House debates
Tuesday, 19 June 2007
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, is it not the case that the latest official ABS figures show that productivity growth averaged 3.3 per cent per annum in the five years from...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Hon. David Simmons, a former minister. On behalf of the House I extend to him a very warm welcome.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (33 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. Is it the case that, according to the most recent figures in the OECD’s productivity database, Australia’s annual average growth rate for...
- Broadband (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport and Regional Services. It is also about productivity. Would the Deputy Prime Minister inform the House how the...
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question again is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister’s answer to the last question when he quoted the Reserve Bank Governor. I also refer the Prime Minister to this...
- New South Wales Budget (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Has the Treasurer seen the outcomes of the New South Wales budget handed down today? What does the increase in New South Wales Labor government debt,...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. I refer to his claim that productivity growth is just fine. Prime Minister, if productivity growth is surging, why does the Treasurer’s...
- Broadband (10 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Would the minister advise the House how the government is expanding rural and regional telecommunications into...
- Workplace Relations (8 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Would the minister inform the House how incidents of workplace bullying and coercion have been reduced by...
- Telecommunications (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister agree with statements made by Liberal Senator Judith Adams when she said, ‘People in rural areas cannot expect proper...
- Dental Health (9 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister advise the House how the government’s new dental program will assist people suffering from a chronic...
- Liberal Party (2 speeches)
My question is to the Special Minister of State. Can the minister confirm that his chief of staff, Mr Peter Phelps, contacted the Electoral Commissioner on Wednesday after he became aware of the...
- Afghanistan (5 speeches)
My question is to the foreign minister. Would the minister update the House on Australian support for the people of Afghanistan to rebuild their country? Are there any alternative policies?
- Liberal Party (2 speeches)
My question is again to the Special Minister of State. Further to my previous question: what precisely did Mr Phelps say to Mr Bodel?
- Water (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources. Can the minister update the House on progress with the implementation of the National Plan for Water Security? Will the...
- Liberal Party (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to his comment last Thursday that neither the Lodge nor Kirribilli House were ever ‘made available to the Liberal Party’. What was the...
- Exports (3 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Trade. Would the minister advise the House about the export performance of the wool industry? Is the minister aware of any threats to...
- Committee Administrative Practice (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Following questions raised in the House last December concerning committee practice, I asked the Deputy Speaker for advice on whether action was required to clarify any issues of committee...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Parliament House: Water Use (1 speech)
On 12 June the member for Hinkler asked where the stormwater from Parliament House is stored. Stormwater from Parliament House is not stored but runs into the ACT stormwater system. The ACT is...
- Parliament House: Demonstration (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question to you as a supplementary question to the question asked by the member for Lindsay during last week’s parliamentary sitting. It relates to the outrageous...
- Privilege (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question to you relates to an article in the Australian on 1 May 2007 entitled ‘Bishop’s last crack at Speaker’s chair’. In this article, Mrs Bishop’s...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
I seek to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 45 of 2006-07 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit report No. 45 of 2006-07 entitled Performance audit—The National Black Spot Programme: Department of Transport and Regional Services. Ordered...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Privilege (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, under standing orders 51 and 52, could you examine the matters I raised before to determine whether there is a prima facie case of privilege?
- Telecommunications (2 speeches)
I want to ask you a question, Mr Speaker, relating to the matter that the Manager of Opposition Business raised during question time which you asked be raised after question time. The House of...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Broadband (21 speeches)
I have received letters from the honourable member for Melbourne and the honourable member for Moreton proposing that definite matters of public importance be submitted to the House for...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Migration Amendment (Review Provisions) Bill 2006; Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2007; Food Standards Australia New Zealand Amendment Bill 2007; Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Amendment (Cosmetics) Bill 2007; Gene Technology Amendment Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Referred to Main Committee (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the bills be referred to the Main Committee for further consideration. Question agreed to.
- Tax Laws Amendment (Simplified GST Accounting) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (10 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 June, on motion by Mr Dutton: 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.
- Wheat Marketing Amendment Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (11 speeches)
Debate resumed from 14 June, on motion by Mr McGauran: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Broadband (1 speech)
I rise with a sense of considerable indignation, representing the electorate of Denison and, I suppose more broadly, the people of Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania. To give you some sense of...
- Wing Commander Robert Henry Maxwell Gibbes (1 speech)
I rise tonight in this adjournment debate to pay tribute to arguably one of the most distinguished fighter pilots this country has ever seen: Wing Commander Robert Henry Maxwell Gibbes DSO, DFC...
- Broadband (3 speeches)
The government has failed on all counts to deliver what it should have delivered 11 years ago to the Australian people. Now that the government is staring down the barrel of an election gun, it...
- Blair Electorate: Ipswich Motorway (1 speech)
It was an incredible day on the Ipswich Motorway today for residents of the electorate of Blair who rely on the motorway as their route for getting to and from the city of Brisbane. I heard of...
- Oxley Electorate: Ipswich Motorway; Fuel Prices (3 speeches)
After the member for Blair’s ranting it would be wrong of me not to respond in some way and correct some of the mistruths that he has put onto the record, but there are so many I will not...
- Fuel Prices; Broadband (2 speeches)
Let me begin by reminding the member for Oxley that, if we were still running Labor’s excise system on fuel, petrol would now be substantially more expensive—that is, 17.2c a litre...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
The following notices were given:
