Dan Tehan

Latest speeches

1. Federation Chamber · Australian Parliament · 17 September 2026

   • Road funding, potholes and federal–state cost shares in Victoria

     “Thanks, Deputy Speaker. And the problem with the Labor Party is that eventually the spin and the continuous spin catches up with reality. And we've seen this in Victoria with the condition of our roads. We heard spin after spin…”

     Watch from 53:02

2. House of Representatives Chamber (part 3 of 3) · Australian Parliament · 16 September 2026

   • Third reading: final passage of PHI rebate bill

     “Speaker, I move that so much of standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Wannon from moving the following motion immediately. That this house condemns the Albanese Labor government for its betrayal of older Australians…”

     Watch from 1:10:40

   • Carbon Credits Bill: coalition outlines ACCU and native title concerns

     “Thanks, speaker. The Carbon Credits and Other Legislation Amendment (Integrity and Transparency) Bill 2026 is significant, complex, and cannot be supported. On its face, it purports to make a series of technical changes to the operation of Australia's 50 billion…”

     Watch from 1:19:05

   • Carbon Credits Bill: attack on native title expansion and least‑cost removal

     “Under the current carbon credit regime, native title holders enjoy absolute rock-solid legal protections. These include that a project proponent must obtain consent of the native title holder and there is a built-in right to negotiate. Secondly, this change goes…”

     Watch from 1:27:11
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3. House of Representatives Chamber (part 2 of 3) · Australian Parliament · 16 September 2026

   • Wages, childcare pay rises and interest rate pressures

     “No, okay. So you asked the Prime Minister to make sure that what he was addressing was relevant to the question. There was nothing about the opposition that was relevant to that, nothing.”

     Watch from 1:31:03

   • Meredith Leigh valedictory and election funding report tabled

     “Table a document, which is the Speaker's profile for Rhys Muldoon, which shows he was appointed by the Gillard government in 2011. 2011.”

     Watch from 2:31:13

4. House of Representatives Chamber (part 1 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 15 September 2026

   • Members’ 90‑second statements: democracy, campaigning conduct and local issues

     “Thanks Deputy Speaker. Yesterday was a harrowing day for the steelworkers at Whyalla. Over 600 of them were told that their jobs no longer existed. And yet that night they had to put up with the Energy Minister going on…”

     Watch from 2:06:46

   • Question Time I: Whyalla steelworks, ADF recruitment, gas reservation and AI standards

     “Yeah, just to relevance Speaker, it didn't have a compare or contrast or an alternative policy and I don't know why the Minister wants to make politics of this.”

     Watch from 2:18:04

   • Question Time I: Whyalla steelworks, ADF recruitment, gas reservation and AI standards

     “Thanks Speaker. So the prohibition on questions asking about party activities noted on page 553 of practice does not prohibit questions about the actions of a minister vis-à-vis their party. Put it another way, if this question had only asked…”

     Watch from 2:20:33
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5. Federation Chamber (part 2 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 14 September 2026

   • Members’ statements: community tributes, cost of living and aged care access

     “Thanks, Deputy Speaker. Today's front page of the Herald Sun makes for very confronting reading. Killer pothole outrage. A notorious stretch of the Western Highway, sadly, has led to the death of a motorcyclist. And as it says in the…”

     Watch from 52:11

6. House of Representatives Chamber (part 1 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 14 September 2026

   • Clean Energy Finance Corp amendment: protecting farmland

     “Thank you, Deputy Speaker. I move that this bill be now read a second time. This bill is aimed at stopping Labor's net zero agenda from literally destroying our way of life. This is about making sure we're protecting our…”

     Watch from 59:17

   • Question Time: housing, aged care, digital safety and Marrickville Golf

     “Thanks Speaker. To the point of order, I'd like to make three points. One, the Prime Minister is responsible for the actions of this Albanese Labor government. At the very least, he's officially connected to the grants program, which is…”

     Watch from 4:44:03

   • Question Time: housing, aged care, digital safety and Marrickville Golf

     “All right, I will. It was, Mr. Dreyfus, Deputy Manager of Opposition Business, my question's to Deputy Prime Minister that I refer to his previous answers in addition to over $5,000 of taxpayers' money, did Maguire's business receive any more…”

     Watch from 4:47:41
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