional areas in private and public health settings. Ovarian cancer is known as a silent killer because, by the time it presents, it has spread. Outcomes are poor, and a diagnosis can be devastating. Ovarian cancer has touched my family, and it means a great deal to me to know that people like Debbie are working selflessly to support affected patients and their families. Thank you, Debbie. The Burnside city council's young citizen of the year was Tom Edwards, who was recognised for his longstanding service to the mighty Glenunga Rams footy club, where he has served as a committee member, secretary and president, as well as still playing in the backlines in the senior men's competition. Tom has dedicated countless hours to the club to create opportunities for players, families and volunteers. Under Tom's stewardship, the club's women's program has both skyrocketed and enjoyed success. I've met with Tom several…
date: 2026-02-03T19:45:00+00:00

Health Care | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering more urgent care clinics across the country? Why is it important for Australians to be able...
encoded: My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering more urgent care clinics across the country? Why is it important for Australians to be able to access urgent care when they need it after a decade of cuts and neglect?
date: 2026-02-03T15:12:00+00:00

Medicare Urgent Care Clinics | Statements by Members | House debates
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description: On 17 December 2025, a new Medicare urgent care clinic opened in a suburb of Norwood, in my electorate of Sturt, providing the people of Sturt with free and accessible urgent medical care. When I...
encoded: On 17 December 2025, a new Medicare urgent care clinic opened in a suburb of Norwood, in my electorate of Sturt, providing the people of Sturt with free and accessible urgent medical care. When I recently met with staff members Dr Max Adams and nurse Kirsten to ask how the clinic was going, they told me that, since opening, approximately 40 patients a day had sought and received care, and that of those 40 patients, 75 per cent would probably have had to seek treatment at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Urgent care clinics work by taking the strain off the hospital system. They take away the stress, time and uncertainty of attending a hospital emergency room, and they mean that people who need non-life-threatening urgent care can get it. People like Janet and Peter, who live in Kensington Gardens. When I doorknocked them last week, they told me they had received prompt and quality care when Janet, who is in a wheelchair due to MS, suffered an injury to her ankle, requiring stitches. Or like Hermione, who wrote to me and said: … my daughter used the walk in Medicare clinic at Norwood on NYE. It was great. She got the high quality care she needed in a timely fashion without sitting around in emergency for hours. Hermione, like the more than one million visitors to urgent care clinics across Australia, understands that taking the strain off hospitals is what urgent care clinics are all about.
date: 2026-02-03T13:52:00+00:00

Bondi Beach Attack Victims | Condolences | House debates
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description: I begin by expressing my deepest condolences to the families, friends and communities grieving the unimaginable loss caused by the Bondi terror attack. Our nation is still shaken by the events...
encoded: I begin by expressing my deepest condolences to the families, friends and communities grieving the unimaginable loss caused by the Bondi terror attack. Our nation is still shaken by the events that unfolded at Bondi Beach on Sunday 14 December 2025. The grief felt across Australia is immense. Fifteen precious lives were taken in an act of hatred and evil. Like so many Australians, I've been struggling to comprehend the scale of this tragedy and the pain it has caused across communities. Like many people, I don't recall being as sad or as deeply sorry in my adult life. On 18 December 2025 I attended an interfaith vigil at St Francis Xavier Cathedral in Adelaide, called 'Hope in the light'. In those quiet moments of reflection, I looked around the cathedral and saw people of many faiths and people of no faith, sitting shoulder to shoulder in peace, grief and solidarity. Faith leaders read prayers of hope during the vigil—Buddhist, Hindu, Anglican, Catholic, Uniting Church and Jewish. It was a powerful expression of the Australia we strive to be, a country where compassion triumphs over division and where humanity matters. The Jewish prayer was led by Rabbi Frankie from the Beit Shalom synagogue in my electorate of Sturt. Rabbi Frankie spoke with clarity and grace. His message was a simple but profound reminder of what is needed now and always: partnership with the Jewish community, not just today but every day, grounded in respect, empathy and a shared commitment to reducing suffering. Exactly one month before the events of 14 December, I met with the President of the Jewish Community Council of South Australia, Annetay Henderson-Sapir, to get a better understanding of the antisemitism being experienced by the Jewish community in my home state of South Australia. Annetay shared the disturbing frequency of antisemitic incidents in South Australia, occurring on a weekly basis, primarily on our university campuses, but rarely being reported. Hearing this was confronting …
date: 2026-01-19T16:04:00+00:00

