House debates
Thursday, 4 February 2010
- Governance of Australian Government Superannuation Schemes Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Tanner. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Governance of Australian Government Superannuation Schemes Bill 2010 (the bill) is part of a package of bills to establish governance...
- Comsuper Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Tanner. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The ComSuper Bill 2010 is one of a package of bills to implement reforms that will establish governance arrangements for Commonwealth...
- Superannuation Legislation (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Tanner. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Superannuation Legislation (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2010 supports significant reforms to the governance of...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2009-2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (1 speech)
On indulgence. On 26 November 2009 Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2009-2010 was introduced into the House. The second reading of the bill stated: … $114.9 million has been reclassified from...
- Crimes Legislation Amendment (Sexual Offences Against Children) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Brendan O’Connor. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. General introduction The Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was ratified by Australia in 1990 and has achieved almost universal...
- Tariff Proposals (0 speeches)
- Customs Tariff Proposal (No. 1) 2010 (1 speech)
I move: That the Customs Tariff Act 1995 be altered as set out in the Schedule to this Proposal and that the alteration operates on and from 14 December 2009. The Schedule read as follows—...
- Higher Education Support Amendment (University College London) Bill 2010 (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 Higher Education Support Amendment (University College London) Bill 2010 makes a minor amendment to the Higher Education Support Act 2003 to...
- Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment Bill 2010 (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 Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment Bill 2010 makes amendments to the Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000....
- Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2010 (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. This is an appropriation bill to support:the ongoing operations of the Australian Research Counciland three specific initiatives. It will fund...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Reference (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Support, I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to...
- Treaties Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, I present the committee’s report entitled Report 108: Treaty tabled on 25 November 2009. Ordered that the report be made a...
- National Broadcasting Legislation Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (10 speeches)
Debate resumed from 3 February, on motion by Mr Albanese: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Consideration in Detail (4 speeches)
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.
- Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2010; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010; Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority Bill 2010; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Customs) Bill 2010; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Excise) Bill 2010; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — General) Bill 2010; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) Bill 2010; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010; Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2010; Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2010; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Amendment (Household Assistance) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (19 speeches)
Debate resumed from 2 February, on motion by Mr Combet: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Victorian Bushfires (0 speeches)
- (12 speeches)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Prime Minister from making a statement on the first anniversary of the Victorian Black...
- 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 in Perth attending his sister’s funeral. The Attorney-General will answer questions...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to overnight news reports that President Obama is likely to drop his emissions trading scheme in the United States. Given this...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (3 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal report, the climate change mitigation report and his own Treasury...
- Climate Change (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science and Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change. Why does Australia need to take action on climate change and...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, given that single income people who earn just $45,000 a year are not fully compensated for price increases as a result of your emissions...
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Why is the financial framework for tackling climate change crucial and why does the government reject the failed approaches of the past?
- Emissions Trading Scheme (11 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. Given that a police officer and their teacher spouse who each earn $65,000 a year are not fully compensated and are financially worse off under the...
- Infrastructure (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government and Leader of the House. Why is the government’s nation-building infrastructure...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (27 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister about his great big new tax and his proposal to provide fixed levels of compensation based on average price increases, which do not take into account the...
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on recent economic indicators and any risks to the recovery?
- Aged Care (8 speeches)
My question is to the acting Minister for Health and Ageing. Minister, given that there is no compensation for small businesses under the government’s emissions trading scheme, by how much...
- Building the Education Revolution (4 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 public...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given that an individual earning over $80,000 a year receives no compensation under your emissions trading scheme, can you inform the House how much worse...
- Economy (19 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Why is accuracy in commitments and commentary regarding the public finances important to maintaining confidence in the Australian economy?
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Computing Network (9 speeches)
Yesterday, the member for North Sydney asked me a question related to the parliamentary computing network. The parliamentary computing network operating system uses Internet Explorer version 6...
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 21 of 2009-10 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 21 of 2009-10 entitled Administration of the Water Smart Australia Program—Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Documents are presented as listed in the schedule circulated to honourable members earlier today. Details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings and I move: That the House...
- Crimes Legislation Amendment (Serious and Organised Crime) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Bill returned from the Senate with amendments. Ordered that the amendments be considered immediately. Senate’s amendments— Clause 2, page 2 (table item 5), omit...
