House debates
Tuesday, 30 September 2014
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Ukraine Air Disaster (3 speeches)
by leave—I rise today to table the Treaty between Australia and the Kingdom of the Netherlands on the presence of Australian personnel in the Netherlands for the purpose of responding to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
Not content with voting against the funding to help Queensland recover after cyclones and floods, the LNP members from Queensland have not stood up in relation to the $5.8 billion cuts to higher...
- South Australia: Emergency Services Levy (1 speech)
I want to take this time to pay tribute to the emergency services volunteers and paid staff who are a crucial part of the fabric of regional communities and who play a critical role in keeping...
- Budget (1 speech)
Liberal and National Party MPs opposite have abandoned their local communities. Never has a budget had such an unfair and disproportionate impact on rural and regional communities. In fact this...
- Lindsay Electorate: Welcoming Ceremony (1 speech)
On Saturday, together with Paul Stonebridge from Westfield Penrith and a local Darug woman Erin from Muru Mittigar, we had the great privilege to welcome many babies into our local community. The...
- Budget (1 speech)
Liberal and National MPs opposite have abandoned their local communities. Never has an unfair budget treated rural and regional communities so unfairly. It may seem a little strange for a city...
- Employment (1 speech)
Every single day, as the member for Corangamite, I fight for jobs. Across the Geelong region, unemployment is higher than average, with particular pressure on the manufacturing sector. That is...
- Health Care (1 speech)
This budget is an assault on rural and regional Australia, and there is no better demonstration of this than the GP tax—a $7 tax every time you enter the doctor's waiting room, every time...
- Miners' Common on the Gemfields (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about the miners' common on the Gemfields, which is celebrating its100th anniversary. The Gemfields is a fascinating place located within my electorate of Flynn. It...
- Budget (1 speech)
I rise to condemn this government for its obvious disregard for the people of regional Australia—people like those who live in my electorate in and around towns like Seymour, Wallan,...
- Leak, Mr John (1 speech)
Members of Capricornia's Living History Unit recently travelled from Rockhampton to Adelaide to attend a World War I centenary commemoration. The event, which was called 'Raising the First...
- Budget (1 speech)
The Abbott Liberal-National government's proposed changes to higher education will have a devastating impact on students, universities and communities in regional Australia. The Minister for...
- Durack Electorate: Hedland Art Awards (1 speech)
In the Pilbara region of my electorate of Durack is the iron ore town of Port Hedland. If you are travelling to the Pilbara, I urge you to view the art from the Hedland Art Awards in the Port...
- Budget (1 speech)
Never before has a budget had such an unfair and disproportionate impact on rural and regional communities. The cuts to funding of supported places and the new fee and debt regime will almost...
- Gilmore Electorate: Shoalhaven Business Awards (1 speech)
Last Friday night, the 2014 Shoalhaven Business Awards were held at the Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre in Nowra, with more than 350 attendees, a taiko drum performance and over 50 finalists from...
- Budget (1 speech)
It is no secret to this place that the Liberal and National MPs opposite have abandoned their local communities. Never has a budget had such an unfair and disproportionate impact on rural and...
- City-Bay Fun Run (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on something rather positive in comparison to our member's opposite: the 42nd City-Ban Fun Run, which was held on Sunday, 21 September. An estimated 36,000 people took part...
- Rugby League (1 speech)
This Sunday night I will follow in the footsteps of many South Sydney supporters in going to see South Sydney play in the grand final at the ANZ Stadium. This is 43 years after I was taken by my...
- Ballina Coast & Hinterland Business Awards (1 speech)
I stand to congratulate Nadia Eliot-Burgess, who hosted the Ballina Chamber of Commerce 2014 Ballina Coast & Hinterland Business Awards on Saturday night. Well over 200 people were in...
- Budget (1 speech)
We know that the Liberal and National MPs opposite in regional seats have abandoned their local communities, because never has there been a budget that has been so unfair and had such a...
- Bennelong Electorate: Australian Asian Association of Bennelong (2 speeches)
I rise again to recognise the role played in Bennelong by the Australian Asian Association of Bennelong in representing the views of the local migrant community in Bennelong and through the...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
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I inform the House that the Minister for Trade and Investment will be absent from question time this week. He is in Washington for the Global Services Summit. He will then be in Korea for...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (2 speeches)
Why has the Prime Minister walked away from closing $1.1 billion of tax loopholes for multinational corporations?
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the actions that the government and the national security authorities are taking to keep Australians safe.
- Taxation (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to reports that James Hardie does not pay a single dollar of tax in Australia. Why has the government abandoned Labor's...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister update the House on the government's efforts to combat the ideology and propoganda used by terrorist organisations to recruit...
- Taxation (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to reports that more than eight out of 10 of the nation's biggest corporations do not pay the full 30 per cent corporate tax rate....
- Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, the cost of Bass Strait remains the biggest brake on Tasmania's economic development and the easiest to fix. Although the current subsidies...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice, will the minister update the House on the cooperation between state and federal law enforcement agencies in combating the terror threat?
- Banking (19 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why has the government decided not to proceed with Labor's measures to repeal section 25-90, reforms to the offshore banking unit regime and other measures,...
