House debates
Thursday, 25 June 2009
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Approval of Work (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Support, I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, it is expedient to carry out the following...
- National Consumer Credit Protection Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Bowen. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Today, I introduce a bill that will deliver on the commitment of the Rudd government to modernise Australia’s consumer credit laws. This...
- National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential) Provisions Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Bowen. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential) Provisions Bill sets out the transitional and consequential arrangements...
- National Consumer Credit Protection (Fees) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Bowen. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The National Consumer Credit Protection (Fees) Bill forms part of a reform package which will provide for one single, standard and uniform regime...
- Corporations Legislation Amendment (Finanical Services Modernisation) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Bowen. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Corporations Legislation Amendment (Financial Services Modernisation) Bill 2009 will amend the Corporations Act 2001 to provide for the...
- Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Measures No. 4) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Dr Emerson. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill amends various taxation laws to implement a range of improvements to Australia’s tax laws. Schedule 1 implements a change to the...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Register of Members’ Interests (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
As required by resolutions of the House, I table copies of notifications of alterations of interests received during the period 27 March 2009 and 24 June 2009.
- Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (19 speeches)
Debate resumed from 3 June, on motion by Ms Roxon: 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.
- Migration Amendment (Abolishing Detention Debt) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (19 speeches, 1 comment)
Debate resumed from 24 June, on motion by Mr Laurie Ferguson: 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.
- Social Security Amendment (Training Incentives) Bill 2009; Social Security Legislation Amendment (Improved Support for Carers) Bill 2009; Social Security Legislation Amendment (Improved Support for Carers) (Consequential and Transitional) Bill 2009; Defence Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2009; Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Measures No. 3) Bill 2009; Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (2008 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2009; Family Assistance Amendment (Further 2008 Budget Measures) Bill 2009; Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care) Bill 2009; Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register Levy) Bill 2009; Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Australian Apprentices) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Messages from the Governor-General reported informing the House of assent to the bills.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (8 speeches)
Debate resumed from 23 June, on motion by Mr Combet: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In asking this question I stress that I am seeking information; I am not making an accusation. Can the Prime Minister confirm that in 2002 Mr John Grant and...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Before giving the call to the member for Solomon I inform members that we have in the galleries today mayors and shire presidents from around Australia who are here today as part of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on recently released reports on the Australian economy? Will the Prime Minister compare the performance of the...
- Aussie Rent Pty Ltd (13 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. Mr Speaker, again I stress that I am not making an accusation; I am simply seeking information.
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer please update the House on assessments from key global economic institutions of the government’s economic stimulus?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the House that we have in the gallery today Mr John Trainor, a former speaker of the South Australian parliament. On behalf of members, I extend to him a warm welcome.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- OzCar (5 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to his interview on ABC radio this morning about the OzCar scandal, when he was asked three times how many—
- Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. What new initiatives has the government taken to build a partnership with local government...
- OzCar (8 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to last night’s interview where the ABC’s Tony Jones asked the finance minister whether it was ‘odd’ to plead the...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Will the minister outline the importance of productivity for long-term sustainable growth? Why is investment in nation-building...
- OzCar (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister agree with his minister for finance’s assessment last night of OzCar when he said: If you look at the total picture you will...
- Iran (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the government’s response to developments in Iran?
- OzCar (2 speeches)
I refer the Treasurer to an interview on Radio National this morning with Longreach car dealer Jane Colvin. Jane Colvin says that when she contacted her local MP, the member for Flynn, to inquire...
- Building and Construction Industry: Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing and Minister for the Status of Women. Will the minister inform the House about any new information on the impact of the government’s plan to...
- OzCar (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the Treasurer’s interview on AM this morning.
- Climate Change (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Service Delivery. Would the minister inform the House of the impacts of climate change on rural and...
- OzCar (12 speeches)
Mr Speaker—
- Exports (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Will the minister inform the House on the outlook for agricultural exports? What opportunities are there for the government...
- Climate Change (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, in regard to energy use and climate change, if your government is committed to better energy efficiency, committed to delays or avoidance of...
- Pensions and Benefits (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Will the minister outline how the government’s secure and sustainable pension reforms will...
- OzCar (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his announcement that the Auditor-General will investigate and report on the OzCar affair. Will the Prime Minister guarantee...
- Climate Change (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Energy and Minister for Tourism. Would the minister update the House about Australia’s plans with respect to membership of the International...
- OzCar (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. I refer the Attorney to his previous answer in this House, where he stressed the importance of an independent police investigation into the creation of an...
- Agriculture (22 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. I congratulate him on his statement yesterday on forestry. Can the minister outline the government’s priorities in...
- Business (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Firstly, to assist the House, to advise members of what are likely to be the arrangements—there is not certainty because there is not certainty about what is occurring in the...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (1 speech)
My attention has been drawn to a list I tabled on 1 June outlining off-network projects that are being delivered as part of the nation building program. My department has now updated the list and...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Montevideo Maru (2 speeches)
War brings many tragedies and next week we commemorate one of the greatest tragedies of the Second World War. On 1 July 1942, a United States submarine patrolling the Babuyan Channel leading from...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Reports: Government Responses (1 speech)
For the information of honourable Members, I present a schedule of outstanding government responses to reports of House of Representatives and joint committees, incorporating reports tabled and...
