Jason Clare (Blaxland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

welcomes the drop in home repossessions and the increase in housing sales in Western Sydney in the last few months;

(2)

recognises the importance of the Rudd Government’s First Home Owner’s Boost and interest rate cuts in improving housing affordability; and

(3)

condemns the Coalition for their criticism of this important stimulus to the economy and its opposition to the Nation Building and Jobs Plan.

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

to move:

That the House:

(1)

recognises the extraordinary deeds of John Simpson Kirkpatrick who demonstrated courage above and beyond the call of duty when he and his donkeys rescued injured soldiers from the battle fields of Gallipoli;

(2)

calls for the Government to award a posthumous Victoria Cross to ‘Simpson’ in accordance with the wishes of his World War I Commanding Officers and the many thousands of Australians both young and old who demand this recognition for his acts of bravery;

(3)

believes it is a travesty of justice that he has been denied the award of the Victoria Cross for all these years; and

(4)

notes that all Australians would strongly support the posthumous awarding of his honour.

to move:

That the House:

(1)

is made aware that Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) affects as many as 1 in 250 Australian children, and that its associated eye disease is the leading cause of childhood blindness in Australia today;

(2)

recognises the physical, emotional, and financial burden that this chronic disease places upon the family unit; and

(3)

calls on the Government to:

(a)

establish a National Database for JIA, so that early diagnosis and professional support can be given to these families through the Australian Paediatric Rheumatology Group; and

(b)

implement specialised clinics with Visiting Medical Officers at major regional hospitals throughout Australia.

Bob Katter (Kennedy, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That, recognising the necessity to preserve manufacturing in Australia to address rising unemployment and the plight of people about to be dismissed at Pacific Brands, the House:

(1)

calls on the Government to:

(a)

introduce ‘an emergency measure under WTO rules’ to provide an interim 15 per cent tariff on goods that are imported to replace textile clothing and footwear (TCF) items such as those produced at Pacific Brands; and

(b)

abandon its intention to abolish the existing TCF tariff regime; and

(2)

directs the Government to finance a loan to allow Pacific Brands workers to purchase significant shareholdings in the company through salary sacrifice arrangements in order to purchase a share issue made to provide the refinancing funds needed to enable continued manufacturing by Pacific Brands in Australia.

to present a bill for an act to amend the Trade Practices Act 1974.

to present a bill for an act to amend the Quarantine Proclamation 1998.

Luke Hartsuyker (Cowper, National Party, Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

condemns the Government’s decision to allow the importation of bananas from the Philippines in view of the direct threat such imports pose to the disease free nature of the Australian banana growing industry; and

(2)

expresses concern that:

(a)

there is a high prevalence of banana pests and diseases in the Philippines;

(b)

the decision has apparently been taken in disregard of previous failings by the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service to secure our borders against damaging infections and diseases; and

(c)

the health of the Australian banana growing industry will now depend on the inspection regime in the Philippines.