House debates
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Private Members’ Business; Report (1 speech)
I present the report of the recommendations of the whips relating to committee and delegation reports and private members’ business on Monday, 9 February 2009. I indicate to all...
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (15 speeches)
I move: That for the sitting on Wednesday, 4 February 2009:(1)standing orders 31 and 33 be suspended;(2)so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended to enable the following to occur...
- Appropriation (Nation Building and Jobs) Bill (No. 2) 2008-2009 (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Message from the Governor-General transmitting particulars of proposed expenditure and recommending appropriation announced.
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Swan. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The unfolding global economic story reminds us daily that we find ourselves in the midst of the most significant global economic crisis since the...
- Appropriation (Nation Building and Jobs) Bill (No. 1) 2008-2009 (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Message from the Governor-General transmitting particulars of proposed expenditure and recommending appropriation announced.
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Garrett. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill contains a key component of the Nation Building and Jobs Plan the government announced yesterday—the new Energy Efficient Homes...
- Household Stimulus Package Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Ms Gillard. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Treasurer has provided clear context for the government’s decision to further support economic growth and jobs through the Nation...
- Tax Bonus for Working Australians Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Ms Macklin, for Mr Swan. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. A key part of the government’s Nation Building and Jobs Plan is to provide financial support to taxpayers. The measures contained in this...
- Tax Bonus for Working Australians (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Ms Macklin, for Mr Swan. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill provides for consequential amendments to various acts in relation to the tax bonus payment provided for in the Tax Bonus for Working...
- Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Tanner, for Mr Swan. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The outlook for the global economy has deteriorated sharply. As a result of the global financial crisis, the global economy is now facing a much...
- Appropriation (Nation Building and Jobs) Bill (No. 1) 2008-2009; Appropriation (Nation Building and Jobs) Bill (No. 2) 2008-2009; Household Stimulus Package Bill 2009; Tax Bonus for Working Australians Bill 2009; Tax Bonus for Working Australians (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009; Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his forecast of $70 billion in debt over the next four years. Can the Prime Minister explain to the House why his...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (16 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister explain to the House the need for the Nation Building and Jobs Plan announced yesterday and its role in addressing the global recession?
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer to the latest ABS retail trade survey, which showed that seasonally adjusted sales increased by $700 million from November to December. I...
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. Would the Deputy Prime Minister please update the House on the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
As the mention of young Australians sent the House slightly haywire, I think that it is appropriate that at this time I welcome the young Australians from regional and rural communities who are...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (22 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Treasurer. Treasurer, the government is forecasting economic growth of three per cent in 2011-12 and is also forecasting to run a deficit of $25.7 billon in that year. Can...
- Economy (14 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the retail trade figures released this morning and their implications?
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware of reports that over 90 per cent of National Australia Bank mortgage customers are still paying above their monthly minimum...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is also to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to weekend newspaper reports that $81 million from the government’s first spending package went to recipients living permanently...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. How will the government’s Nation Building and Jobs Plan improve road safety and...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Education and Minister for Social Inclusion. I refer the Deputy Prime Minister to...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Will the minister advise whether the government’s Nation Building and Jobs Plan will maximise support for jobs? Why is a...
- Education (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his promises that ‘no child between year 9 and year 12 shall be without a computer’ and for ‘a trades...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade. How will Australia’s trade policy enhance the economic impact of the government’s Nation Building and Jobs Plan?
- Health (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister outline how the government’s spending package will provide relief to patients and doctors in hospitals around the...
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. Would the Deputy Prime Minister advise the House on the...
- Small Business (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to reports which show 93 per cent of small businesses are under cash flow stress. Prime Minister, how does your government expect...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing and Minister for the Status of Women. What has been the response to new investment in social housing in yesterday’s Nation Building and Jobs Plan?...
- Housing Affordability (9 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Minister for Housing and Minister for the Status of Women. Given that the government has already brought forward more than $1.8 billion in projects for homelessness and...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. Will the minister update the House on support for the new Energy Efficient Homes program as part of the...
- Aged Care (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Ageing. I refer the minister to reports that not-for-profit aged-care providers are refusing to take up placements for high-care residents. With the crisis in...
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Minister, how is the government supporting older Australians during these challenging times?
- Broadband (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister accept that his failure to get the national broadband network project under way, the government’s single biggest infrastructure...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy. Will the minister advise the House of the response to the government’s Nation Building...
- Infrastructure (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the repeated statements in the months leading into the last election that Labor had a plan for major infrastructure. Prime...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Will the minister update the House on the reaction to the government’s Nation Building and Jobs Plan, including the...
