House debates
Monday, 17 August 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 12 August 2009, I present copies of the terms of motions for which notice has been given by...
- Customs Tariff Amendment (2009 Measures No. 1) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Excise Tariff Amendment (2009 Measures No. 1) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2009 Measures No. 1) Bill 2009; Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Enhancing Supervision and Enforcement) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Freedom of Information (Removal of Conclusive Certificates and Other Measures) Bill 2008 [2009] (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill received from the Senate, and read a first time. Ordered that the second reading be made an order of the day for the next sitting.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Standing Orders (0 speeches)
- (9 speeches)
I move: That unless otherwise ordered, standing orders 192 and 193 be amended to read as follows: 192 Main Committee’s order of business The normal order of business for the Main Committee...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (3 speeches)
by leave—I move: That the time and order of business for the sitting tomorrow, 18 August 2009, be as follows:(1)the House, at its rising, adjourn until tomorrow at 12 noon; and(2)government...
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No. 1, government business, be postponed to a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment Bill 2009; Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Charge) Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (31 speeches)
Debate resumed from 17 June, on motion by Mr Combet: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Treasurer will be absent from question time today and the Minister for Finance and Deregulation will answer questions on his behalf
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to weekend media reports concerning a new tax on the family home. Can the Prime Minister confirm whether the government...
- Resources and Energy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister advise the House of any recent developments in Australia’s resources sector?
- 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 Vietnam, led by the honourable Nguyen Van Thuong, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his earlier answer regarding the Henry review into taxation. Will the Prime Minister rule out the introduction of any new tax...
- Resources and Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Energy and Minister for Tourism. Will the minister advise the House about the significance of the government’s decision today to share any...
- Taxation (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. I refer the minister to his previous statement on taxing the family home. He said: We should focus on the real issues of tax reform....
- Renewable Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science and the Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change. Minister, what is the government doing to support the uptake...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon Judge Thomas Buergenthal from the International Court of Justice. On behalf of the House I extend to him a very warm welcome.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Fuel Prices (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to media reports that the Henry tax review intends to recommend an increase in fuel excise of at least 10c per litre. Will the...
- Renewable Energy (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the importance of renewable energy in meeting the challenge of climate change?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon Cho Yoon-sun, the spokesperson of the Grand National Party of the Republic of Korea. On behalf of the House, I extend to her...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Health (25 speeches)
I only have eyes for you, Mr Speaker.
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Minister of State (Democratic Reform) from the parliament of Canada, the Hon. Steven Fletcher. On behalf of the House I extend...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Emissions Trading Scheme (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. How will the government support pensioners and low-income families as we move towards a low-carbon...
- Climate Change (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. Will the minister inform the House of the importance of taking responsible action to tackle dangerous climate change?
- Economy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his statement prior to the last election: … working families have been under financial pressure, whether it’s...
- Indigenous Housing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. It is our information that the Queensland government still has not set up machinery for enabling...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Human Services and Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law. Will the minister outline to the House the evidence on the success of the...
- Higher Education (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. I refer the minister to the thousands of Australian students currently undertaking a gap year in a bid to achieve the independent rate of youth...
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. Will the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on new...
- Child Care (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare and Youth. I refer the minister to her remarks in the press that families will have to share in the burden of increased...
- Health (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister please update the House on implementation of the government’s GP superclinics program?
- Papua New Guinea: Aircraft Accident (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, on indulgence, I would like to update the House on events related to the air crash in Papua New Guinea. Yesterday, Sunday, 16 August, the last of the remains and personal effects were...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Business (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That:(1)for this sitting standing order 31 (automatic adjournment of the House) and standing order 33 (limit on business after 10 p.m.) be suspended;(2)for this sitting so...
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I advise the House that the Deputy Speaker has fixed Monday, 17 August, at 6.40 pm, as the time for the next meeting of the Main Committee, unless an alternative day or hour is fixed.
- Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment Bill 2009; Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Charge) Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (37 speeches, 1 comment)
Debate resumed.
- Consideration in Detail (12 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.
- Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Charge) Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 17 June, on motion by Mr Combet: 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.
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Fadden Electorate: St Francis Xavier School (1 speech)
I rise tonight to acknowledge the student leaders in a school very dear to my heart, St Francis Xavier School in Runaway Bay. Australia’s young leaders play an important role in setting a...
- Mr Arnold Cielens (1 speech)
On 7 August, I attended a service celebrating the life of Mr Arnold Cielens, who passed away on 7 July, 2009. Arnold was a man who devoted his life to improving the lives of people with...
- Broadband (1 speech)
I rise today to voice my concern at the failure of the Rudd Labor government to assure people living in broadband and mobile black spots about the quality of services they will receive under the...
- Lindsay Electorate: Encore Historical Sewing Group (1 speech)
I congratulate the dedicated members of the Encore Historical Sewing Group for completing a replica of the famous gown worn in 1822 by Anne Marsden, the daughter of colonial settler the Reverend...
- Swan Electorate: Arbour Day (1 speech)
There are few better ways of spending a Sunday morning in my electorate of Swan than by taking a stroll on the foreshore through the lush Canning wetlands to admire the magnificent natural beauty...
- Baha'i Faith in Iran (1 speech)
Tomorrow, 18 August, is reportedly set as the trial date for seven people of the Baha’i faith who are currently imprisoned in Iran. They have been imprisoned for more than a year with no...
- Maranoa Electorate: Royal Flying Doctor Service (1 speech)
I rise today to express my very deep concern about the Queensland, New South Wales and Victorian Labor governments and their recently exposed plans to give aeromedical contracts to private...
- Mr Harry Moore OAM; Mr Desmond Hughes (1 speech)
On Friday, I received two phone calls, one notifying me of the death of Harry Moore OAM, former state member for Wyong and former Wyong shire councillor. Harry was a legend on the Central Coast,...
- Cowan Electorate: West Australian Assistance Dogs Inc. (1 speech)
Recently at Kingsway shopping centre, not far from my office, I attended a demonstration by the West Australian Assistance Dogs, an incorporated body. In that demonstration they showed us how...
- Franklin Electorate: Community Infrastructure (2 speeches)
I want to talk about two significant sporting infrastructure projects which have been funded through the Rudd government’s community infrastructure program in my electorate. There is a $6...
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Franchising (18 speeches)
I move: That the House:(1)notes that in December 2008 the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services tabled its report entitled Opportunity not opportunism: improving...
- Polio Survivors (5 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Ms King: That the House recognises that:(1)polio survivors continue to be the single largest disability group in Australia today, numbering in the tens of...
- Religious Freedom and Democracy in Vietnam (5 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Simpkins: That the House:(1)notes that the Venerable Thich Quang Do, leader of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam has been noted as one of the 15 Great...
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (6 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Kelvin Thomson: That the House:(1)deplores the Myanmar military regime for pressing new and spurious charges against Dr Aung San Suu Kyi and for her ongoing...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 22 June.
- Electorate of Herbert (1 speech)
I reckon I have a fair dinkum grievance, and it is on behalf of my community in Townsville that I express to the House this particular grievance. From time to time the Australian Electoral...
- Global Population (1 speech)
We all know that the world has plenty of problems. Let me run out some that come to mind without much effort: global warming, the food crisis, water shortages, housing affordability, overcrowded...
- Electorate of Pearce: Roads (1 speech)
I rise tonight to contribute to the grievance debate on behalf of constituents in Pearce. As the ancient saying goes, ‘All roads lead to Rome’, but I think it is fair to say that, had...
- Economy (2 speeches)
It is clear to everyone in this House, to every Australian family and to every Australian business that we face extraordinary economic circumstances. Globally, we are experiencing the worst...