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on the government's progress in restoring the full range of measures that are securing our...
- Taxation (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, why has the government cut $189 million from the tax office which would cost the budget up to a billion dollars in lost revenue?
- Economy (9 speeches)
My question is far more interesting and it goes to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline the government's actions to build a stronger economy for Australia?
- Superannuation (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why is the Prime Minister abolishing the low-income super contribution, ripping up to $500 a year from 2.1 million women on low incomes, while giving 16,000...
- Infrastructure (8 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. Will the Deputy Prime Minister inform the House of the action the government is taking to...
- Taxation (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to reports that over $8.4 billion a year is lost to corporate tax avoidance—more than the total amount of cuts this year...
- Carbon Pricing (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Will the minister inform the House of the savings that have been passed on to families and businesses of New South Wales and the ACT since the...
- Budget (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Joint Committee on Human Rights chaired by Liberal Senator Dean Smith which has found the government's proposal to leave young people with...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, representing the Minister for Employment. Will the minister update the House on the action the government is taking to protect the rights of workers,...
- Higher Education (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister Education. I refer to page 41 of the coalition's Real Solutions policy document, released before the election, which promised that the coalition would ensure the...
- Employment (5 speeches)
Madam Speaker, my question is to the Assistant Minister for Employment. Would the minister update the House on government reforms to ensure that job seekers attend their appointments? Minister,...
- Education (21 speeches)
Madam Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Education. Last year the minister said the government was not considering university fee increases: … because we promised that we...
- Early Childhood Sector (9 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Education. Will the minister update the House on the progress of the government's $200 million professional development program for long day care...
- Pensions and Benefits (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. I refer to reports on the weekend that the government's plan to leave young people with nothing to live on for six months was 'not the...
- Small Business (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business. Minister, will you inform the House of the action you are taking to cut the red-tape burden for the 13,000 small businesses in my electorate on...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Royal Commission into the Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
When the government received this report about four weeks ago, I spoke briefly in this parliament and I indicated that I would have more to say by the end of the month. Thank you for indulgence...
- 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)
- Rural and Regional Health Services (18 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Throsby proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The government's broken...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Research Funding (1 speech)
I recently visited the CSIRO Clayton campus in my electorate of Chisholm. I have been there many times over the past 16 years but with each visit, briefing and demonstration from the leading...
- School Chaplaincy (1 speech)
I have been receiving a steady stream of inquiries and requests from the 57 schools and supporters of schools in my electorate that have been using the school chaplaincy program in one form or...
- Economy (1 speech)
This is a very different speech from what I normally give. I would like to put on the record for future Australians that in the year of our lord 2014 I said that my country is in dreadful peril....
- Gilmore Electorate: Economy (1 speech)
Being part of a government that puts the economic future of our country as the number one priority is the motive that inspires me to advance my community in as many avenues as possible. For two...
- Hong Kong (1 speech)
In Hong Kong, as we stand here, tens of thousands of students and young professionals—thousands from all walks of life—are in the streets of that great city. As many as 80,000 people...
- Bennelong Electorate: Bennelong Cup, Bennelong Electorate: Bennelong Gardens (2 speeches)
During my time serving the people of Bennelong I have worked with my staff to instigate worthwhile and ongoing projects within my electorate. This year I am proud that the Bennelong Cup table...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Financial Assistance Grants (Question No. 236) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, in writing, on 15 July 2014: In respect of the freeze on indexation to Financial Assistance Grants resulting in an estimated total...
- General Practice Education and Training (Question No. 258) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health, in writing, on 26 August 2014: Following the cessation of General Practice Education and Training: (a) What funding is available for registrars training in...
- Medicare Locals to Primary Health Care Networks (Question No. 259) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Health, in writing, on 26 August 2014:
- Speech and Media Training (Question No. 308) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Agriculture, in writing, on 1 September 2014: In respect of speech and/or media training since 7 September 2013, (a) what total sum has the Minister’s department...
- Speech and Media Training (Question No. 309) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Education, in writing, on 1 September 2014: In respect of speech and/or media training since 7 September 2013, (a) what total sum has the Minister's department spent, and...
- Minister for Human Services: Drinks Cabinet for Ministers (Question No. 341) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Human Services, in writing, on 3 September 2014: Since 7 September 2013, has the Minister's department paid for or stocked the 'drinks cabinet'...
- Department of Education: Functions (Question No. 355) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Education, in writing, on 3 September 2014: In respect of hospitality since 7 September 2013, has the Minister ' s department paid for any function to introduce to the...
- Department of Education: Secondments (Question No. 373) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister for Education, in writing, on 3 September 2014: Since 7 September 2013, (a) how many departmental officials have been seconded to the (i) Minister ' s office, and where...
- Media Monitoring and Clipping Services (Question No. 390) (2 speeches)
To ask the the Minister for Agriculture, in writing, on 3 September 2014: In respect of media monitoring and clipping services in the financial periods since 7 September 2013, (a) what sum has...
- Media Monitoring and Clipping Services (Question No. 395) (2 speeches)
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Human Services, in writing, on 1 September 2014: In respect of media monitoring and clipping services in the financial periods since 7 September...
