House debates
Monday, 21 November 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...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Marriage (0 speeches)
PETITION TO RETAIN THE DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN To the Honourable Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives We the undersigned citizens draw to the attention of...
- Falun Gong (0 speeches)
Global Effort to Stop the Genocide of Falun Gong To the Honourable Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives We therefore ask the House to request the Prime Minister and the Foreign...
- Easter Sunday (0 speeches)
To the Honourable 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: Amend...
- Palestine (0 speeches)
To the Honourable Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives This petition of concerned citizens of Australia: Draws to the attention of the House the increasing international...
- Child Care (0 speeches)
To the Honourable Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives This petition of citizens of Australia draws to the attention of the House the withdrawal of funding for occasional childcare...
- Asylum Seekers (0 speeches)
To the Honourable Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives This petition of members of Holy Saviour Parish in Glen Waverley North in Victoria draws to the attention of the House our...
- Child Care (0 speeches)
To the Honourable Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives This petition of the citizens of Australia draws to the attention of the House: Our concerns, as parents, over the...
- Child Care; Responses (1 speech)
Ministerial responses to petitions previously presented to the House have been received as follows:
- Marriage (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter of 25 August 2011 regarding the petition submitted to the Standing Committee on Petitions, opposing changes to the Marriage Act 1961. The Australian...
- Special Disability Trusts (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter of 12 May 2011 enclosing a copy of a petition about Special Disability Trusts that was submitted to the Standing Committee on Petitions by Carers and...
- Asylum Seekers (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter of 4 July 2011 relating to a petition submitted to the Standing Committee on Petitions regarding the Australian Government's Arrangement with Malaysia to...
- Aircraft Noise: Sutherland Shire (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter dated 26 August 2011 about a petition recently submitted for the consideration of the Chair of the Standing Committee on Petitions, regarding Aircraft...
- Live Animal Exports (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter of 26 August 2011 referring a petition submitted for consideration of the Standing Committee on Petitions regarding suspension of livestock being...
- Palestine (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter of 22 August 2011 regarding the petition for the recognition of a Palestinian State. Australia strongly supports a negotiated two-state solution in the...
- Page Electorate: Gas Pipeline (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy The Minister for Resources and Energy, the Hon Martin Ferguson AM MP has asked me to thank you for your letter of 15 September 2011 concerning a recently submitted petition for the...
- Disability Services (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letter of 25 August 2011 to the Minister for Health and Ageing, the Hon Nicola Roxon MP, containing a petition on the implementation of the National Disability...
- Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefit Amendment (Fair Indexation) Legislation (0 speeches, 1 comment)
Dear Mr Murphy Thank you for your letters of 4 July and 22 August 2011 to the Minister for Defence, the Hon Stephen Smith MP, concerning a response to a petition which called on the House to...
- Balwyn Post Office (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy Petition—closure of Balwyn Post Office Subsequent to my reply to the Petitions Committee on 24 August 2011, I have received updated advice from Australia Post concerning a...
- Australian Development Scholarships (0 speeches)
Dear Mr Murphy I refer to your letter of 16 March 2011 to the Hon Chris Evans MP, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, concerning petition number 408-693,...
- Statements (2 speeches)
As we near the end of 2011 I thought it might be useful today to reflect a little and to present a snapshot of the petitioning activity that has occurred in the House of Representatives during...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Crime and Incarceration Rates (11 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) recognises that: (a) the Australian incarceration rate has risen from 117 prisoners per 100,000 adults in 1991 to 172 prisoners per 100,000 adults in 2010; (b) since...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Afghanistan (4 speeches)
) ( ): In my statement to the House last year on the war in Afghanistan, I set out to paint a very honest picture of the difficulties and challenges facing our mission in that country. I did so,...
- Referral to Main Committee (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the resumption of the debate on the motion to take note of the Prime Minister's statement on Afghanistan be referred to the Main Committee. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I ask leave of the House to move a motion relating to the time and order of business for the sitting on Tuesday, 22 November 2011. Leave granted . I move : That the time and order of business for...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Minerals Resource Rent Tax Bill 2011; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Economics, I present the committee's advisory report on the Minerals Resource Rent Tax Bill 2011 and related bills, incorporating a dissenting report,...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business Names Registration (Application of Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011 (0 speeches)
Messages from the Governor-General reported informing the House of assent to the bills.
