House debates
Thursday, 11 March 2010
- Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2010; Protection of the Sea Legislation Amendment Bill 2010; Trans-Tasman Proceedings Bill 2009; Trans-Tasman Proceedings (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) 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. I indicate to all honourable members that this motion enjoys the support of the Chief Opposition...
- Transport Security Legislation Amendment (2010 Measures No. 1) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Albanese. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Transport Security Legislation Amendment (2010 Measures No. 1) Bill 2010 amends the Aviation Transport Security Act 2004 and the Maritime...
- Customs Tariff Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Brendan O’Connor. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Customs Tariff Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2010 contains three amendments to the Customs Tariff Act 1995. Two of these amendments relate to import...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Reference (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for...
- Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010; Healthcare Identifiers (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (20 speeches)
Debate resumed from 10 March, 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.
- Healthcare Identifiers (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 10 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.
- Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2010; Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Safety Levies) Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (12 speeches)
Debate resumed from 10 February, on motion by Mr Martin Ferguson: 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.
- Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Safety Levies) Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 10 February, on motion by Mr Martin Ferguson: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill 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 Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Weekly Payments) Bill 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.
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Recreational Fishing for Mako and Porbeagle Sharks) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (9 speeches, 1 comment)
Debate resumed from 25 February, on motion by Mr Garrett: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and I refer the Prime Minister to remarks made last Friday by the Secretary of the new Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, who told a meeting...
- Hospitals (34 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the need for reform in Australia’s health system after years of neglect and inaction?
- Home Insulation Progam (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the government’s concession that foil insulation is a potential death trap and that the 50,000 homes installed with it...
- Hospitals (28 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How will the government’s health reform plan improve the financial sustainability of the health system and end both blame shifting and...
- Home Insulation Program (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the project control group which ran his Home Insulation Program, comprising his department, the Deputy Prime Minister’s...
- Employment (21 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...
- Home Insulation Program (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and it again relates to his role in the failure of the Home Insulation Program. I refer the Prime Minister to his department’s annual report, in which...
- Paid Parental Leave (7 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How will paid parental leave policies that rely on new taxes on business harm the economy and impact on the costs of living?
- Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
My question is, again, to the Prime Minister. In light of the Prime Minister’s previous answer, is he seriously telling the House that he was never informed about the safety problems, fires...
- Paid Parental Leave (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Will the government consider significant new policy proposals from other sources? Why is it important for such proposals to be...
- Home Insulation Program (9 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. As the Prime Minister has informed the House that Minister Garrett informed him of problems with the Home Insulation Program by letter of 14 August,...
- Paid Parental Leave (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Why do Australian families need certainty about paid parental leave?
- Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. What reasons did Minister Garrett give in his letter of 14 August for wanting increased compliance, increased inspections and a process of...
- Paid Parental Leave (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs and Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy, Dr Emerson. Will the minister advise...
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. With a reported 1,000 homes at risk from coastal erosion at Old Bar in the Manning Valley, can the Prime Minister provide a status report on...
- Tourism (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Tourism. Will the minister update the House on the recovery of the Australian tourism industry following setbacks such as the global financial crisis and swine flu?
- Hospitals (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How can the Prime Minister say that the efficient casemix price of public hospital procedures will be set by an independent body under his health reform...
- Small Business: Superannuation (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law. Will the minister update the House on the progress of the government’s small business...
- Building the Education Revolution Program (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. I refer the minister to the case of the Tyalgum Public School in New South Wales, which received a library off the back of a semitrailer, under...
- Parliament (17 speeches)
My question is to the Leader of the House. Would the Leader of the House outline the importance of orderly processes in ensuring the timely passage of legislation through the parliament?
- World Vision (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I want to take the opportunity on indulgence to condemn the brutal and senseless attack on World Vision in Mansehra in Pakistan yesterday. Yesterday, gunmen entered the offices of...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Question Time (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have two questions for you. The first goes to your ruling in question time today in relation to a denial of the call I was seeking. I ask you whether under standing order 86 there...
- Chamber Photograph (2 speeches)
I also have a question for you, Mr Speaker. Has your attention been drawn to an uncharitably titled article in today’s Sunshine Coast Daily which reads ‘Slipper denies speech...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (33 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- 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...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Health and Infrastructure Programs (11 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable the Leader of the Nationals proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Banjara Medical Centre (1 speech)
I was delighted to open the Banjara Medical Centre in my electorate of McPherson, a specialist amphetamine treatment clinic. The centre is located at Mirikai—a name synonymous with...
- Road Safety (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about an issue that I think all members of the House are concerned about, which is the number of fatalities and injuries that occur on our roads right around Australia. Of...
- Gambling (1 speech)
I rise tonight to raise a concern that many Australians share about the prevalence of gambling. I would particularly like to draw attention to the Productivity Commission’s report about...
- Leukaemia Foundation (1 speech)
I rise to speak this evening about the Leukaemia Foundation, which has a vision to cure, a mission to care. Leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma are blood cancers. In 2009, it was projected that 9,792...
- Coptic Christians (1 speech)
Recently I had the pleasure to meet with the Coptic Orthodox Bishop of Melbourne, Bishop Suriel. There are 70,000 Coptic Christians living in Australia today and the history of the Christian...
- Paid Parental Leave (1 speech)
I rise tonight to address the debate that is currently occurring around the very important issue of paid parental leave. I do so because under ordinary circumstances, as someone who has been a...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Flinders Electorate: Crib Point Bitumen Plant (1 speech)
I want to raise the issue of the Crib Point bitumen plant. In the last weeks we have seen the shock revelation that the Victorian Minister for Planning and Community Development had been engaged...
