House debates
Thursday, 16 February 2006
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Schools Assistance (Learning Together — Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill presented by Ms Julie Bishop, and read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The purpose of the bill is to amend the Schools Assistance (Learning Together–Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Act 2004, which...
- Cancer Australia Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill presented by Mr Abbott, and read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The establishment of Cancer Australia as a new national agency delivers on the government’s 2004 election commitment. The government will...
- Health Legislation Amendment (Pharmacy Location Arrangements) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill presented by Mr Abbott, and read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill proposes a number of amendments to the National Health Act 1953 relating to the arrangements for approving pharmacists to supply...
- Bankruptcy Legislation Amendment (Fees and Charges) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill presented by Mr Ruddock, and read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Bankruptcy Legislation Amendment (Fees and Charges) Bill 2006 will facilitate implementation of the government’s cost recovery policy...
- Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill presented by Mr Ruddock, and read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill amends the Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979 to implement recommendations of the report of the review of the regulation of...
- Family Assistance, Social Security and Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (2005 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill presented by Mr Brough, and read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill will amend the family assistance law, the social security law and the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 to implement several...
- Tax Laws Amendment (2006 Measures No. 1) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill presented by Mr Dutton, and read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill amends various taxation laws to implement a range of changes and improvements to Australia’s taxation system. Schedule 1 exempts...
- Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (22 speeches)
Debate resumed from 15 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”...
- Consideration in Detail (14 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.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Approval of Work (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, it is expedient to carry out the following proposed work which was referred to the Parliamentary Standing...
- Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (Kyoto Protocol Ratification) Legislation (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
I move: That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent order of the day No. 4, private members business, relating to the Avoiding Dangers Climate Change (Kyoto Protocol...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade will be absent from question time today for personal reasons. As some members may be aware, his father died at midnight...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister’s 31 October 2005 statement to parliament: ... having received in the case of Australia full responses and cooperation...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon Mr Phil Gramm, a former US senator. On behalf of the House, I extend to him a very warm welcome.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (6 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister inform the House of the United Nations’ role in the oil for food program and what steps it took in response...
- Goods and Services Tax: States Funding (11 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer advise the House of the benefits to state services from tax reform? Are there any other views on the benefits of tax reform?
- Oil for Food Program (11 speeches)
Mr Speaker, could I assure you that we do accept the Treasurer’s expertise in disgusting factionalism!
- Health: Queensland (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister advise the House how the government is boosting the number of doctors in Queensland? What barriers does the...
- Oil for Food Program (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that Mr Brendan Stewart, the AWB chairman, told Mr Volcker in a letter dated 20 September last year that: AWB did not make or...
- Government Schools (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education, Science and Training. Would the minister inform the House what the federal government is doing to provide students in government schools...
- Oil for Food Program (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister, and it follows from the one I asked him previously. It goes further to the letter from which I quoted, where Mr Stewart, on behalf of AWB, says: AWB did not...
- Australian Defence Force (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Would the minister advise the House of how the government is investing in new capabilities for the Australian Defence Force?
- Mr Trevor Flugge (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that the former AWB chairman and National Party candidate Trevor Flugge was a representative of the Howard government on the...
- Air Safety (5 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Transport and Regional Services. Would the minister advise the House of measures the government is taking to ensure the safety of air traffic between...
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister inform the House whether Mr Flugge and Mr Long had a role in providing advice to the Coalition Provisional Authority on the...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Attorney-General. Would the Attorney-General advise the House of the government’s national security information campaign, in particular the work of the...
- Oil for Food Program (7 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister inform the House what responsibility Mr Flugge and Mr Long, representatives of the Howard government on the Coalition...
- Vocational and Technical Education (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Vocational and Technical Education. Would the minister advise the House of how the government is training more young Australians to meet our...
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Given that the Prime Minister has provided Commissioner Cole with no powers to investigate how the $300 million paid to Saddam Hussein’s...
- Financial Management (5 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer. Would the minister update the House on the government’s plan to help young people equip themselves with better...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (14 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Behaviour (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, could you answer a question for me, please? Is it appropriate, when members are seeking to clarify a misrepresentation against them, for others in the House to claim that it is...
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, under standing order 105, I draw your attention to a series of questions I placed on the Notice Paper on 6 September 2005 concerning grants under the National Crime Prevention Program...
- Parliament House: Rectractable Bollards (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, on Monday this week the President of the Senate told Senate estimates that the $2 million retractable bollards at the three entrances to this building would not operate between 8 am...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Documents are presented as listed in the schedule circulated to honourable members. Details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings. I present documents on the following...
