House debates
Thursday, 7 February 2013
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Afghanistan (4 speeches)
by leave— Introduction The government is committed to providing regular reports and updates on Afghanistan, including to the parliament. I last reported to the parliament on 31 October...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2012-2013; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. There are two additional estimates appropriations bills this year: Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2012-13 and Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2012-2013....
- Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2011-2012; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The total additional appropriation being sought in Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2012-2013 is $666,365,000, the more significant amounts of which I...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Reference (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for...
- Corporations and Financial Services Committee; Report (2 speeches)
() (): On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, I present the committee's report, Statutory oversight of the Australian Securities and Investments...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Stroke (1 speech)
During the end of October last year I had the pleasure of meeting with two constituents, Rose and Dean Soraggi of Woodvale, who were at Parliament House for the National Stroke Foundation Summit....
- Pinner, Mr Jackson (1 speech)
I rise in the House today to pay recognition to a student in my electorate of Bass, Jackson Pinner. Last year, 15-year-old Jackson was travelling to Lilydale District School, 15 minutes outside...
- Gippsland Electorate: Black Saturday (1 speech)
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the tragic Black Saturday bushfires which devastated large parts of Victoria and shocked our nation. As we gather here today, Victorians are experiencing...
- Pacific National Coal RTBU Dispute (1 speech)
I rise to speak in support of the workers at Pacific National Coal who are currently locked in a protracted industrial dispute with their employer over a new enterprise bargaining agreement. The...
- Health Care (1 speech)
As part of the $107 million in health funding cuts that has been inflicted on the Victorian community by the Gillard government, my local health services have to contend with $4.9 million in...
- National Broadband Network (1 speech)
When I was 11 years old, in 1984, I got my first computer. It was an Aquarius. It had 3½ kilobytes of memory. I was excited when I upgraded, finally, to a VIC-20 with five kilobytes of...
- Logan Community (1 speech)
I rise today to speak in support of the Logan community. Over the past few weeks, there has been plenty of media coverage about the events in Logan several weeks ago. But I would like to remind...
- Tamil Film Festival (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate Ealan Elango, who has managed to produce the first Tamil film in Australia made by local Tamils. Even better than that, the film has been selected to be screened in the...
- Queensland Floods (1 speech)
I rise to advise this chamber of the wonderful work of five of the local members of the Scenic Rim State Emergency Service. At the recent Australia Day awards held on the night of Friday, 25...
- Young@Heart (2 speeches)
I recently had the pleasure of attending the graduation of 15 young people from the Illawarra Retirements Trust's Young@Heart program. This is a fantastic initiative funded by the federal...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and Minister for Industry and Innovation will be absent from question time today for personal reasons. The...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind her of the government's declaration in the 2011 budget speech: We will be back in the black by 2012-13, on time, as promised. The...
- Economy (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, how is the government putting in place the right policies, properly costed, to ensure that Australia's future is stronger, smarter and fairer?
- Employment (13 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to his previous budget related statement, that Labor is committed to 'bringing the budget back to surplus, and we are absolutely going to...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon Mr Peter Jeppsson from the Swedish Parliament. I welcome him here today. We also have with us the former member for Fraser,...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (13 speeches)
Improving on the questions from the member for North Sydney, I would like to follow on and ask the Treasurer if he would update the House on the government's approach to supporting jobs and...
- Rail Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, it has been 100 years since rail arrived in the towns of Gloucester and Taree. At the time, they were very vital pieces of infrastructure,...
- Budget (11 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister Assisting for Deregulation. How is the government supporting hardworking Australian families by delivering tax relief, infrastructure, and...
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of the promise she made at a public forum three days before the last election when asked about Labor's commitment to return the...
- Asian Century (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade and Competitiveness and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Asian Century Policy. Will the minister update the House on the government's plan for the...
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister agree with the statement made yesterday by her chief whip, Mr Fitzgibbon, that 'aspirational Australia is sick and tired of constant...
- Public Service (8 speeches)
My question is to the Special Minister of State and Minister for the Public Service and Integrity. For the benefit of the House, would the minister step through the consequences of relocating...
- Superannuation (5 speeches)
() (): My question is to the Prime Minister. It relates to the Prime Minister's last answer. I remind the Prime Minister that in 2007 the Labor Party promised that superannuation would be changed...
- Coal Seam Gas (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for . Will the minister update the House on negotiations between the federal government and the New South Wales government on using the best quality science to...
- Superannuation (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the Treasurer's statement on 2 May 2010: We think certainty is absolutely paramount when it comes to the retirement income...
- Aluminium Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Energy and Minister for Tourism. Would the minister advise the House why it is important for Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory and...
- Victoria: Health System (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her decision to cut $107 million from Victorian hospitals, causing beds to close across Victoria, including five palliative...
- Small Business (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business. Would the minister update the House on how the government is supporting small business with targeted tax cuts and what the consequences would be...
- 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...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (18 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Melbourne moving the following motion forthwith— That private Members’ business...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Madam Speaker, under standing order 105(b), which covers replies that have not been received 60 days after a question has first appeared on the Notice Paper, I ask you to write to the Minister...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Superannuation (22 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Dunkley proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The uncertainty created by...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Mornington Peninsula: Telecommunications (1 speech)
I wish to raise an issue of great significance regarding bushfire safety on the Mornington Peninsula and access to adequate mobile communications. This comes about because of a letter that was...
- Savoulidis, Mr James (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to James Savoulidis, known as 'Gentleman Jim', who passed away on 20 December last year at the age of 93. Gentleman Jim was Canberra's pizza pioneer. He was born in Greece,...
- Coal Seam Gas (1 speech)
Last night in the adjournment debate, the member for Richmond said that all National Party candidates on the North Coast 'support harmful CSG mining'. That is an outrageous statement and a...
- RSL Clubs (1 speech)
) ( ): All Australians owe a debt of gratitude to our service men and women, and one of the duties that all of us take very seriously is our support for our local RSLs in our constituencies. One...
- Education Funding (1 speech)
I would like to touch on some of my concerns about the government's current economic direction for the future of this country. My concern largely centres around the fact that we have a government...
- Petrie Electorate (1 speech)
I rise today to highlight my priorities for the electorate of Petrie in 2013. Over the past six years, I have been working with my community to make our part of the world a better place to live,...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Bennelong Electorate: Mr Jacques Baran (1 speech)
I rise to commend the extraordinary life of Mr Jacques Baran, who was recently awarded City of Ryde Citizen of the Year in recognition of his generous contribution to the Bennelong community. I...
- Parramatta Electorate: Parramatta Two Blues Rugby Club (1 speech)
I have a great number of sporting clubs in my electorate, and I want to talk about one of them today, the Parramatta Two Blues Rugby Club, a club founded as Cumberland way back in 1879 that has...
- Ryan Electorate: Australia Day Citizenship Ceremonies (1 speech)
On Australia Day I had the privilege of welcoming more than 100 new citizens to my electorate of Ryan at three different citizenship ceremonies, in Indooroopilly, Mount Coot-tha and Toowong. As a...
- Holt Electorate: Holt Community Spirit and Leadership Awards (1 speech)
On 10 December last year I had the honour to acknowledge 57 outstanding young students from 55 schools at the 2012 Holt Community Spirit and Leadership Awards ceremony. The Holt Community Spirit...
- Podgornik, Mr Peter (1 speech)
Thank you, Deputy Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to a person I have actually never met, but who has provided more than 30 years of outstanding public service to our community as a member of both...
- Corio Electorate: Railway Stations (1 speech)
I have spoken in this chamber before about the appalling state of some of the train stations in Geelong's north: North Shore and Corio stations in particular. I know that many people in Geelong...
- Solomon Electorate: Australia Day (1 speech)
On Australia Day I had the pleasure of attending two flag-raising ceremonies and citizenship ceremonies—one in Palmerston and one in Darwin. It was interesting to note that this year there...
- Paciullo, The Hon. George, OAM (1 speech)
On behalf of my family and the residents of my electorate of Fowler, I would like to express my great sadness at the passing of The Hon. George Paciullo, OAM. George died late last year in...
- McPherson Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
Last week many students across the country went back to school. It was also the start of the school year for many of our new prep students. Last Friday, I had the opportunity to visit one of the...
- Broadband (2 speeches)
Good morning, colleagues. I would like to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly, if I may. The good is the announcement on Wednesday that faster broadband would be coming to the north-west...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Broadband (1 speech)
I welcome this opportunity to again address the scourge of internet trolls. Since my last speech, many people have revealed their experiences with Cairns blogger Brian McCarty. I have also found...
- Shortland Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge four wonderful people that live in the Shortland electorate who were acknowledged in the Australia Day Honours list. The first person I would like to acknowledge is Terence...
- Superannuation (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the topic of superannuation and the importance of the superannuation system in funding the retirement incomes of Australians. The sole purpose test in section 62 of the...
- Million Hearts, One Voice Campaign (1 speech)
On 10 December last year, I had the privilege of attending the Million Hearts, One Voice campaign held at Freedom Plaza in Cabramatta. I was there to accept a human rights petition on behalf of...
- Cybersafety (1 speech)
The growth of the internet has been remarkable. It is estimated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics that more than 12 million people in Australia have internet subscriptions, and the...
- Sri Lankan Refugees (1 speech)
I rise to speak to join the thousands of Australian Tamil constituents in the Chifley electorate—joined by those who live in the electorates of Greenway and Parramatta—to express my...
