House debates
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs will be absent from question time today as he is addressing the RSL National Congress in Adelaide. The Minister for Defence...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Broadband (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the admission by his communication minister today that there had been no cost-benefit analysis done for the proposed National...
- Economy (7 speeches)
My question is also to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the recent commentary on the global financial crisis and the global response?
- Broadband (2 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister and refers to his government’s largest single infrastructure investment—the National Broadband Network. If, as the communications minister...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the economic challenges we still face as a nation one year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers?
- Broadband (4 speeches)
I refer the Prime Minister to his answer to my previous question and to his going on television earlier this year to urge Australians to invest in the National Broadband Network, which he said...
- Telecommunications (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. Will the...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Does the Treasurer stand by his budget forecast of six years of above trend growth from 2011?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Hon. Fred Chaney, a former minister and a former member of the other place—when he then realised the fault of that...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Women in the Workplace (28 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Status of Women. Will the minister inform the House about the government’s contribution to improving the position of women in the workplace? Has the...
- Economy (13 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Is the Treasurer now guaranteeing that in the midyear economic update the government will release six years of growth forecast from 2011?
- Workplace Relations (2 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 inform the House why a fair...
- Building the Education Revolution (58 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. I refer the minister to the Jerilderie...
- Budget (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. How will the government’s reforms to pensions and family assistance benefit Australian women?
- 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 the Republic of Serbia, led by the Speaker of the National Assembly, Professor Dr...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Women in the Workplace (20 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, the Minister for Education and the Minister for Social Inclusion. I refer to the minister’s...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
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Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 4 of 2009-10 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 4 of 2009-10 entitled The management and processing of annual leave: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Taxation Office, and...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Documents are presented in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings. I move: That the...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Zimbabwe (2 speeches)
by leave—Mr Speaker, I wish to update the House on the situation in Zimbabwe. Today is the anniversary of the signing on 15 September 2008 of the agreement which created the Inclusive...
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
by leave—This weekend, the most significant reforms to the pension system in 100 years will start being rolled out. From Sunday, around 3.3 million age pensioners, disability support...
- The Future of ABC Learning (2 speeches)
by leave—With the announcement of the sale process for the remaining ABC Learning childcare centres late last month it is a fitting time to update the parliament on ABC, as the future of...
- Brighton Grammar School (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker—on indulgence—this afternoon in the gallery we have Brighton Grammar School. I welcome them to the parliament. I thank David Francis for contacting me and indicating...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Remote Indigenous Housing (10 speeches)
The Speaker has received a letter from the honourable member for Cook proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The importance of...
- Native Title Amendment Bill 2009; Acis Administration Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Messages received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Automotive Transformation Scheme Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (14 speeches)
Bill returned from the Senate with an amendment. Ordered that the amendment be considered immediately. Senate’s amendment— (1) Clause 27A, page 18 (lines 9 to 18),...
- Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Albanese. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The government has embarked upon an ambitious program to fundamentally transform Australia’s telecommunications industry in the interest of...
- Leave of Absence (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That leave of absence for the remainder of the current period of sittings be given to the honourable members for Canberra and Hinkler on the ground of parliamentary business overseas....
- Corporations Legislation Amendment (Financial Services Modernisation) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (1 speech)
Bill returned from Main Committee with amendments; certified copy of the bill and schedule of amendments presented. Ordered that this bill be considered immediately. Main Committee’s...
- 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.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Electoral Matters Committee; Membership (1 speech)
Mr Speaker has received a message from the Senate informing the House that Senator Hutchins has been discharged from the Joint Committee on Electoral Matters and that Senator Feeney has been...
- Freedom of Information (Removal of Conclusive Certificates and Other Measures) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
Debate resumed from 14 September, on motion by Mr Byrne: 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.
- Asian Development Bank (Additional Subscription) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 August, on motion by Mr Swan: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 8.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Nuclear Power (1 speech)
Energy security is unquestionably one of the greatest political and economic policy challenges of our times. As the world’s population increases and global prosperity expands, the demand...
- Budget (1 speech)
Tonight I want to congratulate the Rudd government, especially the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, for the pension reforms that will take effect from...
- Water Safety (1 speech)
As a community Keep Watch ambassador for the Royal Life Saving Society Australia, I want to take this opportunity to speak of the need for better water safety for not only children but also all...
- Fremantle Electorate: Sustainability (1 speech)
I am pleased to have this opportunity to speak about the considerable headway that is being made towards urban sustainability in my electorate of Fremantle. I can say that, from the many...
- Tillegra Dam Proposal (1 speech)
I rise to address the issue of the proposed Tillegra Dam in my electorate of Paterson. Whilst I understand that this is a state issue, it is an issue of much contention amongst my constituents...
- Sri Lanka (1 speech)
On 9 September, I attended with several other MPs and senators a meeting with a delegation of the Ceylon Tamil Association of South Australia, who briefed MPs and senators on the current...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (7 speeches)
The following notices were given:
