House debates
Monday, 26 November 2012
- 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)
As this is the last Petitions Committee statement I will make in 2012, today I will discuss the petitioning statistics of this calendar year. The statistics tell a story of consolidation of the...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Juvenile Diabetes (11 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) promises to remember all children with type 1 diabetes; and (2) notes that 100 young Australians with type 1 diabetes will be in Parliament House on 29 November 2012...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Abuse in Defence (3 speeches)
by leave—Today as Minister for Defence I deliver an apology on behalf of the government to the men and women of the Australian Defence Force who have suffered sexual or other forms of abuse...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Accounts and Audit Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, I present the following reports: Report 433: Annual report 2011-12 and Report 434: Annual public hearing with the...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I present the report of the Australian delegation to the assembly of the 125th Inter-Parliamentary Union held in Bern, Switzerland and the bilateral visit to Germany and Austria on 16 to 25...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Gambling Reform Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Select Committee on Gambling Reform I present the committee's advisory report, incorporating dissenting reports, on the National Gambling Reform Bill 2012, the National...
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the sixth report for 2012 of the committee, Referrals made May to September 2012, and I ask leave of the House to make...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Millennium Development Goals (1 speech)
I rise to express my support for the Millennium Development Goals, which set important targets for poverty reduction by the year 2015. While we as Australians enjoy access to fresh food, clean...
- Premature Birth Awareness (1 speech)
I rise to mention world premmie day on 17 November and premature birth awareness month and to highlight the experience of my constituent Mr Samuel Turner of Seven Hills. Each year 13 million...
- Ryan Electorate: Stenlake, Mr Tim (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge a young athlete in my electorate of Ryan who recently took on the world's best at the ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships in Rome, where he placed an impressive...
- Throsby Electorate: Nan Tien Temple (1 speech)
On the weekend I had the honour of representing the Prime Minister at the official 'piling and blessing' ceremony at the Nan Tien Buddhist temple and new university site in Berkeley, in my...
- Queensland Liberal National Party Senate Preselection (1 speech)
On the weekend just past in Queensland, the Liberal National Party preselection was held for our Queensland Senate team. In a very democratic process, 300 preselectors rolled up and elected six...
- Bass Electorate: Brooks High School (1 speech)
Recently I visited Brooks High School in Launceston to view a performance of the grade 9/10 production, The Pledge. I must say I was totally blown away by both the talent and the professionalism...
- Reeve, Mr Cliff (1 speech)
I want to recognise the work done by Radiowest announcer Cliff Reeve, and his breakfast show co-hosts, for people affected by cancer, as well as seriously ill children in Bunbury and the...
- ACT Walking for Pleasure (1 speech)
Earlier this year ACT Walking for Pleasure celebrated its 25th anniversary. The group initially received financial assistance from the government as part of the Life Be In It campaign, but it...
- Electorate of Herbert: Schools (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the school presentation evenings in Townsville that come about at the end of every year. One of the joys of being a local member is to attend as many of the school...
- Banks, Mr Gary AO (2 speeches)
Canberra economist Gary Banks AO is stepping down after 14 years of service to the Productivity Commission. He was the Productivity Commission's inaugural chairman and he was the executive...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the time and arrangements for the sitting tomorrow, Tuesday, 27 November 2012, be as follows: (1) The House, at its rising, adjourn until tomorrow at 11 a.m.; (2)...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Riordan, Hon. Joseph Martin AO (3 speeches)
I move: That the House express its deep regret at the death on 19 November 2012, of the Honourable Joseph Martin (Joe) Riordan AO, a former Minister and Member of this House for the Division of...
- Reference to Federation Chamber (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the resumption of the debate on the Prime Minister's motion of condolence in connection with the death of the Hon. Joseph Martin Riordan AO be referred to the...
- Courtenay, Mr Bryce, AM (2 speeches)
On indulgence, Madam Speaker, I want to pay tribute to the Australian author Bryce Courtenay, who died of stomach cancer, aged 79, here in Canberra last week. Mr Courtenay took up the pen well...
- Reference to Federation Chamber (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That further statements on indulgence on the death of Bryce Courtenay AM be permitted in the Federation Chamber. Question agreed to.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (15 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's statement today that she provided legal advice to set up the AWU Workplace Reform Association. I also refer the Prime...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the government has delivered a stronger economy and a fairer society over the last five years; and how are we...
- Prime Minister (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her statement today, and to this letter she wrote as a partner of Slater and Gordon to Bruce Wilson in August 1991, in which...
- Economy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the International Monetary Fund's latest annual assessment of Australia? What does this say about the resilience of our economy?
- Prime Minister (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her statement today that she provided legal advice for the incorporation of the AWU Workplace Reform Association. When the...
- Rail Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. For more than a decade, the Central Coast has been promised high-speed rail to link us with Sydney and Newcastle. Current travel...
- Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. Will the Attorney-General update the House on the establishment of the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse?
