House debates
Thursday, 21 June 2012
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
As we are dealing with military justice matters, I take this opportunity to present the annual report of the Judge Advocate General for the period 1 January to 31 December 2011 and the annual...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties I present the committee's report entitled Report 125: treaties tabled on 7 and 28 February 2012. In accordance with standing order 39(f) the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Social Policy and Legal Affairs Committee; Report (2 speeches)
I apologise for interrupting the debate and commend the member for Fremantle on her contribution. I table the advisory report on the Australian Human Rights Commission Amendment (National...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Orders of the Day (1 speech)
I move: That Federation Chamber order of the day No. 1, government business, Social Security Amendment (Supporting Australian Victims of Terrorism Overseas) Bill 2011, be returned to the House...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Sullivan, Mr Scott (1 speech)
Today is Motor Neurone Disease Global Day. Motor neurone disease is the name given to a group of diseases in which the muscles gradually weaken and waste away. One by one, people lose the ability...
- Tourism (1 speech)
The Labor Party has been very sensitive to our side highlighting their tourism flip-flops. At least the member for Batman, the tourism minister, never lost his good humour. On 2 March 2012, he...
- O'Hara, Ms Catherine (1 speech)
I would like to acknowledge the death of Catherine O'Hara, born in Ayr in North Queensland in 1935, partner to Vince O'Hara and mother of Shay, Lily, Jane and the fabulous Megan. Catherine was an...
- Horse Racing (6 speeches)
Mr Deputy Speaker Scott, a well-known lad from your electorate, Peter Moody, steps out at Ascot on Saturday night with his Australian champion, Black Caviar. We expect a big run from this horse....
- Bass Electorate: MS 24 Hour Megaswim (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate the MS Society of Tasmania on their recent successful fundraiser, the MS Megaswim, held last week at the Launceston Aquatic Centre. Teams of 15 people swam for a 24-hour...
- Macarthur Electorate: Bob Prenter Classic Corporate Golf Day (1 speech)
It is with a heavy heart that I rise today to speak about a charity event that was recently held in my electorate. The Bob Prenter Classic Corporate Golf Day is held every year in Macarthur, in...
- Motor Neurone Disease Global Awareness Day (1 speech)
Today, Thursday, 21 June 2012, I rise to speak on Motor Neurone Disease Global Awareness Day to show my support for those who are sufferers and the families of sufferers and to seek the support...
- Ardley, Mr Russell (2 speeches)
The great career of a great individual, Russell Ardley, has come to an end. He has retired after 15 years of setting up Mornington Peninsula Youth Enterprises. His son was trapped in addiction...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
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I inform the House that the Minister for Resources, Energy and Tourism will be absent from question time today. He will be with his brother Laurie, the member for Werriwa, and they will be...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (6 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer the Acting Prime Minister to this letter from TRUenergy advising customers in Melbourne of electricity price rises from 1 July of up to 15 per...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Will the Acting Prime Minister inform the House of the results of the national census released today? How does this new data highlight the need for...
- Carbon Pricing (7 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I remind the Acting Prime Minister that he ruled out Labor introducing a carbon tax seven days before the last election, saying, 'We reject this...
- Economy (15 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and the Minister Assisting for Deregulation. What is the government doing to bring down a responsible budget and to deliver strong economic management?...
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Is the Acting Prime Minister aware that yesterday's Brisbane City Council budget revealed that the carbon tax will cost Brisbane residents $15.8...
- Budget (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Minister for Disability Reform. What policies has the government put in place to help Australian...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of a parliamentary delegation from Italy. On behalf of the House I extend a very warm welcome to them. Honourable...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (5 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Is the Acting Prime Minister aware that CANEGROWERS, the peak industry body for the sugar industry, has found that the cost of electricity and water...
- Marine Sanctuaries (2 speeches)
I have a question without notice for environment minister Burke. Is the minister aware that the LNP government reduced Australia's north-east ocean access to 18 per cent, closing down almost all...
- Carbon Pricing (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry and Innovation and Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. Will the minister inform the House of recent investment decisions made by...
- Rural and Regional Services (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government and Minister for the Arts. Will the minister update the House on the most recent round of grants...
- Carbon Pricing (33 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Will the Acting Prime Minister confirm that his own modelling predicts Australian domestic emissions will actually rise, from 578 million tonnes a...
- Superannuation (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation. Will the Minister explain the importance of the government's future...
- Registered Organisations (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. I refer the minister to the government's measures to improve the transparency of registered organisations. Does the minister...
- Great Barrier Reef (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Will the minister update the House on the latest report released by UNESCO concerning the Great...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
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I seek leave to make a personal explanation.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 8 of the Selection Committee, relating to the consideration of bills. The report will be printed in the Hansard for today. Copies of the report have been placed on the table....
- 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...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Orders of the Day (1 speech)
I move: That Federation Chamber, Private Members’ Business, orders of the day No. 9 relating to motorcycle safety, No. 11 relating to the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme, No. 13...
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I ask leave of the House to move a motion to enable the following orders of the day: Private Members Business' to be called on and considered immediately in the following order: motion relating...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Economy (32 speeches)
The Speaker has received a letter from the honourable member for North Sydney proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The adverse...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Grey Electorate: Remote Area Energy Scheme (5 speeches)
Last week I visited one of my northern towns, Coober Pedy. It pains me to once again have to bring to the attention of the House the price of electricity in Coober Pedy. Last July in this place I...
- Wills Electorate: United Bonded Fabrics (1 speech)
I rise to speak in support of a local manufacturer in my electorate, United Bonded Fabrics, and its managing director, Mr Jim Liaskos. I would like to congratulate UBF on being inducted in May...
- Carbon Pricing (5 speeches)
The 1st of the July is the day upon which the Prime Minister's elaborate deception of the Australian people comes to fruition. The 1stof July is the day upon which every power point in the...
- London Olympic Games (1 speech)
I rise in the House this afternoon to speak on the upcoming Olympic Games and, in particular, the outstanding achievement of the Tasmanian competitors who will represent this proud nation in...
- Economy (1 speech)
Retail is already struggling. We have had a year where a crisis of confidence, an anxiety, about the lack of direction and certainty has been building within households all over the country....
- Deakin Electorate: Dorset Primary School (1 speech)
As many in this place would know, I always like to finish off the parliamentary week with a good news story at the last adjournment spot, and I bring yet another one today. Today I talk about one...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Devine, Reverend David (1 speech)
I would like to pay tribute to a man whom we are losing from the Knox community, the Reverend David Devine. For the last 15 years, Reverend Devine has been the pastor at the Rowville Baptist...
- Charlton Electorate: Glendale Transport Interchange (1 speech)
I am pleased to report that Labor has delivered $7 million to get work underway on a major infrastructure project in my electorate of Charlton, the Glendale transport interchange. It is part of a...
- Macquarie Electorate: Mental Health Services (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about a very important issue across this nation but particularly in the electorate of Macquarie: access to mental health services. Almost half of all Australians will...
- Calwell Electorate: Hume Global Learning Centre (1 speech)
Last Sunday, 17 June, I had the great pleasure of attending the official opening—in fact, officiating at the opening—of the Hume Global Learning Centre in my electorate of Calwell in...
- Petition: Health Services (1 speech)
I would like to table a petition from my constituents to the House of Representatives which has been submitted to the petitions committee and deemed to be in order. The petition read as...
- Media (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the policy and personal implications of changes in the media. Back in 1970 there were more daily newspapers sold than televisions in Australia; now for every daily newspaper...
- Connected Inc. (1 speech)
Times are tough, and many people need help for many different reasons. However, not everyone requires long-term dependency. Some just need short-term support to get them back on their...
- Melbourne Ports Electorate: Rippon Lea (1 speech)
The stately home of Rippon Lea in my electorate was originally the home of Sir Frederick Sargood, the Victorian Minster for the Army prior to Federation. After its sale to Sir Thomas Bent, the...
- Grey Electorate: Sundrop Farms (1 speech)
Last week I had the great pleasure of visiting a good news story 20 kilometres south of Port Augusta, the establishment by Sundrop Farms of some world-first technology in harvesting seawater and...
- Tasmania: Public Health System (2 speeches)
In Hobart last week I joined Minister Tanya Plibersek in announcing some significant support from the federal Labor government for Tasmania's health system. We all know that Tasmania does face...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Broadband (1 speech)
You will remember that a couple of weeks ago I spoke in this chamber about one of the biggest issues that adversely affects my electorate—that is, the lack of fast, reliable and affordable...
- Refugee Week (1 speech)
This week across Australia we celebrate Refugee Week. It is a time to acknowledge and celebrate the contribution that refugees have made over the years in building our great nation. It also gives...
- Carbon Pricing (1 speech)
I rise to talk about the semantics of a carbon price or a carbon tax. I speak on the issue of carbon prices touted by government ministers and members to justify their argument on what is really...
- Parliamentarians for Global Action (1 speech)
On Monday this week the parliament welcomed Mr Ross Robertson, Labor member for Manukau East in the New Zealand parliament, deputy speaker in that parliament and also the international president...
- Bennelong Electorate: Cultural Ties and Sport (1 speech)
Last night I was fortunate to attend a dinner with His Excellency Mr Taeyong Cho, the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea. At the dinner, Ambassador Cho talked about his desire for an increased...
- Hunter Electorate: City of Maitland (1 speech)
The city of Maitland is the fastest growing inland centre in New South Wales and possibly in eastern Australia. Its population is currently around 70,000. But the council has a strategic vision...
