House debates
Thursday, 2 November 2006
- Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Legislation Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Ms Julie Bishop. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The purpose of this bill is to amend the Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act 2005 to provide for the return of a volunteer site to its...
- Tax Laws Amendment (2006 Measures No. 6) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Dutton. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This Tax Laws Amendment (2006 Measures No. 6) Bill 2006 bill amends various taxation laws to implement changes and improvements to...
- Parliamentary Zone (0 speeches)
- Approval of Proposal (1 speech)
On behalf of the Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads, I move: That, in accordance with section 5 of the Parliament Act 1974, the House approves the following proposal for work...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Reference (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for...
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Procedure Committee; Reference (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the following order of the day, committee and delegation reports, be referred to the Main Committee for debate: Procedure—Standing...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Publications Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the report from the Publications Committee sitting in conference with the Publications Committee of the Senate. Copies of the report are being placed on the table. Report—by...
- Medibank Private Sale Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Amendment Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 October, on motion by Mr Hunt: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Mr Albanese moved by way of amendment: That all words after “That” be...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Interest Rates (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that if there is an interest rate rise next week it will be the eighth back-to-back interest rate hike? How much have these...
- Climate Change (15 speeches)
My question is also to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, would you outline to the House government initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power stations? Is the Prime...
- Fiji (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Minister, what is the government’s reaction to threats by the Fiji military commander to force the resignation of the Fiji...
- Interest Rates (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and it follows the first question I asked him. Does the Prime Minister accept any personal responsibility for any of the last seven back-to-back rate hikes?
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer outline recent data on retail trade? What does this indicate about the financial position of Australian households?
- Workplace Relations (15 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to a question asked by the member for Grayndler on 10 August about Tristar’s refusal to guarantee it would meet its...
- Regional Telecommunications (16 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport and Regional Services. Would the Deputy Prime Minister inform the House how federal government investment in...
- Workplace Relations (18 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the website of Brisbane law firm Connor Hunter, which states: The Federal Government’s work Choices amendments offer you the opportunity to...
- Future Fund (6 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer inform the House of the government’s contribution to the Future Fund? Treasurer, are there any proposals to drain the...
- Workplace Relations (19 speeches)
Regrettably, my question is not to the chicken; it is to the Prime Minister.
- Medibank Private (8 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Is it the government’s view that the privatisation of Medibank Private will produce benefits for policy holders? Is the...
- Workplace Relations (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. It relates to the question just asked of him by the member for Perth, which incorporated a set of statistics which indicated how many conditions had been...
- Iraq (8 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Is the minister aware of claims that the government is not receiving adequate intelligence assessments on the situation in Iraq, and...
- Horticulture Code of Conduct (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Given that the government will deliver only part of its promised mandatory horticulture code of conduct by exempting...
- Violence Against Women (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education, Science and Training and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women’s Issues. How is the government preventing violence against...
- Iraq (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Did the minister or his department approve any of the seven new import contracts between Australian companies and Saddam Hussein’s...
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Is the minister aware of any allegations of corrupted tender processes in public works in Victoria? What is the...
- Iraq (29 speeches)
My question again is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer to his answer to my last question, when he referred me to answers delivered by his officials to Senate estimates. Will the...
- Workplace Relations (12 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Human Services. Would the minister inform the House what the government is doing to get more Australians into work and what initiatives have been...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek the indulgence of the chair to add to an answer.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Department of Parliamentary Services: Annual Report (1 speech)
Yesterday the member for Grayndler asked me about the annual report of the Department of Parliamentary Services, which reports three of its targets—energy consumption, water consumption and...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (8 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Procedure Committee Inquiry (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question is to you but can I first, in response to your statement with regard to water savings, congratulate you. The first part of the water strategy is working—it is...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (3 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)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek your assistance under standing order 105. On 29 November 2005, I asked question No. 2734 of the Minister for Education, Science and Training and question No. 2735 of the...
- 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...
- Special Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the House, at its rising, adjourn until Monday, 27 November, at 12.30 pm, unless the Speaker fixes an alternative day or hour for the meeting. Question agreed to
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (18 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Brand proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government’s attack...
- Australian Citizenship Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee with unresolved questions; certified copy of the bill and schedule of the unresolved questions presented. Ordered that this bill be considered at the next sitting.
- Australian Citizenship (Transitionals and Consequentials) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without having been fully considered; certified copy of the bill presented. Ordered that this bill be considered at the next sitting.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Amendment Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Mr Peter Norman (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the passing of a great Australian athlete and a great humanitarian. I speak of Peter Norman, who died suddenly last month at the age of 64. I had the privilege of knowing...
- Tasmania: Environment (1 speech)
I rise tonight to bring to the attention of the House a potential disaster in the city of Launceston. The city, which is the main population centre of my electorate of Bass, is at risk of being...
- Member for Lindsay (1 speech)
The Prime Minister abandoned Middle Australia when he won control of both houses. Now, one of his favourite members of parliament, the member for Lindsay, has followed suit. While the member for...
- Miles State High School (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to place on record the wonderful achievement of Miles State High School in my electorate in winning this year’s federal government Anzac Day Schools Award. For the...
- Procedure Committee Inquiry (3 speeches)
Today is a rather sad milestone for this parliament and the House Standing Committee on Procedure. Let me say that I have had the pleasure of working with the honourable minister at the table,...
- Agribusiness (1 speech)
I rise today to speak of an ongoing crisis facing Tasmanian and, for that matter, all Australian farmers. Tasmania is known as one of Australia’s greatest farming regions, growing some of...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek the indulgence of the chair to add to an answer.
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I have said on numerous occasions in this place that Adelaide’s western suburbs are some of the best suburbs in Australia and I have said how much I love living in the western suburbs in...
- Remembrance Day; Gallipoli (1 speech)
I rise today to recognise an important date, 11 November. 11 November, or ‘Poppy Day’—Armistice Day as it is known by many—is a date which, together with 25 April, or...
- Gellibrand Electorate (1 speech)
I want to speak today about a project that I have undertaken three times now with Victoria University in my electorate, and particularly its Advanced Diploma of Arts (Graphic Design) students. I...
- Hinkler Electorate: Green Corps (1 speech)
I recently attended the graduation of 10 Green Corps participants from a project which focused on the rehabilitation of Bundaberg’s Norville Park catchment area. This site has historic and...
- National Manufacturing Forum (1 speech)
I want to say a few words regarding the report of the National Manufacturing Forum, which came out of the National Manufacturing Summit held in December last year. Firstly I want to congratulate...
- Active After-School Communities Program (3 speeches)
Thank you for an opportunity to encourage and speak about seven schools in my electorate in the Wimmera region of Mallee which are taking an opportunity to utilise a program administered by the...
- Lily Taylor-Climpson (1 speech)
Lily Taylor-Climpson is an 85-year-old who lives in Shortland electorate. What an interesting life she has had. She lived her life on the road, following shows, and has compiled a manuscript...
- Stirling Electorate: Graffiti (1 speech)
Local communities and councils, particularly my local council, the City of Stirling, are suffering under the weight of what is a chronic problem with graffiti. The state Labor government is...
- National Security (1 speech)
Despite all of the Howard government’s bravado on national security, how can any of us believe for one moment that the Minister for Justice and Customs or the Minister for Transport and...
- Waite Institute (2 speeches)
I would like to speak about the Waite Institute, in my electorate of Boothby. The Waite Institute is a world-class research institute in the area of agricultural research. It was established as...
- Australian Citizenship Bill 2005; Australian Citizenship (Transitionals and Consequentials) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (11 speeches)
Debate resumed from 1 November, on motion by Mr McGauran: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Mr Burke moved by way of amendment: That all words after “That” be...
- Australian Citizenship Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Australian Citizenship (Transitionals and Consequentials) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 9 November 2005, on motion by Mr McGauran: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Main Committee do now adjourn.
- Television Sports Broadcasting (1 speech)
Today I want to speak about concerns that local constituents in my electorate of Calwell have raised with me over the future of televised sporting events currently available on free-to-air...
- Policing Levels in Indigenous Communities (1 speech)
I applaud the government’s decision to hold a three-month review into policing levels in remote Indigenous settlements in Queensland, the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South...
- Throsby Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
I represent a region that had the dubious distinction of recording the highest New South Wales regional unemployment rate in September 2006, of 10.9 per cent—and if you were to exclude...
- Drought (1 speech)
Today I rise to talk of and put on the public record what this government is doing to help our farming communities and our families out there, in relation to the hardships they face because of...
- Central Queensland Military and Artefacts Museum (1 speech)
I want to update the House today and also the many people in Central Queensland who have an interest in our Central Queensland Military and Artefacts Museum. Over two years ago, the Department of...
- Flinders Electorate: Summerland Estate (1 speech)
I want to raise an issue of concern in relation to the residents of the Summerland Estate on Phillip Island, within my electorate of Flinders. The basic situation is that these residents have...
