House debates
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report No. 8 (1 speech)
Order! I present the Selection Committee’s report No. 8 relating to the consideration of private members’ business. The report will be printed in today’s Hansard and the...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 30 September, on motion by Mr McClelland: 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.
- Statute Law Revision Bill (No. 2) 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. Statute law revision bills have been used for the last 30 years to improve the quality of Commonwealth legislation. The bills do not make...
- Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Enrolment and Prisoner Voting) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Gray. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I am pleased to present the bill, to amend the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (the Electoral Act) and the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- 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, it is expedient to carry out the following proposed work which was referred to the Parliamentary Standing...
- National Measurement Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 26 October.
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
I present the explanatory memorandum to this bill and I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The National Measurement Amendment Bill 2010 is a bill to amend the National Measurement...
- 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)
by leave—I move: That order of the day No. 3, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Corporations Amendment (Sons of Gwalia) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
Debate resumed from 29 September, on motion by Mr Bradbury: 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.
- Federal Financial Relations Amendment (National Health and Hospitals Network) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (40 speeches)
Debate resumed from 24 November, on motion by Mr Martin Ferguson:
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Montara Commission of Inquiry (2 speeches)
by leave—I present the report of the Montara Commission of Inquiry and the Australian government’s draft response. Introduction On 21 August last year an uncontrolled release of oil...
- Federal Financial Relations Amendment (National Health and Hospitals Network) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- National School Chaplaincy Program (1 speech)
On 8 November I attended Access ministries’ annual chaplaincy dinner in Melbourne. With terrific addresses from leading psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg and Access ministries CEO Canon Dr...
- Crime Stoppers Youth Challenge Awards (1 speech)
I would like to congratulate this year’s entrants in the 2010 Crime Stoppers Youth Challenge. The challenge is an award-winning education program examining crime in the community. The...
- Wynnum Central State School (1 speech)
I rise today to encourage the Queensland government to work with the Brisbane City Council to ensure that plans to create a community hub on the old Wynnum Central State School will proceed....
- Throsby Electorate: Hammond Care (1 speech)
I wish to draw to the attention of parliament the achievements of Hammond Care, which recently won a prestigious international award for their work in the area of dementia. Hammond Care operate...
- Bruce Highway (1 speech)
I draw the attention of the House to the shocking state of the Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Rockhampton. This road is part of our national highway system and is the workplace of thousands of...
- Health (1 speech)
I rise to remind all Victorians to be very cautious of the Liberal Party’s Trojan Horse of unfunded, uncosted promises that tend to arrive just before an election. Victorians will never...
- Ryan Electorate: Christmas Card Competition (1 speech)
As the new federal member for Ryan, I was pleased to recently launch the annual Ryan Christmas card competition. Students from prep to year 3 from schools throughout the electorate participated...
- Bowel Cancer (1 speech)
Last week, the Cancer Council of Australia held a breakfast here at Parliament House to raise awareness of Australia’s anonymous killer, a disease that does not have the profile it deserves...
- Parliament (1 speech)
As a new member of this House, it can be somewhat confronting when you first encounter the tirades of disaffection thrown from one side of this chamber to the other. Each of us entered this...
- Canberra Electorate: Tuggeranong Community Festival (2 speeches)
I draw the House’s attention to the upcoming Tuggeranong Community Festival, of which I am patron. The festival is one of the many community festivals held in my electorate. The Tuggeranong...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship will be absent from question time today, as he is travelling to a community forum at the Lobethal Centennial Hall in South...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, to mark the third anniversary of the election of his government. I refer to his leaked caucus speech of 24 June and I ask: does the former...
- Korean Peninsula (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister advise the House of the government’s response to yesterday’s attack by North Korea on the Republic of Korea?
- Climate Change (23 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the former Prime Minister’s statement from the leaked minutes of the Labor caucus that the failure to secure action on...
- Broadband (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister inform the House of the importance of the structural separation of Telstra? Why is universal broadband vital reform for Australia?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Before calling the Leader of the Nationals, I inform the House that we have in the gallery today Brett Raguse, a former member for Forde. On behalf of the House, I extend to him a warm welcome.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Mining (17 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the statement of the former Prime Minister in leaked minutes of the Labor caucus that the mining tax was one of the three great...
- Sugar Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Is the Treasurer aware that Innisfail’s South Johnstone mill, in perfect order, was sold by a liquidator for around $15 million to a company that had, at...
- Broadband (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Treasurer, why is the National Broadband Network so important for a more productive Australian economy?
- Building the Education Revolution Program (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the current Prime Minister agree with the former Prime Minister’s statement from these leaked minutes of the Labor caucus that the waste and...
- Broadband (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. How is the Gillard Labor government delivering the...
- Economy (19 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the comments of Mr Paul Bloxham, until recently a senior Reserve Bank economist and now HSBC chief economist, who says: By...
- Health (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How is the Gillard government delivering better quality, more accessible health services to the community through more doctors, more nurses...
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the government’s plan not to vote tomorrow on a motion to require consultation with the local community about a new...
- Education (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. How is the Gillard Labor government delivering to ensure that regardless of a child’s background they get a...
- Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the tragic triple fatality in a house fire in Wagga Wagga on 10 November this year. Is it correct that the house was fitted...
- Transport Infrastructure (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. How is the Gillard Labor government delivering record investment in essential nation-building infrastructure and progressing...
