House debates
Thursday, 15 September 2011
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (21 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the time and order of business for Tuesday, 20 September 2011, being as follows: (1) the House shall meet...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Approval of Work (1 speech)
On behalf of the Minister for Home Affairs, I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969 , the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Clean Energy Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Household Assistance Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Tax Laws Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Fuel Tax Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Customs Tariff Amendment) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Excise Tariff Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment Bill 2011, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Shortfall Charge — General) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge — Auctions) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge — Fixed Charge) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (International Unit Surrender Charge) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Charges — Customs) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Charges — Excise) Bill 2011, Clean Energy Regulator Bill 2011, Climate Change Authority Bill 2011, Steel Transformation Plan Bill 2011; Second Reading (7 speeches)
I might say at the outset of resuming my remarks that, of course, even the title of the Clean Energy Bill 2011 is dishonest, talking about a clean energy bill when it is actually a tax bill. As I...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Orders of the Day (1 speech)
I move: That the following Main Committee orders of the day, private Members' business, be returned to the House for further consideration: No. 1—Auditor-General Amendment Bill 2011; No....
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following orders of the day, private Members' business, to be called on, and considered...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Bank Note Bribery Allegations (2 speeches)
To be fair to the member for Melbourne, because I did say half past 11 and we are a few minutes early and he is the mover of the motion, I suggest that, while I am talking about my willingness to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Early Childhood Learning (9 speeches)
I move that the motion be amended in the terms as circulated to honourable members in the chamber. For the sake of clarity, this amendment reads as follows: That paragraphs 3-8 be omitted with a...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Carbon Tax Plebiscite Bill 2011; Second Reading (0 speeches)
- Extradition and Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation Amendment Bill 2011; Reference to Main Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the bill be referred to the Main Committee for further consideration. Question agreed to.
- Clean Energy Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Household Assistance Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Tax Laws Amendments) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Fuel Tax Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Customs Tariff Amendment) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Excise Tariff Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment Bill 2011, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Shortfall Charge — General) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge — Auctions) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge — Fixed Charge) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (International Unit Surrender Charge) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Charges — Customs) Bill 2011, Clean Energy (Charges — Excise) Bill 2011, Clean Energy Regulator Bill 2011, Climate Change Authority Bill 2011, Steel Transformation Plan Bill 2011; Second Reading (11 speeches)
The Labor-Green government has no mandate to introduce the carbon tax legislation—I make that point very clearly. A number of days before the last election the Prime Minister said, 'There...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Dementia Awareness Week (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge Dementia Awareness Week, which starts tomorrow. Dementia is the third major cause of death in Australia after heart disease and stroke. It is estimated that today 269,000...
- Learn Earn Legend! Program (1 speech)
It is great to finally get the call on statements by members because I wanted to introduce members to some great young Indigenous people, students from my electorate who were here in Parliament...
- Rugby World Cup 2011 (1 speech)
The Rugby World Cup, which began last Friday, is the best showcase of the game they play in heaven. Last Sunday we saw a great start to the Wallabies campaign, with a convincing 32-to-six win...
- Early Childhood (1 speech)
Improving the life chances of young Australians is a key priority for this government, and I acknowledge the important work done particularly by the Minister for Employment Participation and...
- Small Businesses (1 speech)
While Central Queensland is booming in the coal and gas industries, small business and local manufacturing companies are doing it very tough. Mobbs and Co. Steel Fabrication is the latest victim...
- Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur (1 speech)
On Saturday, 3 September I had the privilege of attending the Bangladesh National Mourning Day ceremony in Lakemba with the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and...
- Australian Student Prize (1 speech)
Today I rise to congratulate the 14 students in my electorate who were awarded the 2010 Australian Student Prize: Marc Bonaventura of Glen Iris, Rosemary Byth of Glen Iris, James Campbell of...
- Football Queensland (1 speech)
I want to respond to a Football Queensland press release this week as it refers to me. Football Queensland just do not get it. I have decided to make an issue of the Football Queensland team wear...
