House debates
Thursday, 16 October 2008
- Parliament House: Breastfeeding (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
In the last parliament, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health and Ageing reported on an inquiry into the health benefits of breastfeeding. One of the recommendations was that...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, I present the committee’s report, incorporating a dissenting report and supplementary remarks, entitled Report 95: Treaties tabled on...
- Customs Amendment (Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Debus. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I am pleased to introduce this bill, which is the implementing legislation for the Australia-Chile free trade agreement. The agreement...
- Customs Tariff Amendment (Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Debus. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I am pleased to introduce the second piece of Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement legislation. The Customs Tariff Amendment (Australia-Chile...
- Aged Care Amendment (2008 Measures No. 2) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mrs Elliot. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Caring for our ageing population is one of the major challenges facing our nation this century—it requires careful planning, adequate...
- Water Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Consideration in Detail (9 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 15 October.
- 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.
- Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (5 speeches)
Bill returned from the Senate with amendments. Ordered that the amendments be considered immediately. Senate’s amendments—(1)Schedule 1, items 1 and 2, page 3 (lines 6 to 16), omit...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Publications Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the report from the Publications Committee sitting in conference with the Publications Committee of the Senate. Copies of the report are being placed on the table. Report—by...
- Education Legislation Amendment Bill 2008; Schools Assistance Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (23 speeches)
Debate resumed from 24 September, on motion by Ms Gillard: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (40 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister’s answer yesterday in which he confirmed that the government relied upon an estimate that growth next year, in...
- Banking (17 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer advise the House what he expects to be the ultimate size of the contingent liability to the taxpayer of the government’s 100 per cent...
- Economy (13 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer. Will the Assistant Treasurer outline to the House the powers that Australia’s regulatory authorities have in dealing with the current global...
- Banking (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Given that ratings agencies take account of contingent liabilities in their assessment of a national government’s credit risk, what impact will the...
- Medicare Levy Surcharge (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister explain to the House the benefits to working families of passing the Medicare levy surcharge?
- Banking (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer advise the House whether a BBB-rated bank would be charged a higher fee to access the government’s 100 per cent guarantee for bank...
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Why is it important that the government’s economic security strategy receive broad support? Is the minister aware of any...
- Mining (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and relates to ongoing calls for an independent study into the potential impact of subsidence mining on alluvial flood plains that are underlain with...
- Occupational Health and Safety (9 speeches)
Thank you, Mr Speaker.
- Bonnie Babes Foundation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister would be aware that tomorrow is National Babies Day—an important initiative of the Bonnie Babes Foundation, which provides national...
- Disability Services (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. How is the government providing extra support to people with a disability and their carers through...
- Medicare Levy Surcharge (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Minister, how much will private health insurance premiums rise by as a result of the government forcing half a million people off private...
- Housing Affordability (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing. What has been the immediate response to the government’s announcement of increased assistance for first home buyers?
- Greater Western Area Health Service (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his statement of 23 August 2007, where he said: When it comes to improving Australia’s health and hospital system, as...
- Infrastructure (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Will the minister advise the House on the role of infrastructure as part of the...
- Member for Bennelong (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. It is a very serious question.
- War Graves (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Science and Personnel. Will the minister update the House on the current plans to exhume and appropriately commemorate the Australian soldiers who fell...
- Member for Bennelong (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister, and I refer to his answer to my previous question regarding the office of the member for Bennelong. Will he refer the matter involving the office of the...
- Spring Racing Carnival (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Will the minister please update the House on preparations for the Spring Racing Carnival?
- Department of Parliamentary Services; Parliamentary Services Committioner; Australian National Audit Office (0 speeches)
- Annual Reports (1 speech)
I present the annual reports of the Department of Parliamentary Services for 2007-08, the Parliamentary Services Commissioner for 2007-08 and the Australian National Audit Office for 2007-08....
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 7 of 2008-09 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 7 of 2008-09 entitled Performance audit—Centrelink’s tip-off system. 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)
- Australian Youth Forum (2 speeches)
by leave—I would like to take the time today to outline to the House the recent launch of the new Australian Youth Forum, and the renewed efforts by government to work with young...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Financial System Legislation Amendment (Financial Claims Scheme and Other Measures) Bill 2008; Financial Claims Scheme (Adis) Levy Bill 2008; Financial Claims Scheme (General Insurers) Levy Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Indigenous Communities (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker has received a letter from the honourable member for Warringah proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The need to...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Royal Australian Air Force Museum Wagga Wagga (1 speech)
by leave—I rise in the House today to present a petition from 2,713 citizens of Australia to the Speaker and the members of the House of Representatives. The petition calls on the Speaker...
