House debates
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
The Prime Minister said that his budget is the budget the Australian people voted for. Well, that is news to the small regional communities across WA who will be facing massive rate hikes as a...
- Lindsay Electorate: Cambridge Park High School (1 speech)
Since being elected as the member for Lindsay I have had the pleasure of visiting almost all the 65 local schools. As the fourth youngest electorate in the country we have dynamic primary and...
- Budget (1 speech)
The Prime Minister yesterday in question time said that he had brought down the budget the Australian people elected him to deliver. Well, I am sure the Australian people are very surprised to...
- Mallee Electorate: Leadership (1 speech)
Today I rise to talk about the people who come from my electorate. This week across the parliament we have been blessed to be visited by the Northern Mallee Leaders—and some of them are in...
- Newcastle Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
I wish to draw the House's attention to health care cuts in my electorate following this budget. Last year Tony Abbott promised no cuts to health, no cuts to education, no changes to pensions, no...
- Chinese Australian Services Society (1 speech)
Today I rise to commend the Chinese Australian Services Society, better known as CASS, for organising a successful charity dinner on 7 June, held at the The Eight restaurant in Sydney. The...
- Budget (1 speech)
Yesterday the Prime Minister told question time: 'This is the budget that the Australian people elected us to bring down.' Deputy Speaker, I can tell you that that is not the budget that...
- Ruffles, Miss Holly (1 speech)
I recently had the honour of meeting Holly Ruffles at the Walton Bridge, The Gap Girl Guides Life Leadership awards ceremony. At 12 years old, Holly is an outstanding young needlewoman,...
- Budget (1 speech)
The Prime Minister says that he has delivered the budget the Australian people voted for him to bring down. Well, he will not find too many people in rural and regional Australia who will agree...
- Acorn Childcare Centre (1 speech)
Last week the Assistant Minister for Education, Susan Ley, visited my electorate. The visit was very well received. We attended the Acorn Child Care Centre, which is owned by a local diabetic...
- Budget (1 speech)
Over 200 people came to the seniors expo in Morisset last week and the number one issue raised was the budget. People told me they are worried about cuts to their pensions and losing their...
- Australian Navy Cadets (1 speech)
I was honoured to accept an invitation from the Australian Navy Cadets to attend the annual efficiency inspection of one of their training ships, the TS Marmion. Lieutenant Commander Robert...
- Budget (1 speech)
Christine is a constituent in my electorate who has contacted me about this government's decision to cut funding to dementia patients in nursing homes. She would have been horrified to hear the...
- Royal Military College (1 speech)
As a former instructor at the Royal Military College, I recall graduation parades as very special and a time of justifiable pride for the cadets, their families, colleagues and instructors. But...
- Budget (1 speech)
Yesterday the Prime Minster said that this was the budget the Australian people had elected him to bring down. I am not exactly sure where the Australians who apparently voted for this budget...
- Electorate of Barton: Chinese Market Gardens (1 speech)
On Thursday of last week, I visited a traditional Chinese vegetable farm in Barton in the presence of councillors and notable members of the Chinese community. This farm has been operating for...
- Budget (1 speech)
I thank all of the good people from my community I spent time with on the weekend at a Medicare really in Browns Plains. I also went doorknocking in the great suburb of Meadowbrook with a couple...
- Agriculture (1 speech)
Agriculture in all its forms is very important to my electorate of Lyons and the state of Tasmania. I want to tell you about a fifth generation Tasmanian beef and sheep farmer who is giving...
- Budget (1 speech)
Yesterday in question time the Prime Minister said that 'This is the budget that the Australian people elected us to bring down'. What kind of alternative planet is this government living on?...
- Surf Lifesaving (2 speeches)
Last financial year, almost one quarter of drownings in Australia occurred at the beach. Today I recognise the outstanding volunteer work of Yeppoon surf lifesavers on the Capricorn Coast....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (31 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Before the election the Prime Minister promised no cuts to health, no cuts to education and no change to the pension; but after the election the Prime...
- Carbon Pricing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline how repealing the carbon tax will boost growth and help state governments around the country?
- Age Pension (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and refers to his previous answer about pensions. Today in the Senate the Minister for Finance has admitted that the government is reducing government...
- Budget (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Since the budget I have heard from many job seekers under 30 worried about how they will survive when your government takes away their income for months at a...
- Immigration Policy (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister inform the House on the importance of strong and consistent measures to protect out borders? Are there any...
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. A short time ago the New South Wales Liberal Treasurer said about the Prime Minister's $80 billion of cuts to schools and hospitals that: There is no point...
- Rail Infrastructure (10 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. Will the Deputy Prime Minister outline what the government is doing to improve Australia's...
- Budget (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Families in rural and regional electorates will be hard hit by the Prime Minister's cuts to family tax benefit part B. Does the Prime Minister think it is...
- Foreign Affairs (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and it follows on from the Prime Minister's very successful visit to North America recently. Can the minister update the House on how...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Thirteen of the 15 National Party electorates have higher numbers of families receiving family tax benefit B than the national average. Every single one of...
- Higher Education (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. Minister, how is the government expanding opportunities in education for all Australians while creating a fair system for both students and...
- Budget (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. As page 7 of the Prime Minister's budget outlook shows, the Prime Minister has cut $80 billion from schools and hospitals. How is this fair?
- Paid Parental Leave Scheme (4 speeches)
The Australian Industry Group has said that the Prime Minister's Paid Parental Leave Scheme should be 'abandoned'. Given the Prime Minister's own colleagues and the business community do not...
- Carbon Pricing (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, whose alias is 'the rumour buster'. Will the minister update the House on the impacts of the carbon tax on Australian agriculture? What action has...
