House debates
Monday, 19 October 2009
- International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2009; Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Legislation Amendment Bill 2009; Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Safety Levies) Amendment Bill 2009; Road Transport Reform (Dangerous Goods) Repeal Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Native Title Amendment Bill 2009; Foreign States Immunities Amendment Bill 2009; Higher Education Support Amendment (2009 Budget Measures) Bill 2009; National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment Bill 2009; Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Measures No. 4) Bill 2009; Safe Work Australia Bill 2008; Migration Amendment (Abolishing Detention Debt) Bill 2009; Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Test Review and Other Measures) Bill 2009; Military Justice (Interim Measures) Bill (No. 1) 2009; Military Justice (Interim Measures) Bill (No. 2) 2009; Automotive Transformation Scheme Bill 2009; Acis Administration Amendment Bill 2009; Uranium Royalty (Northern Territory) Bill 2009; Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2009 Measures No. 2) 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; Freedom of Information (Removal of Conclusive Certificates and Other Measures) Bill 2008 [2009]; National Health Security Amendment Bill 2009; Health Insurance Amendment (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Bill 2009; Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Legislation Amendment Bill 2009; Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Safety Levies) Amendment Bill 2009; Road Transport Reform (Dangerous Goods) Repeal Bill 2009; International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2009 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Messages from the Governor-General reported informing the House of assent to the bills.
- Fuel Quality Standards Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (0 speeches)
Bill returned from the Senate with a requested amendment. Ordered that the amendment be considered at a later hour this day.
- Federal Court of Australia Amendment (Criminal Jurisdiction) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (0 speeches)
Bill returned from the Senate with requested amendments. Ordered that the requested amendments be considered at a later hour this day.
- 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 17 September 2009, I present copies of the terms of motions for which notice has been given by...
- Australian National Preventive Health Agency Bill 2009; Tax Agent Services (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) 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. Question agreed to.
- Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Re-Registration of Providers and Other Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (13 speeches)
Debate resumed from 19 August, on motion by Dr Southcott: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Mr John (Jack) Gordon Evans (1 speech)
I inform the House of the death on 2 October 2009 of John Gordon (Jack) Evans, a former senator, who represented the state of Western Australia from 1983 to 1985. As a mark of respect to the...
- Members for Bradfield and Higgins: Resignation (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! I inform the House that on Monday, 19 October 2009 I received letters from the honourable Dr Brendan Nelson resigning his seat as the member for the electoral division of Bradfield and the...
- Asia Pacific Natural Disasters (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, on indulgence: since we last sat in this chamber, natural disasters have wrought devastation across our region. The first of these disasters, Typhoon Ketsana, struck the Philippines...
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Asia-Pacific Natural Disasters; Reference (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That further statements on indulgence on the statement made by the Prime Minister be referred to the Main Committee. Question agreed to.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Emissions Trading Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and relates to the government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, and in asking the question I welcome the government’s undertaking that it will...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of a delegation from Syria. On behalf of the House, I extend to them a very warm welcome.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on developments in response to the global recession?
- Asylum Seekers (7 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General, representing the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. Will the Attorney-General guarantee that the 79 asylum seekers transferred to HMAS Viking, off...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline for the House how fiscal and monetary policy will continue to work together during the recovery to help ensure sustainable growth?
- Asylum Seekers (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Is the minister aware of a report finalised by the Australian Federal Police in March this year entitled Strategic intelligence forecast:...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and the Minister for Social Inclusion. Will the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on recent...
- Asylum Seekers (3 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister asking the Australian people to believe his changes to Australia’s border protection policies have made no contribution...
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. As part of the government’s nation building for recovery strategy, how are major...
- Indigenous Housing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Is it a fact that the 81 demountables now being sent to Christmas Island as accommodation for...
- Economic Stimulus Package (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, and Social Inclusion. How is the government’s stimulus package supporting apprenticeships?
- Economy (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer him to this morning’s comment on Perth radio station 6PR by Chris Richardson of Access Economics: ‘You can now say that the stimulus is...
- Pakistan: Terrorist Attacks (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister update the House on Australia’s response to developments in Pakistan?
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer him to Professor Ross Garnaut’s comments on ABC television last week about the need to wind back the government’s stimulus in response to...
- Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (4 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 that negotiations over the Carbon Pollution...
- Interest Rates (11 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer.
- Medicare (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister update the House on the government’s reforms to make Medicare rebates for cataract surgery more...
- Food Economy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and relates to the emissions trading scheme debate and the impact of a potential carbon economy on land use if the food economy is included in a global...
- Border Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister provide the House with an update on the detention of Abraham Lauhenapessy?
- Energy Efficient Homes Package (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. Can the minister confirm that together with the Prime Minister he attended a meeting with representatives of the...
- Climate Change (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. How is climate change affecting farmers in different parts of the nation and how important is it for local experiences to...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, under standing order 105(b), I draw your attention to the fact that questions in writing Nos 790, 920, 921, 923, 925, 931, 934, 935, 936, 937 and 948 have been on the Notice Paper for...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek to make a personal explanation.
- Member for North Sydney (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, thank you for a brief indulgence. On behalf of the opposition, I am very happy to congratulate the shadow Treasurer, who is not here today, on the birth of Ignatius Hockey who is a...
- Department of the House of Representatives (0 speeches)
- Annual Report (1 speech)
Pursuant to section 65 of the Parliamentary Services Act 1999, I present the annual report of the Department of the House of Representatives for 2008-09. Ordered that the report be made a...
- Australian National Audit Office (0 speeches)
- Annual Report (1 speech)
I present the annual report of the Australian National Audit Office for 2008-09. Ordered that the report be made a parliamentary paper.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 6 of 2009-10 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s performance audit report No. 6 of 2009-10 entitled Confidentially in Government Contracts—Senate Order for Departmental and Agency Contracts (Calendar...
- 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...
- Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Re-Registration of Providers and Other Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Federal Court of Australia Amendment (Criminal Jurisdiction) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Consideration resumed. Senate amendments—(1) 0; Schedule 1, item 2, page 11 (lines 4 and 5), omit “, or alternatively, order...
- Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (10 speeches)
Debate resumed from 24 June, on motion by Dr Emerson: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Petitions, and in accordance with standing order 207, I present the following petitions:
- Responses; Pensioners (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 8 May 2009 enclosing a copy of a petition submitted by the Member for McPherson, Mrs Margaret May MP, which was presented to the House of...
- Responses; World War II Sex Slavery (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter dated 20 August 2009 referring to me a petition requesting the House of Representatives to urge the Government of Japan to apologise to the former...
- Statements (1 speech)
This evening I am pleased to continue my reports to the House on the work of the Petitions Committee. As a new committee, we have been monitoring developments associated with petitions in other...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Procedure Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Procedure, I present the committee’s report entitled The display of articles—an examination of the practices of the House of Representatives,...
- Geothermal and Other Renewable Energy (Emerging Technologies) Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 14 September.
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. When I presented my private member’s bill entitled Geothermal and other Renewable Energy (Emerging Technologies) Amendment Bill 2009 and...
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Millennium Development Goals (8 speeches)
I move: That the House welcomes the news of recent progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in particular:(1)recognises there has been a substantial decline in the proportion of...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Bali Peace Park Association (3 speeches)
I rise to speak tonight, a week after the seventh anniversary of the Bali bombings, which took the lives of 202 people in the tourist district of Kuta on 12 October 2002. In this cowardly act of...
- Economy (5 speeches)
Today Access Economics released its latest quarterly business outlook. It was interesting to go through it and look back on the year that was and to see how much and how rapidly the economy has...
- Gippsland Electorate: Gippsland Lakes (1 speech)
I rise to highlight the Victorian Labor government’s complete contempt for the people of Gippsland and to appeal to the federal Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts to take...
- Afghanistan (1 speech)
As honourable members will recall, on 20 August Afghanistan held the second free presidential elections in its history. President Hamid Karzai was officially reported to have polled 54.6 per cent...
- Paterson Citizen of the Year Awards (1 speech)
On 15 October, I announced the 2009 Paterson Citizen of the Year Awards, which were presented by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Julie Bishop. It was fitting to acknowledge some of the...
- Bonner Electorate: Centrelink (1 speech)
I rise tonight to pay tribute to Pauline Stevens, who is the manager of the Centrelink office at Wynnum, one of the eastern bayside suburbs of Brisbane, and to the staff of the Centrelink office....
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Tangney Electorate: Medical Workforce (1 speech)
Just two weeks ago, a major doctors surgery in my electorate abruptly closed its doors after giving its 4½ thousand patients only a few days notice. Only a short distance away is another...
- Kingston Electorate: Hallett Cove Preschool (1 speech)
I am very pleased to rise today to wish a very happy birthday to the Hallett Cove Preschool, which I visited on 22 September when they held their 20th birthday celebration. It was very nice to...
- McMillan Electorate: Medicare (2 speeches)
One thing we remember in this place is that, whether you are a frontbencher, a minister, a Prime Minister or a Deputy Speaker of the House, we are all backbenchers reliant on our...
- Solomon Electorate: Housing (1 speech)
I rise to speak briefly on some of the activities I have been engaged in in the last four weeks. While doorknocking in my electorate of Solomon, focusing on the satellite city of Palmerston...
- Paterson Electorate: Higher School Certificate (1 speech)
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the final schooling chapter for more than 70,000 students across New South Wales, with the start of the Higher School Certificate. It will be one of the most...
- Adelaide Electorate: Northfield Primary School (1 speech)
I rise today to draw to the attention of the Main Committee of the House, and indeed to pass on my congratulations, to a wonderful school within the electorate of Adelaide that has recently been...
