House debates
Monday, 4 September 2006
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Delegation to Malaysia and Japan (2 speeches)
I present the report of the Australian Parliamentary Delegation to Malaysia from 10 to 17 April and Japan from 17 to 22 April 2006. The visit of the Australian parliamentary delegation to...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Accounts and Audit Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit I present the committee’s report entitled Report 407—review of Auditor-General’s reports tabled between 18 January...
- Procedure Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Procedure Committee, I present the committee’s report entitled Learning from other parliaments: study program 2006, together with the minutes of proceedings and a...
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Environment and Heritage Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage I present the committee’s interim report on its inquiry into a sustainability charter, Review of green office procurement...
- Fuel Quality Standards (Renewable Content of Motor Vehicle Fuel) Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (2 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Katter.
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Microcredit (9 speeches)
I move: That this House. (1)notes that:(a)microcredit is a particularly effective and sustainable means of eradicating poverty;(b)microcredit borrowers, particularly women, generate income that...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
Tonight John Howard’s Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage is hosting a screening of An Inconvenient Truth, the movie about climate change narrated by Al...
- Battle of Long Tan (1 speech)
On 20 August the Blue Mountains Vietnam Veterans and Associated Forces continued the tradition they began in 1985 by commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan with a march and...
- Newcastle Rugby League Grand Final (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to congratulate the mighty Lakes United on an outstanding season. Yesterday Lakes capped a fantastic season with their victory in the Newcastle rugby league grand final....
- Moreton Bay (1 speech)
Today we are celebrating the cave-in by the Beattie government on access to Moreton Bay for fishermen and for recreational and commercial users. It was this weekend that the Beattie government,...
- Mr Len Evans (1 speech)
Australia and, indeed, the international wine industry suffered a great loss with the passing of Len Evans on 17 August. No-one did more than Len Evans to awaken traditionally beer-drinking...
- Central Coast: Coalmining (1 speech)
On 22 August the Australian Gas Alliance, a group representing residents of the valleys of Yarramalong and Dooralong in my electorate of Dobell, held a meeting which 400 people attended. The...
- Federal Sports Awards (1 speech)
I would like to recognise the Isaacs winners of this year’s federal sports awards. The awards recognise not only high achievers on the field but also those tireless people behind the scenes...
- Centenary Gold Coast Show (1 speech)
Last Friday, 1 September, my wife and I had the privilege of attending the official opening of the Centenary Gold Coast Show. As one of Queensland’s longest-running regional shows, it was a...
- Royal South Street Society (1 speech)
The Royal South Street competitions are currently underway in Ballarat. The Royal South Street Society has been conducting this annual eisteddfod for 126 years. Royal South Street is...
- Bannockburn Community Centre (1 speech)
On Friday, 1 September, I attended the opening of the Bannockburn Community Centre. This outcome has been achieved after five years of careful planning by the Golden Plains Shire Council and...
- Holdfast Bay Rotary Club (2 speeches)
On Saturday night, 2 September, I was privileged to attend a fundraiser for the Rotary Club of Holdfast Bay. The aim of the evening was to raise funds for the eradication of landmines around the...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Foreign Affairs is absent. He is in East Timor today. During his absence, questions normally directed to him will be taken by the Acting Minister for...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Hon. Donald Leslie Chipp AO (7 speeches)
I move: That this House record its deep regret at the death on 28 August, 2006 of the Honourable Donald Leslie Chipp, AO, former Federal Minister in the House of Representatives, the founder and...
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Skilled Migration (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to a story in today’s Sydney Morning Herald regarding ABC Tissues, where foreign temporary workers do not speak enough...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer inform the House of benefits to Australians from tax reform? What remains to be done to cut taxes, and what threats are evident?
- Skilled Migration (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I again refer the Prime Minister to the ABC Tissues case, where the Chinese workers do not speak enough English to understand safety instructions. Prime...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Would the minister advise the House of jobs growth since the government changed the workplace relations laws at...
- Skilled Migration (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I again refer the Prime Minister to ABC Tissues, which has allegedly breached its immigration and workplace obligations by importing unskilled Chinese...
- Manufactured Exports (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. Would the Deputy Prime Minister, in his capacity as Minister for Trade, update the House on the latest good news in...
- Medibank Private (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that his Treasurer said yesterday: ... I would actually like to see us very carefully examine the possibility of offering...
- Medicare: Bulk-Billing (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 has led to the 10th consecutive...
- Medibank Private (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the Australian workplace agreement currently offered by Medibank Private to its customer service and sales staff. Prime...
- Bananas (31 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Would the minister inform the House of the commitments given to the banana industry in the wake of Cyclone Larry...
- Iraq (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Would the Minister for Defence inform the House how the Australian Defence Force is contributing to the fight against terrorism in Iraq? Minister, have...
- Interest Rates (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister agree with the Reserve Bank Governor’s recent comments that the Howard government’s claims on interest rates at the last...
- Australian History Summit (8 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education, Science and Training. Is the minister aware of Associate Professor Tony Taylor’s critique of the Australian history summit in the...
- Interest Rates (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I ask whether he recalls claiming credit for a fall in interest rates of 0.25 per cent on 2 December 1998. He said: This is one of those days when it’s all...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Workforce Participation. Would the minister advise the House how the government plans to assist the unemployed to move to areas where it is easier to...
