Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave) Legislation Amendment Bill 2025
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (12:52): I’m interested to see the member for Fenner and the minister at the table. The member for Fenner has written a number of publications in recent years, one of which is entitled The Economics of Just About Everything:the hidden reasons for our curious choices and surprising successes. Apart from the 1,152 speeches he’s […]
MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – Cost of Living
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (16:23): This matter of public importance is the decline of Australia’s living standards during the government’s cost-of-living crisis, moved by the member for Goldstein, the shadow Treasurer. It is a matter of public importance and not, essentially, a matter of political importance. There’s a big difference, because the public are hurting. They are […]
MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – Cost of Living
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (16:06): I asked the Minister for Climate Change and Energy what I thought was a very reasonable question in question time today. I put to him: why hasn’t anyone—just anybody at all—in the Albanese Labor government taken responsibility and just said sorry for failing to deliver the $275 energy bill reduction promised to […]
STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS – Cost of Living
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (13:51): Under Labor, living standards have not only gone backwards; they are in such a poor and parlous state at the moment that ordinary, everyday Australians are wondering when they’re going to make ends meet. We heard yesterday in question time the Prime Minister and particularly the Treasurer going on about the fact […]
STATEMENTS ON SIGNIFICANT MATTERS – Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (17:29): Well said, Member for Sturt. It’s 2026, and there should be no more silence about domestic and family violence. There should be no more domestic and family violence. It is sad that we are devoting time, yet again, to this scourge—and it is a scourge. It’s a national scourge. It’s a scourge […]
Treasury Laws Amendment (Financial Reporting System Reform) Bill 2026
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (10:57): To quote Oscar Wilde, the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. Yes, I am being facetious; it’s not normally in my nature to do that. I could also quote the late Bert Lance, a Georgian banker and confidant of the 39th President of the United States of […]
Treasury Laws Amendment (Building a Stronger and Fairer Super System) Bill 2026, Superannuation (Building a Stronger and Fairer Super System) Imposition Bill 2026
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (18:40): The Treasurer has some explaining to do. He really does, because this legislation bells the cat on his failure. On his watch, what we saw was a proposal by the Australian Labor Party to put in an unrealised capital gain. Who would that have hurt the most? It would have hurt farmers, […]
Commonwealth Entities Legislation Amendment Bill 2026
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (17:34): The Commonwealth Entities Legislation Amendment Bill 2026 is, supposedly, presented as a governance modernisation measure. It is aimed at aligning certain statutory office holders with, apparently, contemporary accountability standards. It applies to the following entities: the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, the Australian Trade and Investment Commission, the Australian Safeguards and […]
PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Aviation Industry
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (18:08): The member for Leichhardt quoted Love Actually, and that’s a favourite movie of mine too. I promise I won’t show the chamber the little Love Actually clip I once shot whilst I was Deputy Prime Minister—maybe it might come out one day! But, to quote the airport scene, the Prime Minister, Hugh Grant, said this: […]
Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Universal Outdoor Mobile Obligation) Bill 2025
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (16:35): This legislation is being referred to as the UOMO legislation. It could also be called the FOMO legislation. I appreciate that UOMO means universal outdoor mobile obligation. FOMO, of course, means ‘fear of missing out’, and there’ll be a lot of people across Australia who will have FOMO when they hear what […]