- Murray-Darling Basin (1 speech)
Regional Australians are good, honest, hardworking people. They do their best to grow the food to ensure the nation and our near neighbours get fed. They pay their taxes and expect a fair share...
- Indian Myna Bird (2 speeches)
I rise today to acknowledge the excellent work being done by the Canberra Indian Myna Action Group to tackle the problem of the Indian myna bird in Canberra. The introduced Indian myna bird has...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. With legislation as significant as the Malaysia people-swap deal, has the Prime Minister discussed with Senator Bob Brown the necessity of supporting the...
- Climate Change (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline how the government is taking action on climate change and the big issues facing the nation?
- Asylum Seekers (7 speeches)
I am sorry his expectations are not going to be met, Mr Speaker.
- Carbon Pricing (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. What are the facts and the economic benefits of the government's plan to put a price on carbon pollution?
- Asylum Seekers (22 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. If the government's Malaysia people swap is going to stop the boats, as the Prime Minister claims, then why is she building a 1,500-bed detention centre in...
- Taxation (21 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, with 10 taxes in Australia raising 90 per cent of tax revenue and in your considerations leading into the national tax forum in October, will...
- Employment (8 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline to the House the importance of responsible economic and fiscal management for the creation of jobs.
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the policies she has advocated since the Rudd Gillard government dismantled the Howard government's Pacific solution in 2008,...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Energy and Minister for Tourism. Will the minister update the House on the contribution that the resources and energy sectors are making to the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Earlier in the day it was brought to my attention—again, this is about timing—that the National Student Leadership Forum representatives were in the gallery. Nearly all of them have...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Member for Dobell (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given her office made inquiries of Fair Work Australia when it began its investigation into the member for Dobell, has she or her office now asked Fair Work...
- Carbon Pricing (41 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 about the minister's regional...
- RU OK? Day (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Mental Health and Ageing. Will the minister update the House on RU OK? Day and how the government is addressing suicide in our community?
- Clean Energy Finance Corporation (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the government's Clean Energy Finance Corporation, which is similar to a United States Department of Energy program that...
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation. Will the Assistant Treasurer outline how the government's fiscally responsible plan to increase...
- Carbon Pricing (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How many megawatts of clean energy will be produced over and above the already agreed 20 per cent renewable energy target by 2020 as a result of the $10...
- Clean Energy Legislation (20 speeches)
I ask the Leader of the House what support has been shown for the government's efforts to ensure that all members have an opportunity to actively participate in the debate on the clean energy bills.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Clean Energy Future Legislation Committee (27 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question for you. Did you receive a letter yesterday from the Chief Opposition Whip nominating opposition members to the Joint Select Committee on Australia's Clean Energy...
- Speaker's Panel (2 speeches)
As you are aware, there is a vacancy on your Speaker's Panel. Please advise the House whether you are in receipt of any correspondence from the opposition nominating a member of that panel as has...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
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Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the Selection Committee’s report No. 32 relating to the consideration of bills. The report will be printed in today’s Hansard. Copies of the report have been placed on the...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 6 of 2011-2012 (3 speeches)
I present the Auditor-General's performance audit report No. 6 of 2011-2012 entitled Fair Work Education and Information Program. Ordered that the report be made a parliamentary paper.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (18 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Indi proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The adverse impact of the...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Media Ownership (1 speech)
This week we have heard a lot about the regulation of newspapers from the government. The Labor Party has a great history with newspapers. The Labor Daily in the 1920s and 1930s stoutly defended...
- Newcastle (1 speech)
After listening to the member for Wentworth, I must send him a copy of my electronic newsletter. I think he would find the last one particularly interesting; it looks at the national accounts and...
- McPherson Electorate: Fly-In Fly-Out Workers (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the opportunity that a fly-in fly-out terminal at Gold Coast Airport, within my electorate of McPherson, has to offer. The Gold Coast has a business advisory group, known as...
