House debates
Thursday, 9 February 2012
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee (1 speech)
I present the Selection Committee's report No. 41 relating to the consideration of bills. The report will be printed in today's Hansard. Copies of the report have been placed on the table. The...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Afghanistan (3 speeches)
by leave—The government is committed to providing regular reports and updates on Afghanistan, including to the parliament. I last reported to the parliament on 24 November 2011, with a...
- HMAS Success (2 speeches)
by leave—HMAS Success is a supply ship used for the supply of fuel, ammunition, food and stores to naval units at sea. In March 2009 Success left Sydney for a deployment to South-East Asia...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Orders of the Day (1 speech)
I move: That Main Committee, private Members’ business, orders of the day No. 1 relating to Meals on Wheels, No. 3 relating to the Exceptional Circumstances Exit Grants program, No. 4...
- 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, being called on, and considered...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Surf Lifesavers (3 speeches)
Mr Deputy Speaker, I just want to make a clarification. I think the clerk read out that this was a motion by the member for Lyons. Is it actually a motion by Mr Lyons, the member for Bass?
- Exceptional Circumstances Exit Grants Program (3 speeches)
by leave—I move: That the motion be amended to read—That this House: (1) notes that: (a) in the 2011 Budget, the Labor Government announced the...
- Tuberculosis (4 speeches)
by leave—I move, as an amendment: That paragraph 3 be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: (3) notes both the Federal and Queensland governments have indicated they will...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Global Economy (5 speeches)
by leave—Since the darkest days of the global financial crisis, I have regularly updated members on international developments and their implications for Australia. As I do so again today,...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 5, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Brisbane Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
I wish to congratulate and pay tribute to a number of constituents in my Brisbane Electorate who received Order of Australia awards on Australia Day: Mr Simon Bartlett, for services to...
- Media Ownership (1 speech)
The Convergence Review's findings and recommendations are imminent. Madam Deputy Speaker, you know my longstanding campaign against concentration of media ownership in our country. I believe,...
- Infrastructure Employment Projects Program (1 speech)
I rise to highlight a graphic example of Labor's gross economic incompetence. Members will agree there are many to choose from, but the government's failure to effectively administer the...
- Fraser Electorate: North Canberra (1 speech)
Over recent months I have been gathering stories from colleagues who enjoy living on the north side of Canberra, in my electorate of Fraser. Senator Wong says, 'I love the north side because I...
- Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month (1 speech)
I rise to speak on an important women's health initiative taking place right across the country. February marks Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, a national campaign aimed at raising awareness of...
- Organ Donation (1 speech)
Just in response to my colleague the member for Fraser, the south side rules; the south side rocks! Maybe I should go and speak to the Governor-General and the Prime Minister about what they...
- Cowan Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
I congratulate the City of Wanneroo Australia Day award winners for 2012. The Charles Searson youth award went to Marangaroo Primary School head girl Emily Youard, a member of the singing and...
- Bell, Mr Cyril (1 speech)
I rise to pay homage to an Irish gentleman, Cyril Bell, whom I first met when I came to parliament 12 years ago. He has just retired as the cleaner in my electorate office in Melbourne. I want to...
- Joice, Dr Paul (1 speech)
The Whitsundays is an area with a shortage of GPs as it is right now, and we could lose yet another one, a long-serving and well-respected GP, Dr Paul Joice. And it is all thanks to Queensland...
- Sulzberger, Mr Jake (2 speeches)
Today I would like to acknowledge a young athlete from my electorate, Jake Sulzberger. Jake is an inline hockey player who will be competing in the inline hockey junior world championships in...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Tax (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer her to the comments of Mr John Hannagan, the Australian chair of the world's largest aluminium producer, Rusal, employing nearly 1,500 people in this...
- Economy (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is returning to surplus vital to managing the economy in the interests of working people? What would be the consequences of not returning the budget to...
- Carbon Pricing (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the Minister for Foreign Affairs advise the House of one single country—just one will do—with an economy-wide carbon tax...