- Evidence and Records (1 speech)
Pursuant to the resolutions of the Senate on 6 September 1984 and the House of Representatives on 11 October 1984 I present a report on the release of evidence and records of joint committees for...
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report Nos 46 and 47 of 2008-09 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General’s Audit reports Nos 46 and 47 of 2008-09 entitled No. 46, Business continuity management and emergency management in Centrelink-Centrelink, and No. 47,...
- 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 the Votes and Proceedings and I move: That the House take note of...
- Leave of Absence (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That leave of absence be given to every Member of the House of Representatives from the determination of this sitting of the House to the date of its next sitting. Question agreed to.
- Disability Discrimination and Other Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Bill returned from the Senate with amendment. Ordered that the amendment be considered immediately. Senate’s amendments— (1) Schedule 2, item 60, page 18 (lines 3...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Economy (14 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for North Sydney proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The growth in...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Member Tributes: Higgins and Bradfield (1 speech)
It is difficult to follow on from the member for Casey, but I follow on the topic that he was seeking to pursue. In the adjournment debate this evening, I will use the opportunity to talk about...
- Swinburne University (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak about a TAFE funding program that was announced in my electorate of Deakin last Friday, 19 June, by Minister Mark Arbib in his role as acting Minister for Employment...
- Canning Electorate (7 speeches)
I have previously spoken about the intense involvement of the Australian Workers Union in the Canning campaign of the 2007 federal election. Canning was a hotbed of union activity, as 2,000 of...
- Lindsay Electorate: Cranebrook (1 speech)
It is with great pride that I rise this evening to acknowledge an announcement that was made by the Hon. Peter Garrett and the Hon. Carmel Tebbutt, the federal and state environment ministers, on...
- Defence (1 speech)
I rise today as I have a very real concern with regard to the current state and future direction of Australia’s defence policy. I am particularly troubled by the deliberate obfuscation of...
- Economy (4 speeches)
I think I will be the last speaker at the end of a very, very long week for you, Mr Speaker, before the House of Representatives takes a break, during which politicians go out into the real...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Kalgoorlie Electorate: Kimberley Coast (1 speech)
I rise this morning in this place to bring to the House’s attention the fact that on the Kimberley coast in Western Australia we are planning to create an LNG processing hub specifically...
- Disability Services: Product Standards (1 speech)
People with disabilities become used to adapting to a world where everyday objects, buildings and systems are not designed for their needs. Sadly, it is the people with disabilities who have to...
- Red Nose Day (2 speeches)
As we draw near to the winter recess and the attention of the members of this place turns to electoral issues, family and friends—and, for some, warmer climates—I would like to take...
- Lowe Electorate: Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport (1 speech)
Today I am very pleased to record that phase 1 of the runway end safety area at Sydney airport has been completed on schedule. This means that restrictions on the use of the east-west runway at...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Remember what Labor said prior to the 2007 election: A Rudd Labor Government will help all Australians play their part in the fight against climate change by making it easier to take practical...
- Reid Electorate: Public Education (1 speech)
On 7 May I was honoured to host a visit by the Speaker, Harry Jenkins, to two schools in my electorate. One of them, Granville Boys High School, is an area where we are seeing major efforts being...
- Forrest Electorate: Youth Allowance (1 speech)
I rise to call on the Minister for Education to respond to students and parents in my electorate who are affected by the proposed changes to Youth Allowance. There is no doubt that these changes...
- Lindsay Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours Recipients (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to a number of local residents in my community who received Queen’s Birthday honours. I would like to acknowledge Barry Walsh OAM, John King OAM and Ronald Richter...
- Mitchell Electorate: New South Wales Land Acquisition (1 speech)
I rise this morning to express my dismay at the passing of an amendment to the Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act in the New South Wales parliament this week. This act was allegedly...
- Throsby Electorate: Nation Building and Jobs Plan (2 speeches)
The government’s stimulus package has been derided by many opposition members as a wasteful cash splash. Nothing could be further from the truth, as one of my constituents explained to me...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Legislation Amendment Bill 2009; Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Safety Levies) Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (36 speeches)
Debate resumed from 19 March, on motion by Mr Martin Ferguson: That these bills be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Main Committee do now adjourn.
- Bowel Cancer Screening (1 speech)
There are five million Australians missing out on a test that could save lives. New data on bowel cancer screening highlights the urgent need to fully implement screening for all Australians over...
- Building the Education Revolution (1 speech)
I commend the member for Tangney for raising the issue of bowel cancer screening and I support his call to make the test available to people generally who are over 50. I know the importance of...
- Budget: National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (1 speech)
Today in the Australian parliament I want to yet again bat for the constituents of Ryan who have contacted me in relation to the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program. In recent weeks I have...
- Tourism; Forestry (1 speech)
Good afternoon, colleagues. I would like to mention two things that are related to my electorate and that are very important economic drivers: tourism and forestry. The first, related to tourism,...
- Dr Mal Washer; Herbert Electorate: Rotary Awards, Roads and Aerospace Precinct (1 speech)
Some of you will know that our colleague Dr Mal Washer, the member for Moore, was rushed to hospital last night. Mal was able to diagnose himself as having appendicitis. He wanted to go back to...
- Stroke (1 speech)
Today I would like to raise the issue of stroke. I have been approached by the Stroke and Disability Information (Hunter) Inc. group—an organisation that is fondly referred to as SADI. It...
