House debates
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Fair Work Amendment Bill 2013; Second Reading (27 speeches)
It is a pleasure to be speaking first today on this vague attempt by the government to respond to recommendations of the Fair Work review. Members of the House will recall that the government was...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that a recent NATSEM report confirmed that, even on worst-case scenarios, 87 per cent of Australian households will be better...
- Education (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the government is helping lift school performance? Prime Minister, are there any obstacles to implementing...
- Prime Minister (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm the report in the media today that she has been approached by the foreign minister to quit her job for the good of the party?...
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Why is the Australian Education Bill so important for the future of our schools? Is the minister aware of any other...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. I refer the minister to his statement yesterday in relation to a convicted Egyptian jihadi terrorist held for seven months in a low...
- Rural Assistance (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Can he advise when the $420 million crisis assistance package was made available to the states and why Queensland is still prevaricating whilst cattlemen shoot...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of a delegation from the Parliament of India, from the Lok Sabha. On behalf of the House I extend to them a very warm...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Asian Century Policy. How will access to the best possible...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. Given the minister's previous answer to my question, will he give an undertaking that at the conclusion of any assessment this...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. How is the government reforming the 457 visa system to build stronger and fairer Australian workplaces, and are there other approaches?
- National Broadband Network (31 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. I remind him that, by his own admission, he wrote to Telstra in 2009 to urge the proactive replacement of every...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the government's plan to create a stronger economy and a fairer society by making smart investments in our schools?
- National Broadband Network (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. I remind the minister that on 19 April, after problems with asbestos had been widely reported in the press, the Chief...
- Environment: Marine Parks Management Plans (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water and Population and Communities. Will the Minister update the House on what the government is doing to protect our oceans?...
- National Broadband Network (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Is the minister aware that an asbestos pit beside a footpath at a Mackay NBN construction site was uncovered for almost a...
- Local Government (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport and Minister for Regional Development and Local Government. How is the government building stronger communities by giving financial...
- National Broadband Network (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of evidence given in Senate estimates by the chief executive officer of Comcare that more than half of all asbestos cases since...
- Parliamentary Budget Office (5 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister Assisting for Deregulation. How is the government making sure that members of parliament have access to independent advice on getting...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is again to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. I refer the minister to article 32 of the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, which states: The...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Minister for Immigration and Citizenship; Censure (24 speeches)
Speaker, I seek leave to move that the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship be required to explain to the House the contradiction between his answer to the House today with respect to the...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- National Broadband Network (1 speech)
I am following up on a question from the member for Dawson. Whilst I have informed him personally on the matter in Mackay, WorkSafe Queensland was the Queensland work health and safety regulator...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (12 speeches)
Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- (10 speeches)
I wish to raise a matter of privilege. In a personal explanation yesterday the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said: The claim that I said the coalition had an agreement with Indonesia is not...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Media (2 speeches)
Madam Speaker, I have a question for you. I understand that you are aware that the Press Gallery has refused accreditation to Independent Australia, and presumably other online publications,...
- Questions in Writing (4 speeches)
Madam Speaker, I seek your assistance under standing order 105 in relation to a number of questions that I have put on the Notice Paper that, surprisingly, remain unanswered. Question No. 361...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- National Security (1 speech)
I seek leave to table a document in relation to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship's previous statement. Contrary to what he just asserted, the letter states to the acting shadow...
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
Speaker, I rise on a matter of privilege. Last Friday page 1 of The Australian in an article entitled 'Coalition pushes for early poll' stated: The leader of opposition business in the lower...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
A document is presented as listed in the schedule circulated to honourable members. Details of the document will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings and I move: That the House take note of...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- National Broadband Network (13 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Wentworth proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The threat posed by the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Accounts and Audit Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, I present the committee's advisory report, incorporating a dissenting report, entitled Report 438: Advisory report on the Public...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That orders of the day No. 2 and No. 3, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Australian Education Bill 2012; Second Reading (3 speeches)
On 28 November last year the Prime Minister introduced the Australian Education Bill 2012 into this House. As the Prime Minister said at the time, no more important bill was introduced last year...
- Australian Education Bill 2012; Consideration in Detail (1 speech)
I present a supplement explanatory memorandum to the bill and ask leave of the House to move government amendments (1) to (18), as circulated, together. Leave granted. I move government...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before notice of the day No. 1, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (1 speech)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the six private Members’ business notices by the member for Calare, relating to the disallowance of...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve Network Management Plan; Disallowance (3 speeches)
I move: That the Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan 2014-2024, made under section 370 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 on 5 March...
- North-west Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan; Disallowance (3 speeches)
I move: That the North-west Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan 2014-2024, made under section 370 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 on 5 March...
- North Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan; Disallowance (3 speeches)
I move: That the North Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan 2014 2024, made under section 370 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 on 5 March 2013,...
- South-west Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan; Disallowance (3 speeches)
I move: That the South-west Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan 2014-2024, made under section 370 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 on 5 March...
- South-East Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan; Disallowance (3 speeches)
I move: That the South-east Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan 2013-2023, made under section 370 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 on 5 March...
- Temperate East Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan; Disallowance (3 speeches)
I move: That the Temperate East Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan 2014-2024, made under section 370 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 on 5...
- Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan; Disallowance (68 speeches)
I rise to speak on the disallowance motions logged for each of the six Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plans moved by the coalition. The coalition opposes the flawed methodology...
- North-West Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan, Disallowance (1 speech)
In accordance with the resolution agreed to earlier this sitting, I will now put the question. The question is that the North-West Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan 2014-24 be...
- North Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan, Disallowance (1 speech)
In accordance with the resolution agreed to earlier this sitting, I will now put the question. The question is that the North Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan 2014-24 be...
- South-West Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan; Disallowance (1 speech)
In accordance with the resolution agreed to earlier, I will now put the question. The question is that the South-West Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan 2014-2024 be disallowed.
- South-East Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan; Disallowance (1 speech)
In accordance with the resolution agreed to earlier today, I will now put the question. The question is that the South-East Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan 2013-2023 be...
- Temperate East Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan; Disallowance (1 speech)
In accordance with the resolution agreed to earlier today, I will now put the question. The question is that the Temperate East Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network Management Plan 2014-2024 be...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Electorate of Leichhardt: Civil Aviation Safety Authority Cairns (1 speech)
I rise tonight to outline a very serious issue—the seemingly corrupt and anticommercial conduct of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority office in Cairns, which appears to hide in the shadows...
- Electorate of Hindmarsh: Road Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about the announcement of a redevelopment of South Road in my electorate, between the River Torrens and Hayward Avenue and Torrens Road, one of the worst bottlenecks in the...
- Lifeline Macarthur (1 speech)
It is no secret that I hold great pride in all of the community organisations and charities across Macarthur, so it is a great honour to stand here today to pay tribute to one of these amazing...
- Recognition of the Republic of Macedonia (1 speech)
Tonight I am calling for bipartisan political leadership to recognise the Republic of Macedonia under that constitutional name. It is unfortunate that in Australia we are expected to use the...
- Union Appointments: Superannuation Funds (1 speech)
I am very pleased to rise to speak on the issue of the economic power exercised by the major unions in this country through their capacity to appoint directors to industry and public sector...
- Coal Seam Gas (1 speech)
I rise to speak about coal seam gas mining—in particular, the federal coalition's stated policy that they will hand over environmental assessments for coal seam gas mining to the states....
- Goulburn-Murray Irrigation System (1 speech)
Ten years ago, the Goulburn-Murray irrigation system consisted of thousands of individual water entitlements which, together, were some 1,900 gigalitres of fresh water used to irrigate some of...
- Fowler Electorate: Cambodian Community (1 speech)
I have expressed in this place my sense of privilege to represent the most multicultural community in the whole of Australia. Fowler is truly the melting pot of diversity with individuals coming...
- Banking (1 speech)
I rise to tonight to issue a warning to all Australians that their and their children's bank accounts are at risk of seizure by this Gillard Labor government. In yet another example of how...
- Moreton Electorate: Muslim Community (3 speeches)
It is nice to inject a bit of common sense after that rant. I rise to speak about a number of events in my electorate dealing with my significant Muslim community. The first one I would like to...
- Youth Mental Health (1 speech)
It is a great honour to be able to speak in this House at times about issues of deep and profound significance within each of our electorates. Tonight I want to address the issue of youth mental...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
Through the course of this parliamentary term orthodox views have shaped thinking about the issues that have dominated attention in this chamber. No doubt these views will inform those seeking to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Yunupingu, Dr M (3 speeches)
'A trailblazer'—this fitting description from my colleague, the shadow minister for indigenous affairs, Senator Nigel Scullion, encapsulates an Australian icon whose passing we acknowledge...