- Prime Minister (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's statement today that she knew absolutely nothing about the workings of the AWU Workplace Reform Association or any bank...
- Murray-Darling Basin (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Will the minister advise the House on the government's plan to restore the Murray-Darling Basin...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Speaker of the legislative assembly of the Kingdom of Tonga, Lord Fakafanua. On behalf of the House, I extend to him a...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her statement today that she provided legal advice for the incorporation of the AWU Workplace Reform Association, and I refer...
- Trade (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade and Competitiveness. Will the minister advise the House of recent developments in trade policy? How do they build on the government's plan to support a...
- Prime Minister (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's answer to my last question. Didn't the Western Australian Commissioner for Corporate Affairs in fact raise concerns about...
- Carbon Pricing (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and Minister for Industry and Innovation. The carbon price has now been in operation for nearly 150 days. Would the...
- Prime Minister (15 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime—
- Northern Australia (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government and Minister for the Arts. Will the minister inform the House of the outcomes of the recent...
- Prime Minister (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her August statement as to why she did not open a file for the advice she gave for the incorporation of the association and to...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and the Minister for Disability Reform. Will the minister update the House on the government's progress in...
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Oath or Affirmation of Allegiance (1 speech)
Order! I present an authority I have received from Her Excellency the Governor-General authorising me to administer to members the oath or affirmation of allegiance.
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Audit Report No. 10 of 2012-13 (2 speeches)
I present the Auditor-General's Performance Audit Report No. 10 of 2012-13, entitled Managing aged care complaints: Department of Health and Ageing.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Documents are presented as listed in the schedule circulated to honourable members. I move: That the House take note of the following documents: Australian Human Rights...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions Without Notice (5 speeches)
Speaker, I seek clarification from you, but I will just put a little bit of context—
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Government Response to People-Trafficking (1 speech)
Today I am pleased to present to parliament the fourth annual report of the Anti-People Trafficking Interdepartmental Committee. The report provides comprehensive information about Australia's...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, I present the committee's advisory report, incorporating a dissenting report, on the International Fund for...
- Procedure Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Procedure, I present the committee's report entitled Monitoring and review of procedural changes implemented in the 43rd Parliament: 4th report, together...
- Law Enforcement Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement, I present the committee's advisory report on the Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Bill 2012, together with the evidence...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- State Public Sector Employees (15 speeches)
I move: (1) notes with concern the recent and growing job losses in state governments around Australia, as well as the difficulties many state public sector employees face in bargaining over...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Sunland Group (2 speeches)
I rise tonight to put on the record details that have been left out of recent media reports in relation to the case surrounding two Australians on trial in Dubai and canvassed most recently in...
- Banks Electorate: Education (3 speeches)
I rise tonight to place on the public record the views of the electors of Banks in a matter that affects all of us. In July this year, I distributed a survey asking my constituents their views on...
- Stirling Electorate: 2012 Members of Parliament National Volunteer Awards (1 speech)
The 2012 Members of Parliament National Volunteer Awards have given me the opportunity to recognise the outstanding contribution that many Stirling residents have made to our local community...
- New South Wales Government: Education (1 speech)
It has been two months since the New South Wales Liberal government decided to slash funding to education by $1.7 billion. This decision will leave government, private and Catholic schools in a...
- Lebanon (1 speech)
Today is the national day of Lebanon. Sixty-nine years ago modern Lebanon was established. I had the great privilege of attending an event this evening with some colleagues at which that day was...
- Canberra Electorate: Volunteering (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about some of the Canberra legends in my community. First, I want to recognise the work of Rod Templar. Rod is a former senior Commonwealth and ACT public servant who has...
- Volunteering (1 speech)
I have spoken on a number of occasions about volunteering and do so again tonight because volunteering is so important to our communities. Volunteers are the essence of what makes this country...
- Bass Electorate: Innovation (1 speech)
I stand in the House today to once again highlight some of the great innovations in Bass. I am proud to say that the Gillard Labor government is supporting innovation in my state. We have done...
- Cook Electorate: Cook Community Classic (1 speech)
Five years ago the Cook Community Classic, which I am proud to serve as ongoing patron, was born. The combined surf carnival and community fair at Cronulla Beach and Park is not only a great...
- Queensland: Newman Government (3 speeches)
I know I look incredibly young, but I actually grew up in a Queensland which had Joh Bjelke-Petersen as Premier. He was Premier for most of my early years. One of my earliest memories, from grade...
- Gillard Government (1 speech)
It was John Kenneth Galbraith who once said 'Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.' This may be all well and good for the politician who has committed the original sin but for...
- Coal Seam Gas (1 speech, 1 comment)
I want to speak about three aspects of the coal seam gas debate. It is a vexed issue in my seat of Page. Overwhelmingly the community is saying no. State government legislation says yes, and one...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Swan Electorate: Health Services (1 speech)
I take the opportunity this morning to update the House on medical and health issues in my electorate of Swan. On 15 November I met with Jeanette Hackett the Vice-Chancellor of Curtin University,...
