House debates
Thursday, 18 November 2010
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Afghanistan (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (2 speeches)
Order of the day returned from Main Committee for further consideration; certified copy presented. Ordered that the order of the day be considered immediately.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (23 speeches)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following items of private Members’ business, being reported from the Main...
- National Broadband Network Financial Transparency Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee for further consideration; certified copy of the bill presented. Ordered that this bill be considered immediately.
- Second Reading (8 speeches)
Debate resumed from 15 November, on motion by Mr Turnbull: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Same-Sex Marriage (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 15 November, on motion by Mr Bandt: That this House:(1)notes that there is:(a)a growing list of countries that allow same-sex couples to marry including the Netherlands,...
- Asbestos (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (1 speech)
Order of the day returned from Main Committee for further consideration; certified copy presented. Ordered that the order of the day be considered immediately.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Regional Australia Committee; Membership (2 speeches)
I have received advice from the Chief Government Whip nominating members to be supplementary members of the Standing Committee on Regional Australia for the purpose of the committee’s...
- Intelligence and Security Committee; Membership (2 speeches)
I have received advice from the Honourable the Prime Minister nominating members to be members of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security.
- Parliamentary Budget Office Committee; Appointment (1 speech)
I move:(1)That a Joint Select Committee on the Parliamentary Budget Office be appointed to examine the proposal to establish a Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO). It is proposed that the PBO will...
- 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...
- Public Works Committee; Approval of Work (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, and by reason of the urgent nature of the works, it is expedient that the following proposed work be...
- Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (25 speeches, 1 comment)
Debate resumed from 17 November, on motion by Mr Garrett: 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.
- Criminal Code Amendment (Cluster Munitions Prohibition) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment; certified copy of the bill presented. Ordered that this bill be considered immediately. Bill agreed to.
- 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.
- Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
Debate resumed from 20 October, on motion by Ms Macklin: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Consideration in Detail (1 speech)
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.
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Tasmanian Government: Hawthorn Football Club (1 speech)
I would like to congratulate the Tasmanian Bartlett Labor government on its decision to renew its agreement with the Hawthorn Football Club and I confirm my support for the continuation of AFL in...
- Pacific Highway (1 speech)
I rise in the House to, again, raise the issue of the urgent need to upgrade the Pacific Highway. The dangerous stretch of highway south of Urunga has claimed another life, with the death of a...
- Greenway Electorate: Wentworthville Swimming Pool (1 speech)
I have previously spoken in this place about Holroyd council’s proposal to close Wentworthville swimming pool, which will have a devastating impact on residents in my electorate. On Sunday...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (1 speech)
Yesterday in question time I asked the Prime Minister why, after 20 months following the PBAC’s first recommendation that the drug Soliris be listed, it still remains unlisted on the PBS....
- Woden Valley Festival (1 speech)
I would like to draw to the attention of the House the Woden Valley Festival that was recently held in Eddison Park in Philip in my electorate. The Woden Valley Festival is fast becoming a...
- Swan Electorate: Mr Tony Manuli (1 speech)
Today I want to talk about Mr Tony Manuli, a gentleman from my electorate. I promised him that I would get this on the record. But first, to set the scene: I am sure we all know who the...
- United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (1 speech)
I would like to congratulate Australia on its role in thwarting the bid of Iran to join the Executive Board of UN Women. Iran has a poor track record on women’s rights. An Iranian woman,...
- Swan Electorate: Mr Tony Manuli (1 speech)
I seek leave to table this patent. Leave granted.
- Gilmore Electorate: Electricity Prices (5 speeches)
Electricity prices are skyrocketing out of control. Gilmore constituents are telling me that they simply cannot pay their electricity bills. I have had so many families, pensioners and older...
- Hindmarsh Electorate: Westfield West Lakes Shopping Centre (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about an appalling decision. I am absolutely appalled by the decision that paid parking will be introduced at the West Lakes shopping centre in my electorate. This is a real...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
On the day when the Assistant Treasurer is boasting about providing certainty for taxation of fly-in fly-out employees working overseas, there are two million Australians who derive their...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, I inform the House that the Minister for Defence will be absent from question time today as he is travelling to Lisbon to attend bilateral meetings in the lead-up to the NATO...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Broadband Network (19 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why does the Prime Minister expect the parliament to approve the National Broadband Network without access to the business case which the government has but...
- Health Care (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister advise the House of the importance of pursuing reforms to our health system?
- Broadband (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer her to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ figures that show only 43 per cent of households on incomes of $40,000 a year or less have access...
- Health (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister advise the House of any risks to achieving reform of our healthcare system?
- Broadband (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to comments made by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy at the National Press Club when launching his first attempt at...
- Hospitals (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How are the government’s health reforms improving hospital services in local communities and how have these reforms been received?
- Broadband (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the ACCC report into telecommunications services, released last week, which found that the average cost paid by households for...
- Health (5 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the government’s health reforms and how they will ensure value for money from our health dollars? How has this...
- Broadband (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the claim by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy on ABC radio this morning that the government’s...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Minister, what action is the government taking to minimise the cost of drugs to the taxpayer and how have such plans been received?
- Broadband (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given the substantial price increases that will accompany the introduction of the National Broadband Network and the Prime Minister’s inability so far...
- Broadband (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (9 speeches)
I move: That this House requires the Government immediately to publish the National Broadband Network Business Case. We heard the Prime Minister today assert repeatedly that the National...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Broadband (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How will the National Broadband Network and the government’s e-health investment improve the delivery of health care for all Australians?
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 15 of 2010-11 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 15 of 2010-11 entitled Food Standards Australia New Zealand. Ordered that the report be made a parliamentary paper.
- 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...
- Question Time: Allocation of the Call (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
On indulgence, Mr Speaker, I make a brief statement in relation to the allocation of the call during question time. The government has been asked about the allocation of the call during question...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Broadband (22 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Wentworth proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The failure of the...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Child Care (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on a topic that is of great concern to many Australian families: the rising cost of child care. Many Australian families are experiencing real financial stress. Interest...
- Same-sex Marriage (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to set out my views on same-sex marriage in response to the request by a great many of my constituents that I do so. Like the member for Throsby, I intend to...
- Broadband (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the question of relative broadband penetration levels in different electorates and the conclusions we can draw from this for some of the pressing policy issues that are...
- Canberra Electorate: Greek Community (3 speeches)
I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the significant contribution of one of the most dynamic and influential groups in my electorate: the Greek community of Canberra. Last month I...
- McPherson Electorate: Palm Beach Post Office (1 speech)
As I have previously advised the House, Australia Post has announced that it will close the Palm Beach post office on 26 November. This will devastate the Palm Beach community, the businesses,...
- Victoria State Election (1 speech)
On 27 November the people of Victoria will choose their next state government and, in many ways, the state electorates that lie within my federal electorate of Deakin will be a major determinant...
- Riverina Electorate: Citrus Industry (2 speeches)
I rise today to alert the House to a serious disease threat to one of the important agricultural industries in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, in my electorate of Riverina. The citrus industry...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Maranoa Electorate: Mr Lyle Morton (1 speech)
I rise to honour a true outback hero from my electorate of Maranoa. Mr Lyle Morton was one of the longest serving councillors on the Diamantina shire. He epitomised the true spirit of the...
- Mr John Hurley (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute to and to recognise the efforts and achievements of a very special person in my electorate, John Hurley, the Principal of the Thomas Mitchell Primary School. I often...
- McPherson Electorate: Surfboard Industry (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the surfboard manufacturing industry. There are approximately 200 surfboard manufacturers located between Burleigh Heads and Coolangatta on the southern Gold Coast. Some are...
- Chifley Electorate (1 speech)
I have previously remarked on the diversity of the great electorate of Chifley, which is made up of so many people who have arrived from different lands and who now work so hard to benefit this...
- Macarthur Electorate: Wollondilly Community Men’s Shed (1 speech)
On 5 November I had the privilege to attend the AGM of the United Wollondilly Community Men’s Shed. The Wollondilly Community Men’s Shed is a community based volunteer organisation...
- World Diabetes Day (1 speech)
Monday was World Diabetes Day and it was important that the Australian parliament recognised the significance of the day and pledged its support for research and provision of services to people...
- Renewable Energy (3 speeches)
As you would be aware, Mr Deputy Speaker, there have been many high-profile problems with the government’s energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. There has been confusion...
- World Diabetes Day; Gene Patents (1 speech)
Like the member for Shortland, I too want to draw attention to World Diabetes Day on Monday and I thank the honourable member for Hindmarsh for bringing it to the House’s attention. It is a...
- Flinders Electorate: Ms Amanda Drennan (1 speech)
I rise to support, acknowledge and speak up for the tremendous work and commitment of Amanda Drennan, a 22-year-old swimmer and Paralympian. She lives on Phillip Island and has been the pride of...
- Oxley Electorate: Trade Training Centre (2 speeches)
On 5 November, the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, Peter Garrett, announced funding of $219.6 million for 58 new trade training centres. Of that, $4.5 million has been...
- Criminal Code Amendment (Cluster Munitions Prohibition) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 27 October, on motion by Mr McClelland: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Governor-General’S Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 17 November, 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...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Main Committee do now adjourn.
- Wannon Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
Given the issue I am about to address, it is interesting that I am following a member of the Labor Party who has been very influential in the trade union movement, because this issue, at its...
- Fraser electorate: NEWPIN (1 speech)
On 1 November I visited UnitingCare Kippax in West Belconnen and was shown around by Gordon Ramsey and Uniting Care national director, Lin Hatfield Dodds. It was at this time that I was able to...
- Logan and Albert Rivers (1 speech)
I wish to speak today about some of the key environmental issues in respect of the Logan and Albert rivers, two of the key waterways in the electorate of Forde. These are issues that an ETS or a...
- Corangamite Electorate (1 speech)
Today I rise to reflect on the tremendous work that natural resource management groups do within my own electorate and within the Corangamite CMA and the wonderful contribution that they make...
- Carers Allowance; Phillip Island Wildlife Hospital (1 speech)
Deputy Speaker Slipper, may I say it is always a pleasure to speak in your presence. Let me begin by setting out a case of injustice in relation to one of my constituents who lives in Bass Coast....
- Reid Electorate: Stitching Hearts (1 speech)
I am very pleased to acknowledge in this place this afternoon the wonderful work of a volunteer group in my electorate of Reid called Stitching Hearts. Stitching Hearts started seven years ago...
