Statements by Members

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Craig Kelly MP. "The latest ABS numbers record that, as a result of the coronavirus restrictions, employment has decreased by 594,300 people and monthly working hours have fallen by 10 per cent. We are borrowing tens of billions of dollars that not a single member of this parliament is likely to see repaid in their career." Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Speaker of the House Tony Smith during Statements by Members time. Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Speaker of the House Tony Smith during Statements by Members time. Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Barnaby Joyce MP. "It's interesting coming and standing back here, because you feel almost disassociated from the process of the parliament. Where you find even more of a sense of disassociation from the parliament is when you're not even here or you don't have a representative here. I rise today to speak about enfranchisement, especially of those in the Northern Territory." during Statements by Members time. Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Barnaby Joyce MP waiting his turn during Statements by Members time. Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Rob Mitchell MP. "At 2 pm on Monday, a family's worst fears were realised. Whilst walking to the summit of Mount Disappointment, their 14-year-old boy raced ahead of his family and became separated from them, beginning two days of anxious wait. Today I rise to acknowledge the incredible efforts of the emergency service workers and the hundreds of volunteers who dropped everything and joined in the effort to find young lad Will Callaghan in the bush at Mount Disappointment. " Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Kevin Hogan MP. "Lismore is a site of an important moment in our postal service history. This month marks 100 years since Australia's first official airmail flight sanctioned by the Postmaster-General. The flight took place on Saturday 26 June 1920 when pilot Frank Roberts took off from a paddock in Lismore, flying to Tenterfield via Casino" Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Anika Wells MP. "These broken promises tell you everything you need to know about how this government values work. The male dominated construction sector receives targeted taxpayer stimulus. The childcare sector, which is 97 per cent female, is the first to have its funding ripped out from under it under the JobKeeper package. The average Australian taxpayer is a 38-year-old working woman with two kids." Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Anika Wells MP. "It is lucky that the PM's focus group didn't decide to call it 'promise keeper' rather than JobKeeper. If they had, they would be in a real pickle now, because all we are seeing is broken promises. The PM's commitment to keep JobKeeper till September didn't even survive 72 hours from when he said it." Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Warren Entsch MP. "I rise this afternoon to highlight one of the many fantastic businesses in my electorate who stepped up to the plate during the recent health crisis. FNQ Spirits is a small craft distillery located in Cairns and is more used to quenching people's thirst through its signature rum product, Croc Piss." Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Celia Hammond MP. "I rise today to recognise the Push-up Challenge, an event which ran for three weeks in May this year. This challenge aims to increase awareness of lives lost to suicide in Australia and encourage conversations about mental health by asking participants to complete 3,046 push-ups over three weeks—that number, sadly, representing the number of deaths by suicide in Australia in 2018." Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Speaker Tony Smith about to take the chair ahead of Question Time. Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Speaker Tony Smith collects some water ahead of Question Time. Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Helen Haines MP. "I rise today to speak about the long-awaited extension of the $10,000 small business bushfire recovery grant. My electorate of Indi, like many this summer, suffered through devastating bushfires. These fires left many small businesses without income, including some not directly affected by flames. For these small businesses, much-needed tourism stopped the day the fires came, and so did their income. Unfortunately, the small business grant was not available to them by virtue of their postcodes." Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Ian Goodenough MP. "Linking Whitfords Avenue with the realigned Gnangara Road will improve access for local commuters to employment and services in the Wangara industrial and commercial area. This critical east-west route through the heartland of the Moore electorate will complement other key links between the Joondalup and Wanneroo communities currently under construction at Joondalup Drive and Ocean Reef Road. To date, the project has experienced significant delays." Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: David Gillespie MP. "I congratulate the chairman, John Howard; Alison McIntosh; Lisa Proctor; Graham Brown; Maurie Stack; and Steve Atkins for their commitment and work in getting us to where we are today. I'd also like to thank Moira Coffey for all her work and advice and the members of the Geraldton Universities Centre that we visited for their advice." Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: David Gillespie MP. "I'd like to give a big shout-out to the volunteer members of the Taree Universities Campus bid, who were successful in the latest Regional University Centres funding round." Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Kevin Hogan MP. Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Rowan Ramsey MP chats with Celia Hammond MP. Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Tim Watts MP. "The Commonwealth government's 2016 cybersecurity strategy reached the end of its life more than seven weeks ago. The Minister for Home affairs, Mr Dutton, has been working on a new strategy for 10 months now. In that time a Department of Defence review expressed concerns about Australia's preparedness for cyberwar; the head of ASIO has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic has made Australia less safe as spies and cybercrooks exploit fear online; and ransomware attacks on major Australian companies from international criminal syndicates have become an all too common occurrence. In the last month alone we've seen successful ransomware attacks on Toll, BlueScope, Lion and across the ditch at Fisher and Paykel New Zealand." Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Rowan Ramsey MP. "I rise to welcome the announcement from GFG Alliance and Sanjeev Gupta of an investment timeline for the Whyalla Steelworks" Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Jason Falinski MP. "I rise today to acknowledge the incredible talent and endless ambition demonstrated by Narrabeen local Jordy Lawler. Mr Lawler is a professional surfer who continues to represent Australia within the competitive surfing industry, or pro circuit." Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Matt Keogh MP. "I rise today to pay tribute to a longtime friend, local WA Labor icon and Neighbourhood Watch stalwart, Doreen Southam, who passed away over the weekend. Doreen was around as long I can remember, a faithful member of the Armadale-Kelmscott branch, always going above and beyond, helping out anyone and everyone whenever she could." Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

House of Representatives - 11 June 2020

Canberra, Australia - 11 June 2020: Andrew Wallace MP during the debate on the Payment Times Reporting Bill and the Payment Times Reporting (Consequential Amendments) Bill. Photo by Rob Keating - https://photos.keatingmedia.com.au

Member Statements 19 September

Canberra, Australia - 19 September 2018: John Alexander OAM, member for Bennelong talking about playing politics. Julie Bishop is in the background in her new backbench seat. (Photo by Rob Keating)

Member Statements 19 September

Canberra, Australia - 19 September 2018: John Alexander OAM, member for Bennelong talking about playing politics. (Photo by Rob Keating)

Member Statements 19 September

Canberra, Australia - 19 September 2018: Susan Lamb MP, member for Longman talking about the strawberry industry following the needle contaminations which has devastated the industry. (Photo by Rob Keating)

Member Statements 19 September

Canberra, Australia - 19 September 2018: Trent Zimmerman, member for North Sydney speaking about a fire at the Lane Cove Skiff Club. (Photo by Rob Keating)