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline to the House the importance of maintaining policies that support economic growth and jobs growth?
- Carbon Pricing (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the Quicksilver Group, which employs 450 people in their Far North Queensland tourism business. Their annual fuel bill will...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Before I call the honourable member for Denison, who is the next questioner, I would like to recognise a former minister and long-serving member of this place, the Hon. Duncan Kerr, who is in the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Hospitals (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Minister, Tasmanians are dying due to the shocking state of our public hospitals and both health professionals and the state government have...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I would also like to take the opportunity to welcome the Hon. Barry Cohen, who is seated on the floor of the chamber. You will be pleased to know, Mr Cohen, that three of your former colleagues...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Infrastructure (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Will the minister update the House on the government's investment in our nation's highways? How are the government's record...
- Prime Minister (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to an article by a respected journalist, Tory Maguire, in the Punchon 27 January. She wrote: Tony Hodges, who was the one trawling...
- Health (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. What is the government doing to ensure that health funding delivers the best possible outcomes for Australians?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery on the floor of the chamber this afternoon members of a parliamentary delegation from the Republic of Cyprus led by His Excellency Mr...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Member for Dobell (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the Fair Work Australia investigation into the member for Dobell. Will the Prime Minister assure the House that the member for...
- Education Funding (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Will the minister outline the importance for the economy and for families of the government investing in education?...
- Member for Dobell (16 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the contact between her chief of staff, Ben Hubbard, and the then Commonwealth industrial registrar, Doug Williams, about the...
- Mining (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Energy and the Minister for Tourism. Can you update the House on recent investments in the resources sector and what it means for the Australian...
- Member for Dobell (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How does the Prime Minister reconcile her answer denying that her staff rang Fair Work Australia in relation to the Thomson investigation with this quote...
- Employment (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Community Services, Minister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development and Minister for the Status of Women. What is the government doing to support...
- Member for Dobell (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her comment in 2007 on the establishment of Fair Work Australia: 'Labor will remove all perceptions of bias.' How can the Prime...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (12 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Manager of Opposition Business from moving the following motion forthwith: That the Prime Minister is...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Membership (2 speeches)
I have received advice from the Nationals chief whip requesting that he be discharged from the Selection Committee, from the 17 February 2012, and nominating Mr Neville to be a member in his place.
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Reports Nos 25 and 26 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit reports for 2011-12 entitled Audit report No. 25, Performance audit:administration of Project Wickenby, and Audit report No. 26, Performance audit: capacity...
- 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 and I move: That the House take note of...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Economy (10 speeches)
I have received letters from the honourable member for North Sydney and the honourable member for Fraser proposing that definite matters of public importance be submitted to the House for...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Alpine National Park (1 speech)
Labor might pretend to be in government, but we all know that it is the Greens that are in charge. I see a wry smile already appearing on the face of the member for Eden-Monaro, because I think...
- Petition: HRL Coal fired Power Station (6 speeches)
I present a petition from 11,916 petitioners calling on the House to withdraw federal funding for the proposed new coal fired power station in Victoria, called HRL, and invest in a clean...
- Leichhardt Electorate: Far North Queensland (1 speech)
It is no secret that, over the past four or five years, under both state and federal Labor governments and a Labor dominated local government in Cairns, Cairns and the region have been...
- Bass Electorate (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to inform the parliament about the positive action being taken by the federal Labor government in the electorate of Bass. I am so proud of the Gillard government's support...
- Cook Community Classic, Mitochondrial Disease (1 speech)
The Sutherland shire is renowned for its hard-working, dedicated volunteers, who make the shire a better place to live and raise a family—it is my job to do all I can to ensure it stays...
- Manufacturing (1 speech)
I rise to add my support for jobs in Australia, particularly manufacturing jobs, as manufacturing is central to our Australian economy and plays a vital role in the economy of Newcastle. Hunter...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Paid Parental Leave (1 speech)
I rise today to highlight how on Tuesday, the first sitting day back after the Christmas break, there was an item scheduled for debate to deal with administrative changes to the Paid Parental...
