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House of Representatives Chamber

13 September 2026

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The sitting opens with formal business, petitions and committee reports before moving to private members’ initiatives on affordable housing definitions, foreign policy ‘red lines’ on complicity in genocide, and CEFC oversight of foreign‑owned farmland for carbon projects, then transitions into a substantial women’s health debate and contrasting party narratives on economic management and cost‑of‑living pressures.

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Opening business and early private members’ policy debates

09:46

House opening, reports and private members’ bills

09:46

Opening of sitting and committee reports

09:46

Opening of sitting and petitions presented

09:46

Opening of sitting and prayer

09:46

Petitions Committee — 15th report presented

10:51

Procedure Committee — behaviour standards in the chamber

12:14

Procedure Committee report tabled on disrespectful behaviour

12:14

Application of behaviour code and standing orders

14:57

Six recommendations to support respectful conduct

16:29

Acknowledgements and intent to strengthen public confidence

17:45

Coalition member — defence of robust debate and individual sanctions

18:58

Procedure — behaviour report: take note, adjournment, referral

23:57

Health Committee — alcohol and other drugs report

24:47

Health Committee — tabling report on alcohol and other drugs

24:47

Kooyong member — detailed recommendations and stronger measures on drug harm

30:13

Procedure — alcohol and other drugs report: take note, adjournment, referral

35:15

Private members’ business — national affordable housing definition

36:15

Housing Bill — national affordable housing definition

36:15

Private member’s bill introduced — affordable housing definition

36:15

Boele — proposed national definition and eligibility rules

39:53

Spender seconds — affordability failures and call for action

44:25

Red Lines Omnibus Bill and CEFC farmland controls

47:24

Red Lines Omnibus Bill — objectives and mechanisms

47:24

Red Lines Package Omnibus Bill 2026 — introduction and international law context

47:24

Red Lines package — gaps in export and investment laws

49:59

Red Lines package — Anti‑Genocide Commissioner and settlement offences

52:56

Wilkie — Australia’s role in enforcing international law

55:50

Procedure — Red Lines debate adjourned; CEFC farmland bill introduced

58:17

Procedure — Red Lines debate adjourned; new bill called

58:17

Tehan — CEFC farmland amendment bill and foreign purchases

59:19

Tehan and Nationals — opposition to CEFC‑funded foreign farmland acquisitions

01:03:03

Tehan — ban on CEFC funding foreign farmland acquisitions

01:03:03

Birrell (NATS) — support for CEFC farmland bill

01:05:52

Procedure — CEFC bill debate adjourned; new item called

01:09:13

Substantive policy debates — women’s health and economic management

01:09:38

Women’s health policy — systemic gaps and party records

01:09:38

Women’s health policy — government package and bipartisan framing

01:09:38

France (ALP) — Labor women’s health and PBS reforms

01:09:38

McIntosh (LP) — diagnostic bias and whole‑of‑woman care

01:14:33

Joanne Ryan (ALP) — historic bias and women’s health package impact

01:19:36

Women’s health policy debate and regional access gaps

01:24:39

Mary Aldred (LP) — regional women’s health, mental health and service shortages

01:24:39

Trish Cook (ALP) — Women’s Health Week, PBS savings and stigma reduction

01:29:48

Penfold (NATS) — women’s health motion, sex‑based rights and regional service gaps

01:34:48

Women’s health strategies, stigma and Coalition–Labor record

01:39:51

Member for Gorton — Amelia’s endometriosis, Women’s Health Week and cardiovascular focus

01:39:51

Bell (LNP) — Coalition record and affordability of women’s health care

01:44:42

Economic plans and management — Coalition vs Labor

01:49:38

Economic plans motion resumed — Coalition critique and Labor rebuttal

01:49:38

Economic plans motion resumed — Coalition cost‑of‑living critique

01:49:38

Holzberger (ALP) — attack on Coalition record and nuclear plan

01:55:19

Economic management — Coalition attack and Labor response

02:00:29

McCormack (NATS) — support for Coalition plan, housing and water buy‑backs

02:00:29

Labor member — rebuttal of Coalition economic plan

02:05:33

Health and veterans’ policy — procedural challenges and rebate reforms

02:10:02

Procedural business and veterans’ health cap censure

02:10:02

Procedural business and veterans’ allied health cap censure attempt

02:10:02

Statute Law Amendment Bill — Senate message and division on deferral

02:10:02

Economic plans debate closed; Senate message on statute law amendments

02:10:02

Division on deferring Senate amendments to next sitting

02:15:02

House motion — censure attempt on veterans’ allied health cap

02:19:12

Herbert (LNP) — move to suspend orders and censure government on veterans’ allied health cap

02:19:12

Herbert (LNP) — attack on consultation, Senate amendment and budget saving

02:24:23

Riverina (NATS) — seconding motion and challenging $748m savings

02:29:22

Minister for Veterans’ Affairs — defence of $5,000 allied health threshold

02:34:33

Private Health Insurance Rebate Bill — second reading debate

02:51:57

Private Health Insurance Rebate Bill — Second Reading Debate

02:51:57

Shift to Private Health Insurance Amendment Bill

02:51:57

Procedural transition — move to Private Health Insurance Amendment Bill

02:51:57

Riverina (NATS) — opposition to rebate change and veterans’ allied health cap

02:52:36

Second reading put and ALP case for rebate reform

02:59:38

Procedural — second‑reading question put and call to Hunter

02:59:38

Hunter (ALP) — rationale for modernising the rebate and rebuttal of Coalition scare claims

