House debates
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Economics I present the committee's report entitled Advisory report on the taxation of alternative fuels bills 2011, incorporating a dissenting report,...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Flinders Electorate: Worley Hospital (1 speech)
In January 2008 Warley Hospital on Phillip Island closed. Warley Hospital had been pledged $2½ million by the coalition government to remain open to allow it to continue the work of over 80...
- McEwen Electorate: Legends of Racing Gala (1 speech)
On Saturday night I had the honour of attending the legends of racing gala evening at Kilmore Trackside. Local racing identities and members of the broader community alike attended this event to...
- Boothby Electorate: Club Marion (1 speech)
I recently had the pleasure of attending the opening of the Marion Sports and Community Club extension. This was a project which the club committee had long had on the drawing board. One of my...
- Kennedy Electorate: Economic Development Program (1 speech)
A thousand million dollars has been found in this budget for refugees, but we were not able to find $25 million for the economic development program put before the government by the Mayor of Hope...
- Manufacturing (1 speech)
The government stand condemned not only because they want to introduce a carbon tax to destroy manufacturing but because they are continuing to make decisions to disadvantage and punish...
- Leeding, Senior Constable Damian (1 speech)
Any partner of a police officer's worst fears are hearing that their partner, their husband or wife, has been injured or killed on the job. Sonya Leeding's worst fears were realised on Sunday...
- Chapman, Mr Philip (1 speech)
On behalf of all of us in the opposition, we associate ourselves with the eloquent remarks of the previous speaker. I rise today to pay tribute to the life of Phil Chapman, who passed away on 23...
- Quarantine (1 speech)
The Parke family are fourth generation fruit growers in Donnybrook in the south-west of Western Australia. My great-grandfather John Stanley Parke was the first person to export Granny Smith...
- Girl Guides NSW & ACT (1 speech)
On Saturday I was very pleased to attend the annual general meeting of Girl Guides NSW & ACT held at the Girl Guides Glengarry state training and activities centre located in North Turramurra...
- Launceston General Hospital (2 speeches)
I rise to acknowledge the opening of the $40 million Health and Hospitals Fund project at the Launceston General Hospital. This was the opening of a medical day procedure unit. I want to...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (11 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to the fact that the economy went backwards in the first three months of this year. Treasurer, why is the government hitting Australian...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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I inform the House that we have in the gallery this afternoon Dr Guido Westerwelle, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany. He is accompanied by a delegation. On...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (16 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I ask the Prime Minister: will she repudiate Professor Garnaut's proposal for an unelected, unaccountable body to set emissions reductions targets?
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline for the House the importance of saving measures to return the budget to surplus? How has the approach been received, and what is the...
- Carbon Pricing (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to a letter from New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell raising concerns that the imposition of a carbon tax will destroy $5...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Tasmanian grandmother Dorothy Thurley has been fighting bowel cancer for eight years and is being kept alive by a drug not covered by the PBS. Too sick to...
- Infrastructure (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. How are the government's infrastructure investments through the economic stimulus package and the flood and cyclone reconstruction...
- Carbon Pricing (11 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to his remarks in the House yesterday on the carbon price: We will use every cent from that price paid to assist households and to assist...
- Social Inclusion Agenda (30 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Human Services and the Minister for Social Inclusion. Would the minister inform the House about how the government's Social Inclusion Agenda is ensuring that...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (10 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I remind the Treasurer that the government's former emissions trading scheme proposed to increase industry compensation over time, while Professor Garnaut...
- Tobacco Products (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. What are the government's positions in regard to plain packaging of tobacco and the interaction of tobacco companies with the policy...
- Carbon Pricing (21 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to an article by Australian Workers Union National Secretary Paul Howes in The Australian Worker magazine, which reads: The AWU...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (37 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The imminent threat...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Flynn Electorate: Medicare (7 speeches)
I rise in the House today to speak again about another blow to regional Australia from the federal Labor government. I will provide you yet again with evidence that this government has absolutely...
- Middle East (1 speech)
President Obama's reference to the 1967 borders in his state department speech has been misunderstood by some to suggest that the final borders of a two-state solution will replicate those...
- Financial Services (1 speech)
My electorate contains a great number of professional financial advisers and I am sure the rest of the members in this House also have many in their electorates. Financial advisers have long...
- Syria (2 speeches)
Syria is a nation not unlike ours. We both have a population of approximately 22½ million people. We both have long and ancient cultures that are internationally recognised as cradles of...
- Petition: Public Holidays, Calwell Electorate: Broadmeadows Superclinic, Community Radio (3 speeches)
I have a number of issues that I wish to raise this evening relating to my electorate. Before I do that I would like to present a petition that has gone to the petitions committee.
- Rural and Regional Health Services (1 speech)
Flanked by the member for Riverina and, I am sure, supported on both sides of the chamber, I want to acknowledge the important work done by rural and remote healthcare providers right around this...
- Syria (1 speech)
On indulgence, Mr Speaker: a little earlier I spoke about the number of Australian dead in a cemetery in Damascus. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website is slightly misleading. It is...
- Hungary (1 speech)
I rise tonight to keep a commitment to Richard Horscik, a member of the conservative Fidesz Party and the Chairman of Hungary's Committee of European Affairs. It was a commitment that I would...
- Paterson Electorate: Australian Noise Exposure Forecast (1 speech)
I rise tonight to compel the Gillard Labor government to turn its rhetoric into action. It is now 303 days since Prime Minister Gillard made a crucial promise to the people of Port Stephens. She...
- Australian Books (1 speech)
I am delighted to inform the House that Adelaide based Australian author Fiona McIntosh has won the historical fiction award at the International Book Awards for her work Fields of Gold,...
- Australian Apple Industry (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the importance of strict controls on apple importation. The Gillard Labor-Greens alliance government continues to threaten the economic security of the nation. They do so...
- Rural Australia (4 speeches)
The failure belongs to you, because your government did the IRA. So don't come in here with that sort of hypocrisy.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Hinkler Electorate: Private Health Insurance (1 speech)
One way or another, about 53,000 people in my electorate of Hinkler will suffer under the Labor-Greens plan to means test private health insurance rebates. Almost 40,000 adults in my electorate...
- Neighbourhood Watch (1 speech)
On Monday, 18 April 2011, I attended the Para Hills Neighbourhood Watch 441 15th anniversary celebration and presentation evening. It was a special occasion also attended by the South Australian...
- Casey Electorate: Cancer Council Morning Tea (1 speech)
I rise this morning to thank and pay tribute to the Mount Evelyn community who last week, like many other communities, hosted a morning tea for the Cancer Council of Australia. They raised...
- McMahon Electorate: Festival of the Italian Republic (1 speech)
On 2 June 1946 the people of Italy voted in a referendum on whether Italy should be a monarchy or a republic. This week Italians and friends of Italy around the world celebrate Fester Della...
- Wright Electorate: Beetroot Industry (1 speech)
Just when we thought things could not get any worse for the electorate of Wright, having just battled devastating floods and the displacement of people from their homes and their families, we...
- Lyne Electorate: Regional Development Programs (1 speech)
I rise to talk about some very good regional development programs brewing on the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales as a consequence of a funding structure that has now been developed over a...
- Forde Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
It is nice to rise in this place and talk about some good news and some positive things for a change. Last weekend provided a great showcase of the community spirit that is evident in my...
- Corio Bay Trail (1 speech)
Last year I reported to this House about my vision for a walking and cycling trail around Corio Bay. This trail would link the path along the waterfront between the eastern and western beaches...
- Gilmore Electorate: Nowra-Bomaderry (1 speech)
This government is short-changing inner regional Australia and, in particular, regions like Nowra-Bomaderry in my electorate of Gilmore. Despite our growth being faster than even that of Sydney,...
- Margaret Ives Community Children's Centre (2 speeches)
I rise today to congratulate the Margaret Ives Community Children's Centre, which is located in Norwood in the electorate of Adelaide and was recently named the National Children's Service of the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That orders of the day Nos 2 and 3, government business, be postponed until the next sitting. Question agreed to. Sitting suspended from 11:56 to 16:01
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Wood, Sergeant Brett, MG (13 speeches)
Debate resumed on the motion: That the House record its deep regret at the death of Sergeant Brett Wood MG on 23 May 2011 while on combat operations in Afghanistan, place on record its...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
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I move: That further proceedings on orders of the day Nos 17, 19 and 21, private Members’ business, be conducted in the House. Question agreed to. Main Committee adjourned at 19:27
- Questions in Writing (0 speeches)
