House debates
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Tax Laws Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014, Income Tax Rates Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014, Family Trust Distribution Tax (Primary Liability) Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014, Fringe Benefits Tax Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014, Income Tax (Bearer Debentures) Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014, Income Tax (First Home Saver Accounts Misuse Tax) Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014, Income Tax (TFN Withholding Tax (ESS)) Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014, Superannuation (Departing Australia Superannuation Payments Tax) Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014, Superannuation (Excess Non-concessional Contributions Tax) Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014, Superannuation (Excess Untaxed Roll-over Amounts Tax) Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014, Taxation (Trustee Beneficiary Non-disclosure Tax) (No. 1) Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014, Taxation (Trustee Beneficiary Non-disclosure Tax) (No. 2) Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014, Tax Laws Amendment (Interest on Non-Resident Trust Distributions) (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014, Tax Laws Amendment (Untainting Tax) (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014, Trust Recoupment Tax Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014; Second Reading (57 speeches, 1 comment)
I finish in continuation from last night on the Tax Laws Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 2014. In the remaining time I would like to address why the amendment moved by the member...
- Export Legislation Amendment Bill 2014, Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Amendment Bill 2014, Export Inspection (Service Charge) Amendment Bill 2014, Export Inspection (Establishment Registration Charges) Amendment Bill 2014; Second Reading (11 speeches)
The Export Control Act 1982 provides the basis for ensuring exports meet the requirements of the importing country. Labor welcomes this bill, the Export Legislation Amendment Bill 2014, which...
- Export Legislation Amendment Bill 2014, Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Amendment Bill 2014, Export Inspection (Service Charge) Amendment Bill 2014, Export Inspection (Establishment Registration Charges) Amendment Bill 2014; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Amendment Bill 2014; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Export Inspection (Service Charge) Amendment Bill 2014; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Export Inspection (Establishment Registration Charges) Amendment Bill 2014; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2014; Second Reading (4 speeches)
I rise to speak on the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2014. This bill seeks to introduce cost recovery arrangements to applications under the...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (1 speech)
I rise today to laud the work of our community leaders in defending the Racial Discrimination Act and to join them again to call on this government to step back from the precipice, to step up and...
- South Australian Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (1 speech)
It is a shame that the member for Port Adelaide has left the chamber because I want to talk about his very good friend the member for Mawson, Leon Bignell, who is also supposedly the South...
- Education (1 speech)
On Monday, 20 May I had the pleasure of visiting the Koori First Steps Preschool in Wodonga, a preschool for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander four-year-olds run by the Mungabareena...
- National Volunteer Week (1 speech)
Recently we celebrated Volunteer Week. In Gilmore we have hundreds of volunteer organisations. They are the mainstay of our community. Our State Emergency Service, Rural Fire Service, Marine...
- Parliament House: Security (1 speech)
I rise today to object to the proposal that access to Parliament House should operate under a discretionary security system. Decisions regarding security at the entry ways of Parliament House...
- Serbia (1 speech)
I would like to inform the House of a flood fundraising appeal for the Serbian community following the recent devastating floods in Serbia. This will take place on Sunday, 1 June from 1 pm at the...
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (1 speech)
Contrary to what the Attorney-General, George Brandis, believes, Labor believes Australians have the right to live free from bigotry. When Australia ditched the White Australia policy and gave...
- Budget (1 speech)
I rise today to commend the government for its initiative to invest in the world's largest medical research endowment fund—a $20 billion fund that will increase and secure medical research...
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (1 speech)
Today I join my colleagues to call on the Abbott government to rule out any further attempts to water down protections against racism in section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. I worked in...
- Bass Electorate: North Bank (1 speech)
In July this year a major redevelopment of Launceston's North Bank will begin thanks to funding from this government. As promised during the 2013 election, the coalition will provide $6 million...
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (1 speech)
Last night I attended the Muslims Australia 50th anniversary dinner in the Great Hall and heard a great speech by Leader of the Opposition, Bill Shorten. What united nearly everybody there,...
- Dobell Electorate: Work for the Dole (1 speech)
I welcome the news that phase 1 of Work for the Dole will be implemented in my electorate of Dobell. Unfortunately, Dobell has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in Australia. As the...
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (1 speech)
I wish to congratulate the Bangladeshi community of Kingsford Smith for holding a very successful biggest morning tea event last Sunday in Mascot to raise money for cancer research. I was...
- Budget: Infrastructure (1 speech)
A gridlocked nation is an unhappy one, as evidenced by more than 5,000 infrastructure related letters, emails and calls received in my electorate office. So I am delighted that the federal budget...
- Petition: Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (1 speech)
I present a petition which has been considered by the Petitions Committee and found to be in order: The petition read as follows— To the Honourable The Speaker and Members of the House of...
- Sorrento Surf Life Saving Club (1 speech)
Surf lifesaving is a vital part of the lifestyle in my coastal electorate of Moore, which is home to three active surf clubs along some of the most pristine metropolitan beaches in Western...
- Multiculturalism (1 speech)
I am proud of Australia's performance as a multicultural nation. We are far from perfect but we are doing a pretty good job in that very hard task of creating the social glue we need to bring...
- The Pilbara (1 speech)
I thoroughly enjoyed showcasing all that the Pilbara has to offer in business, tourism and culture, when I recently welcomed a visit of around 80 of the most senior members of the foreign...
- Multiculturalism (1 speech)
On the day that the Attorney-General defended bigots in the Senate, a woman came into my electorate office visibly shaken. She had been racially abused in Clayton Road and she had confronted her...
