House debates
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Human Rights Committee; Appointment (1 speech)
I have received a message from the Senate informing the House that the Senate has considered message No. 307 of the House and concurs with the resolution of appointment of the Parliamentary Joint...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (1 speech)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Gippsland’s private Members’ business notice relating to the disallowance of the...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (17 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent notice No. 7, private Members’ business, standing in my name, being called on and proceeded with...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
Every Australia Day local councils in my electorate acknowledge the good work and achievements of individuals who give their time for the benefit of others. This year my cousin, William Anschau,...
- Makin Electorate: Valley View Tennis Club (1 speech)
Last Saturday I attended the formal opening of the resurfaced Valley View Tennis Club courts in the Makin electorate. It was a significant event for the tennis club not only because of the...
- Education (1 speech)
One reason for the decline in the number of students studying maths and science is a paucity of maths and science teachers. So it is a great concern to learn that stifling bureaucracy is...
- Sikh Community in Australia (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker Scott, I would like to wish you and all those in the chamber a happy new year. You might ask: why is he saying, 'Happy New Year'? Today is the new year under the Nanakshahi Sikh...
- Berowra Electorate: Community Service (1 speech)
I rise for the first time in these 90-second statements to congratulate two remarkable constituents of mine in the electorate of Berowra. Kerrie and Sean McArdle, who are not related to me I...
- Sudan (1 speech)
On 18 January 2011, following the Sudanese referendum, the then Minister for Foreign Affairs stated: Australia will continue to work with the international community to assist the people of...
- Boree Creek: Floods (1 speech)
The town of Boree Creek might ring a bell with some of my colleagues as the home town of the former member for Farrer Tim Fischer. This small village also provides an example of the flooding...
- Walk in Her Shoes Campaign (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about the commitment I have made as a woman, mother, and elected representative to do what I can to help women and children around the globe pull themselves out of poverty. I...
- Clean Up Australia Day, Alzheimer's Australia (1 speech)
Clean Up Australia Day was last Sunday, and I along with lots of family and friends went along to the Esplanade to do our little bit to clean up. Around 40 volunteers joined me to clean up, and...
- Japan Natural Disasters (2 speeches)
I would like to take this opportunity to remember the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March last year, killing around 19,000 people and creating a nuclear emergency and ongoing...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I table for the information of the House a revised ministry list reflecting the appointment of Senator Bob Carr to the ministry on 13 March 2012. The document read as follows— SECOND...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind her of Oxford Cold Storage, a business in her electorate that I visited recently which employs over 400 people. Even on the government's own...
- Business (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the government building the future Australian economy by delivering tax cuts, especially for small businesses? When it comes to supporting the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I welcome and acknowledge in our visitors gallery today a group of 140 aged-care workers, nurses, family carers and valued middle-aged Australians who are visiting our Parliament House. You are...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Employment (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of job losses at Murray Goulburn, Mars, SPC, Heinz and National Foods in Victoria. I also remind the Prime Minister of comments...
- Mining (14 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline for the House the importance of putting in place the right policies to spread the benefits of the mining boom to all corners of the economy?
- Member for Dobell (18 speeches)
My question is to the minister for workplace relations. I remind the minister that both the New South Wales and Victoria police have sought the cooperation of Fair Work Australia in their...
- Euthanasia (13 speeches)
My question was selected as the people's question on civic activist website oursay.org—
- Small Business (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness and Minister for Small Business. Will the minister outline how the government will assist small business as part of its plans...
- Customs (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the revelations that gun components were imported, allegedly by criminal gangs, through the Sylvania Waters post office,...
- Small Businesses (2 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister Assisting for Deregulation. Why is the government determined to give our nation's small businesses a tax break as part of our plan to spread...
- Customs (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the statement by the New South Wales Police Force today that 140 ammunition clips for hand guns had been imported into New...
- Budget (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation. Will the minister outline the importance of spreading the benefits of...
- Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that budget cuts to the Customs and Border Protection Service for cargo screening have resulted in at least a 75 per cent...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (32 speeches)
I move: That so much of standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition from moving forthwith the following motion: That the Prime Minister be called to...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Question Time (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question to you. During question time, I was ejected from the House for describing the Treasurer with the unparliamentary term of 'scumbag'. The Leader of the House, at the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That Members be discharged and appointed as members of certain committees in accordance with the list which has been placed on the table. As the list is a lengthy one, I do...
- 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...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Intelligence and Security Committee; Membership (2 speeches)
I have received advice from the Honourable the Prime Minister nominating a member to be a member of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security.
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the Selection Committee’s report No. 46 relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday, 19 March 2012. The report will...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Border Protection (41 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Stirling proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The threat to Australia...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Workplace Safety (2 speeches)
by leave—Every Australian who goes to work should return home safely. And in parliament, our workplace—this meeting ground of the national conversation—we are commanded by the...
- International Women's Day (2 speeches)
(nternational Women's Day has always been an important date for me, but this has been a particularly significant week of celebrations as I have participated in my first International Women's Day...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties I present the committee's report entitled Report 123: Treaties tabled on 13 October, 2, 22 and 24 November 2011. In accordance with standing...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No. 4, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the Selection Committee’s report No. 47 relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private Members' business on Monday, 19 March 2012. The report will...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Diabetes (3 speeches)
It is timely that I have the call for this adjournment debate this evening, because this morning in Parliament House the Parliamentary Diabetes Support Group joined with Diabetes Australia and...
- Jet Skis (1 speech)
A horrific incident occurred on 26 February this year when a jet ski collided with one of my constituents, a swimmer at Port Melbourne beach. The man was fatally injured. Robert Brewster lived in...
- Tourism (1 speech)
Today the December 2011 National Visitor Survey results were released. Visitor nights rose by only 1.4 per cent and spending per night increased by only 0.2 per cent over 2010, indicating shorter...
- Holt Electorate: Casey City Church, City of Casey Australian Study Tour (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about a man and a group of people who are truly making a difference in my community: Pastor Larry Sebastian and the Casey City Church. The church was founded in March 2003....
- Murray Electorate: Floods (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to an incredible group of communities across northern Victoria who have demonstrated in these worst floods on record their extraordinary commitment to one another;...
- Banks Electorate: Future of Education Forum (1 speech)
Last Thursday, 8 March, I was delighted to welcome the Prime Minister and the minister for school education to my seat of Banks. The Prime Minister and Minister Garrett were there to host a forum...
- Tennis (1 speech)
We all know the fundamental importance of sport to the health and wellbeing of a community, and one of Australia's most popular sports is tennis. In October last year I was honoured to attend the...
- War Graves (1 speech)
I want to make some comments about the desecration of Australian war graves that occurred on 24 and 26 February when two separate Commonwealth war cemeteries, including the Benghazi War Cemetery...
- Syria (1 speech)
Over the last year, global attention has turned to the Arab world. We were shocked by the self-immolation of a young Tunisian street vendor that started the revolts that led to the toppling of...
- Centenary of Canberra (1 speech)
I would like to thank and applaud the member for Fremantle and the member for North Sydney for their very moving speeches. The story about the three-year-old boy was incredibly moving. It reminds...
- Australian Floods (1 speech)
It is no secret that there has been a very wet, late summer. Not only that, there has been an enormous amount of rain in eastern Australia, particularly in the north of the state and in southern...
- Health Services (2 speeches)
Public health in Tasmania is in crisis. For instance, my home state has some of the worst health statistics in Australia including those to do with heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, obesity...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Child Support (1 speech)
Families and parenthood are very important. They are important in particular for children. That is why when families fall apart we need to do all we can to ensure that the child has access not...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Before I call the next member, I want to welcome to the gallery today senior parliamentarian staff from a number of countries who are participating in the 2012 Inter-Parliamentary Study Program....
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Dandenong Multicultural Youth Soccer Tournament, Noble Park Aquatic Centre (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the launch of the Dandenong Multicultural Youth Soccer Tournament, which I attended on Saturday, 18 February, along with my parliamentary colleague Senator Kate Lundy, then...
- Canning Electorate: Insurance (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on two insurance industry issues that have come to light following last year's devastating Kelmscott-Roleystone bushfires that took place in my electorate on 6 February...
- Smith Family: Learning for Life Program (2 speeches)
I was very pleased recently to attend a graduation ceremony for the Smith Family's Learning for Life program which celebrates the recent achievements of many students in finishing high school or...
- McPherson Electorate: 25th Anniversary of The Pines Shopping Centre (1 speech)
I welcome the opportunity to speak about the unique suburb of Elanora within my electorate of McPherson on the Gold Coast and the importance of the area's local shopping centre, The Pines...
- O'Connor Electorate: Wagin Woolorama (1 speech)
Last weekend, on 9 and 10 March, I had the great pleasure of attending the 40th anniversary of the Wagin Woolorama. The Woolorama is a fantastic weekend celebrating the best that regional Western...
- Casey Electorate: Wandin Yallock Primary School (1 speech)
On Tuesday, 6 March, I was privileged to attend the Wandin Yallock Primary School in my electorate of Casey to present badges and certificates to school leaders at their special assembly. I would...
- Corio Electorate: Geelong High School (1 speech)
Earlier this year I received a letter from a senior student at Geelong High School, Matt Hrkac, complaining bitterly about the conditions of buildings at his school, particularly the Winstanley...
- Bennelong Electorate: Carbon Pricing and Ryde Council Costs (1 speech)
During the parliamentary debate in September last year I referred to the impact that the carbon tax would have on the balance sheet of my local council and the flow-on effect to mums and dads in...
- Jervis Bay Territory (2 speeches)
When Canberra was founded it was decided you could not have a capital city without a port, so one part of my electorate is the Jervis Bay Territory. It was my great pleasure last Thursday to...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Australian Floods (3 speeches)
The images of the floods that we have seen in the last few weeks have yet again highlighted the resilience of the Australian people across the eastern states of Australia as we have borne...
- Japan Natural Disasters (1 speech)
It is 12 months since Japan was devastated by a nation-changing disaster that rocked the country to its very core but did not dent the will of its people. Japanese people are proud, resilient and...
- Australian Floods (1 speech)
I would like to put on record some comments about the floods in New South Wales and, in so doing, talk a little bit about my area, the Northern Rivers. I live in Lismore and I am very familiar...
- Japan Natural Disasters (7 speeches)
I rise to speak in support of the statement made by the Prime Minister on the anniversary of the Japan tsunami and nuclear disasters, which were sparked off by an earthquake that occurred on 11...
- Bills (0 speeches)
