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House of Representatives Chamber

15 September 2026

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From the formal opening and agenda through urgent motions on truth in political advertising and veterans’ allied health caps, the House then turns to debate on funding and regulatory oversight for universities via the National Student Ombudsman levy bills, before moving to backbench statements on electoral integrity, campaign conduct and wider policy concerns ahead of the 2025 election.

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Opening business, veterans’ health cap and higher education

09:53

Opening of sitting, agenda and initial legislative business

09:53

House opening, agenda setting and truth in political advertising motion

09:53

House opening and initial procedural business

09:53

Opening of House — Acknowledgement, Prayer, Democracy Day

09:53

Leader of the House — Referral of Education and Aged Care Bills

11:48

Steggall truth in political advertising push and adjournment vote

12:34

Steggall — Motion to Suspend Standing Orders for Truth in Political Advertising Bill

12:34

Steggall — Case for Urgent Electoral Protections and NACC Example

15:18

Steggall — AI-driven disinformation and bill mechanisms

19:02

Dai Le — Seconding motion and electorate misinformation impacts

22:34

House — Motion to adjourn truth in political advertising debate

27:26

Customs Safeguard Inquiries Bill — introduction and procedural adjournment

34:52

Customs Amendment (Safeguard Inquiries) Bill — introduction and framework

34:52

Division result and Senate message on Customs Act bill

34:52

Conroy — Second reading of Customs Amendment (Safeguard Inquiries) Bill

35:35

Safeguard inquiries — Transfer from Productivity Commission to Trade Remedies Commission

37:06

Safeguard measures — Public interest test, transparency and transition

40:03

House procedure — Adjournment of safeguard bill and move to address veterans’ allied health cap

41:57

House procedure — Debate on safeguard bill adjourned; Herbert moves to suspend orders

41:57

Herbert — Motion to suspend for Statute Update Bill and veterans’ $5,000 allied health cap

42:19

Veterans’ allied health cap — opposition, Senate amendment and government response

44:32

Herbert — Opposition to $5,000 veterans’ allied health cap

44:32

Herbert — Criticism of Veterans’ Affairs Minister, GP assessment forms and demand to scrap cap

44:32

Herbert — Personal service experience, veteran suicides and reliance on allied health

47:25

Herbert — Final plea to scrap $5,000 veterans’ allied health cap

50:24

Veterans’ allied health motion, funding and division

57:38

Leader of the House — Condemning ‘traitor’ slur and affirming respect for service

57:38

Leader of the House — Recasting $5,000 as referral review point, not new cap

01:01:22

Leader of the House — Defence of veterans’ funding and unity message

01:05:23

Deputy Speaker — Division called on veterans’ motion

01:08:08

House — Division conducted, motion defeated and tabling attempt refused

01:12:34

Higher education oversight — National Student Ombudsman levy bills

01:17:02

National Student Ombudsman levy bills — context and Coalition position

01:17:02

Coalition stance and origins of National Student Ombudsman

01:17:02

National Student Ombudsman Levy Bill — Coalition position and post‑COVID campus context

01:17:02

Leeser — Historical proposals for student ombudsman

01:21:20

Leeser — Sexual violence context and limited ombudsman focus

01:26:27

Higher education sector pressures and ombudsman levy

01:28:59

Post‑COVID deterioration data — enrolments, funding, staff mix and complaints

01:28:59

Campus antisemitism, rankings decline and regulatory burden

01:33:31

Leeser — Levy mechanics and cost‑recovery model

01:36:18

Adjournment and commencement of members’ statements

01:38:27

Adjournment of bill and opening community statements

01:38:27

Deputy Speaker — Debate adjourned and move to members’ statements

01:38:27

Member for Fowler — Recognition of Croatian cultural leadership

01:39:28

Zappia — Palestinian child deaths and two‑state solution

01:41:02

Members for Kooyong, Sturt and Mackellar — Community festivals, sport and volunteers

