House debates
Monday, 23 November 2009
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Tax Laws Amendment (Improving the Producer Offset) Legislation (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 41(e), and the recommendations of the whips adopted by the House on 18 November 2009, I present the Tax Laws Amendment (Improving the Producer Offset) Bill 2009,...
- Private Members’ Motions (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 41(h), and the recommendations of the whips adopted by the House on 18 November 2009, I present copies of the terms of motions for which notice has been given by...
- Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (15 speeches)
Debate resumed from 20 August, on motion by Mr Swan: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Foreign Affairs will be absent from question time today as he is attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago. The...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister inform the House as to the nature and status of the injuries sustained by both Australian personnel and asylum seekers in the recent...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the progress of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme as the centrepiece of Australia’s efforts to tackle...
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister inform the House: what is the capacity of the Christmas Island detention centre and how many asylum seekers are currently in the...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Why is the introduction of a carbon pollution reduction scheme such a vital economic reform for Australia’s future?
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister tell the House if the asylum seekers medivaced following the riot on Christmas Island will now be offered a special deal like the...
- Climate Change (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science, and the Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change. Will the minister outline the significant scientific...
- Asylum Seekers (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister inform the House whether he has approached directly any other countries, asking them to resettle any of the 78 asylum seekers from...
- Global Food Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. How has the government been engaging internationally on the connections between climate change and food security?
- Asylum Seekers (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Would the Prime Minister tell the House whether he regards the recent surge in people smuggling as a serious problem? There have been 54 boats since he...
- Training (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and Social Inclusion. Will the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on the latest measures the government is...
- Health System (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. With the target now set for population increases in Australia, with the well-known ageing population challenges we have right now, with debt at both the...
- Climate Change: Emergency Management (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. Is it the case that climate change is projected to lead to more severe heatwaves, intense cyclones and floods, severe storms, more extreme bushfires and...
- National Schools Chaplaincy Program (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his announcement last Saturday that the National Schools Chaplaincy Program has been given an 18-month stay of execution with...
- Income Support for Students Legislation (5 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 outline to the House the importance...
- Building the Education Revolution Program (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Education and Minister for Social Inclusion. I refer the minister to reports that Berwick Lodge Primary...
- Cancer Services (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Minister, will you update the House on government initiatives to tackle cancer in our community?
- Terrorism (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware of a bill to assist the more than 300 Australian victims of overseas terrorism on which the members for Paterson and Newcastle...
- Child Care (2 speeches)
- Second Sydney Airport (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his election promise as stated in this letter of 26 September 2007: Labor has no plans to alter the status of RAAF base...
- Older Australians (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Ageing. What assistance is the government providing to help older Australians retain their independence and continue to live in their own homes and communities?
- Hospitals (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister’s broken promise to fix public hospitals by 30 June 2009. Will the Prime Minister identify one of Australia’s 762...
- Child Sexual Exploitation (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister update the House on the government’s proposed reforms to child sexual exploitation laws?
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Hospitals (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek the indulgence of the chair to add to an answer.
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (25 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Management of the House (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I would ask you to review the last few dozen points of order that have been taken by the opposition. It has been noticed on this side of the House that there is a pause before you...
- Apology to the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants (0 speeches)
- 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...
- Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Termination Payments) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Message from the Governor-General reported informing the House of assent to the bill.
- National Consumer Credit Protection Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Consideration resumed from 27 October. Senate’s amendments— (1) Clause 5, page 9 (after line 11), after the definition of initial National Credit Act, insert:...
- National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Consideration resumed from 27 October. Senate’s amendments— (1) Clause 2, page 2 (table item 2), omit the table item, substitute: 2. Schedule 1,...
- Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 19 November, on motion by Mr Brendan O’Connor: 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.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That consideration of government business No. 5, Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities) Bill 2009, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question...
- Auscheck Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Consideration resumed from 29 October. Senate’s amendments— (1) Schedule 1, item 1, page 3 (line 8), omit “AusCheck scheme”. (2) ...
- Federal Justice System Amendment (Efficiency Measures) Bill (No. 1) 2008 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Consideration resumed from 27 October. Senate’s amendments— (1) Clause 2, page 2 (table items 3 to 5), omit the table items, substitute: 3....
- Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 9 September, on motion by Mr Marles: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Auscheck Amendment Legislation 2009 (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I present the following document: AusCheck Amendment Bill 2009—Summing up speech, House of Representatives.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (30 speeches)
Debate resumed from 9 September, on motion by Mr Marles: 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 (1 speech)
Ministerial responses to petitions previously presented to the House have been received as follows:
- Responses; Rail Freight Noise (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter dated 19 August 2009 about a petition seeking changes to the construction approval conditions for the Australian Rail Track Corporation’s (ARTC)...