- Special Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the House, at its rising, adjourn until Monday, 27 February 2006, at 12.30 pm, unless the Speaker or, in the event of the Speaker being unavailable, the Deputy Speaker, fixes an...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Reference (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (21 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Brand proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government placing its...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Members’ Interests Committee; Report (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 220, on behalf of the Committee of Members’ Interests, I present the report on the operations of the committee for 2005, together with the minutes of...
- Publications Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the report from the Publications Committee sitting in conference with the Publications Committee of the Senate. Copies of the report are being placed on the table. Report—by...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2005-2006 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment; 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.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2005-2006 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment; 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.
- Defence (Road Transport Legislation Exemption) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment; 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 (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 9 February, on motion by Dr Stone: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Mr Kelvin Thomson moved by way of amendment: That all words after “That”...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Oil for Food Program (1 speech)
I rise to speak today in relation to the ‘wheat for weapons’ scandal. As the AWB scandal unfolds, despite the government’s best efforts to thwart this process, we are seeing...
- Disability Services (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about the gut-wrenching subject of young people with disabilities in nursing homes. I am constantly reminded of this subject by the people of Gilmore. It was refreshing and...
- Howard Government: Accountablility (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to comment on the government’s trashing of very important principles in this place. It is clear by the actions of the government, indeed by the Prime Minister, that...
- Trade: Single Desk Policy (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the one resolute feeling that I share with all my wheat growers in the Riverina, with the Deputy Prime Minister and The Nationals—that is, the continued operation...
- Oil for Food Program (1 speech)
The core of the Australian Wheat Board scandal, or the ‘wheat for weapons’ scandal, is really no longer a case of whether there were kickbacks or bribes, because we all know for a...
- Hillsong Emerge (2 speeches)
My attention has been drawn to press reports of Senate estimates committees and the Australian Labor Party’s effort to discredit Hillsong Emerge. Hillsong is a large church within my...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Business Regulation (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the current inquiry by the Regulation Task Force into the subject of reducing the regulatory burden on business. Whilst recognising the significance in corporate cost...
- Mental Health (1 speech)
The ancient Greek physician Galen said as far back as 172 AD, ‘Employment is nature’s best physician and is essential for human happiness.’ Imagine what Galen would say if he...
- Hillsong Emerge (1 speech)
I want to talk today about the misuse and misappropriation of funds by Hillsong Church. Questions on notice asked by the shadow minister for Indigenous affairs and media reports have revealed...
- Bonner Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I rise this morning to speak about an important local issue that I am currently working on in the Bonner electorate. Logan and Klumpp roads are notorious in the suburb of Upper Mount Gravatt, and...
- Fuel Prices (3 speeches)
On several occasions in this place I have raised the impact on my constituents of rising petrol prices. I have never received any satisfaction from the ACCC in response to submissions that I have...
- USS Ronald Reagan (1 speech)
In January I had the great privilege of being a guest of the United States Navy onboard the USS Ronald Reagan, the aircraft carrier that is named in honour of the former US President Ronald...
- Oil for Food Program (1 speech)
I welcome the statements by the Treasurer and the member for Fisher this morning concerning AWB’s $300 million payment to the regime of Saddam Hussein. They are displaying a much greater...
- Second Reading Amendments (1 speech)
In a recent debate, of which members would be aware, Deputy Speaker McMullan drew the attention of members to page 361 of House of Representatives Practice. I would like to discuss that article...
- Corporations and Financial Services Committee: Report (1 speech)
Earlier this week I tabled the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services report Statutory oversight of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. I ran out...
- Shoalhaven Youth Development Demonstration Project (2 speeches)
In early January, the media carried a report about a proposal by the Young Labor movement promoting a form of national service for community work. I would like to respond to that report to show...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2005-2006; Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2005-2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (17 speeches)
Debate resumed from 15 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...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2005-2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 8 February, on motion by Mr Nairn: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time. Ordered that the bill be reported to the House...
- Defence (Road Transport Legislation Exemption) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 February.
- Second Reading (18 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill clarifies the extent of Defence’s exemption from the operation of particular state and territory road transport laws in certain...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Main Committee do now adjourn.
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to say what a great shame it is to see Australian scientists caught in the middle of what is clearly a major political debate. Our scientists have long been...
- Investing in Our Schools Program (1 speech)
Since my election to this place in 1996, school students in Western Sydney have sweltered in temperatures of up to 41.9 degrees in their classrooms. It is 38 degrees quite regularly. This has...
