House debates
Monday, 1 June 2009
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Private Members’ Motions (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 41(h), and the recommendations of the whips adopted by the House on 27 May 2009, I present copies of the terms of motions for which notice has been given by the...
- Business (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That government business have priority prior to 12 noon for this sitting. Question agreed to.
- Nation Building Program (National Land Transport) Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (59 speeches)
Debate resumed from 28 May, on motion by Mr Albanese: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Consideration in Detail (12 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Defence will be absent from question time today as he is attending the five power defence arrangements meeting in Malaysia. The Minister for Foreign...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- India (2 speeches)
by leave—On Friday, I spoke to Prime Minister Singh of India. I had sought to speak to him to congratulate him on his election victory. The Prime Minister is a friend of Australia and an...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the President of the National Assembly and Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Thai parliament, His Excellency Mr...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the finance minister’s recent statement on Lateline in which he said: … there is a limit to any...
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the parliament on the government’s response to the global recession?
- Infrastructure (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his deputy’s remark that the $3.8 million worth of plaques to be placed on school projects are ‘a simple...
- Economy (9 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline for the House this week’s key economic data and what it means for Australia’s performance during this global recession?
- Budget (30 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer.
- Infrastructure (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local government. Why is it important that the Nation Building Program (National Land Transport) Amendment...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer to the budget papers which state that taxpayers are now guaranteeing over $650 billion in bank deposits, $104 billion in bank wholesale funding and even...
- Education (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. How are successful projects from round 1 and round 2 of the...
- Economy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to his own newsletter out today which seeks to justify over $300 billion of debt by comparing the economic performance of Australia with...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (20 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing and Minister for the Status of Women. What evidence is there of benefits to employment in local businesses as a result of the government’s...
- Ministerial Code of Ethics (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister confirm to the House that the Minister for Defence is in compliance with the standards of ministerial ethics and in particular has...
- Taxation: Policy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Why is open public debate about the future of Australia’s tax system important for future economic and fiscal management? Will...
- Infrastructure (5 speeches)
My question is directed to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. I refer the minister to the paper that he tabled in parliament today outlining a...
- Climate Change (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline the need for action on climate change and why business certainty is important?
- Youth Allowance (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education and relates to a petition signed by McCarthy Catholic College students in the New England electorate concerning the proposed...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. Will the minister outline the importance to the Australian economy and the environment of the introduction of the Carbon...
- Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Ageing. It is now over a month since you ordered an investigation into the attack by vermin on an 89-year-old war veteran at a nursing home in rural...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs. How will the veterans community benefit from the government’s pension reforms announced in the budget?
- Medicare (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. I refer the minister to the government’s budget cuts to Medicare benefit scheme fees for cataract surgery. Given the government’s...
- Climate Change (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Will the minister update the House on recent climate change research into adaptation and mitigation measures for...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Question Time (7 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I refer to your ruling on my question without notice of last Thursday to the Deputy Prime Minister seeking an explanation of her position in relation to cuts to Medicare funding of...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- 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.
- Nation Building Program (National Land Transport) Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Budget Measures No. 1) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 27 May, on motion by Mr Swan: 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.
- Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives Bill 2009; Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2009; Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge — Fringe Benefits) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (18 speeches)
Debate resumed from 27 May, on motion by Ms Roxon: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That time and order of business for the sitting tomorrow, 2 June 2009, be as follows:(a)the House, at its rising, adjourn until tomorrow at 9 am;(b)government business have...
- Election Petition (0 speeches)
- Court of Disputed Returns (1 speech)
The Clerk: I present a letter from the Registrar/Chief Executive of the Federal Court, forwarding in accordance with the Commonwealth Electoral Act, a copy of the order made by the Federal Court...
- Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives Bill 2009; Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2009; Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge — Fringe Benefits) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Petitions, and in accordance with standing order 207, I present the following petitions:
- Responses (1 speech)
A ministerial response to a petition previously presented to the House has been received as follows:
- Responses; Internet Content (0 speeches)
Dear Ms Irwin Petition concerning sexual advertising and access to internet pornography Thank you for your letter dated 8 May 2009 forwarding a copy of a petition concerning sexual advertising...
- Statements (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker, last week in my statement to the House I focused on a public hearing that the Standing Committee on Petitions had held on the Central Coast in March when we had an opportunity...
- Petition: Youth Allowance (4 speeches)
by leave—It is a pleasure to follow the Chair of the Standing Committee on Petitions. I congratulate the member for Fowler on the excellent work she is doing—and you too of course, Mr...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, I present the committee’s report, incorporating a dissenting report, entitled...
- Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government Committee; Report: Referral to Main Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the order of the day be referred to the Main Committee for debate. Question agreed to.
- Health and Ageing Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health and Ageing, I am pleased to present the committee’s report entitled Weighing it up: obesity in Australia, together...
- Health and Ageing Committee; Report: Referral to Main Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the order of the day be referred to the Main Committee for debate. Question agreed to.
