House debates
Wednesday, 16 August 2006
- National Cattle Disease Eradication Account Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Ms Ley. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The National Cattle Disease Eradication Account Amendment Bill 2006 (the bill) will enable residual cattle and buffalo industry levies, collected...
- Petroleum Retail Legislation Repeal Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (7 speeches)
Debate resumed from 15 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...
- Consideration in Detail (35 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Consideration in Detail; 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.
- Consideration in Detail (0 speeches)
- 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 (Repeal of Inoperative Provisions) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (51 speeches)
Debate resumed from 22 June, on motion by Mr Costello: 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.
- Customs Legislation Amendment (Border Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (6 speeches)
Debate resumed from 29 March, on motion by Mr Ruddock: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Aviation Security (2 speeches)
My question without notice is to the Minister for Transport and Regional Services. I refer the minister to the answer he gave regarding the open gate at Australia’s busiest airport....
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions (39 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Has the Prime Minister’s attention been drawn to a plan by Labor state governments, endorsed by the federal opposition, to introduce an...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the delegation of the Council of Capital City Lord Mayors. On behalf of the House I extend a very warm welcome to the delegation.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer inform the House of today’s consumer sentiment and wage price index data? What risks require disciplined management?
- Aviation Security (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Transport and Regional Services. I refer to the minister’s answer yesterday and to his answer again today, for which I thank him, where he claimed that a...
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. What does today’s ABS wage data indicate about the government’s workplace relations policies? Is the...
- Higher Education (10 speeches)
Mr Speaker, with your indulgence: you learn something new every day. Apparently I have not been prepared in public to advocate our industrial relations position. You could have fooled me.
- Iraq (23 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister update the House on Australia’s strong relationship with Iraq? Is the minister aware of any criticisms of...
- Exports (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. Would the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade update the House on recent figures highlighting...
- Higher Education (18 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that, according to figures from the Department of Education, Science and Training, there was a drop of almost 10 per cent in the...
- Health: Substance Abuse (45 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister advise the House of the government’s response to the Road to recovery report on substance abuse? Is the...
- Workplace Relations (5 speeches)
This government is desperate and out of control.
- Border Protection (4 speeches)
My question is directed to the Minister for Defence. Would the minister inform the House how the Australian Defence Force is contributing to Australia’s border security. Has there been any...
- Oil for Food Program (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and I refer to his previous answer concerning his government’s policy success in Iraq. Does the minister recall telling parliament in...
- Education: Australian History (9 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education, Science and Training. Would the minister inform the House what the government is doing to ensure Australian history is well taught in our...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Yesterday and on Monday the member for Adelaide asked a question in relation to a 17-year-old service station worker in Adelaide. The member suggested in her question that the employee was docked...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (15 speeches)
Mr Speaker, while I am on my feet I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Centrelink (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to add to an answer.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Question Time (9 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question to you. Mr Speaker, my question to you relates to the ruling you made during question time relying on the ruling of Senator Wood as Acting Deputy President of the...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (11 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- 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. Opposition members interjecting—...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (14 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Language (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I again wish to ask you about your rulings on parliamentary language. Can you advise the House why it is unparliamentary to accuse a member of vilifying asylum seekers but it is not...
- Distinguished Visitors (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, in the gallery today there were two very prominent citizens not of this country—one a longstanding but former member of the Canadian parliament, a Mr David Kilgour, a former...
- Parliament House: Computer Support Services (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I am concerned about the resources currently allocated to the IT and computer support service 2020. Recently I made several calls to 2020 in an effort to resolve some IT problems in...
- Distinguished Visitors (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I ask a further question of you in relation to your answer. First of all, can you inform the House, now or at a later stage, what those guidelines or rules might be that apply and how...
- House of Representatives Rulings (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, you drew the attention of honourable members to page 501 of House of Representatives Practice and quoted a Senate ruling. I appreciate that you must take pearls of wisdom where you...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Higher Education (20 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Jagajaga proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The impact of the...
- Social Security and Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment, appropriation message having been reported; certified copy of the bill presented. Ordered that this bill be considered immediately. Bill agreed to.
- 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.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the 12th report for 2006 of the committee relating to the proposed tactical unmanned aerial vehicle facilities...
- Corporations and Financial Services Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, I present the committee’s report entitled Statutory oversight of the Australian Securities and...
- Treaties Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, I present the committee’s report entitled Report 76: Treaties tabled on 28 March 2006 (3) and 10 May 2006. Ordered that the report be...
- Customs Legislation Amendment (Border Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (6 speeches)
Debate resumed.
- 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.
- International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
Debate resumed from 22 June, on motion by Mr Pearce: 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.
- Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (16 speeches)
Message from the Governor-General recommending appropriation for the bill and requested amendments announced. Bill returned from the Senate with a request for amendments. Ordered that the...
- Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (12 speeches)
Debate resumed from 22 June, on motion by Mr Hardgrave: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 7.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Centrelink (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the adjournment on a matter of some concern to me and my constituent Ms Brenda Hendricks of Carlisle. Today, after question time, Minister Hockey added to his answer to my...
- Electorate of Barker: Higher Education (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, I rise tonight to raise an issue that I know is very close to your heart, as well as mine. It is an issue of great importance to many farmers in my electorate of Barker. It is due to...
- Death Penalty (1 speech)
I want to take this opportunity in the adjournment debate tonight to speak about the death penalty, an issue on which a number of members in this House had hoped to move a joint motion....
- Death Penalty; Cook Electorate: Bundeena (1 speech)
I support the member for Gellibrand in her statement to the House on the death penalty, and I want to say that this is a bipartisan committee. It has been formed within the parliament to express...
- Death Penalty (1 speech)
I congratulate the member for Gellibrand and the member for Cook for their fine advocacy inside this House, and outside of it, against the utilisation of the death penalty. It was a remarkable...
- Darwin All Stars (2 speeches)
The Darwin Basketball Association has been invited to send its Darwin All Stars team to the prestigious 6th Shell Rimula Brunei Cup international men’s basketball tournament that will be...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The following notice was given:
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- The Hon. Eric Bedford MP (1 speech)
July this year saw the passing of a great Labor figure from Western Sydney. Eric Bedford was a member of the New South Wales parliament for the electorates of Fairfield from 1968 to 1981 and...
- Battle of Long Tan (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to mark the forthcoming anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan and to note the contribution of Australian troops in the Vietnam War. Friday is the 40th anniversary of the...
- Child Support (1 speech)
I rise to speak in support of the tens of thousands of Australians who give primary care to their grandchildren without the acknowledgment or support that accompanies formal custody arrangements....
- Middle East (1 speech)
I think it is time for a bit of plain speaking about what is going on in the Middle East at the moment, and particularly in relation to the conflict in Israel and its neighbours, Palestine and...
- Westfields Sports High School (4 speeches)
Last week I was saddened to learn that Mr Phil Tucker had announced his retirement as Principal of Westfield Sports High School. Westfield, which is in my electorate, is the first sports high...
- Coonara Community School (1 speech)
I rise to discuss education in my electorate of La Trobe. I believe that, as far as education is concerned, choice is paramount. One of the unique things about La Trobe, and particularly the...
- Liquefied Petroleum Gas (1 speech)
Judging from phone calls to my office and from local talkback radio this morning, there are two topics in town: the state election in Queensland, and the Prime Minister’s announcement the...
- Immigration (1 speech)
We have a proud history in my electorate of Stirling of welcoming into our local community migrants from more than 200 countries, and working with them so that they integrate fully into our...
- Lyons Electorate: Cressy (4 speeches)
I rise to speak about the Cressy troutification which occurred a year or so ago in my own town of Cressy where they took on trout as their mainstay to show the world that they were a very great...
- Somerville Secondary College (2 speeches)
I rise today to talk about Somerville Secondary College. Somerville Secondary College was established this year; it is a subcampus of Mount Erin Secondary College. I want to take this...
- Social Security and Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (17 speeches)
Debate resumed from 30 March, on motion by Mr Brough: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That consideration of government business order of the day No. 2, Privacy Legislation Amendment Bill 2006, be postponed to the next day of sitting. Question agreed to.
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Afghanistan (6 speeches)
Debate resumed from 14 August, on motion by Mr Abbott: That the House take note of the document.
