House debates
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (12 speeches)
It is indeed an honour to rise and speak today as the member for Macquarie. It is an incredible privilege to be elected once again to serve the people of Macquarie and I do not take my...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Electorate of Newcastle: Regal Cinema (1 speech)
I rise today to celebrate a milestone event in my electorate that I had the pleasure of attending last week and to recognise the hard work of the Newcastle community. Last Friday the Regal Cinema...
- Electorate of Ryan: Toowong State School (1 speech)
Last year I went to the Toowong State School Deaf Festival. The school offers the only bicultural and bilingual program in Queensland using Auslan and English. Auslan is taught to every child....
- Electorate of Lalor: Wyndham Rotary Club Fun Run (1 speech)
Today I would like to commend the efforts and hard work of the organisers of the annual Wyndham Rotary Club Fun Run. The run, a fantastic community event, raises vital funds for the Good Friday...
- Antarctica: Mawson Station Anniversary (1 speech)
Sixty years ago the Australian flag was raised for the first time on the icy shore of Antarctica. It was Thursday, 11 February 1954, and among the party that established Australia's permanent...
- Electorate of McEwen: Bushfires (1 speech)
On Sunday, 9 February this year, the people of McEwen suffered through their worst fire threat since Black Saturday. Almost cruelly, the fire began nearly five years to the day since the Black...
- Solomon Electorate: Housing (1 speech)
Last week the Assistant Minister for Defence and I made an announcement for an additional 2,300 houses in the Top End. Under this plan we will deliver an additional 800 houses for Defence members...
- Kingsford Smith Electorate: Maroubra Saints Australian Football Club (1 speech)
On 21 February I had the great honour of attending the mighty Maroubra Saints AFL Club season launch. This wonderful community club formed only 14 years ago and has grown to one of the biggest...
- Eden Monaro Electorate: Centenary of Anzac (2 speeches)
I am pleased to inform the House that preparations for the centenary of the Anzac Cove landings are proceeding apace in my electorate of Eden Monaro. We have received a number of very worthy...
- Fremantle Electorate: Cochlear Implants (1 speech)
I rise today to share the inspiring story of 10-year-old, Izaac Coubrough, who lives in the suburb of Munster in my electorate of Fremantle. Born with profound hearing loss, Izaac was, at eight...
- Page Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
I would like today to acknowledge some leading figures in my community, and the wonderful way they were acknowledged in the Australia Day awards this year. I would first like to make mention of...
- Makin Electorate: Reality and Beyond Exhibition (1 speech)
Earlier this month I had the privilege of opening an art exhibition entitled Reality and Beyond at Gallery 1855 in Tea Tree Gully. The exhibition displays the works of Alan Ramachandran, Gerhard...
- Hasluck Leadership Awards (1 speech)
I rise to talk about the Hasluck leadership award program in which I invite all high schools to nominate a candidate from their school to be considered to spend a week in Canberra. There are two...
- Edwards, Pastor Mark Llewellyn, OAM (1 speech)
Few in the electorate of Blair have been surprised by the contribution of Pastor Mark Edwards of the Cityhope Church in Ipswich and the things he has done for the whole city. In January this year...
- Rural and Regional Australia (1 speech)
I want to bring to the House meetings I have been having across my electorate recently about daring to dream and the future of regional Australia. We have a challenge in this country. We can make...
- Calma, Dr Tom, AO (1 speech)
It is with great pleasure that I rise today to congratulate my friend and former colleague Dr Tom Calma AO, who last week took up his appointment as Chancellor of the University of Canberra. He...
- Employment (1 speech)
I rise in relation to a disturbing report yesterday on youth unemployment—disturbing because of the lack of opportunity that many young people will have in their transition from school to...
- Abbott Government (1 speech)
If they say imitation is the greatest form of flattery, then the current government are indeed very flattering about the former Labor government's record. They have been running around the...
- Robertson Electorate: Marine Rescue Central Coast (1 speech)
I rise to honour the work of Marine Rescue Central Coast in upholding the safety of people out and about on the water in my electorate of Robertson. Being out on the water is a regular and...
- La Trobe University (1 speech)
Today I rise to inform the House that it is O Week at the La Trobe University. Today we welcome 1,385 new undergraduate students to the La Trobe University campus in Bendigo. These new...
- Anzac Centenary (2 speeches)
Between 2014 and 2018 Australia will commemorate the Anzac Centenary. We will remember the sacrifice of Australians who fought to protect our rights and freedoms, and honour those who gave their...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Qantas (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The government has today announced that it will lift ownership restrictions on Australia's national carrier, Qantas. How will selling the nation's airline...
