House debates
Tuesday, 12 September 2006
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Defence will be absent from question time today. He is attending a private funeral in Sydney. The Minister for Foreign Affairs will answer questions on...
- MR Peter Brock Am (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker, could I have the indulgence of the House to say a few words about the tragic death last Friday of Peter Brock in Western Australia. Yesterday, on indulgence, the Leader of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Medibank Private (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and refers to the confirmation that the government sale of Medibank has been put on hold. Will the Prime Minister finally confirm for the House, for...
- Veterans: Gold Card (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Would the Prime Minister outline to the House what the government is doing to support and improve veterans’ health care?
- Medibank Private (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Minister, I refer to the Prime Minister’s answer to the question from the Leader of the Opposition and to the fact that the only reason...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware of proposals to allow uninvited third parties to amend employment contracts? How would any such proposal impact on...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform members that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Hon. Dean Brown, former Premier of South Australia. On behalf of all members, I wish him a very warm welcome.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Housing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware of new figures from Deutsche Bank which estimate that household debt is now a record 171 per cent of household disposable...
- US-Australia Free Trade Agreement (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. Would the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade inform the House how Australian companies are taking advantage of the...
- Housing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that, according to data from the Supreme Court of Victoria, in the first half of this year there were 1,474 mortgage...
- Climate Change (45 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister update the House on Australia’s international action and cooperation to address the issue of climate change?
- Medibank Private (8 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Is the minister aware of claims that privatisation is hurtful in the health sector? What is the government’s response?
- Fruit and Vegetable Growers (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. I refer the minister to this statement by the former Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the National Party on 1 October...
- Workplace Relations (14 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Is the minister aware of proposals to introduce compulsory union bargaining into Australia’s workplace...
- Oil for Food Program (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade. I refer to the minister’s instructions to Australia’s ambassador in Washington in June 2003 to go in at a senior level with the US...
- Solomon Islands (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister confirm reports that Australia will be sending an envoy to the Solomon Islands to discuss our concerns with the...
- Oil for Food Program (4 speeches)
My question again is to the Minister for Trade. Will the minister outline the instructions he gave to our embassy in Washington in October 2003 in response to concerns raised by US senators that...
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education, Science and Training. What is the government doing to ensure that parents receive accurate and clear information about their child’s...
- Oil for Food Program (13 speeches)
My question, for the third time, is to the Minister for Trade. I refer the minister to this email released by the Cole inquiry, from AWB to the Acting Ambassador in Washington just prior to the...
- Indigenous Communities (23 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Is the minister aware of further allegations of violence and crime in remote Aboriginal...
- Workplace Relations (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. When did the minister, his office, his department or the Office of Workplace Services first become aware that by June 2004,...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Mr Peter Brock AM (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question for you. I would like to preface the question by expressing appreciation for today’s acknowledgment of Peter Brock, but I am wondering whether other MPs will...
- Sub Judice Rule (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, before I raise this matter with you I apologise that I did not raise it as a point of order when Minister Brough was giving the answer to the member for Solomon’s question. I...
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 4 of 2006-07 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 4 of 2006-07 entitled Tax agent and business portals: Australian Taxation Office. Ordered that the report be made a parliamentary paper.
- 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)
- Medibank Private (16 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Lalor proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government’s...
- Fruit and Vegetable Growers (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Deputy Prime Minister from coming into this place and providing a full and proper explanation as to...
- 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, 9 October 2006. The report will be...
- Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Amendment (Maritime Security Guards and Other Measures) Bill 2005; National Cattle Disease Eradication Account Amendment Bill 2006; Trade Marks Amendment Bill 2006; Schools Assistance (Learning Together — Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Amendment Bill (No. 2) 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.
- MR Peter Brock Am (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the House take note of the statements of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition on the death of Peter Brock. Question agreed to.
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Mr Peter Brock AM; Reference (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That resumption of debate on the statements of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition on the death of Peter Brock be referred to the Main Committee. Question...
- Independent Contractors Bill 2006; Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Independent Contractors) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (23 speeches)
Debate resumed from 11 September, on motion by Mr Andrews: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Mr Stephen Smith moved by way of amendment: That all words after...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Minister for Foreign Affairs (1 speech)
On the night of 23 July, two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances came under Israeli air attack near the village of Qana. The attack reportedly caused one man travelling in one of the ambulances to lose...
- First Contact Aboriginal Corporation for Youth (1 speech)
First Contact Aboriginal Corporation for Youth is a not-for-profit organisation in Bonner that for many years has worked tirelessly for the betterment of the Indigenous community in south-east...
- Broadband Services (1 speech)
It is unacceptable that in the year 2006, many residents and businesses in the Throsby electorate are still unable to access high-speed ADSL broadband services. The Howard government has been so...
- Australian Values (1 speech)
Yesterday, the Leader of the Opposition called for a values statement to be made by would-be Australian citizens and would-be visitors to Australia. The practicalities of imposing such a values...
- Queensland State Election (1 speech)
It is not often that members on the Labor side of the House rise to endorse statements made by those on the other side of the House, especially when those statements concern election results....
- Hobart International Airport (1 speech)
I rise to draw to the attention of the House a retail planning controversy that is building momentum in Tasmania—and so it should because one false move could spell disaster for the...
- Australian Values (2 speeches)
I want to reiterate how much I support the Leader of the Opposition in espousing Australian values, particularly the requirement for some reference to them on visas. It is true we had a lengthy...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
The following notices were given:
