House debates
Monday, 13 February 2012
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Responses (1 speech)
Ministerial responses to petitions previously presented to the House have been received as follows:
- Statements (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, I have just tabled, on behalf of the Petitions Committee, a large number of petitions and ministerial responses in the first chair’s announcement of 2012. Therefore, my comments...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Social Policy and Legal Affairs Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs, I rise to make a statement concerning the committee’s inquiry into the incidence and prevention of foetal alcohol...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Same-Sex Relationships (6 speeches)
I move: That this House agrees that should the Marriage Act 1961 be amended to allow for the marriage of same-sex couples, any such amendment should ensure that the Act imposes no obligation on...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent: (1) the time and order of business for Tuesday, 14 February, 2012 being as follows: (a) the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Privileges and Members' Interests Committee; Report (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 206, on behalf of the Committee of Privileges and Members' Interests, I present Report concerning the registration and declaration of members' interests during...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Child Care (1 speech)
I rise to express my concern at changes that the government has made to child care under the National Quality Framework. As of 1 January this year, childcare operators had to reduce their...
- Twenty20 Cricket (1 speech)
I rise today to mention Twenty20 cricket in Tasmania. The inaugural Twenty20 interstate competition was an outstanding success with record sell-out crowds attending matches at Blundstone Oval in...
- Hendra Virus (1 speech)
The humble flying fox is still creating havoc in my electorate, including the townships of Gayndah, Tannum Sands and Gladstone. The Hendra virus has claimed at least four human deaths, numerous...
- Canberra Electorate: 'South Side Rocks' campaign (1 speech)
I rise to speak about a very important issue: something that needs to be settled right here, right now. Today the south side is striking back against scurrilous claims made last week by the...
- Hughes Electorate: Fuel Prices (1 speech)
I rise to speak for the motorists of the electorate of Hughes, who last week were slugged overnight when LPG prices jumped 12c, or almost 20 per cent. Yesterday, we had an analysis released by...
- Syria (1 speech)
More than 6,000 people—civilians—in Syria have met their deaths at the hands of a brutal government led by Bashar al-Assad. It is very regrettable that China and Russia combined at...
- Wright Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the winners of the recent 2012 Australia Day awards in my electorate. My electorate is made up of different areas somewhat geographically separated from each other, so I...
- Kingston Electorate (1 speech)
I rise today to raise my concerns about last week's decision of the Development Assessment Commission to approve car park fees at Westfield Marion shopping centre. As do many people in my...
- Fly-in Fly-out Workers (1 speech)
I rise to speak about one of the little known ramifications of the syndrome of fly-in fly-out workers, a syndrome that prevails throughout the Western Australian Pilbara, which is in my...
- National Multicultural Festival (2 speeches)
I would like to congratulate the ACT Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Joy Birch, for the National Multicultural Festival held over the past weekend. The festival was the biggest and best ever....
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Veterans Affairs, Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, Minister for Indigenous Health and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Centenary of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (11 speeches)
I refer the Prime Minister, to whom this question is directed, to the government's own Treasury modelling that predicts that output in Australia's aluminium industry, which sustains some 10,000...
- Queensland and New South Wales Floods (2 speeches)
Prime Minister, how is the Commonwealth assisting communities impacted by recent flooding in New South Wales and Queensland?
- Carbon Pricing (13 speeches)
My question is also to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the fact that Queensland Alumina's parent company is reviewing its Gladstone based operations and to the comments from its...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How do the recent events in Greece and the Eurozone highlight the importance of managing the Australian economy and returning our budget to surplus in the...
- Employment (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to recently announced job losses at Westpac, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Holden, Toyota, BHP, Reckitt's, Manildra, Norsk, Tomago,...
- Native Title (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the longstanding Commonwealth offer to compensate states for the bulk of native title compensations, an arrangement which benefits our country and...
- Economy (11 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline for the House the importance of supporting jobs and economic growth and returning the budget to surplus?
- Budget (7 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Given that Labor has never delivered a surplus in my lifetime and that in his time as Treasurer the government has delivered the four largest budget deficits in...
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation. How is the government keeping our economy strong and helping...
- Prime Minister (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister stand by her statement on 28 January that Mr Hodges was advised by the journalists at the Lobby restaurant that Mr Abbott that...
- Infrastructure (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Minister, how has the government delivered community infrastructure while supporting jobs in the national economy, and how has...
- Prime Minister (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister stand by this statement of 28 January: 'At no point did Mr Hodges say to Ms Sattler that Mr Abbott had suggested that the tent...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and Minister for Industry and Innovation. How is the government promoting jobs across Australian industry and what are the...
- Prime Minister (15 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to this statement that she made: 'At no point did Mr Hodges say to Ms Sattler that Mr Abbott had suggested that the tent embassy...
- Private Health Insurance (29 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health, Ms Plibersek. Will the minister update the House on the government's plans to make the private health insurance rebate fairer for Australians?
- Economy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and the Minister for Indigenous Reform. Minister, could you outline to the House how the government is...
- Private Health Insurance (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her own statements with respect to the private health insurance rebate: If I were minister for health in an elected government,...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (24 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Warringah moving immediately: That this House calls on the Prime Minister to...
- 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)
- (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Native Title (1 speech)
on indulgence—I wish to add to an answer I gave in question time today. In question time today I answered a question from the member for O'Connor concerning native title. In my answer I...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- National Asbestos Awareness Week (12 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that as National Asbestos Awareness Week is formally recognised, it makes earnest representation to the Government to continue to call on Canada to ratify the...
- Iran (8 speeches)
I move— That this House: (1) expresses deep concern to our inter-parliamentary colleagues in the Iranian Parliament regarding serious and systematic human rights violations occurring in the...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Iraq (1 speech)
Today I wanted to participate in a debate in another chamber on a motion moved by the member for Fowler on the Sabian Mandaeans but, because of a diplomatic visitor, I was unable to be present in...
- Page Electorate: Pelicans on Posties (1 speech)
I speak tonight to bring the attention of the House to a wonderful local initiative that aims to raise funds for a local Ballina based school, Biala Special School, and the Royal Flying Doctor...
- Pelicans on Posties, Herbert Electorate: 3RAR (2 speeches)
To the member for Page: if those guys are going out there on postie bikes, the one thing they will not be looking for on the way home is a seat. They were looking for an acronym for the drive...
- Banking (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the worrying trend of job cuts in the banking industry as reflected by the recent decision of Westpac to axe 560 jobs and the ANZ announcement today of 1,000 jobs to be lost....
- Private Health Insurance (1 speech)
I rise to express my concern and outrage at the detrimental effects of federal and state Labor policies on the cost of living for constituents in my electorate. The people of Brisbane deserve...
- Bass Electorate: 'Hooked on Books' (1 speech)
I rise in the House this evening to speak on the opening of Hooked on Books, an exhibition visiting the Launceston Queen Victoria Museum and Gallery at Inveresk, and to thank Mr Richard Mulvaney,...
- Gillard Government (3 speeches)
A couple of weeks ago, the Prime Minister summoned her caucus to gather around with some butcher's paper, pencils at the ready, to develop policy for our nation's future. One can only wonder at...
- Makin Electorate: Mawson Lakes (1 speech)
Following a review of electoral boundaries in South Australia, the suburb of Mawson Lakes is now within the electorate of Makin and I have the privilege of representing the Mawson Lakes community...
- Wind Power (1 speech)
There are increasing concerns around Australia, and particularly in my home state of South Australia, about the rapid expansion of wind farms and the associated health risks and long-term threats...
- Australian Service Personnel of Chinese Heritage War Memorial (1 speech)
Last Saturday night, I was proud to attend a dinner with Brisbane's southside Chinese community to celebrate the completion of the Chinese-Australian war memorial and bursary program. I have the...
- Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome (1 speech)
I would like to draw to the attention of the House a very important matter that was brought to my attention by a resident of Boothby, Mr Raymond Tanner. Mr Tanner asked that I bring the issue of...
- Ageing (1 speech)
I take the opportunity this evening to report to the House an important event that occurred in my electorate in January. The member for Throsby and I co-hosted a conversation on ageing at which...
- Ballarat Electorate: Australian Prisoner of War Memorial, Baird, Mr David, IM (1 speech)
Last Sunday I had the honour of attending the anniversary of the commemoration of the Australian Prisoner of War Memorial in my electorate. I want to put on the record just how appreciative I am...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Higgins Electorate: Railway Crossings, Infrastructure (1 speech)
Congratulations on your appointment, Deputy Speaker Leigh. Last week, it was two years since I delivered my maiden speech in the parliament. I committed then as I commit again now to represent...
- Blair Electorate: Somerset Civic Centre (1 speech)
I wish today to speak about the Somerset Civic Centre in Esk. This new centre will fill the void caused by the fire which burnt down the 101-year-old Lyceum Hall in May 2010. The Esk community...
- Swan Electorate: Curtin University (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the proposal for a medical school of Curtin University to be established in my electorate of Swan. Ensuring adequate health care is provided to my community is something that I...
- Richmond Electorate: Byron Regional Sport and Cultural Complex (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about a fantastic event in my electorate last Friday, the opening of the Byron Regional Sport and Cultural Complex. The opening of this more than $16 million complex was an...
- Grainco (1 speech)
Last week in this place the member for Oxley abused the rights of privilege offered in this House to launch an attack not only on Campbell Newman but, in the process, on the company Campbell...
- Victorian and National Country Music Awards (1 speech)
Over the weekend I had the pleasure of attending and presenting some awards at the Victorian and National Country Music Awards night. The Victorian and National Country Music Awards is a great...
- Live Animal Exports (2 speeches)
I rise to acknowledge the hard work and belief of a constituent of mine from the city of Albury. During the height of last year's disastrous live cattle export ban by the Gillard government,...
- National Broadband Network (1 speech)
Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker, and congratulations for being in the chair. I represent an electorate where the rollout of the NBN is quickly gaining momentum. The foundations of...
- National Servicemen's Day (1 speech)
It was an honour and a privilege yesterday to lay a wreath and say some words at a National Servicemen's Day service in my electorate. Australia owes a debt of gratitude to our Nashos. It is...
- Canberra Electorate: Australia Day Awards (2 speeches)
Mr Deputy Speaker Leigh, congratulations on your appointment. It is with great pride that I rise to offer my congratulations to this year's Australia Day honours recipients and, in particular, to...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Local Government (6 speeches)
I rise to speak to this motion on local government. There are some parts of the motion of the member for Lyne for which I have full sympathy. I spoke of the need for recognition of local...
- Iraq (3 speeches)
I want to draw the attention of the House to the ongoing persecution faced by a number of religious minorities in Iraq. These religious minorities include various Christian groups such as the...
- Renewable Energy (12 speeches)
We are facing a severe threat from climate change. That is why the Greens have pushed so hard to cut pollution and make clean energy cheaper. It is why we have worked with the government to bring...
- D'Oliveira, Mr Basil Lewis (7 speeches)
A number of people have asked: why put a motion on the Notice Paper in relation to Basil D'Oliveira? It is pretty obvious that this has something to do with cricket and with something beyond...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- National Sorry Day (7 speeches)
I had the privilege this morning of meeting with the national Stolen Generations Alliance, who had a breakfast at which two speakers left an indelible impression on the hearts and minds of those...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Microbrewery Refunds (4 speeches)
Madam Deputy Speaker, I have always wanted to stand up in this place and call for more beer, and that is exactly what I am doing tonight. When my Twitter account became aware that this was coming...
- Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Children (12 speeches)
I am pleased to rise to move this motion, because the increasing sexualisation of our children is a trend that concerns me greatly, as it does you, Madam Deputy Speaker Burke. I have raised this...
- Same-Sex Relationships (2 speeches)
It is with great pleasure that I rise to speak on the motion that has been brought to this House by the member for Denison, and I thank him for raising the matter. This morning, my local...
- Gambling Reform (4 speeches)
This is an opportunity to thank those in this parliament who have pushed for substantial reform with regard to problem gambling to respond to two Productivity Commission reports over the last 11...
- Beauty Pageants (4 speeches)
I am very pleased that the member for Shortland has brought this important motion to the House tonight. People may think that it is flippant and silly matter but it is not. A beauty pageant...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Bennelong Electorate: Housing and Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise with a grievance on behalf of the people of Bennelong, a grievance that lies central to nearly every complaint I have received from my constituents: the lack of planning, the lack of...
- Health Services (1 speech)
I rise to talk about the hypocrisy of those on the other side in the debate that has been going on in the chamber for some hours now and for the past two days in relation to private health...
- Economy (1 speech)
It is a pleasure to rise tonight in this grievance debate—although I do not think that there will be many watching; I think they will be watching another interesting grievance debate which...
- Canberra Electorate (1 speech)
In our first sitting back in the chamber this year I thought it would be fitting to take a look back at and put on the record some of the achievements that have been delivered in my electorate...
- Gillard Government (5 speeches)
In this evening's grievance debate I would like to touch upon an issue that I believe is of some importance across the Australian economy. Predominantly, it is the complete inability of the...
- Cybersafety (8 speeches)
I rise tonight to inform the House about concerns I have for seniors, regarding their safety and privacy in an increasingly online world. Obviously, the internet has become a major part of our...
