House debates
Monday, 15 November 2010
- Main Committee (0 speeches)
- Private Members’ Motions (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 41(g), and the determinations of the Selection Committee, I present copies of the terms of motions for which notice has been given by the Members for Reid,...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Petitions, and in accordance with standing order 207, I present the following petitions:
- Responses (1 speech)
Ministerial responses to petitions previously presented to the House have been received as follows:
- Responses; Tamworth: Defence Force Basic Flying Training School (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 1 June 2010 concerning a petition for the Australian Defence Force Basic Flying Training School to remain at Tamworth, NSW. The Interim Basic Flying...
- Responses; Education: Intelligent Creation (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 1 June 2010, on behalf of the Standing Committee on Petitions, concerning a petition regarding the place of biblical truth in our education systems. In...
- Responses; South Australia: Power Failures (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 25 May 2010 forwarding a petition regarding disruptions to power supply distributed by South Australia’s ETSA Utilities. I am responding to this...
- Statements (1 speech)
Today I am pleased to take the opportunity to report to the House for the first time in this parliament about activities of the Petitions Committee. I was pleased to be elected chair of the...
- Wild Rivers (Environmental Management) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Public Health and Safety) Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (2 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Hartsuyker.
- Banking Amendment (Delivering Essential Financial Services) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (2 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Bandt.
- Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Approval of Overseas Service) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (2 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Bandt.
- Paid Parental Leave (Reduction of Compliance Burden for Employers) Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (2 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Billson.
- National Broadband Network Financial Transparency Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 25 October.
- Second Reading (15 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill concerns the largest infrastructure investment in our nation’s history—$43 billion, 3¼ per cent of GDP. It beggars...
- Governor-General’S Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 28 October, on the proposed address-in-reply to the speech of Her Excellency the Governor-General— May it please Your Excellency: We, the House of Representatives of the...
- National Broadband Network Financial Transparency Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Referred to Main Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the bill be referred to the Main Committee for further consideration. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2010; Protection of the Sea Legislation Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Message from the Governor-General reported informing the House of assent to the bills.
- Carer Recognition Bill 2010; Food Standards Australia New Zealand Amendment Bill 2010; Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2010; Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Safety Levies) Amendment Bill 2010; Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Amendment Bill 2010; Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Bill 2010; Tradex Scheme Amendment Bill 2010; Veterans’ Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Native Title Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill received from the Senate and read a first time. Ordered that the second reading be made an order of the day for the next sitting.
- Law and Justice Legislation Amendment (Identity Crimes and Other Measures) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill received from the Senate and read a first time. Ordered that the second reading be made an order of the day for the next sitting.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Gambling Reform Committee; Message from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message receive from the Senate informing the House of a resolution agreed to by the Senate on 28 October 2010 relating to the inquiry into the prevalence of interactive and online gambling in...
- TAX LAWS AMENDMENT (2010 MEASURES; No. 4) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Correction to Explanatory Memorandum (1 speech)
For the information of honourable members I present a correction to the explanatory memorandum for the Tax Laws Amendment (2010 Measures No. 4) Bill 2010.
- Second Reading (27 speeches)
Debate resumed from 29 September, on motion by Mr Shorten: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Casey Electorate: Remembrance Day (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute to the local RSLs, local community groups and local schools who participated in Remembrance Day ceremonies in my electorate of Casey last week. As we all know,...
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (1 speech)
I was delighted to hear on Saturday night that Aung San Suu Kyi appears to have been unconditionally released after spending 15 of the past 21 years under house arrest in Burma. I urge the...
- Flynn electorate: Regional Communities (1 speech)
I draw the attention of the House to the effect that fly-in fly-out workforces are having on our regional communities. Towns like Emerald, Moura, Blackwater and Gladstone are being threatened...
- Indonesian Tsunami (1 speech)
The tsunami in the Mentawai Islands in late October and concurrent eruption of Mount Merapi near Yogyakarta remind us all how people anywhere can suddenly be overtaken by events of such...
