House debates
Thursday, 15 May 2008
- Health Care (Appropriation) Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Ms Roxon. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This very important bill proposes to amend the Health Care (Appropriation) Act 1998. That act was made to permit the Minister for Health and...
- Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Ms Roxon. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2008 will amend the Private Health Insurance Act 2007 and relevant provisions of the...
- Excise Legislation Amendment (Condensate) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Bowen. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Excise Legislation Amendment (Condensate) Bill 2008 amends the Excise Act 1901, the Petroleum Excise (Prices) Act 1987, and the Petroleum...
- Excise Tariff Amendment (Condensate) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Bowen. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Excise Tariff Amendment (Condensate) Bill 2008 amends the Excise Tariff Act 1921 to apply the crude oil excise regime to condensate produced...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Publications Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the report from the Publications Committee sitting in conference with the Publications Committee of the Senate. Copies of the report are being placed on the table. Report—by...
- Military Memorials of National Significance Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (11 speeches)
Debate resumed from 19 March, on motion by Mr Griffin: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties I present the committee’s report entitled Report 90—treaties tabled on 12 March 2008. Ordered that the report be made a...
- Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Consideration resumed from 14 May. Senate’s amendments— (1) Clause 2, page 2 (table item 8), omit the table item, substitute: 8. Schedule 1,...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: The consideration of government business order of the day No.3, Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government—Appointment of...
- Reserve Bank Amendment (Enhanced Independence) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (17 speeches)
Debate resumed from 14 May, on motion by Mr Swan: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (National Broadband Network) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill received from the Senate, and read a first time.
- Second Reading (10 speeches)
I present the explanatory memorandum to the bill and move: That this bill be now read a second time Access to high-speed broadband services is critical to Australia’s future economic...
- Consideration in Detail (4 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Reserve Bank Amendment (Enhanced Independence) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (18 speeches)
Debate resumed from 14 May, on motion by Mr Swan: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Australian High Commission in Fiji (1 speech)
On indulgence, Mr Speaker, I regret to advise that our High Commission in Fiji has today received a second death threat against the High Commissioner and his staff. Members of the House will be...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why has the Prime Minister’s high-taxing budget failed to take any decisive action to deal with grocery, petrol and mortgage stress on Australian...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the Gallery this afternoon Representative Park, former chairperson of the ruling Grand National Party of the Republic of Korea. On behalf of the House I...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (19 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and further to his last answer and refusal to apologise. I refer him to the forecast loss of more than 134,000 jobs within the next year due to Labor’s...
- Building Australia Fund (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Would the minister advise the House on the feedback he has received on the...
- Budget (13 speeches)
Thank you, Mr Speaker.
- Education Funding (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. Will the minister explain the opportunities offered by the...
- Budget (46 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer to his previous answer where he said that the additional tax on alcopops will reduce their consumption. Could the Prime Minister explain,...
- National Security (5 speeches)
My question without notice is to the Minister for Defence. Will the minister outline to the House the government’s continued commitment to the defence of this country.
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to a plea from the Holdsworth family of Nelson in the Hobart Mercury: Kevin Rudd don’t hit us with luxury car tax on our...
- Regional Development (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Would the minister outline how the government is assisting regional development in...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer confirm that, as a direct result of policy decisions taken by his government to increase taxes, revenue will increase by $19 billion...
- Rudd Government (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (43 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Wentworth moving immediately:That:(1)this House condemn the Rudd Government for the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Illegal Fishing (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Will the minister update the House on developments relating to fishing off the coast of Northern Australia?
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Budget (14 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek leave to add to an answer I gave earlier to a question by the member for Dickson, who I do not think is with us anymore.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 33 of 2007-08 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 33 of 2007-08 entitled The National Capital Authority’s management of national assets: National Capital Authority. Ordered that the...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (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.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Seniors and Carers (7 speeches)
by leave—Carers perform a vital role in our community caring for people with disabilities, the frail, the elderly and the infirm. They do a selfless job which often prevents them from...
