House debates
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
- Tariff Proposals (0 speeches)
- Customs Tariff Proposal (No. 2) 2009 (1 speech)
I move: Customs Tariff Proposal (No. 2) 2009. The customs tariff proposal that I have just tabled contains alterations to the rates of customs duty applicable to certain alcohol and tobacco...
- Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 6) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Referred to Main Committee (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the bill be referred to the Main Committee for further consideration. I inform all honourable members that the Chief Opposition Whip, the honourable member for...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Excise Tariff Amendment (2009 Measures No. 1) Bill 2009; Customs Tariff Amendment (2009 Measures No. 1) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (26 speeches)
Debate resumed from 11 February, on motion by Ms Roxon: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer to Pacific Brands laying off 1,850 Australian workers who have been making shoes, clothes and homewares. I refer to the Prime...
- Victorian Bushfires (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. What support is the government giving to workers and their families and to businesses affected by...
- Employment (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to his numerous statements in January this year that the $10 billion cash splash had: … a very significant impact on spending on the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon, accompanied by the new Ambassador and Head of Delegation of the European Commission to Australia and New Zealand, Mr David...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Victorian Bushfires (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Ageing. How is the government continuing to support older people affected by the Victorian bushfires?
- Employment (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer again to Pacific Brands laying off 1,850 Australian workers, many of them in regional Australia. Is the Prime Minister now going to create 77,000...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline recent global and domestic economic developments and the government’s response?
- Special Air Service Regiment (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Minister, when did you first become aware of the problems regarding SAS salaries? How was that issue brought to your attention?
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline for the House the consequences for the economy if we underestimate the threat posed to jobs and growth by the global recession?
- Special Air Service Regiment (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. I refer the minister to his guarantee to this House four months ago that he would fix the problem with SAS salaries. Is the minister aware that, as...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Will the Deputy Prime Minister outline to the House what the government is doing in response to job losses?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
Order! Before giving the call to the member for Fadden, under great pressure from a number of quarters within the chamber—and I cannot believe that I am about to do this as a Fitzroy and...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Special Air Service Regiment (35 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Minister, how much money has been deducted from the pay packets of SAS soldiers by way of debt recovery since August 2008? Has the minister personally...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment Participation. How is the government working with private sector and community organisations to implement additional measures to assist retrenched...
- Special Air Service Regiment (15 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. I refer the minister to his failure to answer a very straightforward question from the member for Fadden. I give him the opportunity to...
- Minister for Defence (0 speeches)
- Censure Motion (43 speeches)
by leave—The Minister for Defence is putting the soldiers in the front line while he puts their families on the breadline. I move: That this House censures the Minister for Defence...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (18 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 23 of 2008-09 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 23 of 2008-09 entitled Performance audit: management of the Collins-class operations sustainment: Department of Defence. Ordered that the...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
A document is presented as listed in the schedule circulated to honourable members. Details of the document will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Infrastructure (8 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Goldstein proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The failure of the...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2008-2009 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment, appropriation message having been reported; certified copy of the bill presented. Ordered that this bill be considered immediately. Bill agreed to.
- 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.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2008-2009 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment, appropriation message having been reported; certified copy of the bill presented. Ordered that this bill be considered immediately. Bill agreed to.
- Third Reading (5 speeches)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time.
- Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 6) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (1 speech)
Bill returned from Main Committee with amendments, appropriation message having been reported; certified copy of the bill and schedule of amendments presented. Ordered that this bill be...
- 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.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics Committee; Membership (2 speeches)
The Speaker has received advice from the Chief Opposition Whip that he has nominated Mr Briggs to be a member of the Standing Committee on Economics in place of Ms J Bishop.
- Social Security Legislation Amendment (Employment Services Reform) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Message from the Governor-General reported informing the House of assent to the bill.
- Excise Tariff Amendment (2009 Measures No. 1) Bill 2009; Customs Tariff Amendment (2009 Measures No. 1) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Excise Tariff Amendment (2009 Measures No. 1) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Consideration in Detail (35 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.
