House debates
Tuesday, 15 August 2006
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
I inform the House that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade will be absent from question time today for personal reasons. I am happy to say that he and his wife, Wendy, have become...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Aviation Security (2 speeches)
My question without notice is to the Minister for Transport and Regional Services. Minister, why does the government have just four teams of police to protect more than 140 regional airports?
- Business Innovation (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer update the House on what the Australian government is doing to help businesses across Australia, including those in my electorate of...
- Aviation Security (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Transport and Regional Services. Why is it that, five years after the 2001 terrorist attacks in America and one year after Sir John Wheeler warned the...
- National Security (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister inform the House of the government’s plan to fight terrorism in our region and is the minister aware of any criticism...
- Transport Security (7 speeches)
Savaged by a sheep, Mr Speaker.
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is directed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer outline to the House the basis for the conduct of monetary policy which was instituted 10 years ago? Has the statement on the conduct...
- Liquefied Petroleum Gas (16 speeches)
My question is to the Special Minister of State. I refer the minister to his written response to my recent inquiry about having all Commonwealth vehicles powered by LPG. In his letter, the...
- North Korea (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister update the House on Australia’s reaction to the testing of intercontinental ballistic missiles by North Korea?
- Liquefied Petroleum Gas (10 speeches)
My question is to the Special Minister of State and follows the answer he provided to the member for Throsby. Minister, didn’t your July LPG letter also say ‘the use of LPG fuel in...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Attorney-General. Would the Attorney-General update the House on ASIO’s progress in ensuring it has the resources and the ability to continue protecting the...
- Workplace Relations (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and again refers to 17-year-old Billy Schultze who works at the Belair BP service station and has recently been suspended and punished financially for not...
- Energy Initiatives (29 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources. Would the minister update the House on industry’s response to the government’s energy initiatives...
- Workplace Relations (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. With the closure of Cowra’s largest employer, the Cowra Abattoir, and the loss of 200 jobs, will the minister confirm...
- Indigenous Affairs (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Would the minister inform the House of the government’s new private sector approach to...
- Centrelink (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Human Services. I refer the minister to a constituent of mine, Ms Brenda Hendricks of Carlisle, who has an incurable brain tumour. She was denied access to the...
- Private Health Insurance (12 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. What do the latest figures show about the government’s private health insurance initiative? What does this say about the...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the fact that wholly owned Qantas subsidiary Jetstar will utilise AWAs in its international services later this year, with...
- Women: Employment (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education, Science and Training and the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Women’s Issues. Would the minister inform the House how strong...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to wholly owned Qantas subsidiary Jetstar’s AWAs, with remuneration between $41,000 and $46,000 for cabin crew. I again...
- Work for the Dole (3 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Workforce Participation. Would the minister inform the House of the benefits of Work for the Dole in building job seekers’ skills?
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (17 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Member for Lyons (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I ask you to give consideration to this when you ask me to leave the chamber—which is very rare, I know. Yesterday you asked me to do that. I have been informed by an attendant...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
A document is tabled as listed in the schedule circulated to honourable members. Details of the document will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Standing Order 104 (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question to you concerning your interpretation today of standing order 104. Standing order 104 simply states: An answer must be relevant to the question. Mr Speaker, on three...
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
On 21 June the honourable member for Canning raised a matter of privilege in connection with an inquiry being conducted by the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit. The member’s...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Aviation Security (24 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Brisbane proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government’s...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the report of the Selection Committee relating to the consideration of committee and delegation reports and private members’ business on Monday, 4 September 2006. The report will...
- Social Security and Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2006; Privacy Legislation 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.
- Petroleum Retail Legislation Repeal Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (36 speeches)
Debate resumed from 14 August, on motion by Mr Ian Macfarlane: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Mr Martin Ferguson moved by way of amendment: That all words after...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9.00 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Federal Election: Member for New England (1 speech)
I would like to notify the parliament of the extraordinary claims by Ms Wendy Armstrong, a former staff member of the former Deputy Prime Minister, John Anderson, made in Mr Anderson’s...
- Moncrieff Electorate: State Issues (1 speech)
Today Premier Beattie announced, after visiting the Queensland Governor, that he would be calling the state election. I rise tonight to raise some of the key issues that I know the people of the...
- Liberal Party: New South Wales Division (1 speech)
Last week I urged the Prime Minister to turn his mind from moralising about the Big Brother program and focus on the task of cleaning up the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party. Tonight...
- Hasluck Leadership Award (1 speech)
I rise tonight to recognise the efforts of some outstanding young people in my electorate of Hasluck. Although some schools in Western Australia take advantage of the subsidy program to visit...
- Family Watch Task Force (1 speech)
While the Howard government has spent the last 12 months fighting amongst itself over leadership and developing legislation that sells out Australian sovereignty, Labor has been focused on the...
- Bonner Electorate: Viking Industries (1 speech)
I rise this evening to confirm my strong support for an application submitted by Brisbane Marine Industry Park for funding under the Regional Partnerships program. Operating in Hemmant, a local...
- Sandakan Memorial Day (1 speech)
Tonight in federal parliament I pay tribute to the work of the Sandakan Community Education Committee and its chairman, Burwood Councillor David Weiley, for the great job he and the committee...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
The following notices were given:
