House debates
Wednesday, 29 March 2006
- Private Members’ Business: Workplace Relations (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
I seek leave to move private members’ business notice No. 3, standing in my name. Leave not granted. I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent...
- Age Discrimination 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. The Age Discrimination Act 2004 implemented the government’s 2001 election commitment to develop legislation to prohibit age discrimination...
- Asio Legislation Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill presented by Mr Ruddock, and read a first time.
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill amends division 3 of part III of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979, which deals with ASIO’s terrorism...
- Federal Magistrates Amendment (Disability and Death Benefits) 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 Federal Magistrates Amendment (Disability and Death Benefits) Bill 2006 amends the Federal Magistrates Act 1999 to provide disability cover...
- Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner 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 Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Bill 2006 implements the decision, announced by the government in June 2004, to establish an...
- Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner (Consequential Amendments) 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 makes amendments to a range of acts as a consequence of the establishment of the Integrity Commissioner and the Australian Commission...
- Law Enforcement (Afp Professional Standards and Related Measures) 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 repeals the Complaints (Australian Federal Police) Act 1981 and inserts a new part into the Australian Federal Police Act 1979 to...
- Customs Legislation Amendment (Border Compliance and Other Measures) 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, the Customs Legislation Amendment (Border Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2006, contains amendments to the Customs Act 1901 that...
- Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work and Other Measures) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill presented by Dr Stone, for Mr Andrews, and read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Parliament recently passed the Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work and Other Measures) Bill 2005. To ensure...
- Aviation Transport Security Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill presented by Mr Truss, for Mr Lloyd, and read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Aviation security is a high priority for this government and is under constant review to ensure that the regulatory framework is responsive to...
- Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Amendment (Security Plans and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill presented by Mr Truss, for Mr Lloyd, and read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Amendment (Security Plans and Other Measures) Bill 2006 amends the Maritime Transport and...
- Protection of the Sea (Powers of Intervention) Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill presented by Mr Truss, for Mr Lloyd, and read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Protection of the Sea (Powers of Intervention) Amendment Bill 2006 amends the Protection of the Sea (Powers of Intervention) Act...
- Fuel Tax 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. The bill gives effect to the government’s announcement in its energy white paper Securing Australia’s energy future of 15 June 2004...
- Fuel Tax (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) 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 is a companion bill to the Fuel Tax Bill 2006. The bill provides the transitional arrangements to phase in the fuel tax credit scheme...
- Tax Laws Amendment (2006 Measures No. 2) 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...
- Energy Efficiency Opportunities Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Consideration resumed from 28 February. Senate’s amendments— (1) Clause 8, page 4 (lines 19 to 23), omit subclauses (1) and (2), substitute:...
- Health Legislation Amendment (Pharmacy Location Arrangements) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (8 speeches)
Debate resumed from 27 March, on motion by Mr Abbott: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Ms Gillard moved by way of amendment: That all words after “That” be...
- 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.
- Cancer Australia Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (12 speeches)
Debate resumed from 16 February, on motion by Mr Abbott: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry will be absent from question time today and tomorrow. He is travelling to the United States and Canada for bilateral...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to eight employees who each lost their job yesterday at Melbourne company Triangle Cables. Isn’t it the case that their jobs were advertised...
- Trade: China (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. Would the Deputy Prime Minister outline to the House how Australia’s economic relationship with China is...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the United Kingdom shadow minister for sport and Olympics, Mr Hugh Robertson MP. On behalf of the House I extend to him a...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I also refer to the eight employees who were each sacked yesterday from Melbourne company Triangle Cables. Here is the letter dated Tuesday, 28 March that...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Hon. Jay Weatherill, the Minister for Families and Communities for South Australia. On behalf of the House I extend him a...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (11 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer inform the House whether all states and territories have agreed to abolish their inefficient state taxes in line with the 1999 GST...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of a delegation from New Zealand who are visiting Australia under the auspices of the Australian Political Exchange...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, is it the case, as reported today, that your office has contacted major employer groups and demanded that they provide ‘good news...