01:42:32

Racism, social cohesion and regional economic promotion

01:46:46

Member for Bonner — Racism inquiry and ‘Call It Out’ register

01:46:46

Member for Maranoa — Regional tourism and Stanthorpe award

01:48:12

Member for Swan — Hanson comments and Australian social mobility

01:49:42

Members’ statements — electoral integrity and policy concerns

01:51:04

Members’ statements — government integrity and campaigning

01:51:04

Government promises, cost of living and electoral integrity

01:51:04

Member for Capricornia — Government promises, cost of living and PM’s interests

01:51:04

Member for Chisholm — Election intimidation and democracy protections

01:52:35

Member for Berowra — Golf club grant and New Line Road funding

01:54:03

Exclusive Brethren influence, democratic norms and veterans’ policy

01:55:49

Members for Moreton and Flinders — Exclusive Brethren allegations and PM ‘double standards’

01:55:49

Members for Dunkley and Lindsay — Exclusive Brethren role and local Labor promises

01:58:58

Members for Whitlam, Riverina and Reid — Booth conduct, veterans’ cap and democratic integrity

02:02:02

Question Time — defence, integrity and social policy

02:06:46

Question Time — opening, defence and social policy

02:06:46

Member statements and opening of Question Time

02:06:46

Whyalla steel crisis and shift to Question Time

02:06:46

Tehan — Whyalla steel layoffs and green hydrogen promise

02:06:46

French — One Nation migration policy criticised; shift to Question Time

02:08:27

Grey — Question on Whyalla bailout; Conroy on Gupta and steelworks future

02:10:18

Executive Q&A — defence, integrity and AI governance

02:15:26

Hasluck — Question on ADF recruitment and retention; Marles response

02:15:26

Cook — Question on Kunal Shah dinner and safety agenda

02:19:35

Macquarie — AI governance, standards and international engagement

02:24:26

Question Time — energy, defence and social programs

02:28:03

Question Time — resources, defence and energy policy

02:28:03

Kennedy — Gas reservation, domestic supply and One Nation

02:28:03

Petrie — ADF growth, recruitment measures and Coalition record

02:32:02

Tehan — Question on green hydrogen ‘hype’ and Bowen’s previous claims

02:35:25

Speaker’s interventions on parliamentary titles and language

02:37:43

Scrutiny of government programs — welfare, housing, online safety

02:40:18

Griffith — Robodebt Royal Commission findings and Knox compensation bill

02:40:18

Parkes — Construction insolvencies and Housing Minister’s pro‑supply defence

02:43:33

Moreton — Digital duty of care, online extremism and Opposition criticism

02:48:41

Pensioners’ private health rebate and aged care funding

02:52:19

Chester — Question on pensioners’ private health rebate

02:52:19

Health Minister — Reallocating rebate savings to aged care

02:53:07

Executive and ministerial question time

02:55:19

Executive accountability — integrity, antisemitism and economic management

02:55:19

Civic initiatives, transparency reforms and countering antisemitism

02:55:19

Macarthur and Parkes — Dusty Langby’s fundraising for Little Wings

02:55:19

Spender — Lobbying transparency and ministerial diaries

03:00:27

Education Minister — Antisemitism, online harms and digital duty of care

03:03:19

Question Time — PM and Treasurer on conduct, inflation and debt

03:06:47

Mallee and Casey — Rhys Muldoon tweets and Speaker’s ruling on props

03:06:47

Treasurer — Global conflicts, inflation and debt management

03:08:53

Farrer — Question on debt sustainability thresholds; Treasurer’s response

03:13:31

Ministerial Q&A and shift to energy MPI

03:18:15

Health Minister — PBS listing of Qalsody for MND

03:18:15

Health Minister — PBS listing of Qalsody for motor neurone disease

03:18:15

Minister Collins’ Murray–Darling clarification and MPI start

03:22:06

Agriculture Minister — Murray‑Darling review instructions clarified; procedural shift to MPI

03:22:06

Tehan — Attacking Bowen’s ‘green hydrogen hype’ and COP spending

03:23:23

Energy MPI — Hydrogen, heavy industry and transition

03:23:23

Energy MPI — Hydrogen, steel and transition policy

03:23:23

Energy MPI — Whyalla steel, hydrogen and transition

03:23:23

Opposition — Critique of green hydrogen strategy and Whyalla closure

03:23:23

Tehan — Attacking Bowen’s ‘green hydrogen hype’ and COP spending

03:23:23

Tehan — Whyalla steelworks, sovereign capability and PM ‘character test’

