House debates
Monday, 13 February 2006
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Australian Defence Force: Rwandan Service (9 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1)recognises that the atrocities that occurred in Rwanda between 1994 and 1995 were some of the most horrific and appalling crimes seen in recent history;(2)notes that...
- National Year of Community (10 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1)recognises and supports the United Nations Association of Australia (NSW Division) for its resolution to declare 2006 the ‘National Year of...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Isaacs Electorate: Maralinga Primary School (1 speech)
Last Friday I attended a special assembly at Maralinga Primary School, in my electorate. The assembly was to present the school captains and house captains for 2006 with their badges. It was...
- Water Management (1 speech)
The New South Wales government have recently announced, with great fanfare, that their unpopular and polluting desalination plant has been shelved indefinitely. While this is great news for the...
- Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport Development (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the proposed development at Sydney airport by the Sydney Airport Corporation Ltd, which proposes to develop 60,000 square metres for an aviation and retail business park or for...
- McPherson Electorate: Robina Holden (1 speech)
I recently had the privilege of officiating at the grand opening of the new four-wheel drive light commercial vehicle and used vehicle facility at Robina Holden. This was a great occasion and a...
- Bushfires (1 speech)
On Wednesday during my adjournment speech thanking CFA brigades for their extraordinary work during the recent Victorian bushfires, I listed the brigades in our area that fought in the Grampians...
- Child Care (1 speech)
We have heard a lot lately about child care. People’s concerns are understandable if they cannot find adequate child-care places for their children, but it is very easy to focus on the...
- Fairfield Community Aid and Information Service (1 speech)
Today I wish to raise in the House the outrageous treatment of the Fairfield Community Aid and Information Service by the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs,...
- Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (1 speech)
I congratulate the member for Kingsford Smith for raising the issue of Sydney airport here today. I too want to raise this issue. I am outraged at a report in last Thursday’s Sydney Morning...
- 55th Anniversary of National Service in Australia; Papua New Guinea Volunteer Rifles Museum (1 speech)
I want to put on the record my appreciation and the deep respect I have for our National Servicemen’s Association of Australia Queensland branch for organising an event marking the 55th...
- Interfaith Trivia Night (3 speeches)
This will be a very spontaneous contribution indeed. I want to pay tribute to the organisers of the interfaith trivia night on Saturday night. It was a fantastic event.
- Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (2 speeches)
I would like to repeat what I just said: Max Moore-Wilton should be flogged, flogged, flogged. Clearly Mr Max Moore-Wilton thinks that the curfew at Sydney airport should go and the cap movement...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, who made the decision to gag officials from answering Senate estimates questions about the ‘wheat for weapons’ scandal? Was it a...
- Iraq (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister update the House on democratic developments in Iraq? Are there any alternative views?
- Oil for Food Program (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister, and it follows the one I asked him previously and his answer. Of course he knows that Coronation Hill in those circumstances is no precedent for the position...
- Trade (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. Would the Deputy Prime Minister advise the House of trade distortions facing Riverina farmers and farmers across...
- Oil for Food Program (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and follows his previous answer. Prime Minister, given—as you have just stated in the House—your reliance on the Volcker commission’s...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer outline to the House prospects for the Australian economy and risks to the economic outlook? Are there any other views?
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and follows his answers to the Leader of the Opposition’s two previous questions. I ask whether the Prime Minister will confirm his statement to the...
- Australian Defence Force: Rwandan Service (3 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs. Would the minister advise the House what action the government is taking to recognise the specific challenges and to provide...
- Oil for Food Program (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and goes to his reaffirmation of a previous answer in which he said that the Volcker commission received, in the case of Australia, ‘full responses and...
- Bulk-Billing (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister update the House on the latest GP bulk-billing figures, especially in my state of Tasmania.
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer the Deputy Prime Minister to the 10 June 2003 email to his department from Michael Long which, if electronic files were not provided to...
- Afghanistan (6 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Minister, would you update the House on Australia’s role in helping to rebuild Afghanistan?
- Oil for Food Program (9 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Is the Deputy Prime Minister aware of this report, prepared by the United States Department of Defense, dated September 2003, which evaluated 759...
- Family Separation (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Attorney-General. Would the Attorney-General advise the House of steps the government is taking to recognise the importance of grandparents in families affected by...
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer to his answer to my previous question about when the government first became aware of the US Department of Defense report which names the AWB...
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. To what extent has the new workplace relations system been implemented? What has been the reaction to this new system?
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Deputy Prime Minister, given that this US Department of Defense report, which names AWB, requested immediate action from the Coalition Provisional...
- Live Animal Exports (2 speeches)
As a person who takes offence to the terminology ‘blind eye’, I would like to address my question to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Would the minister inform...
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Does the Deputy Prime Minister recall giving the following answer to a question on when he first knew about AWB violating UN sanctions against Saddam...
- Howard Government (0 speeches)
- Censure Motion (55 speeches)
I seek leave to move the following motion: That this House censure the government for continuing the cover-up of its role in the $300 million wheat for weapons scandal, its arrogance and abuse of...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Clerk: Petitions have been lodged for presentation as follows and copies will be referred to the appropriate ministers:
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Younger People in Nursing Homes (9 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1)notes that approximately 1,000 Australians under the age of 50 are living in nursing homes because they have a severe disability such as acquired brain...
- Intercountry Adoption (9 speeches)
I will move the motion relating to intercountry adoption in the terms in which it appears on the Notice Paper, but I intend to read it because I think it outlines the urgency of what needs to be...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Question proposed: That grievances be noted.
- Dental Health (3 speeches)
I cannot say that I am pleased to speak on the issue of dental health, but it is a very important issue and one that I raise again in the grievance debate this afternoon. A number of people from...
- Taxation Zone Rebates (1 speech)
I rise today to speak again on the subject of taxation zone rebates. For those who are not aware, I have been a long-term advocate for change, or review at least, of the current system....
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
It seems as though the business community may not be as supportive of the government’s extreme industrial relations changes as the Prime Minister may have first thought. Sure, there are...
- Superannuation (1 speech)
I would like to speak about the superannuation co-contribution scheme. Last December, an article in the Wall Street Journal marvelled at Australia’s Macquarie Bank owning and operating toll...
- Australian Parliamentary Parties (1 speech)
It is often said that this parliament is the clearing house of Australian politics and democracy. Here, in this hallowed place, individual members representing constituencies around Australia...
- Housing Affordability (1 speech)
Today I grieve for the many Australians who, despite the great efforts of the Howard government to keep interest rates low and provide a first home owners grant, are still struggling to afford...
- Integrated Humanitarian Settlement Strategy (1 speech)
I rise today to draw the attention of the parliament and the Australian people to ongoing concerns about the delivery of Integrated Humanitarian Settlement Strategy, IHSS, services by the...
- Health: Queensland (2 speeches)
I am very pleased to speak today in this grievance debate. A wave of sickness is sweeping the state of Queensland. It is not a virus or some mystery illness affecting the state but an ailing...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (3 speeches)
by leave—During question time today, the Leader of the Opposition asked me a number of questions in relation to material provided by the government to the Volcker inquiry. One of those...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2005-2006; Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2005-2006 (0 speeches)
- Referred to Main Committee (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That, unless otherwise ordered, at the adjournment of the House for this sitting the following bills stand referred to the Main Committee for further consideration:...
- Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2005; Anglo-Australian Telescope Agreement Amendment Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Membership (1 speech)
Mr Speaker has received a message from the Senate informing the House that Senator Santoro has been discharged from the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties and Senator McGauran has been...
- Defence (Road Transport Legislation Exemption) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill received from the Senate, and read a first time. Ordered that the second reading be made an order of the day for the next sitting.
- Statute Law Revision Bill (No. 2) 2005 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill received from the Senate, and read a first time. Ordered that the second reading be made an order of the day for the next sitting.
- Fisheries Legislation Amendment (Cooperative Fisheries Arrangements and Other Matters) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill received from the Senate, and read a first time. Ordered that the second reading be made an order of the day for the next sitting.
- Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill received from the Senate, and read a first time. Ordered that the second reading be made an order of the day for the next sitting.
- Defence Legislation Amendment (Aid to Civilian Authorities) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill received from the Senate, and read a first time.
- Second Reading (15 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I would like to introduce the Defence Legislation Amendment (Aid to Civilian Authorities) Bill 2006, which amends part IIIAAA of the Defence Act...
- 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.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2005-2006; Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2005-2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (59 speeches)
Debate resumed from 8 February, on motion by Mr Nairn: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the House do now adjourn.
- Israel-Palestine Visit; Oil for Food Program (1 speech)
This evening I would like to associate myself with comments made by the member for Chifley last Thursday in this place, when he referred to a visit by federal members of parliament to the...
- Ryan Electorate: Recognition Awards; National Youth Roundtable (1 speech)
The Ryan recognition awards were initiated by me in 2002, following my election to the federal parliament. I speak here in the parliament as the member for Ryan, and it is a great privilege to...
- Shortland Electorate: Medical Practitioners (2 speeches)
For a number of years, I have raised the issue of the critical, life-threatening shortage of doctors in the Shortland electorate in this parliament and with the Minister for Health and Ageing,...
- New South Wales Government: Desalination Plant (1 speech)
The New South Wales government announced last week that they had shelved the deeply unpopular desalination plant which they had been trying to force onto the Kurnell Peninsula against the wishes...
- Victims of Crime (1 speech)
Tonight I rise to talk about the lack of justice afforded to many Australian victims of crime and to call on the government to establish a national compensation and support scheme for victims of...
- Hasluck Electorate: Kalamunda District Community Hospital (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about the Kalamunda District Community Hospital in my electorate of Hasluck and two dynamic young women—Georgia Bolden-Strestik and Melanie Landy. Firstly, I...
- Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (1 speech)
Before the House adjourns this evening, I raise once again my grave concerns at the media reports attributed to Mr Max Moore-Wilton with regard to his desire to have the curfew at Sydney airport...
- Request for Detailed Information (0 speeches)
- 2006 House of Representatives Seminar Program (2 speeches)
asked the Speaker, in writing, on 02 February 2006(1)What is the budgeted (a) revenue and (b) expense for the 2006 House of Representatives Seminar Program.(2)Is the net revenue from the Seminar...
- Notices (0 speeches)
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The following notice was given:
- Main Committee Procedures (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Before the order of the day is called on I would like to make a short statement. This is the first meeting of the committee since new procedures were put in place last Thursday. These procedures...
- Committees (0 speeches)
