House debates
Wednesday, 24 May 2006
- Business (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Perth’s private Members’ business notice relating to the disallowance of...
- Workplace Relations Regulations (0 speeches)
- Motion (24 speeches)
I move: That the Workplace Relations Regulations 2006, as contained in Select Legislative Instrument 2006 No 52. and made under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 and the Workplace Relations...
- National Health and Medical Research Council Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (9 speeches)
I move: That the bill be now read a second time. Australia has a proud heritage in health and medical research, which I am sure we all on both sides of the House support. Australian health...
- Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Child Support Legislation Amendment (Reform of the Child Support Scheme — Initial Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (16 speeches)
Debate resumed from 10 May, on motion by Mr John Cobb: That the bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- East Timor (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. Can the Acting Prime Minister inform the parliament of the outcomes of any discussions he has had with the East Timorese President...
- Indigenous Communities (13 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer the Acting Prime Minister to the fact that the government has now agreed with Labor that Indigenous child abuse and family violence should be...
- Nuclear Energy (24 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. As part of the government’s intention to consider nuclear power in Australia, will it nominate the proposed sites of its nuclear...
- Indigenous Communities (25 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Minister, I refer to your proposals to restore law and order to Indigenous communities as a means of...
- Nuclear Energy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. Will the government rule out south-east Queensland and the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales as potential sites for a new...
- Workplace Relations (8 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. I refer him to an AWA offered by Spotlight, a company with nearly 100 stores and 6,000 staff, to a prospective new employee in New South...
- Avian Influenza (26 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Would the minister advise the House of the outcomes of Exercise Eleusis, which tested Australia’s capacity...
- Transport Infrastructure (26 speeches)
Thank you very much.
- Workplace Relations (13 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. It follows on from his earlier answer to the Leader of the Opposition. I again refer to the Spotlight AWA, which satisfies the...
- Public Hospitals (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister inform the House what the government is doing to support our public hospitals? Minister, is the government...
- Workplace Relations (6 speeches)
My question is again to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. I again refer to the Spotlight AWA, which satisfies the government’s minimum legislative standards. I refer to a full-time...
- Solomon Islands (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. Would the minister update the House on the status of the Australian Defence Force deployment to the Solomon Islands?
- Workplace Relations (3 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. I again refer to the Spotlight AWA, which pays a rate of 2c an hour above the current award rate of pay but which provides that Saturday...
- Budget 2006-07 (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer. Would the minister advise the House how the government has improved the operation of superannuation funds of Australian workers...
- Bats (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Transport and Regional Services in his capacity, as we are informed, as the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Heritage. Is the minister...
- Snowy Hydro (3 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Would the minister advise the House of what steps the government is taking to protect irrigators who rely on...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Share Trading (4 speeches)
I have a question for you, Mr Speaker. Last night I was speaking to the House on the appropriation debate about AWB and the member for Gwydir’s AWB share sale. The Deputy Speaker intervened...
- Procedure (4 speeches)
My question is also to you, Mr Speaker. It also relates to procedure. It relates to the procedure concerning the recent—and excellent—debate concerning the late Rick Farley. I hasten...
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 41 of 2005-06 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 41 of 2005-06 entitled Administration of primary care funding agreements—Department of Health and Ageing. Ordered that the report be...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Documents are tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (20 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 threat to the living...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works I present the eighth report for 2006 of the committee, relating to the proposed fit-out of the new leased premises for Centrelink...
- Child Support Legislation Amendment (Reform of the Child Support Scheme — Initial Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 10 May.
- Second Reading (35 speeches)
I move: That the bill be now read a second time. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment Bill 2006 amends the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983, the ABC Act, to abolish the...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 7.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Clean Start: Fair Deal for Cleaners Campaign (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak about an important international issue. It relates to the campaign launched this month to protect those most vulnerable workers amongst us: those who clean up after...