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 19 of 2008-09 (1 speech)
—I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 19 of 2008-09 entitled Performance audit: CMAX communications contract for the 2020 Summit: Department of the Prime Minister and...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Documents are presented in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings and I move: That the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Economy (14 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for North Sydney proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government’s...
- Aviation Legislation Amendment (2008 Measures No. 2) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Referred to Main Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the bill be referred to the Main Committee for further consideration. Question agreed to.
- Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment; certified copy of the bill presented. Ordered that this bill be considered immediately. Bill agreed to.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Tax Laws Amendment (Political Contributions and Gifts) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Appropriation (Nation Building and Jobs) Bill (No. 1) 2008-2009; Appropriation (Nation Building and Jobs) Bill (No. 2) 2008-2009; Household Stimulus Package Bill 2009; Tax Bonus for Working Australians Bill 2009; Tax Bonus for Working Australians (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009; Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (86 speeches)
Debate resumed.
- Third Reading (5 speeches)
The question now is that the remaining stages of the bill be agreed to. A division having been called and the bells being rung—
- Appropriation (Nation Building and Jobs) Bill (No. 2) 2008-2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed. A division having been called and the bells being rung—
- Third Reading (1 speech)
The question now is that the remaining stages of the bill be agreed to. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Household Stimulus Package Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed. Question put.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
The question now is that the remaining stages of the bill be agreed to. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Tax Bonus for Working Australians Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed. Question put.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
The question now is that the remaining stages of the bill be agreed to. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Tax Bonus for Working Australians (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed. Question put.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
The question now is that the remaining stages of the bill be agreed to. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Commonwealth Inscribed Stock Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed. Question put.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
In accordance with the resolution agreed to earlier today, I put the question: That the remaining stages of the bill be agreed to. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
When moving the adjournment, I also was going to thank the attendants, the clerks, the Parliamentary Liaison Office and other staff members. We as members of parliament are well remunerated; they...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Sri Lanka (1 speech)
On behalf of the people I represent I again raise my very serious concerns about the conflict in Sri Lanka. On many occasions I have spoken of the violence and the violations of human rights in...
- Forrest Electorate: Mrs Judith Talbot (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge community volunteers; in particular, I acknowledge Judy Talbot from Brunswick Junction in my electorate. Judy was awarded one of the highest national honours, the Order of...
- Blair Electorate: Cancer Council of Queensland (1 speech)
I wish to speak about the Dugandan Dive and the Cancer Council of Queensland. The Cancer Council of Queensland is the leading anticancer organisation in Queensland and provides a vital link...
- Nuclear Energy (1 speech)
I wish to raise again the issue of nuclear power and the Labor government’s secretive and hypocritical stance on the issue. It was reported in the West Australian on 24 January that the...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (1 speech)
There are a number of aspects of the government’s stimulus package for the Australian economy announced yesterday which I am very keen to support. But today I want to make particular...
- Swan Electorate: Mr Fred Harper (1 speech)
I fear that I will not have enough time to do justice to the gentleman I am going to speak about today, but I will do my best. One of the best things about being the member for Swan is meeting...
- Chifley Electorate: Computers in Schools (1 speech)
I want to place on record my absolute delight about the latest round of the Australian government’s National Secondary School Computer Fund, which will deliver 450 new computers to seven...
- Ryan Electorate: Australian Citizenship (1 speech)
Citizenship of Australia is a deep privilege and honour, since this is a magnificent country; there is no better. Our opportunities are only as limited as our imagination. As individuals and as a...
- Braddon Electorate: Relay for Life (1 speech)
Good morning, colleagues. In May 1985, colorectal surgeon and avid runner, Dr Gordy Klatt, took the first step of a 24-hour walk and run around a track in Tacoma, Washington. For interest, he...
- Gippsland Electorate: Fires (2 speeches)
I rise to condemn the senseless and cowardly people who deliberately light fires in our community, causing enormous emotional and physical stress along with the economic losses and the threat to...
- Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (14 speeches)
Debate resumed from 25 November 2008, on motion by Ms Macklin: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Private Gregory Sher (8 speeches)
Debate resumed from 3 February, on motion by Mr Rudd: That the House record its deep regret at the death on 4 January 2009 of Private Gregory Sher, killed while on combat operations in...
- Hon. Peter Howson CMG (4 speeches)
Debate resumed from 3 February, on motion by Mr Rudd: That the House expresses its deep regret at the death on 1 February 2009 of the Honourable Peter Howson CMG, a former Federal Minister and...
- Trooper Mark Donaldson VC (0 speeches)
- (10 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 3 February 2009.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2008-2009; Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2008-2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (22 speeches)
Debate resumed from 3 February, on motion by Mr Tanner: That this bill be now read a second time.
