House debates
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
- MR Speaker (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
On indulgence, Mr Speaker, I will ask you a question. It has come to my attention that it could well be your birthday today. If that be the case, may I offer you my personal best wishes and the...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Happy birthday, Mr Speaker. I hope you are going to admit your age, because I will not admit mine! On behalf of the Standing Committee on Petitions, and in accordance with standing order 207, I...
- Responses (1 speech)
Ministerial responses to petitions previously presented to the House have been received as follows:
- Responses; Asylum Seekers (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 8 May 2009 referring for my comment a petition presented to Parliament by Ms Anna Burke MP, the Member for Chisholm, regarding mandatory immigration...
- Responses; Australia 2020 Summit (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 29 October 2008 to the Prime Minister regarding the Australia 2020 Summit. The Prime Minister has asked me to reply on his behalf, and I apologise for...
- Responses; Sri Lanka (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 8 May 2009 on behalf of the Standing Committee on Petitions concerning a petition on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka. The...
- Responses; Redevelopment of Commonwealth Land (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Petition regarding ABC property sale Thank you for your letter dated 8 May 2009 and attached petition concerning the proposed sale of land owned by the Australian Broadcasting...
- Responses; Gaza Strip (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter dated 11 June 2009, regarding a petition recently submitted for consideration by the Standing Committee on Petitions about Gaza and the West Bank. This...
- Responses; Religious Persecution (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter dated 11 June 2009 about a petition submitted to the Standing Committee on Petitions regarding apostasy laws. The Australian Government shares the view...
- Responses; Coalmining (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 9 June 2009 regarding the petition of supporters of the Caroona Coal Action Group submitted to the Standing Committee on Petitions. As the Minister for...
- Responses; Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme: Avastin (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 11 June 2009 regarding a petition recently submitted to your Committee about the availability of AVASTIN® (bevacizumab) through the Pharmaceutical...
- Responses; Dental Treatment (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 11 June 2009 enclosing a petition in relation to the cost of dental treatment and asking the House to enable more of the cost of dental treatment to be...
- Responses; Murray-Darling River System (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter dated 9 June 2009 about a petition submitted to the Standing Committee on Petitions regarding a stock and domestic water supply scheme for the Cosgrove...
- Responses; Excise Regulations — Microbreweries (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 8 May 2009 concerning a petition to increase the microbrewery concession. I apologise for the delay in responding. I note the taxation of alcohol falls...
- Responses; Permanent Residency (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 11 June 2009 concerning the petition presented to the Standing Committee on Petitions regarding permanent residence for New Zealand citizens...
- Responses; Fiji (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter dated 24 June 2009 about a petition submitted regarding Fiji. The Government remains gravely concerned about developments in Fiji. The military regime...
- Responses; Therapeutic Goods Administration (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 11 June 2009 to the Minister for Health and Ageing, the Hon Nicola Roxon MP, regarding a petition in relation to the provision of Australian approved...
- Responses; Higher Education (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 9 June 2009, concerning a petition regarding university funding recently submitted for consideration to the Standing Committee on Petitions. Higher...
- Responses; Borneo Barracks (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 25 June 2009 to the Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon John Faulkner, concerning the petition on the future of Borneo Barracks recently submitted by...
- Responses; Indigenous Languages (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 9 June 2009 to the Hon Julia Gillard MP, Minister for Education, forwarding a petition recently submitted for consideration by the House of...
- Responses; Youth Allowance (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 25 June 2009, referring to a petition from people concerned about the proposed changes to student income support. On 12 May 2009 the Australian...
- Responses; Montevideo Maru (1 speech)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 2 July 2009 on behalf of several petitioners concerning the Montevideo Maru and the burial places of missing servicemen and civilians in Papua New...
- Statements (1 speech)
Today I rise to describe the current business of the Petitions Committee. Members are aware that this parliament has seen quite a bit of change on petitions. Petitions are an important component...
- Quarantine Proclamation Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (6 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Katter. Bill read a first time.
- Renewable Energy Amendment (Feed-in-Tariff for Electricity) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (4 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Oakeshott.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, I present the committee’s report, entitled Australia’s relationship with India as an emerging world...
- Migration Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Migration, I present the committee’s report, incorporating dissenting reports and a minority report, entitled Immigration detention in...
- Migration Committee; Report: Referral to Main Committee (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the order of the day be referred to the Main Committee for debate. Question agreed to.
- Treaties Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, I present the committee’s report entitled Report 103: treaties tabled 12 March and 13 May 2009. Ordered that the report be made a...
- Australian Crime Commission Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Crime Commission, I present the committee’s report, incorporating additional comments, on the inquiry into the legislative...
- Australin Crime Commission 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.
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Defence Procurement (2 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Baldwin: That the House:(1)notes that:(a)in February 2009, the Rudd Labor government awarded a $40 million dollar contract to an American company for the...
- Higher Education Support Amendment (2009 Budget Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 August, on motion by Ms Gillard: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Resources and Energy and Minister for Tourism will be absent from question time today. The Minister for Trade will answer questions on his behalf. The...
- Vietnam Veterans Day (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
On indulgence: I wish to make some remarks on this important day, Vietnam Veterans Day. Together with Senator Humphries, representing the Leader of the Opposition, I attended today a ceremony on...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (26 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to recent media reports concerning new taxes on the family home. Will the Treasurer confirm whether he, his office or his...
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the government’s response to the global recession and how this response has been received?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of a parliamentary delegation from Cambodia. On behalf of the House, I extend a very warm welcome to our visitors.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (12 speeches)
My question is again to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer confirm whether he, his office or his department have sought or received advice on the introduction of any new tax on the family home,...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline for the House the ongoing economic challenges Australia faces and what it will take to meet them?
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is again to the Treasurer. Given the Prime Minister was able to rule out an increase in the GST but yesterday declined on three occasions to rule out the introduction of a capital...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. What impact has the government’s stimulus packages had on the Australian economy and what assessments have been made of that impact?
- Taxation (8 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Now that the Treasurer has refused to rule out new taxes on the family home, I refer to the fact that state Labor governments in New South Wales introduced taxes...
- Building the Education Revolution Program (6 speeches)
My question is 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 the rollout of...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I ask the Treasurer: given that the government was able and willing to rule out an increase in the GST, will the Treasurer now rule out an increase in fuel excise?
- Rail Infrastructure (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. How has the government’s economic stimulus advanced the modernisation of...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to the statement by the member for Melbourne: We should have an inheritance tax or some tax of that nature. Deemed capital gains tax on...
- Public Housing (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing. What progress has been made—
- Taxation (19 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer to comments recently made by the Minister for Health and Ageing regarding tax increases to pay for the future of Australia’s health system, and I...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law and Minister for Human Services. What role has the government’s stimulus package played in...
- Ms Rebiya Kadeer (5 speeches)
My question is to the foreign minister. Will the minister confirm that China has withdrawn cooperation from the Prime Minister’s Asia-Pacific community proposal?
- Resources and Energy (17 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister outline recent developments in the resources sector and the ongoing debate about future economic policy in the national interest?
- Solar Energy (13 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. Is the minister aware that an insulation factory in my electorate, which is accredited under the...
- Small Business (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs and Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy. Will the minister advise the House of...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. Minister, will you confirm that up to $1 billion of borrowed stimulus funding is going overseas to buy cheap Chinese...
- Trade (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade. Will the minister inform the House about his recent ASEAN meetings in Bangkok and how the outcomes will assist Australian exporters in recovering from...
- Budget (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. I refer the minister to the parental income test that prevents a student from the average Australian farming family from receiving dependant youth...
- Emissions Trading (19 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science and the Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change. Why is it important that both the Carbon Pollution Reduction...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (19 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek to make three personal explanations.
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (2 speeches)
by leave—I have the great pleasure today to make a ministerial statement informing the House of a significant outcome of the Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting held in Cairns this month...
- Afghanistan and Pakistan (2 speeches)
by leave—I wish to update the House on Australia’s approach to Afghanistan and Pakistan. My colleague the Minister for Defence updated the Senate on 12 August on the security...
- Homelessness (2 speeches)
by leave—I would like to update the House on the Australian government’s progress on reducing homelessness. On the best available evidence, on census night 2006 more than 105,000...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Taxation (21 speeches)
Mr Speaker has received a letter from the honourable member for North Sydney proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The...
- Statute Stocktake (Regulatory and Other Laws) Bill 2009; Personal Property Securities Bill 2009; Resale Royalty Right for Visual Artists Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Referred to Main Committee (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the bills be referred to the Main Committee for further consideration. Question agreed to.
- Higher Education Support Amendment (2009 Budget Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 8.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Job Services Australia (1 speech)
When the coalition was in government, Labor’s debt was paid off and the economy was healthy with a $23 billion surplus. It has taken just two years under Labor to accumulate a massive debt...
- Ipswich Little Theatre (1 speech)
I want to congratulate the Ipswich Little Theatre Society Inc. on its 40th anniversary. I was pleased to be at the 40th anniversary celebrations last Saturday evening with Ipswich mayor Paul...
- Western Australia: Redress Scheme (1 speech)
I began my life as a ward of the state in Victoria. I spent three years in an institution as a child and then I was taken into foster care by the Irons family until I was 18. Even as a foster...
- Pollies for Small Business Program (1 speech)
A couple of weeks ago I joined with many state and federal colleagues and took part in an event organised by the Small Business Council of New South Wales, Pollies for Small Business. It is a...
- Cowan Electorate: Ballajura Community College (1 speech)
I am regularly inspired by the high standards, achievements and dedication of communities and staff of schools in the Cowan electorate. Today I would like to spend some time speaking about the...
- South Australian Living Artists Festival (2 speeches)
Art is a natural complement to our society. It reflects our values, our ideals—in short, it reflects us. Our cultural identities, as vast and as different as they are, all find a place in...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
The following notices were given:
