House debates
Monday, 15 September 2008
- Lyne Electorate: Return of Writ (0 speeches)
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I have received the return to the writ which I issued on 4 August 2008 for the election of a member to serve for the electoral division of Lyne, in the state of New South Wales, to fill the...
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Private Members’ Motions (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 41(h), and the recommendations of the whips adopted by the House on 3 September 2008, I present copies of the terms of motions for which notice has been...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Membership (1 speech)
I have received a message from the Senate informing the House that Senator Ludlam has been appointed a member of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties.
- Higher Education Support Amendment (Removal of the Higher Education Workplace Relations Requirements and National Governance Protocols Requirements and Other Matters) Bill 2008; Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill 2008; Aviation Legislation Amendment (International Airline Licences and Carriers’ Liability Insurance) Bill 2008; Aviation Legislation Amendment (2008 Measures No. 1) Bill 2008; Offshore Petroleum Amendment (Datum) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Messages received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill (No.; 1) 2008 (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.
- International Day of Democracy (0 speeches)
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I move: That so much of standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent:(1)the Member for Fremantle moving immediately a motion relating to the International Day of...
- Auslink (National Land Transport) Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (7 speeches)
Debate resumed from 4 September, on motion by Mr Albanese: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Leave of Absence (0 speeches)
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by leave—I move: That leave of absence from 15 September to 4 December 2008 be given to Mrs Gash on the ground of parliamentary business overseas. Question agreed to.
- Auslink (National Land Transport) Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
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I inform the House that the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs will be absent from question time today as he will be at the dedication of the Onslow War Memorial and the 65th commemoration of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Age Pension (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why are pensioners worse off since the election of the Rudd government?
- Housing Affordability (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline what the government is doing to address Australia’s housing affordability crisis?
- Age Pension (17 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the latest economic data showing that, in the first six months of his government, the price of bread has gone up 3.2 per cent,...
- Housing Affordability (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing. Will the minister update the House on the government’s progress in delivering on its commitment to establish a housing affordability fund?
- Age Pension (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to revelations that for five months his government has been sitting on an 83-page report from Dr Ken Henry and the Department of...
- Housing Affordability (8 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Treasurer, why is it important that we act to improve housing affordability after 12 years of neglect?
- Age Pension (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his comments reported in the Herald Sun today that: It would be, I think, almost impossible to continue to live on the current...
- Rural and Regional Australia (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. What are the benefits of the Rudd government’s nation-building agenda for regional...
- Age Pension (20 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given the Prime Minister believes that he could not live on the single age pension of $273 per week, how much more does he think that single pensioners need...
- Budget (9 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the importance of responsible budgeting and recent warnings about the impacts of irresponsible budgeting on inflation and...
- Age Pension (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given the Prime Minister has said that he could not live on the single age pension of $273 a week, why is he demanding that almost 900,000 Australians do...
- Prime Minister (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (36 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion of censure against the Prime Minister. Leave not granted. I move that so much of standing orders be suspended as would allow the Leader of the Opposition to move a...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (6 speeches)
Would you please confirm that, when a motion to suspend standing orders is moved in this place, the motion does not have to be submitted in writing until it is put to a vote by the Speaker?...
- National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Assent (1 speech)
I inform the House that today I personally presented to Her Excellency the Governor-General at Government House the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment Bill 2008 for assent, this...
- Authority to Administer Oath or Affirmation of Allegiance to Members (0 speeches)
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I present an Authority I have received from Her Excellency the Governor-General authorising me to administer to members the oath or affirmation of allegiance.
- Documents (0 speeches)
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Documents are tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today.
- Auslink (National Land Transport) Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Petitions (0 speeches)
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On behalf of the Standing Committee on Petitions, and in accordance with standing order 207, I present the following petitions:
- Responses; Forestry (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 27 May 2008 to the Hon. Simon Crean MP, Minister for Trade, requesting a response to a petition on the importation of illegally logged timber, which...
- Responses; Moorabbin Public Golf Course (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter dated 26 May 2008 enclosing a petition from residents of Victoria about planning control and the proposed closure and redevelopment of the golf course at...
- Responses; Port Keats Road (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter dated 17 March 2008 about a petition calling for an upgrade of the Port Keats Road in the Northern Territory and referring a copy of the petition for my...
- Responses; Asylum Seekers (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 2 June 2008 concerning a number of petitions recently submitted to the Standing committee on Petitions by the Synod of the Anglican Archdiocese of...
- Responses; Australia Post (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Australia Post —petition request for the retention of postal services in Traralgon. Thank you for your letter dated 26 June 2008 to the Minister for Infrastructure,...
- Statements (1 speech)
I am pleased to have this opportunity to bring to the attention of the House some further aspects of the work of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Petitions and the revised...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Australian Crime Commission Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Crime Commission, I present the committee’s report on the inquiry into the Australian Crime Commission Amendment Act 2007,...
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Ordinary Seaman Edward ‘Teddy’ Sheean (10 speeches)
I move: That the House:(1)recognises the heroic efforts of Ordinary Seaman Teddy Sheean and his crew mates upon the sinking of the HMAS Armidale on 1 December 1942 off the Timor coast;(2)implores...
- Epidermolysis Bullosa (5 speeches)
I move: That the House:(1)notes that Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) is a rare genetic condition characterised by skin fragility and blister formation, which is incurable and in its most severe forms...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
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Order! It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Mobile Phone Scams (1 speech)
Tonight I would like to raise what is a very vexing matter for quite a number of Australians, particularly in my electorate. Mobile phone users are being ripped off by text message scams. These...
- Bass Electorate: Economic Development Package (1 speech)
I have spoken in this House before of the resilience, determination and creativity of the people of north-east Tasmania. Since last this parliament sat, all these traits have been well and truly...
- Mrs Linda Lavarch (1 speech)
I want to take the unusual step tonight of congratulating Linda Lavarch, the state member for Kurwongbah—soon to be known as the seat of Pine Rivers—on her achievements whilst in...
- Maternal and Child Health (1 speech)
Every three seconds, a child under five dies from preventable causes. Every minute, a woman dies needlessly in pregnancy or childbirth. These statistics are simply unacceptable in a modern world,...
- Water (1 speech)
Last Friday afternoon, on 12 September, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Robert Garrett, in a quiet but shocking announcement, gave approval for the construction and...
- Jayme Paris; Positive Living and Lifestyle Forum for Seniors (2 speeches)
Tonight I want to add my congratulations and best wishes to those of lots of my constituents and students at Doonside Technology High School for Jayme Paris, who is in Beijing competing in the...
- Notices (0 speeches)
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The following notice was given:
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Royal Flying Doctor Service (1 speech)
I rise tonight to honour the work of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. For more than 80 years, since the first flying doctor was hired by the Reverend John Flynn to fly into remote North...
- National Child Protection Week (1 speech)
I note that last week was National Child Protection Week, from 7 to 13 September. In the lead-up to the week, the member for Macarthur and I hosted a lunch and parliamentary briefing for members...
- Mr Ian Munro (1 speech)
Three weeks ago I had the opportunity, together with the Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliott, to pay tribute to Ian Munro of Prestons for his volunteer work for the elderly at the Blue Hills...
- Royal Flying Doctor Service (1 speech)
I would like to continue my tribute to the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The Reverend John Flynn established the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Cloncurry in north-west Queensland through Frontier...
- Franklin Electorate: Environment (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to put on the public record a wonderful project that involves young people in my electorate of Franklin. In August of this year it was my pleasure to launch...
- Blair Electorate: Apprenticeships Queensland (1 speech)
I want to congratulate a great Ipswich business, Apprenticeships Queensland. Twenty years ago, Apprenticeships Queensland was established in the car park at Ipswich City Council. The then and now...
- Royal Flying Doctor Service (1 speech)
I want to continue my contribution honouring the Royal Flying Doctor Service. The Reverend John Flynn, through Frontier Services, has given us a great legacy of health care and a great mantle of...
- F1inSchools (1 speech)
Today I want to send a special greeting to the participants in and supporters of this year’s F1inSchools state final in Western Australia. At the launch of this year’s WA Schools...
- Family Relationships Centre Coffs Harbour (1 speech)
I recently had the opportunity to attend the opening of the Family Relationships Centre Coffs Harbour. I was delighted to receive an invitation to that opening and pleased to see the...
- Overdose Awareness Day 2008; Melbourne Ports Electorate: Child Care (1 speech)
I congratulate Jenny Macklin for her recent appearance in my electorate on a very moving morning with the Salvation Army. It was Overdose Awareness Day and it was a very important healing...
- F5 Freeway (2 speeches)
Recently, tenders were called for the final stage of the F5 Freeway, the upgrade near Campbelltown. The F5 is one of the busiest transport routes in Sydney. It is used by more than 81,000...
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Infrastructure (7 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Ripoll: That the House:(1)notes that:(a)infrastructure planning provides the platform for regional economic growth;(b)the rapid growth in many regional centres has...
- Water (3 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Broadbent: That the House:(1)notes the recent decision of the Federal Court to award costs against the incorporated community group, Your Water Your Say, following...
- British Pensions (12 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Ms Rishworth: That the House(1)notes with concern, the previous Government’s termination of Australia’s Social Security Agreement with the United Kingdom...
- Human Rights in Tibet (3 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Slipper: That the House:(1)notes:(a)the continuing human rights concerns in Tibet; and(b)the continuing restrictions on entry to Tibetan areas for journalists,...
- Prostate Cancer (3 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Bradbury: That the House:(1)notes that September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month;(2)notes that prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men after skin...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
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Debate resumed from 1 September.
- Cowan Electorate; Western Australian Election (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about the concerns of the people in my electorate of Cowan. As all members would be aware, when you are in your office, when you receive your emails, when you are on the...
- Page Electorate: Health Funding (1 speech)
Tonight I am speaking on two particular health initiatives underway in Page: the upgrade of operating theatres and the emergency department at Grafton Base Hospital; and a GP superclinic and a...
- Proposed North-South Pipeline: Goulburn River (1 speech)
Tonight I want to bring to the attention of this House the ramifications of the decision the Minister for the Environment has made in bowing to the pressure of the Brumby government in Victoria...
- Parramatta Female Factory Precinct (1 speech)
I rise today to speak to an issue of grave significance for a special group of my constituents, and that is the state of the historical precinct on the bank of the Parramatta River, known as the...
- Age Pension (5 speeches)
I want to take this opportunity to convey the disgust older Australians, in my electorate and indeed Australia, feel over their treatment by the Rudd government. They feel neglected, particularly...
- Broadband (1 speech)
I rise tonight to highlight a serious issue affecting many people living in Adelaide’s south, and that is inadequate access to high-speed broadband. This is a problem for homes where...