- Election Promises (16 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I ask whether the Prime Minister stands by her comments in this place on 20 October this year when she stated: I do commit to keeping the promises at a local...
- Paid Parental Leave (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs—
- 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...
- Australian Cricket Team (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
On indulgence: may I take this chance to wish Ricky Ponting and our cricketers all the best for the Ashes test about to start at the Gabba. Obviously our cricketers should know that the whole...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek to make a personal explanation.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Gillard Government (27 speeches)
I have received a letter from the Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The failure of the Government to...
- Federal Financial Relations Amendment (National Health and Hospitals Network) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That business intervening before notice No. 9, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Program of Sittings for 2011 (0 speeches)
- (10 speeches)
I move: That the program of sittings for 2011 that was presented to the House on Monday, 22 November 2010, be agreed to. As members would be aware, the sitting schedule has already been tabled in...
- Federal Financial Relations Amendment (National Health and Hospitals Network) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (11 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.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being approximately 7.00 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Korean Peninsula (1 speech)
I rise to express outrage at North Korea’s deadly artillery attack yesterday on the South Korean island of Yon-pi-ong. As the representative of an electorate with a substantial and vibrant...
- Australian Defence Force (1 speech)
I rise to express my concern at some outrageous comments made by an online journalist called Antony Loewenstein in an article about Australian soldiers in the online publication Crikey. The...
- Brisbane Electorate (1 speech)
Tonight I rise to reflect on several great activities that are taking place in the electorate of Brisbane. Recently, I had the privilege of attending the opening of the new Comscentre head office...
- Volunteers (1 speech)
I am very pleased to speak tonight about the volunteers award ceremony that I hosted in my electorate on 8 November to recognise the great work that many of our dedicated volunteers do in my...
- Forde Electorate: Beenleigh (1 speech)
The electorate of Forde is home to one of Queensland’s oldest towns, Beenleigh. Beginning as a town in the 1860s, Beenleigh was built on sugar and is home to Australia’s oldest rum...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (2 speeches)
Last Monday morning when I presented petitions in this House, one I presented, on behalf of the member for Deakin, was signed by 1,718 petitioners and concerned the urgent need to publicly fund...
- Building the Education Revolution Program (1 speech)
The failings of the BER have been well documented. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been wasted because the government saw fit to remove the rights of local communities to have input into...
- Broadband (1 speech)
I rise to talk about the benefits of the NBN nationally and locally, particularly in my area. That is one of the great things about the NBN: it is for all of us and it will benefit all...
- Mr Adnan Alghazal (1 speech)
I want the Australian nation to take note of the life, and now the tragic death, of a very special man who, despite his own great suffering under the regime of Saddam Hussein, was able to bring...
- Electric Cars (1 speech)
I rise today to update the House on the imminent launch of Australia’s first electric car network in Canberra in 2012 and to explain how the electric car will benefit Australia’s...
- Mine Emergency Response Competition (1 speech)
I rise tonight to advise the House of a recent Chamber of Minerals and Energy of WA Eastern Regional Council Underground Mine Emergency Response Competition. The competition was held from 5 June...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Dulwich High School of Visual Arts and Design: Social Justice Committee (1 speech)
I rise to recognise the outstanding work and achievements of the student Social Justice Committee of the Dulwich High School of Visual Arts and Design. Every year I have met with the Social...
- Wide Bay Electorate: Ginger Industry (1 speech)
I rise to support Australian ginger growers, many of whom are in my electorate, who are concerned about the long delays in implementing a statutory levy for research and development in the ginger...
- Calwell Electorate: Ethnic Communities (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about an issue that has deeply distressed members of the Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean communities in my electorate of Calwell. I refer to the recent senseless and violent...
- Forde Electorate: Save Bahrs Scrub Alliance (1 speech)
The Save Bahrs Scrub Alliance, with the support of a Logan City EnviroGrant, has recently produced a flora book which describes some of the precious and rare plants found in the Bahrs Scrub...
- Tangney Electorate: Paid Parental Leave (1 speech)
I rise to speak on an issue brought to me by some constituents in my electorate—namely, the cost to small business associated with 18 weeks of paid parental leave. It is not only the cost...
- Member for Kennedy: Policy Wish List (1 speech)
Today I rise to speak about 20 key points that were put together by some of the nation’s better intellects and I would like to think I made a small contribution to those myself. I have been...
- Cowan Electorate (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to raise an issue concerning a planning matter that greatly affects several hundred of my constituents in the electorate of Cowan. Landsdale is a suburb in Cowan. It is a...
- Defence: Army Reserve (1 speech)
It is my great privilege as the Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs to visit our neighbours in the Pacific islands. Ours is a deep and enduring friendship, and part of my role is...
- Deakin Electorate: Cheong Park (1 speech)
Cheong Park reserve is home to the South Croydon football and cricket clubs. The seniors football club is in Division 1 of the EFL, which is a testament to the hard work and skills of the...
- Solomon Electorate: Community Service (1 speech)
I rise today to share some exceptional achievements of people in my electorate. I wish to acknowledge the outstanding effort of Yazmin Brown, a 17-year-old who has been named the Australian...
- People Trafficking (2 speeches)
I have just come from a meeting with a number of nuns from Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans who are working to do something about the unlawful trading of...
- Governor-General’S Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (25 speeches)
Debate resumed from 22 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...