Albanese Government | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering for Australians, including helping them to earn more and keep more of what they earn? How does this compare...
encoded: My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering for Australians, including helping them to earn more and keep more of what they earn? How does this compare with other approaches?
date: 2025-11-26T14:19:00+00:00

Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 1) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I rise today to speak in support of the Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 1) Bill 2025, which continues the government's response into the recommendations...
encoded: I rise today to speak in support of the Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 1) Bill 2025, which continues the government's response into the recommendations arising from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. The final report from that royal commission contained 122 recommendations. These evidence based recommendations were designed to set out a blueprint for the transformational reform required to address the national tragedy of defence and veteran suicide—and it is a national tragedy. The entire defence and veteran ecosystem was considered by the recommendations, meaning they touched Commonwealth, state and territory government agencies and other institutions responsible for the health and wellbeing of serving and ex-serving Australian Defence Force members and their families. According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, at least 1,677 serving and ex-serving ADF members died by suicide between 1997 and 2021. That's more than 20 times the number of defence personnel killed in active duty over the same period. But the royal commission estimates the true number of preventable deaths to be upwards of 3,000. This is a crisis, and the gravity of the crisis cannot be underestimated. Further recommendations from the royal commission included: the development of a doctrine on people, capability and service for the ADF to make clear that Australia's military capability and operational readiness depend on a physically and mentally healthy workforce; public reporting on ADF culture, health and wellbeing, and incorporating member's health and wellbeing in senior-level performance appraisals, as well as ensuring promotion selection processes reward leaders who have a positive impact on wellbeing and culture; to strengthen defence and Department of Veterans' Affairs research, data collection and analysis, and data sharing, to enhance their ability to identify, understand and monitor the impact of risk and protective…
date: 2025-11-26T12:56:00+00:00

Commonwealth Parole Board Bill 2025, Commonwealth Parole Board (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: The objective that the board be equipped with the tools to make independent, impartial and accurate decisions regarding parole and other forms of conditional release will be achieved in the...
encoded: The objective that the board be equipped with the tools to make independent, impartial and accurate decisions regarding parole and other forms of conditional release will be achieved in the Commonwealth Parole Board Bill, which provides the functions and powers of the board, the chair and the deputy chair and outlines the board's decision-making arrangements, including convening meetings, quorum, voting at meetings, and providing for the appointment of office holders and sessional members who have the expertise to support the risk-informed decision-making required of the board. The board will also have conferred on it powers to make those efficient and effective independent, risk-informed decisions about the conditional release and management of federal offenders and other detained persons. The Commonwealth Parole Board (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill will operate to amend the Crimes Act to give effect to the Parole Board Bill. One of the most important aspects of schedule 1 to the consequential provisions bill is that those amendments to the Crimes Act facilitate the shift of the decision-making responsibility regarding parole and conditional release from the Attorney-General to the board in a way that ensures that the transfer of parole decision-making functions from the Attorney-General to the new Commonwealth Parole Board occurs seamlessly and does not impact the effective operations of state and territory corrective services or law enforcement agencies. This is in order to align with best-practice approaches in current operations in states, territories and internationally. In this respect, the bill makes a number of changes to parole decision-making, with the specific goal of providing the board with flexibility to ensure that decisions are made effectively and efficiently but still in concert with the critical statutory protections and time frames for offenders to be considered for parole. The current operation of the Crimes Act requires the d…
date: 2025-11-25T17:19:00+00:00

