House debates
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Malayali Association of Townsville (1 speech)
I rise to speak on last weekend's Malayali Association of Townsville end-of-harvest festival. It was truly a great day. I was there with Councillor Pat Ernst, Bishop Michael Putney and a host of...
- London Paralympic Games (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate Australia's Paralympians on their amazing celebration of sporting ability at the 14th Paralympic Games in London. A record 164 nations competed—including our 161...
- Clark, Mr Cecil Alexander Matthew, Gouchee, Mrs Susan (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to speak in celebration of the life of Cec Clark, a local community leader who, sadly, passed away in August at the age of 87. Cec was an avid campaigner for...
- La Trobe Electorate: Chisholm TAFE (1 speech)
I am standing today to speak once again about the very unfortunate situation of the Victorian government's TAFE cuts. In the last 24 hours we have heard that a further 220 jobs are going to be...
- Irrigation Research and Development (1 speech)
Australia's funding and policy commitments to irrigation research and development are at a 20-year low. This disturbing news was relayed to me today by Dr Guy Roth of Narrabri, who is program...
- Heathmont East Primary School (1 speech)
It was my great pleasure on 25 August to attend the 50th anniversary celebration reunion of the Heathmont East Primary School, a local primary school in my electorate like so many others built...
- Strokes (1 speech)
I rise to speak about strokes. This morning at a breakfast the Parliamentary Heart Foundation and Stroke Foundation Friendship Group heard the story of a young woman who had experienced a stroke...
- Queensland Rural Fire Service (1 speech)
During the 2011 floods in South-East Queensland and the cyclones in Far North Queensland, the men and women of the Rural Fire Service assisted people, saved lives and saved property. Then on 11...
- Foreign Investment (1 speech)
There has been a lot of talk over the last couple of weeks about foreign investment in Australian resource management. I particularly mention Cubbie Station and a supertrawler. I also raise today...
- Greater Western Sydney Giants (2 speeches)
As we focus on the AFL final season, I want to say congratulations to the Greater Western Sydney Giants on their first year. The Giants had two victories this year over Gold Coast Suns and Port...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Supplementary Questions (1 speech)
Mr Speaker has asked me to thank the honourable member for Lyne for his question yesterday in relation to supplementary questions for the crossbench and has provided me with the following...
- 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 and tomorrow for personal reasons. The Minister for...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (15 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I remind him that, when the Howard government advised it would send asylum seekers to Nauru, the number of illegal arrivals dropped by two-thirds in a...
- Government Spending (6 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I remind the Acting Prime Minister that the government backflipped on the carbon tax floor price and Contract for Closure, backflipped on offshore...
- Fiscal Policy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Will the Acting Prime Minister outline the importance of a measured approach to fiscal policy? What are the risks to our economy of reckless cuts to...
- Australian Public Service (8 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister and it follows his previous answer. Will the Acting Prime Minister confirm that his government has cut 750 staff from Customs, 97 staff from the...
- Education Funding (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Public, Catholic and independent schools in the Chifley electorate are deeply concerned about the New South Wales...
- Dental Health (4 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Does the Acting Prime Minister agree with the health minister's statement that the newly proposed dental health scheme is an additional $4 billion...
- Housing Affordability (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing. What is the government doing to increase the affordability of housing? In addition to striving to keep interest rates low, shouldn't there be a...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I have been informed we have the mayors of Mount Isa and the Gold Coast in the gallery today. I welcome them to the House. Honourable members: Hear, hear!
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- New South Wales Government (6 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister Assisting for Deregulation. I am really concerned that the New South Wales government's budget funding cuts are hurting every school in my...
- Taxation (20 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister rule out introducing death duties?
- Health Care, Queensland Government (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Minister, today families in my electorate are reeling from cuts announced in the Queensland budget to jobs and front-line health services. What impact...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of the Swedish parliamentary committee on taxation. On behalf of the House, I extend a very warm welcome to the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (21 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. If the government is serious about funding its $120 billion great big budget black hole and cutting back on waste, why has the government handed—
- Workplace Relations (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Financial Services and Superannuation. How is the government promoting fairness in Australian workplaces and, with all the...
- Carbon Pricing (13 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer the Acting Prime Minister to this bill received by the Calvary John James Hospital here in Canberra that shows its off-peak electricity rate...
- Australian Natural Disasters (4 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General and Minister for Emergency Management. Will the minister inform the House how the government supports Australians during disaster seasons; and is the...
- Fisheries (13 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Will the Acting Prime Minister confirm that the government will rely on these amendments from the member for Dobell to fix up their attack on...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Endangered Species (1 speech)
I table a letter to me from the member for Flinders asking that I do more to protect the Tasmanian tiger in the Tarkine rainforest.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (19 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for North Sydney from moving the following motion forthwith: That this House: (1) condemns this...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 64 of the Selection Committee, relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday, 17 September 2012. The report will...
- 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...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Education (27 speeches)
Mr Speaker has received letters from the honourable member for Lyne, the honourable member for North Sydney and the honourable member for Petrie proposing that definite matters of public...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Canning Electorate: Mediterranean Fruit Fly (1 speech)
I rise this evening to discuss an issue in my electorate which is also faced right across Australia—the Mediterranean fruit fly, or medfly. If left unchecked this harmful pest has the...
- Dunn, Harry, Hunter Electorate: Local Government Elections (1 speech)
The town of Singleton in my electorate is in mourning. Very tragically, on Monday afternoon a horror crash occurred involving a prime mover and a school bus. As a consequence, one nine-year-old...
- Dental Health (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the latest failure of this Labor government: its disastrous plans for a new dental health scheme at some stage in the future. This announcement is essentially about...
- Fowler Electorate: Community Health Day (1 speech)
On Friday, 31 August I held a bilingual Community Health Day at Freedom Plaza in Cabramatta. The event brought the community together to raise awareness of various health issues—in...
- Government Spending (1 speech)
What a sham this government is! What a sham the Treasurer is! After the litany of broken promises—backflips, backflips on backflips, outright stuff-ups, waste and now billions upon billions...
- Obesity (1 speech)
A recent report from the Charles Perkins Centre, the University of Sydney's new research hub for the study of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, warns that more than 60 per cent of...
- Small Business (1 speech)
Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to invoke a point of order here: the member for Reid was looking at me all the way through that speech! I rise to speak on behalf of the people of Townsville...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
It has been another bleak fortnight for Australia's live export trade and one that has again brought international focus on Australia for our involvement in it. In a near disaster reminiscent of...
- Organ Donation (1 speech)
I rise tonight to express my great concern about Australia's appallingly low rate of organ donations and the failure of the federal government's $151 million reform package, which was designed to...
- Queensland Government (1 speech)
Tonight over 14,000 Queenslanders are experiencing the cold, hard reality of living without a job. Yesterday the Queensland LNP state government handed down its first budget and announced the...
- New South Wales Government (1 speech)
It went under the radar because of the announcement of $1.7 billion of cuts in education, but yesterday the New South Wales government also released their strategic regional land use policy,...
- Elizabeth Town: Motor Vehicle Accident (1 speech)
Colleagues, it is my unfortunate duty to report to the House that unfortunately today, in an area near Elizabeth Town, which is between my electorate of Braddon and into Lyons and on the way to...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Swan Electorate: Cannington Leisureplex (3 speeches)
It is a great pleasure to be able to advise the chamber of the official opening of the new $36.5 million Cannington Leisureplex in the electorate of Swan—the start of what I hope will be...
- Greenway Electorate: Kings Langley Little Athletics (1 speech)
I rise to talk about the power and importance of sport in our local communities and in diverse communities such as Western Sydney. Sport is particularly important for promoting inclusiveness,...
- Red Earth Connections (1 speech)
The scale of the challenges facing Indigenous people in remote Australia is not lost on anyone in this House. Among adults, unemployment is chronic and widespread. Among children, only a minority...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I rise to talk about the extraordinary admission by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition that, if elected, they would return Sri Lankan asylum seekers back to Sri Lanka before their claims for...
- Forde Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
I am very proud to rise this morning to share with you some of the wonderful achievements of the constituents of Forde. Firstly, I would like to congratulate the Park Ridge Pirates, a junior AFL...
- Bullying (1 speech)
I rise to speak about bullying. There has been quite a bit of coverage in recent days about bullying in relation to the trolls on Twitter, and it is worth congratulating the Daily Telegraph today...
- O'Connor Electorate: Type 1 Diabetes (1 speech)
Throughout the year I have met with some inspirational young Australians from my electorate of O'Connor who suffer from type 1 diabetes. These constituents include Lauren Hope-Blythe of Katanning...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
On 24 August it was my pleasure to join with parliamentary secretary Jan McLucas and member for Canberra, Gai Brodtmann, at the Griffin Centre in Canberra to hold a forum on the National...
- McPherson Electorate: Elanora (1 speech)
Today I would like to speak about the community of Elanora on the southern Gold Coast and two of the recent events that have taken place in that area. I would like to start with the Exit 92...
- Chifley Electorate: Education (2 speeches)
I rise to speak up for parents, teachers and students in the electorate of Chifley, who are rightly outraged at the news that the New South Wales coalition government has cut funding to schools...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Martin, Sapper James, Milosevic, Lance Corporal Stjepan, Poate, Private Robert (13 speeches)
I rise to join with the Acting Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, the Minister for Defence and all members that have and will contribute to this very important and sad condolence...
- McDonald, Lance Corporal Mervyn John, Galagher, Private Nathanael John Aubrey (11 speeches)
I rise to speak on the condolence motion for Lance Corporal Mervyn John McDonald and Private Nathanael John Aubrey Galagher, in this case particularly for Private Galagher who was a former...