- Business Names Registration (Fees) Bill 2011, Tax Laws Amendment (2011 Measures No. 6) Bill 2011, Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities) 2011; Assent (0 speeches)
Messages from the Governor-General reported informing the House of assent to the bills.
- 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, Australian Renewable Energy Agency Bill 2011, Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011, Excise Tariff Amendment (Condensate) Bill 2011, Excise Legislation Amendment (Condensate) Bill 2011, Trade Marks Amendment (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Bill 2011; Returned from Senate (362 speeches)
Message received fro m the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request. Bill returned from the Senate with amendments. Ordered that the amendments be considered immediately....
- Tobacco Plain Packaging Bill 2011; Consideration of Senate Message (9 speeches)
Bill returned from the Senate with amendments. Ordered that the amendments be considered immediately. Senate’s amendments—tobacco product requirement
- Minerals Resource Rent Tax Bill 2011, Minerals Resource Rent Tax (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011, Minerals Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — General) Bill 2011, Minerals Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — Customs) Bill 2011, Minerals Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — Excise) Bill 2011, Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Amendment Bill 2011, Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — General) Bill 2011, Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — Customs) Bill 2011, Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — Excise) Bill 2011, Tax Laws Amendment (Stronger, Fairer, Simpler and Other Measures) Bill 2011, Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Amendment Bill 2011; Second Reading (3 speeches)
Cognate debate. Debate resumed on the motion: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Adidas School Fun Run Community Care Program (1 speech)
Today I rise to say a special thank you to Credit Union Australia for the first year of its Adidas School Fun Run Community Care program, through which CUA donates money to local schools and...
- Tibet (1 speech)
I am saddened and deeply concerned about the recent instances of self-immolation by young Tibetans in eastern Tibet. Ten Tibetans have set themselves on fire since March this year in a desperate...
- Herbert Electorate: Townsville Flames (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about something that is very near and dear to the people of Townsville, and that is women in sport. The Townsville Fire almost folded last year, but this year the re-formed...
- Bass Electorate: Building the Education Revolution (1 speech)
I was pleased to welcome the state Liberals and federal Liberal candidate at a BER opening recently in the north-east of Tasmania, even though the Liberal Party voted against these projects and...
- World Diabetes Day (1 speech)
On 14 November last week it was World Diabetes Day. It is a particularly important issue for those supporting Movember, which I obviously am. As such, I visited one of the many global...
- Woden Valley Redbacks Under-14s Girls' Soccer Team, Australian Public Service (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate the under-14s Woden Valley girls' soccer team on winning on the FFA Junior Team of the Year award. This is a truly great achievement and it was a win that did not...
- Murray-Darling Basin (1 speech)
It will come as no surprise to many to learn that the entire Murray-Darling Basin draft plan, due for release on 28 November, has been leaked to the media. Who is to blame for this outrage? The...
- Aviation (1 speech)
On Friday I was fortunate to go with the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research to see Boeing's latest long-range twin-engine aircraft, the Dreamliner, in Melbourne at...
- Address by the President of the United States of America (1 speech)
I rise to sing the praises of some very hardworking young students from my electorate who recently competed in an essay-writing competition. Last week, as most members would remember, we welcomed...
- Polio Eradication (2 speeches)
There were a number of important announcements made at the recent successful CHOGM held in Perth, but one in particular struck me as highly significant. This was the pledge by a number of...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Attorney-General will be absent from question time this week as he is in France representing Australia at the European Convention on Cybercrime. The Minister for Home...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind her of President Obama's statement that the US will not introduce a carbon tax, nor even take part in an emissions reduction treaty, unless emerging...
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the government working to advance— Mr Abbott interjecting—
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon a delegation of former members of the Canadian and the New Zealand parliaments, including the Hon. Peter Milliken, former...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (7 speeches)
Given that the Centre for International Economics using more realistic assumptions than the government's has found that electricity prices will rise by 30 per cent under her carbon tax and not...