- Small Business (2 speeches)
Last week, the Minister for Small Business took the opportunity to visit my electorate. It was a very successful visit, and I would like to thank the minister for taking that opportunity. He...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Before the election, the Prime Minister promised Australians that the coalition would support the royal commission into child sex abuse. The Prime Minister...
- Budget (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister inform the House why it is important to reduce Australia's debt burden and how will tackling Labor's debt-and-deficit legacy...
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Australians have rejected the Prime Minister's divisive changes to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Will the Prime Minister listen to the...
- Budget (74 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline how getting the budget under control will allow us to build a stronger economy and a better Australia?
- National Security (6 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister inform the House of the benefit to the budget of the government's consistent border protection policies?...
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The current cost of science degrees is capped at around $34,000. Recent analysis shows that the cost of the science degree will rise up to $100,000 as a...
- National Broadband Network (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. What impact has waste in the NBN had on the debt burden faced by all Australians? How will the government deliver the NBN sooner and more affordably?
- Nurse Education (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister.
- Medicare (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health, and may I pass on my personal congratulations on the great job he is doing in ensuring the sustainability of our health system in this country. Will the...
- Budget (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Recent analysis shows that those who take time off work to have children will pay around $120,000, in today's dollars, for an accounting degree, including...
- Work for the Dole Program (8 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Employment. Will the minister update the House on the progress of the government's plans to rebuild Work for the Dole?
- Budget (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has refused to guarantee today that Australia's future nurses and scientists will not be saddled with higher fees and greater debts as a...
- Foreign Aid (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister advise the House of the importance of making responsible decisions to ensure that the foreign aid budget is sustainable?
- Vocational Education and Training (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister agree with the industry minister that Tools for Your Trade payments were being spent on tattoos and mag wheels? Is this why the Prime...
- Small Business (5 speeches)
My question is to my good friend the Minister for Small Business. He is aware of the 19,200 small businesses that operate in my electorate.
- Employment (8 speeches)
Madam Speaker, my question is to the Prime Minister. Despite rising youth unemployment, the government has cut youth unemployment prevention programs such as Youth Connections, partnership...
- Apprenticeships (8 speeches)
Madam Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Industry. Will the minister informed the House how the government will support apprentices so that they can complete their training and start working?
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 8 of the Selection Committee relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business, and private members' business on Monday, 2 June 2014. The report will be...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 32 of 2013-14 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Performance audit report No. 32 of 2013-14, Delivery of the Hearing Community Service Obligation: Department of Health, Department of Human Services and Australian...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- 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.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- (36 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Adelaide proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government’s...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. Being a Queenslander I can see that there might be some sort of favouritism taking place there! As an ardent Blues supporter I will be quite happy to sit in here...
- Nanopatch (2 speeches)
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker and fellow proud Queenslander. Earlier today the Queensland Minister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts, the Hon. Ian Walker, named the...
- Budget (1 speech)
A Queenslander—thank you. I think that there are a lot of Queenslanders in the room tonight and we are all on the same page when it comes to the State of Origin and wining nine in a row....
- Electorate of Eden-Monaro: Events and Community Life (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about a number of contrasting events I attended in quite different parts of my electorate, which underline the incredible diversity of the South-East NSW region. One of the...
- Labour Cause and Civil Society in Vietnam Conference (1 speech)
Being a Victorian, I take no sides in this other matter. On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 I had the honour to attend the Labour Cause and Civil Society in Vietnam Conference organised by Bloc 8406 and...
- Donnelly, Father Leo (2 speeches)
I rise to highlight the life and achievements of a very prominent constituent, who lives in Port Macquarie. He is 86, and to this day he still works from his small office in Hay Street in Port...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Budget (4 speeches)
One of the things I love about being home in Lalor is running into former students, at the supermarket, at the football, or at netball coaching my team. Last weekend was no different. A former...
- Blair Electorate: Ipswich Trade Training Centre (1 speech)
Last week I attended the official opening of the Ipswich Region Trade Training Centre, a $5 million investment in the Ipswich region, featuring world-class education and training facilities....
- Robertson Electorate: Work for the Dole (1 speech)
I am pleased to advise that the Central Coast will be one of 18 areas selected under the coalition government's reinvigorated Work for the Dole arrangements for young job seekers. This is...
- Indi Electorate: National Sorry Day (1 speech)
) ( Today I am going to make an important speech, perhaps the most significant speech I will ever make in this House. I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners and custodians of this...
- Riverina Electorate: Dr Robert Byrne (1 speech)
I had a really special evening on 17 May at the farewell for the inspirational Dr Robert Byrne from general practice from the western Riverina. A packed Yanco All-Servicemen's Club heard speaker...
- Defence (1 speech)
Prior to the election, this government promised no cuts to defence. However, like so many of the Abbott government's pre-election promises, this promise meant absolutely nothing when it came to...
- Macquarie Electorate: Relay For Life (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the Hawkesbury Relay For Life, which I attended last Saturday. The Relay For Life is an overnight community event where teams of 10 to 15 people participate in a relay...
- Kingston Electorate: Anzac Centenary Local Grants Program (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate five local schools in my electorate who will be sharing in $14,850 to help them commemorate the Anzac centenary through watching and performing the theatrical...
- Kids of Macarthur Health Foundation (2 speeches)
I rise today to praise a fantastic organisation in my electorate for bringing hope and support to many children and their families in Macarthur. The Kids of Macarthur Health Foundation has been a...
- Bills (0 speeches)
