House debates
Monday, 20 October 2008
- International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2008 (0 speeches)
- Archives Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill received from the Senate, and read a first time. Ordered that the second reading be made an order of the day for the next sitting.
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Radio) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill received from the Senate, and read a first time. Ordered that the second reading be made an order of the day for the next sitting.
- Family Law Amendment (De Facto Financial Matters and Other Measures) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Message from the Governor-General recommending appropriation for the bill and proposed amendments announced. Bill returned from the Senate with requested amendments. Ordered that the requested...
- 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 15 October 2008, I present copies of the terms of motions for which notice has been given by...
- Safe Work Australia Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (22 speeches)
Bill returned from the Senate with amendments. Ordered that the amendments be considered immediately. Senate’s amendments— (1) Page 5 (after line 6), after clause 5,...
- Education Legislation Amendment Bill 2008; Schools Assistance Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (10 speeches)
Debate resumed from 16 October, on motion by Ms Gillard: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Assistant Treasurer will be absent from question time this week, as he is in Europe meeting with senior officials from both the European Union and the OECD. The...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister rule out increasing existing taxes or imposing new taxes in the next 12 months in order to keep the budget in surplus?
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the Australian government’s response to the global financial crisis?
- Banking (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer to the proposal to provide Commonwealth guarantees of wholesale term funding by banks, a measure that could result in the Commonwealth...
- Economy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on recent assessments of the global financial crisis and its impact on the Australian economy?
- Small Business (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy. How is the government supporting Australian small businesses during the global financial crisis?
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. I refer the minister to her comments on ABC’s AM program this morning that ‘we expect now unemployment...
- Future Fund (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Will the minister update the House on the performance of the Future Fund?
- Housing Affordability (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing. Has the government properly thought through the impact of the significant increase of the first home owners grant on young families buying their first...
- Family Payments (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Will the minister update the House on how the government is providing extra support to families...
- Rural and Regional Australia (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Will the minister update the House on the impact of the global financial crisis on Australian farmers and the latest...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. Can the Attorney-General confirm, as revealed in Senate estimates today, that the Smith review on national security and border protection was handed to the...
- North West Shelf Venture (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Energy. Will the minister inform the House about the completion of the North West Shelf Venture’s LNG train 5 and also of progress on...
- Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. I refer him to the Prime Minister’s commitment to a $76 billion infrastructure program, of which $41 billion was to be funded through a Building...
- New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment Participation. How has NEIS been improved under the new employment services and how is the government supporting the unemployed to establish new...
- Infrastructure Australia (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Minister, if the issue of spending $76 billion on infrastructure has the priority that you...
- Nuclear Weapons (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister update the House on action that Australia is taking to contribute towards nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament?
- Education Funding (11 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education. I refer the Minister for Education to her computers in schools program. Minister, given that the Labor governments in the...
- Mental Health (2 speeches, 2 comments)
My question is to the Prime Minister: will the Prime Minister update the parliament on the government’s commitment to addressing mental health in Australia?
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
I note that the member for Sturt’s point of order today was the 500th this year from those opposite.
- Education Legislation Amendment Bill 2008; Schools Assistance Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Petitions, and in accordance with standing order 207, I present the following petitions:
- Responses; Olympic Dam (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 4 September 2008 concerning a petition in relation to the proposed expansion of the Olympic Dam mine. As highlighted by my colleague the Hon Peter...
- Responses; ABC Radio Service in Nannup (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter dated 4 September 2008 concerning a petition submitted for consideration to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Petitions concerning Nannup...
- Responses; Immigration: Asylum Seekers (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 2 June 2008 concerning additional petitions recently submitted by the Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne to the Standing Committee on Petitions...
- Statements (3 speeches)
I advised the House in September that I would be visiting the Scottish parliament, among other places, to witness firsthand the way that petitions are dealt with and what the new Standing...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government Committee; Report (4 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, I present the committee’s report entitled Rebuilding Australia’s coastal...
- Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government Committee; Report: Referral to Main Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the order of the day be referred to the Main Committee for debate. Question agreed to.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Committee; Report (4 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, I present the committee’s report, incorporating additional comments, entitled Open for business:...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Committee; Report: Referral to Main Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the order of the day be referred to the Main Committee for debate. Question agreed to.
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- United Nations (7 speeches)
I move: That the House:(1)notes that the 24th October is United Nations Day, celebrating the entry into force of the United Nations Charter on 24 October 1945;(2)celebrates Australia’s...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- RAAF Museum, Wagga Wagga (1 speech)
On 24 June 1995 there was a huge celebration for current and ex-Defence members from right across Australia on the official opening of the RAAF Museum in Wagga Wagga by the then Air Marshal of...
