House debates
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister that every time the government has increased the government credit card limit since it came to office—from $75 billion to...
- Child Care (2 speeches)
) ( ): My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the government's reforms to improve the quality of child care for Australian families and support...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of the Australian Arab Women’s Dialogue. On behalf of the House I extend a very warm welcome to the members....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (17 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to the fact that the European carbon price has fallen 45 per cent in the last 12 months to be trading at less than $6.50 a tonne. Given that...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is also to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the government's policies to support jobs and growth in the economy? And what has the response been to these economic...
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to a statement on 11 February 2011: Every time we announce something we properly account for it and we properly fund it. Prime...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Minister, given the government's priorities in relation to the NDIS and education reform, does the minister believe that there is scope for savings in...
- Child Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. How will the government's plan to establish an early years quality fund improve the quality of child care and...
- Media Reform (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind her that her foreign minister, Senator Carr, failed to support the government's proposed media regulation in Washington today, and her Chief Whip...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of a delegation of ASEAN parliamentarians. I had the pleasure of meeting with them yesterday. On behalf of the House...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Childcare (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Early Childhood and Childcare and Minister for Employment Participation. How is the government delivering more flexible child care and improving its quality to...
- Media Reform (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister that her minister for regional Australia stated today that the government's proposal for media regulation could have been 'better...
- Murray-Darling Basin (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Will the minister update the House on the progress of the Murray-Darling Basin reform?
- Media Reform (18 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister prepared to declare that the vote on the media bills will be a matter of confidence in her government?
- Workplace Relations (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. How is the government supporting low-paid and vulnerable working people? Is the minister aware of any obstacles to this support?
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. I refer to the fact that, between November 21 and February 9, 11 transfers of asylum seekers to Manus Island were undertaken on...
- Medicare Locals (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. How are Medicare Locals delivering fair and better access to health care and are there any obstacles in the way of Medicare Locals continuing the great...
- Carbon Pricing (20 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the fact that Amcor, Penrice and now CSR have cited—
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions Without Notice (2 speeches)
Madam Speaker, is it your intention that ministers will be held to account when they get a fact wrong in answer to a question, and, if it is the case, will you ask the minister for climate change...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
A document is tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. I may as well just say what it is, since there is only one: Department of Health and Ageing,...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Cyber-Safety Committee; Appointment (2 speeches)
Message No. 562, 18 March 2013, from the Senate has been received: That paragraph (17) of the resolution of appointment of the Joint Select Committee on Cyber-Safety be amended to read as...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (21 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Indi proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The adverse effect of the...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Economy (3 speeches)
On indulgence, Mr Deputy Speaker, I seek to add to an answer I gave in question time.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Convergence Review and Other Measures) Bill 2013, Television Licence Fees Amendment Bill 2013; Consideration in Detail (6 speeches)
by leave—I move opposition amendments (1) and (2) as circulated in my name together. The purpose of these amendments is, as I foreshadowed in my speech on the second reading debate, to...
- Television Licence Fees Amendment Bill 2013; Second Reading (1 speech)
I gave some comments on this legislation when summing up the previous bill. These two pieces of legislation—the Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Convergence Review and Other Measures)...
- Television Licence Fees Amendment Bill 2013; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (News Media Diversity) Bill 2013; Second Reading (7 speeches, 1 comment)
At this moment, this chaotic and dysfunctional government, this government devoid of any purpose but a desire to survive, is turning this parliament into a farce. It is currently doing a dirty...
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Convergence Review and Other Measures) Bill 2013; Consideration in Detail (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 133(b), I shall now proceed to put the question on the motion moved by the honourable member for Wentworth on which a division was called for and deferred in...
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Convergence Review and Other Measures) Bill 2013; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Insurance Contracts Amendment Bill 2013; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Foreign Affairs Portfolio Miscellaneous Measures Bill 2013; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (News Media Diversity) Bill 2013; Second Reading (37 speeches)
I was not planning on speaking at this stage of the debate on the Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (News Media Diversity) Bill 2013, but, given some of the confusion about the chaos that this...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- International Development Assistance (1 speech)
Last Thursday, 14 March 2013, I had a visit from Cowan delegates from the Roadtrip to End Poverty. I thank Shenae Hunter, Jade Contarino, Nasreen Lang and Rebecca Miller for coming to see me. I...
