House debates
Monday, 24 November 2008
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Private Members’ Motions (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 41(b), and the recommendations of the whips adopted by the House on 12 November 2008, I present copies of the terms of motions for which notice has been...
- Hours of Next Meeting (1 speech)
I advise the House that the Deputy Speaker has fixed 4 pm today as the time for the next meeting of the Main Committee, unless an alternative day or hour is fixed.
- Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority Bill 2008; Customs Amendment (Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2008; Customs Tariff Amendment (Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2008; Financial Transaction Reports Amendment (Transitional Arrangements) Bill 2008; Dairy Adjustment Levy Termination Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That orders of the day Nos 1 and 2, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 5) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (10 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 November, on motion by Mr Bowen: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Prime Minister will be absent from question time until Wednesday this week as he is attending APEC in Lima, Peru. I will answer questions on his behalf. I also inform...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Acting Prime Minister. Will the government support the opposition’s plan to protect Australian jobs by reviewing laws relating to insolvency to give top...
- Rudd Government: Election Commitments (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Will the Acting Prime Minister update the House on the implementation of the government’s election commitments?
- Executive Salaries (5 speeches)
My question is also addressed to the Acting Prime Minister. Will the government support the coalition’s plan for real action to address excessive executive salaries by changing the law—
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Minister for Human Rights and Refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dr Safet Halilovic. On behalf of the House I extend...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the decisive action the government has taken over the past year to strengthen our economy during the global financial crisis?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of the Judicial Affairs Committee of the National Assembly of Vietnam. On behalf of the House I extend a very warm...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. How are government policies helping to make Australia fairer, and who is benefiting from this approach?
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Does the Treasurer stand by his statement of 3 September this year that ‘It is just the height of economic irresponsibility, at a time of global...
- Commonwealth-State Financial Arrangements (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline the important changes to Commonwealth-state financial arrangements which the government has put in place as part of efforts to...
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to the Prime Minister’s direct declaration of a ‘war on inflation’ on 21 January, which he described as the biggest...
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Will the Acting Prime Minister update the House on the implementation of the government’s commitment to delivering an education revolution?
- Schools: Computers (9 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer the Acting Prime Minister to the government’s failure to deliver a laptop computer to more than 10 per cent of government school...
- Australian Healthcare Agreements (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister outline to the House what the community can expect from new healthcare agreements between the Commonwealth and the states...
- Health (7 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Health and Ageing. I refer the minister to the government’s promise of 31 superclinics. Minister, given that not one clinic is within cooee of being...
- Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. How is Australia working with APEC to address key challenges in the Asia-Pacific region?
- Broadband (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Is your government still committed to deliver its promise to start construction of the national broadband network before the end of 2008?
- Trade (2 speeches)
My question is also on APEC and is to the Minister for Trade. Will the minister update the House on how the APEC meetings he attended have contributed to advancing global trade talks?
- Whaling (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. Minister, does the government stand by its ironclad, unequivocal promise of 20 May 2005, 24 May 2005, 20 June 2005, 18...
- Local Government (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Will the minister outline the government’s plan to support local economies and...
- Drought (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. I refer to the government’s election promise to provide $15 million in top-up funding to drought affected rural...
- DVD Piracy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister inform the House about the latest information linking DVD piracy to organised crime?
- Health (7 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer the Acting Prime Minister to a press release issued by the Minister for Health and Ageing in January this year announcing $43.3 million to cut...
- 90th Anniversary of Remembrance Day (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs. Will the minister inform the House about the commemoration of the 90th anniversary of Remembrance Day in Australia and overseas?
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I was shocked to see on the Notice Paper today that there is question 335 still outstanding to the Prime Minister on 17 September. I would ask that you write to him and ask him to...
- 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. For the information of honourable...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (6 speeches)
by leave—I move: That:(1)the House, at its rising, adjourn until tomorrow at 1.20 p.m.;(2)so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the order of business...
- Leave of Absence (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That leave of absence from 24 November to 4 December 2008 be given to Mr Oakeshott for paternity purposes. Question agreed to.
- Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Laws 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.
- Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws — Superannuation) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Message from Governor-General recommending appropriation for requested amendments announced. Consideration resumed from 13 November. Senate’s requested amendments—...
- Social Security Legislation Amendment (Employment Services Reform) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 November, on motion by Ms Macklin: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Consideration in Detail (13 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- 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.
- Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 5) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (1 speech)
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.
- Family Law Amendment (De Facto Financial Matters and Other Measures) Bill 2008; Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill 2008; Offshore Petroleum Amendment (Greenhouse Gas Storage) Bill 2008; Offshore Petroleum (Annual Fees) Amendment (Greenhouse Gas Storage) Bill 2008; Offshore Petroleum (Registration Fees) Amendment (Greenhouse Gas Storage) Bill 2008; Offshore Petroleum (Safety Levies) Amendment (Greenhouse Gas Storage) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Messages from the Governor-General reported informing the House of assent to the bills.
- Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (16 speeches)
Debate resumed from 23 October, on motion by Ms Gillard: That this bill be now read a second time.
- National Rental Affordability Scheme Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- National Rental Affordability Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (2 speeches)
Bill returned from the Senate with amendments. Ordered that the amendments be considered immediately. Senate’s amendments— (1) Title, page 1 (line 1), after...
- 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 (1 speech)
Ministerial responses to petitions previously presented to the House have been received as follows:
- Responses; Nursing Homes (0 speeches)
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 aged care homes operating Enterprise Bargaining...
- Responses; Hyperhidrosis (0 speeches)
Mrs Irwin, Thank you for your letter of 4 September 2008 referring the petition recently received by the Standing Committee on Petitions, regarding access to treatment with BOTOX® (botulinum...
- Responses; Telecommunications (0 speeches)
Mrs Irwin, Mobile phone coverage Thank you for your letter dated 4 September 2008 and for the opportunity to respond to the petition submitted to a recent meeting of the Standing Committee on...
- Responses; Climate Change (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin, Thank you for your letter of 26 June 2008 to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, the Hon Peter Garrett AM MP, concerning mandatory renewable energy targets....
- Statements (2 speeches)
I would like to take this opportunity to make a few brief remarks about a public hearing the Standing Committee on Petitions held in Melbourne at the end of last month. The committee met with a...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Economics, I present the committee’s report entitled Review of the Reserve Bank of Australia annual report 2007 (Second Report), together with the...
- Industry, Science and Innovation Committee; Report (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Innovation will not be presenting its report at this sitting. The order of precedence of remaining committee and delegation...
- 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 interim report, incorporating a dissenting report,...
- 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.
- Treaties Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, I present the committee’s report entitled Report 96: Treaties Tabled on 16 September 2008. Ordered that the report be made a...
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- White Ribbon Day (11 speeches)
I move: That the House notes that:(1)25 November 2008 marks White Ribbon Day in Australia;(2)in 1999, the United Nations General Assembly declared November 25 the International Day for the...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Frankston Bypass: Southern Brown Bandicoot (1 speech)
I am alert but not alarmed about reports of calls for tens of millions of dollars of expenditure to be added to the proposed Frankston bypass in the name of the endangered southern brown...
- Australian Council of Local Government (1 speech)
Last week this place hosted a historic and, it needs to be said, long overdue event. The Australian Council of Local Government began what I hope and what this government hopes is a constructive...
- Ryan Electorate: Storm Damage (1 speech)
This time last week, The Gap in the Ryan electorate looked as if a bomb had been dropped on it. The evening before, Sunday, 16 November 2008, a storm hit Brisbane with incredible ferocity and...
- Blair Electorate: Post-Formal Mystery Tour (1 speech)
End of year is a great time for young people. This last week I went to Ipswich Grammar School, Bremer State High School and West Moreton Anglican College in my electorate. It is a time for...
- Anaphylaxis (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the critically important issue of anaphylaxis management in schools and, in particular, the availability of affordable EpiPens. Anaphylaxis is the most severe form of...
- Corio Electorate: Pako Festa (1 speech)
I would like to speak tonight about one of the most remarkable events that takes place in the electorate of Corio—namely, the Pako Festa. Pako Festa is a remarkable event on a number of...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Aged Care Amendment (2008 Measures No. 2) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (42 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 November, on motion by Mrs Elliot: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Gippsland Electorate (1 speech)
I rise to highlight concerns within my electorate in relation to the federal government’s commitment to practical environmental work as carried out by organisations such as Landcare. The...
- Councillor Charlie Gregorini (1 speech)
On Saturday I was deeply saddened by the news that Councillor Charlie Gregorini, the Mayor of the City of Swan, had died in a tragic accident. It will be difficult to convey in a few words my...
- Rudd Government (5 speeches)
It is 12 months to the day since the class of 2007 was elected. It is interesting to see that the government have put out a 70-page taxpayer funded glossy brochure to highlight everything that...