- Pensions and Benefits (3 speeches)
I rise tonight to indicate that the government recognises that pensioners in our respective areas are doing it tough and that it is necessary to have a true and fundamental reform of our pension...
- Armenian Genocide (1 speech)
I thank the member for Werriwa for that endorsement. In 1939, Adolf Hitler addressed his battle commanders at Obersalzberg with these chilling words: I put ready my Death’s Head Units the...
- International Day of Older Persons (1 speech)
Earlier this month a number of us marked the International Day of Older Persons with the presentation of recognition awards to just some of the extremely worthy older persons who have helped...
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
Like all of the members in this place I welcomed the government’s $10.4 billion incentive package for age pensioners, working families and self-funded retirees, but it would appear that...
- Economy (1 speech)
Like the member for Hume, I want to speak about the $10.4 billion Economic Security Strategy that the Prime Minister and Treasurer handed down last week in the midst of the global economic...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Flinders Electorate: Arthurs Seat Chairlift (1 speech)
I wish to raise the loss of the Arthurs Seat chairlift on the Mornington Peninsula. The chairlift announced its closure late last week. There are three key points. Firstly, this has been a vital...
- Franklin Electorate: Bruny Island Tourism (1 speech)
I stand this evening to put on the public record a great success story that involves an ecotourism adventure business in my electorate of Franklin. For those of you who do not know, the seat of...
- Essendon Airport (1 speech)
Tonight I want to talk about the importance of keeping the Essendon Airport going. I say this in the context of the local member, the member for Wills, and the state Premier, John Brumby, both...
- Youth Affairs Council of Western Australia (1 speech)
On 10 October, I had the honour of closing the 2008 Youth Affairs Council of Western Australia Fairground Youth Conference in Fremantle, which was attended by around 230 youth sector workers and...
- State Politics (1 speech)
This weekend past was a significant one in state politics. The New South Wales by-elections allowed locals to send an unequivocal message to the Labor state government, the ACT election saw a...
- Mr Noel Maybon (1 speech)
I rise in the chamber today to mark the sudden passing of a great member of the Parramatta community, Mr Noel Maybon. Noel was the Chairman of the Anderson Avenue Vineyard Creek Bushcare...
- Foster Care (1 speech)
Last Friday morning I was invited by radio station 6PR to speak about my experience as a foster child and also to help promote the concept of ‘every child needs a great family’. The...
- Hasluck Electorate: Ellis Brook Valley Development Project (1 speech)
I had the pleasure on Friday last week to be involved in the celebration of the completion of the Ellis Brook Valley Development Project. The celebration was held in Honeyeater Hollow, a...
- Cowan Electorate: Telstra (1 speech)
It is not often that someone stands up in this place and says good things about Telstra, and I am not going to start tonight. But I will in the future if they do the right thing with regard to...
- Fremantle Electorate: United Nations Youth Association (2 speeches)
As someone who worked for the United Nations for a number of years, I have the pleasure of meeting many young people actively engaged in international affairs. As a 17-year-old—sadly, a...
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- GROCERYchoice (5 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Hartsuyker: That the House notes with concern, the failure of the GROCERYchoice website to provide meaningful information to consumers, in particular...
- Tasmania: Drought (9 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Adams: That the House:(1)recognises the difficulties farming communities in Tasmania are facing because of the prolonged drought;(2)congratulates the Tasmanian...
- Fair Trade Chocolate (9 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Pyne: That the House:(1)notes:(a)today there are hundreds of thousands of children working on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast and Ghana and that these children...
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (3 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Ms Saffin: That the House:(1)notes that:(a)the 19 June 2008 marks the 63rd birthday of Nobel laureate and leader of the democracy movement in Burma, Daw Aung San Suu...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 13 October.
- Swan Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
Tonight I am going to talk about the dangerous intersection of Orrong Road and Pilbara Street in the suburb of Welshpool, in my electorate. Orrong Road is a major arterial road linking the Farmer...
- Dobell Electorate: Surf-Lifesaving (3 speeches)
My grievance is with the fact that the Central Coast surf-lifesaving movement has missed out on holding the national surf-lifesaving championships for the next three years. This of itself may not...
- Banking (1 speech, 1 comment)
There is no doubt that these are difficult global economic times. They are difficult times because there has been a breakdown in integrity, in honour and in trust within the international banking...
- Leichhardt Electorate: Torres Strait Islands (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about the Torres Strait, a great part of my electorate that I enjoy visiting. The time that I spend in the Torres Strait is invaluable. This is a very special part of the...
- Economy (1 speech)
I wish to bring to the attention of the parliament a significant grievance. It is no surprise that my grievance lies with the government and its nervous little Treasurer. At the beginning of the...
- Millennium Development Goals (2 speeches)
My grievance today relates to the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by developed countries and particularly Australia. Many people and organisations have contacted...
