House debates
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
- Excise Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2010; Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Private Members’ Business; Report (1 speech)
I present the report relating to committee and delegation reports and private members’ business on Monday, 21 June 2010. Copies of the report have been placed on the table. The report read...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Radiocommunications Amendment 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. The bill proposes amendments to the Radiocommunications Act 1992 (the act) to:give the independent radiocommunications regulator, the Australian...
- International Monetary Agreements Amendment Bill (No. 1) 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. Mr Speaker, the bill amends the International Monetary Agreements Act 1947 to allow Australia to accept the changes to the terms and conditions...
- Tradex Scheme 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. This bill will clarify the eligibility of partnerships for the Tradex Scheme and remove redundant provisions. The Tradex Scheme was introduced as...
- Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Garrett. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill amends the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005. It allows the setting of additional criteria for registration of a...
- Civil Dispute Resolution Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr McClelland. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Introduction Late last year the government adopted the strategic framework for access to justice to inform and shape future reforms to the...
- Service and Execution of Process Amendment (Interstate Fine Enforcement) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr McClelland. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Introduction The Service and Execution of Process Amendment (Interstate Fine Enforcement) Bill 2010 implements a decision of the Standing...
- 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 (15 speeches)
Debate resumed from 15 June, 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 put.
- Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Pre-Poll Voting and Other Measures) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 2 June, on motion by Mr Gray: 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.
- Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 2 June, on motion by Mr Gray: That this bill be now read a second time. Question put.
- Consideration in Detail (4 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.
- Electoral and Referendum Amendment (How-to-Vote Cards and Other Measures) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed. from 2 June, on motion by Mr Gray: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time.
- Consideration in Detail (4 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.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 8, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Excise Tariff Amendment (Aviation Fuel) Bill 2010; Customs Tariff Amendment (Aviation Fuel) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (15 speeches)
Debate resumed from 3 June, on motion by Mr Albanese: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister, and I refer the Prime Minister to statements about his great big new tax on mining. Here is David Murray: ‘My view is that the tax has to be changed or...
- Welfare Reform (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline to the House the government’s approach to welfare reform, as set out in the welfare reform bills currently before the...
- Budget (4 speeches)
May I, on indulgence, say yes to those questions that were posed. My question is to the Prime Minister—I do not wish the Prime Minister to be unnecessarily frustrated or agitated—
- Welfare Reform (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. How will the government’s welfare reform fight passive welfare and support children?
- Budget (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the following statements made by economic analysts about his proposed big new tax on mining. Chris Richardson from Access...
- Aviation (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. What is the government’s priority when it comes to aviation policy? How is the...
- Budget (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the respected economic analyst Morgan Stanley’s latest research report, released this morning, which finds that under the...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How do prospects for the Australian and other Asian economies compare with elsewhere in the world, and what does this say about the need for economic reform here...
- Budget (38 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the recent statement of the Canadian Minister of Finance, Jim Flaherty, who said of the supertax: If it is what it appears to...
- Building the Education Revolution Program (8 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 recent...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister now admit to the House that the tax he sought to compare to his supertax in his last answer is in fact an amendment to the mining...
- Maternity Care (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How is the government providing more choice and information for women and families in maternity care—
- Budget (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister’s earlier answer, in which he compared a new earthquake tax in Chile with his own great big new tax on mining. Can the...
- Liberal National Party (46 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation and the Minister representing the Special Minister for State. Why is it important that registered political parties run stable and...
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report Nos 43 and 44 of 2009-10 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 43 of 2009-10 entitled Performance audit: Army individual readiness notice and Audit report No. 44 entitled Performance audit:...
- Report No. 37 of 2009-2010; Correction (1 speech)
I present a correction to Audit report No. 37 for 2009-2010 entitled Performance audit: lightweight torpedo replacement project, which was tabled in the House on 24 May 2010. Ordered that the...