- Mrs Doreen Washington (1 speech)
I rise tonight to add a contribution to a celebration that took place in my electorate today, being the 108th birthday of a constituent of mine, Mrs Doreen Washington. I first met Mrs Washington...
- Avian Influenza (1 speech)
Avian influenza is a significant national security threat to Australia and our region. Chicken populations in South-East Asia are large by global standards. There have already been a number of...
- Braddon Electorate: Polyethylene Project (1 speech)
I rise this evening to inform the House of a great local company in my electorate of Braddon and an exciting project which could create as many as 20 new jobs. MES (TAS) Pty Ltd was established...
- Indigenous Communities (1 speech)
On 18 January, Senator Chris Evans, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, as the shadow minister for Indigenous affairs, made the following comments in a media release. He did this...
- Mr Tom Quinn OAM (1 speech)
Tonight I would like to pay tribute to a local Bundaberg man: Tom Quinn. Tom is a man for all seasons, literally. He took early retirement from his accountancy profession and Qantas in 1978 and...
- Eileen Goss (2 speeches)
I rise to pay tribute to Eileen Goss. Eileen was born Eileen Ryan on 5 March 1919 in East Brunswick. She died on 4 March 2006, just short of her 87th birthday. She was a long-time member of the...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (9 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Deakin University Parking (1 speech)
I am extremely disappointed with the City of Whitehorse, which has granted a permit allowing car parking dispensation for Deakin University’s new International Centre and Business Building....
- Herbert Electorate: Road Funding (1 speech)
Yesterday I revealed a conspiracy being run by the Queensland Labor government in relation to my electorate of Herbert and the federal government. It will not surprise you, Mr Deputy Speaker,...
- Safety House Day (1 speech)
This morning I want to talk about a wonderful community program in my electorate called the Safety House Program. I recently had the honour of accepting an invitation by Safety House Canberra to...
- Paterson Electorate: Rural Fire Service (1 speech)
On 20 May I had the honour to present three national medals to members of the Rural Fire Service at Tuncurry. Neville Keith Turton is one of the founding members of the Tuncurry Rural Fire...
- Telstra (1 speech)
I rise this morning to speak on behalf of people within Adelaide’s western suburbs, especially the suburbs of Camden Park and Edwardstown. These people were left without telephone lines...
- Flinders Electorate: Primary Schools (1 speech)
I want to refer today to the good work of not just the schools but also the school committees and boards within the electorate of Flinders. In particular I am delighted to be able to announce to...
- David Hicks (1 speech)
I want to use this opportunity to raise once again my concerns about the treatment of David Hicks and about the continuing operation of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. It is humiliating to...
- Stirling Electorate: Community Water Grants (5 speeches)
I rise to speak about a happier subject, but before I do I think we need to completely reject the notion that somehow military justice is some sort of kangaroo court.
- Calder Highway (4 speeches)
As part of my electorate’s ongoing campaign to procure funding from the federal government for urgently needed upgrading to sections of the Calder Highway, I want to present a further...
- Burnett State College (4 speeches)
Last week I had the pleasure of officially opening the new administration block at Gayndah’s Burnett State College, which is an amalgamation of the Gayndah State High School and the Gayndah...
- Condolences: MR Rick Farley (0 speeches)
- (40 speeches)
Mr Deputy Speaker—
- Export Market Development Grants Legislation Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (15 speeches)
Debate resumed from 11 May, on motion by Mr Vaile: That the bill be now read a second time. upon which Mr Rudd moved by way of amendment: That all words after “That” be omitted with...
- Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work and Other Measures) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 11 May, on motion by Dr Stone: That the bill be now read a second time.
- Tax Laws Amendment (2006 Measures No. 2) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
Debate resumed from 29 March, on motion by Mr Dutton: That the bill be now read a second time.
- 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 (21 speeches)
Debate resumed from 23 May, on motion by Mr Costello: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Mr Swan moved by way of amendment: That all words after “That” be omitted...
