House debates
Thursday, 3 June 2010
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
On Monday the Leader of the House raised a matter of privilege relating to reports that the member for Ryan had complained to police authorities that he had been subject to undue pressure and to...
- Excise Tariff Amendment (Aviation Fuel) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Albanese. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill seeks to establish in legislation an increase in the excise applying to aviation fuel. On 11 May 2010, the Treasurer, the Hon. Wayne...
- Customs Tariff Amendment (Aviation Fuel) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill presented by Mr Albanese. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Customs Tariff Amendment (Aviation Fuel) Bill 2010 is the second of the related bills, which gives effect to increased rates of duty for...
- 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...
- Territories Law Reform Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Correction to the Explanatory Memorandum (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, for the information of honourable members, I present a correction to the explanatory memorandum for the Territories Law Reform Bill 2010.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Publications Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the report from the Publications Committee. Copies of the report are being placed on the table. Report—by leave—agreed to.
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Budget Measures) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 2 June, on motion by Ms Kate Ellis: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (2010 Budget Measures) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (9 speeches, 1 comment)
Debate resumed from 26 May, on motion by Mr Griffin: 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.
- Child Support and Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (14 speeches)
Debate resumed from 26 May, on motion by Ms Macklin: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Export Market Development Grants Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
Debate resumed from 26 May, on motion by Mr Stephen Smith: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science and the Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency will be absent from question time...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I demand the call.
- Prime Minister (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the announcement this morning—
- Australian Mining Industry (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing Orders (16 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Kennedy moving immediately the following motion:That the House immediately debate a matter...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (16 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the announcement this morning by mining company Xstrata that it has suspended $586 million of current investment in two major...
- Economy (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister explain how the national accounts reflect the consequences of strong economic management, and why it is important to continue to...
- Budget (46 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, the mining company Xstrata has today announced that it will suspend the $6 billion Wandoan coal project, near Roma in my electorate of...
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. How is the government stimulus continuing to support jobs across Australia, particularly in my area of south-west Sydney?
- Budget (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. What job transition and employment assistance arrangements will be offered to mining industry workers who lose their jobs as a result of the...
- Education (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and the Minister for Social Inclusion. Will the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on school...
- Infrastructure (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to remarks made last night by Sir Rod Eddington, who is chairman of Infrastructure Australia, who questioned the policy-making...
- Superannuation (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Human Services and Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law. What will be the impact on the retirement incomes of working Australians...
- Mining (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to a statement today from Mr Ian Henderson, head of JPMorgan Chase London’s $7 billion natural resource fund, where he says...
- Infrastructure (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Why is funding certainty and consistency in long-term planning important in delivering...
- Prime Minister (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (5 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 censures the Prime...
- 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)
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
I have 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 Government’s failure...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation. Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented? I do, most grievously. Please proceed. Mr Speaker, yesterday in this House in...
- Export Market Development Grants Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Rudd Labor Government (1 speech)
Facebook is an emerging and powerful tool for local people to communicate with their elected representatives. Just 48 hours ago I wrote to 1,400 local Redland residents, none of whom are aligned...
- Computers in Schools (1 speech)
I want to talk about a very successful Rudd government program in relation to computers in schools and the threat that is being posed to it by the policies of the opposition. The Central Coast is...
- North Sydney Electorate: North Shore Times (1 speech)
All of us in this House understand the important role that local newspapers play in the lives of the communities we represent. Today I want to reflect on the success of one of those papers, the...
- Newcastle Electorate: Innovation (1 speech)
In many speeches to the House I often find myself making special mention of innovation in Newcastle, and that is for very good reason. Over the past few years, Newcastle has gained a well-earned...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
Many people are not aware of some of the facts and figures surrounding asylum seekers in this country. In fact, some time ago I put out a brochure in my electorate to answer some commonly asked...
- Economy; Braddon Electorate: Schools (2 speeches)
I would like to raise two things this evening. The first is to recognise this government’s very good record in keeping our economy moving. The newspaper headline, ‘The economy on the...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Forrest Electorate: Environment (1 speech)
Today I would like to bring the serious concerns of constituents in my electorate of Forrest to the attention of the government. In May the Labor Minister for Resources and Energy announced the...
- Poverty (1 speech)
Recently, the parliament hosted many young people from throughout Australia involved in the Make Poverty History campaign. One of those, Jess Jacobson, was a Tasmanian organiser. Jess is from my...
- Petition: National School Chaplaincy; Petition: Marriage (1 speech)
I rise this morning to present two very important petitions to this chamber. The first is a petition which calls on the Rudd government to extend the commitment to the National School Chaplaincy...
- Isaacs Electorate: Community Bank (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the opening of an important business for the Aspendale Gardens and Edithvale area, which is the community bank at Aspendale Gardens Shopping Centre. The opening of the...
- Health Reform (1 speech)
‘Balderdash!’ as the Prime Minister said yesterday. What we heard from the member for Isaacs a moment ago about the health reforms is exactly the point that I would like to raise...
- Holt Electorate: Jayco (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about a local success story that commenced in the winter of 1975 in a shed in Cranbourne. A 24-year-old man started a small business. He started with only eight employees...
- Higgins Electorate: Home Insulation Program (1 speech)
Today I rise to bring the attention of the House to the latest example of the government’s failure in its billion dollar botched Home Insulation Program. After the tragic loss of lives,...
- Dobell Electorate: Health Reform (1 speech)
I rise to speak about health reform on the Central Coast. In particular, I want to talk about some of the initiatives that this government has introduced, such as the GP superclinic. I know that...
- Banks (1 speech)
I rise again to express my concerns about the debt recovery practices of banks across Australia, and not just in my constituency, where there is a debt tsunami sweeping across the electorate as a...
- Petrie Electorate: Health Reform (2 speeches)
I rise to talk about health reform in my area, Redcliffe peninsula, in the electorate of Petrie. Like the member for Dobell, I am very excited about a new GP superclinic being built in my area....
- 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 2 June, 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.
- Mayo Electorate: Building the Education Revolution Program (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker, thank you for the opportunity to speak this afternoon on adjournment in relation to a very important issue in my electorate: the waste and mismanagement of the Building the...
- Shortland Electorate: Trades Training Centres in Schools Program (3 speeches)
I am shocked to hear the previous speaker state that the Building the Education Revolution program was the worst program ever introduced. Just for his information, I would like to put on the...
- Cowan Electorate: Crime (1 speech)
Wherever I go in the electorate of Cowan, whether it is in shopping centres, or at people’s front doors or at sporting complexes around Cowan, one of the major issues that people bring to...
- Isaacs Electorate: Community Centres (1 speech)
I rise to speak about my recent visits to two important locations in my electorate that offer assistance to people in our local community, the Lyrebird Community Centre in Carrum Downs and...
- Grey Electorate: Telecommunications (3 speeches)
Last week, I had the opportunity to visit one of the most beautiful parts of my electorate, the iconic Flinders Ranges. The primary reason was to attend a community meeting at Blinman, which was...
- Petition: Asbestos (1 speech)
This afternoon I would like to update the House on my campaign to improve awareness of the dangers of asbestos and to ban the global mining and sale of asbestos products. In March this year, I...
