House debates
Thursday, 1 June 2006
- Special Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the House, at its rising, adjourn until Tuesday, 13 June 2006, at 12.30 p.m., unless the Speaker or, in the event of the Speaker being unavailable, the Deputy Speaker, fixes an...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Reference (3 speeches)
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...
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I ask leave of the House to move a motion to provide for a period of statements by members in the Main Committee on Tuesday, 13 June 2006. Leave granted. I move: That, unless otherwise ordered,...
- East Timor; Reference (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following order of the day, private Members’ business, being referred to the Main...
- Plant Health Australia (Plant Industries) Funding Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
Debate resumed from 31 May, on motion by Mr McGauran: 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.
- Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation (2006 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (11 speeches)
Debate resumed from 25 May, on motion by Mr Brough: 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.
- Energy Legislation Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (25 speeches)
Debate resumed from 25 May, on motion by Mr Ian Macfarlane: 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.
- Tax Laws Amendment (Medicare Levy and Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (6 speeches)
Debate resumed from 25 May, on motion by Mr Dutton: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Queensland Liberal and National Parties (26 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm this statement by the member for Blair? I quote the statement from this transcript: ‘And when the person who moves the...
- Iran (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
- Trade (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. Why has the minister, as Chairman of the Cairns Group and one of the six principal negotiators of the current WTO round,...
- Australian Defence Force: Operations (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. Would the minister update the House on Australian Defence Force operations in Iraq and elsewhere?
- Medibank Private (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. I refer him to his press conference on 26 April in which he announced the sale of Medibank Private. Minister, isn’t it a fact that...
- Trade (2 speeches)
My question is directed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. Would the Deputy Prime Minister outline to the House the benefits of international trade for regional Australians. How...
- Medibank Private (2 speeches)
My question is again to the Minister for Health and Ageing and refers to ‘Project good guys’. Minister, isn’t it the case that this brief confirms the worst fears of Medibank...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer inform the House of today’s business investment data? What does this data indicate about Australia’s economic outlook?...
- Medibank Private (11 speeches)
My question is again to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Doesn’t the Medibank Private brief for ‘Project good guys’ require PR firms to come up with strategies to manage...
- Workplace Relations (11 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Would the minister update the House on the training opportunities available to employees under Work Choices. Are...
- Avian Influenza (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Minister, what action is Australia taking to ensure proper reporting of avian influenza outbreaks in our region? Minister, are there any...
- Workplace Relations (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the 40 employees in Mount Druitt on the 2c an hour Spotlight Australian workplace agreement. Prime Minister, isn’t it the case that...
- Medicare (35 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister advise the House on the progress of measures to strengthen Medicare. Are there any alternative policies and what...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and it refers to his two denials in question time that the Spotlight AWA will not start a 2c an hour wages race to the bottom. Prime Minister, if that is the...
- National Education Standards (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education, Science and Training. Would the minister advise the House of steps being taken to improve standards and consistency in education? Are there...
- Workplace Relations (46 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the statement by Spotlight about its 2c an hour AWA, ‘We are doing what we were told to do by the legislators.’ I...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Medibank Private (8 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek the indulgence of the chair to add to an answer.
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (17 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation while there is still an opposition member left in this place.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Behaviour (8 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question to you. It was fairly obvious during question time today that a number of opposition members, in particular the member for Grayndler, the member for Swan and the...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek your assistance under standing order 105(b) in relation to some very important questions that have been on the Notice Paper for more than 60 days and have not been answered....
- Parliamentary Behaviour (4 speeches)
I have a question to you, Mr Speaker. I drew the attention of the House earlier to the tendency of the member for Grayndler to stand in front of his frontbench looking at the camera. I wonder...
- Parliamentary Procedure (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I also have a question for you, and it relates to when those circumstances arise in the House when ministers ask for the consent of the chair to add to an answer that they have...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 44 of 2005-06 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 44 of 2005-06 entitled Selected measures for managing subsidised drug use in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme: Department of Health and...
- Speaker’S Panel (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing order 17, I lay on the table my warrant nominating the honourable member for Denison to be a member of the Speaker’s panel to assist the chair when requested to do so...
- 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)
- Rural and Regional Australia (18 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 adverse impact on...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Publications Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the report from the Publications Committee. Copies of the report are being placed on the table. Report—by leave—adopted. Mr Deputy Speaker, I draw your attention to the...
- Tax Laws Amendment (Medicare Levy and Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Speaker’S Panel (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing order 17, I lay on the table my warrant nominating the honourable member for Kalgoorlie to be a member of the Speaker’s panel to assist the chair when requested to do...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I am delighted to see my friend the member for Corangamite in his usual adjournment mode, wandering around the government benches looking for any coins that might inadvertently have fallen out of...
- Mr Ray Babbage (1 speech)
On 26 April 2006 Ray Babbage was tragically drowned at Coffs Harbour’s Diggers Beach at the age of 53. Ray, a much loved teacher, sports coach and family man, is sadly missed by many in the...
- Australian Labor Party (4 speeches)
On Monday night the member for Dobell launched a vicious attack on a community based volunteer group, Coastal Voice, and its president, Craig Thomson. Tonight I would like to correct the record...
- Smartcard (5 speeches)
One of the most important elements of welfare policy is a safety net, but right now it seems that the most important safety net of all is that for the Australian Labor Party’s welfare...
- Workplace Relations (6 speeches)
I think it is important that I rise to illuminate the chamber with some comments on the effects of the Work Choices act. This week we have heard a great deal about the real effects of this...
- Spirit of Tasmania (3 speeches)
I rise this afternoon to reflect on a matter of serious concern in my electorate and, indeed, in all of Tasmania. Members would be aware that the Tasmanian government owned TT-Line currently...
- Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (2 speeches)
Bearing in mind the member for Braddon’s comments on the contribution made by the member for Gorton, I would like to reassure the House that, notwithstanding the very poor level of...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The following notice was given:
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Rural and Regional Australia (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about how the Howard government, and in particular the National Party, have abandoned the people of regional Australia, particularly in relation to employment and training....
- Workplace Relations; Telstra; Australian Technical Colleges (5 speeches)
Mr Deputy Speaker, I put it to you that it is the Australian Labor Party who have abandoned the people of Australia. The constant railing against the new Work Choices legislation is railing...
- Kingsford Smith Electorate: Education (1 speech)
There has been much media attention and discussion in the House and in the public on Indigenous issues and the significant difficulties some communities face of late. The critical importance of...
- Investing in Our Schools Program (1 speech)
I rise this morning to acknowledge 12 state schools in the electorate of Bonner, each of which submitted outstanding applications under round 2 of the Investing in Our Schools Program. Just two...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Global warming has become an issue of great concern to people throughout Australia. It is constantly raised with me by people within the electorate. They all say to me that they are very...
- Investing in Our Schools Program (1 speech)
I am particularly pleased to be able to rise in the Main Committee today to talk about the Investing in Our Schools Program and the more than $1.3 million in government funding that we have...
- Family Relationship Centres (1 speech)
I want to use the time this morning to talk about the government’s family relationship centres, because today is 1 June and exactly one month from today we are going to see the first of...
- Public Hospitals (1 speech)
Faith plays an important role in the lives of many Australians, and prayer is also a source of immense comfort to many of our fellow Australians. So too is the Bible a source of immense comfort...
- Dental Health (1 speech)
With the record budget surplus, I had expected that this government would finally do the right thing by addressing the needs of 650,000 Australians now languishing on waiting lists for dental...
- Dental Health; Nuclear Energy (8 speeches)
I thank the member for Throsby for bringing up dental health. It is a big issue in my electorate as well. Why aren’t you chasing the state government to do something about it? Do you know...
- 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 (31 speeches)
Debate resumed from 31 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...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Main Committee do now adjourn.
- Westralia Airports Corporation (1 speech)
Last Monday I tabled two petitions: one from 2½ thousand residents and ratepayers of the City of Belmont and one from the council itself, signed by the Mayor of the City of Belmont, Mrs...
- Mr Peretz Kalman (2 speeches)
I rise today to speak about the life of Peretz Kalman, a man I knew as the father of a great mate, someone whose life story encapsulates so much about a generation of Jewish Australians who have...
- Indonesia: Terrorist Attacks (1 speech)
I wish to update the parliament on the progress being made by Newcastle families who were so tragically affected by the Bali bombings last October. We often assume that life returns to normal,...
- Mr Peretz Kalman (1 speech)
I would like to join the member for Casey and the member for Melbourne Ports in paying tribute to the life of Peretz Kalman, the father of a friend of mine, Harvey Kalman, who is also a...
- Skilled Migration (1 speech)
I would like to commend the previous speaker, the member for Sturt, on the wonderful piece of work he has just presented to the House. Today I want to speak about skilled migrants who have been...
- Dunkley Electorate: Community Projects (1 speech)
In the few minutes available to me I would like to talk about collaboration and how in our communities it is very hard to get things done individually. In communities you need to work with a...