- Responses; Child Support (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 19 August 2009 to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, the Hon Jenny Macklin MP, regarding a submission to...
- Responses; Charter of Rights (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 9 September 2009 referring to a petition submitted to the Standing Committee on Petitions regarding the adoption of a charter of rights. As you are...
- Responses; Wakefield Electorate: Health Services (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 9 September 2009 to the Minister for Health and Ageing, the Hon Nicola Roxon MP, regarding the current petition under the Committee’s...
- Responses; Restrictions on Parallel Importation of Books (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin I refer to your letter dated 16 September 2009 attaching the petition submitted to your Committee, from citizens of central Victoria, regarding the review by the Productivity...
- Statements (2 speeches)
Tonight I wish to speak on the work of the Petitions Committee. In my regular statements to the chamber of a Monday evening I have spoken about the rules governing petitions, the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Corporations and Financial Services Committee; Report (4 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, I present the committee’s report entitled Inquiry into financial products and services in Australia,...
- Corporations and Financial Services 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.
- Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government Committee; Report (4 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, I present the committee’s report entitled The Global Financial Crisis and...
- Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government 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.
- Health and Ageing Committee; Report (5 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Health and Ageing, I present the committee’s report entitled Treating impotence: roundtable forum on impotence medications in Australia, together with...
- Health and Ageing 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.
- Employment and Workplace Relations Committee; Report (4 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Employment and Workplace Relations, I present the committee’s report, incorporating a dissenting report, entitled Making it fair: pay equity and...
- Employment and Workplace Relations 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.
- Industry, Science and Innovation Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Innovation, I present the committee’s report entitled Seasonal forecasting in Australia, together with the minutes of...
- Industry, Science and Innovation Committee; 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.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Forgotten Australians (1 speech)
This evening I want to brief the House on moving forward after the apology to the care leavers, forgotten Australians and child migrants last week, who I will now refer to as the...
- White Ribbon Day (1 speech)
I rise today to raise awareness for White Ribbon Day on Wednesday, 25 November. White Ribbon Day is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. This is something that all...
- Population Growth (1 speech)
When Prime Minister Rudd boasted about updated forecasts of a population explosion in Australia over the next four decades, it was a hackneyed and somewhat grating pronouncement of support for a...
- National School Chaplaincy Program (1 speech)
I rise to speak in support of the Prime Minister’s initiative, announced on the weekend, of $42.8 million to extend the National School Chaplaincy Program to December 2011. The National...
- Victorian Bushfires (1 speech)
I rise to speak on an issue very important to my electorate and to many rural and regional areas in Victoria. We saw 173 people lose their lives to bushfires this year. Two of those people were...
- Fowler Electorate: Memorial Development Application (2 speeches)
I speak tonight on a proposal that is of great importance to my local area. It is of great importance because it has created the unintended consequence of division within the community. It...
- Request for Detailed Information (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Gellibrand Electorate: (1 speech)
I want to take this increasingly unusual opportunity to raise something that I have been doing in my electorate of Gellibrand for the last 11 years that I have been a member of parliament. Each...
- Fisher Electorate: Klue Family (1 speech)
With the issue of unauthorised boat arrivals and migration again at the forefront of Australian minds, both politically and through the media, I wish to raise the plight of a family on the...
- Clubs SA (3 speeches)
On Saturday, 31 October, I attended once again the Annual Awards of Excellence presentation for Clubs SA. Clubs SA is the organisation that represents many of South Australia’s community...
- Petition: National Rental Affordability Scheme (1 speech)
I rise to table a petition that has been to the Petitions Committee and has been approved. It addresses the Hon. the Speaker and members of the House of Representatives. The petition, from...
- Robertson Electorate: Commuter Car Parking (1 speech)
I rise today to inform members of the progress of my campaign to increase car parking for the many thousands of commuters in my electorate. Increasing the capacity of car parking for commuters...
- Broadband (1 speech)
Had the coalition government’s broadband rollout continued, by now electorates would have faster, reliable and affordable broadband. The broadband relied on a mix of technologies and,...
- Vocational Education and Training (1 speech)
Today I want to talk about a recent education announcement that will make a significant difference to secondary school students in the Huon Valley region in the south of my electorate of...
