House debates
Monday, 22 August 2011
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Reference to Main Committee (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 41(g), and the recommendations of the Selection Committee, I present copies of the terms of motions for which notice has been given by the members for Fremantle,...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Marriage (0 speeches)
RETAIN THE DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE BETWEEN MAN AND WOMAN To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: We, the undersigned citizens draw to the attention of the House...
- Live Animal Exports (0 speeches)
To the Hono u rable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representat ives : This petition of undersigned citizens of Australia calls on the Australian Government to end the export of live...
- Bat Nha Monastery (0 speeches)
To the Hono u rable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representat ives : The Bat Nha Monastery, in the Lam Dong province, has been attacked and destroyed, and aggression and violence have...
- National School Chaplaincy Program (375 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of concerned citizens of Queensland draws attention to the House: Noting the following: We, the...
- Asbestos (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of certain citizens of Australia draws to the attention of the House: We therefore ask the House to ensure...
- Live Animal Exports (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of undersigned citizens of Australia calls on the Australian government to end the export of live animals....
- Environment (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: The petition of farming families and certain citizens of Australia draw to the attention of the House: We therefore ask...
- Falun Gong (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of certain citizens and residents of Australia draws to the attention of the House that Falun Gong is a...
- Easter Sunday (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of certain citizens of Australia draws to the attention of the House that: We therefore ask the House to:...
- Syria (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This Petition of certain citizens of Australia, draws to the attention of the House: Since early March of 2011, the...
- Tobacco Products (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This Petition of Australian adults Draws to the attention of the House that it is our belief Plain Packaging will not...
- Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefit Amendment (Fair Indexation) Legislation (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of concerned Australian citizens draws to the attention of the House the need for veterans receiving...
- Taxation (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of a concerned citizen of Australia draws to the attention of the house: The Wage Earners, Small Business...
- Malabar Headland (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of certain citizens of Australia draws to the attention of The House that we, the undersigned, object to...
- Ahrens, Dr Christoph (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of certain citizens of Australia draws to the attention of the House the situation of Dr. Christoph Ahrens...
- Sri Lanka (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of certain citizens and residents of Australia brings to the attention of the House that two years ago,...
- Aged Care (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of concerned citizens of Australia draws to the attention of the House: the extension of asset testing of...
- Battery Hens (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of the undersigned citizens of Cof fs Harbour and its environs find the practice of confining hens to...
- Aircraft Noise: Sutherland Shire (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of the: Resident Citizens of the SUTHERLAND SHIRE and neighbouring suburbs, NEW SOUTH WALES. Draws to the...
- Live Animal Exports (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of the concerned citizens of Australia, Draws the attention of the house: to the deplorable, sadistic...
- Disability Services (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: The petition of certain citizens of Australia draws to the attention of the House that the current system of...
- Migration (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: The petition of certain representatives of a 'minority ethnic Latin American community' Draws to the attention of the...
- Constitution (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of the undersigned draws to the attention of the House that to be Queen, and Queen of Australia, and part...
- Broken Hill: Aged Care (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of the citizens of Broken Hill NSW Australia Draws to the attention of the House; The immediate urgency to...
- Live Animal Exports (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of year 12 students at Leeming Senior High School, Perth, WA, draws attention to the House, the shocking...
- Marriage (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of concerned citizens, in support of marriage as, currently defined in the Marriage Act 1961 (Cth) draws...
- Turkey (0 speeches)
To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives: This petition of concerned citizens with Turkish ancestry draws to the attention of the House that: There is a continued...
- Gorgon Gas Project; Responses (1 speech)
Ministerial responses to petitions previously presented to the House have been received as follows:
- Moodley, Dr Rajendra (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter of 16 March 2011 regarding a petition submitted for consideration of the Standing Committee on Petitions, regarding medical practitioner Dr Rajendra...
- National School Chaplaincy Program (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter of 23 May 2011, on behalf of the Standing Committee on Petitions, concerning a petition from a group of citizens regarding the National School Chaplaincy...
- Postal Services (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Australia Post — petition to request a street posting box in Falcon, Western Australia Thank you for your letter dated 12 May 2011 concerning a petition submitted for the...
