House debates
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Closing the Gap (4 speeches)
by leave—In the long story of relations among the peoples of our nation—the story of our struggles with each other and of our struggles to reconcile—there have been some good...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Accounts and Audit Committee (1 speech)
by leave—I present executive minutes received by the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, and related documents, which constitute government responses to Joint Committee of Public...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives Bill 2011, Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2011, Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge — Fringe Benefits) Bill 2011 (0 speeches)
- Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives Bill 2011, Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2011, Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge — Fringe Benefits) Bill 2011; Consideration in Detail (4 speeches)
I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum and correction to the explanatory memorandum to the bill and to the Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2011...
- Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives Bill 2011, Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2011, Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge — Fringe Benefits) Bill 2011; Third Reading (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time.
- Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2011; Consideration in Detail (1 speech)
by leave—I move government amendments (1) and (2): (1) Schedule 1, item 23, page 6 (line 29), omit "2011 12", substitute "2012 13". (2) Schedule 1, item 24, page 7 (lines 1 to 34), omit the...
- Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge) 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.
- Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge — Fringe Benefits) Bill 2011; Consideration in Detail (1 speech)
by leave—I move government amendments (1) and (2): (1) Schedule 1, item 17, page 6 (line 2), omit "2011 12", substitute "2012 13". (2) Schedule 1, item 18, page 6 (lines 4 to 21), omit the...
- Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives (Medicare Levy Surcharge — Fringe Benefits) 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.
- Building and Construction Industry Improvement Amendment (Transition to Fair Work) Bill 2011; Second Reading (18 speeches)
In continuing my remarks on the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Amendment (Transition to Fair Work) Bill 2011, I want to reiterate my opposition to the bill and my concern for the...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Blue Mountains Legacy (1 speech)
Blue Mountains Legacy is a vitally important organisation providing welfare, pension, advocacy and compassionate assistance to ex-service personnel and their families in the electorate of...
- Victorian Government (1 speech)
Property developers in Victoria have too much power. They had too much power under the former Victorian Labor government and they have too much power under the Victorian Liberal government. This...
- Schools (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about small school closures in New South Wales. It is a concern, less than 12 months since the New South Wales state election, that P6 schools such as the Byabarra Public...
- Chaldean Australian Academic Society (1 speech)
Last Saturday I had the pleasure of attending the graduation ceremony of the Chaldean Australian Academic Society. The event was attended by His Grace Mar Jabriel Kassab, Archbishop of the...
- Mental Illness Fellowship of Queensland (1 speech)
I am pleased to rise and express my support for an application by the Mental Illness Fellowship of Queensland, MIFQ, for a grant from the Regional Development Australia Fund to assist in the...
- GM Holden Ltd (1 speech)
I rise to defend Holden's workers. There has been a lot of careless, uninformed talk by those opposite, by journalists and by pointy-headed economists, who have basically never made anything in...
- 150th Anniversary of Coopers Brewery (1 speech)
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of Coopers Brewery. This milestone is especially significant because with the recent takeover of Foster's Group by the South African brewer...
- Parramatta Electorate: Our Lady of Lebanon College (1 speech)
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending of Our Lady of Lebanon College in Harris Park to open a new hall and eight new learning centres that were funded by the federal government—through...
- Graham, Mrs Elizabeth Mary (1 speech)
I rise with sadness to inform the House of the passing of Elizabeth Mary Graham, known to all as Betsy, a former mayoress of Ryde council and legend of our local Liberal Party. Betsy was a...
- Flannery, Mr Denis James (2 speeches)
Ipswich has lost one its favourite sons and Queensland's finest rugby league player, Denis Flannery. Denis James Flannery was an Australian rugby league footballer in the 1940s and fifties....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given that Alcoa warned the government last year that the carbon tax would impact on its economic viability, given that Alcoa has today shelved a $3 billion...
- Private Health Insurance (24 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the government's private health insurance rebate changes will help build a stronger and fairer health system...
- Carbon Pricing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to Qantas's statement that the carbon tax will cost it more than $110 million next financial year alone, more than doubling...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I welcome to the gallery a parliamentary delegation from the German-Australian Parliamentary Friendship Group—an all-party delegation—led by representative Herr Jurgen Herrmann. I...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Pacific Highway (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Will you release a full schedule of works for the completion of the Pacific Highway now that your party has promised at two...
- Economy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer outline for the House the importance of sound fiscal management to support jobs and to return the budget to surplus?
- Member for Dobell (5 speeches)
I refer the Prime Minister to the statement by Senator Evans in October last year that the only contact between the government and Fair Work Australia regarding the investigation into the member...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Leader of the House and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, representing the Minister for Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy. How are the government's...
- Member for Dobell (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given that the Prime Minister indicated in her previous answer that it is proper to contact Fair Work Australia when previously she has said it was improper...
- Economy (12 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline for the House the importance of a strong and competitive—
- Prime Minister (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to revelations on the ABC's The 7.30 Reportlast night that a series of text messages and phone calls occurred between Mr Hodges...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, and the Minister for Industry and Innovation. Why is it important to maintain confidence in the economy and support...
- Prime Minister (15 speeches)
I refer the Prime Minister to Ms Kim Sattler's actual comments on Australia Day at the tent embassy protest, as revealed on the ABC's 7.30 Report last night, and I quote: They're both in at...
- Indigenous Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Community Services, Indigenous Employment, Economic Development and the Status of Women. In light of the Prime Minister's release this morning of the Closing...
- Prime Minister (16 speeches)
I have a question to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her revelation on the Four Corners program that she was unaware that her staff were drafting an acceptance speech two weeks...
- Families (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Community Services, Indigenous Affairs and Disability Reform. Will the minister outline to the House how the government is managing the economy to...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (26 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Curtin from moving the following motion forthwith: That the Prime Minister explain to the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the Selection Committee's report No. 42 relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday, 27 February 2012. The report will be...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Behaviour (3 speeches)
Would the member for Petrie resume her seat just for the moment. I ask the minister who is jacketless to leave the chamber—the minister will remain unnamed in Hansard. I ask honourable...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (18 speeches)
I have received letters from the honourable member for Dunkley and the honourable member for Fraser proposing that definite matters of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Syria and Iran (2 speeches)
by leave—I last updated this House on the situation in Syria one week ago. I regret to inform the House that what is happening in Syria is a crisis that continues to worsen, but...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the report of the Selection Committee No.43 relating to consideration of committee and delegation business on Monday, 27 February 2012. The report will be printed in today's Hansard and...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- 70th Anniversary of the Fall of Singapore (1 speech)
Seventy years ago today, more than 15,000 Australians, predominantly from the 8th Division AIF, went to hell as Singapore fell to the Japanese and another horrific chapter began in our nation's...
- Burrup Peninsula (1 speech)
In November last year I had the pleasure of visiting the Burrup Peninsula— or Murujuga in the Indigenous language—in the Dampier Archipelago of the Pilbara region of Western...
- Carbon Pricing (1 speech)
Firstly, I wish to thank the member for Fremantle for so eloquently promoting my patch and that amazing art that is on the Burrup Peninsula. I rise this evening to speak on a matter that will...
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about post-traumatic stress disorder and the tremendous work being done by two organisations to raise awareness of this disorder in Australia. Post-traumatic stress...
- Mallee Electorate: Social Housing (1 speech)
I was very disturbed to discover, between Christmas and the new year, that government departments have been responsible for trampling on my constituents' town planning rights. The offending...
- Manufacturing (1 speech)
I rise today to raise a very important issue: the future of the manufacturing sector here in Australia. Manufacturing is a key industry for our national economy, providing jobs, skills and...
- Automotive Industry, Videoconferencing, Dunkley Student Recognition and Encouragement Awards (1 speech)
Dunkley residents can be assured that I will continue to work for a supportive economic and policy environment that addresses the concerns of local manufacturers, particularly component...
- Page Electorate: Community Activities (3 speeches)
Last Wednesday I attended an event here at Parliament House along with other members of parliament. It was the Heywire event, an ABC Radio event that is done in partnership with the Australian...
- Dickson Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about two major infrastructure concerns in my electorate of Dickson. It has now been over a year since the January 2011 floods when the North Pine River flooded, causing...
- Hunter Electorate: Oncology Services (2 speeches)
I rise to speak on the release last week of the external review of medical oncology services at the Hunter New England Local Health District. The report was commissioned after 2011 media...
- Surf Life Saving (1 speech)
This summer I completed my surf rescue certificate with the Sorrento Surf Life Saving Club in Western Australia, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the general manager of the...
- Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise this evening to discuss a matter of increasing importance to those living in Australia's major cities such as Melbourne, and that is the matter of planning infrastructure for growing...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Road Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise this morning to speak about the crisis that is unfolding across northern New South Wales and more widely across regional Australia at the moment. This crisis is the poor state of local and...
- Braddon Electorate: New Funding (1 speech)
Good morning, colleagues. It is good to be back with you again. It is especially good because I can talk about my electorate of Braddon and some of the good news that has recently been announced...
- Goulburn-Murray Water Authority (1 speech)
We should be celebrating in northern Victoria. The drought, the worse in living memory, is over. The floods have receded. We do not have any plagues of anything currently. We have just had the...
- La Trobe Electorate: Education (1 speech)
I am very pleased to be able to update the House on matters occurring in my electorate, particularly in the area of education. During November and December, I had the opportunity—as many...
- Cowan Electorate: Hudson Park Primary School (1 speech)
Last Friday, I visited Hudson Park Primary School in the suburb of Girraween in the electorate of Cowan to wish the year 6 and year 7 students all the best for 2012. I thank Principal Paul...
- O'Connor Electorate: Regional Development Australia (1 speech)
I thank the member for Cowan for acknowledging Ian Napolitano, an old school friend of mine. I would like to take the opportunity to mention two key regional projects in my electorate of O'Connor...
- Hume Electorate: Wind Turbines (1 speech)
I rise again tonight to talk about the wind turbine industry and, more importantly, the modus operandi of the great clean energy wind turbine fraud and its closest supporters in government,...
- Hindmarsh Electorate: PISA Italian Meals and Services (1 speech)
Today I rise to congratulate a particular service in my electorate. I congratulate PISA Italian Meals and Services on the opening of their new meals kitchen in the suburb of Torrensville, which...
- National Servicemen's Day (1 speech)
Yesterday many of us celebrated Valentine's Day but, perhaps more importantly, 14 February was also National Servicemen's Day—a day for Australians to pay tribute to those who served our...
- Pakistan (2 speeches)
Many of my constituents and I am sure many other constituents around Australia will be very alarmed at a report I read in the Financial Times on my way back to Australia. As we speak, in the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That consideration of order of the day No. 2, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