- Telstra (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the statements by the government’s backbench communications committee chairman regarding the proposed further sale of Telstra shares:...
- Welfare Reform (8 speeches)
My question is directed to the Minister for Human Services. Would the minister advise the House how people on welfare benefits are being assisted to find work? What practical steps is the...
- Telstra (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister’s statement in 1999, at the time of T2, that Telstra shares were ‘an extremely good deal’ at $7.40. Now that...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Language (7 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question to you. It relates to a ruling you made on 16 August about the nature of offensive words in this place, when you relied on a ruling made in 1955 by the then Chair of...
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, as someone who has an abiding interest in the Notice Paper I am wondering if you can report to the House why today’s printed version does not list all those unanswered questions...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Clerk: Petitions have been lodged for presentation as follows and copies will be referred to the appropriate ministers:
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Human Rights: Iran (9 speeches)
I move: That the House: (1)notes the serious discrimination that exists in Iran towards Baha’is, Assyrians, Chaldeans and Serbo Mandaeans;(2)calls on Iran to recognise the legitimate...
- Health Care (10 speeches)
I move: That this House condemn the Federal Government for: (1)failing to adequately fund healthcare in Australia;(2)its role in causing the current doctor and nurse shortage in Australia;...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Question proposed: That grievances be noted.
- St Aidan's Church; Family Law; Illegal Fishing (1 speech)
I have a number of grievances to raise but I want to start off on a positive note and say that St Aidan’s Church at Rooty Hill in my electorate celebrated 50 years and I was very pleased to...
- Hasluck Electorate: Brickworks (1 speech)
I appreciate the opportunity to speak in the grievance debate to again address the House on behalf of the electorate of Hasluck, which has been adversely impacted by the proposed BGC brickworks...
- Lebanon (1 speech)
My grievance today relates to the war in Lebanon and the enormous human suffering that is caused when diplomacy and dialogue are sacrificed in favour of aggression. Today it is three weeks since...
- Sturt Electorate: Federal Government Programs (1 speech)
It is a pleasure to be speaking in the grievance debate today. As a parliamentary secretary, I do not get the opportunity to talk on wide-ranging issues in my electorate because I usually only...
- Renewable Energy (1 speech)
Today I grieve for the failure of this government to put in place meaningful targets for alternative energy development and greenhouse gas reduction. The Prime Minister says reliable low-cost...
- Home and Community Care (1 speech)
I rise in this grievance debate today to talk about Home and Community Care—commonly referred to as HACC—funded services, such as community transport. My understanding is that the...
- Aboriginal School Based Traineeships (1 speech)
I wish to raise the deplorable threat posed to one of Western Australia’s most successful Aboriginal training programs by the federal government. I was alarmed to learn today that the...
- Ipswich Motorway (4 speeches)
I rise to speak once again about the Goodna bypass and the Ipswich Motorway. These projects are essential to the development of the Ipswich region and to the growth corridor moving west from...
- Australian Technical Colleges (Flexibility in Achieving Australia’S Skills Needs) Amendment Bill 2006; Trade Practices Amendment (National Access Regime) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Message from the Governor-General reported informing the House of assent to the bills.
- AUSTRALIA-JAPAN FOUNDATION (REPEAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL 2006; Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill (No. 3) 2006; AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FORESTRY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (EXPORT CONTROL AND QUARANTINE) BILL 2006 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Trade Marks Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill received from the Senate, and read a first time. Ordered that the second reading be made an order of the day for the next sitting.
- Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (24 speeches)
Debate resumed from 16 August, on motion by Mr Pearce: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Ms Macklin moved by way of amendment: That all words after “That” be...
- 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.
- Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Amendment (Security Plans and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 29 March, on motion by Mr Truss: 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.
- Steve Irwin (1 speech)
On indulgence, today is a very sad day for many Australians, for many around the world and particularly for the people of Glasshouse and Beerwah with the passing of Steve Irwin. Steve was a...
- Mr Steve Irwin; Telstra (1 speech)
I would like to join with the minister in briefly extending condolences on the death of Steve Irwin. I did not know him personally, like the minister did, but from his public persona he was...
- Melbourne Eastern Suburbs (1 speech)
To the thousands of people in the eastern suburbs, one of the biggest causes of concern is traffic and road congestion. It has been the source of much complaint for the entire 10 years that I...
- Federal Courts (3 speeches)
I would like to raise in parliament tonight a number of issues affecting our federal courts and federal judiciary, particularly the Attorney’s lack of a long-term plan for dealing with the...
- Water Management (1 speech)
On Wednesday 23 August the Prime Minister visited my electorate of Dobell where he attended a community morning tea, hosted by me, with over 500 local residents. Many more could not be put into...
- Rail Infrastructure (1 speech)
Last Saturday a rally was held in Cabramatta in my electorate of Fowler to voice community concerns about the impact on local residents and businesses of the proposed southern Sydney freight...
- Request for Detailed Information (0 speeches)
- Hansard (2 speeches)
asked the Speaker, in writing, on 8 August 2006:(1)Have any bound Hansards been produced for this Parliament; if not why not.(2)What are the guidelines for the production of bound Hansards and...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Energy Initiatives (16 speeches)
Debate resumed from 17 August, on motion by Mr Abbott: That the House take note of the document.
- Vietnam Veterans’ Day and the 40TH Anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
Debate resumed from 17 August, on motion by Mr McGauran: That the House take note of the statements.
