Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

(1)

That standing orders 240 and 241 be amended to read: 240 Admission of visitors

(a)

A committee or a subcommittee may admit visitors when it is examining a witness or gathering information in other proceedings.

(b)

All visitors must leave if:

(i)

the Chair asks them to;

(ii)

the committee or subcommittee resolves that they leave; or

(iii)

the committee or subcommittee is deliberating or hearing witnesses in private.

Other Members, who are not Members of the committee, may be admitted when a committee or subcommittee is examining a witness, or gathering information in other proceedings.  Other Members must leave when the committee or subcommittee is deliberating, or hearing witnesses in private, or if the committee or subcommittee resolves that they leave.

(2)

That, unless otherwise ordered, the following amendments to the standing orders be adopted to operate for the remainder of 2006:

(A)

In standing order 1, Maximum speaking times, the section of the table headed Committee and delegation reports on Mondays be amended to read:

Committee and delegation reports on Mondays in the House Each Member in the Main Committee Each Member (standing orders 39, 40, 192(b))

10 mins maximum, as allotted by the Selection Committee 10 mins

(B)

In standing order 1, Maximum speaking times, after the section of the table headed Condolence motion, the following new section be inserted:

Dissent motion Whole debate      Mover      Seconder      Member next speaking      Any other Member (standing order 87)

30 mins 10 mins 5 mins 10 mins 5 mins

(C)

Standing order 39 be amended to read: 39  Presentation of reports

(e)   Any subsequent action against a Member under standing order 94 (sanctions against disorderly conduct) may only be taken in the House.

       (F)  Standing order 190 be amended to read:

190 General rules for suspensions and adjournments of the Main Committee

The following general rules apply to meetings of the Main Committee:

(a)

The Deputy Speaker must suspend proceedings in the Committee to enable Members to attend divisions in the House.

(b)

If a quorum is not present the Deputy Speaker must immediately suspend proceedings until a stated time, or adjourn the Committee.

(c)

If the House adjourns, the Deputy Speaker must interrupt the business before the Committee and immediately adjourn the Committee.

(d)

The Committee need not adjourn between items of business, nor during a suspension of the House.

(e)

The Committee shall stand adjourned at 6 pm, unless otherwise ordered, when the committee meets on Mondays in accordance with standing order 192(b), or on completion of all matters referred to it, or may be adjourned on motion moved without notice by any Member—

That the Committee do now adjourn .

(f)

No amendment may be moved to the question.       (G)   Standing order 192 be amended to read: 192 Main Committee’s order of business

(G)

Standing order 192 be amended to read: 192 Main Committee’s order of business

(a)

If the Committee meets on a Wednesday or Thursday the normal order of business is set out in figure 4.

(b)

On sitting Mondays the Committee shall meet from 4 pm to 6 pm if required to consider orders of the day relating to committee and delegation reports in accordance with standing order 40 (resumption of debate on reports).

Figure 4 Main Committee order of business

The sitting times of the Main Committee are set by the Deputy Speaker and are subject to change. Additional sittings may be scheduled if required. Adjournment debates can occur on days other than Thursdays by agreement between the whips.

(H)

Standing order 193 be amended to read: 193 Members’ three minute statements

If the Main Committee meets before 10 am the first item of business shall be statements by Members. The Deputy Speaker may call a Member, including a Parliamentary Secretary but not a Minister, to make a statement for no longer than three minutes. The period for Members’ statements may continue for 30 minutes, irrespective of suspensions for divisions in the House.

Ms Anna Burke (Chisholm, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House:

(1)

notes that there has been an increased global trend for companies to relocate various parts of their operations to locations outside of the country where the service is being delivered—a practice often referred to as off-shoring;

(2)

notes that the practice of off-shoring has seen jobs and skills lost from the IT and finance sectors in Australia and that Deloitte Research predicts that 15% of all financial sector jobs will be moved off-shore by 2008;

(3)

recognises that participating in the global economy may deliver lower costs for local consumers and companies, however it must be done in a transparent and equitable manner; and

(4)

calls on the Government to act now, before the flood of jobs offshore sees Australia losing out, by:

(a)

ensuring privacy protection for consumers;

(b)

providing consumers with a ‘right to know’ so that service providers disclose the country of origin which provides their services, equivalent to country of origin product labelling;

(c)

developing a national skills base that is suited to the changing needs of the economy;

(d)

providing assistance in reskilling displaced workers; and

(e)

ensuring employees of the country where the jobs are relocated are also protected by ILO Labour Standards. (Notice given 8 February 2006.)

Luke Hartsuyker (Cowper, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House:

(1)

notes:

(a)

that the Pacific Highway is a State road designed, built, owned, and maintained by the New South Wales State Government;

(b)

that there have been unacceptable delays and substantial cost over-runs in the upgrade of the Pacific Highway to dual carriageway standard from Hexham to the Queensland border;

(c)

notwithstanding that the Pacific Highway is a state road, the Australian Government has made a substantial commitment to the upgrade under the Pacific Highway Reconstruction Program Agreement and Auslink;

(d)

that there have been unacceptable delays to the commencement of work on by-passing population centres along the highway;

(e)

tenders have been received for the construction of the Bonville Deviation and the State Minister for Roads, Mr Tripodi, plans to delay commencement of works until mid 2006; and

(f)

the public consultation process has failed to achieve route outcomes which are acceptable to communities along the highway; and

(2)

calls on the New South Wales Labor Government to:

(a)

exercise more stringent cost and project management control over the highway upgrade; and

(b)

accelerate progress on this upgrade with a view to completing a dual carriageway between Hexham and the Queensland border by 2016. (Notice given 8 February 2006.)

Jill Hall (Shortland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House:

(1)

recognises that Commonwealth base funding for the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program in New South Wales remains static (apart from indexation) for the five year term of the agreement;

(2)

notes that the existing budget for the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program is not large compared to many other government programs with the allocation for NSW in 2005-2006 being $111.2 million shared between the NSW and Commonwealth Governments;

(3)

calls on the Australian Government and this Parliament to allocate additional funding resources for New South Wales Supported Accommodation Assistance to ensure the sustainability of a program that is vital to the health and wellbeing of Australian community life;

(4)

recognises that the funding required is extremely modest at a time when the Commonwealth Budget is in record surplus; and

(5)

notes that as the homeless service system struggles to keep services operating on an ever diminishing funding pool, grave fears are held for the future for homeless people seeking assistance. (Notice given 8 February 2006.)

to move:

That this House condemns the Federal Government for:

(1)

failing to adequately fund healthcare in Australia;

(2)

its role in causing the current doctor and nurse shortage in Australia; and

(3)

failing to adequately address this shortage. (Notice given 8 February 2006.)