House debates
Thursday, 17 June 2010
- Budget (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer the Deputy Prime Minister to the Prime Minister’s commitment that he would take personal control of the supertax... - Economy (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Education and Minister for Social Inclusion. How does Australia’s current economic strength... - Government (5 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer the Deputy Prime Minister to reports that the Minister for Trade has directed bureaucrats in his department to contact bureaucrats in other... - Public Hospitals (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister update the House on the latest performances of our public hospitals in delivering more elective surgery and more doctors... - Budget (34 speeches)
My question is directed to the Minister for Trade. I refer the minister to the answer he gave in this House on Tuesday to my question about his advance knowledge of the government’s great... - Paid Parental Leave (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. How is the government supporting families to make their own work and family choices? - Budget (8 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer guarantee that no worker in the mining industry or their family will be worse off as a result of the government’s great big new tax on... - Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Why is investment in regional infrastructure in mining communities important? Is the... - Budget (10 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer the Deputy Prime Minister to this letter to shareholders from OneSteel Chairman Peter Smedley, and I quote from it: The Whyalla and Newcastle... - Resources (27 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Energy and Minister for Tourism. Will the minister inform the House of the outlook for investment in the resources sector? - Budget (25 speeches)
I refer the Minister for Housing to the report from Cement Concrete and Aggregates Australia, the representative body for the quarrying industry, that building materials will increase in cost... - Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and it relates to the funding of aged-care providers and wage rates for aged-care workers. The Deputy Prime Minister would be aware that the... - Small Business (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs and Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy. Minister, how will the... - Building the Education Revolution Program (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. I refer the minister to a media report that the Reed Group has been awarded a $1 million bonus for building 10 prefabricated libraries, each of which... - Budget (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing and Minister for the Status of Women. What are the government’s housing programs delivering in south-west Sydney? Are there any risks to the... - Asylum Seekers (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. I refer the minister to the fact that, since the introduction of the assessment freeze for Afghan and Sri Lankan asylum seekers on 9 April, 31... - Indigenous Employment (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. How is the Northern Territory cattle industry helping to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous... - Budget (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to a report that if the government increased the superprofit threshold on its great big new tax on mining to 12.5 per cent it would... - Schools (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. How is the government investing in our schools and are there any...