03:00:15

Hunter (ALP) — Medicare, urgent care clinics, PBS and hospital funding for older Australians

03:03:54

Hunter (ALP) — Coalition record and aged care investment

03:07:32

Private health insurance rebate reform — Opposition vs Government

03:14:48

Mallee (NATS) — opposition to rebate changes and impact on pensioners

03:14:48

Adelaide (ALP) — Coalition health cuts and rationale for rebate reform

03:29:53

Adelaide (ALP) — income‑based rebate and $3b for aged care

03:35:47

Member statements and Question Time on social policy

03:39:58

Member statements and condolence proceedings

03:39:58

Members’ 90‑second statements — local issues and cost‑of‑living debate

03:39:58

House procedural pause and members’ short statements

03:39:58

Standing order 43 — 90‑second statements on regional icons, early learning and energy

03:39:58

Members’ statements — PBS co‑payment savings, climate loss and damage, suicide prevention, Little Wings

03:44:58

Members’ statements — cost of living, housing and Plymouth Brethren election conduct

03:51:04

Corangamite and Gorton — Plymouth Brethren presence at polling booths

03:51:04

Coalition members — housing taxes, migration and cost‑of‑living pressures

03:55:32

Members’ statements — Plymouth Brethren conduct at elections

03:57:03

Members’ statements — Coalition cost‑of‑living critique and Brethren questions

04:01:28

Members’ statements — housing pressures and mental health funding

04:08:12

Tribute to Justice Gaudron and procedural arrangements

04:10:09

Prime Minister and House — tribute to Justice Gaudron

04:10:09

Standing order 43 concluded; Prime Minister’s tribute to Justice Mary Gaudron

04:10:09

Opposition and Attorney‑General — tributes to Justice Gaudron

04:14:02

Procedural tribute — further statements to Federation Chamber; transition to Question Time

04:20:08

Question Time — housing, welfare and economic regulation

04:20:53

Question Time — housing, social policy and digital regulation

04:20:53

Housing affordability, social housing and domestic violence support

04:20:53

Q — Opposition Leader: mortgage ‘prison’ and housing market; PM: housing data and first‑home buyers

04:20:53

Q — Bullwinkel: crisis and social housing investment; Housing Minister: $300m for crisis and youth housing

04:24:38

Q — Goldstein: Bill Kelty, real wages and housing; PM: global shocks, tax cuts and fairness

04:28:18

Q — Burns: housing for women fleeing violence

04:31:54

Domestic policy questions — aged care, super and Basin Plan

04:35:21

Sharkie — aged care capacity crisis and minister’s response

04:35:21

Treasurer — defence of universal superannuation and critique of Coalition policy

05:00:17

Agriculture Minister — MDBA Basin Plan review and socio‑economic impacts (opening)

05:03:40

Digital regulation — social media, AI and duty of care

04:40:02

Q — Briskey: AI, tech regulation and human-centred approach

04:40:02

Communications Minister — social media age law and digital duty of care

04:50:31

Question Time — PM conflict issue and policy exchanges

04:43:07

Prime Minister — Marrickville Golf conflict allegations

04:43:07

Question Time — Marrickville Golf grant and conflict imputations

04:43:07

Q — Pasin: Marrickville Golf conflict; PM: honorary membership clarified

04:53:46

Question Time — education, wages, health costs and energy relief

04:56:02

Education Minister — school screen time limits and harmful algorithms

04:56:02

Employment Minister — wage rises, super reforms and risks from opposition

05:05:13

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

05:08:37

Agriculture Minister — H5 bird flu, sea lion case and biosecurity response

05:13:42

Q — Fowler: fuel excise relief; PM: global prices and cost‑of‑living supports

05:17:07

Q — Dunkley: home batteries; Energy Minister: bill savings and Coalition opposition

05:19:20

Post‑Question Time procedures and private health rebate

05:22:38

Post‑Question Time procedures and health rebate debate

05:22:38

Post‑Question Time proceedings and Senate amendments

05:22:38

Post‑Question Time business and Senate amendments

05:22:38

Procedural — Question Time concluded, papers tabled and assent to Online Safety Minimum Age Bill

05:22:38

Statute Law Amendment Bill — motion to consider Senate amendments immediately and division

05:25:15

Financial Services CSLR amendment — reduced disallowance period and division

05:33:11

Private health insurance rebate reform — government defence and opposition challenge

05:38:08

Private health insurance rebate bill — government defence and opposition challenge

05:38:08

Private Health Insurance rebate bill — Adelaide member’s closing defence

05:38:08

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House of Representatives Chamber

13 September 2026

House of Representatives Mon, 14 Sept 2026 Australian Parliament

09:46 - 10:00

Speaker 2

Honourable members, the Speaker.

09:59 - 10:49

Speaker 1

I acknowledge the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, the traditional custodians of the Canberra area, and pay respects to the elders past and present of all Australia's Indigenous peoples. Almighty God, we humbly beseech thee to vouchsafe thy blessing upon this Parliament. Direct and prosper our deliberations to the advancement of thy glory and the true welfare of the people of Australia. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever. Amen. I give the call to the honourable member for Dunkley.

10:49 - 10:51

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Good morning, Mr Speaker.

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