- New South Wales Government (1 speech)
Since the O'Farrell government came to power, New South Wales has been subject to a rollout of service cuts that have greatly reduced the ability of schools, hospitals, community services and...
- Hasluck Electorate: Peppermint Dance Company (1 speech)
On Friday night I had the privilege of attending the Peppermint Dance Company showcase. Peppermint Dance Company is a local business and a great example of individuals coming together to benefit...
- Fawkes, Corporal Joseph Henry (1 speech)
At the age of 91, Penrith's retired Corporal Joseph Henry Fawkes has just embarked on one of the great journeys of his life. After 67 years, Mr Fawkes received the closure he needed earlier this...
- Bonner Electorate: Volunteers (1 speech)
It is with the greatest privilege that I rise today to bring to the attention of the House two magnificent constituents of Bonner who have over many years demonstrated extraordinary amounts of...
- Hindmarsh Electorate: Remembrance Day (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the ceremony that a lot of us would have gone to on 11 November, which is Remembrance Day. I want to talk about a particular poet in my electorate who composed a poem...
- Forde Electorate (1 speech)
This is one of my last opportunities this year to share some positive news about the electorate of Forde. First of all, I am very proud to announce that the Beenleigh PCYC has taken out the best...
- Fowler Electorate: Multiculturalism (1 speech)
As the federal member for Fowler I have the privilege and responsibility of representing the most multicultural electorate in the whole of Australia. Recently it was brought to my attention that...
- Solomon Electorate: Child Care (1 speech)
A few weeks ago, in celebration of World Teachers' Day, I was invited to the Top End Early Learning Centre. This fantastic childcare centre in my electorate, like many others, provides...
- Women in the Workforce (2 speeches)
I rise today to celebrate the significant achievements of some exceptional Canberra women. I want to start by congratulating Ondina Gregoric, who has been named as the Council of Small Business...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Queensland Recreational Fishing Programs (19 speeches)
When I submitted this notice of motion condemning the Newman government for its attacks on recreational fishing, I thought I would be making quite a statement on behalf of rec fishers in Central...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Viability of Rural Producers (6 speeches)
I rise to speak on a motion that I have moved. There has been much debate around the world about food security in recent years. This debate has centred mainly around the need to feed a world that...
- Battle of Eureka (9 speeches)
Three hours after midnight on the Sabbath morning of Sunday, 3 December 1854, a winter and spring of discontent erupted in a short and dirty skirmish atop the gold-led diggings known as Eureka on...
- World Hepatitis Day (6 speeches)
I move the motion on the notice paper standing in my name and at the outset I want to acknowledge the work of the parliamentary group for HIV blood-borne viruses and STIs which is chaired by...
- Migration Amendment (Reform of Employer Sanctions) Bill 2012 (12 speeches)
I am pleased to speak on the Migration Amendment (Reform of Employer Sanctions) Bill 2012, because this bill seeks to impose an additional regulatory regime on employers who employ foreign...
- Treasury Legislation Amendment (Unclaimed Money and Other Measures) Bill 2012; Second Reading (7 speeches)
I rise to speak on the Treasury Legislation Amendment (Unclaimed Money and Other Measures) Bill 2012. Yet again, this government is embarking on desperate and despicable cash grab of the people...
- White Ribbon Day (11 speeches)
Over the weekend many of us came together to celebrate annual White Ribbon Day: 25 November each year is set aside to remembering and committing to do something about violence perpetrated against...
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (3 speeches)
Sometimes when you read the motions on notice for private member's business it can read a little bit like a triage sheet at a major hospital in any capital city around the country. Against that...
- Torres Strait: Health (6 speeches)
This is an issue that is very close and dear to my heart. After a recent visit to Daru in the Western Province, I remain absolutely committed to raising the profile of this issue and getting some...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- World Diabetes Day (1 speech)
I welcome the opportunity to use this grievance debate to talk about World Diabetes Day, which happened last week when the parliament was not sitting. We had an excellent lunch, which had been...
- Diabetes, Energy Prices (1 speech)
I was going to speak on energy and electricity prices tonight, and I will, but let me just reiterate what the member for Pearce said on this important issue. I had the opportunity this morning to...
- Labor Government (2 speeches)
Today we find ourselves on the cusp of what should be the happiest of times: the annual festive season, with its celebration of love and harmony and prosperity, a time to pull our families...
- Small Business (1 speech)
I grieve for the small business community and the inability or unwillingness of this Gillard Labor government to understand that small business growth and vitality is the key to our economy and...
- Moreton Electorate: Flyer (2 speeches)
I rise to speak about a recent flyer distributed in my electorate. I usually prefer not to give air to these types of campaigns. Distributed locally but mass produced in another state—I do...
