House debates
Monday, 17 September 2007
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Environment and Heritage Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage, I present the committee’s report entitled Sustainability for survival: creating a climate for change: inquiry into a...
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Procedure Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Procedure, I present the committee’s report entitled Making a difference: petitioning the House of Representatives, together with the minutes of...
- Economics, Finance and Public Administration Committee; Report (5 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Economics, Finance and Public Administration, I present the committee’s report entitled Review of the Reserve Bank of Australia Annual Report 2006...
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Electoral Matters Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, I present the committee’s report entitled Review of certain aspects of the administration of the Australian Electoral...
- Telecommunications (Amendment) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (2 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Ms Kate Ellis.
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Salt and Healthy Lifestyle (4 speeches)
I move: That the House:(1)recognises that:(a)high blood pressure is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease, stroke, heart failure, peripheral vascular disease and renal...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Dental Health (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to address Australia’s dental health crisis and the great need to improve our dental health system. In the last fortnight, 2,419 people from my electorate of Batman...
- Sri Lanka (1 speech)
I would like to bring to the attention of the House today the fact that a petition will be tabled after question time relating to the close links between Australia and Sri Lanka and drawing...
- Prospect Electorate: Battle for Australia Commemorations (1 speech)
On 5 September I attended the commemoration at Smithfield RSL of the Battle for Australia day. Smithfield RSL was the first RSL club in Australia to commemorate this battle, as many now do across...
- Dobell Electorate: Methadone Clinics (1 speech)
I would like to draw to the attention of the House Labor’s mismanagement of part of my electorate: the areas of Toukley, Noraville, Norah Head and Canton Beach. The state Labor government...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I present a petition from 9,538 petitioners which has been certified by the Clerk. I collected these petitions from a delegates meeting of the CFMEU at Lidcombe on Friday, 31 August and undertook...
- Geelong Football Club; Corangamite Electorate: Geelong Ring-road (1 speech)
The year 2007 could be the year of the Geelong Cats. Next Friday we face Collingwood in the preliminary final, and the following week we hope to be in the grand final. I wish to put on the record...
- Climate Change; Rights at Work (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, to curry favour with you—and also, because the people I represent in the northern suburbs are probably more likely to barrack for Collingwood than Geelong—I indicate that...
- Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (1 speech)
I wish to again draw to the attention of the House the disgraceful failure by the Howard government in relation to fixing aircraft noise associated with Sydney airport. I will be speaking in more...
- Political Propaganda in Schools (1 speech)
I have received a number of complaints about teachers handing out political propaganda at the school gate and in some cases in the school grounds. This happens in every election but it is totally...
- Sustainable Cities (1 speech)
One of the indicators of the lowering of standards of this government in the way it perceives parliament is the way in which responses to parliamentary committees have been delayed. In...
- Local Government Funding (1 speech)
I rise today to raise the plight of local government and the lack of funds that they are having to cope with at the moment. Local governments have had an enormous amount of cost-shifting put upon...
- Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I again bring to the attention of the House the disgraceful failure of the government to meet its 17 per cent target of air traffic movements to the north of Sydney airport. I am very...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Mr Peter Robert Cleeland (1 speech)
I inform the House of the death on 16 September 2007 of Peter Robert Cleeland, a member of this House for the division of McEwan from 1984 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996. As a mark of respect to...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
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Mr Speaker, I inform the House that the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations is unwell and will be absent from question time today. I will answer questions on his behalf.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Farms (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister’s announcement today of further assistance measures for farmers affected by drought, for which the opposition offers...
- Advertising Campaigns (2 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister inform the parliament how much taxpayers’ money has been spent on government advertising since 1 January of this year?...
- Thai Air Accident (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister advise the House on the tragic plane crash in Phuket? Are any Australians involved and what is the Australian government...
- Advertising Campaigns (4 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that since the last election his government has spent $93 million on advertising its extreme industrial relations...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon Mr John Langmore, a former member for Fraser. On behalf of the House I extend to him a very warm welcome.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Nurses (13 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Would the Prime Minister outline to the House the government’s future plans to train more nurses to help strengthen the Australian health...
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer inform the House of the latest information on Australia’s credit rating? How does this compare with the record of previous...
- Advertising Campaigns (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that the taxpayer-funded government advertising bill for this year alone will be in excess of $200 million? Is the Prime...
- Infrastructure (5 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport and Regional Services. Would the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on how the government’s plan for...
- Advertising Campaigns (2 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister confirm that further taxpayer funded Work Choices advertising has been booked for the weeks commencing 30 September and 7 October?
- Taxation (7 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer inform the House about the steps the government has taken to reform Australia’s tax system? Treasurer, are you aware of any...
- Prime Minister (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources. I refer the minister to his recent official four-page newsletter, circulated to voters in his electorate of Wentworth,...