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
If the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations took any sort of shower, we would all be grateful! I direct my question to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm evidence...
- Visit by the United States Secretary of State (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister update the House on the recent visit to Australia by the United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice? How...
- Oil for Food Program (5 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer to evidence presented to the Cole inquiry yesterday that as late as June 2005 the minister told the AWB that he was delighted with...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Small Business and Tourism. Would the minister outline to the House how the government’s workplace relations changes will enable small business...
- Oil for Food Program (10 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that Commissioner Cole does not have the power, under his current terms of reference, to investigate and make...
- Medicare (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister inform the House how Australians are benefiting from the Medicare safety net? Is the minister aware of any alternative...
- Oil for Food Program (6 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. I refer to his previous answer, which did not answer any element of the question that was asked of him. So I repeat the question: can the Prime...
- School Funding (5 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education, Science and Training. Would the minister update the House on how the government is providing record funding to government and...
- Oil for Food Program (12 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. Given the Prime Minister’s continued refusal to confirm the massive gaps that exist in Commissioner Cole’s current powers—powers...
- Cyclone Larry (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer. Would the minister inform the House how the Australian government and the banks are working to help the people...
- Oil for Food Program (5 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. I refer to the letter he has, and which the Cole commission provided to the opposition in response to correspondence from us, in which Commissioner...
- Child Care (21 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Would the minister advise the House how the government is improving Australian families’...
- Oil for Food Program (6 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister, and I refer again to this correspondence from Commissioner Cole which confirms that the Prime Minister’s terms of reference do not allow for...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Question Time (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question to you, and I will also be seeking leave to make a personal explanation. My question to you, Mr Speaker, is: will you consider the conduct of the member for...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (11 speeches)
Mr Speaker, under standing order 68 I seek leave to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Question Time (13 speeches)
I want to ask a question about that matter, Mr Speaker. The question concerns your responsibility for the conduct of the House and the assurance that no person is being deliberately misled by the...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (11 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Question Time (7 speeches)
The Leader of the Opposition has asked me a question, and I am intending to respond to his question. The Leader of the Opposition would be well aware that it is not the responsibility of the...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (12 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Question Time (7 speeches)
Mr Speaker, a question to you: I would ask that you think about and report back to the House on what capacity I might have as the member for Grayndler in representing my constituents, who have...
- Parliament House: Security (1 speech)
Yesterday I was asked a question about security-screening arrangements for a visiting parliamentary delegation from Pakistan. I can advise the Member for Franklin that the members of the...
- Parliament: House: Security (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question relating to the statement that you have just made. Would you kindly investigate reports in today’s media that the member for Mackellar refused to be...
- 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 (37 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Griffith proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The failure of the...
- Minister for Health and Ageing (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Minister for Health and Ageing from: (a)being required to provide this House with a full and proper...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Report: Erratum (1 speech)
by leave—On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, I present an erratum to the committee’s Report 72, which was presented to the House yesterday.
- Aged Care (Bond Security) Bill 2005; Aged Care (Bond Security) Levy Bill 2005; Aged Care Amendment (2005 Measures No. 1) Bill 2005; Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2005; Tax Laws Amendment (2006 Measures No. 1) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Standing Orders (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Leader of the House I move: (1) That standing order 11, up to and including paragraph (h), be amended to read: 11 Election...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Approval of Work (2 speeches)
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...
- 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...
- Health and Other Services (Compensation) Amendment Bill 2006; General Insurance Supervisory Levy Imposition Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Referred to Main Committee (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the bills be referred to the Main Committee for further consideration. Question agreed to.
- Bankruptcy Legislation Amendment (Fees and Charges) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment; certified copy of the bill presented. Ordered that the 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.
- Maritime Legislation Amendment 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 the 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.
- Ohs and SRC Legislation Amendment Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (1 speech)
Bill returned from Main Committee with an amendment; certified copy of the bill and schedule of amendments presented. Ordered that the 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.
- Jurisdiction of the Federal Magistrates Court Legislation Amendment Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee having been considered up to and including the second reading; certified copy of the bill presented. Ordered that the bill be considered at the next sitting.