- 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)
- Australian Federal Police (5 speeches, 1 comment)
I seek leave to make a ministerial statement related to the Australian Federal Police.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Home Insulation Program (8 speeches)
Ramsey Rowen (the Deputy Speaker): Mr Speaker has received a letter from the honourable member for Flinders proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Excise Tariff Amendment (Aviation Fuel) Bill 2010; Customs Tariff Amendment (Aviation Fuel) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
Debate resumed.
- 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 (Aviation Fuel) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 3 June, on motion by Mr Albanese: 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.
- Export Market Development Grants Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (11 speeches, 2 comments)
Debate resumed from 26 May, on motion by Mr Stephen Smith: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 7.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Petition: Bats in Maclean; Military Superannuation Pensions (1 speech)
This evening I am tabling a petition with over 4,500 signatures supporting my private member’s bill which would extend emergency powers to the Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage...
- Jeffrey William Shaw (1 speech)
I propose to read a statement issued on behalf of the friends and colleagues of Jeff Shaw, at the time of his death on 11 May 2010, and headed ‘New South Wales loses a legal and political...
- Frankston Infrastructure Projects (1 speech)
In the few minutes I have tonight I would like to raise a few issues. The first arises from the great concern about the way in which the Rudd Labor government is prepared to spend...
- Israel (1 speech)
Like millions of people around the world I watched with horror the actions of the Israeli armed forces in their assault on the freedom flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. The predictable...
- Mining (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the impacts the Labor government’s proposed mining and resource tax will have in my electorate of Forrest—a tax that will impose some of the highest taxes in the...
- Education Funding (4 speeches)
I rise to support Australia’s schools and students, as opposed to the previous speaker, the member for Forrest, who argued that mining companies should not pay their fair share of tax. The...
- Ministerial Reply (1 speech)
I want to make it clear that, in making her adjournment speech tonight, the member for Fowler was not speaking on behalf of the Rudd government.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- McMillan Electorate: Warragul Girl Guides (1 speech)
Madam Deputy Speaker, I do not know whether you were a Joey, a Brownie or a Guide, but many people in leadership positions, like you, have had some exposure to Guiding or Scouting. Guiding is a...
- Makin Electorate: Vietnamese Community (1 speech)
In recent times there has been considerable public debate on the question of asylum seekers arriving in Australia. The refugee debate has been grossly distorted by those who seek to make...
- Solar Energy; Esther Foundation (1 speech)
It was interesting to hear the member for McMillan speak about his Girl Guides. On the weekend I attended the relaunch of the 1st Bentley Scout Group in my electorate; however, I rise to speak...
- Isaacs Electorate: Animalia Wildlife Shelter (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the launch of the Animalia Wildlife Shelter at the Carrum Indigenous Nursery on Saturday, 5 June, which was World Environment Day. With the theme being ‘Many Species....
- Lyne Electorate: Mining (1 speech)
I rise to talk about an issue of policy significance, potentially one of what I consider to be the major legal, moral and political policy challenges for both the state and federal governments...
- Electoral Matters (1 speech)
Yesterday was a day for the Liberal Party that shall live in infamy. Yesterday their party room voted against the provisions to restore the seven-day period of grace to the electoral roll whereby...
- Taxation (1 speech)
I rise today to support the thousands and thousands of independent contractors and self-employed people who are facing the threat of the Rudd government breaking yet another promise. Prior to the...
- Werriwa Electorate: Men’s Sheds (1 speech)
One of the joys we have in representing our communities is the opportunity that we get from time to time to meet many surprising people, people that ordinarily you would not get a chance to meet....
- Cowan Electorate: Grandparents as Carers (1 speech)
I would like to make some comments this morning about grandparents caring for their grandchildren. I think that any of us who have been out doorknocking will have at some point come across the...
- Corio Electorate: MS Readathon (2 speeches)
This morning in Parliament House a special event is about to take place: the nation’s top fundraisers in one of this country’s best known charity fundraising events, the MS Readathon,...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2010-2011 (0 speeches)
- Consideration in Detail (45 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 15 June. Foreign Affairs and Trade Portfolio Proposed expenditure, $5,509,751,000
- Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (151 speeches)
Proposed expenditure, $3,061,446,000
