House debates
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (32 speeches)
Madam Deputy Speaker, my question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that Brindabella Airlines are about to cease their Canberra-Albury and Brisbane-Armidale air services? Its...
- Economy (12 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. What is the government doing to spread the benefits of the mining boom to help families make ends meet and to get ahead?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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I welcome a delegation of Kenyan parliamentarians led by the Hon. Mr Mohamed. I welcome them to the parliament and I hope they are finding question time informative. Honourable members: Hear,...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Pensions and Benefits (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the revelation in Senate estimates today that parents who have had their welfare payments suspended under SEAM will receive the...
- Employment (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Energy and Resources. Is the minister aware that in Queensland there are 126,000 people registered as unemployed and 670,000 as part-time employed? There are...
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Minister, what will be the impact of the carbon price on domestic aviation?
- Member for Dobell (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to this memo from Mr Doug Williams, the Industrial Registrar of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, in June 2009...
- Carbon Pricing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and Minister for Industry and Innovation. Will the minister please update the House on how the government is helping...
- Member for Dobell (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I ask the Prime Minister: given that this email from Mr Doug Williams I referred to in my previous question was withheld by the government until after Fair...
- Pensions and Benefits (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Minister for Disability Reform. How is the government supporting pensioners in Central Queensland to...
- Enterprise Migration Agreements (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. I ask the minister to advise the House when he received the application for the Roy Hill Enterprise Migration Agreement and how...
- Veterans (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, Minister for Indigenous Health and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Centenary of...
- Enterprise Migration Agreements (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister, and it is in order to clear up the confusion caused by the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship's last answer. On what date did the minister for...
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Will the minister inform the House of the government's commitment to help families in meeting the costs of...
- Enterprise Migration Agreements (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. I refer the minister to the government's policy on enterprise migration agreements of at least a year ago, which states: The...
- Small Business (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness and Minister for Small Business. What is the government doing to help the 2.7 million small businesses in Australia and their...
- Enterprise Migration Agreements (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer her to the minister for immigration's previous answer, where he said that he had briefed the productivity committee of the cabinet many times about...
- Murray-Darling Basin (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Will the minister update the House on the government and the community's reaction to the release...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (5 speeches)
Madam Deputy Speaker, I seek the indulgence of the chair to add to an answer.
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 35 of 2011-12 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit performance audit report No. 35 of 2011-12 entitled Indigenous early childhood development. New directions: mothers and babies services. Ordered that the...
- 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...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Enterprise Migration Agreements (35 speeches)
The Speaker has received a letter from the honourable member for Cook proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The uncertainty...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 7, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 14, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Earl, Mr Don (1 speech)
What do all these men have in common: Bill Hayden, Dr Peter Hollingworth, Sir Guy Green, William Cox, Peter Underwood, Tim Fischer, Wilson Tuckey, Jeff Kennett, Lindsay Fox, Sir James Hardy,...
- National Reconciliation Week (1 speech)
This week is National Reconciliation Week and there are many wonderful community coming-together events all over the country and particularly in my seat of Page. At Yamba market on Sunday I...
- Swan Electorate: Swan River Infrastructure (1 speech)
The electorate of Swan takes its name after the Swan River, and Swan is an electorate with boundaries on three sides consisting of the Swan and the Canning rivers. Mr Randall interjecting—...
- Robertson Electorate: Peninsula Links Day (1 speech)
I rise this evening to highlight a fantastic community networking event I had the pleasure of attending in my electorate of Robertson on 17 May. This was the second annual Peninsula Links Day....
- Wright Electorate (1 speech)
I rise tonight to advise the House about the diversity of my seat, the seat of Wright, starting from Mudgeeraba on the Gold Coast through to the bottom of the Toowoomba range. Within that seat of...
- McEwen Electorate: Local Sporting Champions Program, McEwen Electorate: National Broadband Network (1 speech)
Supporting your child to pursue their sporting dreams is a major commitment. It is not only a commitment of love and time—especially being the taxi—but of finances. The Local Sporting...
- Economy (1 speech)
Those opposite accuse the coalition of negativity and of lacking the policies of a stable and able-handed alternative government. I remind the House that the coalition offers nothing but...
- Holt Electorate: Volunteers (1 speech)
In February this year I spoke of those who labour to make my community and our neighbourhood a better place—those who are often unrecognised for the work they do and the sacrifices that...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
I rise to speak about some welcome news in the aged-care sector in my electorate of Calare. I was pleased to learn last week that a new aged-care residential facility will be built in Orange,...
- Supported Accommodation Innovation Fund (1 speech)
Last month, on 27 April, I was very fortunate to have a visit from Senator Jan McLucas, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Carers. She came out to announce a wonderful funding program...
- Carbon Pricing (3 speeches)
The carbon tax is a complete shambles. I will repeat that: the carbon tax is a complete shambles. This is a statement which comes from a small business operator in my electorate. It is a fairly...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
One year ago I stood in this House and spoke in dismay of yet another scandal involving Australia's live export trade. On that occasion it was in Indonesia. People were not only people shocked by...
- Killen, Hon. Richard Weir (1 speech)
It is with sadness that the Nationals have lost one of the party's finest, with the passing yesterday of the Hon. Richard Killen at the age of 81 years. Richard Killen was Chairman of the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2012-2013, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2012-2013, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2012-2013, Appropriation Bill (No. 5) 2011-2012, Appropriation Bill (No. 6) 2011-2012; Second Reading (9 speeches)
Whilst this is certainly a tight budget in a tight parliament and there will be plenty of debate, as has already taken place, around the rights and wrongs of it, in the end it will pass this...
- Telecommunications Interception and Other Legislation Amendment (State Bodies) Bill 2012; Second Reading (8 speeches)
I rise to speak on the Telecommunications Interception and Other Legislation Amendment (State Bodies) Bill 2012 in relation to some changes to the anticorruption infrastructure in the state of...
- Telecommunications Interception and Other Legislation Amendment (State Bodies) Bill 2012; Consideration in Detail (1 speech)
I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the Telecommunications Interception and other Legislation Amendment (State Bodies) Bill 2012, and a correction to the explanatory memorandum,...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2012-2013, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2012-2013, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2012-2013, Appropriation Bill (No. 5) 2011-2012, Appropriation Bill (No. 6) 2011-2012; Second Reading (32 speeches)
The original question was that this bill be now read a second time. To this the honourable member for North Sydney has moved as an amendment that all words after 'That' be omitted with a view to...
- Broadcasting Services Amendment (Digital Television) Bill 2012; Second Reading (10 speeches)
I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Digital Television) Bill 2012. The bill before the parliament today deals with the switch to digital television. Digital...
