House debates
Thursday, 6 June 2013
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Publications Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the report from the Publications Committee sitting in conference with the Publications Committee of the Senate. Copies of the report are being placed on the table. I ask leave of the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That government business have priority over members’ statements for this sitting. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Penalty Rates (1 speech)
Mr Anthony Comino is a long-term businessman who has centred his business in Emerald. He has been operating the Western Gateway Motel for 30 years plus. For the first time he has made a decision...
- Tasmanian Hospitality Awards (1 speech)
I rise on this occasion to congratulate those who took out accolades at the Tasmanian Hospitality Association Awards for Excellence in Hobart on Monday night. I am pleased to inform the House...
- Haus Krai Rally (1 speech)
Around 300 people turned out in force to show their support in stopping violence against women in Papua New Guinea at a recent demonstration held in Brisbane. The demonstration was one of many...
- Canberra Electorate: Economy (1 speech)
On 31 May the member for North Sydney made a joke on morning television. He said, 'There's a golden rule for real estate in Canberra: you buy Liberal and you sell Labor.' He then proceeded to...
- Regional Development Australia Fund (5 speeches)
I would like to quote from the website of the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport. It said: The Regional Development Australia Fund … supports the...
- Queensland Government (1 speech)
This has been a very sad week for Queensland, and I am not just talking about the State of Origin. This week was the week that Queenslanders really saw how damaging the Campbell Newman led LNP...
- Farm Finance Package (2 speeches)
I would like to know why the Treasurer will not finance the Farm Finance Package. Why are you putting that on the states? You announced the policy; why won't you finance it? It was you who put it...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Security (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. I remind the minister that yesterday he said he would ask his department to brief him on whether there were any other terrorists...
- Migration (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. Minister, why is the government reforming the 457 visa subclass to support jobs and build a stronger economy? Will the minister...
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister that when the opposition first revealed that a convicted Egyptian jihadist terrorist was living amongst families in a...
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the government is delivering a smarter future by making every school in the country a better school?
- National Security (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Having belatedly called an inquiry into the security of our detention system, will the Prime Minister finally concede that having a convicted Egyptian jihadi...
- Dobell Electorate: Mining (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Further to my question last week, new data released by the mining company Kores shows people will die from coal dust; 79 million litres of water will be lost...
- Economy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the underlying strengths of Australia's economy? How is the government making the choice to invest in a smarter and fairer...
- National Security (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that her government has taken no steps to remove from Australia the convicted Egyptian jihadist terrorist previously held in the...
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Will the minister inform the House of the response to the passage of the Australian Education Bill through the...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. I remind the Attorney that, in response to questions about the convicted Egyptian jihadist terrorist held in the Adelaide Hills for almost a year, he...
- Queensland Budget: Infrastructure (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, and it follows on from the question that I asked him yesterday. How have the federal government's new nation-building commitments...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. Yesterday the Attorney defended the government's failure to safeguard Australia's national security because the convicted Egyptian jihadist terrorist had...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation and Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Minister, how are the government's policies making sure every...
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister guarantee that the inspector-general's inquiry into how a convicted jihadist terrorist was held behind a pool fence for almost a year...
- Budget, Queensland: Health (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister update the House on the government's investment in Queensland's health system? Is the minister aware of other choices that have...
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I ask the Prime Minister: will the inquiry that she announced yesterday include the handling of the case of Mr Khoda Doost, who was allegedly involved in...
- Taxation (4 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister Assisting for Deregulation. How have Tasmanian families and businesses benefited from real tax reform under this government? And what would...
- Asylum Seekers (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to this article in The Sydney Morning Herald which states that a whistleblower told Fairfax Media that another detainee had been...
- Carbon Pricing, Economy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation. How is the government's clean energy future plan driving change in our electricity market and building a stronger...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (17 speeches)
Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 42 of 2012-13 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit report No. 42 of 2012-13 entitled Performance audit: co-location of the Department of Human Services' shopfronts. Ordered that the report be made a...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
A document is tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details of the document will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (9 speeches)
I have received letters from the honourable member for Throsby and the honourable Leader of the Opposition proposing that definite matters of public importance be submitted to the House for...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
I apologise to the House for interrupting this important debate. But, as members would recall, a while ago in this chamber a matter of public importance debate was not proceeded with, because the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent: (1) the time and order of business for Tuesday, 18 June 2013 being as follows: (a) the...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Petition: Enoggera Barracks, Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise to present a petition that has been found to be in order by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Petitions and which has been signed by 272 Australians in my electorate. The...
- National Security (3 speeches)
Mr Deputy Speaker, I seek indulgence to add to an answer in question time today.
- Media Ownership (1 speech)
On 11 June 2013, Mr Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation will hold a special meeting for shareholders to vote on amendments needed to authorise the company's plan to break into two separate publicly...
- Parkes Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
I am concerned about the government's demonising of workers who are in Australia under the 457 visa scheme. Indeed, the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship claimed that there were 10,000...
- Deakin Electorate: Education (1 speech)
On 17 April this year I had the great pleasure of visiting a school in my electorate, Nunawading Christian College—a great school with a really well-earned reputation—which is growing...
- Dobell Electorate: Mining (1 speech)
I rise to talk about the proposed coalmine in my electorate. Deputy Speaker Scott, you will know that I asked a question today of the Prime Minister in relation to this coalmine. It is the third...
- Holt Electorate: Coptic Community (1 speech)
Last Sunday I had the pleasure of attending the official launch of the Manna4life food van with His Grace Bishop Suriel, Father Abanoub Attalla and Councillor Sam Aziz, who is the Deputy Mayor of...
- Casey Electorate (1 speech)
In the remaining minute or so, I just wanted to recognise 11 local primary schools in the Upper Yarra that conducted a post-Anzac Day service on Wednesday, 8 May. Naturally many of the local...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Canning Electorate: Asbestos (1 speech)
I wish to discuss a serious public health issue to the people of Mandurah in my electorate of Canning in Western Australia. In December last year I was contacted by a lawn mowing contractor in...
- Gorton Electorate: Gorton Young Leaders Award (1 speech)
I am extremely pleased to inform the House that the electorate of Gorton has produced another round of exceptional young leaders, who have been recognised with the Gordon Young Leaders Award. The...
- Education Funding (1 speech)
I subscribe to Thomas Jefferson's dictum that education is the first defence of the nation. It does not matter whether it is early learning, schools, vocational training or tertiary education;...
- Adelaide Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker, if you were to travel through Adelaide at the moment you would see a skyline scattered with cranes. You would see record investment in infrastructure and in upgrades. You would...
- Australian Education Bill 2012 (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about an issue that is incredibly important to my constituents—that is, the importance of education and of all of our students receiving the best educational...
- Australian Manufacturing and Farming Program (1 speech)
Last month I had the pleasure of attending an industry day which was the 2013 function at Reliance Manufacturing in Dandenong. It was run by the Australian Manufacturing and Farming Program and...
- Riverina Electorate: Wagga Wagga Committee of the Children's Medical Research Institute (1 speech)
Thirty years ago a small group of generous, kind-hearted and driven Riverina women established a Wagga Wagga committee of the Children's Medical Research Institute. On 26 May, amidst laughter, a...
- La Trobe Electorate: Mental Health Services (7 speeches)
I am very pleased today to be able to put on the record some of the local and very practical results of this government's investment in mental health. There has been a very sizeable, in fact a...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That order of the day No. 5, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
