House debates
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Industry and Innovation will be absent from question time today for personal reasons. The Minister for Infrastructure...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (9 speeches, 1 comment)
( My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer him to the guidelines on the treatment of persons rescued at sea published by the International Maritime Organisation that state: The...
- Economy (2 speeches)
Will the Acting Prime Minister outline the importance of keeping our economy strong while making sure we support those most in need?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery today His Excellency Mr Marcel Stutz from the Swiss embassy. On behalf of the House, I extend him a very warm welcome. Honourable members:...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (6 speeches)
Madam Deputy Speaker, I ask a supplementary question. I refer to the Acting Prime Minister's answer in which he talked about helping those most in need while building the economy. What would be...
- Budget (11 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer the Treasurer to the Prime Minister's statement less than a month ago that business can have a company tax rate cut 'before Christmas'. How...
- Fisheries (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Will the minister update the House on the latest information concerning the super trawler...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Before I call the member, a loyal South Australian, I recognise in the gallery today many members from the South Australian Local Government Association and with them many mayors and councillors....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (13 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. If the Treasurer is serious about finding savings to fund his $120 billion black hole by cutting back on waste, why has the carbon tax regulator just...
- Same-Sex Marriage (15 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Acting Prime Minister, you would be aware that the Tasmanian government plans to legislate for marriage equality and the bill has already passed the...
- Education (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Will the minister outline why we need to invest in a national plan to improve all of our schools?
- Revenue (7 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer to Labor's claim that it would bring the budget back to surplus this financial year despite collecting much less revenue than forecast and...
- Health (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister inform the House how the government is investing in health for all Australians? How is the government working with states and...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer the Acting Prime Minister to the government's claim that it will bring the budget back to surplus this financial year, despite collecting less...
- Pensions and Benefits (2 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 supporting...
- Carbon Pricing (16 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer the Acting Prime Minister to my visit to Bendigo Hospital last week and to the assessment it commissioned which shows that the hospital will...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations, Financial Services and Superannuation. What is the government doing to make sure Australians have good jobs and a strong...
- Carbon Pricing (7 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer to the failed $2 billion Contract for Closure scheme to close brown coal power stations and to the $5½ billion Energy Security Fund to...
- Homelessness (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness and Minister for Small Business. What has the government done to help vulnerable people access housing and to reduce...
- Australian Public Service (7 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer to his statements earlier about Public Service jobs. Can the Treasurer confirm that in his own budget papers he states that he is axing over...
- Employment (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment Participation and Minister for Early Childhood and Childcare. Would the minister update the House on how the government's jobs and skills expos are...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Economy (2 speeches)
Madam Deputy Speaker, I have a question to you. I would ask you if you would refer this question to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to the decision by Moody's today to downgrade South...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (11 speeches)
Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Documents are presented as listed in the schedule circulated to honourable members earlier today. Details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings and I move: That the House...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
I seek leave to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions Without Notice (3 speeches)
There seems to be some emerging mythology that during question time the crossbench is only allowed one supplementary question per week. I would ask if you could clarify that with the Speaker...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (13 speeches)
I have 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 failure of the Government...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (13 speeches)
by leave—In a week when our eyes have turned to the achievements of the Paralympians in London, and we celebrate the progress of the Paralympic movement since the first Stoke Mandeville...
- Child Care (2 speeches)
by leave—Our government has worked hard to make child care more affordable, more accessible and better quality for Australian children and their families. That is why we are investing a...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (1 speech)
The Speaker has received a message from the Senate informing the House that Senator Smith has been appointed a member of the Joint Standing Committee on the National Broadband Network.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Commonwealth Government Securities Legislation Amendment (Retail Trading) Bill 2012; Second Reading (21 speeches)
Some people say that it is very hard to get agreement in this place, but here I am, in the company of my colleagues, with two people in the public gallery to witness this moment: we are rising in...
- Commonwealth Government Securities Legislation Amendment (Retail Trading) Bill 2012; Consideration in Detail (8 speeches)
I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill. By leave—I move government amendments (1) to (3) as circulated together: (1) Schedule 1, item 3, page 3 (line 24), at the end...
- Commonwealth Government Securities Legislation Amendment (Retail Trading) 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.
- National Portrait Gallery of Australia Bill 2012, National Portrait Gallery of Australia (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2012; Second Reading (6 speeches)
I rise to speak on the National Portrait Gallery of Australia Bill 2012 and the associated bill. On behalf of the coalition, can I say how proud we are today to have played a significant role in...
- National Portrait Gallery of Australia Bill 2012, National Portrait Gallery of Australia (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2012; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That these bills be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bills read a third time.
- Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Bill 2012; Second Reading (7 speeches)
I rise to speak on the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Bill 2012. In doing so, I would like to outline the coalition's approach to the not-for-profit sector or civil society,...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Australian National Internships Program (2 speeches)
Earlier this year I had the privilege of participating in the Australian National Internships Program and was assigned a student from ANU. I have previously participated in the program which...
- Kingston Electorate: Completion of Projects (1 speech)
It has been an exciting time in my electorate of Kingston over the last few weeks. I have attended the openings of a number of important local projects that will improve the southern Adelaide...
- Parkes Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about an issue that has become quite a problem in western New South Wales, including in my electorate of Parkes. That issue is the shortage of skilled workers. In the last...
- Greenway Electorate: Education (1 speech)
I rise this evening to discuss the federal Labor government's commitment to education reform and to reaffirm my personal commitment to supporting schools in my electorate and the value I place on...
- National Family Business Day (1 speech)
I rise tonight to make the House aware that 19 September next week is National Family Business Day. It is the brainchild of Family Business Australia. Family Business Australia hopes this day of...
- Potato Imports (1 speech)
For the past two years or so Australian potato growers have raised concerns with the government about the push by the New Zealand government to lift the ban which has been in place since 1988 on...
- Macquarie Electorate: Local Sporting Champions (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the outstanding young athletes from my electorate whom I recently met. These young people are recipients of the 2012 Local Sporting Champions grants, and I was delighted to...
- Learn Earn Legend! Program (1 speech)
With a number of my parliamentary colleagues this week, I hosted two young students as part of the Learn Earn Legend! Work Exposure in Government program. I was very happy to spend some time with...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
The government's changes to aged-care funding under the Living Longer, Living Better program, which came into effect on 1 July this year, represent a knife to the heart of small local regional...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
In recent months much of the debate in Australia over refugees has centred around whether countries with which we deal have signed the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of...
- Pompe Disease (1 speech)
Tonight I would like to raise the plight of Catherine Jenner, a young woman from Cheltenham, which is in my electorate of Goldstein. This mother of two is just one of 25 people in Australia to be...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
I rise to speak about aged care and recent activities and events in my electorate. I was recently invited to spend a day at one of the aged-care facilities in my electorate and then attend the...
- Questions on Notice (0 speeches)
