House debates
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Reference (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...
- Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights I supply the House with a report on the committee's action. Members will recall that the committee is established under the Human...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 2) Bill 2012, Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Amendment Bill 2012, Pay As You Go Withholding Non-compliance Tax Bill 2012; Second Reading (26 speeches)
This package of bills before the House deals with a range of measures. Schedule 1 of the Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 2) Bill 2012 and Pay As You Go Withholding Non-compliance Tax Bill...
- Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 2) Bill 2012, Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Amendment Bill 2012, Pay As You Go Withholding Non-compliance Tax Bill 2012; Consideration in Detail (72 speeches)
I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill. I move: (1) Clause 2, page 2 (table item 11), omit the table item. (2) Schedule 4, page 65 (lines 1 to 21), omit the Schedule. This...
- Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 2) Bill 2012, Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Amendment Bill 2012, Pay As You Go Withholding Non-compliance Tax Bill 2012; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Pay As You Go Withholding Non-compliance Tax Bill 2012; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No. 3, the Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Amendment Bill 2012, be postponed until the next sitting. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Bennelong Electorate: Marist College Eastwood (1 speech)
Last Sunday I attended the Marist College Eastwood 75th anniversary mass at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. The college's principal, Daniel Delmage, was most welcoming as parish priests and local...
- Fowler Electorate: Australian Chinese Buddhist Society (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the Australian Chinese Buddhist Society and Mingyue Lay temple in Bonnyrigg, which is within my electorate of Fowler. The Mingyue Lay temple was established 25 years...
- Ryan Electorate: Chapel Hill State School (1 speech)
I rise to recognise one of the Ryan electorate's outstanding schools, Chapel Hill State School—students and teachers from which are here today with us in Parliament House—along with...
- Afghan Youth Cricket Support Organisation (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge in the parliament the importance of the Afghan Youth Cricket Support Organisation and the work of Coburg West Primary School students in trying to attract donations to...
- Dawson Electorate: Carbon Pricing (1 speech)
Despite the government's claims to the contrary, ratepayers across Australia are going to face increased costs because of the carbon tax. The truth has come out in Mackay, where the council...
- Assistance Dogs (1 speech)
Today I want to put on the record the deep feelings of loss on behalf on my constituent, Alexis Smith. Alexis has lost her dog Toomba. We might scoff at this and say it is a family pet but, for...
- Darwin RAAF Housing (1 speech)
Today Gerry Wood, Northern Territory Legislative Assembly independent member for Nelson said: … both the Commonwealth Government and the NT Government should be ashamed of themselves when...
- Information Technology (1 speech)
In February this year I met with Jenny Anderson, the CEO of an information and communications technology business in my electorate of Melbourne. Jenny explained to me some of the challenges that...
- Lavis, Mr David (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to rural fire service captain David Lavis. David was a well-known face and friend to many in the Sutherland shire rural fire service. More than that, he was a genuine local...
- World Refugee Day (1 speech)
I note that today is World Refugee Day, a day on which we recognise and raise awareness of the more than 15.2 million registered refugees and the 26.4 million people around the world who have...
- Italian Community (2 speeches)
The Italian community is an important part of the Australian story. The contribution Italian migrants have made through their work ethic, family life, culture, food and music have added colour...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (8 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I remind him of this month's report on electricity price increases, released by the ACT Labor government's independent regulator, which states, 'The...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Will the Acting Prime Minister update the House on the outcome of the G20 Leaders Summit? What does this say about the importance of keeping our...
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister and Treasurer. Why has the government set its carbon tax at $23 a tonne when analysts at Thomson Reuters yesterday slashed their forecast for...
- Family Payments (10 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...
- Carbon Pricing (10 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer to the statement in a report by Growcom, one of Australia's largest representatives of vegetable growers, that farmers will be hit with...
- National Rural Health Students Network (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. The minister would be aware that the National Rural Health Students Network are in the parliament today. Could the minister explain how the government...
- Carbon Pricing (20 speeches)
My question is to the . What are the drivers of electricity prices and how does the carbon price rate amongst them? What is the government's approach to helping families deal with this and how...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of a parliamentary delegation from France. On behalf of the House I extend a very warm welcome to our visitors. We...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Is the Acting Prime Minister aware that the Master Builders Association has declared today that the carbon tax will reduce output in just this...
- Workplace Safety (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation. Minister, what are the government's policies for supporting workers...
- Economy (24 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer. I refer the Assistant Treasurer to this newsletter distributed in his electorate under his name that states: We have delivered a surplus, on time, as...
- Family Payments (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Minister, what assistance is the government providing to families to help with the cost of school education? How...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I have been advised that yet again we have in our gallery lots of our colleagues from local government. I am sure they are enjoying the day and are glad they do not have question time in their...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister, Mr Swan. I remind the Acting Prime Minister of his statement to the House on Monday that there are no plans for a detention centre in the Cocos...
- Family Payments (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Community Services, Minister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development and Minister for the Status of Women. How will the government's schoolkids...
- Immigration (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. Can the minister explain why he was unable to act to use his powers under section 109 of the Migration Act to cancel Captain Emad's...
- Electoral Reform (2 speeches)
My question is to the Special Minister of State and Minister for the Public Service and Integrity. How will the amendments to the Commonwealth Electoral Act currently before the Senate improve...
- Marine Conservation (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Is the minister aware that his marine parks proposal is opposed by the Queensland Seafood...
- Broadband (6 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. Can the minister outline the support that is apparent for the National Broadband...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (24 speeches)
Madam Deputy Speaker Burke, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Reports Nos 45 and 46 (1 speech)
I present the following Auditor-General's audit reports for 2011-12 entitled report No. 45, Performance audit: Administration of the Health and Hospitals Fund, and Audit report No. 46,...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the Selection Committee’s report No. 57 relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and Private Members' business on Monday, 21 May 2012. The report will be...
- 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)
- Regional Australia Committee; Membership (2 speeches)
I have received advice from the Chief Government Whip and the Chief Opposition Whip nominating members to be supplementary members of the Standing Committee on Regional Australia for the purpose...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Marine Conservation (19 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Wide Bay proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The adverse impact on...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Homelessness (2 speeches)
by leave—It is not acceptable in this country, a relatively wealthy one, that so many Australians are homeless. It is not acceptable that a widowed pensioner cannot find a bed or that a...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 11, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Casey Electorate: Carbon Pricing (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about the damaging effect that Labor's carbon tax will have on local businesses in the Casey electorate. As has been well publicised during the debate on Labor's carbon...
- Family Payments (1 speech)
Today is a great day for 1.3 million families across Australia, for 14,000 families in the ACT and for the 6,750 families in my electorate of Canberra. Today all these families will receive the...
- Gilmore Electorate: Oallen Ford Bridge (1 speech)
Last year Shoalhaven City Council applied for federal RDA funding to upgrade Oallen Ford bridge. However, despite a firm, precise and unequivocal briefing that was given to the minister as to why...
- Housing Affordability (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to make some observations about the issue of housing availability and affordability. These are critical needs across Australia and they are certainly present within my...
- Forrest Electorate: Harvey Primary School (1 speech)
I wish to extend my formal congratulations to Harvey Primary School and the surrounding community for receiving one of our state's most prestigious education awards. Of the 750 schools in Western...
- Education (1 speech)
Tonight I rise to speak about a very important issue not only in my electorate but in all electorates around Australia, and that is the issue of education. A few weeks ago a group of parents from...
- Veterans (1 speech)
As American poet Walt Whitman said: The real war will never get in the books. We in this place who have the sacred responsibility of sending others to war should not forget that the cheques we...
- Rail Infrastructure (1 speech)
As we well know, Australia's transport system, with the exception of the suburban and interurban electric railway systems, depends increasingly on imported oil drawn from suppliers in South-East...
- Lyne Electorate: Coastal Erosion (1 speech)
I rise tonight to urge the Commonwealth to work with the states on a solution to a problem affecting many coastal communities. Coastal erosion is much more than an environmental story. It is a...
- Mornington Peninsula (1 speech)
This evening I want to set out the case for a Mornington Peninsula 2050 plan. This would be an accompaniment to the peninsula planning statement and legislation which are now currently being...
- Rural and Regional Health Services (1 speech)
I want to put on the record tonight an issue that is of great concern to me: access to rural health services for the health and wellbeing of people living in rural communities. Humphreys and...
- Murray-Darling Basin (2 speeches)
Using the slogan 'Open your eyes to Australia's food bowl' the Griffith Business Chamber is hosting a Murray-Darling Basin Plan rally in the heart of the Murrumbidgee irrigation area next...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Rural and Regional Health Services (1 speech)
I rise to speak about a crisis in my electorate of Calare and indeed in the greater part of regional Australia. While the carbon tax is certainly a major crisis,—in fact it is already...
- Ipswich Jobs and Skills Expo (1 speech)
After the success of the Jobs and Skills Expo in Ipswich in 2010, which saw 3,200 local job seekers connect with hundreds of jobs and skills training opportunities, I lobbied hard to get another...
- Digital Television (1 speech)
Today I rise to bring to the attention of the House concerns in my electorate over the delivery of digital television access. In 2001 the government started the rollout of digital television...
- Wallenberg, Mr Raoul (1 speech)
I rise to honour the memory of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat whose courage, spirit and ingenuity saved the lives of over 100,000 Jews in Budapest during the Second World War. There are...
- Swan Electorate: Health Services (1 speech)
I rise to speak about an important local issue in my electorate which I have been working on for the past few weeks. Recently, due to a commercial decision, a medical centre, Healthpoint Belmont,...
- Lyne Electorate: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Health Care (1 speech)
I also rise on a health need for my local electorate on the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales. I again rise to urge the government to include the Manning Valley as a Medicare-eligible region for...
- Parliamentary Friendship Group of Women in Science, Maths and Engineering (1 speech)
This afternoon the member for Kingston and I will be hosting the inaugural function of the Parliamentary Friendship Group of Women in Science, Maths and Engineering. The aim of this friendship...
- Braddon Electorate (1 speech)
Hear, hear! I support the project that the member for Higgins is working on with colleagues in the House. I have been really fortunate to participate in the announcement of some significant...
- Australian Women and Children's Foundation for Research, Music for Life, Penrith Symphony Orchestra (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the important contribution of some inspiring individuals and organisations in the Lindsay electorate. In recent weeks I have had the privilege of attending a number of...
- Queen's Birthday Honours List (2 speeches)
I rise today to acknowledge some outstanding members of my community who were last week acknowledged in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Dr. Stephen Baddeley was acknowledged for his service to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
