House debates
Monday, 22 May 2006
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, I present the committee’s report entitled Expanding Australia’s trade and investment relations with...
- Intelligence and Security Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, I present the committee’s report, incorporating a dissenting report, entitled Review of the listing of the...
- Electoral Matters Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters I present the committee’s report, incorporating dissenting reports, entitled Funding and disclosure: inquiry into disclosure...
- Business (0 speeches)
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At the request of the member for Grayndler, I fix the next sitting as the day for presenting the Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (Kyoto Protocol Ratification) Bill 2006.
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Death Penalty (5 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1)notes with concern:(a)the increasing use of the death penalty as a criminal sanction in our region;(b)the execution of Mr Van Tuong Nguyen in the Republic of...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Greenwood Hotel (1 speech)
In the brief time available to me I want to give a bouquet to the staff and management of the Greenwood Hotel in my electorate, in Perth. I say this because the Greenwood Hotel went to a lot of...
- Springwood VIEW Club (1 speech)
Last week, no doubt like all members, I attended a number of local community functions. One very enjoyable one was the 40th anniversary of the Springwood VIEW Club, a great occasion with close to...
- Gorton Electorate: Education (1 speech)
I am concerned at the recent decision by Delfin Lend Lease to provide a parcel of land for a primary school to be run by Independent Colleges Australia rather than provide it to Christ the Priest...
- Sutherland Shire (1 speech)
Within my electorate there are many issues that face the people of the Sutherland shire, issues which have been initiated by the state government: the threat of a desalination plant, the...
- Westpoint (1 speech)
I wish to again speak up for my constituents and all the other innocent victims of the collapse of Westpoint Construction Pty Ltd. The president of the Westpoint Action Group, Graham MacAulay,...
- South Australia: River Torrens (3 speeches)
Earlier today in Parliament House I had the great pleasure and honour of meeting and talking with students from Banksia Park International High School. As well as talking about our system of...
- Automotive Industry (1 speech)
I wish to speak on behalf of the great Australian car industry. Like other members, today I received a letter from Dennis Mooney, Chairman and Managing Director of General Motors Holden, about...
- Surf Coast and Colac Otway Shires (1 speech)
I wish to acknowledge a visit made last Wednesday to the electorates of Corangamite and Wannon by the Hon. Jim Lloyd. The minister met with representatives of the Surf Coast Shire and with its...
- Electoral Funding (1 speech)
Just before the calling on of 90-second statements, the parliament considered a report from the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters on funding and disclosure. Basically, the report is a...
- Mallee Electorate: Community Services (1 speech)
It was a tremendous delight for me to stand on Friday in the Culgoa community in my electorate, just on the Calder Highway, and open a new post office for a little town of 100 people. The story...
- Westpoint (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I ask through you for the Treasurer to answer my letter of 28 April on behalf of Mr David Johnston in relation to Westpoint Construction Pty Ltd, because it is a disgrace—
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Prime Minister will be absent from question time today, tomorrow and on Wednesday. He is on an official trip to the USA, Canada and Ireland. I will answer questions on...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (12 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. Will the Acting Prime Minister now amend the government’s so-called Work Choices laws to make it clear in black and white that...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Acting Prime Minister and Treasurer. Can the Acting Prime Minister inform the House how Australia can take advantage of the surge in global energy demand and...
- Trade Skills and Training Visas (10 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. Isn’t it the case that the trade skills training visa has a requirement that a position is unable to be filled by local...
- Indigenous Communities (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. How is the government working to overcome abuse and violence in Indigenous communities? What...
- Skilled Migration (5 speeches)
I ask whether the Acting Prime Minister is aware of statements by officials of Perth construction company Hanssen Industries in relation to Australian workers: The more you pay them the less they...
- Iraq (2 speeches)
My question is directed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. What is the government’s reaction to the swearing in of the new government of Iraq and would the minister indicate if this...
- Economy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. Why is it that, when almost all of the world’s major commodity exporters are running a current account surplus, Australia is...
- Budget 2006-07 (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. Can the Treasurer inform the House of the benefits for Australians of superannuation reforms announced in the budget?...
- Prime Minister (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. Pleased no doubt, as we all are, with the Prime Minister’s decision to drop in, when did the Prime Minister advise the Acting...
- Uranium (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources. Would the minister detail the importance of the uranium industry to Australia? Is the minister aware of alternative...
- Private Jacob (Jake) Kovco (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. When did the minister first find out that the draft report prepared in respect of the mismanaged repatriation of Private Kovco’s body had gone...
- Solomon Islands (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister update the House on the outcomes of his visit to the Solomon Islands and the future of the Regional Assistance Mission?
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. I refer to the AWA offered to employees at Childs Family Kindergartens in New South Wales that reduces wages and sick leave entitlements...
- Medicare (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister update the House on how the government’s Strengthening Medicare package continues to lift the rate of...
- Child Care (7 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. I hope he doesn’t dog this one!
- Occupational Health and Safety (30 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Would the minister outline to the House the government’s measures to uphold safety standards in industry? Is...
- Bruce Highway (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Transport and Regional Services. Would the minister update the House on recent developments in planning work on Queensland’s Bruce Highway. Is...
- Child Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Human Services. I refer to the minister’s statement this morning: We will not be allowing providers to kick out a child to make available a place for...
- Murray-Darling River System (5 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Can the minister advise the House what the Australian government is doing to restore the health of the...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (18 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Advertising in the Parliamentary Precinct (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question refers to your written reply to me following my question to you on 9 May about the debt truck being prevented from driving past the front of Parliament House on that...
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I advise the House that the Deputy Speaker has fixed Monday, 22 May 2006, at 4 pm, as the time for the next meeting of the Main Committee, unless an alternative day or hour is fixed.
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Clerk: Petitions have been lodged for presentation as follows and copies will be referred to the appropriate ministers:
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Taiwan and the World Health Organisation (11 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1)recognises Taiwan’s:(a)world class health care system;(b)strong commitment to improved international health standards and international health security;...
- Taxation: Compensation Payments (17 speeches)
I move: That this House:(1)recognises the hardship faced by families who face significant losses with the withdrawal of water rights;(2)acknowledges that a similar problem confronts those whose...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
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Question proposed: That grievances be noted.
- Indigenous Communities (1 speech)
The media this last weekend picked up on the terrible things that are occurring under our consciousness in Australia, following a few people speaking out—at last, in despair—on how to...
- Sri Lanka: Tamil Tigers (1 speech)
Today I wish to raise the issue of the group that is often known as the Tamil Tigers or the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, LTTE. I am confirming my support for Australia listing this...
- Superannuation: Same-Sex Couples (1 speech)
Today I rise to highlight the ongoing discrimination faced by same-sex couples across Australia in the important area of superannuation. Despite continued assurances from the government that they...
- Snowy Hydro Ltd (1 speech)
I rise in the House today in the grievance debate with frustration and despair at the intention of the Commonwealth government, the New South Wales government and the Victorian government to sell...
- Water Management (1 speech)
I too would like to use this grievance debate to talk about water issues. Bendigo and central Victoria are, like many other regions throughout Australia, experiencing their driest conditions for...
- Environment: South Gippsland (1 speech)
I can only grieve and identify with the member for Bendigo in relation to the lack of water in Bendigo and Ballarat, in his district, the continuing drought across northern Victoria and the...
- Breast Cancer: Herceptin (3 speeches)
I would like to speak to a petition that I wish to table of 3,310 signatures. The petition relates to the availability of Herceptin on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme for women that experience...
- Kingston Electorate: Pathways for Families Centre (2 speeches)
I rise today for two very important reasons: to bring to the attention of the House the important work being undertaken at the Pathways for Families Centre at Hackham and to thank the Minister...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2006-2007; Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2006-2007; Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2006-2007; Appropriation Bill (No. 5) 2005-2006; Appropriation Bill (No. 6) 2005-2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (27 speeches)
Debate resumed from 11 May, on motion by Mr Costello: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Chisholm Electorate: Payphones (1 speech)
I would like to say a big thankyou to the people of Mont Albert who joined in my campaign to save their public payphone at the Mont Albert Village shops. Well done. A few weeks ago, a very...
- Queensland: Religious Education (1 speech)
It was 1910 when Queenslanders voted by referendum to incorporate religious education in state school curricula, and since that time that system has worked extraordinarily well—or that was...
- Gorton Electorate: Roads; Victoria University (1 speech)
I rise to speak on two important issues in my electorate. Firstly, I have been overwhelmed by the response to a petition I organised to seek the government’s providing funding to fix the...
- Cook Electorate: Program Funding (1 speech)
It is with great pleasure that I rise to advise the House of two recent funding announcements which will greatly benefit the people of the Sutherland shire. In the early hours of 27 April 2006,...
- Integrated Humanitarian Settlement Strategy (1 speech)
I rise to draw the attention of the parliament and the Australian people to ongoing concerns about the delivery of Integrated Humanitarian Settlement Strategy (IHSS) services to refugee families...
- Queensland: Religious Education (2 speeches)
I wish to raise my concerns today in the House about the plans that the Queensland Labor government had to introduce laws that would change the structure of and access to religious education in...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
