House debates
Thursday, 17 September 2009
- Health Insurance Amendment (Compliance) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Bowen. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill will amend the Health Insurance Act 1973 to give effect to the increased Medicare compliance audits initiative which was announced in...
- Social Security Amendment (National Green Jobs Corps Supplement) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Clare. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The National Green Jobs Corps will commence on 1 January 2010, giving up to 10,000 young people the opportunity to develop green skills through...
- Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Ms Roxon. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2009 will amend the Private Health Insurance Act 2007. The bill provides for...
- Health Insurance Amendment (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (10 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 16 September. Senate’s amendments— (1) Schedule 1, item 3, page 4 (line 23), before “The”, insert “(1)”....
- Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Test Review and Other Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (47 speeches, 1 comment)
Debate resumed from 16 September, on motion by Mr Laurie Ferguson: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Dr Stone moved by way of amendment: That all words after “That”...
- Consideration in Detail (4 speeches, 1 comment)
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.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Private Members’ Business; Report (1 speech)
I present the revised report of the whips relating to the consideration of committee and delegation reports and private members’ business on Monday, 19 October 2009. Copies of the report...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Approval of Work (6 speeches)
At the request of the Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Support, I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, and by reason of the urgent nature of...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Attorney-General will be absent from question time today, as he is addressing the National Association of Community Legal Centres Conference in Perth. The Minister for...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. In explaining Australia’s strong performance relative to other economies, the OECD’s employment report does not mention the high Asian demand for our...
- Employment (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the OECD’s report on unemployment around the world? How does the OECD’s characterisation of the...
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Given that the Treasurer has lauded the OECD report today, I refer the Treasurer to the August IMF staff report on the Australian economy, which projects only one...
- Employment (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 update the House on recent...
- Economy (13 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Education and Minister for Social Inclusion. Is the minister aware that in the first...
- Building the Education Revolution (12 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Education, the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and the Minister for Social Inclusion. Minister, there is a standing...
- Liquefied Natural Gas Exports (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Energy and Minister for Tourism. How will the final investment decision for the Gorgon project secure jobs, and contracting and business...
- Quarantine (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Are there any threats to Australia’s biosecurity and quarantine budget which will disadvantage agricultural exporters...
- Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Does the minister stand by her statement in August that 85 new houses would be built in Alice...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts—
- Emissions Trading Scheme (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science and Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change. Why is it important for the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme to...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of the Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee of the National People’s Congress of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (24 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs, who today is representing the Attorney-General. The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship has said that he is now considering the Northern...
- Budget: Pensions (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. I ask: what will next week bring for Australia’s pensioners?
- Climate Change (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Water. Minister, with the CPRS packages marks 1 and 2 the government took a policy position against an amendment...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and the Minister for Social Inclusion. What impact do individual statutory agreements have in the...
- La Trobe Electorate: Fire Refuges for Schools (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the concern expressed by school principals in my electorate about the quality of their bushfire refuges and their belief that...
- Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program (29 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. How is the government’s Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program...
- Northern Territory Emergency Response (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Can the minister explain to the House why the public servant she appointed to replace Major...
- Economy (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Human Services and Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law. How is Australia’s economic management being received in the global...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Robert Wilson; Kevin Marshall (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, on indulgence: I wish to express condolences on the loss of lives of Robert Wilson and Kevin Marshall, who were both killed in a head-on car collision on Tuesday, 15 September. Kevin...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Question Time (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, in light of your rulings today on the use of photographs in the House, and more particularly those that seek to embarrass members, would you please adjudicate on the photograph in...
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, under standing order 105(b), where replies have not been received 60 days after a question has first appeared on the Notice Paper, could I ask you to write to the Minister for...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 5 of 2009-10 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 5 of 2009-10 entitled Protection of residential aged care accommodation bonds—Department of Health and Ageing. Ordered that the report...
- 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 and I move: That the House take note of...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Statute Stocktake (Regulatory and Other Laws) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment; certified copy of the bill presented. Ordered that this bill be considered immediately. Bill agreed to.
- 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.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (3 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 importance of engaging...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Approval of Work (7 speeches)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, it is expedient to carry out the following proposed work which was referred to the Parliamentary Standing...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Energy Efficient Homes (6 speeches)
Madam Deputy Speaker, I seek the indulgence of the chair to add to an answer.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Reference (4 speeches)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for...
- Foreign States Immunities Amendment Bill 2009; National Health Security Amendment Bill 2009; Customs Amendment (Asean-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2009; Customs Tariff Amendment (Asean-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the House do now adjourn.
- Climate Change (1 speech)
In the few minutes that are available to me, I will pick up from where the member for Lyne started the discussion on the matter of public importance today, and that is around the engagement of...
- Mr David Nancarrow: Proud Dad Bags (1 speech)
Madam Deputy Speaker, like your husband and many of my male colleagues in the House, I am a proud dad, and tomorrow I will be joining the launch of ‘I’m a Proud Dad’ bags, which...
- Swan Electorate: Homebirthing survey (1 speech, 1 comment)
I too am a proud dad. But this evening I am going to talk about women, so I will leave the dad things out because the member for Braddon did a great job of that. This evening I rise to talk about...
- Music and Language Education (1 speech)
Much of the discussion on the new national curriculum has focused on literacy and numeracy. Less focus has been given to the other important areas of the curriculum. I am pleased to note that...
- Perth Bunbury Highway (1 speech)
This Sunday, 20 September, will mark a momentous day in Western Australia. The Premier will open the landmark new Perth Bunbury Highway, which will be an extension of the Kwinana Freeway and the...
- Request for Detailed Information (0 speeches)
- Internet Content Filtering (1 speech)
to ask the Speaker:(1)How many (a) Members, (b) Senators, (c) ministerial staff, and (d) Members’ and Senators’ staff, are eligible to opt for voluntary internet content...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Cowan Electorate: Graffiti (1 speech)
Recently the Barnett government announced strong legislative changes to combat graffiti in Western Australia. The people of Western Australia have had enough of graffiti vandals damaging public...
- Bennelong Electorate: Marsden High School (1 speech)
Last Saturday evening I discovered what Foxtel’s Kim Williams, RMIT Vice-Chancellor Margaret Gardner and Victorian opera supremo Richard Gill all have in common. It turns out this talented...
- Greenway Electorate: Hawkesbury-Nepean River (1 speech)
Recently, I was contacted by a constituent who drew my attention to weed problems in a specific section of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. I immediately contacted local authorities and asked them to...
- Melbourne Ports Electorate: The Mighty Saints (2 speeches)
Perhaps my earliest memory is going with my late father and my brother Simon to a St Kilda-Footscray match at the Junction Oval, where St Kilda is no longer based. Ironically, the area is...
- Barker Electorate: Water (1 speech)
I agree with you, Madam Deputy Speaker, because, of course, last Saturday the Crows were sadly robbed! An ongoing issue in my electorate is water—in particular, the lack of it. One area...
- Vinnies Social Justice Awards; Mr Dominic Lagana (1 speech)
On 1 September 2009, I attended the inaugural St Vincent de Paul Vinnies Social Justice Awards presentation, where around 200 schoolchildren from public, independent and Catholic schools from...
- Micah Challenge; Make Poverty History Campaign (1 speech)
This week, like lots of other members of the parliament, I suspect, I have been visited by representatives of the Micah Challenge, which is a coalition of Christian organisations. They came to...
- Dobell Electorate: Central Coast (1 speech, 2 comments)
I rise to talk about what I spoke about here last week—that is, the Central Coast being recognised as a region in its own right. It is a topic that needs more than one three-minute...
- Grey Electorate: Digital Television (1 speech)
I bring to the House’s attention many of the inconsistencies and poor service levels surrounding free-to-air television throughout the electorate of Grey and the accompanying concerns and...
- James Hardie (2 speeches)
I rise to discuss a matter recently published in a book called Killer Company by Matt Peacock, a book about James Hardie and about James Hardie’s actions in seeking to deal with asbestos...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Statute Stocktake (Regulatory and Other Laws) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 24 June, on motion by Mr Tanner: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Main Committee do now adjourn.
- Petition: Youth Allowance (1 speech)
I present a petition containing some 1,495 signatures, which are additional to previous numbers that I have presented on this matter. It relates to the Youth Allowance. The petition read as...
- Mr Brody Hourigan; Ms Maria Bertone (1 speech)
Having to live with cancer is an experience which affects every aspect of the lives of those who have been diagnosed with this illness. There are also the emotional effects that resonate...
- Farrer Electorate: Robinson College (1 speech)
I raise an issue of great concern to the constituents whom I represent in the town of Broken Hill in far west New South Wales: the future of Robinson College. It is a community college which...
- Micah Challenge (1 speech)
Today I will use this adjournment debate to talk about a visit I had from Micah Challenge earlier this week. But, before turning to the very important issue that was raised by them, I would like...
- Mount Barker: Freeway Interchange (1 speech)
I rise in this adjournment debate at the end of another sitting period to speak about probably the most important issue facing my home community of Mount Barker in the electorate of Mayo, and...
- Blair Electorate: Health Services; University of Queensland Boilerhouse Community Engagement Centre (1 speech)
I want to speak this afternoon about a health boost for the Ipswich community. In July this year, the federal Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon, and I announced the funding contract...
- Advertising (1 speech)
I rise to speak about a number of matters related to advertising, bumper stickers and T-shirts that I and a great many people in the community consider not only tasteless but also offensive. I...
- Move Movement (1 speech)
This morning on the grass in front of Parliament House I attended the launch of the Move movement, a rather innovative approach to raising money for medical research, hosted by the Westmead...
- Swan Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about the state of the roads in my electorate of Swan and how this government must do more to deliver on its promises. In my local area there are a number of significant...
- Parallel Import Restrictions on Books (1 speech)
Imagine an Australia without books by Patrick White, Tim Winton or Kate Grenville. Imagine an Australia where the only place you can buy books is in supermarkets or discount stores. Imagine an...
- Bushfires (1 speech)
The Victorian bushfires royal commission has released its interim report, which includes recommendations for the 2009-10 fire season. With summer approaching it is timely to remind ourselves of...
- Makin Electorate: Australian Rules Football; Mrs Fay Thamm; Mr Tony Tomko (7 speeches)
Earlier today my colleague and friend the member for Melbourne Ports spoke about his beloved St Kilda. That certainly reminded me of the importance of Aussie Rules football to our great nation....
- Mr Bob Irwin; Fadden Electorate: Koalas (1 speech)
Early this week I had the great pleasure of bringing Bob Irwin, the father of the late Steve Irwin, to parliament to get him across the key leaders in the coalition side. I thank the shadow...
- The Goldstone Commission (1 speech)
The Goldstone Commission, which has just reported in Geneva, probably will not be discussed much by this parliament, reflecting its lack of credibility and the fact that the Australian...
