House debates
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
- Business (0 speeches)
- Orders of the Day (1 speech)
I move: That Main Committee order of the day No. 1, private members’ business, relating to the resumption of debate on Australian Defence Industry Manufacturers, be returned to the House...
- 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, 17 August 2009. Copies of the report have been...
- Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2009 Measures No. 2) Bill 2009; Access to Justice (Civil Litigation Reforms) Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Referred to Main Committee (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the bills be referred to the Main Committee for further consideration. I indicate to all honourable members that this motion enjoys the support of the Chief Opposition...
- Veterans’ Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Pension Reform) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Griffin. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill gives effect to the key elements of the government’s secure and sustainable pension reform package in relation to veterans and...
- National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 11 August, on motion by Mr Combet: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Consideration in Detail (3 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.
- Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
Debate resumed from 28 August, on motion by Mr Griffin: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Airlines PNG (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Mr Deputy Speaker, on indulgence: I would like to update the House on Airlines PNG flight CG4684. I thank the member for Blair for his assistance. I regret to advise the House that the missing...
- Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- 60TH Anniversary of the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949 (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
I move: That the House:(1)notes the sixtieth anniversary of the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949;(2)congratulates the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement for continuously fostering...
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Exports (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
On indulgence, I wish to add a small matter to an answer that I gave on 4 June 2009.
- Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (17 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.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No 3, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day Question agreed to.
- Safe Work Australia Bill 2008 [No. 2] (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (6 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 May, on motion by Ms Gillard: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Airlines PNG (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the very distressing news about the aeroplane crash in New Guinea and the fate of the passengers on board, including Australian...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (2 speeches)
I refer the Prime Minister to his previous comment: The bulk of government legislation is negotiated through the Senate. That is the way in which it works. I ask the Prime Minister why his...
- Airlines PNG (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister update the House on the work of Australian High Commission staff in the search and rescue efforts in Papua New Guinea and on...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of the seventh delegation from New Zealand, who are visiting under the auspices of the Australian Political Exchange...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Emissions Trading Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the comments of Matthew Warren, the Chief Executive Officer of the Clean Energy Council, who stated: Any further delay in...
- Airlines PNG (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Would the minister update the House on the response of the Australian transport safety...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to recent remarks from the United Nations’ top climate change official where he said there was no need for Australia to...
- Airlines PNG (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science and Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change. Can the minister provide an update on the Australian Defence...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon four Mirra traditional owners from Kakadu, who are in Parliament House today concluding important business on behalf of their...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Emissions Trading Scheme (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources, Energy and Tourism. I refer the minister to the Frontier Economics report released yesterday. Frontier’s analysis shows that, under the...
- Burma (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. What is the government’s response to the conviction and sentencing of Burmese democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi?
- Emissions Trading Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the legislation before the congress in the United States which excludes United States farmers from an emissions trading scheme...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on consumer confidence data released this morning?
- Electorate of Lyne: Health Services (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, will you agree to join me and personally visit the Port Macquarie Base Hospital for the following four outcomes: (1) to gain a major regional...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. How have the direct payments to Australian pensioners and families helped cushion...
- Medicare: IVF (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. On 15 June this year in response to the government’s capping of the Medicare safety net for IVF procedures the minister stated:...
- Schools (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. Will she update the House on the government’s national reform agenda for school education?
- Building the Education Revolution Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. I refer the minister to the Auditor-General’s announcement, following his preliminary investigation, that he is now conducting a full...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science and Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change. How is the government providing certainty to business so they...
- Building the Education Revolution Program (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. I refer the minister to reports that small business firms are unable to navigate the bewildering set of standards and policies imposed as...
- International Youth Day (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare and Youth and Minister for Sport. Would the minister explain to the House the significance of International Youth Day and...
- Higher Education (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker, with your indulgence for a moment before I ask my question to the Deputy Prime Minister, I recognise that this is a terrible day for Moe, Hazelwood North and Morwell and for the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon Robert Tickner, a former member of this place and a former minister, but, more importantly for today’s events, the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Electronic Identity Verification (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. How is the government improving electronic verification to assist in the prevention of money laundering and the financing of terrorism?
- 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.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Standing Orders (2 speeches)
I have a question for you, Mr Speaker. Yesterday when the lights went out in this building there was rather a lot of rancour and I noticed that your microphone was not working when other...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
by leave—This week the Senate will vote on the most important piece of environmental and economic legislation that has ever been introduced into this parliament—the Carbon Pollution...
- National Security Legislation Reforms (2 speeches)
by leave—There is no greater responsibility of any government than to protect the safety and security of its citizens. As the events of recent weeks demonstrate, terrorism continues to pose...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Education (24 speeches)
The Speaker has received a letter from the honourable member for Sturt proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The failure of the...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (9 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Safe Work Australia Bill 2008 [No. 2] (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 May, on motion by Ms Gillard: 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 (2009 Budget Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (9 speeches)
Debate resumed from 28 May, on motion by Ms Gillard: 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.
- Gilmore Electorate: Linear Accelerator (1 speech)
Earlier this year the government announced that it would be funding the establishment of a number of opportunities for linear accelerators. The 2009-10 budget has allocated $560 million for a...
- Yallambee Village (1 speech)
Last Wednesday, 5 August 2009, I was privileged to be invited to open the most recent stage of the Yallambee Village aged care facility in Revesby. The original Yallambee Village was built in...
- Telstra Charges (1 speech)
Telstra’s recent announcement that it will slug customers $2.20 for paying their bills in person, or in cash, is a shameless exercise in profiteering that will discriminate against people...
- Wakefield Electorate: Sporting Club Leases (1 speech)
On Saturday, I was at the local football game, Gawler Central versus Willaston. It was a great game. I was there with the state member for Light, Mr Tony Piccolo, and Premier Mike Rann. The...
- Mr Peter Gray (1 speech)
I rise to express grave concern at the government’s gross neglect of one of my constituents, an Australian national who has effectively been detained without trial in Mauritius for the last...
- Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program (1 speech)
I rise to inform the House of the recent Parliamentary Defence Force Program that I went on in the Kimberleys, having chosen to go with NORFORCE. I did a little bit of research on NORFORCE prior...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Calare Electorate: Water; Parkes Shire Council (1 speech)
I continue to be staggered—actually amazed—by state Labor sending water bills to 600-odd farmers in my electorate for water they are not getting. The Lachlan River users are on zero...
- Blair Electorate: Amberley Community Engagement Forum (1 speech)
I was privileged to attend the official signing of the Amberley Community Engagement Forum terms of reference. Present were: Air Marshal Mark Binskin AM, the Chief of Air Force; Air Commodore...
- Mitchell Electorate: St Gabriel's School for Hearing Impaired Children (1 speech)
I hope the Ipswich Jets do better than the Newtown Jets did in the Sydney competition! I rise this morning to speak about the remarkable efforts of one of my constituents, Mr Brian King, and his...
- Meals on Wheels (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about an organisation that I am sure all parliamentarians on all sides of politics support: Meals on Wheels. It was about this time last year that a relationship was formed...
- McMillan Electorate: Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse (1 speech)
I commend the member for Hindmarsh on his excellent remarks on Meals on Wheels. I have spoken about the splendour and beauty of my electorate of McMillan on many occasions. The purpose of my...
- Northern Australia (1 speech)
I would like to speak of the importance of the government’s investment in the East Kimberley, in particular in the areas around Kununurra. The importance of Northern Australia to the...
- Murray-Darling River System (1 speech)
I rise again in this place to speak about issues in relation to the Lower Lakes in my electorate of Mayo, and in particular the issue of water for the communities of Point Sturt and Hindmarsh...
- Deakin Electorate: Springvale Underpass (1 speech)
Since I last spoke in the House on this issue on 14 May this year there have been many changes around the site of the new railway underpass on Springvale Road in Nunawading. It is a $140 million...
- Cowan Electorate: Greenwood Senior High School Police Ranger Unit (1 speech)
I recently visited the Police Ranger Unit at Greenwood Senior High School. This was to observe at first hand the training being undertaken and to thank those that have volunteered in the running...
- Kingswood Electorate: Soccer Clubs (2 speeches)
I rise today to talk about a sport that is growing in my electorate—that is, the sport of soccer—or, as some people in the soccer clubs would like it to be known, football. There are...
- Jakarta Bombings (0 speeches)
- Mr Garth McEvoy; Mr Craig Senger; Mr Nathan Verity (2 speeches)
Debate resumed from 11 August, on motion by Mr Rudd: That the House expresses its deep regret at the deaths on 17 July 2009 of Mr Nathan Verity of Western Australia, Mr Garth McEvoy of Victoria...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Private Benjamin Ranaudo (8 speeches)
Debate resumed from 11 August, on motion by Mr Rudd: That the House record its deep regret at the death on 18 July 2009 of Private Benjamin Ranaudo while serving with the second Mentoring and...
- Private Edward (Ted) Kenna VC (0 speeches)
- (8 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 11 August.
- Committees (0 speeches)