- Mining (2 speeches)
Will the Treasurer outline for the House the importance of spreading the benefits of the mining boom to all corners of the economy?
- Economy (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer her to her words of a few moments ago in question time when she said: It is simply wrong to suggest that the Treasury modelling of the government's...
- Water (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Minister, what is the government doing to improve the protection of underground water in mining...
- Carbon Pricing (21 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. I refer the minister to his statement, twice repeated, on the 7.30 program on Tuesday, 8 November that 160 million tonnes...
- Mining (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Energy and Minister for Tourism. Will the minister update the House on the strong performance of the resources sector and why the government is...
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her statement on 10 July that the government's so-called Steel Transformation Plan will assist Australia's steel sector to...
- Mining (29 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. What is the government doing to invest in regional infrastructure? What would be the impact on the Regional Infrastructure Fund if...
- Australia-United States Relationship (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Will the minister update the House on recent developments in the Australia-United States alliance?
- Australia-India Relationship (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. When was the minister first informed of the Prime Minister's decision to overturn Labor's ban on uranium sales to India?
- Health Reforms (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How is the government delivering better health outcomes for all Australians?
- Australia-India Relationship (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her statement about cabinet government, and I quote her: You consult and then you decide. I will take that approach to all...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister; Censure (10 speeches)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Warringah from moving forthwith: That this House censures the Prime Minister...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 12 of 2011-12 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit report No. 12 of 2011-12 entitled Implementation of the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing in the Northern Territory. Ordered that...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Documents are presented in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings and I move: That the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Minerals Resource Rent Tax Bill 2011, Minerals Resource Rent Tax (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011, Minerals Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — General) Bill 2011, Minerals Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — Customs) Bill 2011, Minerals Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — Excise) Bill 2011, Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Amendment Bill 2011, Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — General) Bill 2011, Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — Customs) Bill 2011, Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — Excise) Bill 2011, Tax Laws Amendment (Stronger, Fairer, Simpler and Other Measures) Bill 2011, Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Amendment Bill 2011 (5 speeches)
Cognate debate. Debate resumed on the motion: That these bills be now read a second time.
- Tax Laws Amendment (2011 Measures No. 8) Bill 2011; Second Reading (4 speeches)
Debate resumed on the motion: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Tax Laws Amendment (2011 Measures No. 8) Bill 2011; Consideration in Detail (4 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Tax Laws Amendment (2011 Measures No. 8) Bill 2011; 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.
- Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011; Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment; certified copy of bill presented. Ordered that this bill be considered immediately. Bill agreed to.
- Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011; 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.
- Customs Amendment (Military End-Use) Bill 2011; Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment; certified copy of bill presented. Ordered that this bill be considered immediately. Bill agreed to.
- Customs Amendment (Military End-Use) Bill 2011; 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.
- Minerals Resource Rent Tax Bill 2011, Minerals Resource Rent Tax (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011, Minerals Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — General) Bill 2011, Minerals Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — Customs) Bill 2011, Minerals Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — Excise) Bill 2011, Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Amendment Bill 2011, Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — General) Bill 2011 (215 speeches)
Cognate debate. Debate resumed on the motion: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (Imposition — Excise) Bill 2011, Tax Laws Amendment (Stronger, Fairer, Simpler and Other Measures) Bill 2011, Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Amendment Bill 2011; Second Reading (7 speeches)
Cognate debate. Debate resumed on the motion: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Srebrenica Remembrance (14 speeches, 2 comments)
I move: That this House notes that: (1) on 11 July 1995, the Bosnian town of Srebrenica which was at that time proclaimed a Protected Zone by a United Nations Security Council Resolution of 16...
- Burn Injury Prevention (6 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) commemorates the ninth anniversary of the 12 October 2002 Bali bombings in which 202 people including 88 Australians died and 240 sustained injuries; (2) notes that...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Goulburn Valley Food Cooperative (1 speech)
The date 27 May 2011 is seared into the memories of the citizens of the tiny town of Girgarre in Northern Victoria. Girgarre is typical of your country town: a population of about 600 people, a...