- Hume Electorate: Mr Daniel Rumsey (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the wonderful achievements of one of the great champions of the Southern Highlands and the Hume electorate. I am pleased to inform the House that in October this year Daniel...
- Bass Electorate: Mr Oliver Vogel-Reed (1 speech)
I would like to congratulate a very skilled and talented 13-year-old student in my electorate of Bass. His name is Oliver Vogel-Reed. Oliver is a grade 7 student at Riverside High School and his...
- Gilmore Electorate: Ambulance Officers (2 speeches)
Last week, I was privileged to attend an awards ceremony to honour ambulance officers who attended the tragic crash at East Lynne where three members of one family and one other person lost their...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Assistant Treasurer will be absent from question time today as he has been delayed due to an illness in his immediate family. The Treasurer will answer questions on...
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
On indulgence, Mr Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to make some statements about the release of Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma. I am sure many Australians, with a tear in their eye and a lump...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Gillard Government (14 speeches)
My question is directed to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of her statement in June that the government had lost its way, and I ask the Prime Minister when does she expect to find...
- APEC Meeting (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the outcome of the recent meeting of the G20 summit in Korea and on the recent APEC leaders meeting in Japan?
- Asylum Seekers (4 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the comments by former Labor minister, now citizen, Graham Richardson, about the Prime Minister’s failures, and I quote: The announcement of...
- G20 Meeting (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Following the Prime Minister’s trip to the G20 summit last week, will the Prime Minister inform the House of both the Australian and the global outlook...
- Asylum Seekers (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the 47 boats and 2,362 boat people that have been intercepted offshore since June, when she indicated that the government had...
- G20 Meeting (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the outcomes from the G20 leaders meeting with regard to financial regulation and any implications for Australia?
- Interest Rates (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the 16 separate occasions on which she and the Treasurer have warned the banks about interest rate rises above the Reserve...
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will you please update the House on the economic and fiscal outlook for Australia?
- Banking (16 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Treasurer’s claim that he has been working on a second wave of banking reforms for some time but that he will not tell us what they are...
- Asylum Seekers (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. Will the minister outline to the House the implications of last week’s High Court decision on the processing of asylum...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to President Obama’s abandonment of a cap-and-trade emissions trading scheme for the world’s largest economy. As the...
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. Minister, can you tell the House what implications the recent OECD survey of Australia has for climate change policy? What...
- National Education Standards (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the rejection on Friday of the national curriculum by the New South Wales Board of Studies, which means the curriculum will not...
- National Broadband Network (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. What progress is being made to roll out the...
- Mental Health (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission recommends building early psychosis prevention and intervention centres, or EPPICs—which should not...
- Medical Services (4 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister outline progress made on the GP superclinic program, including for the newly announced clinics?
- National Broadband Network (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to claims by NextGen Networks and Optus that struggling families and pensioners will have to pay an extra $30 per month for a...
- Paid Parental Leave (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Will the minister update the House on the implementation and importance of the government’s...
- Cleaner Car Rebate Scheme (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the comments of the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research regarding the cash-for-clunkers program that the...
- Taxation (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Energy and the Minister for Tourism. Will the minister update the House on the progress of the Policy Transition Group in progressing the...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Parliament House: Water Features (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, the first question is very simple. The water features around Parliament House are covered in shadecloth et cetera. Given the fact that, as I understand it, Canberra is no longer...
- Parliamentary Library (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my second question is in relation to resourcing the Parliamentary Library. Over the last few days I have endeavoured to get a Bills Digest on the bill that is being debated today, the...
- Parliament House: Noise (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I am reluctant to raise this, but I have raised this matter previously with Parliament House departmental officials. Early in the morning on sitting days there is a tendency for...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- Member for Grey: Mobile Phone (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, in the way of a personal explanation, I owe an apology. I inadvertently left an electronic device turned on during question time. I apologise to you and the House.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Chamber Clock (8 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question to you. I noticed that when the member for Indi came up to the dispatch box today the clock had started well before she was there and, by the time she got there,...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Documents are tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings and I move: That the House...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (1 speech)
by leave— I move: That the time and order of business for the sitting tomorrow, 16 November 2010, be as follows, unless otherwise ordered:(a)the House, at its rising, adjourn until tomorrow...