- Education and Training Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Education and Training, I present the committee’s report entitled Review of the Department of Education, Science and Training annual report 2006-07,...
- National Capital and External Territories Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories, I present the committee’s report entitled Inquiry into the Immigration Bridge proposal, together...
- Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity, I present the committee’s report entitled Examination of the annual report of the...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Economy (3 speeches)
A few weeks back some unemployment figures came out that were a little bit surprising—certainly not anywhere near as bad as many pundits had predicted. And what did we hear from those...
- Transport (1 speech)
I understand that the member for Moreton is a wonderful fiction writer and I have heard nothing tonight that would dissuade me from that view, because that was a wonderful work of fiction. I rise...
- University of Newcastle (1 speech)
As excited as I am by the contribution of the previous speaker, the member for Mitchell, I have much more important things to speak about. I rise today to inform members that the Central Coast...
- Economic Security Strategy (3 speeches)
I rise this evening to express my grave concern for the Australian people at the reckless way the Rudd government splashed around borrowed money as part of the latest stimulus package. The...
- Iran (1 speech)
In 11 days time there will be an election in Iran. The new President of the United States has quite intelligently, in a sophisticated way, hoped that the democratic process in that country will...
- Fadden Electorate: Government Spending (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, what a pleasure it is to remain in the House with you this evening! I rise to continue to give my very vocal support to the Gold Coast City Council’s application to the...
- 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 (10 speeches)
Debate resumed from 28 May, on motion by Mr Swan: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Sutherland Shire (1 speech)
It has come to my attention that on Adam Spencer’s morning radio program in Sydney doubt has been cast on whether the Sutherland Shire, which I am privileged to represent in this place, has...
- Fireworks (1 speech)
This weekend is the Queen’s Birthday weekend. In the ACT it is also a fireworks weekend. It is a good time to look at the impact that fireworks sold in the ACTU have not just here in...
- Youth Allowance Scheme (1 speech)
I would like to raise the issue of changes to the Youth Allowance Scheme. These changes will have a serious impact on the future education of our youth and will seriously undermine...
- Relay for Life (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate the team at the Cancer Council Queensland for staging another great Relay For Life event in Rockhampton on the weekend. Every year big crowds gather at the CQ University...
- North Coast Floods (1 speech)
I rise to commend the great work of the emergency services during the recent flood emergency on the New South Wales North Coast. At a time of massive rainfall and the need for major evacuations,...
- Blair electorate: Schools (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate St Edmunds College in Ipswich, a catholic boys school for secondary students. On 30 May this year, I opened an extension to the Westcourt Resource Centre, a $1.9 million...
- Uniting Church (1 speech)
I previously spoke of my high regard for the Girls’ Brigade companies located within the electorate of Cowan. Today I would like to speak on the 3rd Perth company located in Greenwood. On...
- Kleenmaid (1 speech)
In April, the Kleenmaid company went into voluntary administration and subsequently into liquidation with debts of over $100 million. This includes $27 million owed to customers who, in many...
- Pastor Jade Lewis (1 speech)
I rise this evening to talk about an amazing young woman who lives in Belmont in the electorate of Swan. On Friday morning I attended a prayer breakfast meeting held at the Belmont City Offices...
- Moreton electorate: Tarragindi War Memorial Kindy Fete (2 speeches)
Yesterday was the last day of autumn, and it was a wonderful day to represent the Prime Minister of Australia, the member for Griffith and my next-door neighbour, at the Tarragindi War Memorial...
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Sri Lanka (10 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Ms Parke: That the House:(1)expresses its concern about the grave humanitarian situation of the Tamil peoples of Sri Lanka, many of whom are presently detained in...
- Area Consultative Committees (11 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mrs Moylan: That the House:(1)notes:(a)that the Area Consultative Committees (ACCs) were first formed by the Hawke Labor Government as regional advisory bodies to...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 25 May.
- Youth Allowance (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak in this grievance debate about a pressing injustice: the grievous wrong that the Rudd Labor government wishes to inflict on rural, regional and remote students and those...
- Death Penalty (1 speech)
I rise to speak again on the death penalty for Australian citizens, an issue I have now been involved with for some time. I speak tonight while Indonesian lawyers for Scott Rush are preparing the...
- Youth Allowance (2 speeches)
I rise this evening to speak on a matter that is of particular concern and has caused extreme stress amongst certain communities in my electorate of Indi north-east Victoria—in fact, right...
- Queensland and New South Wales Floods (1 speech)
I wish to bring to the attention of the House an injustice which is being perpetrated by the Rudd government on the people of the Coffs Coast. It is an injustice that highlights the very best and...
- Tasmanian Scallop Fishery (2 speeches)
I represent regional Australia and I have a very good story about regional Australia to talk about, without exaggeration or hyperbole. Seafood lovers around the House will be rejoicing in the...
