House debates
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Private Members’ Business; Report (1 speech)
I present the report of the recommendations of the whips relating to committee and delegation reports and private members’ business on Monday, 14 September 2009. Copies of the report have...
- Foreign States Immunities Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Referred to Main Committee (1 speech)
I move: That the bill be referred to the Main Committee for further consideration. I inform all honourable members that this motion enjoys the support of the Chief Opposition Whip, the honourable...
- Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Marles, for Ms Kate Ellis. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This government is determined to deliver on our election commitment to rebuild essential student services and amenities on university campuses....
- Higher Education Support Amendment (Vet Fee-Help and Tertiary Admission Centres) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Marles, for Ms Kate Ellis. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill amends the Higher Education Support Act 2003 as part of the Australian government’s extension of the VET FEE-HELP Assistance...
- Migration Amendment (Complementary Protection) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (0 speeches)
Bill and explanatory memorandum presented by Mr Laurie Ferguson. Bill read a first time.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Rudd Labor government is committed to promoting sound, transparent and independent immigration decision making that reflects principles of...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, I present the committee’s report entitled Report 104—treaties tabled on 20 August 2009. Order that the report be made a...
- Aviation Transport Security Amendment (2009 Measures No. 1) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (9 speeches)
Debate resumed from 8 September, on motion by Mr Albanese: 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.
- Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Termination Payments) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (14 speeches)
Debate resumed from 24 June, on motion by Mr Bowen: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Building the Education Revolution Program (4 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations, Education and Social Inclusion. I refer the minister to today’s revelation that Building the...
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the latest economic data and the government’s ongoing strategy to tackle the continuing global recession?
- Building the Education Revolution Program (12 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Education and Minister for Social Inclusion. I refer the minister to her answer...
- G20 Finance Ministers Meeting (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the outcomes of the G20 finance ministers meeting held over the weekend in London?
- Building the Education Revolution Program (3 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Education and Minister for Social Inclusion. I refer the minister to her answer...
- Economy (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Human Services and the Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law. What role has the government stimulus package played in supporting...
- Building the Education Revolution Program (6 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. I refer the minister to her previous...
- Economy (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs and Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy.
- Building the Education Revolution Program (8 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Education and Minister for Social Inclusion. I refer the minister to an estimate from...
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. What challenges to improving Australia’s productivity confronted the government when it took office? Is the government’s...
- Building the Education Revolution Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. I refer to the report in today’s...
- Budget (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister update the House on the government’s plans to reform the health system through sensible saving measures to ensure its...
- Building the Education Revolution Program (12 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Education and Minister for Social Inclusion. I refer to the minister’s...
- Men’s Health (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Service Delivery. What action is the government taking to improve men’s health in Australia?
- Interest Rates (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. The Treasurer will recall saying in this House: ‘The price that must be paid by the Australian people for this government’s spending spree is higher...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. When and how will pensioners benefit from the government’s pension reforms?
- Northern Australia (5 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Is the Treasurer aware that not only is Australia now a net importer of fruit and vegetables, pork and seafood but also the ABS international trade series...
- Veterans (16 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs. Will the minister inform the House about the importance of the government’s pension reform package for the veteran community?
- Budget (18 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer to his earlier statement that the government is unwinding the stimulus next year. Treasurer, how can you possibly claim to be unwinding the stimulus when...
- Road Safety (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. How is the government assisting motorcyclists to stay safe on our roads?
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Petitions (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, in my capacity as Leader of the House I have received correspondence from Harold Thomas Golden and Norma Jean Golden of Tara, in Queensland, who raise the issue that they received...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (20 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek to make a personal explanation.
- MS Helen Williams (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
Mr Speaker, on indulgence: Friday will mark the retirement from the Australian Public Service of Ms Helen Williams, who is present with us in the Speaker’s gallery today. Helen has been the...
- Jakarta Bombings (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, on indulgence: I just want to draw the House’s attention to the fact that today is the fifth anniversary of the terrorist bomb explosion outside the Australian Embassy in...
- 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...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Rudd Government (18 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Warringah proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government’s...
