House debates
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Mr Urquhart Edward ‘Ted’ Innes (1 speech)
I inform the House of the death on Friday, 28 May 2010 of Urquhart Edward ‘Ted’ Innes, a member of this House for the division of Melbourne from 1972 to 1983. As a mark of respect to...
- Prime Minister (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (9 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Warringah from moving the following motion forthwith:“That this House suspend...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer him to correspondence released last night between the Treasurer and the Special Minister of State which shows that the Prime Minister and his senior...
- Middle East (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister advise the House of the Australian government’s response to the incident yesterday between the Israeli navy and a...
- Budget (10 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to his letter of 10 May to the Special Minister of State, where he advised: Since the government’s tax reforms involve changes to the...
- Interest Rates (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. What has been the outcome of today’s meeting of the Reserve Bank of Australia board?
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the $38 million advertising campaign on the current mining tax policy. Given that the government is, in its own words, ‘consulting on the...
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister explain the importance of responsible economic management to secure economic growth and prosperity for all Australians?
- Government Advertising (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the Treasurer’s letter dated 10 May about the government’s advertising campaign decision made on 20 April asking...
- Budget (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Why is it important to counter misrepresentations regarding the government’s tax reform package?
- Work and Family (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. How is the government providing support to Australian families?
- Budget (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and I refer to this email from Mr Max Mawhinney, who is a beef producer in New South Wales. He states: Now we have the Rudd resource tax, which will make...
- Productivity (3 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 advise the House of the importance...
- Budget (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his answer yesterday when, in defence of his great big new tax on mining, he said, ‘Whichever way you cut the cake the...
- Child Care (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare and Youth and Minister for Sport, who I know is delighted with the Matildas. How is the government ensuring the stability...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. This morning I visited a landscape supplier in Queanbeyan which provides road base, limestone, sand and granite to other businesses and currently...
- Prime Minister (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (13 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Warringah from moving the following motion forthwith:That the Prime Minister be called and...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (22 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Budget (40 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Cowper proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The adverse effect of the...
- Paid Parental Leave Bill 2010; Paid Parental Leave (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 31 May, on motion by Mr Swan: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time. Message from the Governor-General recommending...
- Paid Parental Leave Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Consideration in Detail (8 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- 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 (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 26 May, on motion by Mr Swan: 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.
- Tax Laws Amendment (Medicare Levy and Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (6 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 May, 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.
- Excise Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2010; Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (8 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 May, 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.
- Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 May, on motion by Ms Roxon: 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.
- Health Legislation Amendment (Australian Community Pharmacy Authority and Private Health Insurance) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (6 speeches)
Debate resumed from 12 May, 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.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being approximately 8.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Hume Electorate: Gunning Public School (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the ongoing Building the Education Revolution and, in particular, inconsistencies regarding the costings in the construction of school halls and libraries. Gunning is a small...
- Education (1 speech)
I certainly welcome a discussion on the Building the Education Revolution program and the Rudd government’s commitment to an education revolution. That is what I wish to speak about...
- Home Insulation Program (1 speech)
Jacqui and Alex Qureitem have been trying to get help from the government to fix their roof insulation problem since February this year. Getting nowhere with helplines, Jacqui and Alex approached...
- Building the Education Revolution (1 speech)
I rise to do something outrageous tonight: to highlight the great work taking place under the Building the Education Revolution Program. I say outrageous because, from what you would read in the...
- Transport Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak on the issue of transport infrastructure in my electorate of Mitchell. It is timely that I raise this matter here tonight in the House, because 2010 was the year that the...
- Economy (1 speech)
I rise tonight in this adjournment debate to update the House and the people of Solomon on the projects that were committed to before the first election and on how they are going. I have no doubt...
- Building the Education Revolution (2 speeches)
In the final two minutes of this adjournment debate I would like to comment on the remarks from the member for Chisholm and the member for Petrie, who were standing up in here singing the praises...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Greenway Electorate: Cancer Screening (1 speech)
I rise today to draw the House’s attention to the fact that last week in my electorate I was joined by the state shadow minister for health, Jillian Skinner, and the state Liberal candidate...
- Millennium Development Goals (1 speech)
I rise to show my strong support for the Millennium Development Goals and those individuals and organisations who, through the Micah Challenge and the Make Poverty History campaign, are working...
- Mitchell Electorate: Military Pensions (1 speech)
I rise today to add my voice to the issue of military superannuation pensions, which is an issue that has been hotly debated in this chamber in recent days and one which many of my constituents...
- Melbourne Ports Electorate: Homelessness (1 speech)
Last week during the appropriation bills debate I spoke about how this government is tackling homelessness and congratulated Tanya Plibersek, the federal Minister for Housing, the Victorian...
- Murray Electorate: Water (1 speech)
I want to talk about 50 farm families on 10,000 hectares just a few kilometres out of Shepparton. These people, for the last 112 years, have been depending on a stock and domestic water supply...
- Lindsay Electorate: Community Groups (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the efforts of three active groups in my local community. Residents of Orchard Hills have formed the group Residents Against Industrial Dump to campaign against a proposed...
- Gippsland Electorate: Aged Care (1 speech)
I rise to raise concerns with the government’s failure to adequately plan and provide funding for our ageing population. I refer specifically to the decision this week for a 1.7 per cent...
- Lyons Electorate: Building the Education Revolution (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to tell my colleagues on both sides of the House how well the Building the Education Revolution program has gone down in the electorate of Lyons. I have been...
- Herbert Electorate: Economy (1 speech)
Today, as every day, the Rudd government borrowed another $100 million. It goes on day after day after day, and my kids and my kids’ kids will end up trying to pay it back. That is...
- Shortland Electorate: Schools (2 speeches)
I would like to share with the House the excitement and pleasure of the people of the Shortland electorate at the wonderful cash injection into the schools in the Shortland electorate. Since the...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2010-2011; Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2010-2011; Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2010-2011 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (26 speeches)
Debate resumed from 31 May, on motion by Mr Swan: That this bill be now read a second time.