- Climate Change Peer Review Process (1 speech)
I wish to speak on something that I am profoundly concerned about and disturbed by, and that is the politicisation and corruption of the entire peer review process of the IPCC and other...
- Taste of Plenty Expo (1 speech)
Last Wednesday I was pleased to stand alongside the Speaker of the House, the Hon. Harry Jenkins, and jointly host the inaugural Taste of Plenty Expo here in Parliament House. The Taste of Plenty...
- Cowan Electorate: Wanneroo Senior High School (2 speeches)
On 17 November 2009 I attended the year 12 graduation ceremony of Wanneroo Senior High School held in Wangara. The ceremony was particularly good. The formalities commenced with an address by...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Native Title Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (40 speeches)
Debate resumed from 21 October, on motion by Mr McClelland: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Maranoa Electorate: Warrego Highway (1 speech)
I rise tonight to ask a question of this Labor government. This question has been put to me by a woman named Margaret, who last week emailed me about the recent visit by the Minister for Defence...
- Makin Electorate: School Science Projects (1 speech)
On Wednesday, 4 November I attended the concept to creation showcase of science based projects designed and created by schoolchildren from schools in the north-eastern and northern regions of...
- Canning Electorate: Brickworks (1 speech)
Tonight I condemn some blatantly unscrupulous and anti-competitive behaviour confirmed over the weekend. Midland Brick, a subsidiary of Boral, has been forced to make a public apology to BGC for...
- Dr Jacqui Dewar (4 speeches)
I want to take this opportunity to say a few words in thanks and recognition of the work of Dr Jacqueline Dewar, who is currently the Secretary of the Joint Standing Committee on the Australian...
- Petition: National Marriage Day (1 speech)
I rise to present a petition with the signatories of 512 Australians, urging that 13 August be declared the annual national marriage day. Other members have also presented these petitions, and on...
- Telstra Administrative Fee (1 speech)
In September this year I moved a private member’s motion in this place, calling on Telstra to reconsider its decision to introduce an administrative fee of $2.20. I am pleased to report to...
- McMillan Electorate: Path of Achievement (1 speech)
Next Thursday will be a great day for Drouin because the Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Mr Peter Garrett, will be coming to Drouin to open the Path of Achievement. This...
- Hasluck Electorate: Kalamunda Schoolies Timor-Leste (1 speech)
I was delighted to join a group of young people from my electorate in the early hours of Sunday morning as they boarded a plane to head for Timor-Leste. This group are on the Kalamunda Schoolies...
- Cowan Electorate: Petition (2 speeches)
I inform the chamber that I have initiated a federal petition to call upon the government to ask Australia Post to establish a red street posting box on the Kingsway in the vicinity of Darch or...
- Tax Laws Amendment (Improving the Producer Offset) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (2 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Ciobo.
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (5 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mrs Mirabella: That the House:(1)recognises that Wednesday 25 November 2009 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the symbol of...
- Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (5 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion byMs Rea: That the House:(1)applauds the Government’s increase of total health funding in the foreign aid budget and an increase in spending to maternal, newborn...
- Assisting the Victims of International Terrorism Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 16 November.
- Second Reading (19 speeches)
I move: That the bill be read a second time. I do appreciate the chance to speak again on this Assisting the Victims of International Terrorism Bill 2009. This is a very important bill, because...
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- White Ribbon Day (3 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Oakeshott: That the House:(1)recognises that Wednesday 25 November 2009 is the International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women which is symbolised by...
- R U OK? Day (5 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion byMr Georganas: That the House:(1)notes the tragic loss of life to suicide which has taken an average of approximately 14 persons per 100,000 in Australia through most...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The question is: That grievances be noted.
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
I rise this evening to speak on an issue that certainly grieves me. I am aghast at the double standards of this Rudd Labor government, particularly the Department of Immigration and Citizenship,...
- Asylum Seekers; Health (1 speech)
I would like to associate myself with many of the comments that have just been made by the member for Chisholm. In particular, I would like to acknowledge the terrible humanitarian disaster that...
- Health Reform (1 speech)
I welcome the comments of the member for Pearce and her concerns for the health sector because I also rise to speak in my grievance on the impediments to future health reform in this country. I...
- Paterson Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I rise tonight to raise a grievance about the condition of local roads on behalf of the many constituents of the electorate of Paterson. As I travel around the electorate of Paterson, from...
- Flynn Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
Before I enter into this grievance debate tonight I want to take the opportunity to, among other things, wish everybody in this chamber a safe and happy Christmas. I want to wish the residents of...
