House debates
Wednesday, 15 February 2006
- Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (29 speeches)
Debate resumed from 14 February, on motion by Dr Washer: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Miss Jackie Kelly moved by way of amendment: That all words after “That”...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (12 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. Can the Deputy Prime Minister explain why the estimated return to Australian wheat growers was only $285 per tonne from the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of the Joint Committee on Transport from the Irish parliament. On behalf of the House I extend a very warm welcome to...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Wheat Exports (21 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. Would the Deputy Prime Minister outline to the House actions the government has taken to support the efforts of...
- Oil for Food Program (9 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer to his statement today that the government had moved quickly to address the current crisis confronting Australia’s hardworking wheat...
- Avian Influenza (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer outline to the House the possible effects to the Australian economy of a pandemic caused by avian influenza? What is the government...
- Oil for Food Program (21 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. It follows the last answer that he gave to the member for Griffith, in which he said that the government assisted in every way...
- Drugs: Bali (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister advise the House of steps the government can take to assist Australians who have been arrested and convicted for...
- Oil for Food Program (18 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Did the government provide any documents from the Wheat Export Authority to the Volcker inquiry?
- Higher Education: Medicine (5 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education, Science and Training. Would the minister inform the House about what the Howard government is doing to increase the number of doctors in...
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer him to his formal statement to the Australian parliament: All the information that we had was provided to the Volcker inquiry. I ask the...
- Health and Ageing (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister inform the House of measures the government is taking to promote a healthier Australian community, particularly...
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. When did the government provide the September 2003 US Department of Defense report into the misuse of the oil for food program to the Cole inquiry?
- Building and Construction Industry (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Would the minister update the House on the implementation of the National Code of Practice for the Building and...
- Oil for Food Program (8 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Deputy Prime Minister, did the government provide the October 2003 Australian Treasury officers’ report to DFAT’s Iraq task force on the...
- Family Law (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Attorney-General. Would the Attorney-General advise the House on how the government’s family law reforms will protect families from violence? Are there any...
- Wheat Exports (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Will the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Leader of the National Party guarantee Australian wheat growers that the National Party will...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources. Would the minister outline to the House government and industry efforts to secure a reduction in greenhouse gas...
- Oil for Food Program (3 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Haven’t the Deputy Prime Minister’s actions today been all about protecting the government rather than protecting the interests of wheat...
- Deputy Prime Minister (0 speeches)
- Censure Motion (26 speeches)
I seek leave to move: That this House censure the Deputy Prime Minister for concealing from the Parliament his knowledge of the Wheat Export Authority’s failure to provide documents...
- Business (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, with your indulgence, could I just alert members to an adjustment to the sitting pattern to facilitate debate on the Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial responsibility...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 29 of 2005-06 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 29 of 2005-06 entitled Integrity of electronic customer records: Centrelink. Ordered that the report be made a parliamentary paper.
- 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.
- Defence (Road Transport Legislation Exemption) Bill 2005; Fisheries Legislation Amendment (Cooperative Fisheries Arrangements and Other Matters) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Referred to Main Committee (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the bills be referred to the Main Committee for consideration. Question agreed to.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Defence: Equipment (22 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Barton proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government’s...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Public Works I present the first, second and third reports for 2006 of the committee relating to: proposed construction of a new...
- Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the House do now adjourn.
- Child Care (1 speech)
I was recently contacted by the Arndu St Paul’s Preschool in Oatley. This preschool is located in the electorate of Barton, but many of the children attending Arndu live in my electorate of...
- Canberra Electorate: Pierces Creek Forestry Settlement (1 speech)
The Pierces Creek forestry settlement was established in 1928 to provide job-tied housing for forestry workers. In the 1980s the houses at the settlement became the property of ACT Housing, but...
- Leunig Cartoon (1 speech)
Appearing in the Australian and the Melbourne Age today is a story about Melbourne cartoonist Michael Leunig. Virginia Trioli and John Fane—a couple of people at the ABC whose judgment I...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (7 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Werriwa Electorate: Hume Highway (1 speech)
Once again I am forced to point out the government’s negligence when it comes to looking after infrastructure in my electorate. Recently the government announced the commencement of the...
- Health: Queensland (3 speeches)
Back in 2003 I told the House of the Beattie government’s ambulance levy, whereby the Queensland Labor government imposed, in effect, yet another tax on residents to provide ambulance...
- Gulf St Vincent (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the Gulf St Vincent, which borders the electorate of Hindmarsh. Many residents within the electorate of Hindmarsh have spoken with me with frustration, anger and almost a sense...
- Flinders Electorate: Community Services (3 speeches)
I want to take this opportunity to discuss some of the developments for community services in the vicinity of Koo Wee Rup, Tooradin and Lang Lang, all towns on the northern end of Western Port...
- Dental Health (1 speech)
Today I rise to talk about the crisis in dental health in this nation. More than half a million Australians are being forced to wait up to five years to get their teeth fixed in what has become a...
- Dental Health; Bushfires: Victoria (5 speeches)
I have a lot of time for the member for Adelaide and I have a lot of time for her concerns for her constituents and the things that she has brought to the table today. However, in Adelaide we...
- Calwell Electorate: Kraft Foods Australia (1 speech)
Today I rise to talk about the most recent spate of job losses in my electorate of Calwell. On 11 January this year Kraft Foods Australia announced that as of 31 March this year its...
- Small Business (1 speech)
Small business is the subject of my speech in the parliament today. Some 1.2 million small businesses exist in this country and they employ over three million Australians. Small business is vital...
- BHP (1 speech)
BHP used to be known as the ‘Big Australian’. After the revelations of the pattern of events and behaviour revealed at the Cole inquiry, it now might be known as the ‘Big...
- Hasluck Electorate: Brickworks (2 speeches)
I appreciate the opportunity today to speak against the proposal by BGC to lease land from Westralia Airports Corporation and build a brickworks immediately adjacent to Perth Airport in an area...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2005-2006; Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2005-2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (9 speeches)
Debate resumed from 14 February, on motion by Mr Nairn: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Mr Tanner moved by way of amendment: That all words after “That” be...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the committee that we have present in the chamber today the transport committee of the Irish parliament. Welcome. It is great to have you here in the Main Committee. We are currently...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2005-2006; Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2005-2006 (0 speeches)
