House debates
Wednesday, 13 June 2007
- Tax Laws Amendment (Simplified GST Accounting) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Dutton. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
I move: · That this bill be now read a second time. This bill amends the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax)...
- Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Amendment (Cosmetics) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Pyne. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
I move: · That this bill be now read a second time. I am pleased to introduce the Industrial Chemicals...
- Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Township Leasing) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (44 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 June, on motion by Mr Brough: · That this bill be now read a second time.
- 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.
- Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2007 Budget Measures) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (11 speeches)
Debate resumed from 24 May, on motion by Ms Julie Bishop: · That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Older Australians (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister support Labor’s call for a Senate inquiry into the impact of the rising cost of food, petrol, gas, electricity and dental...
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
My question is also addressed to the Prime Minister. Would the Prime Minister outline to the House how labour market reform has helped to strengthen our economy? Is the Prime Minister aware of...
- 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 Malaysia led by the Speaker of the Malaysian House of Representatives, the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Federal Election (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I ask the Prime Minister: how many taxpayer funded government staffers today attended a secret ‘polling day preparation session’ between 10 am...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer inform the House of the results of today’s consumer sentiment surveys? What are the threats posed by a return to a centralised...
- Liberal Party (18 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister identify one other venue in Australia—let alone one with the spectacular harbour views from Kirribilli—where one can...
- Workplace Relations (5 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware of the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics industrial dispute figures? Are there risks to the level of industrial...
- Liberal Party (8 speeches)
My question without notice is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that a two-hour canape package at the Opera House’s Guillaume restaurant, which shares harbour views across...
- Roads (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport and Regional Services. Would the Deputy Prime Minister advise the House of the coalition government’s...
- Liberal Party (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the Liberal Party’s fundraising function at Kirribilli on 1 June. Can the Prime Minister confirm that he gifted his...
- Taxation (13 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer inform the House how changes to the tax and family benefits system are assisting Australian families? Is the Treasurer aware of any...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of a parliamentary delegation from Mexico accompanied by the ambassador from Mexico to Australia. On behalf of the House I...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Liberal Party (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister’s answer to the previous question on the Kirribilli function for business observers paying to attend the Liberal Party...
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Is the minister aware of claims that state government employees might be forced out of their current employment...
- Liberal Party (2 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister, and I refer to his answer to my previous question. Will the Prime Minister confirm that no repayment has been sought from the Liberal Party for the...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Is the minister aware of claims that Australian workplace agreements are being forced on nurses as part of the next Australian...
- Liberal Party (4 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. It refers to his answer to my previous two questions. Is the Prime Minister aware that, under section 287 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act, services...
- Workplace Relations (7 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Given the existence of the political strategy manual produced by the ACTU, I am very concerned, Minister. Are the...
- Liberal Party (6 speeches)
My question is again directed to the Prime Minister and refers to his answer to the three previous questions. I refer the Prime Minister to section 5 of his own ministerial code of conduct, which...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister update the House on recent progress in countering terrorism in the region? Is the minister aware of plans to...
- Liberal Party (3 speeches)
My question again is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the PM’s answer before concerning the use of Kirribilli House. Does the Prime Minister agree that Kirribilli House is owned by the...
- Superannuation (5 speeches)
I have a question that actually affects people’s lives.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 43 of 2006-07 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 43 of 2006-07 entitled Managing security issues in procurement and contracting. Ordered that the report be made a parliamentary paper.
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (9 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Documents are presented as listed in the schedule circulated to honourable members. Details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings and I move: ·...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
I seek your indulgence, Mr Speaker, to request of the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations that he reply to question No. 5454, regarding employment in Tasmania, which I placed on the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Health Care (17 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Gellibrand proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: ·...
- Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment (Child Support Reform Consolidation and Other Measures) Bill 2007; Tax Laws Amendment (2007 Measures No. 3) Bill 2007; Tax Laws Amendment (Small Business) Bill 2007; Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment (2007 Budget Measures) Bill 2007; Tax Laws Amendment (2007 Measures No. 2) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Messages received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- 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, 18 June 2007. The report read as...
- Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2007 Budget Measures) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Restructures) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (13 speeches)
Debate resumed from 24 May, on motion by Mr Dutton: · That this bill be now read a second time.
- 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.
- Social Security Amendment (Apprenticeship Wage Top-Up for Australian Apprentices) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 24 May, on motion by Mr Robb: · That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 7.30 pm, I propose the question: · That the House do now adjourn.
- Childhood Obesity (1 speech)
We need to take a fresh look at childhood obesity issues because whatever the government has been doing for the last 11 years has not worked. We also need to make sure that, in focusing on...
- Australian Labor Party (1 speech)
The Australian Labor Party in this place represent the group of people in Australia who want to live off the efforts of the past—people who have come to this place from trade union...
- Holt Electorate (1 speech)
Tonight I would like to speak about some very special people who make my community tick over. These people are the glue that keeps the community together. A couple of these very special people...
- Prostate Cancer (1 speech)
By the end of the three sitting days of this shortened sitting week, approximately 22 Australian men will have died of prostate cancer and some 82 others will have been diagnosed with it....
- Disability Employment Services (1 speech)
On Monday, 4 June, I launched a new product which will be produced in my electorate. It was a new gelato line, produced by Enrico’s Kitchen at Wetherill Park in partnership with one of...
- Disability Employment Services; Veterans: Legal Action (1 speech)
I want to make a few points on the adjournment speech given by the honourable member for Prospect. There are far more places for supported employment under our government than there were under...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Logan Central Respite Centre Association (1 speech)
I wish to speak today in support of Logan Central Respite Centre Association’s proposal for Regional Partnership funding. The Logan Central Respite Centre is a not-for-profit community...
- New South Wales Flood (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker Causley, as you would be aware, over the weekend we had a devastating flood in our region of the Hunter and the Central Coast. The media reports that the cost of this massive...
- Broadband (1 speech)
Professor Larry Smarr, the Director of California Institute for Telecommunication, Information and Technology, got it right when he said: I am concerned about Australia. We are in a...
- Dalai Lama (1 speech)
Last night I was privileged to be one of the co-hosts of a reception organised for His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the part of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tibet. The honourable member...
- Men’s Health (1 speech)
Today, I rise to speak about Men’s Health Week and, more particularly, about prostate cancer and a recent forum that I had in my electorate in Adelaide. Men’s Health Week is a very...
- Braddon Electorate: Investability (1 speech)
Today it is more important than ever for members of the Australian government to be supporting regional Australia to drive sustainable economic growth. The keys to economic growth are...
- St Kilda Film Festival (1 speech)
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the opening of the St Kilda Film Festival, which opened with a party at the Dogs Bar and adjourned to the Astor cinema by tram. All the participants...
- Ryan Electorate: Karana Downs High School (1 speech)
Amongst the suburbs of the Ryan electorate are Anstead, Karana Downs and Mount Crosby, and the residents in those three suburbs total some 4½ thousand people. They represent almost six per...
- Mr Tony Blair (1 speech)
One of the ill-informed comments we often get from the Minister for Foreign Affairs that Tony Blair has no supporters on our side of politics is absolutely a falsehood. It is my view that when...
- Nuclear Energy (2 speeches)
Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to be briefed by a group of the nation’s top scientists on nuclear energy research and science. The team at the Australian National University’s...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2007-2008 (0 speeches)
- Consideration in Detail (472 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 12 June. Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources Proposed expenditure, $1,301,242,000.
