House debates

Monday, 12 October 2015

  • Workplace Relations (18 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister provide any evidence to substantiate the claim that slashing penalty rates will increase employment opportunities?
  • Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Trade and Investment—the minister who was known as Mr Trifecta. He will now need a new name, given his—
  • Workplace Relations (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Shane Townsend is a full-time security guard, who works the night shift to earn about $24,000 a year in penalty rates. Shane's mother is on an age pension...
  • Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Will the minister update the House on how the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement will help to secure farm gate returns and to...
  • Infrastructure (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the latest ABS statistics, which show public infrastructure spending has fallen by 20 per cent since the coalition was elected. When will the...
  • Innovation (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science. Will the minister update the House on how the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement will boost innovation, so creating jobs and...
  • Infrastructure (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure. On Sunday, when speaking about the Gold Coast light rail project, the Prime Minister said that the project...
  • Trade with China (7 speeches)
    My question is for the
  • Infrastructure (18 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment. Is the minister aware that the so-called new project to improve the Monash Freeway that he announced in today's Herald Sun, was, one,...
  • Public Transport (7 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister stand by his statement in 2008: 'What we haven't done'—'we' being federal governments—'is spend a lot of money,...