House debates
Thursday, 19 June 2014
- Business (0 speeches)
- Amendment to Resolution on Appropriation Bills (1 speech)
I move: That paragraph 3 of the resolution agreed to on 15 May 2014 relating to the appropriation bills be varied as follows: (3) at the conclusion of the proceedings on Appropriation Bill (No....
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: That standing order 43 be suspended until the conclusion of the debate on the Asset Recycling Fund Bill 2014 and the Asset Recycling Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2014. Question...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (1 speech)
It is difficult to recall a government with as poor an environmental record as the Abbott government. Last night the World Heritage Committee rebuked the Prime Minister's environmental measures...
- Solomon Electorate: Filipino Australian Association (1 speech)
The other night in Darwin the 116th anniversary of the proclamation of Philippine independence was celebrated with an event called Celebrating the Renaissance of Filipino Pride: Our Values,...
- HighWater Theatre (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Friends of Youth Mental Health, today I welcome HighWater Theatre from Wodonga to Canberra. HighWater is an arts based program for high-risk young people, aged...
- Australian Vocational Student Prize (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate seven students across the O'Connor electorate who have been awarded an Australian Vocational Student Prize. The AVSP is one of the nation's top prizes for year 12...
- Landcare (1 speech)
The Prime Minister claims to be a conservationist Yet 'Abbott the Conservationist' has ripped half a billion dollars out of Landcare programs designed for conservation. What has been the effect...
- South Australian Government (1 speech)
On the Thursday before the state election, South Australian Labor put up a particularly dishonest poster, saying that the Liberals would cut Flinders neonatal unit and saying, 'Don't trust the...
- Alpine Grazing (1 speech)
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said: … we all want to do the right thing, by our planet. I regard myself as a conservationist. If he is such a great conservationist, how can he allow alpine...
- Durack Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
I had the pleasure of welcoming two schools from Durack to Parliament House this week. They were taking part in the fantastic parliamentary education program that is offered in this place....
- Great Barrier Reef (1 speech)
The World Heritage Committee has delivered a harsh verdict on the Abbott government's failure to protect the Great Barrier Reef by voting to keep alive its threat to list this great Australian...
- Dry July (1 speech)
I want to inform the House that I and others will be participating in this year's Dry July. Participating in Dry July means that I will be going alcohol-free for the entire month of July to raise...
- Local Government (1 speech)
Local government expenditure accounts for more than half of environmental spending across Australia's three spheres of government, and more than a quarter of local government's total annual...
- Casey Electorate: Honours (1 speech)
Today I want to pay tribute to five residents from the electorate of Casey who were recognised recently with the Queen's Birthday honours. Four received the Medal of the Order of...
- Environment (1 speech)
The Prime Minister calls himself a conservationist, but last week in my office I met with some real ones: the young people from the Australian Youth Climate Coalition came to visit me to call for...
- Brisbane Electorate: Racecourse Road Winter Lights Festival (1 speech)
I was delighted last Saturday to attend the Racecourse Road Winter Lights Festival. It was a day of high activity and fun for the people of Brisbane. I was pleased to join my state and council...
- Environment (1 speech)
A few weeks ago I had the great privilege of travelling on the Georges River with the Georges River river keeper to see what a truly magnificent waterway this is but also to have a look at the...
- Australia Post (1 speech)
There are proposed changes to the way Australia Post will deliver our post—proposals that would cut the post down to three days per week. If one is examining the nature of Australia Post...
- Lyne Electorate: Hastings Cancer Trust (2 speeches)
I inform the House that on the weekend I had the honour of attending the Hastings Cancer Trust's 10th annual charity ball and over $50,000 was raised by the members of the Port Macquarie...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Tomorrow at the Perth Town Hall—
- Asylum Seekers (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the progress the government has made in stopping the boats? What are the benefits for Australia of strong and...
- Budget (16 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. This week the Prime Minister has claimed that he is not cutting veterans' pensions, so why do his own budget papers show on page 203—
- Asylum Seekers (15 speeches)
) ( ): My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Can the minister confirm that it has now been six months since the last successful people-smuggling venture arrived in...
- Budget (43 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. This week the Prime Minister has repeatedly claimed that he is not cutting pensions, so why do his own budget papers, on page 203, show a $449 million saving...
- Taxation (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the progress of repealing the carbon tax and the mining tax? How will repealing job destroying taxes help my constituents...
- Budget (14 speeches)
All of this week the Prime Minister has claimed that he is not cutting $80 billion from hospitals and schools, so why does his own Budget Overview on page 7 show the Prime Minister's cuts to...
- Carbon Pricing (12 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. Can the Deputy Prime Minister outline the impact of the carbon tax on the road transport...
- Taxation (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On 20 November 2012 the Prime Minister promised Australians: We are about reducing taxes, not increasing taxes. We are about getting rid of taxes, not...
- Iraq (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister advise the House of the Australian government's response to the deteriorating security situation in Iraq?
