House debates
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the two private Members' business notices by the Member for Parkes and the Member for Barker, relating to the...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Register of Members' Interests (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
As required by resolution of the House, I present a copy of the Register of Members’ Interests for the 44th Parliament. I also table copies of notifications of alterations of interest...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Mrs Trish Keller OAM (1 speech)
Canberran Trish Keller OAM retires this week after a distinguished career as an educator and primary school principal. Trish has been the principal of Giralang Primary School since 2007 and was...
- Barker Electorate: Kingston SE (1 speech)
I rise to recognise the community of Kingston SE, in my electorate of Barker, for being awarded the title of the Tidiest Town in South Australia. Kingston SE is a very picturesque coastal town in...
- Ayaan Mohamed (1 speech)
Viewers of The Project last night were deeply moved by the case of Ayaan Mohamed, a young woman from Somaliland in Somalia who has a serious facial disfigurement because of a gunshot wound...
- Brisbane Electorate: Institute of Modern Art (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to shine the spotlight on an emerging icon in the Brisbane contemporary arts scene. Established in 1975 the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane's Fortitude...
- Early Childhood Education and Care (1 speech)
Pay and conditions in the early-childhood education sector, in an industry overwhelmingly made up of committed female educators, are manifestly inadequate and have been held down through the...
- Forrest Electorate: Relay For Life (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate the teams, volunteers, supporters and sponsors and the organising committee who took part in the record-breaking 2013 Cancer Council Relay For Life Bunbury-Southwest, which...
- Throsby Electorate: Youth Connections Program (1 speech)
I want to brief the House on the great work of a local education training, and employment organisation in my electorate of Throsby, Access Community Group. In particular, I want to talk about the...
- Braddon Electorate: Mount Lyell Copper Mine (1 speech)
This week was a very sad week in my electorate of Braddon. I want to focus my comments this afternoon on the township of Queenstown and the west coast community of Tasmania. Tragically, earlier...
- Indi Electorate: Yackandandah Township (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate the people of Yackandandah on winning a place in the Guinness book of records. On Saturday 7 December 2013 the beautiful township of Yackandandah entered the world stage...
- Banks Electorate: St George Men's Shed (2 speeches)
This afternoon I would like to congratulate the St George Men's Shed on some of its tremendous activities within my local community. There are more than 1,000 men's sheds around Australia, and...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Broadband Network (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, if he is here. I refer to an article in the Australian Financial Review where the minister confirmed that he owns a yacht with the person in...
- Carbon Tax (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer the minister to an electricity bill from Mr Brett McDonald, managing director of Homebush Export Meat Company in my electorate. It shows his...
- Ministerial Conduct (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Given that it is the general practice of Prime Ministers to have and to publish a code of conduct for ministers and members of the parliamentary...
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline the impact of the carbon tax on electricity prices for Queensland families and businesses? What are the impediments to removing the...
- Automotive Industry (7 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Holden has just now announced that it will close its doors in 2017. What happens to Holden workers now and others in the car industry?
- Firefighting Aircraft (6 speeches)
My question is to the minister responsible for emergency management. Minister, every year Australian governments spend a fortune leasing foreign firefighting aircraft like the acclaimed Erickson...
- Carbon Pricing (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry. I refer the minister to this article in today's Courier Mail titled 'Queensland households to cop shock $270 power bill whack'. Will the minister...
- Automotive Industry (76 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry. I refer to the Victorian Liberal government yesterday joining the South Australian government in calling for the federal government to return the $500...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I advise the House that we have in the gallery the former member for Barker, Mr Secker; the former Western Australian senator, Ross Lightfoot; and a ministerial delegation of the government of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Automotive Industry (53 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline the challenges the government faces in managing the Commonwealth's budget? What are the impediments to addressing the situation the...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Automotive and Manufacturing Sector (61 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Gorton from moving the following motion forthwith: That this House condemns the Abbott...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Standards; Presentation (1 speech)
As promised during question time, I table the government's statement of ministerial standards. This document will be made available on the website of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (11 speeches)
Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Audit Report No. 10 of 2013-14 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit Report No. 10 of 2013-14 entitled Performance audit: Torres Strait Regional Authority - Service delivery. Ordered that the report be made a parliamentary paper.
- 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.
- Pacific Parliamentary Partnerships; Presentation (1 speech)
I present the Presiding Officers' annual statement on Pacific Parliamentary Partnerships.
- Access to Committee Documents; Presentation (1 speech)
Pursuant to the resolution of the Senate of 6 September 1984 and the House of Representatives on 11 October 1984, I present a report on access to committee documents.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Infrastructure (29 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Grayndler proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The need for productivity...
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (9 speeches)
Order! Before I call the member for Barton, I remind the House that this is the member's first speech and, as such, expect the House to extend to him the proper courtesies.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Membership (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That Dr Stone be discharged from the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties and that, in her place, Mr O'Dowd be appointed a member of the committee. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
Order! I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Automotive Industry (34 speeches)
Madam Speaker, on indulgence: I do not want to mince my words and I do not want to pretend to the parliament that this is anything other than a dark day for manufacturing in this country. We have...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Bulger, Mr Peter (1 speech)
I rise today in the House to acknowledge the passing of a constituent, friend and comrade, Peter Bulger. I came to know Pete through his deep commitment to the Labor cause, his passion for...
- Gambaro, Mr Dominico (1 speech)
I would like to pay tribute to my late father, Dominico Gambaro, who passed away on 22 October in Brisbane. Dominico was born on 18 April 1923 in a little town called Castiglione Marittimo in...
- Vietnamese Elderly Friendship Association (1 speech)
On 27 October this year I had the privilege of joining members of the New South Wales Vietnamese Elderly Friendship Association to celebrate Grandparents Day—a significant event to...
- Gerrity, Mr Darryl Mervyn Robert (1 speech)
I rise this morning to inform the House of the sad passing of not only a great Tasmanian but the Mayor of the West Coast Council, Mr Darryl Mervyn Robert Gerrity. Darryl was a true champion of...
- Ted Noffs Foundation (1 speech)
. The Ted Noffs Foundation was founded by a great Australian humanitarian, the Reverend Ted Noffs, in 1970. During the Reverend Noffs' remarkable career, he pioneered a number of initiatives for...
- Australian Taxation Office (1 speech)
Today I rise to express my concern about the potential impact of a draft ruling issued by the Australian Taxation Office with respect to moveable home estates on people living in my electorate of...
- Child Care (1 speech)
I want to bring to the attention of the House the issue of childcare workers in Greenway and the sector itself. In the last 24 hours we have become bogged down due to a certain type of ideology...
- Pridan, Mr Nicholas (1 speech)
It is with a lot of pleasure that I now get to speak about one of the young people from my electorate. We have a young man who, at 19 years of age, believes that the world can be a better place...
- Duncan, Mrs Amy (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate Amy Duncan, an inspiring Labor legend, on the occasion of her 80th birthday. Amy was born in Cape Town. Her life started around the time of apartheid and her fighting...
- Maynard, Ms Charlotte (2 speeches)
I rise to talk about a prominent Lyne constituent who has been critical for the development of health services in the region as well as political activity, social activity and the mentoring and...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Mandela, Mr Rolihlahla (Nelson) Dalibhunga, AC (17 speeches)
I rise to speak on this condolence motion as a matter of great personal privilege but also as a matter of great responsibility on us as parliamentarians to acknowledge not merely the life of...