- Deakin Electorate: Sporting Facilities (1 speech)
Being a Thursday afternoon adjournment debate, I am sure, Mr Speaker, you would expect me to report on the opening of yet another new P21 building in one of my local schools. But this Thursday is...
- Parkes Electorate: Coal Seam Gas (1 speech)
Tonight I rise to speak of an issue that is becoming increasingly concerning in my electorate. It is the conflict between the expanding coal seam gas industry and agriculture. The coal seam gas...
- Palestine (1 speech)
On this International Day of Democracy I want to reflect on the fact that Australia will shortly need to decide how it will vote when a motion is put before the United Nations General Assembly...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Maranoa Electorate: Television Reception (1 speech)
I rise this morning to highlight this Labor government's refusal yet again to listen to the concerns of those communities in rural and remote parts of Australia, not only in my electorate but...
- Isaacs Electorate: Wallara Industries and Mentone Primary School (1 speech)
Earlier this month I visited Wallara Industries, a business located in Keysborough in my electorate and which provides 97 jobs to people with a developmental or intellectual disability. Supported...
- Riverina Electorate: Water (1 speech)
Family farmers and regional communities are racked with uncertainty about whether or not they have a future. No-one should ever criticise an irrigator while their mouth and stomach are full....
- Holt Electorate: Citizens (1 speech)
Last night in my adjournment speech I spoke about the people of Holt. I spoke about their willingness and courage to share their hopes and aspirations, their concerns and innermost feelings. The...
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
On 16 August 2010, the Prime Minister said, 'There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.' On 13 September 2011, the Prime Minister said: … the best way is to make polluters pay...
- Blair Electorate: Somerset Civic Centre (1 speech)
Last week, I had the great privilege of announcing $2 million worth of funding to the Somerset Regional Council to build the new Somerset Civic Centre. I congratulate the council and the Ipswich...
- Herbert Electorate: Blakey's Crossing (1 speech)
I can see it now: bunting festoons the podium, Townsville Mayor Les Tyrell takes the three short steps up to the microphone, taps the microphone to see if it is on and then proudly cuts the...
- Makin Electorate: Trades Training Centres (1 speech)
On Friday, 12 August, I attended the opening of the new maths, science and electronics trade training education facilities at Para Hills High School, Salisbury East High School and the joint...
- Education (1 speech)
The government's so-called education revolution is not working. The international PISA survey of students' academic achievements show that Australia is going backwards in some subjects and is...
- Business Women Connect (1 speech)
I want to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate Kim Williams, as director, and also the Central Coast Business Women Connect on their work in bringing networking and innovation to the...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- United States of America: Terrorist Attacks (13 speeches)
11 September 2001 was, without doubt, a day that changed the world. Although terrorism itself was not a new phenomenon, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Finance Minister of the Year Award (1 speech)
A couple of weeks ago I was thumbing my way through the Financial Review, as I do on a daily basis, when on page 38 I saw a news item that left me gobsmacked. It was headlined 'Swan in line to be...
- Calwell Electorate: Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation Centre (1 speech)
The Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation centre, located in Broadmeadows in my electorate, was originally established by the Howard government to be a low security transit accommodation...
- Lawn Bowls (3 speeches)
I rise today to raise an issue important to senior Australians not just in my electorate of Mitchell but all around the country, and that is the decision of the ABC to remove the screening of...
- Shortland Electorate: Health and Police (1 speech)
The people of Shortland electorate were significantly disadvantaged during the Howard years in relation to health. There was a chronic shortage of doctors, a decline in bulk billing and a total...
- Indi Electorate: Agriculture (2 speeches)
I rise to speak about a very important sector in my electorate—that is, the agricultural sector. After so many years of droughts and difficulties, we have had good winter rains, the dams...
- Australian Defence Force (1 speech)
Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. We all love Old Blighty. I defer to no-one in my admiration of the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the popular culture of Steptoe and Son or the heroic...
