House debates
Thursday, 9 February 2006
- Trade Practices Amendment (National Access Regime) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (12 speeches)
Debate resumed from 8 February, on motion by Mr Pearce: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Mr Fitzgibbon moved by way of amendment: That all words after “That” be...
- Consideration in Detail (2 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Standing Orders (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
I move:(1)That standing orders 240 and 241 be amended to read: 240 Admission of visitors(a)A committee or a subcommittee may admit visitors when it is examining a witness or gathering information...
- Student Assistance Legislation Amendment Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (9 speeches)
Debate resumed from 7 September 2005, on motion by Dr Nelson: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Consideration in Detail (5 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Ministers of State Amendment Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (16 speeches)
Debate resumed from 8 December 2005, on motion by Dr Stone: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs will be absent from question time today. He is representing me at the state funeral of the Hon. Sir Reginald Swartz KBE, ED. The...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. I refer to his statement yesterday that there is ‘no evidence’ that any Australian money went to the families of...
- Mental Health (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Could the Prime Minister inform the House of what the Commonwealth will do to improve the services for those many Australians who suffer from mental illness?
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I remind him that Commissioner Cole can find on how Saddam got his money, not on where he spent it. I refer again to his statement yesterday that...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer outline to the House the results of the January labour force survey. What are the prospects for employment growth in the future?
- Oil for Food Program (4 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. I refer to the Deputy Prime Minister’s additional statement to parliament last night that: DFAT had no record of any...
- Exports (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. Would the Deputy Prime Minister advise the House on the level of exports to Thailand and the US in 2005? Does the...
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
My question is again to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. I refer to two opposition questions yesterday to the Deputy Prime Minister about whether his office or his department at...
- Climate Change (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister update the House on action the government is taking internationally to address climate change? Is the minister aware of any...
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General, representing the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. Attorney, can you inform the House on the current status of the application for asylum...
- Health: Queensland (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister advise the House of what support the Commonwealth government is providing to public hospitals in Queensland? Is...
- Oil for Food Program (4 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. I refer to the minister’s inability to answer the last two questions I asked him today and the questions I asked him...
- Workplace Relations (8 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. What are the implications of the Workplace Relations Act for the effective functioning of registered organisations?
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. I refer the minister to statements released yesterday by the Chair of the Wheat Export Authority, Mr Tim Besley, that in...
- Family Law (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Attorney-General. Would the Attorney-General update the House on the government’s efforts to reform the family law system, and are there any alternative policies?
- Oil for Food Program (27 speeches)
My question is again to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. I refer the minister to last night’s statement by a spokeswoman for the Minister for Transport and Regional...
- Higher Education (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education, Science and Training. Would the minister inform the House how the government is providing increased opportunities for Australian school...
- Wheat Export Authority (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Doesn’t the Wheat Export Authority have powers to examine all AWB documents relating to wheat sales? Isn’t it...
- Deputy Prime Minister; Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry; Minister for Transport and Regional Services (0 speeches)
- Censure Motion (19 speeches)
I seek leave to move the following motion: That this House censure the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and the Minister for Transport and Regional...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (6 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek the indulgence of the chair to add to an answer.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Documents are tabled as listed in the schedule circulated to honourable members. Details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings and I move: That the House take note of the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (17 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Corio proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The failure of the Government...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker has received advice from the Government Whip nominating members to be members of certain committees.
- Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2005 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment, appropriation message having been reported; certified copy of the bill presented. Ordered that this bill be considered immediately. Bill agreed to.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Ministers of State Amendment Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
Debate resumed. That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Climate Change (1 speech)
We have all been moved by the images of the effects of the disastrous hurricane in the southern United States last year. Once again, the forecasts of climate scientists have been verified by...
- Senator Kerry Nettle (1 speech)
This morning in the other chamber I had something to say about the T-shirt worn by Australian Greens senator Kerry Nettle which said: ‘Mr Abbott get your rosaries off my ovaries’. I...