Commonwealth Parole Board Bill 2025, Commonwealth Parole Board (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I rise today to speak in support of the Commonwealth Parole Board Bill 2025 and the Commonwealth Parole Board (Consequential and Transitional Provisions Bill) 2025. These bills are an important...
encoded: I rise today to speak in support of the Commonwealth Parole Board Bill 2025 and the Commonwealth Parole Board (Consequential and Transitional Provisions Bill) 2025. These bills are an important step in ensuring that, for federal offences, there is an independent and effective process for assessing the risk of releasing an offender and an independent and effective process for determining whether to grant, deny or cancel parole—and to set appropriate conditions for parole release. In order to do this, the bills make consequential amendments to part 1B of the Crimes Act of 1914, which is the part of that legislation that deals with sentencing, imprisonment and release of federal offenders. There are 10 divisions within this part, covering general sentencing principles; sentences of imprisonment; the fixing of non-parole periods and recognisance release orders; conditional release on parole or licence, including revocation of parole or licence; discharge without conviction; conditional release and alternative sentencing; unfitness to be tried; acquittal because of mental illness; summary disposition of persons suffering from mental illness or intellectual disability, including alternative sentencing for persons falling within those categories; and finally, the sharing of information in relation to federal offences. It is therefore entirely appropriate that these two bills would amend part 1B of the Crimes Act 1914 to establish a statutory independent Commonwealth parole board to make effective and risk-informed decisions about the conditional release and management of federal offenders and other detained persons. Federal offences are offences against the law of the Commonwealth, and a federal offender is one who commits a federal offence. It is only fair to the people of Australia that decisions regarding the release of federal offenders into the community are to be made following a carefully managed process that has at its heart community safety. Australians expect thi…
date: 2025-11-25T17:19:00+00:00

Domestic and Family Violence | Statements by Members | House debates
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description: (): From 25 November to 10 December, we mark the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, a global campaign calling for an end to violence against women and girls. Recently,...
encoded: (): From 25 November to 10 December, we mark the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, a global campaign calling for an end to violence against women and girls. Recently, I had the privilege of meeting with Kae and Lindy from the Flinders club of Zonta International in Adelaide, an organisation doing remarkable work to empower women and girls in our community. Zonta stands for women's rights and advocates for equality, education and an end to child marriage and gender based violence. In Adelaide, Zonta's efforts range from advocacy to practical support such as contributing handmade breast pads for inclusion in packs given to new mothers leaving hospital who would otherwise be leaving with nothing. These small acts of care make a big difference. This year I proudly wear the orange ribbon, alongside many of my parliamentary colleagues, as a visible symbol of solidarity and commitment to ending gender based violence. I am proud to serve in a government that is committed to ending violence against women and children—a government that has invested more than $4 billion towards this goal. Violence against women is preventable. It requires awareness, action and accountability. Let's use these 16 days, and every day, to work towards a future where women and girls live free from violence.
date: 2025-11-25T13:47:00+00:00

Aged Care | Motions | House debates
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description: It is a blessing to get old, to age, to have lots of birthdays, to be surrounded by children and grandchildren, like Norma Boyce, who lives at the Estia aged-care facility in Myrtle Bank in my...
encoded: It is a blessing to get old, to age, to have lots of birthdays, to be surrounded by children and grandchildren, like Norma Boyce, who lives at the Estia aged-care facility in Myrtle Bank in my electorate of Sturt and who I recently visited to celebrate her 100th birthday—or like Elodie, who lives at the aged-care facility in Rostrevor, who I was also lucky enough to see on her 101st birthday. You might even be as lucky as my nanna, who made it to the grand age of 90 and who, when she passed, was surrounded by not only her six children and 14 grandchildren but also 10 great-grandchildren. Not everyone gets that opportunity, so to get old is a blessing, and elderly Australians still have a contribution to make as they age. They still have value. Norma and Elodie are still sharp. My nanna had very strong opinions on the performance of the Adelaide Crows, on politics, on her community. More candles on the birthday cake does not mean fewer opinions, contributions or views or less value. In Australia, being old should not mean being forgotten or overlooked or provided with anything less than exceptional care. Being an older member of the community should not mean you don't have a choice in how you live your life, where you live your life or what support you need to continue to live your life to its fullest. Every day that an older Australian spends in hospital when they should be discharged home or in another, more appropriate care environment is not okay. Every day that an older Australian waits for the service they need to enable them to continue to live their lives the way they want to is not okay. A higher level of care available at home means that more older Australians will be able to get the support they need without going into a clinical setting. Importantly, they'll be able to stay at home as they recover from the health challenges that they face without having to return to hospital. Now, all of these reforms do not happen in one weekend. A major milestone was 1 …
date: 2025-11-24T17:36:00+00:00

