House debates
Thursday, 27 February 2014
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (3 speeches)
I rise to continue my contribution in this debate. As I was saying last night, there needs to be better effort by government to respond to job losses across the nation. To date we have seen no...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (1 speech)
Firstly, I offer my congratulations to the member for Griffith on her maiden speech. It is with great honour that I stand in this House for a second term having been re-elected as the member for...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Senior Goolarabooloo Lawman (1 speech)
Today I acknowledge the very sad and premature passing of senior Goolarabooloo lawman, aged 47. To respect his cultural tradition, he will not be named. The family of this major Kimberley...
- Ovarian Cancer (1 speech)
Tomorrow in my electorate of Brisbane I will be hosting a morning 'teal' to raise awareness of ovarian cancer. Teal is the internationally recognised colour for ovarian cancer and was it teal...
- Petition: Indi Electorate Telecommunications (1 speech)
I present a petition that has been approved by the House. This petition has been signed by residents and visitors in and near the Victorian rural towns of Tatong, Molyullah, Lurg and Samaria in...
- Corangamite Electorate: Surf-Lifesaving (1 speech)
As summer draws to a close, I rise to commend the work of the 167,000 surf-lifesavers across Australia including those in my electorate of Corangamite. In the 2012-13 year, surf-lifesavers...
- Charlton Electorate: Local Sporting Championship Awards (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to acknowledge and pay tribute to the fine young athletes who were recently awarded Local Sporting Champions Awards for the electorate of Charlton. I extend my sincere...
- Mallee Electorate: Health Services (1 speech)
I wish to bring three projects that I hope to work for in the electorate of Mallee to the Australian parliament. If you live in regional Australia you should have access to good health services....
- Malone, Mr Harry (1 speech)
I pay tribute to Harry Malone, a well-known businessman and community volunteer in our community. Harry passed away on 10 February at the age of 91. Harry was born in Randwick and attended...
- Hughes Electorate: Annual Serbian Festival (1 speech)
On 15 February I had the great honour of officially opening the second Annual Serbian Festival at Darling Harbour, along with the Hon. David Clarke and His Grace the Right Reverend Irinej...
- North Coast New South Wales Medicare Local (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about the wonderful work of the North Coast Medicare Local and the difference it makes in our community. My local Medicare local covers an area of about 36,000 square...
- Forrest Electorate: South West Academy of Sport (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the work of the South West Academy of Sport in Bunbury, which aims to identify talented local athletes and to help them reach their potential. The academy provides...
- Gellibrand Electorate: Vietnamese Community (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge the efforts of Mr Andy Nguyen and the committee of the Saigon welcoming arch in my electorate of Gellibrand. One thing that makes Australia so special is its...
- Ovarian Cancer (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the great work being done in the Northern Territory to boost the profile of and funding for the fight against ovarian cancer. February is Ovarian Cancer Awareness...
- Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia (1 speech)
I have spoken about my despair at the Abbott government's decision to axe the Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia many times. After 48 years of providing frank and fearless advice to...
- Research and Development (1 speech)
I am forever telling this House about the diverseness of the electorate of Capricornia in central Queensland and the innovation of its people. I would like to highlight some groundbreaking...
- Health Funding (1 speech)
I rise today to highlight concerns raised by my constituents about the government’s plan to introduce a new GP tax—a new tax that will hit those who can least afford it the hardest:...
- Men's Sheds (1 speech)
Last month I was invited to tour the Bateau Bay Men's Shed and share in some morning tea. Upon my arrival I was greeted with the message, 'You'll need to have thick skin to survive here.' While...
- Youth Connections (1 speech)
I rise to draw to the attention of the House a wonderful program that is delivered to young people across Adelaide through the Service to Youth Council—that is, the Youth Connections...
- Conroy, Senator Stephen (1 speech)
The outrageous slur by Senator Conroy against Lieutenant General Angus Campbell marks a new low in senatorial hearings. General Campbell represents the very best of our military, which he has...
- Public Transport (1 speech)
There are growing concerns about safety around the train stations in my electorate, and I urge all levels of government to work together on this issue to make Brisbane's south side safer. In the...
- Electricity Prices (1 speech)
Over the last week I have been conducting my listening posts across my electorate. Local after local came up to me talking about how they were struggling under the rising cost of electricity. I...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Qantas (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's pre-election promise to create one million jobs in five years. Given that the government has known about the potential job...
- Employment (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the government's plan to grow a stronger economy and create jobs in the light of the announcement by Qantas today?
