House debates
Thursday, 30 November 2006
- Airports Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mrs De-Anne Kelly for Mr Vaile. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The privatisation of Australia’s 22 federal airports has fostered a vibrant and dynamic industry and enabled these airports to grow as...
- Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Andrews. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill will amend the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (SRC Act), which is the legislative basis for the Commonwealth Workers...
- Electoral and Referendum Legislation Amendment 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 bill gives effect to the government’s response to a number of the recommendations by the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters...
- Royal Commissions Amendment (Records) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Turnbull. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill amends the Royal Commissions Act 1902 to enable the making of regulations which will facilitate the use of records of royal commissions...
- 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...
- Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Legislation (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Moore from moving the second reading of the Prohibition of Human Cloning for...
- Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Prime Minister will be absent from question time today. He is in Malaysia on an official visit. I will answer questions on his behalf. I also advise the House that the...
- Black Hawk Helicopter Accident: Hmas Kanimbla (0 speeches)
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Mr Speaker, on indulgence, I will make a brief comment about the Black Hawk accident. I am sure all members join with me in extending our sympathy and support to the family and friends that have...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Can the minister point out to the hundreds of thousands of Australians who marched against his extreme industrial relations...
- Black Hawk Helicopter Accident: HMAS Kanimbla (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. Would the minister update the House with some further details of the accident of the Black Hawk helicopter that occurred yesterday near Fiji?
- Workplace Relations (32 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Minister, is it not the case that the Office of the Employment Advocate has officially advised employees of Aboriginal...
- National Day of Action (7 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education, Science and Training. Is the minister aware that unions across the nation have been urging teachers to go on strike today? What is the...
- Workplace Relations (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, and I again refer to the AWA offered by Australian Sweets to its employees. Isn’t it the case that this AWA provides...
- Foreign Affairs (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister inform the House about the NATO summit held in Riga overnight and the implications for Australian forces in Afghanistan?
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. I again refer to the Australian Sweets AWA. Minister, isn’t it the case that this AWA provides a base rate of pay of...
- Medicare (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister provide a progress report on ‘Strengthening Medicare’, particularly the benefits provided under the...
- Workplace Relations (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Is it the case that Mr Peter Corish is one of his government’s national water commissioners, President of the...
- Fiji (2 speeches)
My question is directed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Following the action of the military overnight, what is the present state of play in Fiji?
- Workplace Relations (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. If, as the minister asserts to the House today, his laws make Australians better off, can he now guarantee that no...
- Drought (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Human Services. Would the minister inform the House how service delivery by his department is helping those affected by drought in regional and rural...
- Swan Electorate: Education (39 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, Science and Training. Did the minister sanction or approve the release of unpublished information on forthcoming grants under the Investing in Our...
- Centenary House (15 speeches)
Mr Speaker—
- 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.
- Documents (0 speeches)
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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)
- Workplace Relations (22 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 impact of the...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That standing order 31 (Automatic adjournment of the House) and standing order 33 (Limit on business after 9.30 p.m.) be suspended for the sittings on Monday, 4 December...
- Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment (Antarctic Seals and Other Measures) Bill 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.
- Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Forest Industry (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to talk about my portfolio responsibilities in respect of the forest industry. Australia’s forest and wood products industries contribute about two per cent of...
- Australian Capital Territory: Anzac Parade (1 speech)
I rise in the adjournment debate to bring to the attention of the House my concerns about the National Capital Authority’s proposal to locate unisex toilet amenities on Anzac Parade....
- Migrant English (1 speech)
Recently I spoke in the debate on the Australian Citizenship Bill 2006 to express my disapproval of the government’s planned changes to citizenship requirements. One of the issues I raised...
- Farms (1 speech)
We in this place all understand the very serious problems that rural people, particularly farmers, are facing during this long and debilitating drought. To its credit the government has responded...
- Howard Government (1 speech)
This is a story about arrogance and improper behaviour on the part of Howard government ministers. The first story relates to an event that occurred in the chambers of the Brisbane City Council,...
- Hasluck Electorate: Tales of Times Past Program; Lesmurdie Primary School; Ashburton Primary School (2 speeches)
I rise today to recognise and to rejoice in and praise the efforts of both the young and the old in my electorate of Hasluck in helping to build our community. I would like to tell the tale of...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Beyond Home Program (1 speech)
According to a report by Marie Sansom in today’s Inner-West Weekly, Beyond Home, a project funded by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and run under the auspices of Inner West...
- World AIDS Day (1 speech)
Tomorrow, 1 December, is World AIDS Day. It is a day which I hope will very much raise people’s awareness of one of the biggest development and security challenges facing the world today....
- Education (1 speech)
Prior to coming to Canberra I was involved in education in schools for almost 25 years as a primary school teacher, an education consultant in primary methodology, a school principal and a...
- Iraq (1 speech)
I rise to continue my comments on the motion moved in the House by the member for Ryan on Monday. Extremist Islamic groups like Jemaah Islamiah—JI—would have their popularity propped...
