House debates
Thursday, 27 May 2010
- Competition and Consumer Legislation Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Dr Emerson. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Introduction The Competition and Consumer Legislation Amendment Bill 2010 will give effect to two important reforms to strengthen and clarify our...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Approval of Work (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, it is expedient to carry out the following proposed work which was referred to the Parliamentary Standing...
- 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...
- Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment Bill 2010; Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Charge) Amendment Bill 2010; Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Small-Scale Technology Shortfall Charge) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (22 speeches)
Debate resumed from 26 May, on motion by Mr Gray: 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.
- Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Charge) Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 12 May, on motion by Mr Gray: 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.
- Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Small-Scale Technology Shortfall Charge) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 12 May, on motion by Mr Gray: 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.
- Paid Parental Leave Bill 2010; Paid Parental Leave (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (29 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 May, on motion by Ms Macklin: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (7 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his 2007 promise to be tough on border protection, to maintain offshore processing and, in his own words, ‘to...
- Budget (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question is to the Prime Minister. Why is the resource super profits tax an important reform for Australia and what other views have been expressed about resources taxation in...
- Home Insulation Program (22 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister’s press conference of 23 February this year and his statement that the cabinet had not received reports of safety...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. What does the OECD’s Economic Outlook say about the 2009-10 budget and the performance of the Australian economy?
- 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 Saudi Arabia led by His Excellency Dr Khalid bin Mohammed Al...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (17 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Yesterday the Treasurer in this place declared the effective tax rate for the mining industry at the moment to be 17 per cent, and he said that on eight separate...
- Taxation (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Why is tax reform critical to strengthening Australia’s economy?
- Budget (20 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to comments by the Chairman of Rio Tinto, who said yesterday: “From the government’s side, some of the statistics that we have...
- Trade Training Centres in Schools Program (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. How is the government investing in our schools to deliver trades...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister assure the people of Whyalla that his great big new tax on mining will not jeopardise the Whyalla steelworks and the thousands of jobs...
- Productivity (15 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 outline to the House the importance...
- Budget (54 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to claims by the Hunter Business Chamber, a chamber that represents 1,000 businesses in the Hunter Valley, that 15,000 people are...
- Hospitals (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister update the House on the government’s rollout of extra subacute services and beds across our hospital system and on...
- Budget (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question is to the Treasurer. Given that the government is preparing to announce changes to the great big new tax on mining, will the Treasurer guarantee that after the backflip he...
- Defence Equipment (12 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister for Defence Materiel and Science and the Minister assisting the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. Will the minister inform the...
- Budget (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and it refers to the damage already being done by his great big new tax—the collapsing dollar, the falling stock market, the suspension of projects and...
- Korean Peninsula (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister update the House on how Australia is working with other nations to respond to developments on the Korean Peninsula? Why is...
- Budget (14 speeches)
I refer my question to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, there are reports in the Warwick Daily News in my electorate of Maranoa that the government’s great big new tax on mining is a...
- Infrastructure (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. How is the government delivering community and nation-building infrastructure for regional...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (15 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 42 of 2009-10 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 42 of 2009-10 entitled Fraud control in Australian government agencies. Ordered that the report be made a parliamentary paper.
- 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...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Budget (7 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Wide Bay proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The failure of the...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Telecommunications: Services and Charges (1 speech)
This evening I rise to speak out on behalf of the thousands of small businesses that are currently caught up and experiencing great personal, financial and legal distress through something that...
- Environment: Trade Waste (1 speech)
We know that industry continues to discharge trade waste into our sewers. Trade waste like all sewer waste goes to treatment plants for treatment, and eventually the treated sewage is discharged...
- Albury-Wodonga: Cancer Services (1 speech)
I wish to address the parliament this evening on the matter of cancer services in Albury Wodonga. For many years I have been very supportive of the strong community desire to see the...
