House debates
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare and Youth and Minister for Sport will be absent from question time this week as she is in South Africa promoting...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Canley Vale Air Crash (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
On indulgence, I wish to advise the House that earlier this morning there was a fatal light aircraft accident at Canley Vale Heights near Bankstown Airport. I am advised that that police have...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade. I refer the minister to his criticism of the government’s lack of consultation with the mining industry prior to its decision to impose a great big...
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the strength of Australia’s economy and the importance of reform for the future?
- Budget (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Energy. At what stage were you consulted about the government’s decision to impose a great big new tax? Was it before the decision was taken...
- Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Why is the resource super profits tax important to ensuring Australia has the...
- Budget (29 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. What advice did the minister seek from her department regarding the impact on jobs of the government’s great big new...
- Iran (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Minister, will you advise the House of steps taken by the Australian government to enforce new United Nations Security Council sanctions...
- Budget (31 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to Mr Paul Kelly, who runs drilling rigs in north-west Queensland. As a result of the great big new tax on mining, two of his...
- Schools (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education and Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. Will the Deputy Prime Minister please update the House on the...
- Budget (14 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the Deloitte WA share index, underpinned by Western Australian mining companies, which fell 12.6 per cent in May,...
- Welfare Reform (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Why is it critical that the government’s welfare reforms commence as early as possible?
- Medicare (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, more than 30,000 Australians who had Medicare claims for cataract surgery between 1 November last year and 1 February this year are hundreds...
- Health (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister update the House on the rollout of the government’s GP superclinics to improve primary care services? What risks are...
- Education Funding (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. Is the minister aware that the Brungle Primary School in my electorate was allocated $250,000 under her school hall stimulus program? Is the minister...
- Workplace Relations (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. Will the minister outline to the House the impact of workplace...
- 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 Votes and Proceedings. I move: That the House take note of the...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Whaling (1 speech)
by leave—Next week, I shall attend the 62nd annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission, the IWC, a meeting that is shaping up to be a watershed in the conservation of whales in...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Paid Parental Leave Scheme (2 speeches)
by leave—I thank the member for Flinders for allowing this short interruption. For the information of honourable members, I present a petition on paid parental leave entitled ‘Time to...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Whaling (2 speeches)
Consideration resumed.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Foreign Evidence Amendment Bill 2010; Tax Laws Amendment (2010 Measures No. 1) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Messages from the Governor-General reported informing the House of assent to the bills.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No. 1, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Close of Rolls and Other Measures) Bill (No. 2) 2010; Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Pre-Poll Voting and Other Measures) Bill 2010; Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2010; Electoral and Referendum Amendment (How-to-Vote Cards and Other Measures) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (35 speeches)
Debate resumed from 2 June, on motion by Mr Gray: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 8.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Paterson Electorate: Telecommunications (1 speech)
Improved telecommunications are an important issue for my electorate of Paterson. However, tonight I wish to raise two completely separate issues that have been brought to my attention recently...
- Makin Electorate: Para Hills (1 speech)
This year the suburb of Para Hills in the Makin electorate and City of Salisbury celebrated its 50th anniversary. On 8 May 2010 a day of community events were held to celebrate this milestone. I...
- Farrer Electorate: Cancer Services (1 speech)
Tomorrow, a busload of cancer patients, cancer carers and allied cancer workers from southern New South Wales and north-east Victoria will travel to Canberra to present a petition of about 17,000...
- Kingston Electorate: Water (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about the important investment this government has made in water infrastructure. I was very pleased last week to be with Senator Penny Wong, Minister for Climate Change,...
- Boothby Electorate: Vandalism (1 speech)
I rise this evening to put on the record a major issue of concern for many residents in my electorate. The community of Boothby has recently seen an escalation of vandalism and antisocial...
- Lindsay Electorate: Education Funding (1 speech)
Over the last 2½ years schools right around this country have been undergoing a revolution, but it appears as though the counterrevolution has begun. The Liberal-National Party have...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (8 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Dickson Electorate: Postbox (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on an issue that is important for the residents of Mount Samson, Samsonvale and surrounding areas in my electorate—that is, the lack of a local postbox. At a recent...
- Petition: Feeding Tube Dependency (1 speech)
I rise today to present a petition, the principal petitioner being Karelle Logan, a constituent of mine. The petition has 3,155 signatories and relates to a circumstance that I think all members...
- Grey Electorate: Building the Education Revolution Program (1 speech)
I rise to raise an individual issue with the Deputy Prime Minister’s BER, or school halls project. Snowtown Area School is only an hour and a half north of Adelaide—in a seat like...
- Greenway Electorate: Building the Education Revolution (1 speech)
I rise today to update the House on a matter I raised in the Main Committee on 27 May this year and again during question time on 2 June this year. The Mount Victoria Public School is a great...
- Ukrainian Youth Association of Australia (1 speech)
I speak to recognise the 60th anniversary of the Ukrainian Youth Association of Australia and to praise the work that they have done. To read anything of the brutal history of the 20th century...
- Child Care (1 speech)
I rise to highlight my concerns on behalf of the Yarram district community in relation to the provision of childcare services and this government’s broken promise to build 260 childcare...
- Lindsay Electorate: Penrith Jobs Expo (1 speech)
I rise to take note of the recent Jobs Expo held in Penrith and to acknowledge the phenomenal success that this expo had in linking up job seekers with employment opportunities. It has been a...
- Deakin Electorate: Glen Park Pavilion and Dorset Golf Course (1 speech)
Today I would like to tell the House about two wonderful new projects that have just opened in my electorate of Deakin. The first is the Glen Park Sports Pavilion. Glen Park is located in...
- Gippsland Electorate: Princes Highway (1 speech)
I rise to raise concerns on behalf of the community of East Gippsland and the public, particularly those in the tourism industry, travelling through the region of East Gippsland about the status...
- Huon Valley Trade Training Centre (2 speeches)
Tonight I would like to put on record my concerns about the Huon Valley Trade Training Centre in my electorate, which will be under threat should the Liberal-National coalition get elected. With...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2010-2011; Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2010-2011; Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2010-2011 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 3 June, on motion by Mr Albanese: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2010-2011 (0 speeches)
- Consideration in Detail (112 speeches)
The Main Committee will now consider the bill in detail. In accordance with standing order 149, the Committee will first consider the schedule of the bill.
