House debates
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
- Fair Work Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Ms Gillard. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I rise today one year on from the election of the Rudd Labor government to deliver on a promise Labor made to the Australian people. Today we...
- Tax Laws Amendment (Luxury Car Tax — Minor Amendments) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Bowen. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The bill that I am introducing today makes minor and technical amendments to the A New Tax System (Luxury Car Tax) Act 1999, the Taxation...
- Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Ms Macklin. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill is to make minor and technical amendments to several acts within the Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Banking (5 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Acting Prime Minister. Given the government has now adopted the coalition’s position on an appropriation bill to back the bank wholesale funding guarantee to...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Will the Acting Prime Minister update the House on the importance of a fair workplace relations system, especially for those in low-paid employment?
- Banking (3 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer to the Treasurer’s statement on 23 October that those depositors in managed investment funds adversely affected by the government’s bank...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee of the Namibian parliament. On behalf of the House I extend a very...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Will the Acting Prime Minister detail the government’s commitment to providing fairness for working Australians by the abolition of individual...
- Banking (8 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to two of my constituents, Mr and Mrs Goldner, who have had their cash management account frozen following the government’s...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon John Dawkins, a former member for Fremantle and a former minister for several portfolios, including Treasury, in this place....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on forecasts for emerging economies and actions taken by governments in recent days to respond to the global financial crisis?
- Workplace Relations (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy. Will the minister outline to the House the benefits to small business of the government’s...
- Economy (10 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to his previous answer and to the fact that not one dollar available for spending in the nation-building fund has been generated by the Rudd...
- Pensions and Benefits (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Will the minister update the House on responses to the government’s Economic Security...
- Broadband (2 speeches)
My question is directed to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. I...
- Queensland Storms (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. Will the Attorney-General update the House on the recent devastating storms in Queensland and the government’s response?
- Trade: Banana Imports (13 speeches)
My question without notice is to the Acting Prime Minister. Is the Acting Prime Minister aware that Biosecurity Australia have endorsed the import risk assessment on bananas that states that...
- United Kingdom (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I ask: will the minister report on how Australia is taking forward its security and defence relationship with the United Kingdom?
- Border Security (2 speeches)
I have a defence question for the Acting Prime Minister. Acting Prime Minister, what assurances can the government give to the Australian people that Australia’s borders will be properly...
- White Ribbon Day (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing and the Minister for the Status of Women. As it is White Ribbon Day today, otherwise known as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence...
- Trade: Imports (18 speeches)
My question without notice is to the Acting Prime Minister. Is the minister aware that, at a public meeting held in Innisfail two years ago, AQIS could not recall a single application that had...
- Child Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. What is the government doing to ensure continuity of childcare services for Australian families following the announcement of ABC Learning going into...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Main Committee (6 speeches)
Mr Speaker, are you able to advise honourable members as to the cause of the closure of the Main Committee? What was the problem? Is it likely that there would be a repetition of the same problem?
- 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. I move: That the House take note of the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Broadband (19 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Wide Bay proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The failure of the...
- Guarantee Scheme for Large Deposits and Wholesale Funding Appropriation Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Swan. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Today I am introducing a bill to provide a standing appropriation to pay any possible claims made under the Australian government’s...
- Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Economic Security Strategy) Bill 2008; Appropriation (Economic Security Strategy) Bill (No. 1) 2008-2009; Appropriation (Economic Security Strategy) Bill (No. 2) 2008-2009 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws — Superannuation) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Bill returned from the Senate with amendments. Ordered that the amendments be considered immediately. Senate’s amendments— (1) Clause 2, page 2, omit the table,...
- Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws — General Law Reform) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Message from the Administrator recommending appropriation for requested amendments announced. Bill returned from the Senate with requested amendments. Ordered that the requested amendments be...
- Nation-Building Funds Bill 2008; Nation-Building Funds (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008; Coag Reform Fund Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (21 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 November, on motion by Mr Tanner: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Referred to Main Committee (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the bills be referred to the Main Committee for further consideration. I point out to all members that the Chief Opposition Whip, the honourable member for Fairfax,...
- Guarantee Scheme for Large Deposits and Wholesale Funding Appropriation Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (38 speeches)
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.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the House do now adjourn.
- Drugs (1 speech)
Today, for many for young people across Australia, illicit drug use is a deadly problem. While we are all well aware of the devastation that drugs can cause individuals, their families and our...
- Australian National Academy of Music (1 speech)
The Australian National Academy of Music is located in Bank Street, South Melbourne, in my electorate. It is part of the arts precinct in Southbank and South Melbourne that employs many people...
- Maranoa Electorate: Surat Coal Basin (1 speech)
I rise to talk about the Surat coal basin, which lies largely in my electorate of Maranoa and floats up into the edge of the electorate of Flynn. I want to talk about a forum that was held in my...
- Norfolk Island and Tasmania (1 speech)
I am a member of the Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories, and the committee recently had a visit to Norfolk Island on a familiarisation trip and also to...
- Salvation Army: Braver, Stronger, Wiser Program (1 speech)
I rise to speak in support of the Salvation Army’s Braver, Stronger, Wiser program that was launched throughout Australia on Thursday of last week to help deal with depression in rural...
- 60th Anniversary of the Signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1 speech)
Next month on 10 December we will recognise the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document was born from the horrors of the Second World War with...
- Dandenong Ranges (2 speeches)
Tonight I wish to tell a story about sadness, about hope, about victory and about despair. The sadness relates to the Dandenong Ranges, and one of my favourite subjects, as the Speaker would...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Human Trafficking and Child Labour (1 speech)
There is a scourge in our world called people trafficking and about 26 million people are caught in its snare today—80 per cent are women and girls and 50 per cent are children. What is of...
- Eden-Monaro Electorate: Clean Energy for Eternity; Tathra Tragedy (1 speech)
I wish to congratulate the Clean Energy for Eternity movement, a wonderful movement in my electorate of Eden-Monaro. They have done such a great job in raising awareness of climate change. They...
- Caring for our Country (1 speech)
The recent announcement of the Caring for our Country grants by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts demonstrates the eastern centric focus of the Rudd government and...
- Rankin Electorate: Greenbank RSL Sub-Branch (1 speech)
On Saturday, 8 November 2008, 150 members, family and friends of the Greenbank RSL sub-branch attended the President’s Dining-In Evening. Special guests were Mr Chris McHugh, Queensland...
- Hinkler Electorate: Glendyne Education and Training Centre (1 speech)
Few people truly earn the title of local champion but Ray Krueger, principal of Glendyne Education and Training Centre, just south of Hervey Bay, is one of them. I was honoured recently to attend...
- Holt Electorate: Youth Reference Group Meeting (1 speech)
On Friday last week I had the opportunity to host the Holt Youth Reference Group meeting, which is a forum of 10 young community leaders from a range of schools within the city of Casey in my...
- White Ribbon Day (1 speech)
I rise to speak in support of White Ribbon Day and the efforts by the White Ribbon Foundation to reduce the incidence of violence against women. Today is an opportunity for all right-thinking men...
- Mr Charlie Gregorini (1 speech)
I rise to speak today on the tragic and untimely death of Mr Charlie Gregorini. Mr Gregorini was the Mayor of the City of Swan in metropolitan Perth. The City of Swan is the largest local...
- Grey Electorate: Andamooka (1 speech)
I rise today to share with you something of the history of the town of Andamooka and the plight that it faces at the moment. Andamooka has a rich opal-mining history and has been a producer of...
- St Corio Electorate: St Anthony’s Primary School (1 speech)
It was my distinct pleasure last Friday to visit St Anthony’s Primary School for what was unquestionably a momentous occasion in the life of that school. St Anthony’s is located in...
- Baker Electorate: Dukes Highway (2 speeches)
It is my sad duty to report to this parliament that yet another life has been lost on the Dukes Highway in my electorate. For members’ interest, the Dukes Highway is the main road from...
- Aged Care Amendment (2008 Measures No. 2) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (20 speeches)
Debate resumed from 24 November, on motion by Mrs Elliot: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Nation-Building Funds Bill 2008; Nation-Building Funds (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008; Coag Reform Fund Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