- Election Petitions (0 speeches)
- Court of Disputed Returns (1 speech)
The Clerk: I present copies of the following petitions filed in the High Court, sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns: Freemantle v O’Neill & Ors, in respect of the election of a...
- Higher Education Support Amendment (2010 Budget Measures) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
Debate resumed from 20 October, on motion by Mr Garrett: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (13 speeches)
Mr Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Higher Education Support Amendment (2010 Budget Measures) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- (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. (Quorum formed)
- Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (12 speeches)
Debate resumed from 20 October, on motion by Mr Albanese: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Territories Law Reform Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 29 September, on motion by Mr Crean: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Same-Sex Marriage (29 speeches, 5 comments)
I ask leave of the House to amend the notice relating to same-sex marriage in the terms circulated to honourable members in the chamber.
- World Diabetes Day (1 speech)
I move: That this House:(1)notes that:(a)14 November 2010 is United Nations World Diabetes Day, with this year’s theme being diabetes education and prevention;(b)the symbol for World...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Family Relationship Centres (1 speech)
Tonight I rise to speak about the slashing of nearly $50 million from the family counselling and dispute resolution services or family relationship centres. This is a Labor Party cut described by...
- Building the Education Revolution (1 speech)
In the last two weeks I have had the privilege of attending four openings under Building the Education Revolution. One was at Walloon State School, whose principal is Michael Josey. $2.125...
- Bushfires (1 speech)
After almost 10 years of drought it is nothing short of a blessing to see the countryside green and lush from recent consistently heavy rains. It is a fundamental law of nature that we are...
- Multiculturalism (1 speech)
Australia is a diverse country filled with many people from every part of the world of different traditions and faiths who have made their home here in Australia. This is a highly significant...
- Dawson Electorate: North Mackay State High School (1 speech)
I rise tonight in the House of Representatives to recognise an outstanding group of students from North Mackay State High School in my electorate of Dawson. The students took part in the...
- Page Electorate (1 speech)
I want to talk about some of the events that I have attended in my electorate of Page over the last few days. The first one I want to talk about is a breakfast. The Uniting Church in Lismore runs...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
As I travel around my electorate, one of the issues that increasingly gets raised is the soaring cost of living. The basic costs of everyday, non-discretionary goods like water, electricity,...
- Adelaide Motorplex Facility (1 speech)
I rise to add my support to the campaign for the establishment of an Adelaide motorplex facility. There is a great tradition of motor sport in South Australia which has involved a range of...
- Grey Electorate: Arkaroola (1 speech)
Last week I took the opportunity to visit Arkaroola, at the very northernmost point of the magnificent Flinders Ranges. It was far from my first visit, as I have camped there numerous times with...
- Anti-Semitism (1 speech)
From 7 to 9 November I attended in Ottawa, Canada the second international conference on combating anti-Semitism. The conference brought together over 150 parliamentarians from 50 different...
- Canning Electorate: Volunteer Bush Fire Brigades (1 speech)
Earlier today the Tax Laws Amendment (2010 Measures No. 4) Bill proceeded through this House. Schedule 7, which extends gift deductibility to volunteer fire brigades, is something that I wish to...
- Wakefield Electorate: Manufacturing (1 speech)
It was a great pleasure to hear the member for Makin talking about speedway racing, particularly out in my electorate at Virginia. I have many fond memories of going there in my youth. I always...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Bennelong Electorate: Rail Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise to address an increasing problem in my electorate of Bennelong: the inability of governments both state and federal to deliver genuine progress on the infrastructure needs of one of the...
- Corio Electorate: Geelong CBD (1 speech)
During the past week in Geelong we have seen the pages of our local paper, the Geelong Advertiser, filled with debate about the future of Geelong’s central business district. The decline of...
- Solomon Electorate: Save Eaton Campaign (1 speech)
I rise to ask a question for my electorate. Why is the Department of Defence destroying small business and education in the seat of Solomon? Are they happy now that the first of these...
- Richmond Electorate: Murwillumbah Show (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about a fantastic event in my electorate, the Murwillumbah Show, and to commend all of those involved with the show. On Saturday, 6 November, I had the pleasure of attending...
- Higgins Electorate: Economy (1 speech)
Even the greatest spin merchants from the New South Wales Labor Party cannot spin this: the latest MYEFO released by the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, last week confirmed what Treasury and the Reserve...
- Braddon Electorate: Enterprise Connect (1 speech)
I rise to speak about something real and positive. I want to recognise the successful setting up and implementation of a 2007 election commitment in Braddon which now has one of only a few select...
- Agriculture (1 speech)
I rise to speak about a matter that has become topical in the press today but that has been a topic of conversation in regional Australia for some time—particularly in my...
- Adelaide Electorate: Megan Payne (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate a remarkable constituent from the electorate of Adelaide, Ms Megan Payne, who was one of the inaugural winners of the 2010 Prime Minister’s Australian Youth...
- Gilmore Electorate: Ms Grace Kennedy (1 speech)
From time to time it is my privilege to come across an individual in the community whose attitude to life and determination sets them apart from their peers. Through their approach, the strength...
- Bass Electorate: Building the Education Revolution Program (2 speeches)
Through the Building the Education Revolution program, the government has invested $16.2 billion in schools right across Australia for minor infrastructure and refurbishment projects, major new...
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Asbestos (16 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Murphy: That this House:(1)notes that the Bernie Banton Foundation estimates that by 2020, some 40 000 Australians will have contracted asbestos related...
- Organ Donation (12 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Ms Brodtmann: That this House:(1)notes that:(a)organ donor rates are showing slow and sustained improvement in 2010;(b)more than 98 per cent of Australians agree that...
- Iran: Human Rights (5 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Neumann: That this House:(1)notes with deep concern the ongoing human rights violations in Iran, including the:(a)use of the death penalty, especially the use of...
- Higher Education Support Amendment (Fee-Help Loan Fee) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 20 October, on motion by Mr Garrett: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Afghanistan (12 speeches)
Debate resumed from 28 October, on motion by Mr Stephen Smith: That the House take note of the document.
- National Broadband Network Financial Transparency Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That further proceedings on the National Broadband Network Financial Transparency Bill 2010 be conducted in the House. Question agreed to.
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 29 October.
- Hasluck Electorate: Small Business (1 speech)
I rise to speak on small businesses within Hasluck. The Midland Redevelopment Authority in the electorate of Hasluck is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The authority is one of the most...
- Page Electorate: Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Page Electorate: Telstra; Page Electorate: Clarence River; Advertising; Food Additives; Media Violence; Coal Seam Gas Projects (8 speeches)
I have a whole range of grievances that I want to raise tonight. There are so many that I am not sure where to start. Some are local and some are international. First of all, I am aggrieved that...
- The Right Start (1 speech)
There are a tremendous number of people in communities across Australia who are working tirelessly to effect change for the better in the lives of others. The Right Start is one such group of...
- Braddon Electorate: Health (2 speeches)
Tonight I want to talk about health in Braddon. This is always an issue in my electorate, as it is in many other members’ electorates, but I want to focus in particular on hospitals and,...
- Gippsland Lakes; Landcare (1 speech)
I join the grievance debate this evening to raise several issues of concern to the people of Gippsland in relation to both the federal election and the current state election that we are faced...
- Shortland Electorate: Aged Care (1 speech)
I have a second-year social work student, Sara Lambert, on placement in my office at the moment. She has been working there since September. During the time she has been on placement in my office...
