House debates
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind her of budget cuts to Australia's security agencies described as disgraceful and unacceptable by the member for Holt. I also remind the Prime...
- Budget (20 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind her that since Friday seven boats carrying 500 people have been intercepted off Christmas Island, adding to the over 10,000 people arriving...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Why is it important to get the big decisions right when it comes to building a stronger economy for the future and what will be the consequences of getting those...
- National Security (17 speeches)
Speaker, my question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the member for Holt's speech yesterday, saying that the capacity of our security agencies has been impaired by budget...
- Climate Change (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister—and, with indulgence of the House, I invite the Leader of the Opposition to also answer this question.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (10 speeches)
by leave—I move: That so much of standing orders be suspended to allow the Leader of the Opposition to address the House for no longer than three minutes on whether he believes in climate...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, why is a market based solution the most effective way to drive down carbon emissions?
- National Security (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of evidence given in Senate estimates that the government held an accused Egyptian terrorist, an individual who was the subject...
- Polio (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the historic announcement to increase funding to help eradicate polio?
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, can you confirm that a Sri Lankan accused of murdering his girlfriend arrived in Australia illegally and was then released into the community...
- Education Funding (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Will the minister please update the House on how Indigenous students will benefit under A National Plan for School...
- National Security (20 speeches)
My question is for the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of evidence given in Senate estimates that police are not notified of the whereabouts of illegal arrivals by boat due to privacy...
- Heath Services (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. How is the government delivering better and more affordable health care in a financially responsible way and how is this plan a fairer choice for...
- Asylum Seekers (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of evidence given in Senate estimates that there is a backlog of over 19,000 people waiting to have their asylum claims...
- National Broadband Network (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, and Minister for Regional Development and Local Government representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital...
- National Security (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of the member for Holt's statement that he would inform the House 'if the efficiency dividend and its continued implementation...
- Glenvale School (1 speech)
Before I call the member for McEwen: I saw the students from Glenvale School earlier today, and one of them cheekily asked me to acknowledge them, so I am going to do so. The member for McEwen,...
- Regional Australia (5 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Services, Local Communities and Territories. What is the government doing to build a stronger economy and fairer communities across regional Australia?...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Question Time: Privilege (1 speech)
Madam Speaker, I have a serious question to you about the proceedings in question time today. I refer you to the answer that the Prime Minister gave to the member for Deakin concerning the arrest...
- National Security (28 speeches)
Madam Speaker, I seek leave to table a document—
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
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 Proceedings and Hansard.
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 39 of 2012-13 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit No. 39 of 2012-2013, entitled AusAID's management of infrastructure aid to Indonesia: Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). Ordered that...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Donations to Political Parties (15 speeches)
I have received letters from the honourable member for Lyne and the honourable member for Cook proposing that definite matters of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion today....
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Health Insurance Amendment (Lifetime Health Cover Loading and Other Measures) Bill 2012, Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Base Premium) Bill 2013; Second Reading (1 speech)
As I was saying, the government in its explanatory memoranda to these private health insurance bills implies there is not sufficient incentive now to take out private health insurance....
- International Fund for Agricultural Development Amendment Bill 2012; Second Reading (2 speeches)
The United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development is a specialised multilateral organisation of the United Nations. It is based in Rome and dedicated to eradicating rural poverty...
- International Fund for Agricultural Development Amendment Bill 2012; 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.
- Parliamentary Service Amendment (Parliamentary Budget Officer) Bill 2013; Second Reading (4 speeches)
On behalf of the shadow Treasurer, I rise to speak on the Parliamentary Service Amendment (Parliamentary Budget Officer) Bill 2013. The coalition is supporting this bill. This bill amends the...
- Parliamentary Service Amendment (Parliamentary Budget Officer) Bill 2013; Consideration in Detail (1 speech)
I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill and I ask leave of the House to move government amendments (1) to (13), as circulated, together. Leave granted. I move government...
- Parliamentary Service Amendment (Parliamentary Budget Officer) Bill 2013; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Australian Jobs Bill 2013; Second Reading (26 speeches)
I rise to speak on the so-called Australian Jobs Bill 2013. In doing so I wish to express my frustration with not only the content of the bill but the government's lack of accountability in...