- Prime Minister Abbott (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. All of this week the Prime Minister has claimed that he has not cut health, education or pensions, yet Liberal governments around the country, his own budget...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister Abbott; Attempted Censure (6 speeches)
I withdraw. And enough is enough. I seek leave to move to following motion: That the House censures the Prime Minister: (1) for repeatedly and deliberately misleading the Parliament and the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Madam Speaker, I wish to make personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Leader of the Opposition (4 speeches)
Today in question time, Madam Speaker, you, using the standing orders correctly, invited the Leader of the Opposition to rephrase his question. It has become obvious over the last few weeks that...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit reports No. 44 financial statement: audit interim phase of the audit of the financial statements of major government agencies to the year end 30 June 2014,...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Budget (54 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Hunter proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government hurting rural...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
Mr Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Trade Support Loans Bill 2014; Second Reading (2 speeches)
I rise to speak on the bills before the House and indicate to the House that the bills are designed to establish the Trade Support Loans program for Australian premises. The loans will be...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Pensions and Benefits (3 speeches)
I was intending to address something very different here today, but I have been so appalled and shocked by the Prime Minister's conduct today in question time that I just want to get on the...
- McIntyre, Bishop John Charles (1 speech)
This one is hard for me, so I am going to use the words of other people. I have here a photo of Bishop John Charles McIntyre with the people of Redfern behind him for his Order of Service on his...
- Environmental Defenders Offices (1 speech)
Prime Minister Abbott recently described himself as a conservationist. This absurd claim would be hilarious if the damage the Abbott government is inflicting on the environment were not so...
- Work for the Dole (1 speech)
On Friday 30 May I welcomed the Assistant Minister for Employment, the Hon. Luke Hartsuyker MP, to Dobell to officially launch the government's new Work for the Dole program. Dobell is one of 18...
- Superannuation (1 speech)
Today I wish to raise the issue of superannuation payments to backpackers—generally younger people in Australia on working holiday visas. This is an issue that fruit growers in my...
- Abbott Government (5 speeches)
History is probably full of examples where people have reminded us about how history repeats itself, so I might as well repeat the remark: "We are seeing history repeat itself before our very...
- CEO Sleepout (2 speeches)
In the minute that is left to us in the adjournment debate I put on the record, as I am sure many in this House would, congratulations to many of our colleagues and people in our local...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Fremantle Electorate: City of Cockburn (1 speech)
it was my pleasure this week to host the mayor, Logan Howlett and his wife, Pat, and three councillors from the city of Cockburn, Philip Eva, Steven Portelli and Yaz Mubarakai. There were here in...
- Stirling Electorate: Quan The Am Buddhist Association, Royal Australian Engineers Association of Western Australia (1 speech)
I recently had the opportunity to visit the Quan The Am Buddhist Association in my electorate of Stirling. I met with the venerable nuns and also the temple representative, Mr Binh Loc. The...
- Oromo People (1 speech)
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting with Ms Sinke Wesho, Ms Biftu Gutama and Mr Jamal Makuria, who are members of the Oromo community in my electorate. We met to discuss the plight of the...
- Hasluck Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
Last week I launched my Fight for a Safer Intersection campaign in Forrestfield and my community safer streets survey. The intersection of Hale Road and Woolworths Drive is unique in that, while...
- Electorate of Blair: Country Shows (1 speech)
It is that time of year in Blair where we have many agricultural and country shows. Let me congratulate the following people: President, Rob Krause, and Secretary, Lyndell Blanch, from the...
- Queen's Birthday Honours List (1 speech)
The 2014 Queen's Birthday honours list acknowledged some amazing people from my community for their contribution. On behalf of all Territorians I say thank you and well done! Robert Kerridge...
- Israel: Kidnapping (1 speech)
Prayer vigils are being held across Australia for three Israeli teenagers kidnapped on 12 June 2014. The three boys—Eyal Yifrah, 19; Naftali Fraenkel, 16; and Gilad Shaar, 16—are...
- Gippsland Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I take the opportunity to raise concerns on behalf of the Genoa and district community relating to the corner on the Princes Highway which has been the scene of several serious accidents,...
- Budget (1 speech)
Like many in this place, I hold regular mobile offices and street corner meetings. As a new member of parliament, I find these are a great way to understand what the community is thinking and...
- Lee, Mr Hugh (2 speeches)
I rise to inform the House of a true champion of the Australian-Chinese community in my electorate of Bennelong. Hugh Lee is a leader in the truest sense. He is a humble and intelligent man,...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Fowler Electorate: Domestic Violence Forum (1 speech)
I welcome the visitors from the Good Samaritan Catholic College in my electorate, the school captains Brian Kane and Carla Donoso together with teachers Mick Bell and Mary Sayadi. Last week,...
- Tate, Mr Brent (1 speech)
I checked the papers this morning and it is true: New South Wales won again last night, clinching their first State of Origin rugby league series in eight years. And last night we saw the...
- Nuclear Waste (1 speech)
Back in 2010 a group of traditional owners wrote to this parliament saying: We are the Traditional Owners of the Manuwangku/Warlmanpa Land Trust who do not want the nuclear waste dump.We are the...
- GetUp! (1 speech)
We are all familiar with the term 'give until it hurts'. There is an insidious form of giving which aims not only to hurt but to totally destroy livelihoods and whole industries of national...
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
In stark contrast to the previous speaker, I want to congratulate the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and the Australian Conservation Foundation for their tremendous energy and commitment to...
