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Federation Chamber

15 September 2026

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Members use constituency statements to raise local government funding, Defence estate divestments, disaster resilience and insurance, social cohesion concerns, pressures on regional and postal services, support for local economies and sport, and housing for domestic violence survivors, alongside procedural elements such as a formal House division interrupting and resuming remarks.

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Constituency statements — electorate issues and local services

10:01

Opening of constituency statements and child support reforms

10:01

House constituency statements — opening and initial local issues

10:01

Opening of constituency statements — call to Fowler

10:01

Dai Le — NSW grants model and Fairfield funding cut

10:04

Patrick Gorman — local climate projects and national transition

13:02

Children’s support reform and community volunteering recognition

16:08

Monique Ryan — Thriving Kids rollout and Victorian model concerns

16:08

Matt Keogh — Burt Volunteer Awards roll call

19:01

Defence estate, youth civics and domestic violence housing plus procedural division

22:27

Defence estate concerns, youth civics, and housing for women

22:27

Sophie Scamps — opposition to defence site sell‑offs

22:27

Boothby member — National Youth Parliament and civics education

25:41

Zoe McKenzie — Portsea tourism award and housing for vulnerable women

28:29

Leigh constituency tribute and House division

31:35

Andrew Leigh — tribute to volunteer Trevor Smith

31:35

Andrew Leigh — condolences and political legacy

45:25

Electorate risk, social cohesion and care funding pressures

46:04

Electorate issues: disaster insurance, discrimination, connectivity

46:04

Aaron Violi — rising insurance costs in disaster‑prone regions

46:04

Sam Lim — discrimination concerns for Chinese Australians

49:10

Ted O’Brien — regional digital connectivity failures and community events

52:32

Veterans’ health threshold and aged care funding pressures

55:36

Rob Mitchell — clarifying veterans’ allied health ‘threshold’

55:36

Tony Pasin — aged care funding shortfall in Barker

58:40

Constituency statements — local economies and services

01:01:49

Local business, sport recognition and disaster recovery support

01:01:49

Kristy McBain — Eden‑Monaro business awards and local athletes

01:01:49

Alison Penfold — funding gap to rebuild Wingham Memorial Pool

01:04:57

Assistant Treasurer Mulino — Nepal–Tibet floods and diaspora response

01:07:55

Constituency statements — regional services and community life

01:11:04

Jamie Chaffey — viability of licensed post offices in Parkes

01:11:04

Jerome Laxale — Cameraygal Wind Symphony state championship

01:14:03

Melissa Price — live sheep export ban and WA impact

01:17:04

Zaneta Mascarenhas — Cycling Without Age and aged care inclusion

01:20:12

Opening of debate and national GBV policy context

01:23:14

Opening and national policy framework on gender-based violence

01:23:14

Opening of debate and federal policy response

01:23:14

Opening debate — Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission report

