Richard Marles

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

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

     “Well can I thank the member for her question and acknowledge her service in the Australian Army Reserve. In the last financial year, 8,100 young Australians have enlisted in the Australian Defence Force. This now takes the size of the…”

     Watch from 2:15:45

2. House of Representatives Chamber (part 1 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 10 September 2026

   • Question Time: housing, debt, social media regulation, superannuation

     “Well, can I thank the member for his question and acknowledge his contribution to seeing Western Australia become one of Australia's great defense states. Two weeks ago, along with the Prime Minister and the Premier of Western Australia, we, the…”

     Watch from 5:41:16

   • Question Time: housing, debt, social media regulation, superannuation

     “Well, I thank the member for her question. And the starting point would be to refer you to the answer that the Prime Minister gave earlier to the previous question during this question time. We have consistently made it clear…”

     Watch from 6:07:15

3. House of Representatives Chamber (part 1 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 7 September 2026

   • Question Time: Housing modelling, illicit tobacco, super and youth safety

     “Well can I thank the member for her question and acknowledge her service in the Australian Army as I also acknowledge the service of the ADF officers on the parliamentary exchange. Last week was the 75th anniversary of the ANZUS…”

     Watch from 4:25:59

4. Hon. Richard Marles MP - Press Conference · Australian Parliament · 18 August 2026

   • Opening and defence coordination framework outcomes

     “Okay, well welcome everyone here today and can I particularly welcome my counterpart, my good friend, the Japanese Minister for Defence, Shin Koisumi. Today we have had our fourth meeting under the framework for strategic defence coordination, a mechanism that…”

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   • Missile range access and intensity of AU–JP ties

     “And we're really excited about the progress that we've been able to make in respect of that, which I think is probably as significant a step as any that we've taken today in respect of our meeting. This is the…”

     Watch from 26:43

   • Courtesy call on Albanese and historic JOINTOPS visit

     “Uh, thank you. So as Shin's just said, we today Shin has attended the Joint Operations Command at Bungendore, which is actually in of itself a historic visit. We had a really great meeting with Prime Minister Albanese before we…”

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5. House of Representatives Chamber (part 1 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 11 August 2026

   • Early Question Time: housing taxes, Medicare and ‘widows tax’

     “Well, can I thank the member for his question and last week he and I visited Thursday Island in his electorate in the Torres Strait, Australia's own piece of Melanesia, and I really want to acknowledge the remarkable way that…”

     Watch from 2:37:17

6. House of Representatives Chamber (part 2 of 3) · Australian Parliament · 1 July 2026

   • Work, wages and paid parental leave: Rishworth and Plibersek

     “Well, I thank the member for her question. And if you'll indulge me, mister speaker, can I just add my acknowledgement to my good friend, Arthur Carlet bin Norden, the Malaysian defense minister? It's great to see him in the…”

     Watch from 1:40:43