- Holt Electorate: 2011 Community Spirit and Leadership Awards (1 speech)
Welcome back, Member for Dunkley! On 5 December last year I had the honour to acknowledge 46 outstanding young students at the 2011 Holt Community Spirit and Leadership Awards Ceremony. The Holt...
- Bennelong Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
I rise to applaud the great work of five residents in my electorate of Bennelong, who were recognised in the recent Australia Day honours. Dr John Keneally, from Gladesville, was awarded an AM...
- Queensland Floods (1 speech)
It is well known that my electorate on Brisbane's south side was hit hard by floods last year. We saw firsthand the destructive force of Mother Nature. We saw also the community spring into...
- Water (1 speech)
A group of determined women from my Riverina electorate have banded together and will descend upon Canberra this month to champion their fight for a sensible outcome in the water debate. It is...
- Isaacs Electorate (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the Victorian Liberal government's intention to increase public housing rent for pensioners and also about recent Australia Day and Vietnamese New Year celebrations in my...
- Digital Television (1 speech)
A couple of days of after Australia Day, I received a letter from Mr Don Denman of Nowra. Mr Denman is 72 and his wife is 75. Both are pensioners living in a department of housing house. I would...
- National Aged Care Alliance (1 speech)
Today at a breakfast here in Parliament House the National Aged Care Alliance launched their paper 'Australians deserve to age well—preparing for our future now'. This paper looks into...
- Cancer (1 speech)
I rise today to recognise that last Saturday, 4 February, was World Cancer Day. I have the pleasure today of speaking about the efforts of one of my constituents in a national fundraising project...
- Lindsay Electorate: Housing Developments (2 speeches)
I rise to express my disgust with plans announced recently by the New South Wales Liberals to dump 100,000 new people into the outer suburbs of Sydney in my electorate. They have announced a plan...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 4, committee and delegation reports, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Accounts and Audit Committee; Report (1 speech)
As deputy chair of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, I rise to speak in support of the committee's report 427, Inquiry into international funding agreements. I would like to...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Macquarie Electorate: Blue Mountains Healthcare (1 speech)
I rise today to draw attention to an alarming situation concerning a lack of access to primary health care for residents in the Blue Mountains within the seat of Macquarie. The Blue Mountains,...
- Wilson, Mr Michael (1 speech)
The House will appreciate that on many occasions in this parliament I have spoken about the work of our police in protecting the community. Indeed, on Police Remembrance Day I specifically spoke...
- Cystic Fibrosis (1 speech)
They say that living with cystic fibrosis is like breathing through a straw 24 hours a day. I have tried it for 10 minutes, and it is not easy. That is one of the reasons why I will attend the...
- Economy (1 speech)
There are a number of key issues which are front and centre for any government and any country. Good economic management is one of them. There is now absolutely no doubt that this Gillard Labor...
- Victorian Bushfires (1 speech)
In his first inaugural address, former United States President Abraham Lincoln spoke of the 'mystic chords of memory' that bind communities together. Those magic strands of reminiscence were...
- National Emergency Medal (1 speech)
I hope the member for Casey will pass on my congratulations to those people involved in that, because it is an important thing, and we who stood there and watched the fire come to our doorsteps...
- Gippsland Electorate: Fishing Licence Fees and Regulations (1 speech)
I rise to raise concerns about the extraordinary increase in licence fees charged by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority to commercial fishing operators in my electorate. It has come to...
- Economy (3 speeches)
I have often said that Tony Abbott has not had an idea that John Howard did not think of first. When it comes to the economy, it is pretty clear that Tony Abbott is committed to relying upon a...
- Media Ownership (1 speech)
I would like to raise, again, in this chamber the issue of media ownership. Mr Deputy Speaker, you know my longstanding interest in this matter. At the heart of our democracy is the need for fair...
