House debates
Thursday, 16 August 2012
- 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. This year, I have reported to the parliament on three previous...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Orders of the Day (1 speech)
( I move: That the following Federation Chamber orders of the day, private Members’ business, be returned to the House for further consideration: No. 9—Accountability and transparency...
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
( by leave—I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following items of private Members’ business being called on and...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Asbestos Management Review (2 speeches)
by leave—On 14 March this year, in my first ministerial statement on workplace health and safety in this place, I said that every Australian who goes to work should return home safely. I...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Electoral Matters Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, I present the committee's advisory report on the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Improving Electoral Procedure) Bill 2012. In...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Brain Injury Awareness Week (1 speech)
This week is Brain Injury Awareness Week, which highlights the hidden disability and the impact of brain injury on our society. Over half a million Australians have acquired a brain injury, most...
- Basketball ACT (1 speech)
Last Saturday night it was my pleasure to attend the Gunners and Bandits game at the ACT Basketball Centre, part of the South East Australian Basketball League competition. I was invited there as...
- Vietnam Veterans Day (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute to Australia's Vietnam Veterans in the lead-up to Vietnam Veteran's Day on 18 August. This Saturday I will join thousands of Australians across the nation who will...
- News Limited (1 speech)
I have been informed that entrepreneur Dick Smith is with us today in this building. I congratulate him for being, in his own words, 'game to stand up to the Murdoch press and others in big...
- Australian Taxation Office (1 speech)
Community service and the tax office—who would have thought that these phrases could be used in the same sentence? Let me say it is not such a real paradox. The ATO is simply one of those...
- Throsby Electorate: Warilla Public School (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to praise the good work of Warilla Public School in my electorate of Throsby. Students speak highly of the commitment and hard work of their teachers. They also speak...
- Kooyong Electorate: Raoul Wallenberg (1 speech)
In the heart of my electorate of Kooyong, on the corner of Princess and High Streets in Kew, stands a memorial to Raoul Wallenberg. It was the initiative of Frank Vajda, a Kooyong resident, who,...
- World Humanitarian Day (1 speech)
In 2008 the United Nations General Assembly designated 19 August as World Humanitarian Day. This was done in memory of the 22 United Nations and NGO workers who were killed on 19 August 2003 when...
- Coal Industry (1 speech)
I would like to bring to the House's attention that the boom period for our coal industry is about to burst. Mr Champion interjecting— Yes, it is. Haven't you been reading the papers?...
- Tobacco Plain Packaging (2 speeches)
I rise to mention the federal government's historic plain packaging legislation and thank the Attorney-General and the Minister for Health for their commitment to this important piece of public...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness and Minister for Small Business will be absent from question time today for personal reasons. The Minister for...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (18 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her promise, made precisely two years ago today, that: 'There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.' Will the...
- Manufacturing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the outlook for manufacturing as part of a clean energy future?
- Electricity Prices (32 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the carbon tax designed to increase or to decrease the price of electricity?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of the Argentine Mission to Australia Project, led by their able ambassador. On behalf of the House I extend a very...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (14 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Treasurer, what does recent data say about the strength of the Australian economy and what is the Australian government doing to ensure the economy remains strong?
- Carbon Pricing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister confirm that the government's own modelling says that at least three million Australian households will be worse off under her carbon tax?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I want to recognise Graham Edwards, our former colleague, who is in the gallery, and to clarify that I did exclude the member for Herbert under 94a.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Fisheries (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The government is relying on the Australian Fisheries Management Authority in the super trawler Margiris matter. But AFMA has admitted that it did not take...
- Carbon Pricing (65 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and Minister for Industry and Innovation. Will the minister outline the significant action being taken here and overseas to...
- Tobacco Plain Packaging (2 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Attorney-General. What is the international community's response to yesterday's High Court decision about the government's world-leading plain packaging legislation? How...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (36 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Warringah moving immediately: That this House calls on the Prime Minister to speak for ten...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Franklin, Mr Matthew (2 speeches)
I want to remark that today is the last parliamentary sitting day that we will see Matthew Franklin appearing in the parliamentary press gallery above us. As many members of parliament would be...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Standing Orders (4 speeches)
On indulgence, may I first say that I meant you no disrespect—
- 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. I move: That the House take note of the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (12 speeches, 3 comments)
I have received a letter from the honourable Leader of the Nationals proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The serious price...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Petition: Public Holidays (1 speech)
Today I would like to present a petition, by 50 petitioners, that I have received and taken to the Standing Committee on Petitions. It has been found to be in order. The petitioners are...