- World Intellectual Property Organisation: Nomination of New Director-General (6 speeches)
by leave—This ministerial statement relates to the nomination of a new Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organisation. The Rudd Labor government places a high priority on...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Budget (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker has received a letter from the honourable member for Dickson proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The economic...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 8, government business, be postponed until the next sitting. Question agreed to. Sitting suspended from 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2008-2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 13 May, on motion by Mr Swan: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The following notices were given:
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Franchises (1 speech)
I rise today to bring to the attention of the parliament a subject that has been raised before in parliament but which still continues to be a problem in my electorate of Swan, in Western...
- Carers (1 speech)
I have an enormous respect for the contribution made by carers in my community. In my electorate of Bass we have a tremendous number of carers, each and every one of whom deserves our thanks and...
- Gilmore Electorate: Fiona Lodge Ronald McDonald Beach House (1 speech)
Fiona Lodge Ronald McDonald Beach House is a special type of house located close to Bateman’s Bay, in my electorate of Gilmore. It is a special place because it provides free holidays to...
- Aldinga Aero Club (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate the Aldinga Aero Club for the terrific services they provide to southern Adelaide. On Sunday, 30 March I experienced firsthand how the Aldinga Aero Club touches the...
- Fadden Electorate: St Stephen's College; Chaplaincy Program (1 speech)
Madam Deputy Speaker Burke, how pleasant to be in the same chamber. I rise this morning to acknowledge some of our great school captains and school leaders within the schools in Fadden, the...
- Robertson Electorate: After-Hours Medical Services (2 speeches)
I rise this morning to draw the attention of this House to the concerns of a group located at Kariong in my electorate. Kariong is a relatively new suburb, first settled about the time I actually...
- McPherson Electorate: Lions Youth of the Year (1 speech)
Earlier this year I had the privilege once again to be chairperson of the judging panel of the Lions Club of Palm Beach-Currumbin’s 45th Lions Youth of the Year contest. I was joined this...
- Glenelg to Adelaide Pipeline (1 speech)
I rise to speak today on a great water-saving project within the electorate of Hindmarsh that was announced as part of the budget on Tuesday night—the Glenelg to Adelaide water-recycling...
- Health: Drug Abuse (1 speech)
We are all very well aware of the terrible toll that the abuse of legal and illegal drugs has on Australians. It is not just the deaths and the debilitated mental and physical health of drug...
- Budget (2 speeches)
The Rudd Labor government’s first budget has delivered on a number of election commitments for my electorate of Charlton. During the election campaign, a commitment was made to fund a GP...
- Protection of the Sea (Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage) Bill 2008; Protection of the Sea (Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (7 speeches)
Debate resumed from 20 March, on motion by Mr Albanese: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Protection of the Sea (Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 20 March, on motion by Mr Albanese: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time. Ordered that the bill be reported to the House...
- Governor-General’S Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (10 speeches)
Debate resumed from 14 May, on motion by Mr Hale: That the address be agreed to.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Main Committee do now adjourn.
- Zimbabwe (1 speech)
I am particularly pleased to be able to join in the adjournment debate in the Main Committee today. I would like to highlight the tragic events which are unfolding on a daily basis in Zimbabwe. I...
- Human Rights; Sudan (1 speech)
I commend the member for Fisher on his remarks on Zimbabwe and note that the Human Rights Subcommittee of this parliament will be holding hearings on Zimbabwe, Darfur and Burma in Sydney on 12...
- Budget (1 speech)
Labor’s high-taxing; high-spending budget is a slap in the face for the working families that the Rudd government promised to fight for. The working families in my electorate of Greenway...
- Renewable Energy: Nichols Poultry (7 speeches)
I would like to talk about chickens—but not just any chickens. These are chickens that have been air chilled—and not just air chilled but air chilled through a process that is fuelled...
- La Trobe Electorate: Burrinja Cultural Centre (1 speech)
In this place on 14 February and again on 3 March this year I spoke about the importance of the redevelopment of the Burrinja Cultural Centre in Upwey, in my electorate of La Trobe. In August...
- Green Corps (1 speech)
Recently I had the great pleasure of representing the Minister for Employment Participation, Mr O’Connor, at graduation ceremonies for participants in two local Green Corps projects. One...