- University of Wollongong: Professor Gerard Sutton (1 speech)
I take the opportunity in the adjournment debate today to acknowledge a significant achievement for my region in the person of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wollongong, Professor...
- Deakin Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
During the summer break from parliament many of us went back to our electorates and took the time to reconnect with our family, friends, the electorate and in most cases took what some of us...
- Israel-Palestine Visit; Oil for Food Program (1 speech)
Last year, in the company of some other Labor federal members of parliament, I was pleased to visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority. There was lots to see there: lots that gave me great hope...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Heywire (2 speeches)
I rise this afternoon in the adjournment debate to highlight an important initiative of the ABC to give young people living in regional Australia a voice. This wonderful program is known as...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Welfare to Work (1 speech)
Every now and then you hear of a constituent who has been a victim of the system. One such person came to my office very recently, and it caused considerable concern because no matter how hard we...
- Professor Ian Frazer (1 speech)
I am pleased to speak in the parliament today to pay tribute and to add my voice of congratulations, both personally and on behalf of the people of Ryan, to Professor Ian Frazer, a constituent of...
- Trade Union Movement (1 speech)
I wish to speak in support of the great Australian trade union movement. The trade union movement is a force for good and a force for change. It has been responsible, together with Labor...
- Jezzine Barracks (1 speech)
The member for Rankin should surely realise that that debate has been had, and we have moved on as a government. There is a magnificent piece of land on Townsville’s foreshore. It is at the...
- Adelaide Airport (1 speech)
One of the issues for people living in the electorate of Hindmarsh is airport noise and development on airport land. Many constituents have raised this issue with me and our state MP for West...
- New South Wales Government: Water Management (1 speech)
In the 40th Parliament, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage commenced an inquiry into sustainable cities. One of the key reasons for my joining that...
- Holt Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
I would like to talk in this place about celebrating people who make a difference to our community. Through their often tireless, often very long and often unacknowledged efforts, these people...
- Casey Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
I too want to take the opportunity to recognise the work of some hardworking community members and community groups who recently held functions on Australia Day for the benefit of local citizens...
- Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (1 speech)
I am rising today to add my opposition to that expressed already in the community to the proposed development by the Sydney Airport Corporation of a massive cinema and retail complex at Sydney...
- Disability Services (2 speeches)
For the seven years I have been fortunate enough to have been in this parliament, I have been raising issues of concern to disabled people and their carers with successive ministers and in the...
- Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2005 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 8 December 2005, on motion by Dr Stone: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Main Committee do now adjourn.
- Transport Infrastructure (1 speech)
I am advised that the Bureau of Transport Economics estimated the cost of transport congestion to the Australian economy in 1965 as $12.75 billion per annum and estimated that the loss of...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I wish to place on the record one of the reasons why the federal government’s new industrial relations reforms are so welcome in Western Australia. In an article today in the Australian...
- Oil for Food Program (3 speeches)
The Australian Wheat Board’s $300 million of illegal bribes to the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein was paid into general revenue for the Iraqi regime. It was the only source of...
- Surf Lifesaving Clubs (1 speech)
As it is high summer, I want to take this opportunity to pay my respects and offer my thanks, on behalf of the communities of the Mornington Peninsula and Westernport, to the network of surf...
- Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (1 speech)
I rise today to again raise issues in relation to the Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport. Over the past 10 years I have spoken in this place many times about the impact of aircraft noise on the...
- Franchise Sector (1 speech)
I am pleased to inform the House that yesterday—Wednesday, 8 February—was Australia’s National Franchise Appreciation Day. It may be a day that does not receive widespread...
- Australia Post: Northgate Mail Centre (1 speech)
I am here to raise the issue of the proposed closure of the Australia Post Northgate Mail Centre in Brisbane, a facility that I was proud to open on 28 April 1993. In the 13 years since it was...
- Richardson Electorate: Poker Machines (1 speech)
I rise today to inform the House about a very important issue which faced my local community recently—that is, the issue of poker machines. More importantly, I rise to publicly acknowledge...