- Hindmarsh Electorate: Bupa Project (1 speech)
Once again I am pleased to report on the particulars of a successful community project that was voluntarily initiated by two individuals who work in my electorate—by two groups, but it was...
- McPherson Electorate: Transport Infrastructure, Employment, Fly-in Fly-out Workers (1 speech)
This evening I rise to speak on three important issues in my electorate of McPherson. The first is the growing necessity for improved transport infrastructure on the southern Gold Coast; the...
- Blair Electorate: Building the Education Revolution Program (1 speech)
The Building the Education Revolution program, as part of the nation building and stimulus plan of this government, has been a big success in the electorate of Blair: 64 schools; $105 million....
- Genocide (2 speeches)
I rise in this place for the third time to acknowledge the massacre of Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians from 1915 to 1923 and in recognition of these atrocities as genocides. As nearly all of...
- Murray-Darling Basin (1 speech)
Later this month, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority is expected to hand down its long-awaited Basin Plan. Whilst what is presented may not be the final determination of the plan, it will...
- Genocide (1 speech)
It feels as though this is the 50th occasion, at least, on which I have stood in this place and urged the Australian parliament to properly recognise the genocide committed in the last century by...
- Economy (3 speeches)
As the end of 2011 draws near, I take this opportunity to reflect on the past year. This has been a significant year—one that this Labor government is proud of, one that has achieved...
- Genocide (1 speech)
As my good friend the member for North Sydney said a little while ago, we have today in the public gallery the Armenian National Committee World Council Chairman, Mr Der Khatchadourian, we have...
- Asian Women at Work (1 speech)
In my life I have attended many hundreds of annual general meetings of public, private and community organisations. On 6 November I attended another but certainly unique meeting, in my...
- Genocide (1 speech)
I rise tonight to support the comments of the member for Bennelong, the member for North Sydney and the member for Wentworth. The Armenian genocide and the related Assyrian and Greek genocides...
- Deakin Electorate: Dorset Primary School (1 speech)
It is my pleasure to stand up and relate to the House another great news story about a Building the Education Revolution opening in my electorate of Deakin. It has been little while since I have...
- Visit of President of the United States (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge one of the primary schools in my electorate, Darley Primary School, whose students had the enormous privilege of meeting President Obama when he was on his trip to...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
The following notice(s) were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Casey Electorate: Mooroolbark East Primary School (2 speeches)
It is my pleasure to rise this morning to congratulate and pay tribute to the staff, the students and the parents at Mooroolbark East Primary School in the electorate of Casey. Last Friday...
- Banfield, Mr Brenton (1 speech)
It is with great sadness that I advise the House of the death of Brenton Banfield, a great man in our local community. I have had the honour of knowing Brenton over the last 30 years and have...
- Wright Electorate: Education (1 speech)
This morning I rise to advise the House of our new breed of leaders coming through the electorate of Wright. Recently I have had the opportunity to attend many award ceremonies at high schools...
- Blair Electorate: Business (1 speech)
The 18th-century novelist Samuel Richardson once said that 'necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity'. It has been a tough year for the people of...
- Asia-Pacific Region (1 speech)
Like others in this chamber I applaud the sentiment and goals expressed by President Obama in his address to the Australian parliament last week. His words do bear repeating, so I quote: As two...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
As we draw towards the end of this parliamentary session I reflect on the achievements of this parliament and the government to date. In doing that the thing that comes to mind is the landmark...
- Bonner Electorate: Volunteers (1 speech)
It is with pleasure that I rise today to acknowledge the volunteers in the Bonner electorate who have been recognised by the Australian government for their international service. I am sure that...
- Corio Electorate: Building the Education Revolution (1 speech)
Like many MPs at the moment I am in the midst of a wave of opening school buildings as part of the Gillard government's Building the Education Revolution. Two weeks ago it was Manifold Heights...
- McPherson Electorate: Remembrance Day (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about Remembrance Day and the services that took place across my electorate of McPherson. This year's Remembrance Day marks the 93rd anniversary of the signing of the...
- Greenway Electorate: Quakers Hill Nursing Home (2 speeches)
Like many residents who live locally and I am sure right around Australia, I awoke on Friday morning to the dreadful news of a fire at the Quakers Hill Nursing Home, located in my electorate of...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Tuberculosis (18 speeches)
Debate resumed on motion by Mr Entsch: That this House: (1) acknowledges the scale of the tuberculosis threat to Papua New Guinea , and the mortality, morbidity, economic and social costs, and...
- White Ribbon Day (6 speeches)
Debate resumed on the motion by Mr Hayes : That this House: (1) notes that 25 November 2011 marks White Ribbon Day, the symbol of the United Nations' International Day for the Elimination of...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Afghanistan (5 speeches)
Debate resumed on the motion: That the House take note of the document.
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Exceptional Circumstances Exit Grants Program (25 speeches)
Debate resumed on motion by Dr Stone: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) in the 2011 Budget, the Labor Government announced t he extension of the Exceptional Circumstances Exit Grants program...
- World Osteoporosis Day (8 speeches)
Debate resumed on the motion by Mr Georganas: That this House: (1) joins Osteoporosis Australia and the International Osteoporosis Foundation in promoting World Osteoporosis Day on Thursday 20...
- Meals on Wheels (7 speeches)
Debate resumed on the motion by Ms Hall : That this House: (1) acknowledges the (a) important role played by Meals On Wheels organisations thr oughout Australia in delivering nutritious meals for...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Government Programs (3 speeches)
My grievance tonight is not the member for Herbert being cut off in the most outrageously antidemocratic fashion!
- Gillard Government (1 speech)
In contrast with the speech that we have just heard from the member for Mitchell, which exuded a sense of negativity—constant carping negativity—about all the things that cannot be...
- Bruce Highway (1 speech)
In light of the fact that we are all about to go on a summer holiday from this place, I suggest we take a little tour—two tours, in fact: one on paper and one in a motor car. I will start...
- Gillard Government (1 speech)
Tonight I want to talk about some complex issues that I think are really important. I want to talk about where we are in a parliamentary sense, in a social sense and in a party sense. I want to...
- Liberal Party (1 speech)
We are all familiar with the ancient proverb: the more things change, the more they stay the same. Nowhere is this more applicable than in the field of politics. Just recently I came across a...
- Payday Lenders (2 speeches)
Last sitting week in the adjournment debate I spoke about the scourge of payday lending affecting low-income Australians. I spoke about the huge profits generated and the massive payments made to...
- Questions in Writing (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (Question No. 427) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, in writing, on 16 June 2011: In respect of the $65.7 million of funding over the next four years for agencies under the proposed arrangement...
- Asylum Seekers (Question No. 430) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, in writing, on 16 June 2011: In respect of the $10 million of funding allocated to departmental expenses under the proposed arrangement with...
- Asylum Seekers (Question No. 431) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, in writing, on 16 June 2011: In respect of the additional 4000 refugees to be accepted under the proposed arrangement with Malaysia on...
- Child Care (Question No. 485) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Employment Participation and Childcare, in writing, on 16 August 2011: In respect of proposed changes in the regulation of childcare ratios to be put before COAG in 2011,...
- Bradfield: Home Insulation Program (Question No. 498) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, in writing, on 16 August 2011: In respect of the arrangements made through his department for the inspection and removal of...
- Clean Energy Future Booklet (Question No. 512) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, in writing, on 18 August 2011: (1) What total sum of money did it cost to produce the Clean Energy Future booklet that was distributed...
- Passport Refusals (Question No. 541) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in writing, on 18 August 2011: How many debtors have been refused a passport renewal under s 16(1) of the Australian Passports Act 2005, in each year since...
- Wispelaere, Mr Jean-Philippe (Question No. 546) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in writing, on 18 August 2011: Since 28 February 2007, on what dates have Australian consular officials (a) visited, and/or (b) otherwise had contact with,...
- Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs: Trial Sites (Question No. 547) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs in writing on 18 August 2011: (1) What information did she receive from her department for the purpose of...
- Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs: Senior Executive Service (Question No. 568) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, in writing, on 25 August 2011: How many staff were employed by the Minister's department in the Senior...
- Climate Change and Energy Efficiency: Senior Executive Service (Question No. 578) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, in writing, on 25 August 2011: How many staff were employed by the Minister's department in the Senior Executive Service (ie, SES) on...
- Dawson and Capricornia Electorates: Home Insulation Program (Question No. 584) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, in writing, on 12 September 2011: By postcode in the electorates of Dawson and Capricornia, (a) what number of homes had insulation...
- Dawson and Capricornia Electorates: Home Insulation Program (Question No. 586) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, in writing, 12 September 2011: By postcode in the electorates of Dawson and Capricornia, how many fires or fire-related incidents...
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry: Portfolio Expenditure (Question No. 592) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, in writing, on 12 September 2011 (1) What was the total 2010-11 portfolio expenditure for (a) advertising,...
- Superclinics (Question No. 593) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 14 September 2011: In respect of the GP Super Clinics Program, (a) what are the 10 program objectives, and (b) according to the latest...
- Superclinics (Question No. 600) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 14 September 2011: In respect of each operational clinic under the GP Super Clinics Program, what (a) is the total number of (i) medical...
- Superclinics (Question No. 601) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 14 September 2011: In respect of the GP Super Clinics Program, as at 31 July 2011, how many (a) GPs, (b) allied health workers, (c)...
- On-Farm Water Efficiency Program (Question No. 603) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, in writing, on 15 September 2011: In respect of round two of the On-Farm Water Efficiency Program: (1) On...
- Townsville Health Service District (Question No. 609) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 15 September 2011: (1) Can she confirm media reports that the Townsville Health Service District, which services a smaller population than...
- Superclinics (Question No. 611) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 19 September 2011: In respect of the latest Services and Implementation Assessment report for each of the 15 GP Super Clinics in...
- Superclinics (Question No. 612) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 19 September 2011: In respect of the latest Services and Implementation Assessment report for each of the 15 GP Super Clinics in...
- Superclinics (Question No. 613) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 19 September 2011: In respect of the latest Services and Implementation Assessment report for each of the 15 GP Super Clinics in...
- healthdirect Australia (Question No. 624) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 21 September 2011: In respect of healthdirect Australia, in July and August 2011, how many calls were (a) made to (i) the after-hours GP...
- Leichhardt Electorate: Mental Health (Question No. 625) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 22 September 2011: In respect of my correspondence to her dated 11 August 2011 on behalf of two constituents in the electorate of...
- Foreign Affairs and Trade: Hospitality and Entertainment Expenditure (Question No. 629) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in writing, on 22 September 2011: What was his department’s total expenditure on hospitality and entertainment in 2010-11, and of this, what sum was...
- Hospitals: Exemptions Initiative (Question No. 636) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 22 September 2011: In respect of the 19(2) Exemptions Initiative, what sum has been paid by Medicare to Australian public hospitals for...
- Dawson Electorate: Age Pension Recipients (Question No. 641) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, in writing, on 11 October 2011: How many pensioner householders exist in the electoral division of Dawson (a)...
- NBN Co. Limited (Question No. 650) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, in writing, on 11 October 2011: How many of NBN Co. Limited's employees are union members, and...
- Superclinics (Question No. 657) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 12 October 2011: In respect of the GP Super Clinics Program, in August and September 2011, how many (a) GP presentations were made at the...
- Superclinics (Question No. 658) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 12 October 2011: In respect of the GP Super Clinics Program, as at 30 September 2011, how many (a) GPs, (b) allied health workers, (c)...
- Superclinics (Question No. 660) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 12 October 2011: In respect of the GP Super Clinics Program, for each State and Territory in August and September 2011, how many (a) GP...
- Finance and Deregulation: Travel Savings (Question No. 664) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Finance and Deregulation, in writing, on 13 October 2011: In respect of the Minister's department's Reform of Government Savings Scorecard...
- National Authentication Service for Health (Question No. 725) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health and Ageing, in writing, on 3 November 2011: What total sum has the Government spent on the National Authentication Service for Health.
