House debates
Thursday, 11 May 2006
- Tax Laws Amendment (Personal Tax Reduction and Improved Depreciation Arrangements) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Costello. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The measures contained in this bill will cut personal income tax for all Australian taxpayers from 1 July 2006. The tax cuts are another step in...
- Excise Laws Amendment (Fuel Tax Reform and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Dutton. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill, along with the Excise Tariff Amendment (Fuel Tax Reform and Other Measures) Bill 2006, the Customs Tariff Amendment (Fuel Tax Reform...
- Excise Tariff Amendment (Fuel Tax Reform and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Dutton. Bill 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 Excise Laws Amendment (Fuel Tax Reform and Other Measures) Bill 2006. This bill makes changes to the Excise...
- Customs Amendment (Fuel Tax Reform and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Dutton. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Customs Amendment (Fuel Tax Reform and Other Measures) Bill 2006 contains several amendments to the Customs Act 1901 (the act). This bill is...
- Customs Tariff Amendment (Fuel Tax Reform and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Dutton. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Customs Tariff Amendment (Fuel Tax Reform and Other Measures) Bill 2006 contains amendments to the Customs Tariff Act 1995 (the customs...
- Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill (No. 3) 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Pyne. Bill and read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I am pleased to introduce the Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill (No. 3) 2006. It is a very straightforward bill. The amendments provided for in...
- Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Robb. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. On 13 April 2006 the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs announced the government’s decision to introduce legislation as...
- Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Electoral Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Consideration in Detail (19 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 10 May.
- 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.
- Asio Legislation Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (12 speeches)
Debate resumed from 29 March, on motion by Mr Ruddock: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Consideration in Detail (21 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.
- Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work and Other Measures) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 29 March, on motion by Dr Stone: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Mr Adrian Frank Bennett (1 speech)
I inform the House of the death on Tuesday, 9 May 2006 of Adrian Frank Bennett, a member of this House for the division of Swan from 1969 to 1975. As a mark of respect to the memory of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget 2006-07 (5 speeches)
My question is directed to the Treasurer. If this budget is, as the Treasurer claims, a budget for the future, why does it forecast a decline in labour market participation, cut the percentage...
- Vocational Education and Training (7 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Would the Prime Minister advise the House of barriers to the provision of genuine training opportunities to young Australians in some states,...
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer inform the House when Australia’s current account deficit will go down?
- Foreign Debt (17 speeches)
My question is directed to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer inform the House when Australia’s half a trillion dollars in foreign debt will go down?
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Can the minister advise the House about the ongoing role of state occupational health and safety systems under...
- Economy (7 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer and it refers to an answer he gave a couple of moments ago on the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook. Is the Treasurer aware that on economic performance the...
- Employment (5 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to the labour force figures released this morning. How does unemployment compare with previous experience, and how do government policies on...
- Budget 2006-07 (12 speeches)
I thought mass unemployment was a John Howard Treasurer phenomenon, but we will leave that to one side.
- Airport Security (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Transport and Regional Services. Would the minister update the House on steps the government is taking to provide greater security at...
- Australian Technical Colleges (19 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer, and I refer to his previous answer, in which he referred to technical colleges. Is the Treasurer aware that only one student is enrolled at the Gladstone...
- Australian Defence Force: Recruitment (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. Would the minister update the House about what the government is doing to encourage recruitment into the Australian Defence Force?
- Budget 2006-07 (4 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Does the Deputy Prime Minister recall his recent public boasts that this week’s budget was driven by him and the National Party? Why then did...
- Schools Funding (9 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education, Science and Training. Would the minister inform the House—
- Budget 2006-07 (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Does the minister recall the Treasurer’s boast in his budget night address that: We expect to double the number of...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Medicare (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question to you. I am concerned that under the name of the Minister for Health and Ageing there appears today, on the Liberal Party website, material advertising the Medicare...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (17 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Employment (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek the indulgence of the chair to add to an answer.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 39 of 2005-06 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 39 of 2005-06 entitled Artbank, Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. Ordered that the report be made a...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I present documents on the following subjects, being petitions which are not in accordance with the standing and sessional orders of the House: Proclaiming 3 September as International Merchant...
- Special Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the House, at its rising, adjourn until 12.30 p.m. on Monday, 22 May 2006, unless the Speaker or, in the event of the Speaker being unavailable, the Deputy Speaker, fixes an...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Child Care (23 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Sydney proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government’s...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- 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...
- Public Accounts and Audit Committee; Membership (1 speech)
The Speaker has received a message from the Senate informing the House that Senator Moore has been discharged from the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit for the period of the...
- Student Assistance Legislation Amendment Bill 2005; Superannuation Legislation Amendment Bill 2004; Social Security and Veterans’ Entitlement Legislation Amendment (One-Off Payments to Increase Assistance for Older Australians and Carers and Other Measures) Bill 2006; General Insurance Supervisory Levy Imposition Amendment Bill 2006; Health and Other Services (Compensation) Amendment Bill 2006; Protection of the Sea (Powers of Intervention) Amendment Bill 2006; Defence Housing Authority Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Civil Aviation Legislation Amendment (Mutual Recognition with New Zealand) 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.
- Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Trustee Board and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (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.
- Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Amendment (Maritime Security Guards and Other Measures) 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.
- Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work and Other Measures) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- 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...
- 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...
- Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work and Other Measures) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 7, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to. Sitting suspended from 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2006-2007 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
Debate resumed from 9 May, on motion by Mr Costello: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Mr David Hicks (1 speech)
The announcement today that the Howard government has reached agreement with the Bush administration for a prisoner transfer process if David Hicks is tried and convicted by the US military...
- Preston Beach Development (1 speech)
I wish to bring before this House today an issue of concern in my Canning electorate in a tiny beachside hamlet called Preston Beach. Preston Beach, like many other parts of Western Australia, is...
- Calwell Electorate: Medical Services; Calder Highway (1 speech)
On 28 March this year I rose to speak in this place about a massive reduction in the after-hours GP services at the Dianella Community Health Centre in my electorate of Calwell. I tabled...
- Moncrieff Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I rise to raise an issue of great importance to residents on the western side of my electorate, those residents who live in the suburbs of Highland Park, Nerang, Tallai and Carrara. All of the...
- Throsby Electorate: Child Care (1 speech)
In the lead-up to this budget, the Treasurer certainly raised expectations. He talked about the government being very female friendly and said that he was going to respond to the calls of some of...
- Paterson Electorate: Tourism (1 speech)
Today I rise to talk about tourism in my electorate. The main area of tourism is from Port Stephens to Forster and comes under mid-North Coast tourism, which was voted No. 1 in domestic tourism,...
- Telecommunications: AAPT (1 speech)
I want to bring to the attention of the House today the fact that a very dubious practice is taking place in the telecommunications industry, and I have to name AAPT. I have received a number of...
- Suicide (1 speech)
Every avoidable death in Australia is one too many, but certainly there is no greater tragedy than an avoidable death through suicide. Those closest feel so much guilt that they could possibly...
- National Suicide Prevention Program; Investing in Our Schools Program (3 speeches)
Given that the honourable member for Bowman has raised the National Suicide Prevention Strategy, can I place on record my very deep appreciation to the Minister for Health and Ageing, Mr Abbott....
- Fuel Prices (2 speeches)
I was flabbergasted to read a press release from my colleague Senator Boswell that said that our national fuel deficit is running at something like 55.6 per cent of our total trade deficit. This...
- Export Market Development Grants Legislation Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (29 speeches)
Debate resumed from 30 March, on motion by Mr Vaile: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Main Committee do now adjourn.
- Indigenous Affairs (1 speech)
The Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs has been visiting Aboriginal communities talking up ways to address the dire situation of many of these communities, yet at...
- Beaconsfield Mine; Miss Sophie Delezio; Australian Shooting Team (1 speech)
I stand today to place on record my admiration of the community of Beaconsfield, which had their quiet world completely changed over the past two weeks. They opened their doors and hearts to the...
- Visual Arts: Resale Royalty Scheme (1 speech)
The painter John Olsen once remarked, ‘On the resale of art everyone makes money but the artist is forgotten.’ The government’s decision, announced in the 2006 budget, not to...
- Surface Mines Rescue Competition (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate all of the rescue teams that took part in this year’s Surface Mines Rescue Competition. The event was held in Kalgoorlie-Boulder from 5 May to 7 May. BHP...
- Beaconsfield Mine (1 speech)
Beaconsfield—it is the best of times and the worst of times. All Tasmania felt for the families anxiously awaiting news of their loved ones who were trapped in the historical mine at...
- Flinders Electorate: Seniors (1 speech)
I want to address six steps for seniors in the electorate of Flinders. In particular, I want to start by noting that we had 31,891 people aged 60 and above as at June 2004—the latest figure...