03:29:41

Venning — Whyalla blast furnace closure and ‘hydrogen hoax’

03:43:23

Webster — Bowen’s green hydrogen rhetoric and Whyalla jobs

03:54:09

Government MPs — Defence of Whyalla support and renewables rollout

03:33:34

Jagajaga — Labor defence of Whyalla support and renewables transition

03:33:34

Jagajaga — EV uptake, default offers and anti‑coal critique

03:38:09

Gosling — NT renewables, data centres and AER guardrails

03:49:02

Hydrogen setback and renewables rollout — Coalition–Labor clash

03:54:09

Webster — Bowen’s hydrogen ‘hype’ and regional renewables backlash

03:54:09

Coffey — Labor climate mandate, solar batteries and EV uptake

03:58:51

Energy transition debate — steel, renewables and nuclear

04:03:55

Pasin — Defence of Whyalla steel and critique of renewables‑only agenda

04:03:55

Witty — Labor defence of renewable transition and industry policy

04:08:54

Nicholls — Whyalla job losses, heavy industry and nuclear advocacy

04:13:59

French — Closing MPI attack on Coalition energy record

04:18:59

Procedural update and transition to new business

04:23:56

House business messages and procedural transition

04:23:56

House business transition and formal messages

04:23:56

House procedural wrap-up and assent messages

04:23:56

Deputy Speaker — MPI concluded; Senate and assent messages

04:23:56

Knox Robodebt compensation bill — context and support

04:25:08

Knox Robodebt compensation bill — context and parliamentary support

04:25:08

Knox Bill introduction and Robodebt context

04:25:08

Knox bill — purpose, exemptions and Robodebt findings

04:25:08

Lindsay — Knox bill explained and algorithm concerns

04:25:08

Attorney-General — Robodebt history and Royal Commission findings

04:31:21

Attorney-General — Knox bill principle and Robodebt condemnation

04:40:43

Kooyong and Barton — Robodebt harms and Knox bill rationale

04:43:23

Kooyong — Support for Knox bill and call for automation safeguards

04:43:23

Barton — Human impact of Robodebt and case for Knox bill

04:52:22

Knox compensation bill — legal design and reform context

04:59:04

Barton and Clutterham — Legal design and special exemptions for Knox compensation

04:59:04

Barton — Technical exemptions to protect Knox compensation

04:59:04

Clutterham — Knox bill exemptions and Prygodicz case

05:04:23

Clutterham — Robodebt condemnation and justification for special treatment

05:14:34

Witty — Robodebt human impact and reforms

05:18:24

Witty — Melbourne constituent case and Robodebt’s human impact

05:18:24

Witty — Royal Commission findings and post‑Robodebt reforms

05:23:01

Witty — Ensuring Knox compensation is not clawed back

05:27:24

Robodebt cases and parliamentary support for Knox bill

05:31:56

Holzberger — Rhys Madgwick case and support for Knox bill

05:31:56

Holzberger — Honouring Madgwick and Miller’s advocacy

05:31:56

Holzberger — Rhys Madgwick’s Centrelink debt ordeal

05:38:04

Holzberger — Debt collection escalation and Rhys’s suicide

05:42:12

Chair and Member for Griffith — Robodebt victims, harms and reforms

05:47:04

Chair and Griffith — Knox bill and Robodebt victims’ stories

05:47:04

Griffith — Robodebt’s fear, stigma and breach of trust

05:52:12

Griffith — Royal Commission response and fairer debt rules

05:55:53

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House of Representatives Chamber

15 September 2026

House of Representatives Tue, 15 Sept 2026 Australian Parliament

09:53 - 10:05

Speaker 1

Honourable members, the Speaker.

10:05 - 11:09

Speaker 2

I acknowledge the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples who are 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 forever and ever.

Amen. Just before I call the Leader of the House, I just have a short statement to make to the House. Members, today is International Day of Democracy.

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