House debates
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (9 speeches)
I move: That, in relation to proceedings on the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2014, the Public Governance, Performance and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Migration Amendment (Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2014; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Migration Amendment (Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2014 amends the Migration Act to make changes to the way asylum seekers are...
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Measures) Bill (No. 2) 2014; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Today I am introducing the Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Measures) Bill (No. 2) 2014which will maintain the Child Care...
- Meteorology Amendment (Online Advertising) Bill 2014; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Meteorology Amendment (Online Advertising) Bill 2014 (the Bill) amends the Meteorology Act 1955 to provide certainty in relation to the...
- Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (No. 1), (No. 3) and (No. 5)) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (No. 2), (No. 4) and (No. 6)) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (Parliamentary Departments)) Bill 2014; Second Reading (14 speeches)
This is a joke! We have legislation that is probably meant to be bipartisan. This was handed to the parliament at 4.30 yesterday, which, at more than 500 pages, in the words of the second reading...
- Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (No. 1), (No. 3) and (No. 5)) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (No. 2), (No. 4) and (No. 6)) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (Parliamentary Departments)) Bill 2014; Consideration in Detail (5 speeches)
I move the opposition amendment to the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2014, as circulated under my name: (1) Schedule 2, page...
- Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (No. 1), (No. 3) and (No. 5)) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (No. 2), (No. 4) and (No. 6)) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (Parliamentary Departments)) Bill 2014; Third Reading (1 speech)
The question is that these bills be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bills read a third time.
- Excise Tariff Amendment (Fuel Indexation) Bill 2014, Customs Tariff Amendment (Fuel Indexation) Bill 2014, Fuel Indexation (Road Funding) Bill 2014, Fuel Indexation (Road Funding) Special Account Bill 2014; Second Reading (37 speeches, 1 comment)
I begin my speech on the government's big new tax on fuel with a couple of quotes: Fuel tax is a tax on distance. If ever there was a country that should not aggressively tax fuel, it is a vast...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Fraser Electorate: CSIRO (1 speech)
In 1931, Labor member Jack Holloway became the first Australian to be Minister for Science. Eight decades later, the Abbott government became the first government in three generations to not have...
- Capricornia Electorate: Health (1 speech)
Recently, I hosted the Deputy Prime Minister, Warren Truss, in Rockhampton to turn the first sod of soil on construction of a $14 million health clinic and teaching facility at CQUniversity. With...
- Greste, Mr Peter (2 speeches)
The parliament is still reeling from the decision of an Egyptian court on Monday night and the sentences it handed down to Australian journalist Peter Greste and his two Al Jazeera colleagues...
- Perth Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
WA seniors are hopping mad about the Abbott government's attacks on their income and on their cost of living. Last Friday, I attended an incredible community meeting of seniors organised by 6PR,...
- Racial Discrimination (1 speech)
I rise today to register my condemnation of an act of racial hatred and vandalism in my electorate over the weekend. On Saturday morning members of the St Andrew's Ukrainian Catholic Church in...
- Budget (1 speech)
I rise today to highlight the inconsistencies of our Prime Minister and those opposite and how they will devastate Australian families, especially in my electorate of Lalor. I want to look at it...
- Barker Electorate: Queen's Birthday (1 speech)
rise today to acknowledge and congratulate the extraordinary members of the Barker community who were recognised in the most recent round of the Queen's Birthday honours. This year Barker boasted...
- Newcastle Electorate: Deadly Choices (1 speech)
The Abbott Liberal government's cruel budget has today claimed another victim: the very successful Deadly Choices program that helped young Aboriginal people in my electorate of Newcastle make...
- Solomon Electorate: NT Thunder (1 speech)
There is going to be some great footy in Darwin this weekend. The fantastic NT Thunder will be playing Sydney Uni at TIO Stadium. Sydney University, eighth on the ladder, have heard about how...
- Kingsford Smith Electorate: Suicide Prevention (1 speech)
I want to congratulate and think the organisers, sponsors and participants in the Plebs, Pros and Personalities 24-hour Treadmill Run for Suicide Prevention, which occurred last weekend in...