01:23:14

Ali France — national plan funding and online safety reforms

01:27:40

Drivers of violence, regional impact and prevention focus

01:31:57

Haines — rural impact and prevalence of violence

01:31:57

Haines — early intervention funding and national evidence collaboration

01:34:53

Barton member — gendered drivers and harmful online masculinity

01:37:18

Justice system misuse and protection of diverse women

01:41:18

Members: CALD women, systems abuse and accountability

01:41:18

Barton member — local services and CALD‑specific abuses

01:41:18

Chaney — Commission report and systems abuse in family law

01:46:02

Chaney — accountability for inquiries and implementation tracking

01:53:43

Member for Lingiari — First Nations women’s safety and housing

01:56:01

Scrymgour — DFV in Lingiari and First Nations women

01:56:01

Scrymgour — brain injury, CTE and engaging men and boys

01:59:54

Scrymgour — housing, NT shelter funding and Commonwealth support

02:03:47

National plan on gendered violence — implementation gaps

02:06:02

National plan on gendered violence — MPs’ critiques and local impacts

02:06:02

Member for Warringah — accountability, funding and national reforms

02:06:02

Chair and Steggall — accountability gaps in the national plan

02:06:02

Steggall — funding mix, systems abuse and early intervention

02:10:33

Steggall — alcohol regulation, offender register and royal commission call

02:14:46

Templeman — local victim‑survivor realities and national response

02:16:15

Templeman — victim‑survivor experiences and local services

02:16:15

Templeman — national plan funding and systemic reforms

02:20:29

Claydon — domestic violence report and integrated, preventative support

02:26:17

Claydon — Newcastle roundtable and integrated support needs

02:26:17

Claydon — integrated victim‑survivor support and prevention

02:30:45

Women’s health statements — agenda and reforms

02:36:25

Deputy Speaker opens statements on Women’s Health

02:36:25

Deputy Speaker — debate adjournment and shift to Women’s Health Week

02:36:25

Chair — DFV report debate adjourned; shift to Women’s Health Week

02:36:25

Government women’s health agenda — Member for Newcastle

02:36:49

Claydon — Women’s Health Week and Labor women’s health reforms

02:36:49

Gender bias and delayed diagnosis in women’s health

02:47:15

Government women’s health package — PBS, MBS and endometriosis clinics

02:51:27

Clinical bias and barriers to women’s healthcare

02:56:44

Melbourne member — Women’s Health Week and overlooked symptoms

02:56:44

Melbourne member — contraceptive autonomy and clinical bias

02:59:43

Government women’s health reforms and gender bias

03:02:14

Government women’s health reforms and investment rationale

03:02:14

Government member — uptake of PBS and Medicare women’s health reforms

03:02:14

Clutterham — men’s health forum and case for targeted women’s health investment

03:14:24

Ryan — systemic gender bias in healthcare

03:05:36

Ryan — structural gender bias and clinical under-treatment of women

03:05:36

Condolence motions — Justice Mary Gaudron’s legacy

03:23:42

Condolence motions on Justice Gaudron — legacy and gender equality

03:23:42

Condolence motion — legal legacy of Justice Gaudron

03:23:42

Chair and Attorney-General — opening tribute to Justice Mary Gaudron

03:23:42

Fadden member — High Court jurisprudence and symbolic role of Gaudron

03:29:37

Soon — Gaudron’s legal milestones and jurisprudence

03:34:02

Gaudron’s feminist impact and ongoing barriers for women

03:40:07

Assistant Minister Kearney — feminist legacy and workers’ rights

03:40:07

Steggall — barriers for women in law and enduring impact

03:48:56

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Federation Chamber

15 September 2026

Federation Chamber Wed, 16 Sept 2026 Australian Parliament

10:01 - 10:06

Speaker 1

Are there any constituency statements by honorable members? And I give the call to the member for Fowler.

10:06 - 11:24

Speaker 2

Thank you, Deputy Speaker. On September the 4th, the chair of the New South Wales Local Government Grants Commission wrote to Fairfield City Council with a number. Under the commission's proposed new methodology, Fairfield's financial assistance grant falls from 10.16 million to 6.73 million. A cut of 3.43 million. A third of the grant gone.

The local road component halved. Fairfield is the most disadvantaged local government area in New South Wales. Not one of the most, the most. On the SEIFA index, which measures relative socio-economic disadvantage, Fairfield ranks first in the state and 35th out of every council in Australia. My electorate of Fowler has the lowest median personal income of all the 150 electorates in this country, $520 a week.

So the Grants Commission has looked at the poorest community in the state and decided it needs 34% less. How does that happen? It comes down to what the model measures and what it ignores. It prices remoteness, it prices in population, it strips out the disability allowance that used to recognise structural disadvantage. And there's nothing left in it that recognise a community built by refugees and migrants, where English is a second language in most homes and where we have carried one of the highest rates of of humanitarian settlement in this country.

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