- Customs Tariff Amendment (2009 Measures No. 1) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed. Question put: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Consideration in Detail (1 speech)
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.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being approximately 7.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Jeans for Genes Day; Paterson Electorate: Mr Ken and Mrs Wilma McMillan (1 speech)
On Monday night in this House, I was honoured to be named the Jeans for Genes Day Genie Member of Parliament for 2008 by the National Campaign Manager for Jeans for Genes, Julijana Trifunovic. I...
- Queensland Election (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, I thank you for the opportunity to speak in the House tonight. I want to speak a little about the upcoming Queensland state election. I am a born and bred proud Queenslander. My home...
- Iran: Persecution of Baha'i Faith (1 speech)
Tonight I would like to raise the issue of the persecution of the practitioners of the Baha’i Faith and other religious minorities by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. On this...
- International Cycle Speedway Federation World Championships; Disabilities (1 speech)
During the month of February the International Cycle Speedway Federation held its 2009 world championships in South Australia. Events were held at the Salisbury, Lefevre, Murraylands and Findon...
- Hon. Peter Howson CMG (1 speech)
I had not intended to eulogise the late Peter Howson, former member for Fawkner and Casey and first Commonwealth minister for Aboriginal affairs, because he had been so well commemorated by...
- Dr Ken Rowe (1 speech)
Today I want to put on record my appreciation of a life that was tragically lost on Black Saturday. I do not mean to single out this one individual as somebody more noteworthy than the others of...
- Indigenous Representation in Politics; Queensland State Election (2 speeches)
I want to take the opportunity of talking on two points in the couple of minutes that I have left. One is to endorse the remarks of the shadow minister for families, housing, community services...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The following notice was given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Imparja Television (1 speech)
Imparja is allegedly a free-to-air satellite television service, one of a number of providers that make up the remote area broadcast service, better known as RABS. Imparja is predominantly beamed...
- Isaacs Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate the terrific children who have been given the responsibility of being a school captain or holding a leadership role at the 49 primary and secondary schools in my...
- Boothby Electorate: Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer (1 speech)
I rise to welcome the news that the research laboratories within the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer will be known as the Livestrong Cancer Research Centre after the foundation created...
- Bennelong Electorate: Ms Victoria Yeboah (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute to the life of Victoria Yeboah, who, until the middle of last year, was a resident of Gladesville in my electorate of Bennelong. On 17 December last year, Victoria...
- Rural and Regional Health Services (1 speech)
I rise this morning to speak about something that is of particular importance to not only my rural electorate of Indi, in north-east Victoria, but also all rural, regional and outer metropolitan...
- Lindsay Electorate: National Servicemen’s Association of Australia (2 speeches)
I rise to acknowledge the outstanding work of the Penrith City Sub Branch of the National Servicemen’s Association of Australia. I have the great honour of being the patron of the...
- Cowan Electorate: Ballajura Police Rangers (2 speeches)
On previous occasions in parliament I have spoken about the need to increase personal responsibility. Today I would like to make mention of a Cowan community organisation that is in every way an...
- Disability Services (1 speech)
I wish to draw the chamber’s attention to an ongoing problem with the coverage of disability services in Australia. There continue to be wide areas of disparity and inequity in the...
- Electorate of Flinders: Warley Hospital (1 speech)
I rise to condemn the actions of the National Australia Bank in placing all of Warley Hospital’s assets on Phillip Island up for sale on a forced basis. Warley Hospital had a proud, 90-year...
- Banks Electorate: Cricket (2 speeches)
The New South Wales RTA, in conjunction with Cricket New South Wales, ran a competition in late 2008 inviting cricket teams to submit entries comprising photos and a slogan of no more than 25...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I would like to welcome to the Main Committee today participants in the inter parliamentary study program. I warmly welcome you and thank you for coming and visiting our small chamber and for...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2008-2009; Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2008-2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (12 speeches)
Debate resumed from 24 February, on motion by Mr Tanner: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2008-2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 4 December 2008, on motion by Mr Tanner: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time. Ordered that this bill be reported to the House...
- Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 6) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 3 December 2008, on motion by Mr Bowen: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Consideration in Detail (2 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
