Andrew Wallace

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1. Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence · Australian Parliament · 18 September 2026

   • DVA targets met, performance measurement and war graves follow‑up

     “All right. In relation to financial statements, your submission at page 3 discusses two key areas of financial statements risk relating to the complexity of personal benefit and healthcare claims and the complexity of the calculation of key financial statement…”

     Watch from 2:29:02

   • DVA targets met, performance measurement and war graves follow‑up

     “So at the time that the audit was done for the 24-25 financial year, the three different acts which administered the payments to veterans, that's not what you're talking about. You're talking about two different systems. One compensation, one healthcare.…”

     Watch from 2:31:16

   • DVA targets met, performance measurement and war graves follow‑up

     “With the 152 billion, you may have said this figure to the deputy chair earlier, I didn't write it down if you did. What was that contingent liability estimated to be in the 12 months prior? And let's go back…”

     Watch from 2:34:44
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2. Federation Chamber · Australian Parliament · 17 September 2026

   • Private health insurance rebate cuts and blocked petition tabling

     “Thanks Madam Deputy Speaker. Yesterday Labor forced its three billion dollar cut to the private health insurance rebate through the House. They pushed it straight through the third reading, then they gagged the member for Wannon to shut down any…”

     Watch from 1:16:57

3. House of Representatives Chamber (part 1 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 17 September 2026

   • Government defence and further debate on illicit tobacco package

     “Thanks, Madam Deputy Speaker. The coalition will not support will not oppose the bill in the house. We support sensible measures that give Commonwealth law enforcement and border agencies stronger tools to combat illicit tobacco trade. But we should be…”

     Watch from 4:30:39

4. Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security · Australian Parliament · 16 September 2026

   • AFP opening statement: threat environment and need for powers

     “Thanks, chair. So for the Attorney-General's Department and Home Affairs, the bill makes control orders the primary Commonwealth mechanism for managing serious terrorist offenders after release, correct?”

     Watch from 36:54

   • Q: Wallace: managing released offenders and AFP resourcing

     “Yeah. Of the 16 offenders the AFP says are due for release between now and 2028, how many do the departments expect to be managed by control order and has the AFP been resourced for that caseload? Right. Okay. And…”

     Watch from 37:15

   • Q: Wallace: why temporary sunsetting, not permanent powers?

     “Yeah. Has there been, and this is not a loaded question, but has there been any consideration by the Attorney-General's Department to look at a more permanent arrangement so that it's not coming back to the committee every three years…”

     Watch from 39:10
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5. Federation Chamber (part 2 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 14 September 2026

   • Members’ statements: regional sport, working holiday visas and domestic violence

     “Madam Deputy Speaker, Australians are feeling the cost of living crisis every single day. They're paying more at the supermarket, more for electricity, more for insurance, more on their mortgage and more on their rent. Yet despite working hard and…”

     Watch from 1:04:23

   • National Child Protection Week: Dunkley and Fisher on violence and online abuse

     “Thanks, Madam Deputy Speaker. I rise in support of this motion. National Child Protection Week was held last week from the 6th to the 12th of September under the theme "Every conversation matters, shifting conversation to action." The week is…”

     Watch from 1:40:56

6. House of Representatives Chamber · Australian Parliament · 14 September 2026

   • Economic plans motion resumed: Coalition cost‑of‑living critique

     “Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. And as Australians go to work today on this Monday and they experience, hopefully had a good weekend, taking kids to sport, many families are wondering how they are going to get from Monday to…”

     Watch from 1:50:00

   • Q: Fisher: older couple’s costs; Health Minister: rebate change funds aged care

     “My question is to the Prime Minister. Regional Queenslander Janice is 77, her husband is 90. They've worked hard all their lives, they've paid their taxes. But Janice has said that Labor's private health rebate cut will leave them out…”

     Watch from 5:08:36