House debates
Thursday, 17 June 2010
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Health Insurance Amendment (Professional Services Review) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Snowdon, for Ms Roxon. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
On behalf of the Minister for Health and Ageing, I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Professional Services Review (PSR) Scheme and the Medicare Participation Review Committee...
- Export Market Development Grants Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
Debate resumed from 16 June, on motion by Mr Stephen Smith: That this bill be now read a second time.
- 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.
- Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
For the information of honourable members I present a replacement explanatory memorandum for the Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure Bill 2010.
- Tax Laws Amendment (Research and Development) Bill 2010; Income Tax Rates Amendment (Research and Development) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (21 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 May, on motion by Dr Emerson: That this bill be now read a second time.
- 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.
- Income Tax Rates Amendment (Research and Development) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 May, on motion by Dr Emerson: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time.
- 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.
- National Health Amendment (Continence AIDS Payment Scheme) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 12 May, on motion by Mrs Elliot: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Paid Parental Leave Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (6 speeches)
Bill returned from the Senate with amendments. Ordered that the amendments be considered immediately. Senate’s amendments— Schedule A (1) Clause 6, page 9 (after...
- Paid Parental Leave (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (0 speeches)
Bill returned from the Senate with an amendment. Ordered that the amendment be considered at a later hour this day.
- National Health Amendment (Continence AIDS Payment Scheme) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Prime Minister will be absent from question time today as he is attending the funeral of Sapper Jacob Moerland in Gayndah in Queensland. I am sure all members of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- 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...
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 45 of 2009-10 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 45 of 2009-10 entitled Performance audit: contracting for Defence Force recruiting services. Ordered that the report be made a parliamentary...
- 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 Votes and Proceedings and I move: That the House take note of the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Budget (11 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Dunkley proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The adverse impact of the...
- Paid Parental Leave Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (7 speeches)
Bill returned from the Senate with amendments. Ordered that the amendments be considered immediately. Senate’s amendments— Schedule B (1) Page 2 (after line 10),...
- Paid Parental Leave (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Bill returned from the Senate with an amendment. Ordered that the amendment be considered immediately. Senate’s amendment— (1) Schedule 2, Part 1, page 29 (line 2)...
- TAX LAWS AMENDMENT (2010 MEASURES; No. 2) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Bill returned from the Senate with amendments. Ordered that the amendments be considered immediately. Senate’s amendments— (1) Schedule 1, item 13, page 9 (after line 10),...
- TAX LAWS AMENDMENT (MEDICARE LEVY AND MEDICARE LEVY SURCHARGE) BILL 2010; CHILD SUPPORT AND FAMILY ASSISTANCE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (BUDGET AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2010; TAX LAWS AMENDMENT (2010 GST ADMINISTRATION MEASURES; No. 2) Bill 2010; TAX LAWS AMENDMENT (TRANSFER OF PROVISIONS) BILL 2010; MINISTERS OF STATE AMENDMENT BILL 2010; ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM AMENDMENT (PRE-POLL VOTING AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2010; Customs Tariff Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2010; HEALTH LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY PHARMACY AUTHORITY AND PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE) BILL 2010; AUSTRALIAN WINE AND BRANDY CORPORATION AMENDMENT BILL 2009; TRANSPORT SECURITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (2010 MEASURES NO. 1) BILL 2010; SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENT (FLEXIBLE PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS FOR PRINCIPAL CARERS) BILL 2010; INDIGENOUS EDUCATION (TARGETED ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT BILL 2010; Defence Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2010; PERSONAL PROPERTY SECURITIES (CORPORATIONS AND OTHER AMENDMENTS) BILL 2010; INTERSTATE ROAD TRANSPORT CHARGE AMENDMENT BILL 2010; INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION AMENDMENT BILL 2010; AIRPORTS (ON-AIRPORT ACTIVITIES ADMINISTRATION) VALIDATION BILL 2010; EXPORT MARKET DEVELOPMENT GRANTS AMENDMENT BILL 2010 (0 speeches)
- Returned from the Senate (0 speeches)
Message received from the Senate returning the bills without amendment or request.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Budget (30 speeches)
Consideration resumed.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Day for Daniel; HMAS Tobruk (1 speech)
On 29 October, Day for Daniel 2010 is being held. That has been organised by the Daniel Morcombe Foundation, which was established by Bruce and Denise Morcombe to commemorate the disappearance of...
- Building the Education Revolution Program (1 speech)
I would like to start off by talking about this government’s commitment to Australian schools and in particular our commitment to the education of our children. It should be no surprise to...
- McPherson Electorate: Senior Citizens (1 speech)
Today I would like to place on record my congratulations to four of my constituents who have reached some very special milestones. Mrs Eileen Caton celebrated her 100th birthday in April. Mrs Ivy...
- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (1 speech)
Next week, American entertainer and comedian Jerry Lewis will be in the parliament in his capacity as international patron for the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation of Australia. I am very grateful...
- Murray-Darling Basin (1 speech)
I rise again in this place to talk about the crisis in the Murray-Darling Basin and the catastrophic conditions faced by the communities in and around the Lower Lakes in my electorate and that of...
- Lowe Electorate: Livvi’s Place (2 speeches)
This afternoon, I provide an update on the great success of a project I brought to the attention of this House late last year. I am referring to Australia’s first all abilities playground,...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Sturt Electorate: Water (1 speech)
In my three-minute statement today I rise to talk about the plight of the residents of Skye, in my electorate, in relation to being connected to mains water. I know it sounds surprising that in a...
- Wear It with Pride Campaign (1 speech)
I am really looking forward—and I know you will be as well, Mr Deputy Speaker—to seeing the Wear It with Pride campaign that I am going to be involved with next week in Sydney. It is...
- Mr Colin McPhedran (1 speech)
It is with considerable sadness that I rise to inform the House of the passing of Col McPhedran. Many of you would know him as the father of Ian McPhedran, a well-known journalist, three...
- Braddon Electorate: National Primary Industry Centre for Science Education (1 speech)
I would like to talk about PICSE today—and I mean not the pixies at the bottom of the garden but a terrific program that was initiated in my electorate of Braddon by David Russell and a...
- Mr Grahame Rees (1 speech)
I rise today to remember the life of Grahame Rees, who was a Comcar driver in this place. Grahame was born on 20 December 1950 in Canberra hospital to parents Beryl and Ken. For every one of us...
- Blair Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
On 4 June I opened new facilities at Bethany Lutheran Primary School. They received a new learning hub and a new amenities block under the Rudd government’s Nation Building Economic...
- Defence Procurement (1 speech)
Last night on Lateline Tom Burbage, the Lockheed Martin head of the Joint Strike Fighter program, showed a total indifference to what is real and either misrepresented or, worse, lied about...
- Hindmarsh Electorate: Lower Murray (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the future of the Lower Murray, the Lower Lakes and the Coorong in South Australia. I am pleased to see in here the member for Mayo, who has been very outspoken on this issue....
- River Murray; Mayo Electorate: Road Toll (1 speech)
Firstly, I will speak briefly on a couple of points that the member for Hindmarsh made. Generally he is a good man, but it was of course John Howard and the member for Wentworth who initially...
- Solomon Electorate: Education (1 speech)
I rise this morning to briefly outline some of the fantastic Building the Education Revolution projects that are occurring in my electorate. As there had been some conjecture and plenty of debate...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2010-2011 (0 speeches)
- Consideration in Detail (97 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 16 June 2010. Immigration and Citizenship Portfolio Proposed expenditure, $1,996,327,000
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Main Committee do now adjourn.
- Hinkler Electorate: We Care 2 (1 speech)
Last week I had the pleasure of introducing the Leader of the Opposition to the marvellous work being carried out by the We Care 2 organisation in Hervey Bay. We Care 2 is the not-for-profit...
- Parliamentary Business (1 speech)
I want to talk about a couple of parliamentary things today. As this term of parliament ends, I do want to express my regret that what was I think a significant reform of parliamentary business...
- Ethiopia: Ogaden Community (1 speech)
Last week I had a lot of constituent meetings in my electorate and I want to raise one in particular in the House today. I was met by representatives of the Ogaden Community Association of...
- Vocational Education and Training (1 speech)
I believe that the opportunity to access education is possibly the most important thing that any government can give to Australia as a nation. Education is about our future. The fact that not all...
- Macquarie Youth Leadership Forum; Road Safety; Health and Community Services (1 speech)
The Hawkesbury and Blue Mountains region is a great place to live, work, raise a family and retire. It is surrounded by a picturesque World Heritage listed national park and stunning river...
- Aung San Suu Kyi (1 speech)
On Saturday it will be the 65th birthday of Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi and about the 14th birthday that she has spent incarcerated. She is currently serving a three-year jail sentence which...