- Northern New South Wales Fishing Industry (0 speeches)
Dear Murphy Thank you for your letter of 25 May 2011 forwarding to me a petition submitted to the Standing Committee on Petitions about restrictions on commercial and recreational fishing in...
- School and Workplace Bullying (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter of 23 May 2011 concerning the school and workplace bullying petition recently submitted for the consideration of the Standing Committee on Petitions. My...
- Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport: Guardian Pharmacy (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter of 30 May 2011 regarding a petition submitted for the consideration of the Standing Committee on Petitions by the citizens of New South Wales and citizens...
- Health and Hospitals (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter of 27 May 2011 regarding a petition submitted for the consideration of the Standing Committee on Petitions about nursing home care and bed funding. I note...
- Falun Gong (0 speeches)
D ear Mr Murphy I refer to your letter of 23 May 2011 conveying a petition submitted to the Standing Committee on Petitions regarding Falun Gong. The Australian Government has long held concerns...
- Complementary Protection (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy, Thank you for your letter of 12 May 2011 relating to a petition recently submitted to the Standing Committee on Petitions regarding complementary protection for those people who...
- General Practitioners (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter of 23 May 2011 regarding the petition recently submitted to the Standing Committee on Petitions, which asserted that the petitioners ' ` … right to...
- Baby Bonus (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter of 23 May 2011 about the River Nile Learning Centre petition for payment of the Baby Bonus during pregnancy. I welcome ongoing suggestions from...
- Retransmission Facilities (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Petition regarding decommissioning the analog television facilities in Wandoan Thank you for the opportunity to respond to the petition from residents of Wandoan, Queensland,...
- Eaton Post Office (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Petition—Australia Post Licensed Post Office for Dardanup, Western Australia Thank you for your letter dated 27 May 2011 concerning a petition submitted for the Committee's...
- Israel (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter of 30 May 2011 regarding the petition for sanctions on trade and other activities with Israel. The Australian Government strongly disagrees with boycott...
- Australia Post (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Petition — closure of Milton Business Centre, Queensland Thank you for your letter dated 31 May 2011 concerning a petition submitted for the Committee's consideration...
- RAAF Base Darwin (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter of 31 May 2011 to the Minister for Defence, the Hon Stephen Smith MP, concerning the petition presented by the Member for Solomon, Mrs Natasha Griggs MP,...
- Syria (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy I refer to your letter of 4 July 2011 in. regard to the petition submitted for the consideration of the Standing Committee on Petitions that the House urge the United Nations (UN)...
- Malabar Headland (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter of 4 July 2011, concerning a petition submitted to the Standing Committee on Petitions regarding the removal of horses from Malabar Headland. The terms of...
- Malabar Headland; Statements (2 speeches)
( Mr Speaker, the petitions I have presented today on behalf of the House Standing Committee on Petitions represent the largest number of petitions tabled in a single announcement since the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing order 113, I fix the next sitting Monday as the day for presenting the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Mining, Petroleum and Water Resources)...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Library Committee; Membership (1 speech)
Mr Speaker has received a message from the Senate informing the House that in accordance with the resolution agreed to by both Houses, Senator Madigan has been appointed a member of the Joint...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Member for Dobell (8 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion that would require the member for Dobell to attend the House and make a personal explanation. Leave not granted. In which case, I move: That so much of the standing...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Dunkley Electorate: National Bookshop Day (1 speech)
Saturday, 20 August was the first National Bookshop Day conducted in Australia. I was very pleased to participate at Robinsons Bookshop in Victoria, the oldest continuing independent bookseller...
- Bass Electorate: AUSTSWIM Award (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate a special lady in my electorate of Bass, Jill Bell. Jill is a Launceston swim instructor who has won a national AUSTSWIM award. It is appropriate that Laurie Lawrence was...
- Aston Electorate: Building Approvals (1 speech)
Last month I sent a brochure and a survey to residents of Boronia in my electorate. I received hundreds of responses to the survey. The biggest local issue that was raised concerned high-rise...
- Canberra Electorate: Sharp, Dr Peter (1 speech)
Today I would like to recognise the valuable contribution made by Dr Peter Sharp to improving health services for the Indigenous community in the ACT and region. Peter is the medical director of...
- Callaghan, Mr Robert (1 speech)
I was informed last week by the secretary of the Prahran RSL that their oldest member and a constituent of mine in Higgins, Robert Callaghan, had died at the age of 100 years. Private Robert...
- Throsby Electorate: BlueScope Steel (1 speech)
This morning BlueScope announced to the stock market that it had posted a $1 billion loss and that as a consequence it would make redundant about 1,000 workers from its operations in Victoria and...
- Longman Electorate: Aged Care and Mental Health (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Senator Connie Fierravanti-Wells, shadow minister for ageing and mental health, for visiting my local community earlier this month. The senator and...
- Ward, Mr Darcy (1 speech)
Today I want to recognise the achievements of Darcy Ward from Camira in my electorate of Oxley. Darcy is a young man who at the tender age of just 19 years is a two-time world under-21 speedway...
- Carbon Pricing (3 speeches)
The Prime Minister promised to wear out her shoe leather explaining the carbon tax that she said she would never introduce. But it is a big country, and I understand that it is pretty hard to get...
- Republic of South Sudan (2 speeches)
On 9 July South Sudan became an independent country under the name of Republic of South Sudan. On 14 July South Sudan became the 193rd member state of the United Nations, and on 28 July it joined...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Foreign Affairs will be absent from question time this week. The Minister for Trade will continue to answer questions on his behalf.
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- ABC Helicopter Crash (4 speeches)
on indulgence—Last Thursday night three of the ABC's finest staff members died in a helicopter crash. I think members of the House would have received that news on Friday morning with a...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- ABC Helicopter Crash; Reference to Main Committee (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That further statements on indulgence on the tragic ABC helicopter crash which resulted in the deaths of Gary Ticehirst, John Bean and Paul Lockyer be referred to Main...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind her of the job losses of iconic Australian businesses, OneSteel, Qantas and now BlueScope. Why is she making a bad situation worse by introducing a...
- Libya (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question is directed to the Prime Minister. Would the Prime Minister update the House regarding recent events in Libya?
- Carbon Pricing (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question is to the Treasurer. I remind the Treasurer of Westpac's announcement that it will have to lay off staff, OneSteel's announcement that 400 jobs are going to go, Qantas's...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon Dr Uzi Landau, the Minister of National Infrastructures of Israel. On behalf of members, I extend to him a warm welcome....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Steel Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to be Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the government's response to BlueScope Steel's announcement concerning its facilities in Port Kembla and the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon youth participants of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians forum. In issuing them a warm welcome from members, I remind...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind her that in the last three years 105,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost, we face the worst manufacturing employment figures since records were...
- Roads: Pacific Highway (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. As the minister responsible on behalf of the Commonwealth and following ongoing negotiations with the state of New South Wales,...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I am reliably informed that we have in the galleries today delegates to the Australian Union of Jewish Students' political training seminar. Again, I advise them that this is question time and is...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Manufacturing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline for the House the important measures that have been announced to support steel manufacturing in Australia? Honourable members...
- Member for Dobell (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given the new allegations about the misuse of union funds contained in the press on Friday and today, will she require the member for Dobell to make a...
- Transport (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Will the minister inform the House of the reforms that the government is undertaking in the nation's transport system? What are...
- Carbon Pricing (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the draft Clean Energy Bill, which will require landfill managers to estimate the emissions that the rubbish they receive will...
- Trade (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade. Will the minister advise the House of the need for consistent trade and economic policies for Australia's international trade reputation. What are the...
- Carbon Pricing (8 speeches)
I refer the Prime Minister to her claims that a carbon tax will act as a price signal by increasing the price of goods with a high proportion of carbon relative to goods with a lower proportion...
- Health (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. What are the benefits that are flowing to Australians because of the government's health reforms? How have these benefits been...
- Carbon Pricing (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister explain why, after six weeks, the government has still failed to update the modelling of its carbon tax to reflect the actual starting...
- Regional Australia (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government and Minister for the Arts. Will the minister inform the House of government actions to ensure...
- Carbon Pricing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the case of my constituent, Mr Andrew Fulton, who is a small business owner—a builder of accessible homes for the...
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. The recent OECD report into school education recognises the significant contribution the government has made to...
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the outcome of the reality TV show The Block last night, in which three out of the four homes failed to reach the reserve...
- Superannuation (3 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation. Minister, what is the government doing to plan for Australia's future and to enhance our...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Convoy of No Confidence
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (9 speeches)
I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (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. I move: That the House take note of the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- (8 speeches)
Bank Note Bribery Allegations
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Brisbane Electorate: Special Needs (2 speeches)
It gives me great pleasure to enlighten the House about my recent activities with organisations and individuals who are making a big difference to the City of Brisbane. I was delighted to have...
- Schools Assistance Amendment Bill 2011 (13 speeches)
I want to continue the speech in which I was so rudely interrupted in quorum calls today by the silly opposition in this parliament. I think it is really a bad thing for the opposition to play...
- Bennelong Electorate (1 speech)
In September 1921 a World War I veteran by the name of Charles Halliday Engisch, established an independent community newspaper. As a resident of the Bennelong suburb of Gladesville, Charles...
- Building the Education Revolution (1 speech)
Over the winter recess in the same way as my colleagues I have regularly attended ceremonies to mark the opening of the capital and improvement works funded under the government's Building the...
- Queensland Floods (1 speech)
I rise tonight to inform the House of my office's idea to raise extra funds for the victims of the flood in Brisbane. As I have stated before, after the flood that so devastated the great city of...
- Rhiannon, Senator Lee (1 speech)
It is customary for new members and senators to use part of their first speech to give some account of their careers before their election. I will be very interested to see how much new Greens...
- Broadband (1 speech)
What can we expect from retail pricing on the National Broadband Network? According to the Prime Minister, we can expect lower prices. She told the House of Representatives last year: Do you want...
- Steel Industry (1 speech)
Earlier today BlueScope Steel announced to the Australian Stock Exchange that its board had approved a major restructure of its steel-producing operations at Port Kembla and Western Port. Eight...
- Health, Bowman Electorate: Eastern Busway (1 speech)
For three months, Australia's world-class health system refused to treat Della Johnson, a resident of my electorate, who suffers from the one-in-a-million vascular disease of the brain called...
- McKenna, Dominic, Petition: Palestine (1 speech)
Tonight I want to speak about the sad passing of baby Dominic, who passed away on the 13th of this month. Dominic was the youngest child of Alannah McKenna. Tonight I want to pay tribute to the...
- Boothby Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I would like to speak about infrastructure in my electorate of Boothby. One of the issues I have spoken about several times before is the issue of having a non-stop South Road from Darlington to...
- New South Wales Government (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak of a clear and present danger facing the people of the central coast of New South Wales. That danger is the imminent action of the Liberal Premier of this state of New...
- Riverina Electorate: Sport (2 speeches)
Football clubs are often the social and sporting pulse of country communities. The Northern Riverina Football and Netball League held its grand finals at West Wyalong on Saturday. It was a...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The following notice(s) were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (1 speech)
I have been holding many community information booths across Brisbane over the past few weeks, and universally I have been hearing the same story. Small and medium businesses within the...
- Colyton Public School (1 speech)
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of attending the Colyton Public School in my electorate for their celebration of the school's 150th birthday. Colyton Public School was first established as...
- Carbon Pricing (1 speech)
Today we see hundreds of trucks here in Canberra with the Convey of No Confidence in the Labor Government. I am from a transport background in heavy haulage, earthmoving, freight and logistics....
- Fraser Electorate: Disability Services (1 speech)
Today I rise to pay tribute to community sector workers in my electorate who are working with individuals who have a disability. I attended two community events recently that really brought home...
- St Paul's Anglican Church, Seville (1 speech)
On Sunday, 17 July I had the honour of attending the St Paul's Anglican Church 125th anniversary service in Seville for the Seville St Paul's Anglican Church. As you would expect, Mr Deputy...
- Lindsay Electorate: Every Australian Counts Campaign (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the work of local residents from the Lindsay electorate involved in the Every Australian Counts campaign. I recently had the pleasure of attending five DisabiliTeas that...
- Gilmore Electorate: Shoalhaven River Bridge (1 speech)
A couple of weeks ago there was a traffic accident on one of the two bridges crossing the Shoalhaven River. It happened in the late afternoon and coincided with the end of a working day with a...
