House debates
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Telecommunications Amendment (Integrated Public Number Database) Bill 2009 (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) Schedule 1, item 2, page 4...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the 72nd annual report of the committee and also the committee’s first report for 2009, relating to the Enhanced...
- Corporations and Financial Services Committee; Membership (1 speech)
Mr Speaker has received a message from the Senate informing the House that Senator Williams has been appointed a member of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services...
- Civil Aviation Amendment Bill 2009; Transport Safety Investigation Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (20 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 February, on motion by Mr Albanese: That this bill be now read a second time.
- 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.
- Transport Safety Investigation Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 February, on motion by Mr Albanese: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time.
- 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.
- Federal Financial Relations Bill 2009; Federal Financial Relations (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (6 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 February, on motion by Mr Swan: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (42 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the fact that Australians mostly ignored his call on them to spend, spend, spend his December cash splash of 10...
- Employment (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the guarantee given today by his Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government that neither...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of a parliamentary delegation from Uganda led by the Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda, the Rt Hon. Edward K...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline for the House the economic rationale for the stimulus payments that will begin flowing tomorrow, and how they fit into the...
- Employment (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to comments made by his Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government this morning on the...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. How are community representatives responding to the government’s infrastructure...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to a paper by the head of US President Obama’s National Economic Council, Lawrence Summers, who expressed concern about...
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. What reform challenges does the government face arising from the December quarter national accounts figures? Does the government...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (7 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Is the Treasurer aware that, following the government’s white paper, Macquarie Research issued a downgrade for Energy Developments, a green energy company...
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and Social Inclusion. What steps through the education system is the government taking to stimulate the economy...
- Special Air Service Regiment (21 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Will the Minister for Defence confirm that he told this House on 25 February that not one special forces soldier has been financially disadvantaged by...
- Education and Training (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment Participation. Will the minister update the House about how measures for students and those undertaking training will help to build Australia’s...
- Biosecurity Australia (4 speeches)
Is the Prime Minister aware that Biosecurity Australia’s decision to allow the importation of Filipino bananas will cost 6,000 Australians their jobs and the economy $350 million a year?...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy. How is the government supporting small business now and into the future through the Nation...
- Special Air Service Regiment (13 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. Does the minister stand by his statement to this House on 25 February that not one special forces soldier has been financially disadvantaged...
- Zimbabwe (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister update the House on developments in Zimbabwe?
- Zimbabwe (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, on indulgence: I join with the comments just made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the death of Mrs Tsvangirai. All members of the House, I believe, share a deep concern about...
- MR Jack Ross (0 speeches)
- (8 speeches)
Mr Speaker, on indulgence: I wish to speak briefly on the 110th birthday of Mr Jack Ross. There are some 375,000 veterans from all conflicts in Australia today. Some 115,000 are from World War II...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 25 of 2008-09 (1 speech)
—I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 25 of 2008-09 entitled Performance audit—Green office procurement and sustainable office management. Ordered that the report be...
- 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.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Emissions Trading Scheme (12 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 adverse effect of the...
- Australian Energy Market Amendment (Aemo and Other Measures) Bill 2009 (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)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Federal Financial Relations Bill 2009; Federal Financial Relations (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (11 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.
- Federal Financial Relations (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 February, on motion by Mr Swan: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time. Message from the Governor-General recommending...
- 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.
- Social Security and Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment (Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 February, on motion by Mr Shorten: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 7.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Petition: Excise Regulations - Microbreweries (1 speech)
I rise to present a petition, as approved by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Petitions. The petition read as follows— To the Honourable The Speaker and Members of The...
- Employment (1 speech, 3 comments)
I wish to talk, at this important time, about jobs and job security. With the global recession and the impact that it is having across this country in workplaces and households in each of our...
- Ryan Electorate: Small Business (10 speeches)
I am delighted to follow another Queensland member because I am happy to point out to her how hypocritical she was, especially coming from a party where a former Labor Prime Minister presided...
- Deakin Electorate: Victorian Bushfires (1 speech)
I would like to speak on an issue of some seriousness tonight. It relates to the bushfires in Victoria and especially—though on a slightly lighter note—some of the fundraising efforts...
- Paterson Electorate: Coal Exploration (1 speech)
I rise today to speak of a matter which is of grave concern to thousands of constituents in the Paterson electorate: three coal exploration licences held by Gloucester Resources Ltd. The...
- International Women’s Day (1 speech)
Each year around the world International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8. This is a day when women throughout the world come together to celebrate life as women and the progress made...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (11 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Paterson Electorate: Hospitals (1 speech)
Today I advise the House that finally Hunter New England Health and Pulse Health Limited have entered into an agreement to provide public inpatient services for low-acuity patients who are...
- Lindsay Electorate: Trades Training Centres in Schools Program (1 speech)
Last week I had the great privilege of accompanying the Deputy Prime Minister on a visit to one of the schools in my electorate, Cambridge Park High School, to announce more than $13 million in...
- Fisher Electorate: Queensland Election (1 speech)
The Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh, after protesting for months that she was not going to call an early election, has called an election for 21 March. This is the debut election for the...
- Fremantle Electorate: Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program (1 speech)
Late last year I was delighted to hear that Palmyra Primary School had been chosen as the Western Australian demonstration school for the $12.8 million national Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden...
- Tangney Electorate: Broadband (1 speech)
When the internet really entered mainstream use in the 1990s, we were told it was the dawn of a new era in civilisation. The grand vision was for a world where information and ideas flowed...
- Victorian Bushfires (2 speeches)
When there are images of death and destruction on television or in the newspapers some people turn away, others are compelled to act. I have never been more proud of my local community than in...
- Blair Electorate: Lights on the Hill Trucking Memorial (1 speech)
On 11 October last year I had the privilege of attending the Lights on the Hill Trucking Memorial Annual Memorial Day at Lake Apex in my electorate and on 28 February this year I had the...
- Gippsland Electorate: Regional Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise to speak in support of a petition containing 1,236 signatures from the Sale and district community. By way of background, the Wellington Shire Council is well advanced in a plan to...
- Wakefield Electorate: Gawler Returned Services League (2 speeches)
I would like to draw the attention of the House to the fact that the Gawler sub-branch of the RSL is this year celebrating its 90th anniversary. Anzac Day is always an occasion for reflection and...
- Australian Energy Market Amendment (Aemo and Other Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (32 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 February, on motion by Mr Martin Ferguson: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 5) 2008-2009; Appropriation Bill (No. 6) 2008-2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (42 speeches)
Debate resumed from 10 March, on motion by Mr Bowen: That this bill be now read a second time.
