House debates
Monday, 22 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 be given by the members for Fowler,...
- Paid Parental Leave (Reduction of Compliance Burden for Employers) Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Referred to Main Committee (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the bill be referred to the Main Committee for further consideration. Question agreed to.
- 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; Coalmining (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 12 May 2010 (your ref 183/287) regarding a petition on the potential environmental impact of coal mining. You mentioned that the petition has recently...
- Responses; Pensions and Benefits (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 26 May 2010 to the Prime Minister, the Hon Julia Gillard MP, concerning a petition to increase Newstart Allowance and Parenting Payment Single rates....
- Responses; Immigration: Klue Family (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 1 June 2010 concerning the immigration status of the Klue family. Mr Johan Klue was granted a four year Temporary Business (Long Stay) Subclass 457...
- Responses; Immigration and Citizenship (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 11 February 2010 relating to two petitions recently submitted to the Standing Committee on Petitions regarding immigration and citizenship in...
- Responses; Pensions and Benefits (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 26 May 2010 about the petition regarding the life expectancy actuarial review and the impact of the global financial crisis. To ensure equity with...
- Responses; Lymphoedema (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 18 March 2010 regarding a petition to the House of Representatives about the diagnosis, treatment and management of lymphoedema as a chronic medical...
- Responses; Innisfail: Jubilee Bridge (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter dated 25 May 2010 about a petition submitted for the consideration of the Standing Committee on Petitions regarding funding to replace the Jubilee Bridge...
- Responses; Human Rights (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter dated 25 May 2010 referring a petition from the Mornington Peninsula Human Rights Group seeking the introduction of a bill for a Human Rights Act. As you...
- Responses; School and Workplace Bullying (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 25 May 2010 concerning the school and workplace bullying petition recently submitted for the consideration of the Standing Committee on Petitions. The...
- Responses; New South Wales Ambulance Drivers (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 25 May 2010 regarding the petition of citizens of the Paterson electorate about a New South Wales State Government proposal to replace ambulance...
- Responses; Administration of Justice (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin I refer to your letter dated 25 May 2010 seeking a written response to a petition submitted to your committee, regarding a Section 72(ii) process under the Constitution. The...
- Responses; Internet Content (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Petition regarding compulsory filtering of the internet by ISPs Thank you for your letter dated 23 June 2010 forwarding a copy of a petition regarding compulsory filtering of the...
- Responses; Feeding Tube Dependency (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin I refer to correspondence of 16 June 2010 from the then Chair of your Committee, Mrs Julia Irwin, regarding a petition about children with a tube feeding dependency. I apologise...
- Responses; Human Rights: Falun Gong (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 22 June 2010 referring a petition submitted for the consideration of the Standing Committee on Petitions about the persecution of Falun Gong...
- Responses; Live Animal Exports (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin I write in response to the letter from Ms Julia Irwin MP, former Chair of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Petitions, of 22 June 2010, to the Hon. Simon Crean MP,...
- Responses; Human Rights: Falun Gong (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for your letter of 22 June 2010 referring seven petitions submitted for the consideration of the Standing Committee on Petitions about the persecution of Falun. Gong...
- Responses; Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin I refer to a letter of 22 June 2010 from the then Chair of the Standing Committee on Petitions, Mrs Julia Irwin, regarding a petition submitted to the Standing Committee on...
- Responses; Wandering Trad (0 speeches)
Dear Mrs Irwin Thank you for the letter of 28 June 2010 from the former Chair of the Standing Committee on Petitions to the Hon. Tony Burke MP, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry,...
- Statements (1 speech)
I wanted to take this opportunity today to speak about petitioning more generally for the information of newer members and the general public. Petitioning has a long history in the Australian...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Regional Australia Committee; Statements (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Regional Australia I wish to make a statement concerning the committee’s inquiry into the impact of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in Regional...
- Competition and Consumer (Price Signalling) Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Billson.
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (7 speeches)
I move: That this House acknowledges that climate change is:(1)real; and(2)human-induced. Mr Deputy Speaker, as you know, I have been speaking for many years in parliament on the need to take...
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Public Health and Safety) Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 15 November.
- Second Reading (21 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. As I stated in my first reading speech, the purpose of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Public Health and Safety)...
- Superannuation Legislation 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; Veterans’ Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2010; Food Standards Australia New Zealand Amendment Bill 2010; Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment Bill 2010; Carer Recognition Bill 2010; Tradex Scheme Amendment Bill 2010; Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Messages from the Governor-General reported informing the House of assent to the bills.
- Corporations Amendment (No. 1) Bill 2010; Higher Education Support Amendment (Fee-Help Loan Fee) Bill 2010; International Financial Institutions Legislation Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Aviation Crimes and Policing Legislation Amendment 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.