Tertiary Education | Private Members' Business | House debates
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description: I move: That this House: (1) commends the Government for delivering on its commitment to cut student debt by 20 per cent for: (a) apprenticeship support loans; (b) the Higher Education Loan...
encoded: I move: That this House: (1) commends the Government for delivering on its commitment to cut student debt by 20 per cent for: (a) apprenticeship support loans; (b) the Higher Education Loan Program; (c) student start-up loans; (d) vocational education and training student loans; and (e) the student financial supplement schemes; (2) recognises that this will help more than three million Australians, whose student debt balances backdated to 1 June 2025 will begin to be reduced this month as the Australian Taxation Office implements the change; (3) acknowledges that this will reduce the average student debt of $27,600 by $5,520, and when combined with the Government's 2024 changes to indexation, will cut approximately $20 billion in debt; (4) welcomes the Government's changes to make student loan repayments fairer by: (a) replacing the current repayment system with a new marginal repayment system; and (b) raising the minimum income threshold for repayments from $54,435 in 2024-25 to $67,000 in 2025-26; (5) further acknowledges that reducing the debt burden for Australian graduates will help them build a better future for themselves and their families; and (6) further commends the Government for: (a) taking action on issues of intergenerational fairness; (b) building a better and fairer education system; and (c) supporting Australians with cost of living measures. On 3 November 2024 at Norwood International High School in my electorate of Sturt the Prime Minister made an announcement that reflects Labor's commitment to education, to the notion that education is a right and to the understanding that education lifts people out of poverty, gives them opportunities and allows them to contribute to our community and to provide for their families. It allows them access to the employment market, to good, secure and meaningful jobs. A good education is good for working families, working families that Labor will always strive to protect. That announcement was that Labor would sl…
date: 2025-11-24T12:26:00+00:00

Mental Health | Private Members' Business | House debates
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description: Can I start by thanking my friend the member for Monash for her work in the mental health space and for advocating for better mental health outcomes for her community. On Sunday 9 November 2025,...
encoded: Can I start by thanking my friend the member for Monash for her work in the mental health space and for advocating for better mental health outcomes for her community. On Sunday 9 November 2025, I joined a small group of like minded people as we participated in a five-kilometre walk through beautiful Linear Park located in my electorate of Sturt. The walk was organised by Rotary Australia as part of a national initiative to 'lift the lid' on talking about mental health to raise awareness of mental health across Australia, with funds raised as part of the initiative going towards mental health research and noting that, in 2025, $500,000 has been raised as part of the Lift the Lid walks. My Lift the Lid walk was championed by the Magill Sunrise Rotary Club, and I acknowledge Lindsay Davis and his team for their efforts in putting the morning together. Lindsay and his colleagues at the Magill Sunrise Rotary Club recognised that now, more than ever, we need to break down the stigma that continues to plague our society so that people are more comfortable discussing and seeking help for mental health issues. The Lift the Lid walk held in Sturt was held on a beautiful, fresh morning, with everyone in purple T-shirts and no-one racing to finish the walk first but everyone simply walking together to talk to each other, to provide company for each other and to ask how everyone was doing. Unsurprisingly, everyone that I walked with was dealing with a mental health challenge of some degree. This is not weakness; this is life. The Albanese Labor government is determined to provide mental health help to Australians by delivering more mental health services in communities across this country, including a Medicare mental health clinic in Sturt, which will offer free, walk-in mental health support services. When the Sturt clinic opens, it will be one of more than 90 mental health centres operating across Australia and part of the government's historic plan to strengthen Medicare wit…
date: 2025-11-24T12:01:00+00:00

Highbury Primary School | Statements by Members | House debates
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description: At Highbury Primary School, in the north-eastern part of my electorate of Sturt, the students care deeply about honouring our Defence Force personnel—those who serve and those who have...
encoded: At Highbury Primary School, in the north-eastern part of my electorate of Sturt, the students care deeply about honouring our Defence Force personnel—those who serve and those who have served our country, particularly those who made the ultimate sacrifice and lost their lives in battle. Under the leadership of Principal Belinda Smith, the commitment of the student body to honouring our veterans is apparent not just on Anzac Day or Remembrance Day but every day because their school houses are named after soldiers who grew up in the Highbury area and who signed up to serve our country. When I recently visited Highbury Primary School to present them with pristine, new Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags for them to fly on Remembrance Day, year 3 students Ariana and Connor and year 6 students Johnathan and Dario gave me a tour of the school, showed me the flagpoles and spoke to me about why their school houses are named the way that they are. Foggo, Elliot, Smart, Tolley—four young men, not significantly older than the students who attend Highbury Primary School now, whose acts of bravery and stories are being remembered and celebrated by the students and whose lives and sacrifice are a continual reminder to the students of how to live the school values of persistence, resilience, respect and responsibility. I congratulate and thank the students for acknowledging and remembering the service of these four local veterans.
date: 2025-11-24T13:55:00+00:00

Strengthening Oversight of the National Intelligence Community Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I rise today to speak on the Strengthening Oversight of the National Intelligence Community Bill 2025. Earlier this year, the director-general of security delivered the annual threat assessment,...
encoded: I rise today to speak on the Strengthening Oversight of the National Intelligence Community Bill 2025. Earlier this year, the director-general of security delivered the annual threat assessment, which had a number of key messages, including the importance of looking forward; of anticipation; of identifying trends, patterns and fundamental long-term shifts in behaviour. The past and present are, of course, still relevant, but a future-facing outlook was described by the director-general as being critical at this junction in our security environment—as being necessary to be prepared to meet the varied, dynamic, unpredictable and constantly moving and changing risks and challenges that we face. To do this, the director-general and his dedicated and committed team scrutinise open-source information, rely on subject matter experts, draw on expertise in analytical techniques and review and analyse classified intelligence. This painstaking and important work is done with a view to producing full, frank, indepth assessments about future trajectories and vulnerabilities, underpinned by data and evidence that has been verified and validated. This sort of knowledge helps us anticipate the security environment and, in turn, helps us prepare so Australians are kept safe. There can be no argument: there is no greater responsibility for a government than keeping Australians safe. Intelligence and security agencies must be appropriately equipped and resourced, and the legislative framework must facilitate this without hindrance by prescribing specific powers that allow our intelligence and security agencies to detect, disrupt and respond to threats to the nation's security. Given the significance of these powers and their potential to infringe on individual rights and freedoms if not clearly and precisely defined, they must be balanced with proper and appropriate oversight to ensure public trust is maintained and the rule of law is upheld. This is especially critical given that the…
date: 2025-11-24T12:55:00+00:00

Sicilia Social and Sports Club Inc. | Constituency Statements | House debates
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description: My electorate of Sturt is home to a thriving Italian community, and the Sicilia Social and Sports Club on OG Road at Klemzig is one of the heartbeats. Just a week ago, the Sicilia club celebrated...
encoded: My electorate of Sturt is home to a thriving Italian community, and the Sicilia Social and Sports Club on OG Road at Klemzig is one of the heartbeats. Just a week ago, the Sicilia club celebrated its 50th birthday with a very big party. Excellent food, good wine, a beautifully decorated room and a rocking dance floor with sharply dressed dancers are what you'd expect at a big celebration, and this is definitely what the Sicilia club delivered. But it also delivered a valuable lesson in history and culture and in what the benefits of a strong community can bring. The club's president for the past 18 years, Rita Bianca Palumbo, spoke proudly of the Sicilian region and the Sicilian ethos and traditions that the club that has lovingly maintained for 50 years. The club's colours are red and yellow, the colours of the Sicilian flag, and its logo is the trinacria, which has Greek heritage but represents the island of Sicily. The Medusa head represents the power of the sea and protection by the Greek goddess Athena, the stalks of wheat represent the fertility of the land of Sicily, and the three legs represent the three capes or ports at each extremity of the triangular shaped island that is Sicily. The idea for the club was born between two of the original members, who had immigrated to Australia from Sicily and who wanted to socialise with other Sicilian migrants. The club began in people's houses but, as numbers grew, bigger facilities were required, and the club's first external premises were developed at Camden Park. The present-day facility at Klemzig has been the club's permanent home since 1992. The club's original motivations of holding onto and passing on the culture, values and traditions that the Sicilian immigrants brought with them and of providing a safe, supportive social network for the members have remained, but a new goal has also formed. It's one that Rita and her colleagues are pursuing with vigour. That goal is firmly directed at second- and third-gene…
date: 2025-11-06T11:39:00+00:00

Energy | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: My question is to the Treasurer. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to make the most of the global transformation to cleaner, cheaper and more reliable energy? How does this compare to...
encoded: My question is to the Treasurer. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to make the most of the global transformation to cleaner, cheaper and more reliable energy? How does this compare to other approaches?
date: 2025-11-05T14:25:00+00:00