House debates
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
- Defence: Australian Remains (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
On indulgence, I rise to announce that the remains of two Australian servicemen missing in action since 1966 in Indonesia have been found and have now been positively identified. In March 1966...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of his promise in 2007 to take, ‘A very hard line, a very tough line on people smuggling’. Prime Minister, with 24...
- Hospitals (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the government is addressing the challenges of the workforce shortage in the health system after years of...
- 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 the Kingdom of Tonga. On behalf of the House I extend a very warm welcome to our...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his promise in 2007 that Labor’s policy is that if people are intercepted on the high seas then these vessels should be...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Deputy Chair of the African Union Commission, His Excellency Erastus Mwencha. On behalf of the House I extend to him a...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Medical Workforce (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. What has been the response from stakeholders in the broader community to the government’s plan to train a record number of doctors?
- People Smugglers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister confirm that the government has wasted $4 million on a combating people-smuggling communications campaign, when clearly the message...
- Hospitals (31 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Why is accurate budget reporting of Commonwealth funding of public hospitals important to the health reform debate?
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the government’s budget estimate that only 200 unauthorised arrivals were expected to come to Australia by boat in the...
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on recent assessments of the Australian economy and what respected economists and institutions are saying about the state of...
- Asylum Seekers (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to this advertisement in the Northern Territory to recruit staff to the Northern Immigration Detention Centre in Darwin, which has...
- Medicare (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Human Services and Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law. What has Medicare Australia’s investigation of the chronic disease...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon Ralph Willis, a former member for Gellibrand in this place and a former minister, including former Treasurer. On behalf of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the case of Mrs Joyce Smith of Coffs Harbour, who had foil insulation installed in her home. Mrs Smith paid $240 on top of the...
- Hospitals (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How is the government supporting health and hospital reform and how have past failures in health policy made the need for action more urgent?
- Home Insulation Program (6 speeches)
My question without notice is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to a letter of 14 March from Mr David Yunus, a homeowner in Marrickville in Sydney, who says an insulation...
- Pensions and Benefits (5 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. How are government support and community attitudes to disability pensioners, carers and families...
- Building the Education Revolution Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. I refer the minister to recent comments by one New South Wales principal who stated: I am sitting here staring at my beautiful new $425,000 library...
- Trade (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade. Would the minister advise the House on the important role that international trade plays in creating jobs in Australia and on the significance of the...
- Building the Education Revolution (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. I refer the minister to comments by Mr Gary Zadkovich, the deputy president of the New South Wales Teachers Federation, who said: A school may...
- Burma (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Minister, has there been any progress on the so-called road map to democracy in Burma since the minister’s statement to the House last month?
- Building the Education Revolution Program (19 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to a statement of the New South Wales Teachers Federation, whose 50,000 members serve in 3,000 public schools around New South...
- Hospitals (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on his plan to reform the health and hospital systems and of any impediments to the implementation of this plan?
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (10 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Committees (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...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Zimbabwe (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to update the House on the situation in Zimbabwe. 11 February 2010 was the first anniversary of the swearing in of Mr Morgan Tsvangirai as Prime Minister in Zimbabwe’s...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Border Protection (67 speeches)
Mr Speaker has received a letter from the honourable member for Cook proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The failure of the...
- Tax Laws Amendment (Political Contributions and Gifts) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Message from the Governor-General reported informing the House of assent to the bill.
- Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (2009 Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Bill 2009; Midwife Professional Indemnity (Run-Off Cover Support Payment) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Health Legislation Amendment (Midwives and Nurse Practitioners) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (13 speeches)
Bill returned from the Senate with amendments. Ordered that the amendments be considered immediately. Senate’s amendments— (1) Schedule 1, item 6, page 4 (line 10),...
- Anti-People Smuggling and Other Measures Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (30 speeches)
Debate resumed from 15 March, on motion by Mr McClelland: 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.
- Anti-People Smuggling and Other Measures Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 8.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- The Partners of Veterans Association (1 speech)
To celebrate International Women’s Day last week, my office organised a morning tea for a group of women who have for most of their lives taken a back seat in order to support their...
- Asbestos (1 speech)
Today I presented a petition of more than 1,000 signatures to the secretariat of the Standing Committee on Petitions calling on this parliament to lead international efforts to ban the mining,...
- Mr Ron Gianoncelli (1 speech)
For some years I have known a man called Ron Gianoncelli. I first met him when he was the newsagent at Koondoola Plaza shopping centre, and he now runs the Australia Post shopfront up at the...
- Beef Imports (1 speech)
Constituents of my electorate of Hindmarsh and constituents of all electorates around the nation look for a federal government that hears their concerns and then acts on those concerns....
- Mitchell Electorate: Rouse Hill (1 speech, 1 comment)
I rise tonight to speak on behalf of the hundreds of residents of Rouse Hill in my electorate of Mitchell who were threatened by yet another government failure in New South Wales. Last week more...
- Hospitals (2 speeches)
Tonight I rise to speak on Building a National Health and Hospitals Network, which was announced last week. This makes me very proud, because I know that many of the constituents in my electorate...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (12 speeches)
The following notices were given:
