House debates
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Home Insulation Program (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts about the Minter Ellison report. The minister has previously told this House that the report was developed following a...
- National Security (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. What is the government doing to combat terrorism at home and abroad?
- Home Insulation Program (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. I refer the minister to his departmental secretary’s evidence yesterday that the $2.5 billion Home Insulation...
- 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 Bangladesh led by the Speaker of the Parliament of Bangladesh, the Hon. Mohammed...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. What is the government’s counterterrorism strategy, particularly on intelligence capabilities and coordination?
- Home Insulation Program (5 speeches)
My question is again to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. As the minister has now admitted that he was made aware of the risks identified by the Minter Ellison report in...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Minister, what steps is the government taking to strengthen aviation security?
- Home Insulation Program (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. I refer the minister to the safety inspections that will now take place in up to one million homes across Australia as a...
- Health Workforce (24 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How is the government building a more sustainable health workforce and how is this an improvement on past approaches?
- Home Insulation Program (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. As the minister has now twice admitted that he was made aware of the Minter Ellison report during discussions with his...
- Private Health Insurance (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Why is it vital that parliament pass the government’s legislation reforming the private health insurance rebate and Medicare...
- Home Insulation Program (11 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. I refer to today’s revelation that it may take up to five years to complete the safety inspections arising from...
- Economy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Treasurer, what have been the recent comments about monetary policy in Australia?
- Resources (3 speeches)
My question is also to the Treasurer. Treasurer, can you explain why, in December 2009, your Foreign Investment Review Board chose not to oppose the 70 per cent takeover of Australian owned...
- Health (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister explain the government’s investments in health, especially the importance of primary health care?
- Home Insulation Program (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. I refer the minister to the case of Mr Greg Smith of Gympie who has been left with rolls of uninstalled insulation in...
- Income Support for Students Legislation (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and the Minister for Social Inclusion. What are the consequences of the coalition’s...
- Home Insulation Program (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. I refer to Cohuna Hardware, which serve my electorate and which have struggled to stay afloat during seven years of...
- Business (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs and Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy. How is the government responding to...
- Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the case of Mr Russell Browning, whose insulation business is in his electorate, and the 14 workers sacked yesterday because of...
- Commercial Television: Australian Content (5 speeches)
My question without notice is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (20 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 23 of 2009-10 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 23 of 2009-10 entitled Illegal Foreign Fishing in Australia’s Northern Waters-Australian Customs and Border Protection Service....
- Speaker’S Panel (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing order 17, I lay on the table my warrant revoking the nomination of the honourable member for Menzies and nominating the honourable member for McPherson to be a member of the...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
On indulgence, before I present the documents I acknowledge that 50 years ago today a momentous occasion occurred. Fifty years ago to the day both the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Rural and Regional Health Services (22 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 Commonwealth...
- Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Re-Registration of Providers and Other Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate acquainting the House that the Senate does not insist on its amendments disagreed to by the House.
- Crimes Legislation Amendment (Serious and Organised Crime) Bill 2010; Crimes Legislation Amendment (Serious and Organised Crime) Bill (No. 2) 2010; Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment Bill 2010; Higher Education Support Amendment Bill 2010; Health Insurance Amendment (New Zealand Overseas Trained Doctors) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Messages from the Governor-General reported informing the House of assent to the bills.
- National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 10 February, on motion by Mr Bowen: 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.
- Corporations Amendment (Financial Market Supervision) Bill 2010; Corporations (Fees) Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (6 speeches)
Debate resumed from 10 February, on motion by Mr Bowen: That these bills 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.
- Corporations (Fees) Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 10 February, on motion by Mr Bowen: 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 order of the day No. 4, Higher Education Support Amendment (University College London) Bill 2010 be postponed to a later hour this day. Question...
- Tax Laws Amendment (2009 GST Administration Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 4 February, on motion by Dr Emerson: 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.
- Higher Education Support Amendment (University College London) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (7 speeches)
Debate resumed from 4 February, on motion by Mr Clare: 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.
- Health Insurance Amendment (Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (24 speeches)
Debate resumed from 22 February, on motion by Ms Roxon: 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.
- Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform and Reinstatement of Racial Discrimination Act) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 25 November 2009, on motion by Ms Macklin: 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.
- Roads: Goodna Bypass (7 speeches)
A little over 2½ hours ago on Channel Nine News in Brisbane, Queensland viewers were informed by reporter Alex Smith that the Rudd government had, to use his words, ‘probably...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
The member for Ryan is sounding a bit rattled over there. He has turned a very safe Liberal seat into a marginal seat and I think he is a bit concerned about that. We have heard a bit of ranting...
- Drought; Health (1 speech)
In just over a month, on 31 March, much of western New South Wales—my electorate and others—the most drought-affected area in the whole of Australia over the last eight years or so,...
- Hon. John Kilday ‘Jock’ Ferguson (1 speech)
Tonight I would like to pay my respects to the Hon. John Kilday Ferguson, better known to many of us as Jock Ferguson, member of the Legislative Council of the Western Australian parliament, who...
- Green Loans Program (1 speech)
In a week in which we have seen the government rocked by scandals in the home insulation sector, I rise tonight to speak about another epic tale of government failure that has hit people in my...
- Chisholm Electorate: Manufacturing (1 speech)
Tonight I want to talk about our great state of Victoria, a state built on a manufacturing base. Sadly, we have seen that manufacturing base decline over time. In my electorate of Chisholm, we...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (7 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Greenway Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise to speak on behalf of residents in my community who feel let down by their state Labor government representatives. People on the outskirts of Sydney, in the Greater Western Sydney region,...
- Maribyrnong Electorate: Workplace Safety (1 speech)
My electorate of Maribyrnong covers some of the industrial heartland of Melbourne, areas where workers have historically worked in tough, dangerous jobs. One of the most disappointing aspects of...
- Swan Electorate: Australian Organ Donor Awareness Week; Swan Electorate: World's Greatest Shave (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about a couple of upcoming community events in the electorate of Swan. This Sunday I will be hosting a community walk around Tomato Lake in Kewdale to raise awareness of...
- Lowe Electorate: Communities for Communities (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to acknowledge the outstanding fundraising achievements of Communities for Communities which has recently reached its $1 million fundraising target. Communities for...
- Flinders Electorate: Phillip Island and Balnarring Pedestrian Crossing (1 speech)
I congratulate the 3,000 Phillip Island residents who have organised and signed a petition to ensure that the former Warley Hospital site is either purchased or leased by the state government to...
- Blair Electorate: Springfield Central (1 speech)
I warmly welcome the residents of Springfield Central into the electorate of Blair. Springfield Central, which is south of Augusta Parkway and the Springfield Greenbank Arterial Road, has been...
- Paterson Electorate: Mr Ron Elworthy (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge and pay tribute to a bus driver whose quick thinking and skill protected 80 schoolchildren who attend class in the Paterson electorate. According to the Sydney Morning...
- Calwell Electorate: National Language Curriculum (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on an issue that is very close to my heart. That issue involves the role of languages in the development of our national teaching curriculum. I want to strongly support the...
- Fisher Electorate: Kawana Hospital (1 speech)
It is important that governments of whatever political colour recognise the needs of people in their communities regardless of how those people voted at the state or federal elections. On the...
- Newcastle Electorate: Colonial Landscape (1 speech)
I would like to share with the House a very special event that took place in the Newcastle electorate last week. I had the great pleasure of speaking at a reception to welcome back to the...
- Main Committee Clocks (6 speeches)
Briefly, on indulgence—
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2009-2010; Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2009-2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (16 speeches)
Debate resumed from 22 February, on motion by Dr Emerson: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2009-2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 26 November, on motion by Dr Emerson: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Ordered that the bill be reported to the House without amendment.
