House debates
Monday, 10 November 2008
- Financial Claims Scheme (Adis) Levy Bill 2008; Financial Claims Scheme (General Insurers) Levy Bill 2008; Financial System Legislation Amendment (Financial Claims Scheme and Other Measures) Bill 2008; Auslink (National Land Transport) Amendment Bill 2008; Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2008; Excise Legislation Amendment (Condensate) Bill 2008; Excise Tariff Amendment (Condensate) Bill 2008; Tax Laws Amendment (Medicare Levy Surcharge Thresholds) Bill (No. 2) 2008; International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2008; Migration Amendment (Notification Review) Bill 2008; Archives Amendment Bill 2008; Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Radio) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Messages from the Governor-General reported informing the House of assent to the bills.
- 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 22 October 2008, I present copies of the terms of motions for which notice has been given by...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Tax Laws Amendment (Education Refund) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (18 speeches)
Debate resumed from 22 October, on motion by Mr Swan: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Mr Cecil Allen Blanchard (1 speech)
I inform the House of the death on Saturday, 25 October 2008 of Cecil Allen Blanchard, a member of this House for the division of Moore from 1983 to 1990. As a mark of respect to the memory of...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Treasurer will be absent from question time this week as he is attending meetings with the US economic policymakers in advance of the leaders meeting later in the week...
- Shadow Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
by leave—I table the new coalition shadow ministry list, dated 10 November 2008, with alterations relating to the duties of two parliamentary secretaries and an enlargement to the title of...
- United States Presidential Election (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek to make a statement on indulgence.
- New Zealand Election (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek to make a statement on indulgence.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Automotive Industry (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How many more cars will be sold this financial year as a result of the government’s car assistance package?
- Remembrance Day (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister inform the House of the significance to all Australians of the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War?
- Automotive Industry (8 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. Given that around half of all cars sold in Australia each year are either leased or financed and given that the government’s ill-considered...
- Economy (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. What recent action has the government taken to protect Australia against the global financial crisis?
- Child Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. What is the Australian government doing to ensure that Australian...
- Diplomatic Protocol (13 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the article in the Australian newspaper of 25 October which described in graphic detail a conversation between...
- Child Care (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. What is the Australian government doing to get the policy settings...
- Diplomatic Protocol (13 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. I refer to his answer to my previous question, in which he expressly failed to deny that he or his office leaked details of the conversation with the...
- Indonesia: Travel Advice (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister advise the House of the Australian government’s advice with respect to travel to Indonesia, following the execution of...
- Child Care (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. I refer to the fact that the...
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Will the minister update the House on recent assessments of the Australian economy, including the release today of the Reserve Bank...
- Child Care (10 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Education and Minister for Social Inclusion. Given that the minister has stated that 40...
- Middle East (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister report on his recent visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories? What is the government’s approach to the Middle...
- Health (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister outline any relevant investments in Australia’s health workforce and the challenges that they are designed to overcome?
- Small Business (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his comments on 7 October when he said, ‘The government welcomes the relief that the Reserve Bank of Australia’s...
- Voluntary Student Unionism (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sport and Minister for Youth. What action has the government taken to restore student amenities and representation on university campuses across Australia? What...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (13 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I put a question in writing, No. 260, to the Treasurer over 60 days ago. The Treasurer has not yet responded to it. Perhaps he has not had enough time. Could you write to the...
- 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, and I move: That the House take note of...
- Election Petition (0 speeches)
- Court of Disputed Returns (1 speech)
The Clerk: I present a copy of a petition of Stewart Gordon Scott-Irving v Rob Oakeshott and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation filed in the High Court, sitting as the Court of Disputed...
- Tax Laws Amendment (Education Refund) 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 petition:
- Responses (1 speech)
Ministerial responses to petitions previously presented to the House have been received as follows:
- Responses; Sunshine Coast: Palliative Care and Hospice Facilities (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 4 September 2008 to the Minister for Health and Ageing, the Hon Nicola Roxon MP, regarding a petition recently submitted for the Standing...
- Responses; Nursing Homes (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 4 September 2008 to the Minister for Health and Ageing, the Hon Nicola Roxon MP, enclosing a petition about a benchmark for the minimum ratio of...
- Responses; Mr Renerio Arrogante III (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter dated 4 September 2008 conveying the terms of a petition about the murder of an Australian citizen, Mr Renerio Arrogante III, in the Philippines. I...
- Responses; Mr Richard Manthorpe (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 4 September 2008 concerning a petition requesting leave to apply for permanent residence for Mr Richard Manthorpe and his wife. In his petition Mr...
- Responses; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation: Merbein Staff (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 17 September 2008 concerning a petition submitted for the consideration of the Standing Committee on Petitions regarding the closure of the...
- Responses; Adelaide: King Street Bridge (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter dated 4 September 2008 about the petition submitted to the Standing Committee on Petitions regarding the King Street Bridge in Glenelg North, South...
- Responses; Pedestrian Crossing: Athelstone (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs lrwin Thank you for your letter dated 17 September 2008 about a petition for improvements to a pedestrian crossing on Gorge Road, Athelstone, South Australia. As Gorge Road is a state...
- Responses; Whaling (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter dated 4 September 2008 about a petition concerning whaling. The Australian Government is firmly committed to securing better protection for all whales. We...
- Statements (1 speech)
The world of communications is changing rapidly and the growing use of email and other forms of online communication presents a challenge to parliamentary representatives around the world. As I...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Climate Protection Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (2 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Windsor.
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Housing (6 speeches)
I move: That the House:(1)recognises the serious state of housing availability and affordability in the public, not for profit and private sector in many cities and towns in Australia and the...
- Zimbabwe (6 speeches)
I move: That the House:(1)congratulates Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), on his appointment as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, which is a just...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Remembrance Day (1 speech)
Yesterday I attended the annual luncheon of the Salisbury RSL, of which I am a patron. On 11 October I attended a similar luncheon at the Tea Tree Gully RSL. Both were enjoyable occasions where I...
- Dr Bernhard Moeller (1 speech)
I do not think it is appropriate for the House to adjourn until a senior minister of the government comes down to this chamber and explains on the public record, to my constituents and to a whole...
- Blaxland Electorate: Remembrance Day (1 speech)
One of the great privileges of this job is meeting extraordinary people, people like Dick Payten—a good man, as honest as the day is long. I first met Dick Payten selling Legacy badges last...
- Australian National Academy of Music (1 speech)
The 22nd of October 2008 will be remembered by all musicians in Australia, and certainly by all musicians in the Ryan electorate, as a black day in the history of classical music in our country....
- Schoolies Week (1 speech)
I rise tonight to share the nervousness that often occurs in the month of November for all of those families and households out there who have young school leavers in their final year of school....
- Drought (1 speech)
Tonight I would like to bring to the attention of the House the worsening of the drought in South Australia. For once I will not be talking about the Murray but about the devastating effects the...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Indonesia: Orangutans (1 speech)
I rise tonight to bring to the attention of the parliament a concern raised by one of my young constituents. Twelve-year-old Jack Jones from Mitchell in western Queensland has written to me about...
- United States Presidential Election (1 speech)
I welcome the historic and momentous election last week of Senator Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. I have been a fan of Barack Obama since I first heard him...
- Upwey and District Community Bank (1 speech)
On 18 October I had the pleasure of joining the Upwey and District Community Bank for their 10th birthday celebrations. The bank has been doing an amazing job supporting local residents. Ten...
- Casey Electorate: Croydon North Primary School (1 speech)
I rise this evening to pay tribute to the Croydon North Primary School, in the electorate of Casey. I recently celebrated with several hundred people the 130th birthday of the school, which was...
- Page Electorate: Tabulam Picnic Races (1 speech)
On Saturday, I attended the Tabulam Picnic Races. It is an annual event, an annual meet, to which people come from near and far for a day of fun and goodwill and a few bets here and there as...
- Remembrance Day; Swan Electorate: Australian Defence Force Medals (1 speech)
Tomorrow at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month we will come together as a nation to mark Remembrance Day. This year will have special significance as the 90th anniversary of the...
- Fremantle Electorate: Palmyra Primary School (1 speech)
Today I rise to congratulate Palmyra Primary School on recently being awarded the Troy Cook Youth Award from the Western Australian Department of Indigenous Affairs. The school received this...
- Cowan Electorate: Banksia Grove (1 speech)
In the north of the Cowan electorate there is the suburb of Banksia Grove. It is unique insofar as it is split in half by a major road, Joondalup Drive. On one side of the road is the state...
- Shortland Electorate : Community Events (1 speech)
I would like to share with the House three community events that involved residents of the Shortland electorate over the last two weeks. The first event I would like to share with the House is...
- Fadden Electorate: Southport Surf Lifesaving Club (1 speech)
Yesterday I was fortunate to be present at the dedication ceremony for the Southport Surf Lifesaving Club for the coming year and to join the community to pray for safety not only for lifesavers...
- Mrs Henia Ptasznik (2 speeches)
I want to mourn the passing of Henia Ptasznik, mother of a dear constituent of mine, Dr Ronnie Ptasznik. She was the eldest of five children of an observant family in Poland. She left school in...
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Economic Security Strategy (18 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Hale: That the House:(1)commends the Australian Government for its Economic Security Strategy initiative in the face of a global financial crisis;(2)supports the...
- Market Concentration in the Grocery Sector (9 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Forrest: That the House:(1)notes with concern the high level of market concentration in the retail grocery sector;(2)notes this is a situation that the Australian...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 20 October.
- Mental Health (1 speech)
For many members in this place, the personal and social concerns of the families in our local communities take up the majority of our time and effort within our electorates. Such social issues...
- Wakefield Electorate: Mallala Museum (1 speech)
It was my great pleasure to attend the opening of the Time of Conflict exhibition at the Mallala Museum yesterday, Sunday. It was a wonderful event that honoured all of those who served both the...
- Stirling Electorate: Roads; Stirling Electorate: Closed-Circuit Television Cameras; Stirling Electorate: Yokine Community Fair (1 speech)
I rise to grieve about a matter that I have spoken about many times before in this place and one that I find deeply frustrating in my electorate of Stirling. It is a problem that I had considered...
- Petrie Electorate: Youth (1 speech)
I rise to talk about my concern—and the concern of parents and young people in the electorate of Petrie—about the perception in way too many current reports that our young people are...
- Immigration (1 speech)
I want to talk about my concerns about the government’s activities and lack of activity in the Immigration and Citizenship portfolio. We have a Minister for Immigration and Citizenship,...
- Forde Electorate: Planning and Infrastructure (2 speeches)
I rise to raise a number of concerns I have about planning within the electorate of Forde. You might have heard the speeches I have made in this and the other chamber about the rollout of...
