House debates
Wednesday, 1 March 2006
- Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
Debate resumed from 28 February, on motion by Mr Ruddock: That this bill be now read a second time.
- 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.
- Schools Assistance (Learning Together — Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (27 speeches)
Debate resumed from 16 February, on motion by Ms Julie Bishop: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (4 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. I refer to the cable dated 10 April 2001 entitled ‘UN Iraq AWB Exports’, which was sent to the minister’s...
- Wheat Exports (14 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. Would the Deputy Prime Minister update the House and the wheat growers of Mallee on the outcomes of his visit to Iraq...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon many distinguished former members and senators, including Sir James Killen, Mr Bob Charles, Dame Margaret Guilfoyle and the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (5 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, and it follows the first question I asked. Deputy Prime Minister, for the second time, when did you become aware of the contents of the cable to which...
- Economy: Growth (8 speeches)
My real question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, would you advise the House how Australian workers are benefiting from the government’s strong economic management? Prime...
- Oil for Food Program (5 speeches)
Again, the question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. For a third time, when did the Deputy Prime Minister become aware of the contents of the 10 April 2001 Bronte Moules cable?
- Economy (36 speeches)
My relevant question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer update the House on the latest national accounts figures? What does this say about the need for experienced and consistent...
- Oil for Food Program (9 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer to the three previous questions asked of him by the Leader of the Opposition and his undertaking to consult his records. I also refer to the...
- Iraq (13 speeches)
My non-repetitive question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon Professor Marek Belka, a former Prime Minister of Poland. On behalf of the House I extend to him a very warm welcome.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and I refer to his answer to my last question concerning the Austrade cable of 11 March 2000 and his specific answer to it. I also refer to the Deputy...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (42 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister advise the House what the government is doing to ensure the sustainability of the Pharmaceutical Benefits...
- Oil for Food Program (5 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Given that the cables we have been referring to point exactly to the circumstances of AWB’s potential involvement in the breach of the sanctions...
- Pacific Region (13 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister update the House on the government’s aid program to the Pacific, and are there any alternative policies?
- Wheat Exports (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and relates to the Deputy Prime Minister’s statements made here today in relation to the Iraqi government welcoming tenders from the Australian wheat...
- Australian Labor Party (31 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Is the minister aware of reports concerning the political activities of registered organisations under the...
- Oil for Food Program (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and I refer to the minister’s statement to parliament on 31 October last year that: As far as the government is aware, the first...
- Armed Forces (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. Would the minister outline the government’s ongoing commitment to Australia’s armed forces?
- Mr Trevor Flugge (7 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer to the letter I received from the Prime Minister yesterday just before question time confirming that former National Party candidate...
- National Water Initiative (13 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
- Mr Trevor Flugge (10 speeches)
Loyalty lectures, Mr Speaker! My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer to the minister’s meeting with Trevor Flugge in Iraq in 2003. Did the minister discuss with Mr Flugge...
- Minister for Foreign Affairs; Minister for Trade (0 speeches)
- Censure Motion (12 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition moving immediately.That this House censure the Foreign Minister and Minister...
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 31 of 2005-06 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 31 of 2005-06 entitled Performance audit: Roads to Recovery—Department of Transport and Regional Services. Ordered that the report be...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Question Time (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I—and I think some of my colleagues here—could not understand a couple of rulings you made today. I wonder whether you could circulate to us an explanation of the rulings...
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, under standing order 105(b), I ask you to write to the relevant ministers for answers to questions placed on the Notice Paper under my name 1451, 1454, 1768, 2116, 2283 to 2295, 2297...
- 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)
- Trade Skills Training Visa (50 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Watson proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government’s...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No. 3, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day.
- Address by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I move: That:(1)the House invite the Right Honourable Tony Blair MP, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to attend and address the House, on 28 March 2006, at a time to be notified by the...
- 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...
- Offshore Petroleum Bill 2005; Offshore Petroleum (Annual Fees) Bill 2005; Offshore Petroleum (Registration Fees) Bill 2005; Offshore Petroleum (Royalty) Bill 2005; Offshore Petroleum (Repeals and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2005; Offshore Petroleum (Safety Levies) Amendment Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Jurisdiction of the Federal Magistrates Court Legislation Amendment 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.
