House debates
Thursday, 15 March 2012
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 3, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Higher Education Support Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2012; Second Reading (4 speeches)
Tertiary education brings invaluable benefits not only to those who pursue a degree but also to the nation. Our Australian universities are world class. Our top-performing institutions...
- Higher Education Support Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2012; Consideration in Detail (4 speeches)
by leave—I move amendments (1) and (2) circulated in the name of the member for Farrer: (1) Schedule 1, item 2, page 3 (lines 6 and 7), omit the item. (2) Schedule 1, item 4, page 3 (lines...
- Higher Education Support Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2012; Third Reading (4 speeches)
I ask leave of the House to move the third reading immediately. Leave granted.
- Road Safety Remuneration Bill 2011, Road Safety Remuneration (Consequential Amendments and Related Provisions) Bill 2011; Second Reading (12 speeches)
In continuation, I will summarise and say that the Road Safety Remuneration Bill 2011 is at best a bandaid solution that will not cure the disease. As Lindsay Fox, the chairman of one of the...
- Road Safety Remuneration Bill 2011, Road Safety Remuneration (Consequential Amendments and Related Provisions) Bill 2011; Consideration in Detail (99 speeches)
by leave—I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill and move government amendments (1)-(64), as circulated, together: (1) Clause 4, page 3 (line 4), omit "33(2)",...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- International Purple Day (1 speech)
On 26 March it is International Purple Day, celebrating and supporting epilepsy awareness across the world. There are more people living with epilepsy than with muscular dystrophy, cerebral...
- Apple and Pear Industry (1 speech)
I was very pleased on Tuesday evening this week to attend an event in Parliament House hosted by Apple and Pear Australia, where I met a number of fruit growers and industry representatives and...
- Queensland State Election (1 speech)
It is alleged that sitting state Labor member for the electorate of Mount Coot-Tha, Mr Andrew Fraser, has been making sexist, distasteful and cruel comments about his opponent. This is from the...
- Gas Energy (1 speech)
I want to bring to the attention of the parliament reports that the chemical manufacturer Dow Chemical has urged both federal and state governments to use some of Australia's massive gas...
- Breast Implants (1 speech)
Over the weekend, the TGA announced Medicare rebates for scans to check whether French PIP breast implants are faulty following pressure to support patients who have received this inferior...
- Fowler Electorate: Miller Health and Family Fun Day (1 speech)
Last Saturday I attended the Miller health and family fun day, conducted by the Liverpool PCYC. A number of local not-for-profit organisations, including the Red Cross, Mission Australia and...
- Macarthur Electorate: Camden Show (1 speech)
Next Friday and Saturday, the Macarthur community will come together for the 2012 Camden Show. The annual show is one of largest community events in the Macarthur region, with around 38,000...
- Geale, Mr Daniel (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate a tremendous athlete from the electorate of Bass, the world champion Mr Daniel Geale. Last week, Daniel retained his prestigious IBF world middleweight boxing championship,...
- Food Production (1 speech)
Australia's farm and fish food production is worth $37 billion a year. Annually, $24 billion is made through exports, particularly of grain and meat to Asia. We are the No. 2 exporter of meat to...
- Quota International, Canberra (2 speeches)
It is a great pleasure to be able to speak today about the wonderful work of Canberra's Quota club. Quota International of Canberra is part of an international network that originated more than...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Scott, Hon Douglas Barr (4 speeches)
I move: That the House records its deep regret at the death on 12 March 2012, of the Honourable Douglas Barr Scott, former Senator for New South Wales in 1970 and from 1974 to 1985, former Deputy...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister that 11,900 shops in Westfield centres around Australia are now subject to a carbon or greenhouse gas emissions charge embedded...
- Mining (2 speeches)
I am pleased about that, Mr Speaker. My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, how is cutting company tax and spreading the benefits of the mining boom essential for building the...
- Carbon Pricing (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister that the bus industry will face a $50 million hit each year because of her carbon tax. Why should children who catch the school...
- Mining (17 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Why is it important to have widespread support for policies that spread the benefits of the mining boom to all corners of the economy?
- Western Australia: General Practice (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. I refer to the 97 GP vacancies currently in regional Western Australia—rising from 62 vacancies in August last year. Further, I refer to the fact...
- Workplace Safety (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Will the minister update the House on Australia's workplace safety record? What is the government doing to improve this...
- Member for Dobell (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister that the Fair Work Act empowers Fair Work Australia to disclose information that may assist in the enforcement of the law of a...
- Small Business (8 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister Assisting for Deregulation. Will the Assistant Treasurer outline for the House the importance of providing tax relief for business and what...
- Future Fund (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Who did the guardians of the Future Fund advise should be appointed to replace David Murray as chair?
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and Minister for Industry and Innovation. Minister, how is the government using tax policy to support Australian industry?...
- Future Fund (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation's statement that David Gonski 'did not make any recommendations regarding the appointment of the new...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Future Fund (48 speeches)
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 explain—
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Language (3 speeches)
I understand that the Leader of the Opposition, either directly or indirectly, referred to the honourable member for Griffith as a 'psychopath'. I ask him to approach the dispatch box to clarify...
- 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...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the Selection Committee’s report No. 48 relating to the consideration of bills. The report will be printed in today’s Hansard. Copies of the report have been placed on the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Small Business (45 speeches)
I have received letters from the honourable Member for Dunkley and the honourable Member for Parramatta proposing that definite matters of public importance be submitted to the House for...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- South Australia: Weapons (1 speech)
I rise on the adjournment on a very serious matter that is afflicting not just Adelaide but towns across Australia, and that is the illegal importation of weapons. This is an issue that the...
- St Patrick's Day, International Women's Day (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the advent of St Patrick's Day; it is about to happen. This is a great weekend for all Irish men and women across the globe—the Irish diaspora. It is a great weekend for...
- World War II (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on a significant anniversary that has been largely overlooked this week. Yesterday marked 70 years since the Japanese bombed Horn Island, in the Torres Strait, during their...
- Economy: Shipping (1 speech)
A strong economy needs a strong shipping industry. Indeed, an island trading nation like Australia most certainly needs a strong shipping industry and a strong maritime workforce. It has been a...
- 2012 Tribute to Northern Territory Women, Burke, Mrs Annette (3 speeches)
As the first female federal member for Solomon—
- Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, I congratulate you on the work you have undertaken this week in this House. Recently I was fortunate enough to attend a fantastic event in my electorate of Bass: Symphony under the...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Solomon Electorate: Defence Housing (1 speech)
I rise again to raise the unresolved issue of the 396 RAAF base houses in Eaton in Darwin. I have spoken on this issue many times in this place and I will continue to do so until this issue is...
- Charlton Electorate: Infrastructure Projects (1 speech)
Since 2007, Labor has delivered major transport upgrades, world class research facilities, excellent leisure and sporting facilities and safer roads in my electorate of Charlton and the wider...
- Latrobe Regional Hospital (1 speech)
I have spoken before in this place on the urgent need to upgrade the Latrobe Regional Hospital in my electorate. I appreciate the opportunity today to update the House on the level of community...
- Anniversary of the Halabja Poison Gas Attack (1 speech)
Exactly 24 years ago tomorrow on the morning of 16 March 1988 the Iraqi air force, on the orders of Saddam Hussein, dropped chemical weapons on the Kurdish township of Halabja. Thousands of...
- Australian Women's Land Army (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker, today I speak on the Australian Women's Land Army and their contribution to our nation as well as to my electorate of Macarthur. I was inspired to speak on this important topic...
- Braddon Electorate: Hospitals (1 speech)
Over the last month, I have been very pleased to host a number of ministers and parliamentary secretaries. I have had the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Joe Ludwig, down to...
- Portland Stroke Support Group (1 speech)
I rise today to commend the Portland Stroke Support Group and its founder, Jayson Killick. Jayson, a 36-year-old man, had a stroke in 2010. Not only did he have the determination to come back to...
- Petition: Breastmilk Substitutes (1 speech)
Today I table a petition, signed by principal petitioner Mark Zirnsak, on behalf of the Uniting Church Synod of Victoria and Tasmania. The petition read as follows— To the Honourable The...
- Townsville Fire Women's National Basketball League (3 speeches)
I rise today to congratulate the Townsville Fire Women's NBL team on what was a remarkable season. The Townsville Fire actually folded last year and the efforts of local businesspeople, including...
- Afghan Pamir Restaurant (2 speeches)
I rise today to pay tribute to a highly regarded local institution, which is the Afghan Pamir Restaurant, and its owner Baryalai Rahimi. Rahimi, as he is known to many, has operated his...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Mining (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about mining in the Lithgow region in Calare and the threat that this Greens driven Labor government is posing for this very vital industry. Along with the power stations,...
- Deakin Electorate: Vermont South Special School (1 speech)
Today I would like to relate to the House yet another wonderful local event happening at a school in my electorate—Vermont South Special School. Their particular event was the opening of...
- Johnson, The Hon. Robert, MLA (1 speech)
It is with a heavy heart that I feel compelled to outline why I have no confidence in Rob Johnson MLA, the member for Hillarys and the Minister for Police in the Western Australian government. I...
- Public Holidays (3 speeches)
I do not think I can match the contribution of the member for Canning and his extraordinary attack on a minister in the Western Australian government who is unknown to the rest of us. It was very...
- Grey Electorate: Mining (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the growing interface between mining and agriculture, particularly in South Australia but I think there are some lessons here for Australia more generally. Recently the...
- International Women's Day: United Indian Associations (1 speech)
Last Saturday I had the pleasure of joining the United Indian Associations in New South Wales in celebrating International Women's Day at the Parramatta town hall. We all know that International...
