House debates
Thursday, 14 November 2013
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (1 speech)
My first memory of New England was the laminated bench that acted as the dinner table in the kitchen at Danglemah. It was put in by my father and rested on two pieces of pipe drilled into the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I would like to acknowledge Mr Stuart St Clair, the former National Party member for New England, who is here to hear his successor but for one for the seat of New England, and also acknowledge...
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (1 speech)
Thank you, Madam Speaker. It is an immense privilege to stand here as a member of parliament, a representative of the people of Charlton and a member of the Australian Labor Party. I am a...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Aviation Safety Regulation Review (2 speeches)
by leave—Australia has an enviable record in aviation safety—our safety performance is among the best in the world—and it is built on a strong regulatory system and the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
I move: That so much of Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent: (1) the Selection Committee: (a) meeting on or after today, if necessary by teleconference, to determine the order of...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (1 speech)
I move: That standing order 215 be amended to read: 215 General purpose standing committees (a) The following general purpose standing committees shall be appointed: (i) Standing...
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (12 speeches)
I rise to speak in reply to the Governor-General's address, made earlier this week at the opening of this the 44th Australian Parliament, and I congratulate you, Mr Deputy Speaker, on your...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Goods and Services Tax (1 speech)
I rise today to call on the Prime Minister and the Liberal and National parties to rule out a plan to impose the goods and services tax on the rents of mobile home residents. I ask this on behalf...
- Perry, Ms Lauren (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate our magnificent and emerging cycling talent in Northern Tasmania, epitomised by young champions like Lauren Perry in my electorate of Bass. In recent years I have been...
- Australian Public Service (1 speech)
One of the very first acts of this government was the 18 September announcement of the merger of DFAT and the agency formerly known as AusAID. Since the announcement, I have had a constant stream...
- Bras NT (1 speech)
I rise today to raise awareness about an organisation close to my heart. Last Tuesday, BRAS NT was launched. BRAS NT brings together a number of organisations that look after cancer sufferers,...
- Australia Post (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the importance of mail delivery services to the people of Corangamite. It is with considerable concern that I note Australia Post's plans to move letter sorting from the...
- Digital Television Switch-over Household Assistance Scheme (1 speech)
On 3 December analog television in Sydney will finally be switched off. We will be fully in a digital world. In preparation for the switch-over, some time ago the Labor government introduced a...
- Australia Post (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker, congratulations on your election to that position. I rise to bring to the House's attention the demise of Australia Post at Montville. With only two weeks notice, Australia...
- Bushfires (1 speech)
On Thursday, 17 October, Shortland electorate was ravaged by bushfires. People from the Central Coast were evacuated to Doyalson RSL and Swansea RSL. I thank the Rural Fire Service for the...
- Child Care (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker, congratulations on your appointment. Recently I met with the wonderful Wilston Kids Care team and Wilston State School Principal Guy Hendriks. Wilston Kids Care is an...
- Australian Public Service (2 speeches)
Further to my last statement, I would like to highlight the human cost of the decision to integrate AusAID and DFAT. I know from my own experience, after losing my job in 1996 after the Howard...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Madam Speaker, I inform the House that the Minister for Foreign Affairs will again be absent from question time today, as she is in Sri Lanka at the Commonwealth conference. The Minister for...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his misleading statements on the debt cap on Tuesday, and again yesterday in parliament, when he said: 'We never, when I was—
- Carbon Pricing (4 speeches)
) ( ): My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister inform the House of the impact of the carbon tax on the Australian economy? What are the economic benefits of scrapping the...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his Treasurer's pre-election statement—and it is a cracker: Well, if debt is the problem, more debt is not the answer....
- Carbon Pricing (19 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. I remind the minister that regional areas have been hit hard by the carbon tax. In my...
- Asylum Seekers (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Could the minister inform the House on action being taken to introduce temporary protection visas for illegal boat arrivals?
- Live Animal Exports (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, your government has committed to maintaining the live animal Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System. But ESCAS is only an aid to improved...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline how resources businesses, including small resources companies in Western Australia that employ thousands of my constituents, will be...
- Asylum Seekers (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Can the minister advise the House exactly how many boats have been turned back to Indonesia successfully since the election?
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, representing the Minister for Employment. Is the minister aware of the published statement by Grocon employees, 'We have been unfairly singled out...
- Asylum Seekers (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. In light of the minister's previous response, how does reporting the successful turning back of boats help people smugglers?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I have to inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of the 30th delegation of Young Political Leaders from the United States of America who are visiting under...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Broadband Network (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. Can the minister update my community in Lindsay, and especially those with inadequate broadband, on the progress of the NBN? Why is it important...
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. I ask the minister about an on-land operation of boat buying. How many Indonesian fishing boats has the government bought...
- Registered Organisations Commission (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, representing the Minister for Employment. I refer the minister to the Fair Work Australia investigation into the Health Services Union that found 181...
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Is there information currently in the possession of the minister which he will provide to his weekly media briefing tomorrow...
- Child Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Education. Can the minister explain to my constituent Sylvia Mollison, a family day-carer of Springwood in my electorate of Macquarie, how the...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (17 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion: Leave not granted.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Appointment (1 speech)
I have received a message from the Senate informing the House that Senator Parry has been appointed a member of the Joint Committee on the Broadcasting of Parliamentary Proceedings; that Senators...
- Parliamentary Office Holders (0 speeches)
- Speaker's Panel (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing order 17(a), I lay on the table my warrant nominating the honourable members for Solomon, Hughes, Bonner and Braddon to be members of the Speaker's panel to assist the chair...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Documents are presented as listed in the schedule circulated to honourable members. Full details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Economy (3 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for McMahon proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The urgent need for the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (2 speeches)
In my view, honourable defeat is overrated. In my view there is little honour in avoidable failure. In my view those who want to save the environment, those who want to help workers and those who...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Abbott Government, North Queensland Youth (1 speech)
I would like to begin by reaffirming the following. Our promises for the roads of the 21st century will be kept. We will axe the carbon and mining taxes. We will reduce red tape and increase our...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Earlier today, we saw the Leader of the House use an industrial dispute of some vintage in Victoria to justify the reintroduction of harsh industrial relations laws into this parliament. We have...
- New South Wales Bushfires (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the recent bushfires that have ravaged the electorate of Macquarie and in particular the community of the Blue Mountains. The impact is significant, visibly and...
- Goods and Services Tax (1 speech, 1 comment)
Shortland electorate is an electorate that has a number of relocatable or moveable home parks. I was very disturbed to learn that the ATO released a draft ruling on 30 October this year that has...
- Electricity Prices (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker, I want to start by saying what a great pleasure it is to be standing before you today as a member of the Abbott government representing the wonderful people of Darwin and...
- Asian Women at Work (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate Asian Women at Work, a wonderful organisation that has been operating in my electorate and throughout Sydney over the last 20 years. It is a great community service. Asian...