- Fuel Excise (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Treasurer's commitment today to come up with regional modelling on the Prime Minister's new fuel tax. Why has it taken until today for the...
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. I refer the minister to correspondence from United Dairy Products, who operate two dairy processing facilities in my electorate. Given that...
- Prime Minister Abbott (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's previous answers that this is an honest budget—and my favourite is that he said there are no broken promises. Prime...
- Medicare (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister explain how the government is making Medicare sustainable? What support has been received for this approach in the past?
- Health (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, your government has cut over $500 million from Indigenous programs in the budget. Prime Minister, how is this fair?
- Broadband (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. Will the minister update the House on the progress of the NBN's fixed wireless network? Why is it vitally important to rural and regional...
- Budget (21 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday during question time the Prime Minister said, 'This is the budget that the Australian people elected us to bring down.' When did the Prime Minister...
- Defence (9 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Defence. Will the minister update the House on how the budget has supported the Australian Defence Force—
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
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Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Iraq (14 speeches)
I seek leave to move the following motion: That this House: (1) express its disapproval of any future deployment to Iraq of Australian combat forces; (2) call on the Prime Minister to make a...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- 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)
- Budget (27 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for McMahon proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The adverse impact of the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency Repeal Bill 2014; Second Reading (4 speeches)
As I was saying before, there have been some key figures in the higher education sector who have come out in opposition to the scrapping of the AWPA, as proposed in the Australian Workforce and...
- Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency Repeal 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.
- Business Services Wage Assessment Tool Payment Scheme Bill 2014, Business Services Wage Assessment Tool Payment Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2014; Second Reading (10 speeches)
The Business Services Wage Assessment Tool Payment Scheme Bill 2014 and the related bill before the House today go to a very complex issue. Labor understands this very well. This bill will...
- Business Services Wage Assessment Tool Payment Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2014; Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Measures) Bill 2014; Second Reading (11 speeches)
I rise to outline that the opposition cannot and will not support the Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Measures) Bill 2014 in its current form. I move: That all words after...
- 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; Returned from Senate (1 speech)
(): I have received messages from the Senate returning several bills without amendment or request. I do not propose to read those messages, which will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (1 speech)
This week the Abbott government moves Australia into refined company indeed as it becomes only the third nation, after Tanzania and Oman, to ask the World Heritage Committee to delist a World...
- Scientific Research (1 speech)
In the coalition we have a very clear understanding of the best way to achieve economic progress—that is, that the free market is the best driver of progress, provided that that market has...
- Women in Science and Research (1 speech)
Women are not a minority. But an observer from another planet looking at the number of women working in Australia's universities and research institutions could be forgiven for thinking that they...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
There has been an improvement in the returns to beef producers in the south-west of Western Australia in recent months. It has taken an extraordinarily long time for the industry to recover from...
- World Heritage Areas (1 speech)
The government currently has an application before the World Heritage Committee with respect to the Tasmanian wilderness area. It is an action taken by this government that is without need,...
- Indigenous Eye Health (1 speech)
I speak tonight on the subject of Indigenous eye health. Compared with non-Indigenous Australians, Indigenous adults have six times the rate of blindness and three times as much low vision....
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Zines, Professor Leslie Ronald, AO (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the passing of Leslie Ronald Zines, a great constitutional scholar and teacher. Of Leslie Zines it was said by Anthony Mason, the former Chief Justice of the High...
- National General Assembly of Local Government (1 speech)
Many would have noticed that this week in Canberra the 2014 National General Assembly of Local Government meetings are being held. With 900 delegates and the theme of 'Getting down to business',...
- Throsby Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
Yesterday, the Prime Minister told the House that this was the budget that the people of Australia voted for. How can this be? How can this be when before the election pensioners, over 50,000 of...
- Forde Electorate: Sporting Community (1 speech)
I am very proud to take this opportunity to speak about the local sporting community in my electorate of Forde. Our clubs produce some of the best talent in this country. Whether it is in a team...
- Gellibrand Electorate: Victoria University (1 speech)
It is now well and truly clear that the Abbott government's budget of broken promises has been roundly rejected by the Australian public. They did not vote for it and they do not want it. In...
- Men's Sheds (1 speech)
I would like to speak about something a little bit more pleasant! And that is about Men's Sheds and the important role that Men's Sheds play not only in my electorate but right across Australia....
- Mortimer, Mr Charles (Charlie) (1 speech)
One of the great honours I had when I was first elected in 2007 was to meet a number of the Rats of Tobruk, who were veterans of the Tobruk campaign and who were residing in my electorate. One...
- Tangney Electorate: Roe Highway Stage 8 (1 speech)
In the electorate of Tangney there is only one issue that everyone is talking about. In fact, this one issue is something that people of Tangney have been talking about and asking for for over a...
- Budget (1 speech)
I rise to speak today about the community rally held in my electorate last week in response to the Abbott government's cruel and unfair budget. I would like to thank those hundreds of people who...
- Lindsay Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (2 speeches)
I rise today to acknowledge some truly remarkable Australians who have contributed much to the Lindsay community and have, rightly so, been formally acknowledged for their service in this year's...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2014-2015; Consideration in Detail (179 speeches)
First I will make a brief opening statement on behalf of the Minister for Trade and Investment and I, and then we will accept questions relating to the portfolio. The 2014-15 Foreign Affairs and...
- Solomon Electorate: Sport (26 speeches)
My electorate of Solomon has a great community spirit and as a result has a thriving sports community. In Darwin and Palmerston, one can participate in almost every single sport imaginable; from...
