ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS – Pacific Australia Labour Mobility Scheme
I am so glad the Minister for International Development and the Pacific is sitting at the table so he can hear this contribution, because despite warnings from the coalition and industry bodies, last year Labor and the minister ploughed ahead with unworkable changes to the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme, jeopardising our agricultural industry—he knows […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Home Ownership
Let’s put some facts on the table and some common sense into this debate, unlike the member for Moreton’s contribution. Let’s talk about what we did in our decade of government: 220,000 trade apprentices—a record high, member for Moreton—and 1,213 major transport projects supporting 100,000 jobs. I say that because, when you build homes, look […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Medicare
Indeed, the difference could not be more stark. Under the previous government, more than 94 million telehealth consultations through Medicare to 16 million patients was the number we achieved. There have been 857 new medicines listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme since 2019 alone. More than 128,000 Australians were supported by headspace each year and […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – BILLS – National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) Bill 2024 – Second Reading
If only the name of this bill—the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) Bill 2024—was exactly what was going to happen, because, if there is any piece of legislation coming before this House, and if there’s any aspect of society that needs to get back on track, it’s […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – BILLS – Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2024-2025, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2024-2025, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2024-2025 – Second Reading
‘Nfp’—does that mean ‘not-for-profit’? Well, if you google it and go to the Australian Taxation Office website, that’s the first mention, talking about tax concessions and the like for those wanting to set up a not-for-profit. But, unfortunately, when you read Budget Paper No. 2 and turn to page 56, under the heading ‘Murray-Darling Basin […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – MOTIONS – Domestic and Family Violence
Grieving father Tony Ticehurst told the 2 May funeral for his daughter Molly: ‘Every parent would like to see their child change the world, but not at this cost.’ Tony always had an inkling that his daughter Molly would be somebody who would change the world. But her death, allegedly at the hands of a […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – BUSINESS – Net Zero Economy Authority Bill 2024, Net Zero Economy Authority (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2024 – Second Reading
The Net Zero Economy Authority Bill 2024 and the Net Zero Economy Authority (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2024 will transition the current Net Zero Economy Agency from an executive agency within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to a standalone statutory authority, that being the Net Zero Economy Authority. Under the legislation, the authority’s […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – BILLS – Treasury Laws Amendment (Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions and Other Measures) Bill 2023, Superannuation Imposition Bill 2023 – Second Reading
As the member for Hinkler has just pointed out in very explicit detail, this tax on unrealised gains is, when it comes to farming property, just nonsense, and anybody with half a modicum of intelligence, financial know-how or acumen would appreciate just that. Before the May 2022 election, Labor promised, wrongly, that there would be […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – MOTIONS – Parliamentary Procedure
I second the motion. We know that standing and sessional orders do need to be suspended because, as the member for Fairfax states, this House has to reaffirm the importance of a proper and comprehensive consideration by this House—the people’s house, the house of what used to be democracy—of legislation dealing with matters of importance […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – CONDOLENCES – Cheng, Ms Yixuan, Darchia, Ms Pikria, Good, Ms Ashlee, Singleton, Ms Dawn, Tahir, Mr Faraz, Young, Ms Jade
We were all shocked when we saw the footage of the events unfolding at Westfield Bondi Junction on that fateful afternoon of Saturday 13 April. We have all done it: we’ve all gone shopping on a Saturday afternoon, looking for a gift, browsing—doing what ordinary, everyday Australians do, gathering in a peaceful place, a safe […]