House debates
Thursday, 12 December 2013
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- 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 have been placed on the table. I ask leave of the...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Responses (1 speech)
I am also tabling the following list of ministerial responses to petitions which have been received since the 43rd Parliament. The terms of the petitions and the text of the responses will be...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (5 speeches)
On behalf of the Minister for Social Services, I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent notices Nos 2 to 5, Government business, relating to the disallowance of...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Australia-Korea Free Trade Agreement (2 speeches)
by leave—I am pleased to report to the House that the recent successful conclusion of the free trade agreement between Australia and the Republic of Korea will both restore our country's...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- National Broadband Network (13 speeches)
by leave—The National Broadband Network is the nation's largest and most costly infrastructure project. Regrettably, it is also the most misunderstood and misrepresented. That is because...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Same-Sex Relationships (1 speech)
Today the High Court has ruled on the validity of the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013, an act of the Legislative Assembly of the ACT. It held that the territory was unable to make such...
- Petition: Imported Fruit and Tomatoes (1 speech)
I table a petition on a WTO emergency safeguard and industry package for SPCA fruit and tomato growers. The petition read as follows— To the Honourable The Speaker and Members of the House...
- Petition: Mobile Homes Goods and Services Tax (1 speech)
I present a petition on a goods and services tax on mobile homes, which has been approved by the Standing Committee on Petitions. The petition read as follows— To the Honourable The...
- Community Infrastructure Grants Program (1 speech)
I am pleased to announce today that the coalition is delivering on its election commitment in the electorate of Macquarie through the newly established Community Infrastructure Grants Program. We...
- Same-Sex Relationships (1 speech)
Today the High Court unanimously decided that the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013 of the ACT could not operate concurrently with the federal Marriage Act. This judgement was the result of a...
- Mobile Home Estates (1 speech)
I rise to share my concerns on the draft ruling issued by the Australian Taxation Office on the application of the GST to mobile home estates. I have been contacted by members of my community who...
- Road Safety (1 speech)
As we come towards Christmas—and I wish everyone in the chamber all the best for Christmas—road safety is a major issue. We have far too many road deaths, and too many of these are...
- Opening of Parliament (1 speech)
I was dismayed to read in a recent bulletin from the Department of the Senate the following remark on the opening of parliament: … the role of the defence forces at the front of the...
- Petition: Hume Freeway Interchange, Epping (1 speech)
I rise present a petition on funding for the Hume Freeway interchange at Epping North, Victoria. The petition has been assessed as meeting the requirements of the House by the Standing Committee...
- Corangamite Electorate: Avalon Airport (1 speech)
I rise to report some very good news for the people of Corangamite. After much uncertainty, Jetstar has committed to maintaining its operations at Avalon Airport until at least April 2015. The...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Automotive Industry (42 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How many times did the Prime Minister sit down and talk to Holden's senior executives to ask them what he could do to keep Holden and its jobs in Australia?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I wish to acknowledge that in the gallery we have present with us the Premier of Queensland, Mr Campbell Newman, the Hon. Adam Giles MLA, Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, and the Hon....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the
- Automotive Industry (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to confirmation by Holden's managing director Mike Devereux in June this year that it was absolutely true that Holden would cease...
- Carbon Pricing (19 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to this email from the chief executive of—
- Automotive Industry (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the article by Mark Hawthorne in today's Age, which refers to Holden's internal reaction to government statements in question time on Tuesday:...
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline the importance of the government being honest and transparent about the state of the economy and the budget?
- Automotive Industry (2 speeches)
When will the Prime Minister admit that the government's behaviour towards Holden has caused 3,000 job losses and put another 200,000 jobs on the chopping block before Christmas?
- Trade with South Korea (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade and Investment. I remind the minister that a new free trade agreement with South Korea was successfully concluded by the coalition government within its...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I wish to advise that the Leader of the Opposition from South Australia, Mr Steven Marshall, is in the chamber, and we make him most welcome. Honourable members: Hear, hear!
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy: Fiscal Policy (11 speeches, 1 comment)
In light of Ford's and Holden's announcements, the closure of all copper processing in northern Australia and collapses in WA wheat, Victoria dairying and northern Australia's sugar and cattle,...
- National Broadband Network (6 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Communications. Will the minister outline to the House what factors contributed to Australia's decline in the international broadband standards and how the...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister; Censure (65 speeches)
by leave—I move: That the House censures the Prime Minister for doing nothing as Holden leaves Australia after 65 years and for failing to save Australian workers from job losses and in...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Performance Audit No. 11 of 2013-14, together with a corrigendum, titled Delivery of the Filling the Research Gap under the Carbon Farming Futures Program:...
- 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.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
I move: That leave of absence be given to every Member of the House of Representatives from the determination of this sitting of the House to the date of its next sitting. Question agreed to.
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (1 speech)
Given the time and the number of matters that need to be dealt with before the House rises this year, I move: That standing order 31 (automatic adjournment of the House) and standing order 33...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present Report No. 2 of the Selection Committee relating to the consideration of bills introduced 9 to 12 December 2013. The report will be printed in Hansard for today. Copies of the report...
- Selection Committee; Government Response (1 speech)
(): For the information of honourable members I present a schedule of outstanding government responses to reports of House of Representatives and joint committees, incorporating reports tabled...
- Intelligence and Security Committee; Appointment (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Intelligence Services Act 2001, Mr Byrne, Mr Nikolic, Ms Plibersek, Mr Ruddock, Mr B. C. Scott and Mr Tehan be appointed...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Wright, Mr Bernard (1 speech)
Today is quite a special day in the history of this parliament in that it will be the last day that the Clerk of the House, Mr Bernard Wright, will be with us serving in that capacity. I want to...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Wright, Mr Bernard (6 speeches)
by leave—I move: That this House place on record its appreciation of the long and meritorious service to the parliament by the Clerk of the House, Mr B. C. Wright, and extends to him and...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Elder, Mr David (4 speeches)
I inform the House that the Governor-General in Council has agreed to my recommendation and appointed David Elder to be the Clerk of the House of Representatives from 1 January 2014. As mentioned...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Employment (2 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Gorton proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government’s...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (7 speeches)
I move: That the business of the day be called on. For the benefit of the House I might outline the government's proposal for the rest of the evening, which I have discussed with the Manager of...
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Valedictory (5 speeches)
Madam Speaker, I start my valedictory by wishing you, personally, a lovely Merry Christmas, and I wish the same to other members who share the chair. I acknowledge the Prime Minister and, in...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Holt Electorate: Manufacturing (1 speech)
The summer holiday season is a wonderful time of the year, with a range of community events held in my electorate of Holt to celebrate the season. One iconic event is the Twilight Carols at the...
- Bass Electorate: Lions Club of Riverside, Bass Electorate: Porte, Mr Richard Julian (4 speeches)
I acknowledge the wonderful efforts of the Lions Club of Riverside and a champion athlete in my home state of Tasmania. When Hawthorn play at Aurora Stadium, the Lions club mobile kitchen is...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
Last Sunday morning I attended a Stop Live Exports rally in Fremantle in which people formed a human chain across Stirling Bridge to express their concern at the extreme suffering of our fellow...
- Hasluck Leadership Award (1 speech)
Early next year I will once again have the opportunity to bring Hasluck's best and brightest young leaders to parliament as part of the Hasluck Leadership Award. The Hasluck Leadership Award is a...
- Live Animal Exports (2 speeches)
In response to the terrible atrocities to Australian cattle in Indonesia exposed in 2011, the Labor government introduced the exporter supply chain assurance program, known as ESCAS. Since its...
- Automotive Industry (1 speech)
Yesterday was the darkest of days for workers at Holden and workers in the automotive industry around the country. We learned the devastating news that Holden had decided to cease production in...
- Page Electorate: Digital Economy (1 speech, 1 comment)
Technology has transformed all our lives enormously in recent times. Many of us in this chamber can remember the first time we brought a personal computer into our homes and the first time we...
- Automotive Industry (1 speech, 1 comment)
I received a very intriguing email on the demise of Holden from an Australian in Queensland. He says: Holden generated $32.7 Billion in economic activity in Australia. They received $1.8 Billion...
- Live Animal Exports (2 speeches)
Australia's ban on live exports was just one of the many policy failures by the former Labor government, but it is one that has had lasting effects on my electorate of Durack. This knee-jerk...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Bendigo Electorate: Volunteers (2 speeches)
I move: That the Federation Chamber do now adjourn.
- Higgins Electorate: Volunteers (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about an issue that is of great importance to us all: the value of community organisations and volunteers. One of the great joys in being the federal member for Higgins is...
- Indi Electorate: Telecommunications, Indi Electorate: Bushfires (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the areas of my electorate that are prone to natural disasters, particularly to bushfires. In particular, I will talk about the shire of Murrindindi. Many of the 3,000...
- Goods and Services Tax (2 speeches)
I take this opportunity to bring to the notice of the House the issue surrounding the ATO draft ruling on the GST treatment of the relocatable homes industry. The problem was brought to my...
- Swan Electorate: West Coast Eagles (2 speeches)
I rise to update the House on some exciting developments in my electorate of Swan in relation to my local campaign for the West Coast Eagles AFL club to move to Lathlain Oval. Members will be...
- Wakefield Electorate: Automotive Industry, Wakefield Electorate: Australian Defence Force (1 speech)
Obviously, the events of the last 24 hours with regard to Holden have been pretty traumatic to my electorate, and I was full of fury and anger yesterday. You wake up the next day and you are...
- Petrie Electorate: Goods and Services Tax (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the concerns raised in my electorate regarding the Australian Taxation Office's draft ruling on charging GST for mobile home sites. I want to make it clear in this...
- Rio Tinto (1 speech)
I say to the House that I am not happy about speaking here today, because what I am speaking about is about tearing the heart out of a community in a region of Australia. On 29 November past, Rio...
- O'Connor Electorate: Grain Harvest (1 speech)
I rise today to commend the outstanding efforts of my rural neighbours, friends and colleagues who are celebrating a record-breaking harvest throughout the electorate of O'Connor. Many of my...
- Scullin Electorate: Election Campaign (1 speech)
In my first speech, I was able to thank those who supported the Labor campaign in Scullin and whose efforts, much more than mine, made it a successful one. I take this opportunity in this place...
- Josef Chromy Chardonnay (1 speech)
I am delighted to inform the House that at the 2013 Decanter World Wine Awards held in September, the Josef Chromy 2011 chardonnay was judged the world's best chardonnay. Northern Tasmania is now...
- Automotive Industry (1 speech)
Yesterday workers and all Australians across the country received the devastating news that Holden would cease manufacturing vehicles in this country. In 1948, Holden made history by...
- The Junction Works (1 speech)
This year, community based organisation The Junction Works celebrates 25 years of service to south-west Sydney. During that time it has made various steps, various moves up the ladder. In 1992 it...
- Agriculture White Paper (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the agriculture white paper which was launched by Minister Joyce earlier this week and to commend the white paper process to all Australians, particularly those...
- Victorian Bushfires (1 speech)
I rise today, on this last day of sitting, to mention the Yarra Glen Bushfire Memorial, which I know Mr Deputy Speaker Mitchell will be familiar with. The memorial to commemorate the Black...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
We meet here today on yet another occasion when we are seeing shocking pictures of Australian cattle being mistreated in a brutal fashion. Stomachs have been turned by seeing the footage that has...
- Petition: GST on Residential Home Rental (1 speech)
I seek leave to table some petitions from the contribution that I made to the adjournment debate a little earlier, relating to the ATO ruling to apply 10 per cent GST to the rental of people...
- Infrastructure Australia Amendment Bill (2 speeches)
Following the gagging of the debate the other night on Infrastructure Australia, I want to take this opportunity to raise some of the issues that I was due to speak on during that debate. These...