- Chifley Electorate: Trade Training Centres in Schools Program (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about the impact on my electorate of the proposal of the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Abbott, to slash $230 million from the Trade Training Centres in Schools Program in...
- Sturt Electorate: Australia Post and Black Hill Pony Club (1 speech)
It is a pleasure to speak on the adjournment of the House tonight about two specific issues in my electorate. One relates to the Black Hill Pony Club, which I will get to in the second half of my...
- La Trobe Electorate: Roads (2 speeches)
I would like again to speak on behalf of La Trobe residents of my great concern with what is happening in Clyde Road in Berwick. The Berwick debacle has been an ongoing issue. Sadly, the Labor...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- LPG Vehicle Scheme (1 speech)
I rise this morning to speak on the LPG Vehicle Scheme and to express the concerns of constituents in my electorate over the current eligibility criteria. While much of these criteria are good...
- Deakin Electorate: Maroondah (1 speech)
Today I would like to inform the House of yet another great project that is being delivered by the Rudd government for the benefit of the citizens of Maroondah, one of two local government areas...
- Mayo Electorate: Small Business (1 speech)
It is a pleasure to rise in this place this morning to talk about the small business survey I recently undertook with the 7,000-odd small businesses in my electorate of Mayo. Mayo has a very...
- Bennelong Electorate: Asian Language Studies (1 speech)
I rise today to promote the cause of Asian language education, which will certainly not benefit from the member for Warringah. I have spoken many times in this place about the vibrant, ethnically...
- Tangney Electorate: Airport Noise (1 speech)
I wish to raise the very vexing issue of aircraft noise. In the nearly six years since I became the member of Tangney, this problem has worsened significantly, especially in the last couple of...
- Chifley Electorate: New Medicare Office (1 speech)
I am very pleased to say that the Minister for Human Services and Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law has announced that a Medicare office will be opening in the...
- Bradfield Electorate: Town Planning (1 speech)
I rise to raise a matter of grave concern to residents in my electorate of Bradfield. The New South Wales Labor government has added another chapter to the shameful story of undemocratic planning...
- Holt Electorate: Local Sporting Champions Program (3 speeches)
I rise today to talk about the Local Sporting Champions program and its effect in my electorate.
- Greenway Electorate: Building the Education Revolution Program (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on behalf of Mount Victoria Public School’s parents and citizens association, who are terribly frustrated and indeed dismayed at the mismanagement of the buildings...
- Shortland Electorate: Veterans (2 speeches)
I rise to share with the House information about and details of a wonderful group that exists throughout Australia, the Partners of Veterans Association. It was formed in New South Wales in 1999...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2010-2011; Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2010-2011; Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2010-2011 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (25 speeches)
Debate resumed from 25 May, on motion by Mr Swan: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Main Committee do now adjourn.
- Homelessness; Rudd Government (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker, have you noticed how self-centred people have become these days? They are concerned about what is the next show on TV, who is saying what on Facebook, what is going to be...
- Blair Electorate: Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program; Blair Electorate: Mr Neil Zabel (1 speech)
The Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program has been a big boon for the Ipswich and West Moreton area. One billion dollars has been allocated and distributed across Australia for that...
- Rudd Government (1 speech)
What a wonderful parallel universe some of our representatives in this place must live in! I rise today to speak about the incompetence of this government and the effect that its failures are...
- Newcastle Electorate: Sport (6 speeches)
It is the day after the first round of the State of Origin, and some of us in New South Wales are feeling a little bruised by the result. I would like to share with the chamber some of the...
- Fadden Electorate: Seniors Forum and Expo (1 speech)
Last Monday I ran the Gold Coast North Fadden Seniors Forum and Expo, which was the inaugural seniors expo in the northern part of the Gold Coast. We thought we would take a toe in the water...
- Foreign Policy: Middle East (2 speeches)
Yesterday, the Parliamentary Friends of Palestine hosted a briefing from the Australian People for Health, Education and Development Abroad, known as APHEDA, here in our parliament. The briefing...
