House debates
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
- Member for Robertson (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, on indulgence, members of the House will be aware of an incident that occurred at Gosford on 6 June. There is a police investigation underway relating to this incident. I have been...
- Protection of the Sea Legislation Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Albanese. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Protection of the Sea Legislation Amendment Bill 2008 will implement in Australia the protocol of 2003 to the International Convention on the...
- Therapeutic Goods Legislation Amendment (Annual Charges) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Shorten. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill makes a number of amendments to the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 and the Therapeutic Goods (Charges) Act 1989 relating to the collection...
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Garrett. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2008 will put in place a modern, future-focused regulatory framework for...
- Offshore Petroleum Amendment (Greenhouse Gas Storage) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Martin Ferguson. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The amendments which I am introducing today in this bill will enable carbon dioxide to be stored safely and securely in geological storage...
- Offshore Petroleum (Annual Fees) Amendment (Greenhouse Gas Storage) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Martin Ferguson. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Offshore Petroleum (Annual Fees) Act 2006 requires the registered holder of petroleum titles held under the Offshore Petroleum Act 2006 to...
- Offshore Petroleum (Registration Fees) Amendment (Greenhouse Gas Storage) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Martin Ferguson. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Offshore Petroleum (Registration Fees) Act 2006 imposes fees for the registration under the Offshore Petroleum Act 2006 of transfers of...
- Offshore Petroleum (Safety Levies) Amendment (Greenhouse Gas Storage) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Martin Ferguson. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Offshore Petroleum (Safety Levies) Act 2003 imposes a safety investigation levy, safety case levy and pipeline safety management plan...
- Governance Review Implementation (Aasb and Auasb) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Burke. 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 to improve the financial management and...
- Governor-General Amendment (Salary and Superannuation) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Byrne. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill will set the annual salary to be payable to the next Governor-General and remove references in the Governor-General Act 1974 to the...
- 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...
- Tax Laws Amendment (Election Commitments No. 1) Bill 2008; Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Bill 2008; Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Transitional) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (24 speeches)
Debate resumed from 17 June, on motion by Mr Bowen: 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.
- Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 4 June, on motion by Mr Bowen: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill 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.
- Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Transitional) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 4 June, on motion by Mr Bowen: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill 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.
- Commonwealth Securities and Investment Legislation Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
Debate resumed from 4 June, on motion by Mr Bowen: 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.
- Evidence Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (7 speeches)
Debate resumed from 28 May, on motion by Mr McClelland: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (17 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to the Sensis consumer report released today, which shows that consumer confidence has fallen by 26 percentage points since...
- Western Australian Gas Explosion (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the government’s response to the recent gas explosion in Western Australia?
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to the Sensis consumer report released today, which shows that consumers expect the greatest expenditure increases to be in...
- Social Services: Income Definition (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Is the minister aware of concerns amongst public benevolent institutions and other charities about...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of the Appointments Committee of the Parliament of Ghana. On behalf of the House I extend a very warm welcome to the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his statement in this House yesterday that the main reasons for the historic collapse in small business confidence in federal...
- Budget (17 speeches)
My question is also directed to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister inform the House how a strong budget surplus helps to fight rising interest rates, particularly in my electorate of...
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his answer yesterday regarding working days lost through strikes and industrial action in the first three months of this year:...
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Will the minister outline to the House the economic consequences of failing to tighten fiscal policy?
- Pensions and Benefits (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. With skyrocketing rents and cost-of-living pressures under your government, how can a single aged pensioner be expected to live on $273 a week?
- Electoral Laws (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation representing the Special Minister of State. What steps are being taken by the government to improve the accountability, integrity and...
- Pensions and Benefits (24 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister explain why his government is cutting the entitlement to the partner service pension for spouses of Australian veterans who can no...
- Child Care (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. Would the minister detail contrasting approaches to managing...
- Murray-Darling River System (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. What is the government going to do about the environmental disaster developing in the Coorong and Lower Lakes?
- Alcohol Abuse (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister outline to the House the government’s approach to binge drinking? Are there any obstacles to tackling this...
- Murray-Darling River System (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. Minister, I refer to the Victorian government’s proposal to pipe up to 110 billion litres of water annually from...
- War Graves (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Science and Personnel. Would the minister update the House on the results of the excavation activities at Pheasant Wood and the presence of remains of...
- Member for Robertson (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his answers to my questions yesterday regarding the member for Robertson. What advice did the Prime Minister’s office...
- Regional Partnerships Program (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Would the minister outline any further evidence of taxpayers’ funds being flushed...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (23 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Question Time (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question relates to an answer given by the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs earlier today. The answer, by any clear definition, was a...
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 41 of 2007-08 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 41 of 2007-08 entitled Management of personnel security—follow-up audit. Ordered that the report be made a parliamentary paper.
- 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.
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Indigenous Legal Funding (2 speeches)
by leave—Today I am pleased to announce that the government will provide an additional $6.3 million to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal services to help them meet the extra...
- National Product Safety Reform (2 speeches)
by leave—I wish report to the House on the important agreement reached between the Commonwealth and the states on 23 May 2008 in Auckland on a single national product safety regime across...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Private Members’ Business; Report (1 speech)
I present the report of the recommendations of the whips relating to the consideration of private members’ business on Monday, 23 June 2008. Copies of the report have been placed on the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Economy (17 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Wentworth proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government’s...
- National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 2) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Evidence Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
Debate resumed.
- 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.
- Military Memorials of National Significance Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (6 speeches)
Debate resumed from 15 May, on motion by Mr Griffin: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Mrs Bronwyn Bishop moved by way of amendment: That all words after “That” be...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 7.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Barker Electorate: Public Transport (1 speech)
I have had the honour to represent a large rural and regional electorate for long enough, and indeed I have lived in rural and regional Australia for long enough, to know that the failure of...
- Dobell Electorate: Rugby League (1 speech)
I rise to put the case to the rugby league clubs based in Sydney that it is time they faced reality and moved to the Central Coast. We have nine rugby league teams crowding the Sydney market at...
- Dunkley Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I note the contribution of the Melbourne Storm to the State of Origin, our emancipated team to support the State of Origin, and it is good to see the talent getting a chance to flourish. I rise...
- Dawson Electorate (1 speech)
I would like to put on the record tonight the thanks of the people of Dawson for the visit of the Prime Minister and the cabinet to Mackay North State High School on the afternoon of Sunday, 29...
- Alcohol (1 speech)
In the House today, the Minister for Health and Ageing attacked me. It was the subject of a personal explanation. Let me reiterate that I do not promote binge drinking—in fact, quite the...
- Australia Deliberates Project (1 speech)
Last year I had the privilege of participating in the Australia Deliberates project. The goal of the project was to assess the current state of knowledge and attitudes about relations between...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Cowan Electorate: Wheelchairs for Kids (1 speech)
I recently visited the Wheelchairs for Kids workshop in Wangara within my electorate of Cowan. The purpose of Wheelchairs for Kids is to assemble and then donate wheelchairs to disabled children...
- Royal Australian Air Force Base Amberley (1 speech)
I want to speak briefly today about the expansion of the RAAF base at Amberley. A couple of Fridays ago I had the privilege of being there and looking at the expansion that is taking place and...
- Dunkley Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
Last weekend there was a community celebration on EastLink, a piece of infrastructure that links our two communities. By all accounts it was a wonderful day and a great credit to those who...
- Housing Affordability (1 speech)
I have previously raised in parliament, on behalf of the people I represent, concerns relating to the issue of housing affordability. I just want to make some comments about that matter following...
- Stirling Electorate: Balga Senior High School (1 speech)
I rise to draw the attention of the House to a group of very impressive young people in my electorate, at the Balga Senior High School, who are facing adverse circumstances but are continuing on...
- National Secondary School Computer Fund (1 speech)
In yet another promise kept by the Labor government, we saw last week the allocation of the first round of the computers in schools program and I was pleased to see that for the first time in a...
- Age Pension (1 speech)
I rise to support the call by the Nationals candidate in the seat of Gippsland, Darren Chester, to increase the age pension. The first Labor budget, released just five weeks ago, was a dismal...
- Volunteer Organisations (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to speak briefly about the thousands of Australian men and women who voluntarily serve our community through their membership of the organisations Zonta, Rotary and Lions....
- Calare Electorate: Cobar Mine (1 speech)
It is with no pleasure that I rise to inform the parliament of a very recent announcement in Cobar, the major mining town in the electorate of Calare. CBH has just announced that 220 jobs will be...
- Bonner Electorate: Nathanael House (2 speeches)
I rise to address the Committee this morning to talk about the very serious and increasing issue of youth homelessness but in particular to offer my support to St Bartholomew’s youth...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2008-2009 (0 speeches)
- Consideration in Detail (390 speeches, 2 comments)
Consideration resumed from 17 June. Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government Portfolio Proposed expenditure, $716,598,000
- Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2008-2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 May, on motion by Mr Tanner: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time. Ordered that the bill be reported to the House without...
- Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2008-2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 May, on motion by Mr Tanner: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time. Ordered that the bill be reported to the House without...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 5) 2007-2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 May, on motion by Mr Tanner: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time. Ordered that the bill be reported to the House without...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 6) 2007-2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 May, on motion by Mr Tanner: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time. Ordered that the bill be reported to the House without...
