address to parliament – BILLS – Identity Verification Services Bill 2023, Identity Verification Services (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023 – Second Reading
The two bills before us deal with identity verification. Identity verification is such that a person’s identity is electronically confirmed by comparing a person’s face or biographic details with existing records. I come to this place as somebody who ran the 2016 census. I don’t want anybody to smile or laugh, but having been given […]
address to parliament – BILLS – Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023 – Consideration in Detail
Consideration in detail, schedules 1 and 2—this is bad policy. The SPEAKER: The member for Riverina, you are entitled to speak on this regarding Ms Sharkie’s amendment. Mr McCORMACK: I’ll speak to the amendments, and the amendments include buybacks. The amendments include— The SPEAKER: Order. The amendment that we’re dealing with before the House is […]
address to parliament – MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – Australian Constitution: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
I’m glad that the member for Fremantle mentioned public health in this matter of public importance, because public health is important. Indeed, we heard the minister for health today talking about urgent GP clinics, Medicare clinics and the Ipswich hospital-hotel. It’s not Happy Hour for pharmacists, let me tell you. I know it was a […]
address to parliament – STATEMENTS – Israel
As I said previously, I mourn for those families who have lost loved ones. This—and I’m not using it as a prop; I’m using it as a piece of evidence—is a notice of intention to hold a public assembly. It’s a two-page document, it’s available online and it’s what should’ve been filled out when there […]
address to parliament – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Stronger Communities Program
We’ve just had five minutes from the member for Moreton, who once famously said, ‘If a country road hasn’t had a lick of bitumen on it for 70 years, why would you bitumen it now?’ That’s what he thought about a country dirt road that was getting an upgrade under the Nationals in government. The […]
address to parliament – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – National Cultural Policy
I like the member for Macquarie, but sometimes I think Labor members come into this place and want to read a shopping list of faults that came under the coalition’s watch. It is not the truth. In the spirit of bipartisanship, here we go, I’m going to praise the Labor candidate who ran against me […]
address to parliament – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Energy Supply
This motion is about blackouts, this motion is about energy and this motion is about what we can do to secure our future. We’ve just heard the member for Lyons talking about the Liberal government. He forgets also that the Nationals were in government with the Liberals. It’s not always and all about the Liberal […]
address to parliament – BILLS – Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 – Consideration of Senate Message
I’d really like to say that Labor was in a policy vacuum, but unfortunately it is not. The trouble is: the policies being put forward by this government are bad, wrong-headed and short-sighted, and you only need to look at the amendments that have been brought into this House now, under the Housing Australia Future […]
address to parliament – BILLS – Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 – Consideration of Senate Message
Here we go! Members opposite will be interested to know I just googled ‘lovers getting back together in songs’. They’re ‘Whatever it Takes’ by Lifehouse, ‘Reunited’ by Peaches and Herb—I like this one—’Let’s Stay Together’ by Al Green, but the best one of all is Katy Perry’s ‘Never Really Over’ because it never was really […]
address to parliament – ADJOURNMENT – Energy Infrastructure, National Soils Advocate
I will just sidetrack to the member for Lingiari, and I do thank her for her contribution. I do acknowledge that there have been some terrible things said about the Minister for Indigenous Australians, but I also acknowledge that Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has also been subjected to some very nasty remarks. I would ask […]