House debates
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Valedictory (2 speeches)
on indulgence—I intend to start this speech rather than finish it with my personal thanks, because I think they are the easy ones to miss at the end in a rush. All that we as politicians...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Justice will be absent from question time for the remainder of the week for personal reasons. The Attorney-General will...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind her of comments by Cameron Clyne, National Australia Bank CEO, that there is 'a bias towards pessimism' among businesses because 'we currently have...
- Education Funding (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How will students in New South Wales benefit from the government's plan for better schools? How will building better schools also build a brighter future for...
- Carbon Pricing (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that her carbon tax will rise in less than two weeks to $24.15 per tonne? Why is Australia's carbon tax going up and up while...
- Education Funding (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the government will deliver more support for schools and school communities under the National Plan for...
- Economy (11 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to his new mobile app, the Fix-o-Gram, that allows constituents to identify problems directly with the Treasurer. Can the Treasurer outline...
- Water (2 speeches)
Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Can the minister update the House on progress of the independent scientific committee...
- Education Funding (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Minister, will you please update the House on how the National Plan for School Improvement is being implemented in...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on how Australia's economy has remained strong, despite difficult global economic conditions? How will the government's...
- Broadband (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can she confirm that, after paying $120 million for spectrum in 2011, the NBN Co.'s fixed wireless rollout is stalled because its planned network interferes...
- Education Funding (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research, Minister for Trade and Competitiveness and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Asian Century Policy....
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister agree with the Daily Telegraph today describing former Prime Minister Rudd as the 'master and commander' of the influx of boat...
- Early Childhood Education and Care (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment Participation and Minister for Early Childhood and Childcare. Has the government delivered fairer and more affordable child care for families and...
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of her statement in 2002: The navy has turned back four boats to Indonesia. … It has made a very big difference to...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
We have in the gallery this afternoon the former Australian cricket captain, Allan Border. We welcome him to the House today. We wish our cricket players well, and England, at the moment!...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Automotive Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation. What is the government's plan to support the automotive industry? What other plans are there, and what would be their...
- Migration (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister that her government has introduced a bill to require employers to study labour market research trends for six months and to gain...
- Infrastructure (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport and Leader of the House. Will the minister advise the House why it is important for infrastructure projects to be properly...
- Asylum Seekers (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In light of the fact that the government has just announced that we have had another boat arrival in Australia, carrying 68 passengers, does the Prime...
- Families (3 speeches)
My question is to Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Disability Reform. How are the government's policies building a fairer future for families? Why is it...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (12 speeches)
I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Reports Nos 46 and 47 of 2012-13 (1 speech)
I present the following Auditor-General's Audit reports for 2012-2013 entitled Audit report No. 46, Performance audit: compensating F-111 fuel tank workers: Department of Veterans' Affairs;...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Broadcasting Legislation Committee; Appointment (2 speeches)
I have received a message from the Senate informing the House of Representatives of the following resolution agreed to by the Senate today: That the resolution of appointment of the Joint Select...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Documents are presented as listed in the schedule circulated to honourable members. Details will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings and Hansardand I move: That the House take note of the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Economy (17 speeches, 1 comment)
I have received a letter from the honourable the Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The urgent need...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No. 3, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Small Business (1 speech)
The exciting news is that the Socceroos are off to Brazil. They had a 1-0 win tonight against Iraq, and, rightly, the team will be recognised as national heroes. Our nation will get behind that...
- Refugees (1 speech)
I too would like to congratulate our wonderful Socceroos, who have made it through to the next World Cup in Brazil and congratulate Josh Kennedy for scoring in the second half. What a game it...
- Papua New Guinea (1 speech)
I rise today to speak of Australia's relationship with our nearest neighbour, Papua New Guinea, and the principles and the story that can shape our future interactions. Australia is indeed a...
- Ingham Institute Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre (1 speech)
Last week, together with the Minister for Health, I attended the opening of the Ingham Institute Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre at Liverpool Hospital. This is a new, state-of-the-art...
- Broadband (3 speeches)
I would like to speak tonight about Labor's cruel broadband hoax on the people of Brisbane. In a speech to parliament on 28 May, the member for Griffith made a number of false claims about the...
- Automotive Industry (1 speech)
The announcement by Ford that it will cease manufacturing operations in 2016 has understandably raised questions about the future of GMH operations in Australia and in particular in South...
- Gillard Government (1 speech)
It is with concern that I rise to speak tonight on the alarming number of mistruths and misrepresentations that the Gillard government's Territory-endorsed Labor Party candidate is spreading...
- Learn Earn Legend! Work Exposure in Government, Socceroos (1 speech)
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Chloe Adler, from Ingham in North Queensland, who is one of the many students taking part in the Learn Earn Legend! Work Exposure in Government. Chloe, a...
- Carbon Pricing (1 speech)
I would like to reiterate the words of the member for Chifley and give my congratulations to the Socceroos for their qualification for Brazil. As a soccer player—I recently pulled the boots...
- Parramatta Electorate: Health Services (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate my Medicare Local for its great work in improving access to good-quality primary health care in my community. Medicare Locals are new. They were established by the Gillard...
- Aston Electorate: Boronia Heights Primary School (1 speech)
I rise in support of the redevelopment of the Boronia Heights Primary School. Boronia Heights is a terrific school in the corner of my electorate, in the foothills of the Dandenongs. It caters...
- McMahon Electorate: Australia Post (1 speech)
Tonight I rise to express my very strong support for the campaign for our new post office at Pemulwuy in my electorate. Pemulwuy is a fairly new neighbourhood that has been developed over the...
- Aston Electorate: Australia Post (1 speech)
Just following Mr Bowen's comments there, I would also like to say that we need an additional post office in Wellington Village in Rowville in my electorate. This is just a few kilometres away...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- National Broadband Network Committee; Report (12 speeches)
I want to draw honourable members' attention to the dissenting report by the coalition members and senators which sets out some very disturbing facts about the disastrous state of this project....
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Health and Ageing Committee; Report (5 speeches)
It gives me great pleasure to rise this afternoon and comment on the report Bridging the dental gap: report on the inquiry into adult dental services. There is a list of recommendations and...
- Climate Change, Environment and the Arts Committee; Report (1 speech)
It is my pleasure to rise in support of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Climate Change, Environment and the Arts report Managing Australia's biodiversity in a changing climate:...
- Gambling Reform Committee; Report (1 speech)
As a member of the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on Gambling Reform, I rise to speak on the fifth report, The advertising and promotion of gambling services in sport: Broadcasting Services...
