House debates
Wednesday, 18 October 2006
- Iraq (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition moving forthwith: That this House requires the Minister for Foreign Affairs...
- Business (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended to enable the following to occur during the periods set aside in standing order 34 for government business on Wednesday 18...
- Inspector of Transport Security Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Vaile. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Transport security in Australia continues to compare well with benchmark countries. There has been significant cooperation between Australian...
- Inspector of Transport Security (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Vaile. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Inspector of Transport Security Bill 2006 is a part of this government’s commitment to ensuring safe and secure transport systems and...
- Medibank Private Sale Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Nairn. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Australian government has always recognised the importance of the private health insurance industry as an essential partner to the public...
- Australian Securities and Investments Commission Amendment (Audit Inspection) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Pearce. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Today I introduce a bill which will amend the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (the ASIC Act) to provide a legislative...
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Television) Bill 2006; Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (8 speeches)
Debate resumed from 17 October, on motion by Mr Hunt: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
In accordance with the resolution agreed earlier, I put the question that the remaining stages of the bill be agreed to. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Communications Legislation Amendment (Enforcement Powers) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Consideration resumed from 16 October. Senate’s amendments— (1) Schedule 1, item 48, page 25 (line 10), after “136E”, insert “or subclause 49(3) of...
- Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2005 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (24 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 11 October. Senate’s amendments— (1) Schedule 1, page 3 (line 2) to page 43 (line 3), omit the Schedule. (2) ...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That order of the day No. 6, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 October, on motion by Mr Hunt: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Community Services will be absent from question time today. He is interstate on drought related matters. The Minister for Families, Community Services and...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Apprenticeships (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that in Sydney today his government’s spin machine is casting for electricians to appear in the latest round of taxpayer...
- Farms (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport and Regional Services. Could the Deputy Prime Minister inform the House how the government has helped farmers to...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of a parliamentary delegation from Denmark led by the Speaker of the Folketing, His Excellency Mr Christian Mejdahl....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Skill Shortage List (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Vocational and Technical Education. Is the minister aware that welders have been on the National Skill Shortage List for nine of the last 10 years? Isn’t...
- Economy: Private Sector (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer outline recent data on Australian private sector wealth? How has the government contributed to these improvements?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Her Excellency Mrs Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, together with her...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Can the minister confirm that former AWB CEO Murray Rogers is one of his key advisers? Can he confirm that Mr Rogers is...
- East Timor (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister advise the House of the government’s response to the report of the UN Independent Special Commission of...
- Workplace Relations (24 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, isn’t it the case that under the government’s industrial relations legislation the Fair Pay Commission is not required to...
- Obesity (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister advise the House how government funding for medical research is contributing to better health outcomes and, in...
- Iraq (30 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister update the House on developments in Iraq and on the contribution the allied powers are making to the future of...
- Trade: South Africa (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Trade. Would the minister update the House on the status of Australia’s trade and economic relationship with South Africa?
- Iraq (58 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and follows the previous answer he gave, particularly the references in that answer to the Jull committee findings to which I was a signatory....
- Alternative Fuels (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources. Would the minister update the House on the progress of Australian government alternative fuel initiatives? How have...
- Iraq (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer the foreign minister to the statement of the UN rapporteur on torture on 21 September 2006: What most people tell you is that the...
- Family Relationship Centres (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Attorney-General. Would the Attorney-General inform the House how the new family relationship centres, such as the one in my electorate of Lindsay, have been...
- Iraq (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Does the foreign minister recall saying on 5 July 2004 that the Iraqis were making ‘sound progress’? Does he recall saying on 19...
- Workplace Relations (10 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Small Business and Tourism. Would the minister update the House on how the government’s workplace relations reforms are helping small businesses...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Skilled Migration (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek the indulgence of the chair to add to an answer.
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (8 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Standing Orders (2 speeches)
In prefacing the question can I draw your attention to standing order 160, which reads: The House may only amend a House bill which has been returned from the Senate if its further amendment is...
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I am seeking your assistance under standing order 105(b). I have questions both to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and to the Minister for the Environment and...
- Standing Orders (8 speeches)
Mr Speaker, under standing order 103, I have a question for you. Can you please advise the House of how many members of this side of the House were excluded under standing order 94(a) and how...
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I too seek your assistance, under standing order 105(b), in writing to the following ministers to request answers to outstanding questions on notice: question No. 2498, to the...
- Standing Orders (10 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question further to that asked by the member for Hunter. The member for Hunter raised a very important point, and I have two questions. Firstly, I do not understand how a...
- Commonwealth Ombudsman (0 speeches)
- Report (1 speech)
I present the report for the period 13 January 2005 to 27 March 2006 on the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s review of the use of compliance powers by the Building Industry Taskforce. Ordered that...
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 8 of 2006-07 (1 speech)
—I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 8 of 2006-07 entitled Airservices Australia’s upper airspace management contracts with the Solomon Islands government:...
- 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)
- Rural Policy (16 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for New England proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: Effective rural policy...
- Maritime Legislation Amendment (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Referred to Main Committee (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the bill be referred to the Main Committee for further consideration. Question agreed to.
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2006 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment; 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.
- Parliamentary Superannuation Amendment Bill 2006; Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2006 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2006; Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Amendment Bill 2006; Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Bill 2005; Corporations Amendment (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations) Bill 2006; Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Consequential, Transitional and Other Measures Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Privacy Legislation Amendment (Emergencies and Disasters) 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.
- Maritime Legislation Amendment (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Legislation (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
Mr Deputy Speaker, I want to raise a procedural matter with you. It is normal for the Chief Government Whip to refer bills to the Main Committee, and it is done in consultation with the...
- Business (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Wills’ private Members’ business notice relating to the disallowance of...
- Parliamentary Entitlements Amendment Regulations (0 speeches)
- Motion (14 speeches)
I move: That Schedules 1 and 3 to the Parliamentary Entitlements Amendment Regulations 2006 (No. 1), as contained in Select Legislative Instrument 2006 No. 211 and made under the Parliamentary...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the 16th, 17th and 18th reports for 2006 of the committee relating to: provision of facilities for Project Single...
- Crimes Act Amendment (Forensic Procedures) Bill (No. 1) 2006 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment; 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.
- Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2006 (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 7.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Drought (1 speech)
For much of the past decade regional Australia has been gripped by drought. The drought has crippled regional communities across Australia not just this week or this month or this year; we have...
- World Poverty (1 speech)
This is Anti-Poverty Week and I have been privileged to have the opportunity to speak with a range of people this week—from World Vision, from Micah, from Make Poverty History and from...
- Liberal Party: New South Wales Division (1 speech)
On the weekend the state member for Hawkesbury, Stephen Pringle, was another victim of the extreme right-wing takeover of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party—a member in his...
- Carindale Brook and Carindale Court Innovative Care Centres (1 speech)
Carindale Brook and Carindale Court innovative care centres are two aged care facilities within Bonner that constitute Queensland Rehabilitation Services. The centres provide an outstanding level...
- Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Primary Schools (1 speech)
I want to start by congratulating one of the teachers in a school in my constituency for a very special, significant award won this week. Ms Marjorie Colvill from Perth Primary School won the...
- Tarkine Development Plan (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak about a unique part of Australia in my electorate of Braddon. Covering a vast area of Tasmania’s north-west hinterland, the area known as the Tarkine is...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Skilled Migration (3 speeches)
Today I want to raise a very disturbing incident that has taken place in the last couple of days. We all heard in the parliament about the issue of the 40 Filipino workers working for Dartbridge...
- Iraq (1 speech)
For the second day in a row in the House of Representatives we have seen the Leader of the Opposition, once again, babble and bluster as he tries to avoid the terrible consequences of his...
- Antisiphoning List (1 speech)
In recent weeks my office has been inundated with emails and letters from constituents concerned about the government’s proposed change to antisiphoning laws. Labor introduced the...
- Breast Cancer (1 speech)
Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer diagnosed in females in Australia, but it is rare in males. It is also the leading cause of cancer death in females. In Australia, more than half...
- World Poverty (1 speech)
Today I want to thank generation Y, who are out there leading the charge to make poverty history. It is generation Y who are the first generation with the resources, technological capabilities...
- Mildura Airport (1 speech)
I rise to celebrate an achievement in my electorate and to congratulate the Mildura Rural City Council, which manages the Mildura regional airport. Last night, George Vallance, the airport...
- Holt Electorate: Narre Community Learning Centre (1 speech)
I rise today to highlight the case of a local adult education centre in my electorate. The Narre Community Learning Centre is a fantastic centre which recently approached my office regarding the...
- Herbert Electorate: dancenorth australia (1 speech)
Townsville’s professional dance company, dancenorth australia, received a federal funding boost last week following the Australia Council Dance Board’s announcement of its annual...
- Swan Electorate: Green Corps (1 speech)
I rise to speak on another shameful act by this arrogant and out-of-touch government. Last week my office was contacted by Greening Australia concerning a Green Corps project in my electorate....
- Iraq; Stirling Electorate: School Infrastructure (2 speeches)
I rise to talk about the shocking neglect by the Labor state government in Western Australia of our state schools. Before doing so, I want to clarify an exchange that I had earlier with the...
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2006 (0 speeches)
- (16 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 October, on motion by Mr Hunt: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Crimes Act Amendment (Forensic Procedures) Bill (No. 1) 2006 (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 9 October.
- Second Reading (10 speeches)
I present an explanatory memorandum to the bill and move: That this bill be now read a second time. I am somewhat embarrassed, which is rare, although the shadow minister might think otherwise....
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Skills for the Future (31 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 October, on motion by Mr Abbott: That the House take note of the document.
