House debates
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (31 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of her admission yesterday that she had made mistakes over the past 18 months. Was one of those mistakes telling the Australian...
- Telecommunications (2 speeches)
Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the latest developments in delivering the structural separation of Telstra? How...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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The honourable member for Hinkler advises me that in the gallery today we have the Hon. Lin Powell, former Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland and a former Queensland education...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Mining (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Energy. I remind the minister of his statement yesterday that the Treasurer 'should take a good, hard look at himself'. Was he referring to the...
- Economy, Employment (9 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on recent global economic developments? Why do these developments make it critical for Australia to have the right policies to...
- Housing, Homelessness and Emergency Management (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness and Minister for Emergency Management. Will the minister outline his future plans for his portfolio over the next 18 months?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of the Australian Political Exchange Council Sixth Delegation from the Philippines. On behalf of all honourable...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Murray-Darling Basin (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities and relates to water buyback policy. Given recent questions raised about the government's...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform honourable members that we have seated on the floor of the chamber the Hon. Barry Cohen, former Minister for the Arts, Heritage and the Environment. He seems to be seated on the floor of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Minister, will you update the House on the government's education reform agenda, and how will the government keep...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
In their absence, I welcomed members of the Australian Political Exchange Council Sixth Delegation from the Philippines. Now that they are here, I extend a very warm welcome to them once again....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of her statement: 'I have made mistakes over the past 18 months.' Does the Prime Minister include in those mistakes the East...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of a parliamentary delegation from the Solomon Islands. On behalf of the House I extend a very warm welcome to our...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Education (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Human Services and Minister Assisting for School Education. Will the minister outline to the House how the government has supported Australian jobs by...
- Asylum Seekers (18 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of the revelation by the former foreign minister: … decisions … were taken, in my absence … and then announced...
- Pacific Highway (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Will the minister please outline to the House how the government's record investment in duplicating the Pacific Highway is...
- Asylum Seekers (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of her commitment before the last election that she would rule out for offshore processing any country that was not a signatory...
- 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 supporting Australian jobs, industry and households through...
- Asylum Seekers (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the statement by the minister for immigration following last year's federal Labor conference that the government would reintroduce the legislation...
- Pensions and Benefits (24 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Minister for Disability Reform. Will the minister outline for the House the government's achievements...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (11 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I think that the Prime Minister should stay to listen to this. I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Warringah moving...
- 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 Proceedingsand I move: That the House take note of...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I rise to seek your assistance under standing order 105(b) concerning a question in writing to the Treasurer to which I have not received a reply for well over 60 days. Understandably...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Economy (25 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for North Sydney proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The urgent need for...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Improvements) Bill (No. 2) 2011; Second Reading (31 speeches)
In continuation on the Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Improvements) Bill (No. 2) 2011: unsurprisingly, Labor jumped on our proposal and accused us of being in breach of the WTO agreement. It...
- Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Improvements) Bill (No. 2) 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.
- Antarctic Treaty (Environment Protection) Amendment Bill 2011; Second Reading (1 speech)
It gives me great pleasure to provide the opposition's support to the Antarctic Treaty (Environment Protection) Amendment Bill 2011. We do this for two very simple reasons: (1), we have long been...
- Antarctic Treaty (Environment Protection) Amendment Bill 2011; Reference to Federation Chamber (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the Antarctic Treaty (Environment Protection) Amendment Bill 2011 be referred to the Federation Chamber for further consideration. Question agreed to.
- Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Bill 2011, Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011; Second Reading (17 speeches)
As I have said previously, I have concerns about security of patients' information, firstly, through unauthorised access, secondly, through the broader cybersecurity risk and, thirdly, because of...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Kangaroo Industry (1 speech)
I rise this evening to call on the government to provide more support and a greater effort in working with the kangaroo industry, or macropod industry as it is more technically referred to in the...
- Chifley Electorate: Community Groups (1 speech)
I would like to pay tribute to work being done in the Chifley electorate by two prominent community groups. The first one is Graceades Community Cottage, which I visited last week. They are doing...
- Hasluck Electorate: Broadband (1 speech)
I rise today because the Gillard government disappoints me with respect to delivery of and access to the telephone and internet services that are essential communication tools for families and...
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
The Gillard Labor government is committed to bettering the lives of older Australians. Labor is delivering a world-class retirement income support system but, importantly, we have delivered...
- Aston Electorate: Early Childhood Education and Child Care (3 speeches)
This evening I would like to raise two issues which concern young families. The first is the policies relating to preschools, which are causing three-year-old preschools across Victoria to close...
- Australian Year of the Farmer (1 speech)
I would like to continue on from a speech I made earlier in the week about the Australian Year of the Farmer. The year was set up to celebrate the hard work of everybody involved in producing,...
- Herbert Electorate: Townsville (1 speech)
As Mr Speaker, being a great friend of Townsville, will know, Townsville is a growing city. It is a great city of great communities and sporting teams. It is an inclusive society. Our major...
- Vocational Education and Training (1 speech)
I am very pleased to rise today, because it has been this Labor government that has really taken up the challenge on skills. Our workforce needs to be upskilled if we are going to meet the...
- Education Funding (1 speech)
The Australian people are understandably more than a little perplexed at the bizarre political machinations that we have recently witnessed. However, I have long understood that the agenda of the...
- Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (1 speech)
One of the greatest concerns of my constituents is the unending daily assault by aircraft noise. It starts at 6 am and persists until 11 pm with the frequently added insult of irregular...
- Small Business, Disability Services, Budget (1 speech)
I would like to raise three issues tonight. Firstly, if anyone is looking for another example of how we are being led by the most incompetent government in our nation's history, they need look no...
- Chisholm Electorate: Social Housing (2 speeches)
I rise to speak on the issue of social housing, which is of particular concern to me and my electorate of Chisholm, where housing prices are quite high and rents are going through the roof. I...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Sovereign Wealth Fund (11 speeches)
There is much talk of the miracle of the mining boom, but the reality is that we have a Jekyll and Hyde economy: one side of the economy is at war with the other. The more the mining bubble...
- Teal Ribbon Day (4 speeches)
February is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and tomorrow, 29 February, is Teal Ribbon Day, a day where the issue of ovarian cancer is raised within the community, and a day that is put aside for...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Fair Work Australia (7 speeches)
I rise to second the motion moved yesterday in the House by the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Warringah, concerning the Fair Work Australia investigation into the Member for Dobell and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