- Mr Robert Stein (1 speech)
Today I wish to inform the House of the achievements of Robert Stein. Bob Stein died in January this year and in this, the first sitting week of the year, I want to inform the House of...
- New South Wales Government: Water Management (2 speeches)
I would like to continue the remarks that I was making in this chamber earlier about the haphazard way in which the New South Wales Labor government has been chopping and changing its decisions...
- Jezzine Barracks (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker Lindsay, I look forward to your response in due course to my remarks. I want to take this opportunity to update the House on a regrettable example of government arrogance. In...
- smartraveller.gov.au (1 speech)
It is quite opportune that I am in the House when the member for Wills is speaking about the member for Herbert. I know that the member for Herbert has been a very hardworking advocate for the...
- Forestry (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to again talk about the timber industry in Tasmania, particularly as there has been much time and energy spent developing the guidelines for a new pulp mill...
- Mr Tom Javor; Mr Pat Trainor; Mr Stephen Ernst; Mr Ron Watts; Mr Mark Osterstock (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to some outstanding members of the community in my electorate of Makin, the first of these five people being Mr Tom Javor. Tom has lived in the local area since 1966. Mr...
- Cheltenham RSL Village; Chelsea Heights Primary School; Centrelink (1 speech)
The Cheltenham RSL Village was established in Cheltenham in 1962 to provide affordable, independent living units for retired ex-service personnel and their spouses. There are 100 units in the...
- Mr Mark Osterstock; South Australia: State Government (1 speech)
As I was saying earlier in the adjournment debate, I would like to pay tribute to Mr Mark Osterstock. As I said before, he is another outstanding member of our local community. He has also been a...
- National Security (1 speech)
Identity theft is a particularly important issue as we deal with a whole raft of related criminal activities. Being able to ensure that documents identifying who you are, your background and your...
- Health: Queensland (1 speech)
I am pleased to speak in the parliament today on an important area of concern to the Queensland public and also to the Ryan electorate. This is about the Queensland health system. The Queensland...
- Operation Aussies Home (1 speech)
I rise in the House today to talk briefly about the situation regarding attempts being made to recover from Vietnam the bodies of two of the remaining six Australian servicemen missing in action...
- Stirling Electorate: Environment (1 speech)
Whenever I speak to people in my electorate it is very apparent to me that there is great concern about the natural environment. The environment is a subject which is very close to people’s...
- Charlton Electorate: General Practitioners (1 speech)
I rise today to speak of two very important local campaigns in neighbouring communities in West Lake Macquarie in my electorate of Charlton. Both campaigns have been a part of a wider community...
- Health: Queensland (2 speeches)
In typical Beattie government fashion, the spin-doctors have been out to try to justify the state government’s position on health. In recent days, Queensland’s print media has been...
- Jezzine Barracks (3 speeches)
Earlier in this debate, the member for Wills made a contribution in relation to the government’s proposed disposal of the Jezzine Barracks historic area in Townsville. As I was in the chair...
- Committee Reports: Government Responses (1 speech)
It is the first week back at parliament for the year and, as you can see from the documents I am carrying, the Howard government has a lot of homework to catch up on. I have with me here 54...
- Wakefield Electorate: Playford North Development (1 speech)
I rise today to draw to the attention of the House the announcement in South Australia of the development of Playford North. The timing of this is interesting, and one could be cynical about it,...
- Mr Ted Horton (1 speech)
In November last year I raised in the adjournment debate reports that a Melbourne based advertising company had provided documents to the tax office concerning payments to Mr Ted Horton, the...
- Senator Kerry Nettle (1 speech)
I have risen again today to bring before you, Mr Deputy Speaker, an incident that occurred yesterday and which has been in the media today. Greens Senator Kerry Nettle appeared on television last...
- Values; Health: Queensland (1 speech)
I wish to speak on the value systems of people of the persuasion mentioned in the speech of the member before me. It is true that almost every religion through human history has reflected value...