- Northern Territory Election (1 speech)
It is now only nine days till Territorians go to the polls. I am a proud member of the Country Liberals, a party with strong Northern Territory roots, a history-making party that held government...
- Youth Suicide (1 speech)
I rise today to thank everyone who attended a summit on youth suicide which I hosted on Saturday 11 August, 2012 and which was held at the City of Casey council chambers. It was attended by well...
- Murray-Darling Basin (1 speech)
Just briefly, before I talk about the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, I might just endorse the comments of the member for Holt. What the member for Holt might...
- Sustainability (1 speech)
At lunchtime I was one of a number of MPs from both sides of the parliament who took up Dick Smith's invitation to MPs and senators to support his view that perpetual growth in the use of...
- Gippsland Electorate: Sale Specialist School (1 speech, 1 comment)
I appreciate the opportunity to bring to the attention of the House the appalling conditions which are currently being endured by students, staff and parents associated with the Sale Specialist...
- Gwyther, Mr Barry (1 speech)
Today is Barry Gwyther's last day as the Assistant Serjeant-at-Arms. He will retire from his position tomorrow, which I am very sad to see. We all know that Barry is not one to seek the...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Ryan Electorate: Hear and Say Centre (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge the work of an outstanding organisation in my electorate, which is helping children across Queensland: the Hear and Say Centre. The Hear and Say Centre, based in...
- Disability Services (1 speech)
Our Paralympic athletes are inspirational heroes. They demonstrate the abilities and potential of those living with disability. There are many inspirational heroes in the Blair electorate. Unsung...
- Wright Electorate: Volunteers (1 speech)
I rise to speak about some of the magnificent contributions that volunteers in my community have given, particularly the Lions clubs and the Rotary clubs in my region. If we as state, federal or...
- Richmond Electorate: Health Services (1 speech)
I rise today to detail some of the serious concerns about the very harsh cuts of the O'Farrell Liberal-National state government when it comes to cuts to health services on the New South Wales...
- Hasluck Electorate: Disability (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about the visit of Senator Mitch Fifield, the coalition shadow minister for disabilities, carers and the voluntary sector, to my electorate of Hasluck last week. When I am...
- Hindmarsh Electorate: Fundraising (1 speech)
Today I rise to congratulate a very special group in my electorate in South Australia and indeed across Australia, and that is the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia for their energy,...
- Durack Electorate: Mrs Philippa Rumble (1 speech)
I rise today to focus the attention of the chamber and to congratulate a fine young constituent in my electorate of Durack: Mrs Philippa Rumble, from the small farming community of Mullewa....
- Lindsay Electorate: Jessica Fox (1 speech)
Sport has always been an important part of local community life in my electorate. As the host of a number of Olympic venues in the 2000 Sydney games, the people of the Greater Penrith region do...
- Manufacturing (1 speech)
People in my electorate want to see a future for Australian manufacturing and so do the Greens. Australian manufacturing needs a road map for the future. So we look forward with a keen interest...
- Goodwin, Mr Darcy David (2 speeches)
I want to pay tribute to a local and much loved man, Darcy David Goodwin, who passed away on 7 August 2012. On 8 August, in our local newspaper, the Northern Star, in an article written by Rodney...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Senator Mary Jo Fisher (1 speech)
I rise today to note the resignation from the Australia Senate of my very good friend, Senator Mary Jo Fisher, who left the other place on Tuesday following a decision by her some two months ago...
- Bahrain: Human Rights (1 speech, 1 comment)
I rise today to draw attention to the highly distressing state of affairs in the kingdom of Bahrain. Bahrain is an island off the Saudi Arabia coast in the Persian Gulf and has a population of...
- Carbon Pricing (1 speech)
I do not come to this place lightly to speak at any time, and in this case the conversation I am having with the Australian people is, in my humble judgment, worthwhile raising. I do not come...
- Greenway Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
I rise today to mention a number of important events that have recently taken place in my electorate of Greenway regarding a topic close to my heart, that of education. These include the Norwest...
- Wright Electorate: Volunteering (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker Scott, I am concerned about the workload you have undertaken in this session. It has been a colossal effort and I take the opportunity to acknowledge the work you do in the...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I rise in the chamber today to speak on the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Labor believes that all Australians deserve care and support if they acquire or are born with a disability. We...
