House debates
Tuesday, 3 March 2015
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Membership (1 speech)
I have received a message from the Senate informing the House that Senator Canavan has been discharged from the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works and that Senator Smith has been...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Human Rights Committee, Public Works Committee (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That: Ms F. M. Scott be discharged from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights and that, in her place, Mr Ruddock be appointed a member of the committee, and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2014-2015; Second Reading (7 speeches)
These three appropriation bills deal with significant sums of money in relation to the government's budget, and so I will speak widely and, hopefully, wisely as well in relation to all of the...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Health Care (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the government's unfair and cruel GP tax. This tax is particularly devastating to the people of regional and rural Australia, who will be hit hard by this doctor tax. In...
- Poppy Park (1 speech)
21 March will mark the annual Penrith festival. But this year there will be a very, very special event for all of the community participating—the opening of Poppy Park. 102,804 people from...
- Health Care (3 speeches)
For more than 40 years there have been two great truths when it comes to health policy in Australia. On this side of the House, the Labor Party has stood and will stand for universal health care...
- Food Labelling (1 speech)
I welcome the government's announcement that we are going to implement a food and grocery code of conduct to ensure fair and transparent commercial dealings between suppliers and retailers. This...
- Indi Electorate: Alexandra Cup (2 speeches)
As you would know, thoroughbred horseracing is alive and well in rural Australia, particularly in my electorate of Indi. I had the enormous pleasure on Saturday to go to the Alexandra Cup. It was...
- Health Care (1 speech)
I wish the honourable member for Herbert and his colleague back home in his electorate all the very best. The tragic fact is this: in New South Wales this month, public hospitals are being forced...
- Dobell Electorate: The Glen (1 speech)
I would like to thank Joe Coyte, manager of The Glen Central Coast Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre, for hosting the Hon. Sussan Ley, Minister for Health, during the minister's recent visit...
- Health Care (1 speech)
Woven into the Liberal Party's healthcare DNA is a complete hatred of Medicare—complete hostility towards Medicare. The only thing that tops that is their fear of public affection for...
- Ryan Electorate: St Andrew's Catholic Primary School (1 speech)
Recently, I was delighted to join Councillor Andrew Wines and attend the opening of the St Andrew's school parliament at Ferny Grove, in my electorate of Ryan. All of the students from year 6 get...
- Health Care (1 speech)
In the less than 12 months since we first saw the idea floated in the public arena, Tony Abbott has announced a $7 GP tax, a $20 cut from the rebate to doctors and then a $5 GP tax. Today we have...
- Queensland: Cyclone Marcia (1 speech)
The recovery process continues in Central Queensland after Cyclone Marcia, but it is a long and difficult road back to where we were before, and people are feeling tired and frustrated. I can...
- Health Care (1 speech)
There is a Labor Party branch member in my electorate who, for every single time the Liberals and the Nationals have been in government, has a sticker calling on the community to rally to save...
- Flynn Electorate: Tropical Cyclone Marcia (1 speech)
Ex-tropical cyclone Marcia swept through Flynn and left behind a path of destruction. Hundreds of kilometres of fences are down. Crops like cotton, mung beans, sorghum, lucerne and herbs all went...
- Health Care (1 speech)
There is no more-important role for a government than to ensure that its constituents, the people of Australia, have access to affordable high-quality health care. No-one understands that more...
- Eden-Monaro Electorate: Green Army Program (1 speech)
On the morning of Monday, 12 February, I joined the Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt, at Glebe Park, Queanbeyan, on the banks of the beautiful Queanbeyan River, to announce the successful...
- Health Care (1 speech)
On 22 January this year, the Prime Minister said, 'Why isn't it fair enough to have a modest co-payment for Medicare?' Then, last month, he said, 'I don't have a problem with co-payments.'...
- Petrie Electorate (4 speeches)
I rise to talk about youth employment in the electorate of Petrie. Unfortunately, while 82 per cent of people in the Petrie electorate are employed, 18 per cent are unemployed. I inherited that...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- General Practice (21 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health—thank you for joining us. Will the health minister be introducing a value signal for visits to general practice?
- Iraq and Syria (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. What further action is the government taking to support international efforts against the Daesh death cult?
- Health Care (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the health minister's comments, before question time, when she said of the Prime Minister's GP tax, 'The policy intent was, and remains, a good...
- Iraq and Syria (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister update the House on the steps that the government is taking to deny—perhaps I should say starve—terrorists and...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Iraq (3 speeches)
by leave—Madam Speaker, the last thing I would want is to have the opposition feel that they were deprived of a full statement by the government on this subject and deprived of an...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Liberal Party Financial Accounts (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Where has the $70 million contributed by public funds and members of the public been spent? Why does your president and director of the Liberal Party refuse...
- Data Retention (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice. Will the minister inform the House of the importance of data retention to our law enforcement agencies in the fight against terrorism and other crimes?
- Health Care (19 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In May last year the Prime Minister was asked about the GP tax and said: This is right and fair and proper, and that is why it will happen under this...
- Infrastructure (5 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. Will the Deputy Prime Minister inform the House how building the infrastructure of the...
- Health Care (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. It is a matter of record that the Prime Minister has committed to the GP tax on at least 53 separate occasions over the past 10 months. So when the Prime...
- Australia Post (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. Will the minister update the House on the financial performance of Australia Post? What is the government doing in cooperation with the company...
- Mirabel Foundation (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the government's decision to cut $234,000 from the Mirabel Foundation, which provides services that help children abandoned by their parents due...
- Workplace Relations (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education and Training, representing the Minister for Employment. Will the minister inform the House how the government will maintain the rule of law in our...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I would like to advise the House that during question time today we had with us 18 members of the 2015 cohort of the Defence graduate program. We made them most welcome. I hope they were not too...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I am shocked by some of the behaviour in this place sometimes, Madam Speaker, I might tell you, so I hope they are not shocked. Documents are tabled in accordance with the list circulated to...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Medicare (37 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Ballarat proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That orders of the day Nos. 2 and 3, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Calwell Electorate (3 speeches)
Today I would like to talk about two major community sporting events that took place in my electorate just-recently. The first is the Keilor Gift and the other is the Iraq Unity Cup. This year I...
- Ingham Institute (1 speech)
I rise today in support of International Women's Day 2015 and the important work of the Ingham Institute in south-west Sydney. The Ingham Institute is a not-for-profit research organisation...
- Cycling (1 speech)
Last Friday, Melbourne received some devastating news. Alberto Paulon, a young man who was engaged to be married and was starting a new life in Australia, was killed when an opening car door...
- Dobell Electorate: Centenary of Anzac (1 speech)
This year marks the Centenary of Anzac—100 years since that fateful landing at Gaba Tepe, now known to us as Anzac Cove, which forever altered our national identity and place in the world....
- Throsby Electorate: New South Wales State Election (1 speech)
When you live in a region for most of your life, you get a sense of what makes it tick and what is on people's minds. As I look south from the region that I represent, I am increasingly in...
- Tasmania (1 speech)
About a year ago I stood in the House and spoke of the dire situation in my home state of Tasmania after 16 years of Labor government. A year later, I stand here much more optimistic about the...