- Fisheries Legislation Amendment (Cooperative Fisheries Arrangements and Other Matters) 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.
- Statute Law Revision Bill (No. 2) 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.
- Bankruptcy Legislation Amendment (Anti-Avoidance) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (1 speech)
Bill returned from Main Committee with amendments; certified copy of the bill and schedule of amendments presented. Ordered that this bill be considered immediately. Main Committee’s...
- 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)
- Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs I present the committee’s report entitled Review of technological protection measures exceptions, together with the...
- Schools Assistance (Learning Together — Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (14 speeches)
Debate resumed. The original question was that the bill be now read a second time. To this the honourable member for Jagajaga has moved as an amendment that all words after ‘That’ be...
- Consideration in Detail (3 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.
- Tax Laws Amendment (2006 Measures No. 1) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
Debate resumed from 16 February, on motion by Mr Dutton: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 7.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Trade Skills Training Visa (1 speech)
This week has seen the Howard government introduce its new trade skills training visa. This visa will allow imported unskilled migrants to undertake apprenticeships in regional areas of Australia...
- Braddon Electorate: Road Accident (1 speech)
This evening I rise to reflect on another tragedy that befell my electorate of Braddon in north-west Tasmania at the weekend. In recent years the Circular Head community has had to deal with too...
- Minister for Health and Ageing (3 speeches)
Yesterday the Australian public saw, in full flight, the ugly face of the Howard government on issues of racism. The Minister for Health and Ageing stood at the dispatch box and exposed himself...
- Minister for Health and Ageing; Stirling Electorate (1 speech)
I rise to talk on something that actually matters. When the member for Oxley gets up with this sort of confected outrage about a comment that has been made that somehow reflects the racism on...
- Parliamentary Reform (1 speech)
As the previous speaker, the member for Stirling, indicated, we are approaching the 10th anniversary of the Howard government. I add that it has been 20 years since I first became a...
- Bonner Electorate: Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (1 speech)
I have the great honour of being the patron of many community organisations in the electorate of Bonner and, in particular, I feel privileged to be the patron of the Brisbane branch of the...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Business: Corporate Governance (1 speech)
On 14 August 2003 in this chamber I commented on circumstances in which the Metro group of companies operated by the Coughlin family were placed in voluntary administration, resulting in...
- Wakefield Forum (1 speech)
I rise to address one of the areas of politics that is often talked about cynically by people in Australia. It is not helped by articles that come out in the press. I refer to an article in the...
- Vietnam: Human Rights (1 speech)
I want to make some brief remarks today about human rights in Vietnam. In June I understand the Prime Minister will visit Vietnam. This follows a visit by the Prime Minister of Vietnam to...
- Flinders Electorate: Water Treatment (1 speech)
I want to raise issues of water quality and water treatment at Gunnamatta Beach in my electorate. Gunnamatta Beach is on the southern edge of the Mornington Peninsula. It is the discharge zone...
- Ballarat Electorate: Merrimu Disability Services (1 speech)
I would like to speak this morning about Merrimu Disability Services in Bacchus Marsh in my electorate. Last Thursday I had the pleasure of visiting this service. The employees and volunteers at...
- Tugun Bypass (1 speech)
Last Thursday the federal Minister for Transport and Regional Services and I announced final Australian government approvals for the four-lane Tugun bypass. This means that the Tugun bypass can...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
Over recent weeks there has been a lot of talk about values. I would welcome a discussion about values, but not the superficial ones we have been having. I would like to examine how Australian...
- Queensland: State Labor Government (1 speech)
I am pleased to rise today to talk about a decision that has been made by the state Labor member for Gaven, Robert Poole. The decision that pleases me is that Robert Poole has decided to resign...
- Same-Sex Couples (1 speech)
Today I would like to speak about the discrimination that continues to exist towards same-sex couples living in this country in 2006. I was interested recently to read an article in the...
- Havenlee Special School (2 speeches)
There are days in parliament and days in the electorate that are very good as a politician and some that are very bad. Last Friday I happened to have a very good one. It was to do with the...
- Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (33 speeches)
Debate resumed from 28 February, on motion by Mr Ruddock: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Ms Roxon moved by way of amendment: That all words after “That” be...
