House debates
Wednesday, 27 May 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, 1 June 2009. Copies of the report have been...
- Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Ms Roxon. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives Bill 2009 will amend various acts to give effect to the recent budget measure to introduce three...
- Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Ms Roxon. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2009 will amend the Medicare Levy Act 1986 to give effect to the...
- Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge — Fringe Benefits) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum—by leave—presented by Ms Roxon. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge—Fringe Benefits) Bill 2009 will amend the A New Tax System...
- Fair Work (State Referral and Consequential and Other Amendments) Bill 2009 (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. Today the Australian government continues delivering on its election promises in Forward with Fairness. The Australian government delivered the...
- Guarantee of State and Territory Borrowing Appropriation Bill 2009 (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 future claims made under the Australian government’s...
- Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Budget Measures No. 1) Bill 2009 (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. The Rudd government is proud to be delivering in the 2009 budget a fair go for pensioners. This support for our pensioners is long overdue. But...
- Coordinator-General for Remote Indigenous Services Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Ms Macklin. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill creates the position of Coordinator-General for Remote Indigenous Services to drive the implementation of the Council of Australian...
- Social Security Legislation Amendment (Improved Support for Carers) (Consequential and Transitional) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Ms Macklin. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Social Security Legislation Amendment (Improved Support for Carers) (Consequential and Transitional) Bill 2009 provides part of the...
- Migration Amendment (Protection of Identifying Information) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Laurie Ferguson. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Migration Amendment (Protection of Identifying Information) Bill 2009 (the ‘bill’) amends the Migration Act 1958 (the...
- Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Measures No. 2) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (32 speeches)
Debate resumed from 19 March, on motion by Mr Bowen: 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.
- Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Enhancing Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (13 speeches)
Debate resumed from 19 March, on motion by Mr Bowen: 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.
- Higher Education Support Amendment (Vet Fee-Help and Providers) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (11 speeches)
Debate resumed from 18 March, on motion by Ms Kate Ellis: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
I inform the House, I am sure to the regret of the opposition, that the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government will be absent from question time today...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer him to his claim that he will pay off Labor’s massive debt by the year 2022. Will the Prime Minister provide the House with all the...
- Swine Influenza (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister provide an update on the spread of swine flu in Australia?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Prime Minister of the Republic of Vanuatu, the Honourable Edward Natapei. On behalf of the House I extend to him a very...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (8 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Given that the budget paper data does not extend to 2022, will the Treasurer provide the House with all of the projected growth figures, inflation rates, budget...
- Swine Influenza (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister advise the House on the latest swine flu developments and the government’s response to date?
- Budget (57 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. I refer him to my earlier question to him and the member for North Sydney’s question to the Treasurer. In each case, we asked the Prime Minister...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Rt Hon. John Spellar MP, government whip in the House of Commons with the official title Minister in the Whip’s...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (21 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Will the minister outline the importance of the government’s investment in nation building for future growth and why the...
- Prime Minister and Treasurer (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (11 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition moving immediately—That this House censures the Prime Minister and...
- Aung San Suu Kyi (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
On indulgence, Mr Speaker: I would like to briefly report to the House on the circumstances surrounding Aung San Suu Kyi. Today is the anniversary of her most recent period of detention. She has...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (19 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Reports Nos 38 and 39 of 2008-09 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s performance audit reports for 2008-09 entitled Audit report No. 38, Administration of the buyback component of the Securing our Fishing Future structural...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Australian Financial Centre Forum (2 speeches)
by leave—I take this opportunity to update the House on the government’s policy objective of promoting Australia as a financial services hub. The government has long had the policy of...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Budget (12 speeches)
Mr Speaker has received letters from the honourable member for Casey and the honourable member for Lyne proposing that definite matters of public importance be submitted to the House for...
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- (11 speeches)
Under standing order 51, I wish to raise a matter of privilege. Mr Deputy Speaker Scott, to me this matter represents a prima facie case of breach of privilege, and I ask you to ask the Speaker...
- Health Workforce Australia 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.
- Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Medical Devices and Other Measures) Bill 2008 [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.
- Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Measures No. 3) Bill 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.
- Higher Education Support Amendment (Vet Fee-Help and Providers) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (2 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.
- Car Dealership Financing Guarantee Appropriation Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (10 speeches)
Debate resumed from 14 May, on motion by Mr Bowen: 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.
- Liberal Party (1 speech)
I would not want this day to pass without commemorating in the House an event which occurred in this chamber on 27 May 1909—100 years ago. It was on that day that the member for Ballarat...
- Petition: Renewable Energy (1 speech)
Whilst I am always fascinated by history, I would like to talk about a more contemporary issue this evening. I am privileged to present tonight a petition from Mary Whiteside, a constituent in my...
- Vietnam (1 speech)
On previous occasions I have spoken on behalf of Vietnamese people within the electorate of Cowan and have voiced their concerns that their homeland is being held back by the restrictions imposed...
- Questions Without Notice (1 speech)
I want to speak this evening in the debate on the adjournment of the House to make some observations on what happened in this House during question time today. Question time today, not...
- Lone Fathers Association of Australia (1 speech)
I rise to speak in support of the Lone Fathers Association of Australia and on this government’s failure to recognise the importance of the support that LFAA provides to a significant...
- Robertson Electorate: Marine Discovery Centre (1 speech)
I rise today to inform members of the progress being made towards the establishment of a marine discovery centre on the Central Coast of New South Wales, in fact in my electorate of Robertson....
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (8 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Sir Donald Eckersley (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the life and achievements of respected agripolitician Sir Donald Eckersley, who was born in Harvey in 1922 and died in Harvey on 12 April this year. This paragraph from the...
- Bennelong Electorate: Consumer Confidence (1 speech)
I want to speak about confidence. Confidence is what gets us up in the morning. It may seem paradoxical in what is undoubtedly a tough year, when economies around the world are contracting and...
- Tangney Electorate: Internet Access (1 speech)
My electorate of Tangney is not poor by any means. Indeed, it includes a couple of the most established and affluent riverfront suburbs in Perth, as well as many more with a demographic that...
- Deakin Electorate: Ringwood Soccer and Multipurpose Sports Pavilion (1 speech)
Today I would like to inform the House of the Rudd government’s $2.9 million funding package for the Ringwood Soccer and Multipurpose Sports Pavilion. The Minister for Infrastructure,...
- Indi Electorate: General Practice (1 speech)
Confidence is indeed very important and in my electorate of Indi there are certain areas that are having their confidence in the health system seriously shaken. It is important to have confidence...
- Dobell Electorate: Proposed Coalmine (1 speech)
I rise to talk about an issue of great concern to constituents in my electorate and that is a proposed coalmine to be built under water catchment areas in the Wyong shire. In fact, the head of...
- Swan Electorate: Belmont Medicare Office (1 speech)
Madam Deputy Speaker, as you know, I do not often get up here and have a gripe, but today I am going to. Nearly two years ago, in the lead-up to the federal election, the Labor Party promised the...
- Forde Electorate: Rivermount College (1 speech)
This morning I would like to recognise and pay tribute to Rivermount College in my electorate, which last Saturday celebrated its 18th year at its Foundation Day celebration. This college has...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
As if the economic crisis is not bad enough and as if our record-breaking national debt is not bad enough, this government wants to compound it all by introducing a raft of new workplace laws...
- Sri Lanka (2 speeches)
This morning I speak again on the human tragedy in north Sri Lanka. As you know, Madam Deputy Speaker, this month the Sri Lankan government announced victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2009-2010; Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2009-2010; Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2009-2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (35 speeches)
Debate resumed from 26 May, on motion by Mr Swan: That this bill be now read a second time.