- Australian Jobs Bill 2013; Consideration in Detail (29 speeches)
by leave—I move Green amendments (1) to (2), as circulated in my name, together: (1) Clause 8, page 12 (lines 15 and 16), omit subclause (2), substitute: (2) For the purposes of this Act,...
- Australian Jobs 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.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before notice No. 1, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to. I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Building Code 2013; Disallowance (17 speeches)
I move: That the Building Code 2013, dated 25 January 2013, made under the Fair Work (Building Industry) Act 2012 and presented to the House on 6 February 2013, be disallowed. One can attack this...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Broadband (2 speeches)
Tonight I rise to voice my strong support for the coalition's policy objective that every Australian should be able to access fast, reliable and affordable broadband in their homes and places of...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
There are few more pressing issues that face Australia today than that of aged care. Our population is getting older. Today, at least one out of every seven Australians is aged over 65 and that...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Today I want to highlight concerns of mine about the Liberal Party's recently announced IR policy. Every Australian worker should be aware of their plans. The Liberal Party are, once again,...
- Superannuation (1 speech)
This Labor government continues to demonstrate its complete inability to listen by rushing through changes which will damage the retirement savings of Australians. Superannuation is an incredibly...
- Coal Seam Gas (7 speeches)
Tonight I would like to update the House on our community campaign to make the North Coast of New South Wales coal seam gas mining free. This is an issue of great community concern to people on...
- Budget (1 speech)
A few weeks before delivering his sixth budget, his fifth deficit, the Treasurer penned an essay saying how important it was to get the big economic calls right. Well, I could not agree with him...
- Peters, Dr Christopher, AM OI JP, Canberra Electorate (1 speech)
I begin tonight by finishing a statement I made yesterday about the late Chris Peters AM, a true champion of the Canberra community. My time was cut off yesterday after saying that Chris had once...
- South Australia: Ports (1 speech)
South Australia is the smallest state on the mainland by population. South Australians are sick of that becoming, in relative terms, worse. We are losing population in comparison with the rest of...
- Herbert Electorate: Volunteers (1 speech)
Let me read a poem. Let's get dressed in pink and white And put on our comfy shoes Put on our make-up, grab our specs And go out and spread the news About this city, which we love, And all it has...
- Apple Australia (1 speech)
In February, during a debate on another matter in this place, I had reason to reflect on the Australian operations of Apple. At the time news reports revealed that after generating over $6...
- Calwell Electorate: Ford (1 speech)
In the light of Ford's announcement to cease its vehicle and engine manufacturing operations in Broadmeadows and Geelong from 31 October 2016, I want to note the passing of an iconic employer...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2013-2014, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2013-2014, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2013-2014; Second Reading (10 speeches)
If you have read some of the headlines today, you would think that the timing of what I want to speak about is somehow linked to revelations about hacking, but that is not what I want to focus...
- Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (2013 Measures No. 2) Bill 2013 (6 speeches)
I rise to speak, on behalf of the shadow Treasurer, on the Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (2013 Measures No. 2) Bill 2013. This tax law amendment bill has eight schedules. Some of those...
- Corporations and Financial Sector Legislation Amendment Bill 2013; Second Reading (2 speeches)
I rise on behalf of the shadow Treasurer and the coalition to speak on this Corporations and Financial Sector Legislation Amendment Bill 2013. Let me say at the outset that the coalition will not...
- Statute Law Revision Bill 2012; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I rise to talk on the Statute Law Revision Bill 2012. This bill corrects technical errors caused by drafting and clerical mistakes, repeals obsolete legislation and makes other technical...
- Not-for-profit Sector Freedom to Advocate Bill 2013; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I present the explanatory memorandum to this bill and I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Not-for-Profit Sector Freedom to Advocate Bill 2013 will promote ongoing positive...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2013-2014, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2013-2014, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2013-2014; Second Reading (32 speeches)
I rise tonight to talk on these appropriation bills and, more specifically, talk about Labor's budget that was delivered—and what a budget we saw. Let us start with the Treasurer's speech...
