House debates
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
- Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009; Fair Work (State Referral and Consequential and Other Amendments) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (35 speeches)
Debate resumed from 19 March, on motion by Ms Gillard: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No. 2, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- 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 (4 speeches)
Debate resumed from 1 June, on motion by Ms Roxon: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Mr Dutton moved by way of amendment: That all words after “That” be omitted...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (83 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his dubious claim that all Commonwealth debt will be repaid in full by 2022. Will the Prime Minister explain to the House...
- Building the Education Revolution Program (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and the Minister for Social Inclusion. Will the minister update the House on how the Building the...
- Budget (5 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Treasurer, isn’t it the case that within four years the annual interest alone on Labor’s debt will be more than twice the total annual spending on...
- Economy (12 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline to the House why it is so important that the Reserve Bank and the government have been working together to cushion Australia from the...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sport and Minister for Youth.
- Economy (11 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to the statement by Glenn Stevens, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, on monetary policy today, where he states, ‘Credit...
- Mr Kevin Harkins (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to media reports that Kevin Harkins, the Tasmanian unionist who stood down as the Labor candidate in 2007 following community...
- Foreign Affairs: International Students (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Could the foreign minister tell us what the government is doing about the recent disgraceful attacks on Indian students in Australia?
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. I refer the minister to the $2 million grant allocated to the Cleve Area School through the so-called Building the Education Revolution. The school...
- Trade (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade. Can the minister inform the House of Australia’s recent trade performance and the results of today’s release of the balance of payments for...
- Building the Education Revolution Program (10 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer the Deputy Prime Minister to her answer to the question from the member for Grey. What advice has the minister received from her department...
- Alcopops (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister update the House on the government’s action on alcopops and any recent developments in supporting or opposing the measure?
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Economy (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek your indulgence.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 40 of 2008-09 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 40 of 2008-09 entitled Performance audit—Planning and allocating aged care places and capital grants: Department of Health and Ageing....
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (4 speeches)
by leave—I move: That for the sitting tomorrow, Wednesday, 3 June 2009:(1)standing order 31 (Automatic adjournment of the House) and standing order 33 (Limit on business) be suspended,...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Rural and Regional Australia: Education (18 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Lyne proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The need to close the...
- Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009; Fair Work (State Referral and Consequential and Other Amendments) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Consideration in Detail (20 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.
- Fair Work (State Referral and Consequential and Other Amendments) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 27 May, on motion by Ms Gillard: 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.
- 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 (20 speeches)
Debate resumed.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question put.
- Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 27 May, on motion by Ms Roxon: That this bill be now read a second time. Question put.
- 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 (Medicare Levy Surcharge — Fringe Benefits) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 27 May, on motion by Ms Roxon: That this bill be now read a second time. Question put.
- 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.
- Register of Members’ Interests (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, on indulgence: when I returned to Australia earlier today, the Prime Minister asked me to ensure my declarations to the Registrar of Members’ Interests were in order....
- Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009; Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority Bill 2009; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges-Customs) Bill 2009; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges-Excise) Bill 2009; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges-General) Bill 2009; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) Bill 2009; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009; Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009; Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Amendment (Household Assistance) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (8 speeches)
Debate resumed from 14 May, on motion by Mr Combet: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the House do now adjourn.
- Commonwealth Bank (1 speech)
Tonight I want to talk about the Commonwealth Bank. By way of background I should say that when the Commonwealth Bank closed the branch at Emerton and opened it at a new shopping centre,...
- Youth Allowance (1 speech)
Some years ago the Avon community, along with the regional agricultural college, conducted a survey of the number of rural students who went on to gain tertiary qualifications. That survey showed...
- Budget (1 speech)
Australia is facing its greatest economic challenge in our lifetimes. During this global recession, the Rudd government’s priority is to support jobs and small businesses today by investing...
- Internet Content (1 speech, 2 comments)
One of the matters that is often raised with me by parents in my electorate is their fear that while their children are using the internet they may stumble upon inappropriate material. With the...
- Kingston Electorate: South Adelaide Football Club (1 speech)
I rise to commend an initiative at the South Adelaide Football Club, otherwise known as the Panthers. The program is titled the ‘Southern Man Made’. The South Adelaide Football Club...
- Petitions: Montevideo Maru (1 speech)
There can be very little in life that is more troubling than not knowing what happened to your father, to your mother—or indeed to both. So this evening I rise to present, on behalf of...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Ryan Electorate: Climate Change (4 speeches)
The environment is very important to the people of Ryan, as it is to me as an individual and the father of 2½-year-old Ryan Andrew Johnson, who is the light of my life and will be turning...
- Mr Blake Farrugia (1 speech)
I am just imagining the member for Ryan on that scooter. It is a wonderful idea. I rise to acknowledge the courage and initiative of an exceptional young boy in my electorate of Gorton. Blake...
- Queensland: Fuel Subsidy (1 speech)
I rise today to express my dismay at the decision by the Queensland Labor government to cut the 8c a litre fuel subsidy. During this time of economic uncertainty and with the unemployment rate...
- Matilda Rose Carnegie (1 speech)
There are millions of words spoken in this House every day, but today I want to put on the record the words of a 10-year-old girl called Matilda Rose Carnegie. Matilda Rose attends St...
- Flinders Electorate: Health Services (1 speech)
Of the many different honours and responsibilities which come with this job, perhaps the most satisfying for me over the last few years has been to assist in some small way to ensure the doctors...
- Lindsay electorate: OZWAC (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the efforts of the dedicated group of local people who make up the Australian Women and Children’s Research Foundation or OZWAC. OZWAC was founded in 1998 by Professor...
- Rudd Government (1 speech)
As we stroll down the boulevard of broken promises we find ourselves at the house of reckless rising debt. I think it is time we reflected on the term of the chameleon Rudd government. The...
- Charlton Electorate: Health Services (1 speech)
I wish to update the House on an issue of relevance to my electorate of Charlton in New South Wales. I am pleased to announce that the Rudd Labor government’s commitment to contribute $2.5...
- Mayo Electorate: Lower Lakes (1 speech)
I rise to talk about a very important issue to part of my electorate, and that is the extreme conditions of the Lower Lakes. Point Sturt, which is on the eastern side of my electorate and the...
- Blaxland Electorate: Cabramatta (2 speeches)
The story of Australia is really a story of migration. The first Australians—Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders—arrived here more than 40,000 years ago. My first ancestor set foot...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2009-2010; Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2009-2010; Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2009-2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (17 speeches)
Debate resumed from 1 June, on motion by Mr Swan: That this bill be now read a second time.