- Jurisdiction of Courts (Family Law) 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 the 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.
- Cancer Australia Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (10 speeches)
Debate resumed.
- 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.
- Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Electoral Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 8 December, on motion by Dr Stone: 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.
- Whaling (1 speech)
Recently I had the privilege of meeting an impressive and courageous young man, Shane Rattenbury. Shane was Greenpeace’s expedition leader in their recent campaign against the slaughter of...
- Hillsong Emerge (1 speech)
Elected office is nothing to be taken lightly. It calls for people with dedication to the community and a willingness and desire to make a positive contribution. What is disappointing for the...
- Mr Clinton Starr (1 speech)
Why has neither ASIC nor the Australian Wheat Board acted to disqualify Clinton Starr as a director from Australian Wheat Board International? Mr Starr is a non-executive director on AWBI who was...
- Hillsong Emerge (1 speech)
Some time ago, an excellent proposal was put to the federal government by Hillsong Emerge. Hillsong Emerge is an organisation similar to Anglicare or Centrecare and is an outreach program of the...
- Border Protection (1 speech)
I want to appraise the work of Labor’s Maritime Security Task Force, headed by the honourable member for Chisholm and including the member for Bendigo, the member for Lyons and Senator...
- Hillsong Emerge (4 speeches)
I rise tonight to also discuss Senator Hutchins’s extraordinary statements in the other place at one o’clock this afternoon. He made an extraordinary attack on our very good member...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (10 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Harmony Day (1 speech)
I rise to commend to the House the activities that took place in Kingsford Smith around Harmony Day during the past week. Harmony Day, which was celebrated on 21 March this year, is an...
- Community Water Grants (1 speech)
Water is amongst our most precious assets. It is a source of life for every living organism on the planet and it is indispensable to our very humanity. Therefore, I was pleased to announce in the...
- Mr Liam Flanagan: Australian Youth Ambassador for Development (1 speech)
Today I rise to speak about and congratulate a wonderful young South Australian on a great achievement and to extend to him the very best for what will be an amazing experience over the coming...
- Passeggi Family: Citizenship (1 speech)
I wish to place on record in the parliament this morning my absolute personal pleasure and satisfaction in relation to the citizenship obtained recently by three members of the Passeggi family...
- Chifley Electorate: Public Education (1 speech)
On Saturday I read Ramsey’s column, surprised to find that I was its subject. Good manners, if not the journalists code of conduct, should have meant that Mr Ramsey contacted me. I have...
- Flinders Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to set out an agenda for roads within the electorate of Flinders. Over the last few years we have had many successes in acquiring Commonwealth funding for roads, and we...
- Dental Health (1 speech)
This government abolished the Commonwealth Dental Health Program in 1996. Since then, thousands of the most vulnerable Australians have been denied dental care and have been forced to suffer pain...
- War Widows Guild of Australia (1 speech)
During the recess I had the good fortune to be invited to a luncheon celebration of the 60th anniversary of the War Widows Guild of Australia. Up until that time, whilst I knew many of the women...
- South Australian Jockey Club (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate the South Australian Jockey Club for a fantastic day on Adelaide Cup Day 2006. I was fortunate to have been in attendance at Morphettville racecourse and, blessed with near...
- Community Water Grants (2 speeches)
Two weeks ago, the government announced the first round of community water grants. I was delighted that a number of applicants, both in the Blue Mountains and in the Hawkesbury parts of my...
- Ohs and SRC Legislation Amendment Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (16 speeches)
Debate resumed from 7 December 2005, on motion by Mr Andrews: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Consideration in Detail (1 speech)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Jurisdiction of the Federal Magistrates Court Legislation Amendment Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 1 March.
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill amends the Trade Practices Act 1974, the Family Law Act 1975, the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976, the Admiralty Act 1988 and the...
- Jurisdiction of Courts (Family Law) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 27 March.
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill will increase the jurisdiction of the Magistrates Court of Western Australia so that it can deal with the same matters in relation to...
