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Let's tax housing a whole lot more; let's set a minimum 30 per cent tax and a maximum 47 per cent.
What is happening with that?
I will just put out straight away that the opposition is not going to oppose the Treasury Laws Amendment (Stre…
I move: That the amendments be agreed to. I want to thank members in this House and the other place for thei…
Documents are tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details…
I join with the Prime Minister in acknowledging and commending Tony Wright. More than 50 years in journalism i…
I'd like to speak for a moment about a true treasure of the press gallery, Tony Wright, who's with us in the g…
I have every confidence in the Minister for Veterans' Affairs. Indeed, I consider it to be one of the great pr…
Thank you to the member for McEwen for that really important question. Last night, as he knows, the Senate pas…
I thank the member for Robertson for his question and for his outstanding work looking after the people of the…
Right around the world, the organisations that invest in the news are losing revenue to the tech platforms tha…
(): I declare that, unless otherwise ordered, the following bills stand referred to the Federation Chamber fo…
Labor has lost control of the cheque book, and Australian households are paying the price. https://t.co/cgFGCN…
Answers Overdue: Senate Inquiry into Contaminated Blood Scandal. https://t.co/KijOCLn8Pk
I was told to shut up and get on with it.
On 20 January this year, a great injustice was done to Australia's law-abiding firearm owners, who number near…
Sorry, Chair, because we're batching, could I note my opposition to sheets 3826, 3829, 3830, 3833, 3844 and 38…
by leave—I was hoping I could note my support noted for amendment (2) on sheet 3829 and amendments (2) and (4)…
Of course we'll be transparent. Of course we'll let you know the business rules.
I have a follow-up on that. Thank you for the explanation. SOPIs aside, I was interested in the use of algorit…
Minister, I know we're running out of time. I do have a few questions. I first wanted to echo a few of the thi…
Like many people here, I have work-experience students come into the office fairly regularly. I think it's imp…
That's correct, thank you. The incorporated speech read as follows— As the proud patron of One Big Voice, I w…
Firstly, well said, member for Groom. What a great tribute to both your father and the people who gave him gre…
The level of virus in the upper throat of vaccinated people with a serious infection was the same as the level…
I table a further addendum to the explanatory memorandum and supplementary explanatory memoranda relating to t…
A human right that cannot be sustained is a right that is effectively denied.
As I indicated in my answer earlier, that rule-making provision allows the minister to essentially establish a…
Senator Steele-John, the premise of your question is not quite correct, and it's perhaps worth explaining it.…
I think it would depend on the circumstances, Senator. The prohibition is on the release of protected informat…
Not unless it contains that protected information that we were speaking about earlier. Senator.
The act defines protected information, Senator, and I'm paraphrasing here, but, in general and non-legal terms…
The advice that I have is that, if an employee of the NDIA or of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission do…
I think the advice we have is no and that the protections that are in place that protect the personal details…
AUKUS promises billions of dollars of investment, thousands of highly skilled jobs and the opportunity to esta…
Labor under Anthony Albanese has failed the most basic requirement of a government, which is to ensure that it…
What if I asked for with that with the personal details redacted? I'm not interested in personal details.
As a senator, I ask questions in Senate estimates. I'm not interested in personal details. I wouldn't like to…
Let me check my understanding: it's only to personal details, personal disclosure?
I'm not alluding to any people in their current position, but, in the future, if a CEO, board member, commissi…
Couldn't normal redaction processes cover the personal confidential details?
The amendment before us seeks to make sure that the privacy provisions are being used as intended, and, in doi…
Couldn't it simply, in the interests of openness, require redaction of personal details?
Senator Roberts, it might assist you if I talk through the background for this amendment that the government h…
Immunity from producing documents or information
Senator Steele-John, you mentioned in your remarks the stress and strain that is placed on parents who worry a…
Senator Steele-John, your question suggests that you don't know what foundational supports are or what Thrivin…
Before I address this question, I'm not sure whether I spoke correctly earlier and I just want to clarify in c…
The SOPI will publish a set of business rules that will be able to be examined. As I indicated earlier, they w…
Ask people what they want to change about Australia and just let them talk to you and take it all in.
I rise today to formally present Lion Property Group parliamentary e-petition No. EN10182, which has been cons…
Last month, the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia released a report that reads like a summary…
Earlier this year, during Lunar New Year festivities in Sydney's Chinatown, I was delighted to join the commun…
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of welcoming the shadow minister for health and aged care, Senator Rust…
For the information of honourable members, I present an addendum to the explanatory memorandum to this bill.…
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
by leave—I move: That the bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
I thank the member for Mackellar for the very constructive discussions we've had. It is a very well-intentione…
For the information of honourable members, I present a replacement explanatory memorandum to the Combatting Il…
This week, Australia marked 60 years since the Battle of Long Tan. On 18 August 1966, 105 young Australians an…
To all those who continue to serve this nation in uniform, our veterans and their families: I note that the fr…
I think everybody in this parliament accepts the very real obligation that sits upon all of us as members and…
I move: That the debate be adjourned. The SPEAKER 53517 The question is that the debate be…
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Herber…
Can I thank the member for Dunkley not just for her question but for the tireless way that she comes here ever…
Labor has made the five per cent deposit program available to anyone the day they arrive.
My question is to the Minister for Housing. It's reported that approximately 51,000 non-citizens, one-fifth of…
I thank the member for Dickson for this question. Not only is this woman a remarkable Australian but she is on…
I thank the member for Werriwa for her question, and I acknowledge that she has been a champion of the super s…
I thank the member for Macquarie for her question but also for her incredible advocacy for her electorate, par…
He walked into the room, refused to shake our hand, sat down with his arms crossed and rolled his eyes.
Treasurer says that he'll offset all that, but he won't tell us what that means for Medicare, wages or super
I thank the member for his question. The circumstances of Mr Armfield that he has gone through—he gave evidenc…
I thank the member for his question, and I recognise his real dedication to these issues, of course from his o…
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel. This morning, Renee W…
I thank the member for his question, and I thank him for referencing that legislation. That was legislation th…
I really appreciate this question from the member opposite. I think I've said to the parliament before that we…
My question is to the Minister for Housing. On Monday, the minister said she was 'damn proud' of Labor's broke…
These are important words in the Australian Defence Veterans' Covenant, which was passed in 2019: For what th…
We have a housing crisis in Australia. I know this because I see it in my own community in the Peel region in…
Labor has delivered a trifecta of failure when it comes to housing—fewer homes, higher rents and confidence in…
Whenever I go doorknocking around Toowoomba, I ask people the same thing. I ask them what they would change ab…
The Australian dream is a home among the gum trees, a place where you can put your feet up at the end of the d…
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill. I move the government amendment as circulated:…
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
The government doesn't support the amendments proposed by the member for Fowler for similar reasons, which I w…
The government does not support the proposed amendments moved by the member for Curtin to the News Media Barga…
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
The government does not support the proposed amendments to the News Journalism Payments Bill 2026, moved by th…
In rising to speak on the Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2026, I can inform the House that the coali…
We're not helping them. If they make their own way out, we will deal with them once they arrive.
I move: That the order of the day No. 7, government business, be called on immediately. Question agreed to.
I rise to speak on the Australia's Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Amendment Bill 2026, u…
There are a considerable number of documents that have been potentially captured by this order and further tim…