House debates

Thursday, 16 February 2012

  • Qantas (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister that 1,500 Qantas jobs are now at risk and the Qantas carbon tax bill is four times its current tax bill. Why is the Prime...
  • Economy (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. How is returning to surplus vital for supporting jobs and managing the economy in the interests of working people?
  • Carbon Pricing (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of the comments of John Hannagan, local chairman of the world's largest aluminium company: China is now the major competitor in...
  • Economy (10 speeches)
    My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on today's employment numbers? And how is the government supporting jobs and growth in our economy?
  • Carbon Pricing (14 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, last night it was revealed in Senate estimates that neither the Department of Tourism nor the Treasury have conducted any modelling on the...
  • Qantas (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Workplace Relations. Last year, in the face of Qantas's plan to start cutting jobs and offshoring, Qantas workers were bargaining for job security provisions....
  • Employment (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and Minister for Industry and Innovation. What is the government doing to support jobs and to promote clean technology in...
  • Cost of Living (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister explain why an engineer earning $90,000 a year who is married to a police officer earning $90,000 a year, and with a young child,...
  • Economy (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation. How is the government managing the economy while building the...
  • Labor Party Leadership (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of the question that Laurie Oakes put to the foreign minister yesterday, 'Do you think that Julia Gillard was distributing...
  • Employment (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government, and Minister for the Arts. What is the government doing to create sustainable and long-term...
  • Prime Minister (19 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of Ms Kim Sattler's statement: 'Before the riot on Australia Day I had more than one phone conversation and more than one text...
  • Education (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Will the minister inform the House of the investment the government has made in education to provide working people...
  • Prime Minister (9 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to this statement by her head of communications, John McTernan: The key is to … set out a defensible truth: one that you...
  • Forestry (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Will the minister update the House on the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement and the...
  • Gillard Government (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's declaration that, 'Before you can persuade Australians of your credentials to run the country, you have to show you can run...