House debates
Monday, 17 September 2012
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Responses (1 speech)
Ministerial responses to petitions previously presented to the House have been received as follows:
- Statements (1 speech)
Today I will revisit features of the hearings the committee held in Perth a few weeks ago. From time to time the committee may travel to conduct a public hearing. There are occasions,...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Mitochondrial Disease (11 speeches)
It is my privilege today to move the following motion in this House in the presence of Sean Murray, the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation, who joins us...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Social Policy and Legal Affairs Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs, I present the committee's advisory report on the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Bill 2012, together with...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Wide Bay’s private Members’ business notice relating to the disallowance of the...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Club Rugby (1 speech)
It is my very melancholy obligation—to make good a promise to the member for North Sydney—in informing the House that sadly the Southern Districts Rebels went down 15 to 14 to the...
- International Day of Democracy (1 speech)
I rise today to note the fact that Saturday 15 September was the International Day of Democracy, a day set aside by the UN General Assembly to celebrate democracy and remind us that the need to...
- Chatterbox Challenge (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the Chatterbox Challenge, a challenge thrown out to people around Townsville and around Australia to help raise funds and awareness for people living with disabilities. It...
- Protests (1 speech)
I was disgusted by the placard held by one protester in Sydney over the weekend which read, 'Behead those who insult Islam'. This is clearly an incitement to violence, and something I never want...
- National Police Remembrance Day (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to speak about National Police Remembrance Day, which is held every year on 29 September. The day holds great significance for the police forces in...
- Hunter Electorate: Local Rugby League Grand Final (1 speech)
The Grand Final for the 'real NRL' will be played in Newcastle on Sunday. To my great joy my own former club, the club my son plays for and the club my father and brother played for, will contest...
- Flynn Electorate: Gregory Mine Closure (1 speech)
Go the Goannas! I would like to extend my sympathy today to those employees affected by the decision to close the Gregory Coal Mine in the Central Highlands region of Flynn. Gregory holds special...
- State Liberal Governments (1 speech)
I rise to speak about Premier Campbell Newman's upcoming visit to my home state of Tasmania. It is an interesting choice to have Mr Newman as the keynote speaker at the Tasmanian Liberal Party...
- Forrest Electorate: Aged Care Funding Instrument (1 speech)
I want to talk about the changes to the ACFI funding model and what that has done to the small rural and regional aged-care providers in my electorate. This is creating a major problem for those...
- John Hargreaves MLA, Canberra Raiders (2 speeches)
It is with great pleasure that I rise today to acknowledge a great Canberran, John Hargreaves, on his retirement from the ACT Legislative Assembly. John was first elected to the assembly in March...
- McCarthy, Mr John (2 speeches)
I would like to commend the Mornington Peninsula community for its efforts on the weekend. There was a difficult football championship, respecting the death of a very loved member, John McCarthy....
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Galagher, Private Nathanael John Aubrey, McDonald, Lance Corporal Mervyn John; Report from Federation Chamber (1 speech)
I understand it is the wish of the House to consider the matter immediately. The question is that the motion moved by the Honourable Prime Minister be agreed to. As a mark of respect, I ask all...
- Martin, Sapper James, Milosevic, Lance Corporal Stjepan (Rick), Poate, Private Robert; Report from Federation Chamber (1 speech)
I understand it is the wish of the House to consider the matter immediately. The question is that the motion moved by the Honourable Prime Minister be agreed to. As a mark of respect, I ask all...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Protests (2 speeches)
Over the weekend we saw some violent protests in the streets of cities of Australia. I think all Australians would be sickened by the behaviour we saw over the weekend. I think we all condemn...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (7 speeches)
I inform the House that the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence will be absent from question time today and tomorrow. They are in Western Australia to attend the funerals of Lance...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Visa: Taji Mustafa (17 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. I remind the minister that the government granted a visa to hate-preacher Taji Mustafa to speak at the Hizb ut-Tahrir conference...
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on what recent international economic developments say about the strength of our economy and why...
- Carbon Pricing (10 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to this electricity bill from Pitliangas Foods that shows its off-peak power has increased by 83 per cent as a direct result of the carbon...
- Pacific Highway (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Will the minister please outline the government's commitment to the duplication of the Pacific Highway, and are there any...
- Carbon Pricing (8 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to this letter and electricity bill from Jamie Foster, who runs Advantage Engineering in Braeside. He states: 'We will now have to pay an...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I welcome to the gallery today the former Speaker of the House and member for Wannon the Hon. David Hawker. I thank him for being present. I believe he has been out riding motorcycles and...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Coal Seam Gas (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and relates to the national partnership agreement with the New South Wales government on coal seam gas and large coal mining developments. Given...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Community Services, Indigenous Affairs and Disability Reform. How is the government investing to better support people with disability, their families...
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I remind the Treasurer of comments from Victorian chicken meat boss Mike Shaw that the carbon tax has 'bowled over chicken growers with the triple-whammy price...
- Health (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister inform the House what the government is doing to improve health care for all Australians? How does this compare with other approaches...
- Migration (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. Does the minister accept that Taji Mustafa, a leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir, is a member of a political movement directed towards...
- Education (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Will the minister inform the House about the future prospects of Australia's schools? What challenges do our...
- Taji Mustafa: Visa (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. I refer the minister to his previous answer and ask: has the minister considered the specific case of Taji Mustafa's visa with...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister Assisting for Deregulation. What has the government done to reduce the tax burden as a proportion of GDP for Australian families and...
- Taji Mustafa (12 speeches)
I have a question to the Attorney-General. Did she have foreknowledge and security advice in relation to the visit of Taji Mustafa before he visited Australia last week to address the Hizb...
- Fisheries (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. How does the government intend to use new powers under environmental law to protect our oceans...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (16 speeches)
Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
) ( ): I seek clarification on an issue and I want to put a question to you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Madam Deputy Speaker, last Thursday it was brought to my attention that the Outlook services of...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Deputy Speaker, I rise to inform the House about a possible matter of privilege. This morning the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the fifth report of 2012, addressing Referrals made May and June 2012. In accordance with standing order 39(f) the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the time and order of business for the sitting tomorrow, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 being as follows: (1) The House, at its rising, adjourn until tomorrow at 12 noon;...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Australia's Future Workforce Needs (12 speeches)
I move: (1) commends the Australian Government’s: (a) commitment to meeting Australia’s future workforce needs; (b) strong investment record in skills and training;...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Afghanistan (8 speeches)
by leave—I rise on behalf of the coalition to address the call of the member for Melbourne, the Deputy Leader of the Greens, that this House calls on the government to set a date for the...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Swan Electorate: Aircraft Noise (1 speech)
I rise tonight to update the House on the issue of aircraft noise in my electorate of Swan and our continuing efforts to achieve noise amelioration for affected residents. Members may recall that...
- Nymboida Mine Disaster, Electricity Prices, Darke, Mr Bradley (1 speech)
Last week a group of men received bravery awards from the Governor of New South Wales Professor Bashir, for their courageous actions during the Nymboida mine explosion of 1976. The Governor's...
- Obesity (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to promote two revolutionary programs in my electorate that are literally saving people's lives. The Metabolic Rehabilitation Diabetes program at Camden...
- Fisheries (1 speech)
Members opposite wondering how it is that the latest opinion polls show the government and the opposition now neck and neck, when the opposition has been a mile in front for the past two years,...
- Gillard Government (1 speech)
In the last five years, nothing has been more disastrous for residents of Gilmore and Illawarra than those members sitting on the other side. In the last two years alone, thousands of local...
- Book Launch: Glasgow Road to Canberra (1 speech)
On 7 September I was very honoured and privileged to attend the launch of the book Glasgow Road to Canberra, the memoirs of John L Scott. Those of you in this place would know John Scott as the...
- Economy (1 speech)
Australian society is a society that understands that with hard work, your goals, ambitions and aspirations are always attainable. As Liberals, we understand that hard work should always be...
- Ballieu Government (1 speech)
I can think of no more fitting introduction to my remarks than the previous remarks of the member for Longman because, since he has been talking about the tremendous difference in terms of the...
- Wannon Electorate: Landsborough 150th Anniversary (1 speech)
I rise tonight to congratulate all those people who were involved in helping Landsborough, a town, a community in my electorate, celebrate their 150th birthday on the weekend. In particular, I...
- Bruce Electorate: Springvale Benevolent Society (1 speech)
It is with a sense of history that I stand here tonight to acknowledge the contribution of one local resident in particular, but in the context of the commitment that he and others have made to...
- Cybersafety (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak on the topic of cyberbullying and the disgusting lack of accountability in social media, which has been highlighted nationally in recent weeks. Take the case of Twitter...
- Queensland Government (1 speech)
I rise today to raise serious concerns on behalf of the Queensland community and, specifically, my electorate of Petrie, about Campbell Newman's first state government budget. Despite the fact...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Solomon Electorate: Young Talent (1 speech)
It gives me great pleasure to rise to congratulate talented sports star Ben Barba. Darwin born Ben plays fullback for Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, and many of his fans tell me that he played an...
- Corangamite Electorate: Cuts to TAFE Funding (1 speech)
I rise to condemn the Baillieu government for their savage attacks on the TAFE sector in Victoria. Late last week a highly damaging cabinet document was leaked to the Age and the ABC in Victoria,...
