House debates
Monday, 16 October 2006
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Fiftieth Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution (10 speeches)
I move: That the House: (1)commends the people of Hungary as they mark the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, which set the stage for the ultimate collapse of communism in 1989...
- Broadband Communications (7 speeches)
I move: That the House: (1)deplores the totally inadequate nature of Australia’s current broadband communications infrastructure;(2)denounces the Howard Government’s piecemeal...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Racehorse Names (3 speeches)
Just this morning when I was going through the mail from my constituents I came across something that I believe is of great concern. One of the local residents in the Adelaide electorate wrote to...
- Disabled Surfers Association (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about an issue very close to my heart. For some years now I have been the patron of the South Australian Disabled Surfers Association. As a result, I know first-hand the joy...
- Maroubra Surf Lifesaving Club (1 speech)
My electorate covers a number of prominent eastern suburbs of New South Wales and Sydney, with beaches, headlands and other areas where people swim. With the summer season coming on, it is...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, you will recall that earlier this year the CFMEU trespassed on my home site to bully my husband over the federal government’s Work Choices package. Now they are attempting to...
- Christ the Priest Catholic Primary School (1 speech)
On a wet and wintry night in May this year I attended a meeting of parents in Caroline Springs concerned that the promise of sufficient places in Christ the Priest Catholic Primary School was to...
- Canning Electorate: Custom Composts (1 speech)
I would like to bring to the attention of the House an innovative business in the electorate of Canning called Custom Composts, off Lakes Road in the Peel region. This business has recently...
- National Day for Older Australians (1 speech)
The week before last I had the privilege of presenting a number of people in my electorate with awards as part of the National Day for Older Australians. Barbara Round has been the secretary of...
- Currumbin Volunteer Marine Rescue Service (1 speech)
Yesterday the Currumbin Volunteer Marine Rescue service officially launched its new custom-built search and rescue boat at the Currumbim estuary. The Caesar cat will make it easier for the...
- Isolated Children’s Parents Association (1 speech)
I want to put on the record and commend the great work of the Isolated Children’s Parents Association, which I have met with over the last couple of months, particularly in Sydney and also...
- Australian Technical Colleges (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to speak on the Australian Technical College Northern Tasmania and the typically dishonest and opportunistic behaviour of the Labor Party. Last week I was contacted by a...
- World Vision and the Oaktree Foundation (2 speeches)
In the very short time I have available, I want to congratulate World Vision and the Oaktree Foundation, who on Saturday sent out a couple of thousand people to ‘knock out poverty’....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Renewable Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why won’t the Prime Minister reverse the decision to abolish the solar rebate program beyond June 2007? Prime Minister, aren’t the Australians...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Would the Prime Minister outline to the House how freedom of choice has been embraced by Australian workers? Is he aware of plans to roll back...
- Renewable Energy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is it not the case that the government’s failure to increase the renewable energy target has meant that the Roaring Forties company has cancelled...
- Workplace Relations (5 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer advise the House of the benefits of ongoing reform in the workplace? Are there threats to these reforms? Where do they come from and...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform members that we have present in the gallery this afternoon Mr Doug Blake, a former Clerk of the House, and also Mr Charles Winnifrith, formerly a Clerk of the UK House of Commons. On...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Intelligence and Security (32 speeches)
It’s the election on ticker, I assume.
- Industrial Relations (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Would the minister advise the House how my electorate of Bass in northern Tasmania is benefiting from the...
- Iraq (15 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and follows part of the answer he gave to a previous question. Did the Prime Minister previously say that opposing the dictator Saddam Hussein did not in...
- Drought (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Transport and Regional Services. Would the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Transport and Regional Services...
- Oil for Food Program (5 speeches)
My further question to the Prime Minister is: didn’t the CIA find that Saddam Hussein used illegal kickbacks under the oil for food program to buy military goods and equipment?
- North Korea (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. What is the government’s reaction to UN Security Council resolution 1718 adopted over the weekend condemning North...
- Oil for Food Program (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Wasn’t AWB the single largest supplier of kickbacks to Saddam Hussein under the oil for food program?
- Australian Defence Force Recruitment (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. Would the minister outline to the House the government’s initiatives to increase the number of Australians entering the Australian...
- Iraq (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Didn’t the government have intelligence before the war warning that invading Iraq would increase the global terrorist threat?
- Breast Cancer (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister advise the House what the government is doing to help those Australians suffering with breast cancer?
- Iraq (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Wasn’t the British Chief of the General Staff, Sir Richard Dannatt, right to say about Iraq that ‘our presence exacerbates the security...
- Australian Technical Colleges (8 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Vocational and Technical Education. Would the minister inform the House of progress with the establishment of the Australian technical colleges? How...
- Afghanistan (2 speeches)
My question follows the previous answer of the Prime Minister. Why did the Prime Minister cut and run from Afghanistan before the job was done and despite the warnings of the Afghanistan government?
- Climate Change (5 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources. Would the minister update the House on the government initiatives to reduce greenhouse emissions while maintaining...
- Iraq (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, why did you take Australia into a war when you knew it would make Australians a bigger terror target?
- Prime Minister (0 speeches)
- Censure Motion (29 speeches)
by leave—I move: That this House censure the Prime Minister for: (1)sending Australian troops to war in Iraq on a lie;(2)contributing to the spread of radicalism spawning a new generation...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (8 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (1 speech)
I move: That, unless otherwise ordered, so much of standing order 29 (Set meeting and adjournment times) be suspended to provide for the House to meet at 12.30 p.m. on Tuesdays, and so much of...
- 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)
- World Poverty (9 speeches)
I move: That the House: (1)expresses its concern at the tragically high incidence of extreme poverty in the world;(2)supports the Australian Government’s commitment to the Millennium...
- Suicide Terrorism (9 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1)notes:(a)the Parliament’s and the Government’s abhorrence of suicide terrorism as a tool of any organisation or movement;(b)the global prevalence of...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Question proposed: That grievances be noted.
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about an issue that is vexing our community in the suburbs, in the cities and in our rural and regional areas—that is, the effects of global warming. For some time I...
- Palm Island (1 speech)
I grieve for the Indigenous people of Palm Island. Palm Island is an Indigenous community off the coast of Townsville in my electorate. There are about 3,500 people on Palm Island. Exactly how...
- Federalism (1 speech)
The recent foray of the Minister for Education, Science and Training into the development of a national curriculum once again sparked the debate about federalism and the modern role of the...
- Maranoa Electorate: Roads (4 speeches)
I rise this afternoon in the grievance debate to talk about a topic which I know is at the very forefront of the minds of many members of the House. I know that this issue is impacting on many of...
- Poverty (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker, I hope I am not interfering in your conversation with the previous member, but I understand your sentiments. Can I turn to the matter before me and the grievance I have to...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
On December 7 last year, I am proud to say that I voted for the Work Choices legislation in this chamber. I voted to support the legislation because I very strongly agree with the...
- Grow (1 speech)
In 2003 and 2004, Ms Sonja Scherer worked for the Sydney area consultative committee known as GROW. In May 2003, her chief executive officer, Mr Paul Goodwin, asked Sonja Scherer to get $30,000...
- Petrie Electorate: Health (2 speeches)
I wish to speak tonight on the perilous state of health in my electorate of Petrie. The recent revelation that the Beattie government has botched the possible return to Australia of Dr Death,...
- Parliamentary Superannuation Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 11 October, on motion by Mr Nairn: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Consideration in Detail (1 speech)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- 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.
- Television Licence Fees Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Television) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill received from the Senate, and read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I present the explanatory memorandum to this bill and move: That this bill be now read a second time. Conversion to digital is the most fundamental change in broadcasting since the introduction...
- Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill received from the Senate, and read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I present the explanatory memorandum to this bill and I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The communications environment, in Australia and across the world, is experiencing a period...
- Communications Legislation Amendment (Enforcement Powers) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Television) Bill 2006; Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- World Poverty (1 speech)
Today is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the day set aside in 1993 by the United Nations to try to unite the world on the need for all people on this planet to enjoy the...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
You will recall that earlier today I commented on the union’s campaign against the government’s Work Choices laws and how they are resorting to personal and unscrupulous methods to...
- World Poverty (1 speech)
I rise to continue with some of the comments I made in the grievance debate today in relation to the international week against poverty. In that contribution I suggested that some of the goals of...
- Mr David Mehan (4 speeches)
I rise tonight to once again express my disgust at just how low the Labor Party will stoop, as I inform the House of the latest in a series of cheap political stunts. Failed ALP candidate and...
- Mr Albert William James (1 speech)
Bert James, the former member for Hunter, died at Booragul on Saturday, 30 September. Indeed, this parliament had a condolence motion for him last Monday. I want to thank the member for...
- Carers Week (2 speeches)
Today is the beginning of a very special week: Carers Week. It is a week in which we recognise the many thousands of people in our communities who dedicate their lives to caring for others. Today...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Local Government (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 9 October, on motion by Mr Lloyd: That the House:(1)recognises that local government is part of the governance of Australia, serving communities through locally elected...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Energy Initiatives (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 11 September, on motion by Mr Abbott: That the House take note of the document.
- MR Peter Brock Am (0 speeches)
- (10 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 September, on motion by Ms Gambaro: That the House take note of the statement made by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition on 12 September, in relation to...