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
On Wednesday, 3 August, in Dandenong I attended the annual general meeting of the South East Melbourne Manufacturers Alliance—SEMMA—to discuss the federal government's plan to move to...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Sudan (8 speeches)
Debate resumed on the motion: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) on 9 July 2011 two new nations emerged, the nations of South and North Sudan, which follows an overwhelming vote for...
- Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (11 speeches)
Debate resumed on motion by Dr Stone: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is an overarching term used to describe a range of physical,...
- Mandean Humanitarian Issues (92 speeches)
Debate resumed on the motion: That this House notes the: (1) continuing discrimination and attacks upon Mandeans on the basis of their religious beliefs; (2) minimal opportunities for internal...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Vietnam Veterans Day (15 speeches)
I would like to contribute to statements on this matter moved by the Prime Minister last week on Vietnam Veterans Day. In doing so, I mention the wonderful service held in the electorate of Casey...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Sugar Industry (5 speeches)
Debate resumed on the motion by Mr Hartsuyker: That this House: (1) notes: (a) that the abnormally wet weather in late 2010 and early 2011 devas tated the sugar industry on the NSW north coast;...
- Polio Eradication (9 speeches)
Debate resumed on the motion by Dr Leigh : That this House: (1) commends the efforts of successive Australian governments, working with multilateral, non-government organisations such as Rotary...
- Early Childhood Learning (26 speeches)
Debate resumed on the motion: That this House: (1) affirms its strong support for all forms of early childhood learning a nd recognises the importance of pre-school on the development of children...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Income Management (5 speeches)
Debate resumed on the motion by Mr Champion: That this House: (1) notes: (a) the positive impact compulsory and voluntary income management is having on the wellbeing of families and children in...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Economy (1 speech)
It is with some regret that I rise to speak tonight, at a time when there are numerous consequences from global financial turmoil and equally from the effects of the poor economic and financial...
- Superannuation (3 speeches)
Rather than the mantra of misery just delivered by the other side I rise to actually highlight what can be achieved by individual members of parliament and by a government that is absolutely...
- Education Participation (1 speech)
Despite being a strong advocate of pricing carbon I disagree with the statement that climate change is the moral challenge of our time. Instead, in my view, there is a bigger one. The real moral...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
It is hard to accept or believe that in a democratic country as wealthy as Australia many people with a disability in their families are still left to struggle each and every day. Most...
- Questions in Writing (0 speeches)
- Veterans' Affairs: Think Tanks and Policy Institutes (Question No. 317) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Veterans' Affairs, in writing, on 23 March 2011: (1) How many think tanks or policy institutes are funded by the Minister's department, and (a) what are (i) their names,...
- Broadband (Question No. 357) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, in writing, on 10 May 2011. (1) Is it a fact that Telstra's access network is required to be...
- Finance and Deregulation: Reform of Government Scorecard (Question No. 358) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Finance and Deregulation, in writing, on 10 May 2011: In respect of the department's Reform of Government Scorecard (November 2007 to May 2010):...
- Superclinics (Question No. 372) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 23 May 2011: Of the $370.2 million allocated to the 2010-11 GP Super Clinics Program, what amount (a) was spent in 2010-11, and (b) is in...
- Business Productivity (Question No. 393) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, in writing, on 26 May 2011: Can the Minister indicate the source of the claim Mr Rudd made in a...
- Australian Bureau of Meteorology: Station Closures (Question No. 411) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, in writing, on 1 June 2011: Which (a) weather and rainfall, and (b) river height, recording stations have...
- Australian Federal Police: Enhanced Cooperation Program with Papua New Guinea (Question No. 439) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Home Affairs and Justice, in writing, on 22 June 2011: What is the Government doing to recognise the Australian Federal Police officers who served in the Enhanced...
- Centrelink: Self-Service Computers (Question No. 443) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Human Services, in writing, on 4 July 2011: (1) Are Centrelink staff directing customers with disabilities to use the self-service computers at their centres rather than...
- Youth Services Development Fund Grants (Question No. 450) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, in writing, on 5 July 2011: Can he outline the reason(s) why the submission of 10 September 2007 by the Mackay Division of General Practice Ltd...