- Parkes Electorate: Murray Darling Plan (1 speech)
I rise this morning to express my concerns as to the current state of play with the Murray Darling Basin plan. The electorate of Parkes encompasses 24 per cent of the Murray Darling Basin and...
- Braddon Electorate: Waterways (1 speech)
My electorate is renowned for its waterways—its rivers and its lakes and of course the Bass Strait. I want to congratulate a number of our councils on what I call restoring our waterways to...
- Graffiti Removal Day (1 speech)
I rise to speak about Graffiti Removal Day, which is on this coming Sunday, 23 September. Graffiti is an issue that generates widespread community concern and can have a negative impact on...
- Parliamentary Friends of Science (1 speech)
When Neil Armstrong took that one small step onto the moon, a flame of wonder was set alight for a generation. The Apollo missions ignited a curiosity for science amongst kids that lasted through...
- Manly Dragon Boat Club (1 speech)
It is with pleasure that I rise today to acknowledge the wonderful work of one of the sporting clubs in my electorate of Bonner, the Manly Dragon Boat Club. Previously it was in the member for...
- Milosevic, Lance Corporal Stjepan (1 speech)
I rise to pay my condolences, and condolences of behalf of my constituents, to the families and friends of those Australians who recently lost their lives in Afghanistan: Sapper James Martin,...
- Tangney Electorate: Petitions Committee (1 speech)
A petition to this place offers all Australians the opportunity to directly engage with their parliament. As deputy chair of the House Standing Committee on Petitions I have the opportunity to...
- Ballarat Electorate: National Disability Insurance Scheme (2 speeches)
I wish to record the great desire of people in my electorate for the development of a National Disability Insurance Scheme. My constituency has a strong history of support for people with...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Code of Conduct for Members of Parliament (4 speeches)
I rise to speak to further the debate about a code of conduct for the parliament and for members of parliament. I note the draft code of conduct for members of parliament discussion paper that is...
- Surf Lifesaving (11 speeches)
It is with great pleasure that I move the motion in relation to the outstanding contribution made to our nation by our surf lifesaving movement. In advance, I would like to thank the other...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Orders of the Day (1 speech)
I move; I move: That further proceedings on orders of the day Nos 2 and 3, government business, be conducted in the House. Question agreed to.
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- National Police Remembrance Day (6 speeches)
Today, I seek to remind the House that National Police Remembrance Day is coming up on 29 September. Police remembrance is observed annually on St Michael's Day—St Michael being the patron...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- London Paralympic Games (11 speeches)
I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Paralympic Games, because last Thursday I had the extraordinary privilege to be in Sydney to welcome home our Paralympians from London. The mass of...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Dementia Awareness Week (15 speeches)
I rise to speak on the motion on Dementia Awareness Week that appears on the Notice Paper under my name and I thank those colleagues who are speaking in support of this motion. Dementia is the...
- National Stroke Week (6 speeches)
Last week was National Stroke Week, and the message for this year's Stroke Week was know your stroke risk. The Stroke Foundation held a breakfast at Parliament House last Wednesday, and the...
- Sudan (8 speeches)
This motion before us is extremely important to the over 800 Sudanese Australians living in my electorate and I know it is extremely important to many members in this place. It has attracted a...
- Polio Eradication (4 speeches)
I am sure there are some members who can recall the impact polio had on Australia. This debilitating disease swept through Australian communities during the 1930s to 1960s, causing widespread...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Gillard Government (1 speech)
When we get up to speak on the grievance debate we obviously have a grievance. My grievance is that Australia has, in my opinion, a most incompetent, untrustworthy, directionless Labor government...
- New South Wales Government (1 speech)
I rise tonight to grieve for the people of New South Wales and, in particular, the residents I represent in Greenway who are the victims of the New South Wales Liberal government's attacks on...
- Bonner Electorate: Rochedale Community Garden (1 speech)
It is with pleasure that I rise tonight to acknowledge a wonderful community initiative within my electorate of Bonner called the Rochedale Community Garden. I know that a lot of us in this...
- Energy Drinks (1 speech)
I rise in the House tonight to speak and to grieve about energy drinks and their use in Australia. Many parents have raised concerns with my office about energy drinks and their worrying health...
- Labor Government (1 speech)
In 2007 Labor won government on promises for the future—so many promises. Promises of fiscal conservatism, promises of fairness, promises of a better future for all Australians—how...
- New South Wales Government: School Funding (2 speeches)
I rise in this grievance debate to put on the record my absolute disgust and despair for the young people of the state of New South Wales in light of the O'Farrell slashing of $1.7 billion from...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Federation Chamber do now adjourn. Question agreed to. Federation Chamber adjourned at 21:58 .