- Hospitals (14 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister advise the House on discussions with the Tasmanian government on the Mersey hospital at Latrobe in Tasmania? Are...
- Advertising Campaigns (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources. Can the minister confirm that since 1996 the Howard government has spent $1.8 billion on advertising and only $878 million...
- Indigenous Affairs (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Would the minister advise the House why Australia joined Canada, New Zealand and the United...
- Liberal Party: Leadership (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Did the Prime Minister tell the electors of Bennelong on Thursday that he was being up-front with them when he warned that he may force a by-election in that...
- Immigration (9 speeches)
Would the minister inform the House about the new citizenship test? Is the minister aware of any alternative policies?
- Liberal Party: Leadership (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and follows on from his previous answer. I refer to the transcript of a 7.30 Report interview of 12 September in which, in response to the statement from...
- Veterans' Affairs (6 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs. Would the minister advise the House of the recent veterans support package, announced by the government, to further assist...
- 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)
- Mesothelioma (9 speeches)
I move: That the House:(1)notes:(a)that Australia has the highest reported rate of mesothelioma in the world;(b)that there has been a four to five-fold increase in the rate of mesothelioma since...
- Israeli Soldiers (9 speeches)
I move: That the House:(1)notes that:(a)Palestinian terrorists infiltrated Israel’s sovereign border from the Gaza Strip on 25 June 2006, attacked an army post inside Israel’s...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
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Question proposed: That grievances be noted.
- Howard Government (1 speech)
In 1964 Donald Horne wrote The Lucky Country. The original passage from which the title came was an ironic reflection on the position of Australia at that time. For those who do not recall, the...
- Valedictory (1 speech)
Valedictory speeches are always hard. It is a time to thank people who have been involved in your career—its highs, its lows, it achievements and its mistakes. However, after nearly 12...
- Refugees and Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I want to commend the member for Lindsay on her heartfelt valedictory, particularly on the things she said about family. Those things, I think, are felt widely on all sides of this House. I know...
- Moreton Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I rise to talk to the House about the plans that the Australian Labor Party have announced to widen the Kessels Road corridor in my electorate, through to the Mount Gravatt-Capalaba Road and...
- Federal Election (1 speech)
The federal election draws ever closer. In most countries the big question when they have an election is: who will win? In Australia, almost as big a question is: when will the election be? In my...
- Flinders Electorate: Seniors (1 speech)
In this grievance debate, I wish to raise a grievance in relation to the neglect of seniors within my electorate by the members of the state government of Victoria. But I do not just want to...
- Lowe Electorate: Aircraft Noise (1 speech)
On behalf of the constituents I represent in my electorate of Lowe in Sydney’s inner west, I again grieve about the ongoing failure of the Howard government to solve the aircraft noise...
- Deakin Electorate: Level Crossings (2 speeches)
I grieve today for the thousands of motorists and public transport users in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, particularly those in the Deakin electorate. I also grieve for the safety of...
- Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill 2007; Northern Territory National Emergency Response Amendment (Alcohol) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Message from the Governor-General reported informing the House of assent to the bills.
- Quarantine Amendment (Commission of Inquiry) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (6 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 September, on motion by Mr McGauran: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Consideration in Detail (12 speeches)
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.
- National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (6 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 September, on motion by Mr Turnbull: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Mr Garrett moved by way of amendment: That all words after “That” be...
- 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.
- Health Insurance Amendment (Medicare Dental Services) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (17 speeches)
Debate resumed from 16 August, on motion by Mr Abbott: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Victorian Greens (1 speech)
I rise this evening to talk about the slimy shade of the so-called Victorian Greens, the party that seeks to present itself as virtuous and full of principles. Let us deal with a few facts. On 12...
- Smith Family: Learning for Life (1 speech)
I wish to pay tribute tonight to a truly wonderful child education arrangement in Australia called the Learning for Life program initiated and developed by the Smith Family. We are constantly...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about the extreme and unfair industrial relations legislation, the so-called Work Choices laws, and its affect on my electorate. When the election is called, I will be...
- Kingston Electorate: Southern Expressway (1 speech)
I rise this evening to bring to the attention of the House a matter which is very important to my electorate of Kingston—that is, the one-way road which connects Adelaide’s southern...
- Chisholm Electorate: Caroline Chisholm Awards; Mr Peter Robert Cleeland (1 speech)
Tonight I wish to again put on the record my appreciation and thanks for all the volunteers in my electorate of Chisholm. Chisholm is blessed by an extraordinary number of people who volunteer...
- Wakefield Electorate: Crime (1 speech)
I rise tonight to address the House about an issue which is incredibly important for the community of Wakefield, and that is the issue of crime. Crime takes many forms, from minor crime and...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The following notice was given:
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That order of the day No. 3, committee and delegation reports, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