- Merchant Mariners Memorial Service (1 speech)
On Saturday, 3 December, at 11.15 am, the 11th memorial service for merchant mariners will be held at Norah Head. This service is held on the first Saturday of December every year at the Norah...
- Bonner Electorate: Bayside Water Action Group (1 speech)
I rise this morning to bring to attention an important water-recycling project that I am currently working on with the bayside community in Bonner. This project is not only helping to unite the...
- Postcard from Lombok (1 speech)
Today I want to read a postcard from Lombok from a friend and colleague of mine, Val Campbell: When writing about the Afghan Asylum Seekers stranded in Lombok, Indonesia, I am not referring to...
- Oil for Food Program (1 speech)
This week Commissioner Terence Cole delivered to the parliament his findings after a year of investigation into the alleged conduct, impropriety and illegality of the AWB. His report was tabled...
- Second Sydney Airport: Badgerys Creek Airport (1 speech)
In the chamber on Monday afternoon the member for Lindsay once again attempted to perpetuate the myth that the Howard government has no plans for a second airport in Sydney. I cannot help but...
- Gilmore Electorate Office: Work Experience (2 speeches)
The House would realise that we have a number of work experience people come through the offices in Gilmore. These are the words of one such young lady: My name is Naomi Cockerill and I am 19...
- Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment (Antarctic Seals and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 27 November.
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
I present the explanatory memorandum to the bill and I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The purpose of the Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment (Antarctic Seals and Other...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Main Committee do now adjourn.
- Central Queensland University (1 speech)
The Central Queensland University is continuing to build on opportunities on all its campuses in the Central Queensland area with a great deal of benefit to the provincial cities which have those...
- Mr David Hicks (1 speech)
This morning I wish to again raise a matter that should be of grave concern to any government which purports to espouse the values of freedom, liberty and justice. I speak about the continued...
- Australian Wheat Industry (1 speech)
As everybody is aware, the Cole inquiry came out this week and there are some enormous decisions that are going to have to be made over the next months in relation to the wheat industry. I spoke...
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
Today, at nine o’clock, there was a rally at EnergyAustralia Stadium, headed up by Gary Kennedy, head of the Newcastle Trades Hall Council. The bottom line of the letter reads: ‘Your...
- Water (3 speeches)
Despite the ranting of the member for Paterson, my heart and my head are very much with the hundreds of thousands of workers at the National Day of Action supporting their workers’ rights...
- Community Water Grants; Casey Electorate: Volunteer Small Equipment Grants Program (1 speech)
I commend the previous speaker, the member for Scullin, for his strong support of the Howard government’s Community Water Grants program. I am glad that the member for Scullin recognises...
- Adelaide Airport Consultative Committee (1 speech)
The Adelaide Airport has willingly complied with ministerial direction to establish and maintain the Adelaide Airport Consultative Committee. Naturally, much of the consultative committee’s...
- Gilmore Electorate Office: Work Experience (1 speech)
I would like to continue the story of 19-year-old Naomi Cockerill, a successful work experience story in my electorate office, that I started in my member’s statement this morning. Naomi...
- Tourism (3 speeches)
As we draw to the end of 2006 I want to raise this morning the government’s Tourism Forecasting Committee figures—the forecast figures for 2007 which were released last week. They...
- Community Water Grants (1 speech)
I rise to speak about water-saving grants that have been allocated in my electorate of Stirling. Like most Australians and many of the people in my electorate, I enjoy the wonderful natural...
- Human Rights: Darfur (1 speech)
I want to praise the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, for speaking up on behalf of the brutalised people of Darfur in western Sudan. Over the last three to four years, the...
- National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (1 speech)
I was very pleased on Monday to go to the announcement of the projects for research infrastructure under the NCRIS. This is a scheme which is provided for under the Howard government’s...
- Mr Jim Comerford (1 speech)
On 10 November 2006, over 350 mourners gathered at the Ryhope memorial park for the funeral of mining union legend Jim Comerford. Mr Deputy Speaker, I will be seeking leave later to table the...
- Redcliffe Peninsula: Volunteer Coastguard (1 speech)
I am delighted to speak today about the wonderful work that the coastal patrol and coastguard do in Redcliffe. I had the great joy to visit them recently to announce a Regional Partnerships grant...
- Tebonin (1 speech)
I seek to raise the issue of the abuse of power which a few pharmaceutical companies have engaged in and the seeming inability of the regulator to adequately respond. During the June Senate...
- Cane Toads (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the subject of cane toads. When members of this place think of the federal electorate of Kalgoorlie, they think of gold mining, agriculture, a resources boom and...
- Antarctic Seals (1 speech)
Earlier today the parliament was discussing the Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment (Antarctic Seals and Other Measures) Bill 2006. It is a very important bill and I was glad to hear...
- Black Hawk Helicopter Accident: HMAS Kanimbla; Fiji (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker Somlyay; it is always good to see you in the chair. I rise in the Main Committee today to express my sympathy and the sympathy of the people in my electorate for the family of...
