House debates
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Regional Australia Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Regional Australia, I present the committee's advisory report, incorporating a dissenting report, on the Water Amendment (Water for the Environment Special...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 1, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Human Rights Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights I present the committee's seventh report of 2012 entitled Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights Seventh Report of 2012:...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Worner, Ms Tracey (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge Tracey Worner, of the Perth Lever Action Rifle Club. Earlier this year, Tracey won the lever action rifle ladies national championship. I am...
- Foreign Ownership (1 speech)
) ( ): I have here just a couple of some 19 boxes containing 50,000 petition signatures from AUSBUY, which promotes Australian owned companies and Australian made products, handed over today to...
- Goulburn Valley Water Action Group (1 speech)
I wish to put before the nation the concerns of the Goulburn Valley Water Action Group which has circulated a petition expressing ongoing concern about the objectives, processes and impacts of...
- Petrie Electorate: Lions Children of Courage Awards (1 speech)
It gives me great pleasure to rise today to acknowledge the latest recipients of the Lions Children of Courage Awards in my community. The awards recognise and celebrate the courage and...
- Marngrook Footy Show Television Program (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to continue my campaign with the communities of Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory to save the Marngrook Footy Show. The outrageous decision by ABC...
- Kingston Electorate: Port Stanvac (1 speech)
I would like to raise a local issue which is very important to my electorate of Kingston and about which people have a lot of concern, and that is future of the former ExxonMobil refinery site at...
- Lindfield East Public School and Menindee Central School (1 speech)
I rise to talk of the productive and beneficial relationship that has developed between Lindfield East Public School in my electorate of Bradfield and Menindee Central School which is located in...
- Greenway Electorate: Foster Care Angels (1 speech)
I rise to call attention to a local children's charity which operates in my electorate called Foster Care Angels, which I have been pleased to assist recently in obtaining deductible gift...
- Murray-Darling River System (1 speech)
Every patriotic Australian should be concerned about the Murray-Darling. A very large section of my book on the history of Australia is taken up with the greatest achievement of the Australian...
- Hull, Mr Graeme (2 speeches)
I inform the House of the death this morning of Graeme Hull, husband of my predecessor, Kay. Graeme was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer just a few short weeks ago, having been unwell...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- United Nations (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why did the Prime Minister lack the courage of her convictions on support for Israel at the United Nations? What will she now do to dispel the impression...
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the government's plan to improve our nation's schools? What will this mean for children growing up in my...
- Prime Minister (27 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her recent statements that she knew nothing about bank accounts associated with Bruce Wilson and the AWU.
- Economy (12 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline for the House what the OECD Economic Outlook says about the resilience of the Australian economy?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have with us a delegation from the Italian parliament, led by secretary of state Mr Steffan de Mistura. He has with him a very large delegation of businessmen from...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (9 speeches)
I refer the Prime Minister to her recent statement that investigations into Bruce Wilson's conduct were already underway in August 1995. When the Prime Minister became aware of investigations...
- Murray-Darling Basin (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Given the parliament's endorsement of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, does the minister have a...
- Infrastructure, Foreign Investment (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Will the minister update the House on what the government is doing to encourage infrastructure investment in Australia?
- Prime Minister (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's answer in the House on Monday as to whether she had written to the WA commissioner for corporate affairs to vouch for the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of the 21st Delegation from the People's Republic of China, who are visiting under the auspices of the Australian...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Education (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Will the minister update the House on the introduction of the Australian Education Bill? How will this help make...
- Prime Minister (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister: I refer the Prime Minister to her recent statement that she cannot recall receiving $5,000 in cash from Bruce Wilson. As the Prime Minister said, she made...
- Automotive Industry (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and Minister for Industry and Innovation. Why is the government's support for the automotive industry important for car...
- Prime Minister (4 speeches)
I refer the Prime Minister to the claim that Bruce Wilson instructed an AWU employee, Wayne Hem, to deposit $5,000 into a personal account in the Prime Minister's name and the confirmation last...
- Environment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Would the minister advise the House of the recent developments around the future of the forests...
- Prime Minister (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to this 1996 interview of the WA major fraud squad with the auditor of the AWU in Western Australia, who stated he had no knowledge of the existence...
- Resources Industry (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Energy. Will the minister update the House on the pipeline of investment in the resources sector? What does this say about the performance of the...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (12 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing of sessional orders be suspended as would prevent notice No. 3, private members' business, standing in my name, being called on and proceeded with...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister that I have asked her three times today to rule out that she wrote to the Commissioner for Corporate Affairs vouching for the...