- Corio Electorate: Corio Bay Development (1 speech)
Earlier in this term I spoke about a vision for a walking and cycling trail around Geelong’s Corio Bay. This trail would extend from Eastern Park through the city’s waterfront along...
- McMillan Electorate: Hazelwood Power Station (1 speech)
Deputy Speaker, today I rise to draw to your attention and that of this parliament to the vile campaign by Environment Victoria to close down Hazelwood Power Station. Of course I stand in...
- Indonesia (3 speeches)
‘It is impossible to imagine a more pro-Australian Indonesian President’ than Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Sadly, he will be appreciated more after his departure from office. Yudhoyono...
- Mitchell Electorate: Mrs Peggy Womersley (1 speech)
I rise this morning to acknowledge the passing of a former Baulkham Hills Shire mayor and councillor and long-time resident of the Hills district, Peggy Womersley, on 16 January after a long and...
- Epilepsy (1 speech)
Today I wish to table a report completed by the Parliamentary Friends of Epilepsy following an informal inquiry into the impact of epilepsy in Australia. On 30 November 2009 we held an informal...
- Centrelink (1 speech)
I wish to raise the concern of a constituent of mine in relation to current Centrelink office operating procedures. He and his elderly father-in-law were trying to use the services at Centrelink...
- Lowe Electorate: Visually Impaired Electors (1 speech)
This morning I welcome the recent initiatives by the Special Minister of State, Senator the Honourable Joe Ludwig, concerning blind and visually impaired electors. I am very pleased that our...
- Gilmore Electorate: Bella Gilbertson (1 speech)
Bella Gilbertson is a young lady who lives in Gerringong and delivered what I considered to be a very impressive speech to the Gerringong Lions Club. She attends Kiama High School, and I would...
- Holt Electorate: Christians Helping in Primary Schools (2 speeches)
I would like to take the time today to pay tribute to an organisation in Melbourne’s south-east that I have worked with in the past and whose director I had the opportunity to meet with...
- Social Security and Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Weekly Payments) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (8 speeches)
Debate resumed from 10 February, on motion by Ms Macklin: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Main Committee do now adjourn.
- Victoria: Antisocial Behaviour (1 speech)
I rise to, again, raise my concern about the increasing street violence and antisocial behaviour in our wider community. I would also like to highlight the complete failure of the Brumby Labor...
- Chile: Earthquake (2 speeches)
As Chair of the Australia/Chile Parliamentary Friendship Group I offer my condolences and, I am sure, the condolences of all members of this parliament to the people of Chile, as well as the...
- Swan Electorate: Bali Memorial (1 speech)
I rise to speak today about a meeting I had this week with the Governor of Bali, Governor Pastika, and also Lindsay Ross of the Bali Peace Park Association. The purpose of the meeting was to...
- Infrastructure (1 speech)
Australians generally still regard themselves as living in the lucky country. We have plenty of open space; a clean, fresh environment; plenty of opportunity; and an entrepreneurial spirit, which...
- Health: Lymphoedema (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the important topics of lymphoedema and funding for lymphoedema in Australia. I want to pay tribute to the Castle Hill Country Women’s Association, who raised this...
- Great Barrier Reef International Marine College (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about good news for Cairns and the Far North Queensland region. Next week, construction will start on the Great Barrier Reef International Marine College. There have been...
- Solar Energy (1 speech)
I want to enlarge on a statement I made in the parliament on my first day back this week. On 19 August, as part of a question on ceiling batt insulation, I tabled papers outlining 14 rorts and...
- International Women's Day (1 speech)
Today I rise to speak on our recent celebrations of International Women’s Day and I want to take the opportunity to commend some of the local women in my electorate of Calwell. I want to...
- Home Insulation Program (4 speeches)
A lot has been said about the insulation industry in recent times. It has been brought into the spotlight in a negative way as a result of the government’s attempt to shovel as much money...
- Australian Electoral Commission (1 speech)
I want to return to an area of interest of mine since I have been on the Joint Committee on Electoral Matters, since being elected to this place. Recently—within the last day, in...
- Paterson Electorate: Ambulance Crews (1 speech, 2 comments)
I rise today as a concerned member of my local community who may one day have to rely on an ambulance and the expertise of those on board. The New South Wales Labor government has a plan to use...
- Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program (3 speeches)
I am pleased to stand here today and recognise the important changes brought about across my electorate over the past 12 months through the government’s Regional and Local Community...
- Flinders Electorate: Gunnamatta Outfall (1 speech)
I want to speak in relation to the Gunnamatta outfall in my electorate. This is an outfall which sees 150 billion litres of partially treated sewage dumped off the coast every year. Four hundred...
- Hunter Electorate (1 speech)
Over the past 12 months or so and, in turn, over the next three years, the Hunter electorate has experienced and will experience unprecedented levels of infrastructure funding from the...
- Jessica Watson (1 speech)
I am particularly pleased to say that Jessica Watson has well and truly completed two-thirds of her journey around the world and is on her way home. The teenage adventurer from Buderim on the...
- Cunningham Electorate: Overseas Students (1 speech)
I endorse the comments of the member for Fisher about the amazing efforts of Jessica Watson. I think a lot of young people are interested in following her journey and are inspired by it. I want...
- Barker Electorate: Kimberley-Clark Australia (1 speech)
In the short time that is available to me I wish to raise an issue of great concern and angst in my electorate. It concerns the Kimberley-Clark mill in the township of Millicent. Millicent is in...
