House debates
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
- Health Practitioner Regulation (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010 (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. This bill supports the implementation of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for health professions. I am very proud to be...
- Anti-People Smuggling and Other Measures Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr McClelland. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. General Introduction Conflicts and turmoil in Afghanistan, the Middle East and Sri Lanka are driving a global surge in asylum seekers, with large...
- National Radioactive Waste Management Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Martin Ferguson. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Introduction The purpose of the bill is to repeal the Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act 2005 and to put in place a proper process to...
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Ms Kate Ellis. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Rudd government was elected with a strong vision for child care—for an affordable, accessible and high-quality sector, so that parents...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the 73rd annual report of the committee, for the year ending 31 December 2009. Ordered that the report be made a...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2009-2010 (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.
- 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.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2009-2010 (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.
- Rudd Government (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Message received from the Senate informing the House of a resolution of the Senate censuring the Government for its failure in the delivery of climate change programs and requesting the...
- Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform and Reinstatement of Racial Discrimination Act) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (15 speeches)
Debate resumed from 23 February, on motion by Ms Macklin: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Social Security and Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Weekly Payments) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to widowed disability pensioner Jenny Anderson of Cordalba, who had insulation installed in September last year and was left with...
- Health (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister update the House on the challenges facing the Australian health system? What action has the government already taken and why is there...
- Home Insulation Program (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday Tony and Maria Harvey of Allpro Insulation in my electorate of Fadden were forced to lay off 13 staff and now have half a million dollars worth of...
- Private Health Insurance (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. What was the outcome of the latest private health insurance premium round and what are the latest statistics on private health insurance?
- Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How does the Prime Minister explain to a single mum like Ms Kerri Borg, who was retrenched on Friday night along with 80 of her workmates at the insulation...
- Rural and Regional Health Services (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Service Delivery. What is the government doing to ensure Australians living in rural and regional...
- Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to Mr Mark Anderson in my electorate whose insulation business has operated for 16 years with a permanent workforce of 15 people...
- Pensions and Benefits (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. What will be the benefits of the government’s proposed...
- Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
I am not getting ahead of myself, even if others are. My question is to the Prime Minister—the current Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his department’s annual report,...
- Income Support for Students Legislation (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and the Minister for Social Inclusion. What are the consequences for students of the coalition’s continuing...
- Home Insulation Program (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the comments of the South Australian Coordinator-General, Mr Rod Hook, that safety concerns regarding the home insulation...
- Mortgages (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Treasurer, what have been the recent developments in home loan funding for smaller Australian lenders?
- Rail Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. The minister would recall announcing on 12 December 2008 an amount of $290 million as part...
- Budget (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Minister, what support is the government providing to families and pensioners and why is certainty...
- Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Now that the Prime Minister has accepted responsibility for the home insulation scandal, will the government compensate businesses involved in the scheme...
- National Security (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. What is the government doing to foster better cooperation in response to international terrorism?
- Home Insulation Program (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Now that the Prime Minister has accepted personal responsibility for the scandal around the home insulation program, which has been suspended with the...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science and Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change. Why is an emissions trading scheme the most economically...
- Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Now that the Prime Minister has accepted personal responsibility for the home insulation scandal, can he tell us by what date the inspections of the 48,000...
- Rudd Government (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (13 speeches)
I seek leave to move a censure on the Prime Minister. Leave not granted. I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Warringah moving...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Documents are tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings. I move: That the House...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Higher Education (21 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Sturt proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The failure of the government...
- Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform and Reinstatement of Racial Discrimination Act) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed.
- 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.
- Australian Astronomical Observatory 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.
- Australian Astronomical Observatory (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment, appropriation message having been reported; 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.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No. 2, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Health Insurance Amendment (Compliance) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (10 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 26 November 2009. Senate’s amendments— (1) Clause 2, page 1 (lines 7 and 8), omit the clause, substitute: 2 Commencement...
- Crimes Legislation Amendment (Sexual Offences Against Children) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 4 February, on motion by Mr Brendan O’Connor: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being nearly 7.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Higher Education (1 speech)
I rise to report that earlier this week some key education and community development stakeholders within the mid-North Coast region and I met with the office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the...
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
I congratulate the member for Lyne on such a good speech; it is good to hear his local community responding so well to the challenges of getting more people into higher education. I also want to...
- Gilmore Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
To many the steelworks at Port Kembla near Wollongong is a positive symbol of the economic fortunes of the Illawarra. Yet the term Illawarra is rather fluid, sometimes including the Shoalhaven...
- Deakin Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I would like to make the House aware of the completion of another important project in the suburb of Croydon in my electorate of Deakin. The last time I spoke in the House on local projects was...
- Green Loans Program (1 speech)
I never intend to ascribe to incompetence what can be perfectly explained by a lack of attention to detail. As I speak about the green loans—which have barely been able to be brought to...
- Banks Electorate: Chinese Lunar New Year (2 speeches)
Kung hei fat choi, which loosely translates to, ‘Congratulations and be prosperous’. On 6 February this year I attended the official opening of the lunar New Year celebrations...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Ovarian Cancer Awareness Day (1 speech)
Today is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Day. Over one year, ovarian cancer can affect the lives of 1,500 women. That is a considerable issue, when 92 women have died of ovarian cancer in Western...
- Richmond Electorate: Education (1 speech)
I am very pleased today to speak about the Rudd government’s major investment in education in the electorate of Richmond and what a difference it is making to local students and families....
- Canning Electorate: Peel Region Reticulated Sewerage (1 speech)
Populated areas of the Canning electorate remain without reticulated sewerage. The Peel region is a hypergrowth area, exceeding six per cent growth in some parts, yet thousands of homes rely on...
- Cunningham Electorate: Mr Ted Tobin (1 speech)
I want to take the short time available to me in this chamber today to put on the record of this nation the passing of a marvellous Wollongong gentleman who will be sadly missed by many of us in...
- Kalgoorlie Electorate: Cane Toads (1 speech)
I rise today in this place to bring the attention of the House to the issue of cane toads across Australia. For some four years now I have backed a group called the Kimberley Toad Busters in...
- Lindsay Electorate: Local Business (1 speech)
I wish to highlight the achievements of a number of successful local businesses that I have recently had the pleasure of visiting. The Hix Group employs 40 people across its six divisions, which...
- National Curriculum (1 speech)
I rise this morning to speak on the importance of a national curriculum not only for parents and schools but importantly for the continuity of a child’s education. That is why the coalition...
- Chifley Electorate: Mrs Martha Lynch (1 speech)
To be a federal member and to be successful, we always depend on a variety of people and a variety of organisations. But, of course, our own party members are very important to our success. I...
- Bowman Electorate: Queensland Economy (1 speech)
There are a few great lessons to be learned in the running of economies. When it comes to economies, the economic bottom line should never be scrambled. What we have seen in Queensland,...
- Parramatta Electorate: Dinka Literacy Association (1 speech)
On Saturday I attended a very special event at the Auburn town hall, the graduation of the Dinka language school class of 2009, 12 extraordinary Australians working hard to build a life in this...
- Australian Astronomical Observatory Bill 2009; Australian Astronomical Observatory (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
Debate resumed from 25 November, on motion by Dr Emerson: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Australian Astronomical Observatory (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 25 November, on motion by Dr Emerson: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time. Ordered that the bill be reported to the House...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Indigenous Affairs (10 speeches, 1 comment)
Debate resumed from 11 February, on motion by Mr Snowdon: That the House take note of the following document: Prime Minister’s report 2010—Closing the gap.