- Deakin Electorate: beyondblue Cup (1 speech)
In a similar vein to the member for Kingsford Smith, on Saturday I had the privilege of attending a very important match in this year's sporting calendar for my electorate of Deakin. It was the...
- Indigenous Health (1 speech)
I rise to draw the House's attention the devastating cuts to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health programs in the government's forward estimates, with no explanation of where the cuts...
- Pearce Electorate: Road Funding (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the unprecedented road infrastructure investment being delivered by the coalition government in my electorate of Pearce. One part of this record investment will occur in the...
- Bubup Wilam for Early Learning Aboriginal Children and Family Centre (1 speech)
I join my colleagues the member for Newcastle and the member for Chisholm in drawing the attention of the House to the adverse impact of this government's decisions in supporting Aboriginal...
- Soccer (1 speech)
In contrast to the members of the opposition, I would like to speak positively about what is happening in our country this afternoon. I would like to commend the Australian national soccer team,...
- Canberra Electorate: Asbestos (1 speech)
I have just met with four Canberrans who are 'Mr Fluffy' homeowners. Mr Fluffy was a type of loose-fill asbestos commonly used in the ACT in the late sixties and seventies. From 1988 to 1993, the...
- Hume Electorate: Infrastructure Funding (1 speech)
I am happy to report on a positive meeting here in the parliament this week with the energetic members of SEROC, the South East Regional Organisation of Councils. I was joined by my federal...
- Micah Challenge (1 speech)
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting with Haley Gould, Amanda Merrett, Dianne DeVos and Katie Ahmad, participants in the Micah Challenge, who travelled all the way from Melbourne's south-east...
- New Colombo Plan (2 speeches)
I have risen in this place on numerous occasions to talk about the coalition government's New Colombo Plan. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop, while Minister for Education, Science...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Kent, Mr Lewis (1 speech)
I inform the House of the death on Sunday, 22 June 2014 of Mr Lewis Kent, a member of this House for the division of Hotham from 1980 to 1990. As a mark of respect to the memory of Lewis Kent, I...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Fuel Prices (8 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, representing the Treasurer. I refer to the Deputy Prime Minister's statement: Fuel tax is a tax on distance. If ever there was a country that should...
- Carbon Pricing (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister assure the House that the benefits from the repeal of the carbon tax will be passed on to consumers? What stands in the way of this...
- Budget (15 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Before the election this Prime Minister promised that he would reduce cost-of-living pressures, so why is this Prime Minister ramming a $2.2 billion petrol...
- Carbon Pricing (26 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. I refer to the list of liable entities released by the Clean Energy Regulator last week that shows—
- Budget (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. This Prime Minister promised he would deliver a fair budget. How is it fair for this Prime Minister to, on one hand, impose a $2.2 billion petrol tax and, on...
- Agriculture (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture. Minister, given the excess demand for agricultural graduates in 2012 nationally—there were over 4,000 jobs for graduates but only 800 people...
- Age Pension (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister agree with the Nationals' member for Mallee that raising the retirement age to 70 years is 'a mistake', or does he think that...
- Dairy Industry (22 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture. Will the minister inform the House what challenges exist for the Australian dairy industry? What action is the government taking to address these...
- Budget (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business. Will the minister outline to the House why it is important to fix the budget to build a stronger economy and more secure Australia, particularly...
- Pensions and Benefits (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that, as a result of his pension indexation cuts, the chief executive of the Council on the Ageing was quoted recently as saying:...
- Higher Education (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. Will the minister inform the House how the government's higher education reforms will support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to obtain...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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I draw to the attention of the chamber that we have with us, visiting, the 18th Delegation from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam led by Mr Dan Quoc Toan. We have with us the Ambassador of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Before the election, this Prime Minister promised to reduce cost-of-living pressures on Australians, but tomorrow will be the very last time that 280,000...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister advise the House on the actions this government is taking to prevent terrorist organisations receiving financial or other...