- Qantas (33 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Treasurer met with Qantas in early December last year. A massive profit write-down was announced by Qantas on 5 December last year. There has been...
- Biofuels (5 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Australia's self-sufficiency in oil throughout the last half-century saw it send, in 2001, under $1 billion to the Middle East. Australia now sends $23...
- Economy (6 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline the importance of improving productivity in the Australian economy. What are the alternative approaches? How will increasing...
- Qantas (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to ongoing speculation since early December that the government would offer support for a stand-by facility. Prime Minister, what will be the...
- Carbon Pricing (15 speeches, 1 comment)
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 for electricity and gas...
- Ministerial Staff: Code of Conduct (16 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. What was the role of the former chief of staff to Senator Nash at the event in this photo, where the Prime Minister announced a $16 million grant for Cadbury?
- Carbon Pricing (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. I refer to the Australian Capital Territory's draft electricity price determination that shows that prices would fall by 12 per cent without a...
- Ministerial Staff: Code of Conduct (7 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. When did the Prime Minister or his office first become aware of Cadbury's request for a $16 million grant to redevelop its manufacturing facility in...
- Carbon Pricing (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry. I refer to comments by the Northern Territory Treasurer that the Northern Territory Power and Water Corporation has a carbon tax bill of over $20...
- Ministerial Staff: Code of Conduct (20 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the role of Senator Nash's former chief of staff in the redevelopment of the Cadbury factory in Tasmania. Can the Prime Minister guarantee that...
- Australian Defence Force (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, representing the Minister for Defence. I remind the minister that each year thousands of men and women in the Australian Defence Force serve...
- Cadbury Factory (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. If the Cadbury grant was a part of normal industry assistance, why didn't Cadbury apply to the government as part of the process that we established for the...
- Trade Unions (20 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, representing the Minister for Employment.
- Qantas (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given the Prime Minister's tenacity in fighting for the job of the assistant health minister, and given the Prime Minister's failure to outline any plan to...
- Asylum Seekers (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on how many weeks have passed since the last successful people-smuggling venture made it...
- Paid Parental Leave (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given the revelation that the Commission of Audit has called on the government to dump its excessive, gold-plated Paid Parental Leave scheme, will the Prime...
- Illicit Drugs (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice. Will the minister inform the House how federal law enforcement agencies are making the streets of my electorate safer from the dangers of illicit drugs?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
During the, shall we say, vigorous question time we had today I neglected to say that we have had in the gallery the Hon. Ross Cameron, the former member for Parramatta, and we welcome him....
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 21 of 2013-14 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit report No. 21 of 2013-14 entitled Pilot project to audit key performance indicators. Ordered that the report be made a parliamentary paper.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Abbott Government (64 speeches)
I have received a letter from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's repeated...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
The Department of Agriculture released a report this week on a complaint from June last year which showed that the company Livestock Shipping Services had breached the Exporter Supply Chain...
- Longman Electorate: Economy (1 speech, 2 comments)
The big employers in my local region are small business, retail, tourism and light industry. They require confidence to invest, freedom from government regulation and lower taxes. That is why...
- Container Deposit Scheme (1 speech)
Today, I call out 'Big Plastic'. I am sure many here have seen the alarming stories of plastic pollution around the globe. Degrading plastic has so extensively polluted oceans around the world...
- Robertson Electorate (1 speech)
I rise to update the House on the coalition's growth plan for the Central Coast. According to the last census, my electorate is home to around 135,000 people, including 36,000 families, who live...
- Holt Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
On a quintessentially Australian day this year I had the pleasure of hosting the 10th annual Holt Australia Day Awards in Hampton Park. We honoured 39 individuals and two local organisations for...
- Economy (2 speeches)
In this adjournment debate I wish reflect for a moment on issues relating to employment. I have been surprised about the extent to which members opposite have ignored the advice of one of their...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Fremantle Electorate: Mrs Paula Wiley (1 speech)
It is my honour to rise today and speak about one of my constituents, Mrs Paula Wiley of Beaconsfield, who is having a profound impact on the lives of young children at the school where she...
- Paterson Electorate: Heavy Vehicles (1 speech)
Today I rise to bring to the attention of the House an issue critical not only in the Hunter Valley but indeed across Australia. The day of 10 February was to have been a day of streamlining for...
- Human Rights: North Korea (1 speech)
Since coming to this parliament I have had a consistent interest in exposing the Gulag-style system in North Korea and its widespread abuse of human rights. In 2009 my office took on the...
- Page Electorate: Economy (1 speech)
I would like to inform the House this morning that, since the federal election, confidence in the future has soared across my electorate of Page. In the latest quarterly business confidence...
- Calwell Electorate: Health (1 speech)
Last Friday, it was my very great pleasure to conduct the sod-turning for the new super clinic that will be built in Broadmeadows by Dianella Community Health. The huge super clinic is a result...
- Telecommunications (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the need to improve mobile phone coverage in regional Australia, particularly in my electorate of Gippsland. The recent bushfires across the Gippsland electorate have...
- Federation University (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the exciting things that are happening at the newly-named Federation University. It is a university that the member of the Gippsland and I share and it is a very important...
- Ovarian Cancer (1 speech)
On Wednesday, 19 February, I hosted an ovarian cancer afternoon 'teal' in my electorate office. I was lucky enough to speak to many women in our community about this very important issue. I had...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1 speech)
There are more than 200 ABC employees in the Australian Capital Territory. They cover national politics from Parliament House and local issues from Dickson. They cover everything from disasters...
- Eden-Monaro Electorate: Mobile Phone Services (2 speeches)
I rise today to speak about the issue of mobile phone coverage in my electorate of Eden-Monaro. Earlier this year I was very pleased to circulate a discussion paper released by the Parliamentary...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Baird, Corporal Cameron Stewart, MG (17 speeches)
It is with great honour that I rise today to pay tribute to Corporal Cameron Stewart Baird VC, MG on the occasion of his posthumous award of the Victoria Cross for most conspicuous acts of...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Federation Chamber do now adjourn.
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Petition: Food Colouring Additives, Petition: Use of Pesticides (1 speech)
I rise to make some remarks in relation to two petitions that I have been asked to lodge on behalf of concerned Western Australians and I hereby table those petitions. The first petition was...
- Ovarian Cancer (1 speech)
Yesterday was Teal Ribbon Day, an internationally recognised day to raise greater awareness of ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed gynaecological cancers in...
- Renewable Energy Target (2 speeches)
If anyone was inclined to believe this government had any intention of promoting the use of renewable energy then the terms of reference for the inquiry into the renewable energy target announced...
- Vietnamese Senior Citizens Group of Hume (1 speech)
Firstly, I would like to associate myself with the comments of the member for Brisbane, especially insofar as they relate to our former colleague the late Senator Jeannie Ferris. As an indication...
- Casey Electorate: School Leaders (1 speech)
I rise today to make mention of a number of school leaders in the Casey electorate. As all members here know, leadership presentations are an important time for our local schools, and last Friday...
- Fatal Dog Attacks (1 speech)
More often than we like we are confronted by the hurt, loss, guilt and confusion that bleeds out through families and communities after a fatal dog attack. Three years ago in Victoria a group of...
- Second Sydney Airport (1 speech)
I rise today to represent the people of Macarthur and communicate their concerns over the government's proposal to build a second Sydney airport at Badgerys Creek. Badgerys Creek is situated in...
- Medicare (3 speeches)
This year is the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Medicare by the Hawke government. It was established on the principle that all Australians, no matter what their background or...
- Mills, Mr Terence Kennedy (Terry) (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute to my good friend the former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, Terry Mills. As some might be aware, Terry announced last week his retirement from politics to...
- 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment: 50th Anniversary (1 speech)
On Saturday 2 February my wife Vicki and I attended the 50th anniversary reunion gala dinner of the 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, held at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. It was a...
- Sunshine Coast: Employment (3 speeches)
As a member of the old 2nd/4th Battalion, I commend the member for Makin for his work and his words in the parliament today. I am standing here today on behalf of the 8,400 15- to 19-year-olds on...
- Employment (1 speech)
I also want to talk about unemployment and jobs today. Indeed, my own area of the Illawarra was identified as the second-highest in New South in a recent survey about youth unemployment. It is a...
- Tasmania: Tourism (2 speeches)
We all love our country. Indeed, Australia is truly blessed to have places of great beauty. In fact, my electorate of Lyons is home to many of the most iconic natural attractions in this country,...
- Corangamite Electorate: National Broadband Network (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the major problems with internet connections in my electorate of Corangamite. As we know, the NBN was meant to solve most of our communications problems—particularly...
- Centrelink (3 speeches)
For the information of the member for Corangamite, the Abbott government has delivered a real surprise—a real present—to the people of Shortland electorate: they have cut any proposal...
- Townsville Fire Women's National Basketball League Team (2 speeches)
It is with great pleasure that I rise to speak about something that is very near and dear to my heart. This weekend the Townsville Fire, the Women's National Basketball League team, travels to...