- Crime (1 speech)
The issue of reducing crime and incarceration is one that is close to my heart. Shayne Neumann, the member for Blair, and I moved a motion in 2011 in this House aimed at reducing crime and...
- Boothby Electorate: South Road (1 speech)
I stand to raise the issue of upgrading South Road in this chamber and the incompetence of the South Australian state Labor government. The state government will not be releasing the South Road...
- Erdi, Dr Les OAM (1 speech)
I rise to note the passing of a great Australian and my dear friend, Mr Les Erdi OAM, who died on 27 January 2013—and in whose seat I often sit in the old synagogue where he and I both...
- Refugees (1 speech)
Members who know me well know that I have a very strong and personal interest in the plight of refugees, and that is longstanding, long before I ever held any role in relation to immigration and...
- Werriwa Electorate: Beautiful Minds (1 speech)
I am pleased tonight to speak about a locally based group in my electorate, Beautiful Minds, formed in 2004 with its name deriving from a 2001 movie starring Russell Crowe. The president, Sandra...
- Bowman Electorate: Redlands (1 speech)
I will say a few words at this late hour in this great chamber about the people of Bowman and the city of Redlands—a city of 130,000 people who live in outer metropolitan Brisbane on that...
- Kingston Electorate: Small Business (1 speech)
I would like to speak tonight, importantly, about the 13,500 small businesses in the southern Adelaide region in my electorate. These businesses—small businesses but also...
- Coffs Harbour Southern Cross University Campus (1 speech)
We must support our regional universities. Today I would like to draw the attention of members in this House to Southern Cross University's Coffs Harbour campus and the importance of that campus...
- Secondary Breast Cancer, Royal Australian Regiment Association (1 speech)
I would like to speak on two matters in the time that is allocated for this adjournment speech this evening. Firstly, I would like to put on the record here in the House that a friendship group...
- Bennelong Electorate (1 speech)
Prior to my election as the member for Bennelong I travelled across the 58 square kilometres, knocking on more than 9,000 doors and meeting with as many Bennelong residents as possible....
- Geelong Region (2 speeches)
The most important job I have and my Labor colleagues have is supporting and creating jobs across our economy. Since being elected in 2007, in my part of the world, in Geelong, Labor has been...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Water (1 speech)
I was visited yesterday by Ric Bull and Sara Hourigan, from Water for Rivers, which is delivering water savings with community, commercial and environmental benefits. Unfortunately, Water for...
- Road Safety (1 speech)
Reports from the United States show that electronic stability control reduces the risk of single-vehicle crashes by about 40 per cent and crashes of four-wheel-drive and sports utility vehicles...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I did have something prepared to discuss in the three minutes I have today, but something happened in question time that I just cannot let go. In response to a question today from the shadow...
- Cunningham Electorate: Health (1 speech)
I want to report to the House on two important community health initiatives that occurred in my electorate in recent weeks. First of all, on Thursday, 7 March, I was very pleased to join with 17...
- National Broadband Network (1 speech)
I rise to once again bring to the attention of the House something that I found very interesting. In today's Northern Territory News, senior journalist Nigel Adlam uncovered new interruptions...
- Ballarat Electorate: Tourism (5 speeches)
It is great to follow the member for Solomon, who was extolling the virtues of speeding up the rollout of the NBN in the Northern Territory, which I find somewhat unusual. In recent weeks I have...
- Hasluck Electorate: Ride to Conquer Cancer 2013 (2 speeches)
My community is filled with passionate, committed individuals who enrich our collective lives through their dedicated work in local community organisations. One of these individuals in my...
- Age Pension, Clean Energy Supplement (2 speeches)
Thank you. I am very pleased to talk about how the federal Labor government is delivering for pensioners right across the country—particularly this week, as we are delivering to around 3.5...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 2, committee and delegation reports, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics Committee; Report (3 speeches)
I rise to take note of the Review of the Reserve Bank of Australia annual report 2012 (first report) specifically to highlight an issue that the committee was made aware of during the recent...