- Cost of Living (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister promised before the election that he would reduce cost-of-living pressures. On top of losing the seniors supplement, the Prime Minister's...
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on the success of Operation Sovereign Borders? What is the basis for this success? Are...
- Budget (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The head of the AMA, Brian Owler, said this afternoon that the Prime Minister had told Dr Owler that the Prime Minister was willing to look at alternative...
- National Broadband Network (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. Will the minister update the House on the progress of the NBN rollout? Why is it important to get large infrastructure projects like the NBN on...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 11 of the Selection Committee, relating to the consideration of committee delegation business and private members' business on Monday, 14 July 2014. The report will be...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 51 of 2013-14, Report No. 52 of 2013-14 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit reports for 2014-15: No. 51, Improving school enrolment and attendance through welfare reform measure, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,...
- 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.
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Moffat, Mr Howard (2 speeches)
Many members of the House would well remember Howard Moffat. Howard Moffat has been 18 years working in Parliament House—since 1996, when he first came here—but he was also a...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Future of Financial Advice (12 speeches, 1 comment)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Oxley proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government’s...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Human Rights Committee; Report (1 speech)
() (): On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present the committee's eighth report of the 44th Parliament, entitled Examination of legislation in accordance with the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Customs Tariff Amendment (Fuel Indexation) Bill 2014, Excise Tariff Amendment (Fuel Indexation) Bill 2014, Fuel Indexation (Road Funding) Bill 2014, Fuel Indexation (Road Funding) Special Account Bill 2014; Second Reading (26 speeches)
I rise to support the Customs Tariff Amendment (Fuel Indexation) Bill 2014 and associated bills, to oppose the amendment proposed by the opposition. These bills form part of a wider strategy to...
- Customs Tariff Amendment (Fuel Indexation) Bill 2014, Excise Tariff Amendment (Fuel Indexation) Bill 2014, Fuel Indexation (Road Funding) Bill 2014, Fuel Indexation (Road Funding) Special Account Bill 2014; Consideration in Detail (7 speeches)
The question is: That the bills be agreed to.
- Customs Tariff Amendment (Fuel Indexation) Bill 2014, Excise Tariff Amendment (Fuel Indexation) Bill 2014, Fuel Indexation (Road Funding) Bill 2014, Fuel Indexation (Road Funding) Special Account Bill 2014; Third Reading (1 speech)
Pursuant to the resolution agreed to earlier, the House will now proceed to the third reading of the bills. The question is: That these bills be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bills...
- Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Bill 2014; Second Reading (12 speeches)
I am sure everyone in the building is fixed to their TV screens to watch the parliamentary debate on this instead of the joint press conference between the member for Fairfax and the former Vice...
- Carbon Farming Initiative Amendment Bill 2014; Third Reading (5 speeches)
) ( ): I seek leave of the House to move the third reading immediately. Leave not granted.
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014; Second Reading (15 speeches)
After rising to oppose this bill in December I stand here for a second time to oppose the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014. As we know, the bill will establish the...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Farrell, Senator Don (1 speech)
This is the week of Senate valedictory speeches, when we farewell many of those who have served in the other place. I would like to use this opportunity tonight to recognise all the departing...
- Bonner Electorate (1 speech)
I would like to speak tonight about some major commitments the coalition government has made in this year's budget for my electorate of Bonner. It pleases me to say we have managed to fulfil our...
- Farrell, Senator Don (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute, as did the member for Adelaide, to all those Labor senators who will be leaving this place on 30 June. All have made significant contributions to the Labor cause. However,...
- Water (2 speeches)
Water plays a vital part of life. Tonight, I want to outline the need for bold water projects in Central Queensland to broaden the diversity and economic potential of my electorate of...
- Gillard, the Hon. Julia (1 speech)
I rise tonight to pay tribute to the Hon. Julia Gillard. This week marks four years since Julia Gillard was sworn into office as Prime Minister, on 24 June 2010. So, yesterday, I paused to...
- Tarkine National Coalition (1 speech)
The Tarkine National Coalition, also known as Save the Tarkine, is a fanatical environmentalist group that openly judges its effectiveness on the level of economic disruption it inflicts on...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Scullin Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
I have spoken often in this place, indeed, at every opportunity on the impacts of this government's budget on our economy and on our community. I have also been speaking with and listening to...
- Petition: Community Pharmacy at Valla (1 speech)
This morning I present a petition from constituents in my electorate calling on the Minister for Health to exercise his discretionary powers to approve the development of the community pharmacy...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
Since its election, the Abbott government has systematically dismantled measures established to raise animal welfare standards associated with Australia's live export trade. The commitment by...
- Exports (1 speech)
I rise this morning to talk about a very important subject—that is, Australia's food production systems. We have an important role to look very seriously at how we can identify Australia's...
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (18 speeches)
I rise to express objections to the proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act, and specifically the weakening of section 18C. Racial discrimination cuts deep and leaves a lasting wound....
- O'Connor Electorate: Agriculture (6 speeches)
I rise today to hail a modern-day hero who resisted the bullying of the multinational Green movement. Michael Baxter is a humble farmer from the Shire of Kojonup in the heart of my electorate of...
- Child Care (1 speech)
I recently visited the Home Road Kindergarten in Newport in my electorate to understand the impact of the Abbott government's budget on the young children and parents of Melbourne's west. While...
- La Trobe Electorate: Emerald Secondary College (1 speech)
On Thursday, 22 May, Senator Scott Ryan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education and I visited Emerald Secondary College in my electorate of La Trobe. We were met by the principal,...
- Budget (1 speech)
It has been a characteristic of the Abbott government's first budget that members on the government side seem to do whatever they can to avoid talking about it, to avoid drawing attention to it,...
- Boothby Electorate: Brighton Rugby Club (1 speech)
I rise to speak on behalf of the Brighton Rugby Club. This club plays on the Brighton Oval sporting complex in Hove in my electorate. I would especially like to recognise the efforts of the new...
- Corio Electorate: Geelong (2 speeches)
I spoke in this place on 15 May this year about the broken T&G clock and the dirty Ford sign. I am speaking about two icons in our city which did not have enough care and attention paid to...
- Deakin Electorate: Central Ringwood Community Centre (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about two organisations in my electorate of Deakin which play a critical role in providing learning opportunities, social activities and family and children's services in...
- Micah Challenge (1 speech)
Previously, I have spoken about the problem of large and growing global inequality and the fact that the world's richest 85 people own as much wealth as the bottom 3½ billion people in the...
- Ashworth, Father Brian (1 speech)
I rise today with the melancholy duty of informing the House of the passing Father Brian Ashworth at the age of 83 on Thursday, 19 June. Father Brian was a very determined man who cared deeply...
- Indi Electorate: Agriculture (1 speech)
My topic today is education, agriculture and the deregulation of university fees. I want to use the example I know best: Australian agricultural research and development. We have a documented...
- Northern Rivers Children's Health Fund (1 speech)
I would like to talk today about a group in our community known as the Northern Rivers Children's Health Fund, more commonly known as Our Kids. Our Kids was founded by a well-respected and...
- Budget (1 speech)
The Australian public was promised by the now Prime Minister that there would be no cuts to health. Many people took him at his word. So it came as a great surprise to people in my neck of the...
- Robertson Electorate: Trade With Japan (1 speech)
I rise in relation to the strong partnership Australia has with Japan under this government. It is a relationship that is mutually beneficial, built on a strong trade agreement and a significant...
- Poverty (1 speech)
On Monday I was visited by a number of young people who were in Canberra for the Micah Challenge national Voices for Justice event. They talked to me about Millennium Development Goals and the...
- St George Hospital (1 speech)
It gives me great pleasure to commend the New South Wales government's recent announcement that the St George Hospital, within my electorate of Barton, will receive a $300 million upgrade package...