- Swan Electorate: Southcare (1 speech)
At the beginning of Carers Week 2009 it seems fitting that I rise to talk about Southcare, a community based organisation in my electorate of Swan which provides caring services. Last Tuesday I...
- Corio Electorate: Heritage Listings (1 speech)
Last week, some of Geelong’s most treasured heritage buildings were extended a lifeline by the Rudd government when the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett,...
- Herbert Electorate: Police and Community Youth Clubs (1 speech)
This morning in the parliament I was talking about the best tropical university in the world which, as you know, is James Cook University. This afternoon I want to refer to the Townsville Police...
- Ballarat Electorate: Health Reform Consultation (2 speeches)
Last Tuesday I had the opportunity to discuss the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s final report with the local branch of the Australian Medical Association in Ballarat. In...
- Australian National Preventive Health Agency Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (26 speeches)
Debate resumed from 10 September, on motion by Ms Roxon: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Gippsland Electorate: Princes Highway Road Toll (1 speech)
I rise to highlight the appalling road toll on the Princes Highway east of Sale and the need for additional funding to improve the safety of the road environment. Since 2004, there have been 24...
- Mr Ian Ward; Petitions: Deaths in Custody (2 speeches)
On 27 January 2008, a much-loved and respected Aboriginal elder from the Warburton community in WA, Mr Ward, died while being transported 360 kilometres from Laverton to Kalgoorlie by the...
- Petition: Homelessness and Young People (2 speeches)
On Friday I was at the Greenwood Senior High School and was handed a petition by the head boy and head girl of the school, Justin Micale and Ellen Collins. The petition was under the name of the...
- Oxley Electorate: Ipswich Motorway (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to update the House on the most significant piece of infrastructure being upgraded in the western corridor and in my electorate of Oxley. The Ipswich Motorway will soon...
- Kangaroo Harvesting and Processing (1 speech)
I rise tonight to ask the federal government to provide assistance to the kangaroo harvesting industry and processing sector, which has been virtually crippled by the Russian ban on roo meat...
- Peition: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme; Petition: Restrictions on Parallel Importation of Books (1 speech)
I present two petitions that have been approved by the Standing Committee on Petitions as in order petitions. The first of those petitions deals with the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and...
- Swan Electorate: Seniors Forum (1 speech)
Last Thursday I held a seniors forum at Queens Park Homestay Village in my electorate of Swan. I am pleased to report that the forum attracted a lively and inquisitive audience of senior...
- Northern Rivers Bushfires (1 speech)
I would like to pay tribute in this House to firefighters from four agencies who have been working overtime to control bushfires in my federal electorate of Page, and the neighbouring electorates...
- North-South Perth Railway (1 speech)
Through the middle of my electorate runs the main north-south Perth freeway and railway, an impressive project at first glance. The problem is that the government’s state ALP cohorts, in...
- International Awards for Liveable Communities (2 speeches)
The 2009 International Awards for Liveable Communities was recently held in the city of Pilsen in Czech Republic. The LivCom awards were launched in 1997 and endorsed by the United Nations...
- Clean Energy Security Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 16 September.
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Clean Energy Security Bill 2009 deals with amendments to the renewable energy target legislation and seeks to add two very important...
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- National Schools Chaplaincy Program (8 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Randall: That the House:(1)notes that in 2007, the Coalition Government initiated the National Schools Chaplaincy Program (NSCP);(2)acknowledges the important role...
- Infrastructure Projects (7 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Ripoll: That the House:(1)notes that:(a)a comprehensive and accessible rail transport system is an important link in the Australian transport chain that joins...
- Airservices Australia and Perth Airport (6 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mrs Moylan: That the House:(1)notes that:(a)substantial changes to air flight paths were made by Airservices Australia in November 2008 in relation to Perth...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 14 September.
- Broadband (1 speech)
I want to speak about access to broadband in my electorate. It is an issue that is of some contention in Swan. In almost every corner of my electorate there are telecommunications problems,...
- Forde Electorate: Awards (1 speech)
I would like to speak today on something that certainly grieves me, my electorate and many other members: the lack of opportunity for the community to be recognised for some of their...
- Flinders Electorate: Mornington Peninsula (1 speech)
This evening I want to address a four-point plan for protecting and enhancing the Mornington Peninsula. The Mornington Peninsula is one of the most beautiful areas in the country. It is a UNESCO...
- McLaren Vale Region (1 speech)
I rise today in this grievance debate to talk firstly about some of the strengths of the McLaren Vale region in my electorate but also about some of the challenges that this region faces and some...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (1 speech)
Those who question the science of anthropogenic global warming are derided as dinosaurs. Those who ask about alternative scientific viewpoints are dismissed, not with reasoned scientific detail...
- Blair Electorate: Roads (2 speeches)
I speak tonight because I am aggrieved at the failure of the Howard government in relation to road infrastructure in my area. Over 11½ long years they showed complete inertia, ignorance and...
