House debates
Thursday, 24 May 2012
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I rise to raise a matter of privilege. An article by Michelle Grattan in an online version of the Age this morning appears to reveal details of the meeting of the Committee of Privileges and...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Afghanistan (2 speeches)
( by leave—The government is committed to providing regular reports and updates on Afghanistan, including to the parliament. I last updated the House on 10 May on a range of issues relating...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Approval of Work (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for...
- Infrastructure and Communications Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications, I present the committee’s Advisory report on the Coastal Trading (Revitalising Australian Shipping) Bill 2012,...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Orders of the Day (1 speech)
I move: That Federation Chamber, private Members’ business, order of the day No. 13 relating to a Sovereign Wealth Fund be returned to the House for further consideration. Question agreed to.
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent order of the day, private Members' business, motion relating to a Sovereign Wealth Fund,...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Sovereign Wealth Fund (1 speech)
( Hon. DGH Adams ) (): The question is that the motion be agreed to. A division having been called and the bells having been rung— As there are fewer than five members on the side for the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Cystic Fibrosis (1 speech)
Tomorrow is 65 Roses Day and some very special children in my electorate will be raising awareness about cystic fibrosis. CF is the most common, life-threatening, recessive genetic condition...
- Humphreys, Mr Laurie (2 speeches)
I want to take this opportunity to remember Laurie Humphreys, a very significant and special resident of the City of Cockburn within my electorate of Fremantle, who passed away from cancer on 8...
- Girl Guides NSW and ACT (1 speech)
On 16 April I attended the Girl Guides NSW and ACT Jamboree held at Exhibition Park, with the member for Canberra, Gai Brodtmann, and Trudy McIntosh, an intern in my office. There were over 550...
- Farrer Electorate: Floods (1 speech)
I rise to highlight the enormous distress and ongoing frustration of farmers in my electorate of Farrer who have been rejected for modest financial assistance from the government to repair their...
- Debt Collection (1 speech)
I want to bring to the attention of the House the issue of debt collection and the lack of controls in Victoria. I was surprised to read a report in the HeraldSun of 14 May that debt collectors...
- Battle of the Coral Sea (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the Battle of the Coral Sea. May 2012 was the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea—the first time ever that the Japanese were turned around in the Second World...
- Bass Electorate: Aged Care Forum (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate and thank everyone involved in the aged care forum held in Launceston last week. I had the opportunity to host the Hon. Mark Butler MP, the Minister for Mental Health and...
- Leader of the Opposition (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity, on behalf of the electorate of Wright, to acknowledge the outstanding work done by the coalition leadership team, led by Tony Abbott: a man you can trust, a...
- Media Ownership (2 speeches)
I rise today to applaud the courage of Mr Tom Watson and Mr Martin Hickman, who have written a book, Dial M for Murdoch: News Corporation and the Corruption of Britain. I will read just part of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How does the Prime Minister reconcile the climate change minister's statement to parliament yesterday that the closure of the Kurri Kurri smelter is not...
- Mining (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, how is the resources boom contributing to a strong economy and how is the government making sure all Australians benefit from this...
- Carbon Pricing (14 speeches)
Thank you, Mr Speaker—Madam Deputy Speaker— Mr Albanese interjecting—
- Budget (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer update the House on new investment numbers released today? How do they support the government's approach in the budget to spread the benefits...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I would like to recognise the presence in the gallery today a delegation from Uruguay, led by the Minister for Industry, Energy and Mining, Mr Kreimerman, and with him the Ambassador for Uruguay....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Member for Dobell (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her press conference on 29 April, where she said in relation to the member for Dobell, 'I have made a judgment about the...
- Clean Energy Legislation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and relates to the confusion and misinformation about the impact of the clean energy legislation on local government...
- Employment and Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation. How is the government making sure that working people are getting...
- Member for Dobell (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of her previous statement: ... question time is supposed to be one of our key accountability mechanisms. If there is a big...
- Carbon Pricing (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and Minister for Industry and Innovation. Will the minister update the House on the outlook for the coalmining industry...
- Gambling (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of her declaration that: 'When you give a promise to the Australian people you should do everything in your power to honour that...
- Road Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Will the minister please outline the government's commitment to duplicating the Pacific Highway? What is the government doing to...
- Asylum Seekers (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister that before the election she promised she would open a regional processing centre for illegal boat arrivals in East Timor and...
- Family Payments (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, and Disability Reform. How is the government delivering support for families in the lead-up to the carbon...
- Prime Minister (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of her statement: I am going to be held to higher standards of accountability than any Prime Minister in the modern age. I ask:...
- Small Business (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing, for Homelessness and for Small Business. How does the budget support small business in my community and across Australia?
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister; Censure (22 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion of censure on the Prime Minister. Leave not granted. I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Warringah...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit report No. 34 of 2011-2012 entitled Upgrade of the M113 fleet of armoured vehicles. Ordered that the report be made a parliamentary paper.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Office Holders (0 speeches)
- Speaker's Panel (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing order 17(a), I lay on the table the Speaker's warrant nominating the honourable member for Parramatta to be a member of the Speaker’s panel to assist the chair when...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (29 speeches, 1 comment)
The Speaker has received letters from the honourable member for Flinders and the honourable member for Chifley proposing that definite matters of public importance be submitted to the House for...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (1 speech)
I too wish to speak on this incredible situation where in 38 days time we will have a $23 a tonne carbon tax. This is going to have extraordinary impacts across our economy. But there will also...
- Parramatta Electorate: Indian and Bengali Communities (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge an event that took place earlier this month. I was not able to celebrate it because I was on my way to Canberra, but it is an event that means a great deal to Australians of...
- Electricity Prices (1 speech)
I would like to talk today about electricity, electricity prices and especially the rise of electricity prices in my electorate. I do not go to my constituents and ask them about this; they come...
- Whitehorse Community Resource Centre (1 speech)
On Monday, 2 April this year I attended the official opening of the Whitehorse Community Resource Centre redevelopment not only in my own capacity as the member for Deakin but also representing...
- Sydney Harbour Federation Trust (1 speech)
I rise to speak about HMAS Platypus, which takes up 1.8 hectares on Sydney Harbour, in Neutral Bay, in the middle of my electorate. It is a historic site. The site used to be a whaling station...
- Building the Education Revolution Program (1 speech)
Our school modernisation program has invested some $16.2 billion across 23½ thousand projects in our country, Australia. This is the largest school modernisation program in our country's...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Ritchie, Mr Donald 'Don' Taylor, OAM (1 speech)
On 13 May, Australia lost a great hero. Don Ritchie died at his home in Vaucluse, where he had lived with his wife, Moya, for more than 50 years. He was born in 1926. Don served in the Australian...
- Ipswich Railway Workshops (1 speech)
For close to 150 years, the Ipswich Railway Workshops have been integral to the economic, social and cultural life of Ipswich. In 2002, we saw a renaissance of the work site there, with the...
- Macquarie Electorate: ONE80TC (1 speech)
) ( There is an outstanding organisation in my electorate that has been making a difference in people's lives for over 35 years. ONE80TC: Turning lives around runs a highly successful treatment...
- Shipping (1 speech)
Late last year the sole international shipping container service from Tasmania ceased and many of our exporters, of course, could not directly transport their goods internationally. On 22 March...
- Economy (1 speech)
As federal representative for Bennelong, I frequently visit businesses, schools and homes across the region to discuss important issues with the local community. Over the past two years I have...
- Education (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge the importance of Australia's TAFE system and the value in young Australians attaining a technical skill. In my electorate of Holt, in the south-eastern suburbs of...
- Mount Evelyn Biggest Morning Tea, Monbulk Men's Shed (1 speech)
I rise today in the House to congratulate and make mention of two great community events and congratulate the organisers of those events. First, I would like to congratulate the organisers and...
- La Trobe Electorate: Disability Services (1 speech)
I am very pleased to be able to speak today and update the House with a few words about matters that have been occurring across my electorate in relation to the very significant issue of...
- Macarthur Electorate: Youth Solutions (1 speech)
Not a week goes by that I do not hear about the wonderful things young people are achieving in my electorate. Be it academic or sporting achievements, leadership roles or charity endeavours, I am...
- WikiLeaks (2 speeches)
Last week, Majid Jamali Fashi was hung in Iran's notorious Evin Prison. He joined hundreds of political prisoners, human rights activists and minority religious people executed in that country by...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Small Business (1 speech)
As I get around my electorate and talk to small business the thing that I increasingly hear about is the tough conditions that small business is facing and the fact that there is just no...
- Kingston Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I am very pleased to talk about the government's achievements in community infrastructure. Just in my local electorate over the last 4½ years since I was elected, I have seen significant...
- Warrnambool Racing Club (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate the Warrnambool Racing Club on the fantastic success of its May Racing Carnival. It was a three-day event. Over 27,000 people attended. Tabcorp Holdings was up 20 per...
- Marine Sanctuaries (1 speech)
Standing on the cusp of one of Australia's most historic conservation decisions, it was my privilege two weeks ago to co-host an extraordinary event in the Mural Hall of Parliament House. Like...
- Carbon Pricing (1 speech)
It was interesting to hear the member for Kingston talk about all the money that has been spent in her electorate, obviously coming up to the next election. But the government must remember that...
- Fowler Electorate: Religious Celebrations (1 speech)
Fowler is the most multicultural electorate in this diverse nation of ours. In fact, more than half the residents of my electorate were born overseas. One of the main benefits of representing...
