House debates
Monday, 18 June 2012
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Responses (1 speech)
Ministerial responses to petitions previously presented to the House have been received as follows:
- Statements (1 speech)
Madam Deputy Speaker, in recent statements I have outlined the role of the House Standing Committee on Petitions and the support role of its secretariat. Today I will discuss the responsibilities...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Intelligence and Security Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, I present the committee's report entitled Review of administration and expenditure: No. 9 (2009-2010)Australian...
- Electoral Matters Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, I present the committee's report entitled Report of the Australian Parliamentary Delegation to Indonesia and Tonga:...
- Agriculture, Resources, Fisheries and Forestry Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Agriculture, Resources, Fisheries and Forestry, I present the committee's advisory report on the Wheat Export Marketing Amendment Bill 2012, together with...
- Social Policy and Legal Affairs Committee; Report (3 speeches)
I rise today to present the report of the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs into the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2012 and the Marriage Amendment Bill 2012, which responds...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Economy (3 speeches)
I ask leave of the House to make a ministerial statement relating to the global economy. Leave granted. by leave—It has been my practice since the darkest days of the global financial...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Corporations and Financial Services Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, I present the committee's advisory report on the Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Stronger Super) Bill...
- Economics Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Economics I present the committee's advisory report on the Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2012, the Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 2) Bill...
- Migration Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Migration, I present the committee's advisory report on the Migration (Visa Evidence) Charge Bill 2012 and the Migration Visa Evidence Charge...
- Climate Change, Environment and the Arts Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Climate Change, Environment and the Arts, I seek leave to make a statement on the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Amendment (Scheme Enhancements)...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Abbott, Mr Des, Carroll, Mr Joel (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate two outstanding Territorians who I have mentioned in this place before. Des Abbott and Joel Carroll were today named in the Australian Kookaburras hockey team going...
- Gibb, Mr John (1 speech)
I rise to make mention of renowned north-east Tasmanian artist Mr John Gibb. Last week I attended a viewing of John's watercolour exhibition. John has a passion for Tasmania's natural beauty,...
- Epilepsy (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the nearly 50 million people worldwide who are living with epilepsy, including 185,000 Australians. More prevalent than Parkinson's disease, cerebral palsy or multiple...
- Child Care (1 speech)
This morning I had the pleasure of co-convening with Senator Lisa Singh and Minister Kate Lundy the second meeting of the Labor Friends of Early Childhood Education and Child Care which was...
- Pie of Origin Fundraising Event (1 speech)
I rise to inform the House of a significant fundraiser being run in New South Wales and Queensland. In the true spirit of State of Origin, the two states have joined together to raise desperately...
- Saunders, Mr Alan (1 speech)
ABC's Radio National is one of Australia's great public institutions, and I rise to speak about the late Alan Saunders, who died unexpectedly last Friday. Alan Saunders spent 25 years with Radio...
- Pie of Origin Fundraising Event (1 speech)
I thank the member for Wright for drawing to the attention of the House this very important competition between New South Wales and Queensland which is underway at the moment. I suspect from the...
- Austine, Mr Brett, OAM (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate Mr Brett Austine on being awarded the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday lists. Mr Austine is an outstanding example to young people within our community and a...
- Farah, Mrs Sonia (2 speeches)
Yesterday afternoon, Sonia Farah, mother of Wests Tigers captain Robbie Farah, lost her battle with pancreatic cancer at the young age of 63. Robbie is a well-known and much loved local hero of...
- Parliamentarians for Global Action (2 speeches)
This afternoon the parliament welcomed Mr Ross Robertson, Labour member for Manukau East in the New Zealand parliament, Deputy Speaker in that parliament and also the international President of...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Prime Minister will be absent from question time this week as she is representing Australia at the G20 leaders summit in Mexico and the Rio+20 United Nations...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (9 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Can the Acting Prime Minister name a single head of government at the G20 conference, apart from the Australian Prime Minister, who has hit workers...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister: will the Acting Prime Minister update the House on recent data that highlights the strength of the Australian economy? How does this compare with...
- Carbon Pricing (18 speeches)
My question is again to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer him to electricity price increases on 1 July of up to 20 per cent in New South Wales, 18 per cent in South Australia and 15 per cent in...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Although I have missed him, we did have with us Ross Robinson, a member from the New Zealand parliament who is an assistant speaker. He has had to leave before I got the opportunity to recognise...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Pacific Highway (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. In last year's New South Wales budget the matching funding of $3.5 billion for the completion of the Pacific Highway by 2016 was...
- Carbon Pricing (7 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Will the Acting Prime Minister update the House about the importance of transparency when it comes to the impact of carbon pricing?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Before I call the member for Stirling I want to recognise in the gallery today Peter Morris, a former minister in the Labor government and the former member for Shortland. Honourable members:...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (7 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I remind the Acting Prime Minister that before the election the government promised that there would be no expansion of processing centres in...
- Marine Conservation (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Will the minister update the House on Australia's commitment to protection of our oceans? Are...
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade and Competitiveness. Will the minister advise the House of the benefits to the Australian economy of decisive action on the pricing of carbon? What would...
- Marine Conservation (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for . I remind the minister that Australia imports over 70 per cent of the seafood we consume and at current consumption levels we are projected to require an...
- Family Payments (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Minister for Disability Reform. Will the minister outline to the House how the government is helping...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Australian National Audit Office (1 speech)
In accordance with the Auditor-General Act 1997, I present the report of the Independent Auditor dated June 2012, entitled Australian National Audit Office: IT audit capability and resourcing....
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Reports Nos 38, 39, 40, 41 and 42 of 2011-12 (1 speech)
I present the following Auditor-General's Performance Audit reports for 2011-2012: Audit report No. 38, Administration of the Private Irrigation Infrastructure Operators Program in New South...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
I move: That the leave of absence granted to the honourable member for Greenway, for purposes of maternity leave, be extended from 18 June through to 13 August 2012. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent: (1) the time and order of business for Tuesday, 19 June 2012 being as follows: (a) the...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Documents are presented in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members today. Details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings and I move: That the House take...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No. 2 government business be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Army Reserve Bands (16 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) recognises that: (a) the band of the Royal New South Wales Lancers, based in Parramatta, makes a significant contribution to the local community; (b) similar Army...
- Olive Oil (6 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) welcomes the introduction of the Australian Standard for Olive and Olive Pomace Oils in 2011 which clearly defines the grade, content and quality of olive oil...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Bradfield Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
A crucially needed piece of infrastructure in my electorate is the link between the F3 and M2. This is needed for a range of reasons: to reduce the appalling congestion on Pennant Hills Road, to...
- Grocery Prices (1 speech)
For many years, Coles and Woolworths have dominated Australia's retail grocery sales with estimates placing their combined grocery market share at over 70 per cent. To date, most of the...
- Forde Electorate: Community Organisations (1 speech)
The Forde community have been very busy over the past couple of months, doing what they can to help support each other, and it is with great pride that I have the opportunity to share some of...
- Boer War Day (1 speech)
Boer War Day was on 31 May and marked the 110th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging, which ended the Second Boer War. So why should we remember a war that for most of the last...
- Canning Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
I am raising the matter of skilled workers in the resources industry and the skills shortage because I am so concerned about the people who should be getting a job and who are not. This issue...
- Carbon Pricing (1 speech)
A few years ago a Prime Minister of Australia said the following: Implementing an emissions trading scheme and setting a long-term goal for reducing emissions will be the most momentous economic...
- Migration: Settlement Services (1 speech)
Tonight's adjournment debate provides me with an opportunity to highlight some of the Gillard Labor government's failures in the areas of immigration and settlement services for migrants and...
- Moreton Electorate: Higher Education (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the Gillard Labor government's investment in tertiary education, particularly in the Moreton electorate and in South-East Queensland. On 6 June, which is Queensland Day, I...
- Cook Electorate: Kurnell Peninsula (1 speech)
On 6 June the planet Venus passed directly between the sun and the earth. The transit of Venus is a rare phenomenon—it will not happen again for another 105 years—and it holds special...
- Bass Electorate: Young Carer Festivals (1 speech)
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend FESTofALL, the launch of the young carer festivals in Launceston. The festivals allow young carers to recognise the good work they do, meet other people...
- Vision 2020, Mai Wiru Regional Stores Council (1 speech)
Tonight, Vision 2020, the national body working in partnership with a range of other bodies to reduce avoidable blindness and address vision care, brought together professionals and a large...
- Petrie Electorate: Infrastructure (2 speeches)
I rise to talk about the importance of investing in infrastructure and how the federal Labor government's historic investment is making a huge difference in communities within the electorate of...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Mobile Phone Towers (1 speech)
I rise today to bring to the attention of the House a great example of how the Bonner local community came together, with bipartisan help from all levels of government, to achieve a balanced...
- Local Sporting Champions Grants (1 speech)
First of all, I want to wish Mary Hewitt, who turned a remarkable 100 years young on 16 June, a very happy birthday. I want to talk about Local Sporting Champions grants recipients in my...
- Midland Information, Debt and Legal Advocacy Service (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate a local non-government organisation in the community of Midland, the Midland Information, Debt and Legal Advocacy Service, which is more commonly known as MIDLAS. It...
- El Dana, Mrs Faten (1 speech)
On behalf of this parliament, I would like to congratulate Faten El Dana of Mount Pritchard on receiving the Medal of the Order of Australia as part of the Queen's Birthday Honours List this...
- Nambucca Show (1 speech)
I recently had the pleasure and privilege of attending the 100th Nambucca Show at the Macksville Showground. I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to all those who have worked so...
- National Financial Literacy Strategy (1 speech)
As Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, financial literacy falls into my portfolio area and I believe it is one of the most important areas of work for me. The government's National...
- Australian Defence Force (2 speeches)
Today, I rise to voice my disgust at Labor's 2012-13 federal budget cuts of $5.5 billion from Defence over the forward estimates. Despite Labor's rhetoric, these cuts will have a long-term impact...
- Grasso, Mr Douglas (1 speech)
Hudson Park Primary School is located in Girrawheen, a suburb in Cowan. For most of its existence it was known as Girrawheen Primary School, but it was in recent times renamed Hudson Park. The...
- Geelong Mayoral Election (2 speeches)
Australia's future broadband was an issue that was a big part of the 2010 federal election. In the 2007 election, Work Choices loomed large. In the 2010 Victorian election, health and education...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Torres Strait Flooding (24 speeches)
It dismays me immensely that I have for the second time to move a motion of this nature in relation to the Torres Strait seawalls. Last year in March I had a motion prepared and I was ready to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Military Superannuation (8 speeches)
I thank colleagues for taking on this debate with regard to military superannuation and the many concerns in the community in relation to equity and justice within the military superannuation...
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (7 speeches)
I seek leave to amend my motion so that paragraph 3(b) reads in the past tense. Leave granted. I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnoses are on the rise,...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Economy (33 speeches)
It is good to be here in the Federation Chamber with my friend the member for Mayo. I look forward to his contribution as always.
- Trade Unions (17 speeches)
Let me start by saying that we have seen over the past few months a classic example of alleged horrendous misuse of some union members' funds by some union officials. It is a disgrace to this...
- Renewable Energy (6 speeches)
I am very pleased to speak on this motion this evening. It is a matter of some considerable interest to me as a Victorian and as someone who is very interested in the development of clean energy...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Marriage Amendment Bill 2012; Second Reading (5 speeches)
Marriage is a cultural institution of long standing, and the prospect of change is unsettling to many people. But we should remember that society is always changing, that it has undergone great...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- South Australia: Electricity Grid (6 speeches)
I rise tonight to speak about the escalating electricity prices in South Australia with the recent announcement of an 18 per cent increase and the effect that government policies in the renewable...
- National Security (1 speech)
Australia's parliament has listed 17 groups as terror organisations since 2003. Hamas has been listed and re-listed by parliament as such an organisation on several occasions. Founded in 1987,...
- World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (1 speech)
On Friday, 15 June, I was lucky enough to be in the city heart of Townville to watch the Respect for Seniors March for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. The 1 RAR band led the way and was followed...
- Holt Electorate: Youth (1 speech)
I rise tonight to state as a starting point how proud I am to represent the youth in my electorate of Holt and how much I value their contribution to our community, particularly in the city of...
- Electricity Prices (9 speeches)
I rise to not to talk about electricity prices, particularly in New South Wales and particularly on the mid-North Coast of New South Wales. There has been a lot of discussion at a community level...
- Mining Industry Employment (2 speeches)
Over the last decade we have heard the term 'job snobs' being applied as a pejorative to workers who are apparently able to take on a job but are unwilling to move to a region to take up that job...