- Economy (2 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister explain to the House how the government is cutting taxes to boost growth and create jobs?
- Qantas (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In light of the Prime Minister's previous answer about Qantas, is the government's help for Qantas dependent on a reduction of thousands of jobs at Qantas?
- Carbon Pricing (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Minister, many Sunshine Coast businesses, including trawler operators, dairy farmers and grocers, have expressed to me their real concern about...
- Health Funding (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's speech last night, where he flagged cuts to health spending. Why is the Prime Minister breaking his election promise that...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer please outline the importance of fiscal repair to the budget? What was the state of the budget inherited by the coalition?
- Health Funding (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the government's decision to cut $10 million funding for a life-saving cancer workforce program in Western Australia. Why has the Prime Minister...
- National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. Transport business operators in Indi have told me they are having problems with the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator...
- Canada (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Can the minister update the House on her discussions with the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs and the steps the Canadian government has...
- General Practice (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister believe there is overservicing in general practice and that Australians are going to their GP too often?
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Will the minister inform the House what the impact of the carbon tax is on diesel, petrol and aviation fuels? Is there a way to reduce this burden,...
- Health Funding (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Modelling shows that the government's proposed GP tax will put additional costs on hospitals and will increase waiting times in emergency departments. Is the...
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business. Will the minister outline the impact of the carbon tax on small business? What is the government doing to ensure prices fall for electricity and...
- Paid Parental Leave (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's refusal in question time yesterday to rule out making cuts to the age pension. Does the Prime Minister think that it is fair...
- Former Member for Dobell (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education representing the Minister for Employment and the Leader of the Government in the Senate. Why is it important that the House express its regret for the...
- Donations to Political Parties (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to Steve Nolan Constructions, which donated $200,000 to the Liberal Party last year and recently went into administration owing...
- Nauru (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on the findings of the independent review into the Nauru riots?
- Asylum Seekers (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. I refer to the minister's previous answer relating to Australian government responsibility for offshore detention facilities....
- Youth Unemployment (16 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Employment. What is the minister's response to comments by the Premier of South Australia that youth unemployment in northern Adelaide is a 'tiny...
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Yesterday the minister reported to the House about the events surrounding the death of Mr Berati that: … on Saturday I...
- Health (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister update the House on the importance of reducing waste in the Health portfolio? Can the minister give any examples of waste in this...
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. The minister has stated that information of conflicting versions of events was presented to him last Tuesday, yet that...
- National Broadband Network (2 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. Will the minister please update the House on the government's plans to ensure taxpayers are fully informed about the progress of the National...
- Asylum Seekers (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On 29 June 2013, the Prime Minister said: … I believe that once people have come into Australia's care and control, we are obliged to look after them...
- Defence (3 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Defence. Will the minister update the House on the government's decision to acquire eight Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft? How will these new...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Health Funding (1 speech)
I wish to add briefly to an answer that I gave earlier. I was asked a question by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition about a $10 million cancer program in Western Australia. I have looked into...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (7 speeches)
Madam Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (6 speeches)
Madam Speaker, my question to you is under standing order 105, which stipulates that if a reply has not been received within 60 days to a question appearing on the Notice Paper the member may ask...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
Madam Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- 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.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Health Portfolio (24 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Ballarat proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The impact of the...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before notice No. 1, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- (28 speeches)
I move: That this House, in relation to the statement made on 21 May 2012 by Mr Craig Thomson, the then Member for Dobell: (1) expresses its regret for the statement and its contents, much of...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
I rise to support the motion, and I do so for many of the reasons that have already been outlined to the House. There is no doubt, in light of the decision by the court last week, that the former...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Age Pension (5 speeches)
Shortland electorate is one of the oldest electorates in Australia. It has over 19.8 per cent of people over the age of 65 years and an overwhelming majority of these people receive the age...
- Electorate of Hume: Telecommunications (1 speech)
I rise to speak on a matter of great importance to businesses and constituents in Hume: the need for improved telecommunications. If you are smart enough to set up a business along the Hume...
- Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (1 speech)
I rise tonight to acknowledge the fact that this Saturday will be one of many times—almost every year—out of the last 30 years that I have participated in the Mardi Gras march in...
- Economy (1 speech)
I have been in this place only a short time, but it has not taken me long to work out that politicians have a real skill in making things complicated. We have a structural budget deficit. I have...
- Ballarat Electorate (1 speech)
I want to raise a number of issues that are affecting my regional community in Victoria at the moment. This month alone the government has presided over basically the end of the automotive...
- General Practice (1 speech)
I rise to speak on a fast-developing issue in my home state. It is already affecting the people in the seat of Pearce and, before too long, it will become a very pressing issue for Western...