- Child Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment Participation and Minister for Early Childhood and Childcare. Will the minister outline the real reforms the government has put in place to help...
- Prime Minister (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the statement of Slater and Gordon yesterday and to her recent statements about her departure from the firm. Isn't it the case...
- National Asbestos Awareness Week (20 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and Minister for Industry and Innovation. As the minister knows, we are in the middle of National Asbestos Awareness Week....
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (13 speeches)
Madam 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. Details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedingsand I move: That the House take note of...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
For the information of honourable members I present Rules for media related activities in Parliament House and its precincts, issued by the Presiding Officers, November 2012, which the President...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- (13 speeches)
I have received letters from the honourable member for Lyne and the honourable member for North Sydney proposing that definite matters of public importance be submitted to the House for...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 5, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! It being 7 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Small Business (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about Australian owned and operated small businesses. Australians all know the fundamental importance of Australian owned small businesses. Small businesses in Australia...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
I am really proud to be part of a government which comes up with serious and real policies for the country's challenges today and into the future. Issues around aged care fall into both of those...
- Casey Electorate (1 speech)
On Friday evening I had the pleasure of joining more than 130 local business employees at the Mount Evelyn Chamber of Commerce business awards night. The number present was an indication of the...
- Micah Challenge (1 speech)
I want to take this opportunity to support Micah Challenge and their campaign to halve global poverty by 2015. I typically want to draw to the attention of the parliament their Shine the Light...
- Family Payments (1 speech)
Several months ago I held a childcare forum in my Bennelong electorate office, inviting local parents as well as workers and operators of local childcare centres to discuss their firsthand...
- Dobell Electorate: Mining (1 speech)
I rise to talk about a proposed coalmine in my electorate. It is something I have raised in this place on a number of occasions. But today I am raising the issue of the great disappointment in...
- Gray, Mr Adam (1 speech)
Today I raise the plight of Adam Gray. I have come to know Adam and his family over several years. He is a young man living in limbo as his future seemingly becomes lost in the bureaucracy of our...
- Shortland Electorate: Walk for Life (2 speeches)
On Saturday, 20 October, I joined the New Life Baptist Church in their Walk for Life along the Fernleigh track between Belmont North—or Jewells, should I say—and Belmont. This was a...
- Hinkler Electorate: Horticulture Industry (1 speech)
The Bundaberg-Childers district of my electorate of Hinkler is one of the leading horticultural areas of Australia. Not unexpectedly, transient and casual labour are important components of this...
- Corio Electorate: City of Greater Geelong (2 speeches)
Last month, the City of Greater Geelong concluded its elections, which saw for the first time Geelong directly elect its mayor. That saw the successful election of Councillor Keith Fagg. I very...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Bennelong Electorate: Pledges to Constituents (1 speech)
On many occasions over the past three years, I have visited local schools and shopping centres, hosted street stalls, listening posts and gone doorknocking up and down the streets of Bennelong,...
- Griffith Electorate: Small Business (1 speech)
Over the last four years, Australians have faced one of the toughest global economic challenges in our lifetime. As we look back, Australia's success in navigating the global financial crisis is...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
Let me put on the record as the representative of the people of Solomon and a member of the coalition that I fully support the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. In my...
- Chifley Electorate: Diabetes (1 speech)
In the course of my election campaign and then becoming an MP I undertook to make sure that I kept in regular contact with GPs in my area just to get a sense of the health issues that affect the...
- Boothby Electorate: Balyana Swimming Pool (1 speech)
I rise to speak on an important issue for residents in my electorate—that is, the recent announcement that the Balyana pool will be permanently closed from April 2013. This is an issue that...
- Kingston Electorate: TS Noarlunga (1 speech)
I am pleased to rise today to speak about a great organisation in my electorate, TS Noarlunga, a Navy cadet unit that meets in the southern suburbs of Adelaide. In particular, I wish to recognise...
- Local Government Superannuation Scheme (1 speech)
I rise to speak about Local Government Super, a topic about which I have had things to say previously. This is a fund which invests over $5 billion of the retirement savings of approximately...
- Hindmarsh Electorate: Volunteers (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to the many wonderful people in the Hindmarsh electorate who choose to serve their community through their good volunteer works. Volunteers who contribute so much through...
- Mental Health (1 speech)
Male suicide in rural Queensland is 2½ times more common than in our major cities. That is a really important point that came out of the suicide in remote and rural Australia report that was...
- Makin Electorate: Big Steps Day (1 speech)
On Saturday, 17 November I joined several thousand childcare workers, parents, grandparents and children who rallied in Adelaide in support of the national Big Steps Day campaign for professional...