- Crimes Legislation Amendment (Serious and Organised Crime) Bill (No. 2) 2009 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Bill returned from the Senate with amendments. Ordered that the amendments be considered immediately. Senate’s amendments— (1) Schedule 1, Part 5, page 40 (after...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- (16 speeches)
I have received a letter from the Leader of the Nationals proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The failure of the Government to...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Stirling Electorate: Community Safety (1 speech)
Crime prevention and community safety are issues of great importance in every electorate; however, they are particularly important in my own electorate of Stirling. I have always done whatever I...
- Sri Lanka (1 speech)
Today is the 62nd anniversary of Independence Day in Sri Lanka. However, the Tamils on the island will not be celebrating—indeed, the Tamil diaspora around the world mourn as they believe...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
On 19 March 2008 the Deputy Prime Minister did an interview with Kieran Gilbert on PM Agenda. The Deputy Prime Minister was asked: The opposition has asked you to guarantee that no worker will be...
- Illawarra: Project Kickstart (1 speech)
On several occasions in parliament I have taken the opportunity to raise the issue of youth unemployment and what can be done in a practical way to address the matter and specifically how, in our...
- Cowan Electorate: Type 1 Diabetes (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to speak of my concern for those of my constituents who are afflicted with the insidious disease type 1 diabetes. As a father there is nothing more important to me than...
- Australian Hospital Ship Centaur (2 speeches)
At 2.50 am on 10 January this year, the first photographic images emerged from the seabed off Moreton Island verifying what we all knew to be true—that is, that the shipwreck identified by...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The following notice was given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Casey Electorate: Victorian Bushfires (1 speech)
I rise to speak this morning on the last sitting day prior to the first anniversary of the horrific Victorian bushfires. On 7 February last year all of us were shocked at the scale of the...
- Hindmarsh Electorate: Water (1 speech)
South Australians have been desperate for improvements to the water situation in the coastal waters of Gulf St Vincent, in the diversity of supply of fresh water to metropolitan Adelaide and in...
- Higher Education (1 speech)
I rise to raise my concerns about the absolute mess that has been created by this government’s attempt to change the system of student income support. It is really with a sense of sorrow,...
- Fremantle Electorate: 2011 International Sailing Federation Sailing World Championships (1 speech)
I want to speak today about a forthcoming event in my electorate: namely, the 2011 International Sailing Federation, or ISAF, Sailing World Championships. This prestigious regatta will be held in...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I want to alert the parliament to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning. It underlines my increasing concern about the unhealthy relationship between Labor governments in Australia...
- Intergenerational Report: Disability (1 speech)
The Intergenerational Report, released by the Treasurer on Monday, laid out a stark challenge: how do we increase our productivity as our population ages? A big part of this challenge is how we...
- Victorian Bushfires (1 speech)
It was 222 years ago that the first church service was held at Sydney Cove. Reverend Richard Johnson was the preacher at that service. I am going to another service on Sunday. That service is at...
- Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
I say to the member for McMillan that I commend his remarks in this place and that I support them. I would like to speak about the Holt Australia Day ceremony in Doveton this year, where I had...
- Gilmore Electorate: Road Safety (1 speech)
I rise to bring to the attention of the House the condition of the Princes Highway on the South Coast, which has led to the lives of eight people being lost in my electorate in just over a month....
- Shortland Electorate: Awards (8 speeches)
I would like to use this time to acknowledge the recipients of Australia Day awards in both the Lake Macquarie City Council area and the Wyong Shire Council area and also the recipients of the...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2009-2010; Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2009-2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (15 speeches)
Debate resumed from 3 February, on motion by Dr Emerson: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Main Committee do now adjourn.
- OzHelp WA (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to speak of and praise OzHelp WA. Before I do so, I would like to give what I am sure is a common view of the construction industry. Most people who have not worked in...
- China (1 speech)
I want to mention a recent article in the Business Spectator written by former foreign minister Alexander Downer. I am sure General MacArthur’s dictum of old soldiers fading away would have...
- Paterson Electorate: Housing (1 speech)
I rise today to raise concerns on behalf of the people of Paterson electorate whose rights have been eroded as part of Kevin Rudd’s reckless cash splash. I speak in particular reference to...
- Mr Jim Maher AO (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about Jim Maher AO, a man who was a true giant of the trade union movement and one of the most influential figures in building the largest union in Australia—the Shop...
- Keith Chesson (1 speech)
Recently, I had the unique opportunity of getting involved with the arts through a constituent in my electorate. Unfortunately, when it comes to the arts my brother was first in line and took all...
- Robertson Electorate: Radiotherapy Unit (1 speech)
I rise today to keep members informed of the progress of my campaign to secure a public radiotherapy unit for the people of the Central Coast. The Central Coast has a rapidly growing population...