- Crimes Legislation Amendment 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.
- Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2010 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (0 speeches)
Bill returned from the Senate with amendments. Ordered that the amendments be considered at a later hour this day.
- Tax Laws Amendment (Research and Development) Bill 2010; Income Tax Rates Amendment (Research and Development) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (11 speeches)
Debate resumed from 30 September, on motion by Mr Shorten: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Miss Truong Thi Lan Anh (1 speech)
I wish to raise the case of Truong Thi Lan Anh, better known as Annie. She is an eight-year-old Vietnamese girl. Her condition was brought to my attention by my great friend Eric Noel. She is a...
- Australia Post (1 speech)
Several residents in the suburb of Glenwood in my electorate have raised the issue of a lack of street posting boxes. The suburb of Glenwood has approximately 13,897 residents but there is but...
- Building the Education Revolution Program (1 speech)
Armadale Primary School is a small gem in my electorate of Higgins. Through the leadership of Principal Jim Cahill and his teaching staff, and a strong and committed parent network, Armadale...
- Canberra Electorate: ArtSound FM (1 speech)
I would like to acknowledge the significant contribution made by ArtSound FM to Canberra’s cultural life. ArtSound is a community based radio station that operates out of the Manuka Arts...
- Cowper Electorate: Plummers Lane (1 speech)
I rise to highlight the need to upgrade Plummers Lane in the Kempsey shire of my electorate. Plummers Lane is the main road into South West Rocks from the Pacific Highway. It was recently...
- ACT Children’s Services Awards 2010 (1 speech)
On the night of 29 October 2010 I had the privilege of joining Joy Burch, the ACT Minister for Children and Young People, Maureen Cane, the CEO of Communities@Work, and Lynne Harwood, CEO of...
- Cowan Electorate: Telecommunications (1 speech)
On 4 November 2010 I received correspondence from Daly International on behalf of Optus. That letter informed me of the intent of Optus to install three panel antennas on the roof of the Woodvale...
- Financial Services (1 speech)
With so much discussion about the big banks and their outrageous behaviour in pushing their interest rates well above the RBA cash rates, I urge the House and the community to remember that there...
- Australian Small Business Champion Awards 2010 (1 speech)
I was pleased to join my friend and colleague the New South Wales shadow minister for small business and regulatory reform, Don Page, at the Australian Small Business Champion Awards 2010. It was...
- Victorian Election (1 speech)
The Greens political party is certainly not vague about death and taxes. Their website shows that the Greens are now combing these two inevitables into one: the death tax. Those contemplating...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- New Zealand: Mine Explosion (2 speeches)
On indulgence, I know that members in this parliament and Australians right around the nation are today watching their TV screens, listening to their radios and searching internet news sites for...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Broadband (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the government’s pre-election policy to eventually place the National Broadband Network into private ownership. Can the...
- Afghanistan (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on her recent meetings in Lisbon, particularly with respect to the future strategy for the commitment to Afghanistan?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, Teo Chee Hean, who is the Minister for Defence as well. On behalf of the House I...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her statement a week before polling day when she declared, ‘There will be no carbon tax under the government I...
- Telstra (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister inform the House of the importance of the structural separation of Telstra for reform in the telecommunications sector?
- Broadband (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. When it was revealed during the election campaign that she had strongly opposed pension increases in cabinet, the Prime Minister stated: ‘I am the...
- National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. The minister may be aware of a Bowel Cancer Awareness breakfast held last Thursday. Given that 73 Australians die from bowel cancer each week...
- Broadband (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Why is the National Broadband Network important for productivity in the future of our economy?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have way up in the gallery this afternoon, Mr Brendon Grylls, the Western Australian Minister for Regional Development and Leader of the Nationals in Western Australia....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Broadband (60 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. Why is universal broadband vital reform for...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon Mr James Bidgood, a former member for Dawson. On behalf of the House I extend to him a very warm welcome
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, a point of order, just as clarification: previous Speakers have ruled that if an extension of time is not moved before the end of the member’s time then it could not be...
- Broadband (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government and Minister for the Arts. How will the National Broadband Network contribute to sustainable...
- Asylum Seekers (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the members of the Woodside Action Group in the gallery today and her decision to house 400 asylum seeker families in their...
- Broadband (2 speeches)
My question is to the Special Minister of State. How will access to government information improve as the National Broadband Network bridges the digital divide?
- Banking (15 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. The coalition is taking real and immediate action to increase competition in the banking sector with our nine-point plan, the private member’s bill on...
- Broadband (9 speeches)
My question is directed to the Minister for Indigenous Health. Why is the NBN important for the delivery of Indigenous health services?
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- 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)
- People Trafficking (2 speeches)
by leave—Today, I am pleased to present to the parliament the second report of the Anti-People Trafficking Interdepartmental Committee. People trafficking is a heinous crime which involves...
- Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2010 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Consideration resumed. Senate amendments—(1) 0; Clause 2, page 2 (table item 2), omit the table item, substitute: (1) Clause...
- Tax Laws Amendment (Research and Development) Bill 2010; Income Tax Rates Amendment (Research and Development) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (4 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.
- Income Tax Rates Amendment (Research and Development) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 30 September, on motion by Mr Shorten: 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.
- Tax Laws Amendment (Confidentiality of Taxpayer Information) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 18 October, on motion by Mr Shorten: 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.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No.4, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Health Insurance Amendment (Pathology Requests) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
Debate resumed from 20 October, on motion by Ms Roxon: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Consideration in Detail (2 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.
- National Broadcasting Legislation Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (8 speeches)
Debate resumed from 30 September, on motion by Mr Albanese: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Bill 2010; Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (10 speeches)
Debate resumed from 30 September, on motion by Mr McClelland: That this bill be now read a second time.
- National Broadcasting Legislation Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! I understand a division was called for earlier this evening on the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Bill 2010 on the question put by the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport that...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- Mr Liu Xiaobo (7 speeches)
I move: That this House:(1)congratulates Mr Liu Xiaobo for having been awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize;(2)notes that:(a)Mr Liu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ‘his long and...
- Banking Amendment (Delivering Essential Financial Services) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (6 speeches)
Debate resumed from 15 November.
- Australian Stock Exchange (5 speeches)
I move: That this House:(1)resolves that it will oppose any sale of the Australian Securities Exchange that would provide majority foreign ownership; and(2)notes that such a sale would not merely...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Same-sex Marriage (1 speech)
This week the member for Melbourne moved a motion in relation to gay marriage which has received widespread coverage throughout Australia. I thought it timely to put on the record on behalf of my...
- Building the Education Revolution Program; Senior Constable Ian Edwards (1 speech)
I want to announce two pieces of positive news. First and foremost, like most of my colleagues, I have been going around to see many Building the Education Revolution projects, celebrating their...
- Durack Electorate: Western Australian Tourism Awards (1 speech)
It gives me a great deal of pleasure to rise this evening to speak about awards. On last Saturday evening at the Burswood Entertainment Complex, the Tourism Council of Western Australia, an...
- Billboard Advertising (7 speeches)
In my electorate of Moreton we have one of the best golf courses in Queensland, the Brisbane Golf Club, in Tennyson. It has been about five years since I played golf, actually at the Brisbane...
- Dawson Electorate: Sugar Harvest (1 speech)
I rise to bring to the attention of the House and of the government a new crisis unfolding for the sugar industry, in particular for growers in the electorate of Dawson. In what is likely to be a...
- Social and Community Workers; Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
In October 2009 the federal Labor government signed a heads of agreement with the Australian Services Union which made a number of commitments about supporting an equal remuneration case to be...
- Wannon Electorate: Kindergartens (3 speeches)
Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the Mount William Open Garden Day. Anne Abbott, the owner of Mount William Station, had opened her magnificent garden to raise money for the Willaura and...
- Hours of Work (1 speech)
Many Australians believe we are a laid-back country where we tell ourselves we work to live and not the other way round. But statistics tell us something different. Apparently, apart from the...
- St Mary of the Cross (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the significant event that took place only a month ago commemorating the canonisation of Australia’s first Catholic saint, St Mary of the Cross. As Australians...
- Landcare (1 speech)
Tonight, I rise to acknowledge the fine work done by Landcare groups throughout Australia. As all members and most Australians know, Landcare is a grassroots organisation operated by volunteers,...
- Townsville Convention Centre (1 speech)
I welcome the statement by the Prime Minister that all election commitments made by the government will be honoured. As members may be aware, there was significant interest from both parties in...
- Wakefield Electorate: Hewett Community Church of Christ; Millennium Development Goals (1 speech)
It is with great pleasure that I rise to tell the House about a recent visit I had from the Hewett Community Church of Christ. Hewett is a growing suburb in my electorate. Occasionally the...
- Riverina Electorate: Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (2 speeches)
The coalition set aside $5.8 billion in the 2007 Water Act for vital water-saving infrastructure. To date, just $437 million has been rolled out when about $700 million should have been spent....
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Flynn Electorate: Hospitals (1 speech)
I rise to talk about the shocking neglect of the health and hospital system in Central Queensland. Of particular concern today is the lack of spending by the state Labor government on the...
- Hindmarsh Electorate: Thebarton Senior College (1 speech)
Today I rise to speak about Thebarton Senior College, in my electorate of Hindmarsh. I was very privileged and honoured to be at Thebarton Senior College recently for the opening of the new...
- Aston Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
In the newsletter I sent to my constituents in October, I asked for their views on the Stud Road bus lane. Stud Road is the only north-south road that travels through the city of Knox, and as...
- Makin Electorate: Asbestos (1 speech)
On Friday, 26 November, I will be attending the annual memorial service for victims of asbestos related disease. It is held each year at Pitman Park in Salisbury, where the Asbestos Victims...
- Wright Electorate: Community Services (1 speech)
I rise to give recognition in this place to the work done by two community organisations in the electorate of Wright. One organisation is Beaucare community care. I attended their AGM recently...
- Lindsay Electorate: Pink Ribbon Campaign (1 speech)
Every day more than 30 women discover that they have breast cancer and begin the gruelling journey through treatment. Out of the 13,600 women who are diagnosed with breast cancer each year,...
- McMillan Electorate: Foreign Investment (1 speech)
I have a dilemma, and that dilemma is faced by many rural members such as me. Sixty per cent, or two-thirds, of Gippsland’s dairy farms are in my electorate. Gippsland farmers produce 2.1...
- Family Law Legislation (1 speech)
On 11 November 2010 the Attorney-General, the Hon. Robert McClelland, released a draft bill for public consultation, open to 14 January 2011, proposing amendments to the Family Law Act to provide...
- Durack Electorate: Ms Jan Ford (1 speech)
On 12 October 2010 Durack constituent Jan Ford, owner of Jan Ford Real Estate, Port Hedland, won the Commonwealth Bank Business Owner Award at the prestigious Telstra Western Australian Business...
- Throsby Electorate: Vocational Education and Training (2 speeches)
I am very proud to represent the Gillard government’s record on job creation and our reform agenda that recognises the strong link between every stage of a person’s education, their...
- Paid Parental Leave (Reduction of Compliance Burden for Employers) Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (9 speeches)
Debate resumed from 15 November. That this bill be now read a second time.
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- White Ribbon Day (5 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Hayes: That this House:(1)notes that 25 November marks White Ribbon Day, the symbol of the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Violence...
- National Curriculum (19 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Pyne: That this House:(1)expresses its concern that the Government’s deadline to have the national curriculum available for implementation from January 2011...
- Asylum Seekers (34 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Briggs: That this House:(1)notes:(a)the announcement on 18 October 2010 by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship about the...
- Governor-General’S Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (10 speeches)
Debate resumed from 18 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...
- Private Members’ Business (0 speeches)
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (5 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Ms Parke: That this House:(1)notes that:(a)on 17 December 2010 Australia will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the ratification of the United Nations Convention on...
- Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (5 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Sidebottom: That this House:(1)acknowledges the Government’s recent increased commitment to the replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis...
- Home Insulation Program (5 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Hunt: That this House:(1)notes that the Australian Government has not released figures for the full rate of defects discovered under both the Home Insulation...
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (7 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Ms Saffin: That this House:(1)welcomes, on behalf of the Australian people, the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest;(2)congratulates the Burmese...
- Population (3 speeches)
Debate resumed, on motion by Mr Ripoll: That this House notes that:(1)the Intergenerational Report predicts Australia’s population may reach 35.9 million by 2050;(2)population growth...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 15 November.
- Flinders Electorate: Community Services (1 speech)
I rise to speak in relation to three grievances. They are not the usual types of grievances, where we are casting blame upon one level of government or another. They are grievances in relation to...
- China (3 speeches)
Throughout most of the 1930s, Winston Churchill’s was an isolated voice warning of the need to rearm and to stand up to the resurgent power of Nazi Germany. Most famous was his criticism of...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
I rise to speak about a very pressing issue and concern in my electorate—that is, the ever increasing cost of living and the pressures that continue to make everyday life quite an anxious...
- Light Rail Study Tour (1 speech)
I would like to share with the House some of the experiences and outcomes arising from a recent study trip that I undertook in June and July of this year. The purpose of the overseas study was to...
- Murray-Darling Basin (2 speeches)
As we know, the Murray-Darling Basin is very much in the news at the moment, with people considering the needs of environment, agriculture and communities. The point about that is that each is...
- Broadband (2 speeches)
I want to briefly talk about the National Broadband Network and existing technology. I listened with interest to Ministers Roxon, Garrett and Snowdon during the sitting today, and to their...
- Business (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That further proceedings on orders of the day Nos 3, 7, 10 and 11, private Members’ business, be conducted in the House. Question agreed to.
