Presentation The following notices were given: Ms K Cook to move: That this House: (1) notes that Perinatal Mental Health Week will be held from 22 to 28 November 2026, raising awareness of the mental health challenges that can occur during conception, pregnancy and early parenthood; (2) recognises that perinatal depression and anxiety affects one in five new mothers and one in ten new fathers, impacting around 100,000 Australian parents every year; (3) acknowledges the important work of health professionals, peer workers, community organisations and families who support expecting and new parents experiencing mental health challenges, grief and loss; (4) commends Government for delivering twelve Perinatal Mental Health Centres across Australia and committing to establish eight additional centres, bringing the Government's total investment to over $42 million; (5) further acknowledges the work of Gidget Foundation Australia in operating the network of 20 Perinatal Mental Health Centres, supporting the emotional wellbeing of expecting and new parents with close to 5,000 parents expected to benefit from free mental health care each year; (6) welcomes the establishment of the Senate Select Committee on Women's Health and its examination of postpartum healthcare, including physical and mental health support for mothers and their partners, the experiences of families following infant loss, and access to appropriate postpartum mental health services; and (7) encourages Australians to help break down stigma around perinatal mental health, check in with expecting and new parents, and remind those who may be struggling that support is available. Mr Rebello to move: That this House: (1) condemns the Government for failing to ease the cost of living crisis, with inflation still at 3.5 per cent and housing costs rising 5 per cent over the year to July 2026; (2) notes Australian families continue to pay more for everyday essentials, with food prices rising 3.2 per cent, health costs 3.8 per cent and education costs 4.8 per cent over the year; (3) recognises the pressure that is being felt across Australian households, with living costs rising 3.7 per cent for employee households and 4.7 per cent for age pensioner households over the year to June 2026; and (4) calls: (a) out the Government for failing to get household pressures under control, with the cash rate at 4.35 per cent following three increases in 2026 and mortgage interest charges rising 8.2 per cent in the June quarter; and (b) on the Government to take responsibility, restore economic discipline and deliver meaningful relief from the rising costs of housing, food, mortgages and other household essentials. Mr Wallace to move: That this House: (1) condemns the Government's $3 billion cut to the private health insurance rebate, with almost $1.6 billion of that cost falling directly on age pensioners; (2) notes over 1 million pensioners with private health insurance will be affected by the age-based rebate cuts from April 2027; (3) calls out the Government for failing to properly assess who would bear the cost of the policy and for keeping its modelling from the Australian public; (4) expresses serious concern that at least 44,000 Australians are expected to drop their private health cover and several hundred thousand more are expected to downgrade their cover, placing further pressure on already stretched public hospitals and taxpayers; and (5) further calls on the Government to scrap the rebate cuts and protect older Australians, pensioners and the public hospital system from the consequences of this policy. Mr Chaffey to move: That this House: (1) calls on the Government to: (a) repeal the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Firearms and Customs Laws) Act 2026, and reverse laws that were rushed through the Parliament in January, in response to the Bondi Islamic terrorist attack; and (b) support the Firearms Legislation Amendment (Repealing Unfair Gun Laws) Bill 2026, moved by the Member for Maranoa, to: (i) restore Commonwealth firearms and importation law to its position before the passage of the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Firearms and Customs Laws) Act 2026; (ii) abolish the Government's failed National Gun Buyback Scheme; and (iii) retain the changes to the prohibition of hate symbols and background checks, which operationally remain at the discretion of the states; and (2) acknowledges that: (a) the perpetrators of the Bondi terrorist attack should never have had access to a firearm under the laws that already existed; (b) how they obtained firearms is a question for the Royal Commission, not an excuse to punish farmers, sporting shooters and hunters who follow the rules; (c) the National Gun Buyback Scheme targets lawful gunowners, who depend on their firearms for their livelihoods and for healthy recreation, both in metropolitan areas and all over regional, rural and remote Australia, instead of addressing antisemitism which is being fuelled by Islamic extremism; (d) hardworking, small business owners are being forced to pay the price for crimes they did not commit; and (e) firearms shop owners and small businesses have been left with unsold stock, cancelled orders, collapsing sales and enormous uncertainty, forcing some to close their doors all together, while the Government's proposed support will not come close to covering their losses. Mr Leeser to present a Bill for an Act to amend the Australian Research Council Act 2001 and the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 to deal with antisemitism, and for related purposes. (Antisemitism in Higher Education Bill 2026) Mr McCormack to move: That this House: (1) notes: (a) the Government's proposal to introduce a $5,000 annual cap on allied health services for veterans, which has caused significant concern amongst veterans, allied health providers and veteran advocates across Australia; and (b) that on 8 September 2026, the Senate passed amendments and resolutions opposing the Government's proposed $5,000 allied health cap and calling for veterans' healthcare to be determined by clinical need rather than budgetary considerations, with Government members voting against those measures, both in the Senate and the House of Representatives; (2) recognises many veterans rely on allied health services, including physiotherapy, exercise physiology, occupational therapy, podiatry, chiropractic services, psychology and other treatments, to manage service-related physical and mental health conditions; (3) acknowledges veterans have expressed concerns that the proposed cap may lead to reduced access to essential healthcare, increased out-of-pocket expenses and poorer health outcomes; (4) further notes: (a) that RSL Australia, based on data from the Department of Veterans' Affairs, estimates approximately 25,000 veterans spend an average of $9,700 per year, well above the proposed $5,000 annual cap; (b) the Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs has undertaken a national listening tour to meet directly with veterans, ex-service organisations, healthcare providers and community groups, from every state and territory, to hear firsthand their views on the proposed changes; and (c) that participants in these forums and meetings have unanimously called for greater consultation, transparency and engagement before any changes to veteran healthcare arrangements are implemented; (5) further recognises the contribution and sacrifice of Australia's veterans and their families, and the nation's obligation to ensure they receive the healthcare support they have earned through their service; (6) calls on the Government to: (a) suspend the proposed allied health cap until meaningful consultation has occurred with the veteran community; (b) publicly release the evidence and modelling underpinning the proposal; (c) listen to the concerns raised by veterans and healthcare professionals; and (d) guarantee no veteran will be worse off as a result of changes to allied health arrangements; and (7) notes that if the phrase 'for what they have done, this we will do', the concluding line of the Australian Defence Veterans' Covenant Oath, is to mean anything, the cap must be scrapped. Mr Conaghan to move: That this House: (1) notes that despite the Government increasing the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) workforce by more than 5,700 public servants since the 2022 election, participant complaints, funding disputes, fraud investigations and demands on parliamentary electorate offices continue to grow; (2) further notes with concern, the increasing seriousness and urgency of matters being raised, including cases involving loss of essential supports, participant safety, housing insecurity, hospital discharge delays and risks to health and wellbeing; (3) expresses concern that administrative failures within the NDIA are placing an increasing burden on carers, providers, support workers and electorate offices, to resolve participant matters that should be addressed promptly by the NDIA; and (4) calls on the Government to: (a) urgently reduce the backlog of reviews, reassessments and participant decisions; (b) prioritise participant-facing service and decision-making roles over administrative growth; (c) reduce waste, inefficiency and unnecessary bureaucracy within the NDIA; (d) strengthen accountability, timeliness and transparency in decision-making; and (e) ensure that investment in staffing, technology and artificial intelligence delivers better and more timely outcomes for participants rather than greater administrative burden. Mr Wilkie to move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) private hospitals perform more than two-thirds of planned surgeries, and deliver essential health care across Australia, including in regional areas; (b) private healthcare exists to provide choice, not to compensate for a public system in logjam; (c) rising costs relative to revenue have driven hospital closures and sales, with obstetrics and mental health services under particular pressure; (d) hundreds of thousands of Australians are downgrading their private cover as its value erodes, a trend the Government's cut to the seniors' private health insurance rebate will accelerate, adding further pressure to the public system; (e) private health regulation was designed for an earlier era of high membership, not-for-profit insurers and larger hospital numbers, and now lacks flexibility to respond to demographic change, contract imbalances and economic shocks; (f) no dedicated, whole-of-system mechanism exists to balance the interests of patients, doctors, hospitals, insurers and device manufacturers; and (g) selective contracting and vertical integration increasingly threaten patient choice and the doctor-patient relationship; and (2) calls on the Government to establish an independent statutory Private Health System Authority within the Health portfolio to: (a) monitor and report on the sector's financial sustainability, from premiums and benefit payouts to regional hospital viability; (b) ensure fair insurer-hospital and insurer-practitioner contracting, including sustainable payment arrangements given bargaining power discrepancies; (c) safeguard against managed care by assessing arrangements on their actual effect, not stated intent, where they restrict patient choice, interfere with clinically appropriate care, or distort clinical decisions, including in emerging hospital-in-the-home care; (d) advise government on policy levers, including premiums, rebates, product tier design and risk equalisation, to lift coverage and reverse the drift to exclusionary products; and (e) oversee safe, clinically-led expansion of out-of-hospital care that is properly funded and benchmarked, without shifting cost or risk to patients and families. Mr Conaghan to move: That this House: (1) acknowledges that the Government is undertaking a Biosecurity Import Risk Analysis (BIRA) into the proposed importation of fresh Cavendish bananas from the Philippines; (2) notes that Australians want affordable bananas on their breakfast tables, but not the exotic pests and diseases that may come with unnecessary imports; (3) recognises the Australian domestic banana industry contributes approximately $1.3 billion annually to the economy, supports more than 540 farming businesses and around 18,000 jobs, predominantly in regional Australia; (4) further notes: (a) that over the past decade, Australian bananas prices and supply have been stable outside periods disrupted by cyclone, floods or other natural disasters; (b) that year-round production across Queensland and Northern NSW, supported by staggered growing regions and improvements in farm management, has helped maintain consistent availability in supermarkets and wholesale markets; and (c) concerns raised by Australian banana growers regarding the risk of introducing exotic pests and diseases that could threaten agricultural production, regional communities, and Australia's strong biosecurity status; (5) calls on the Government to: (a) ensure the BIRA process remains transparent and guided by the best available science; and (b) put Australian growers first and ensure banana farmers are not the next agricultural industry sacrificed following a pattern of decisions made without sufficient regard for the livelihoods of Australian primary producers and regional communities; and (6) reaffirms that Australia's food security, biosecurity and regional agricultural industries must remain a national priority. Ms Spender to present a Bill for an Act to amend the Fair Work Act 2009 and the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, and for related purposes. (Sex Discrimination and Fair Work Amendment (Equality in Treatment in Religious Schools) Bill 2026) Ms Steggall to move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) extreme weather caused $4.8 billion in insured losses in Australia in 2025, according to the Insurance Council of Australia; (b) home insurance premiums increased by 51 per cent in the past five years, according to data analytics firm Finity; (c) the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation advises that each dollar invested by Government in climate adaptation or disaster risk reduction saves up to $11 in recovery costs; and (d) research from the University of New South Wales warns that economic models excluding global weather impacts can substantially underestimate climate damage, including supply-chain disruptions; (2) recognises that: (a) climate resilience is essential to household security, insurance affordability and national productivity; and (b) short term construction savings should not come at the expense of building standards that reduce long-term energy bills, disaster damage and rebuilding costs; and (3) calls on the Government to: (a) legally mandate independent national climate change risk assessments to be conducted every five years; (b) allocate 0.25 per cent of gross domestic product to national climate adaptation and disaster resilience, with this funding structure to be reviewed and adjusted every five years following the publication of each independent national climate change risk assessment; (c) establish a fully funded national adaptation plan to determine measurable outcomes and timelines, with annual evaluations submitted to Parliament; (d) establish an independent National Climate Adaptation Authority to manage, implement, and coordinate resilience plans across jurisdictions; (e) update the National Construction Code and strengthen land-use planning frameworks to promote low-cost, climate-resilient housing and protect communities from extreme weather risks; and (f) release a declassified version of the Office of National Intelligence report into climate change-induced security threats so the public and policymakers fully understand the risks Australia faces. Federation Chamber Tuesday, 15 September 2026 The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Ms Payne ) took the chair at 12:30.