House debates

Thursday, 27 February 2014

  • Qantas (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's pre-election promise to create one million jobs in five years. Given that the government has known about the potential job...
  • Employment (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the government's plan to grow a stronger economy and create jobs in the light of the announcement by Qantas today?
  • Qantas (33 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. The Treasurer met with Qantas in early December last year. A massive profit write-down was announced by Qantas on 5 December last year. There has been...
  • Biofuels (5 speeches, 1 comment)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Australia's self-sufficiency in oil throughout the last half-century saw it send, in 2001, under $1 billion to the Middle East. Australia now sends $23...
  • Economy (6 speeches, 1 comment)
    My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline the importance of improving productivity in the Australian economy. What are the alternative approaches? How will increasing...
  • Qantas (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to ongoing speculation since early December that the government would offer support for a stand-by facility. Prime Minister, what will be the...
  • Carbon Pricing (15 speeches, 1 comment)
    My question is to the Minister for Small Business. Will the minister outline the impact of the carbon tax on small business? What is the government doing to ensure prices for electricity and gas...
  • Ministerial Staff: Code of Conduct (16 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. What was the role of the former chief of staff to Senator Nash at the event in this photo, where the Prime Minister announced a $16 million grant for Cadbury?
  • Carbon Pricing (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for the Environment. I refer to the Australian Capital Territory's draft electricity price determination that shows that prices would fall by 12 per cent without a...
  • Ministerial Staff: Code of Conduct (7 speeches)
    My question is again to the Prime Minister. When did the Prime Minister or his office first become aware of Cadbury's request for a $16 million grant to redevelop its manufacturing facility in...
  • Carbon Pricing (10 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Industry. I refer to comments by the Northern Territory Treasurer that the Northern Territory Power and Water Corporation has a carbon tax bill of over $20...
  • Ministerial Staff: Code of Conduct (20 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the role of Senator Nash's former chief of staff in the redevelopment of the Cadbury factory in Tasmania. Can the Prime Minister guarantee that...
  • Australian Defence Force (14 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, representing the Minister for Defence. I remind the minister that each year thousands of men and women in the Australian Defence Force serve...
  • Cadbury Factory (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. If the Cadbury grant was a part of normal industry assistance, why didn't Cadbury apply to the government as part of the process that we established for the...
  • Trade Unions (20 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Education, representing the Minister for Employment.
  • Qantas (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Given the Prime Minister's tenacity in fighting for the job of the assistant health minister, and given the Prime Minister's failure to outline any plan to...
  • Asylum Seekers (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on how many weeks have passed since the last successful people-smuggling venture made it...
  • Paid Parental Leave (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Given the revelation that the Commission of Audit has called on the government to dump its excessive, gold-plated Paid Parental Leave scheme, will the Prime...
  • Illicit Drugs (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Justice. Will the minister inform the House how federal law enforcement agencies are making the streets of my electorate safer from the dangers of illicit drugs?