- Tax Laws Amendment (Medicare Levy Surcharge Thresholds) Bill (No. 2) 2008 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (8 speeches)
Bill returned from the Senate with amendments. Ordered that the amendments be considered immediately. Senate’s amendments— (1) Page 2 (after line 2), after clause 3,...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! It being past 4.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the discussion of a matter of public importance being called on immediately. Question agreed to.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Dunkley Electorate: Frankston Bypass (1 speech)
Madam Deputy Speaker Burke, you perhaps are one of many from our area of Victoria who awoke this morning to this screaming headline in the Herald Sun on the Frankston bypass. It is welcome news;...
- Longman Electorate: International Day of Older Persons (1 speech)
The International Day of Older Persons was held on 1 October. The Sex Discrimination Commissioner and Commissioner responsible for Age Discrimination, Elizabeth Broderick, had this to say:...
- Swan Electorate: Mr Andrew Williams (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge Mr Andrew Williams, a PhD student in my electorate of Swan, for being awarded one of the 2008 Australian Agricultural Industries Young Innovators and Scientists...
- Deakin Electorate: Economic Security Strategy (1 speech)
Today I would like to talk about the positive effects that the Rudd government’s $10.4 billion Economic Security Strategy will have on the families and pensioners of my electorate of...
- Maranoa Electorate: Mineral Development (1 speech)
I rise today to discuss an issue of major concern not only to the people of my electorate of Maranoa but to the entire Australian population. The farming communities of Haystack and Warra in the...
- Lowe Electorate: Aircraft Noise (1 speech)
On behalf of the constituents I represent in my electorate of Lowe, I again raise the issue of aircraft noise in Sydney’s inner west. My constituents will not easily forget the long history...
- Mitchell Electorate: Video Games Classification (1 speech)
I rise this morning to support calls from parents within my electorate for a R18+ rating system to be applied to video games. Currently the highest maximum rating that can be applied to video...
- Sydney Electorate: National Youth Mental Health Foundation (1 speech)
Last week I was very privileged to attend the launch of Central Sydney Headspace at Youthblock Health and Resource Centre in Camperdown in my electorate. It is a very good time to mention this...
- Forrest Electorate: Brendan Fitzgerald (1 speech)
This week we have seen the sixth anniversary of the Bali bombings. However, I rise to pay tribute to young 16-year-old Brendan Fitzgerald from Busselton, who was killed by the bomb blast in Kuta...
- Melbourne Ports: Elwood Talmud Torah Congregation (2 speeches)
On the weekend, I attended the 75th anniversary celebrations of the Elwood Talmud Torah Congregation. It was a well attended affair with over 200 people present and included my state colleague...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- National Rental Affordability Scheme Bill 2008; National Rental Affordability Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 15 October, on motion by Ms Plibersek: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Mr Morrison moved by way of amendment: That all words after “That” be...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Main Committee do now adjourn.
- McPherson Electorate: Powerlines (1 speech)
I want to put on the record my strong opposition to Energex’s proposal to construct above-ground powerlines in my electorate from Mudgeeraba to Tugun. The Australian Energy Regulator is...
- Port Adelaide Electorate: Kurruru Indigenous Youth Performing Arts (1 speech)
Kurruru is Australia’s only Indigenous youth performing arts company and has its base on Kaurna land in my electorate of Port Adelaide. Growing out of the Port Youth Theatre Workshop, which...
- Poverty (1 speech)
In an article in Time magazine in 2005, Jeffrey D Sachs wrote an article entitled ‘The End of Poverty’. It is a powerful word portrait of the scourge of extreme poverty, but it is...
- Electorate of Bass: Economic Security Strategy (1 speech)
I rise today to speak of the Rudd government’s Economic Security Strategy and in particular of the impact this plan for the future will have on thousands of pensioners in my electorate of...
- Mr Sergio Prado; Electorate of McEwen: Community Organisations; Bonnie Babes Foundation National Babies Day (1 speech)
I wish to acknowledge the inspiring contributions being made by two communities in my electorate of McEwen. The people making these contributions are volunteers, typical of the tremendous spirit...
- Banks Electorate: Bankstown Children's Festival (1 speech)
On Saturday, 20 September this year, I was honoured to represent the Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs and Settlement Services at the 10th Bankstown Children’s Festival....