- Access to Justice (Civil Litigation Reforms) Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment; certified copy of the bill presented. Ordered that this bill be considered immediately. Bill agreed to.
- 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.
- Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Legislation Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (1 speech)
Bill returned from Main Committee with amendments; certified copy of the bill and schedule of amendments presented. Ordered that this bill be considered immediately. Main Committee’s...
- 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.
- Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Safety Levies) Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment; certified copy of the bill presented. Ordered that this bill be considered immediately. Bill agreed to.
- 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.
- National Health Security Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Report from Main Committee (0 speeches)
Bill returned from Main Committee without amendment; certified copy of the bill presented. Ordered that this bill be considered immediately. Bill agreed to.
- 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.
- International Monetary Agreements Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2009 Measures No. 2) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
Bill returned from the Senate with an amendment. Ordered that the amendment be considered immediately. Senate’s amendment— (1) Schedule 1, page 9 (after line 16), at the...
- Corporations Amendment (Improving Accountability on Termination Payments) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Uranium Royalty (Northern Territory) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (National Broadband Network Measures — Network Information) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 19 August, on motion by Mr Albanese: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 7.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Calwell Electorate: Hume Global Learning Centre (1 speech)
Tonight I want to speak about the government’s innovative social inclusion agenda and to inform the House of a remarkable example of social inclusion in action within my electorate of...
- Maternity Services (1 speech)
All politics is local, but rarely is it more personal than with the moves in the last couple of weeks to deny homebirthing in this country an equal status with midwifery. Just a fraction of...
- Balibo Five (1 speech, 1 comment)
Tonight I want to talk about Brian Raymond Peters, Gary James Cunningham, Malcolm Harvie Rennie, Gregory John Shackleton and Anthony John Stewart, all deceased and all known to us in Australia as...
- Fadden Electorate: National Rental Affordability Scheme (1 speech)
A few Sundays ago I organised a public meeting with the residents of Coombabah and specifically Hansford Road. There were over 200 people in attendance, all local residents concerned about the...
- Blair Electorate: Dr Kamalakaran Harry Ratnam OAM (1 speech)
On 11 June 2007 Queensland’s oldest provincial newspaper, the Queensland Times, wrote this: HAVE you heard the Irish joke about the Malaysian student who went to Dublin to study medicine...
- Pornography and Children (3 speeches)
On Tuesday we recognised White Balloon Day and the important work that Bravehearts do in preventing child sexual assault in remote, rural and regional areas. Our attention was similarly and...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Youth Allowance (1 speech)
I was the first politician in this parliament to speak out against the proposed youth allowance changes. That was on the day after the budget, and since then I have lodged a 2,000-signature...
- Building the Education Revolution Program (1 speech)
Today I want to talk about the virtues of the Building the Education Revolution, which is happening in my electorate of Chisholm. Chisholm is an electorate high within the education sphere. We...
- Cook Electorate: Cronulla RSL Memorial Club; Cooke Electorate: Mr Don Collumbell (1 speech)
Last month the Cronulla RSL Memorial Club celebrated its 65th year of service to our local community. Among the celebrations was a lunch organised to show its appreciation to its many life...
- Braddon Electorate: Women Tasmania (1 speech)
Today I would like to recognise two outstanding women in my electorate who have recently been awarded a place on the Women Tasmania’s honour roll for 2009. They are Sandra Anne French,...
- Internet Services (1 speech)
I rise today to confess that I share something in common with Senator Conroy: I and families in my electorate and those who obviously support Senator Conroy’s side of politics would all...
- Bonner Electorate: Small Business Advisory Unit (1 speech)
I rise this morning to put on record my support for and, indeed, strong praise of the small business advisory service that is being run under the auspices of the Wynnum and Districts Chamber of...
- Flinders Electorate: Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance Centre (2 speeches)
I want to address a number of issues in relation to paramedics and the push for a Grantville ambulance centre. Madam Deputy Speaker, as you would know, paramedics in Victoria serve a tremendously...
- Longman Electorate: College of Civil Infrastructure and Construction (1 speech)
Students in Longman are fortunate in that they are blessed with both state and federal governments determined to see that they are able to acquire skills necessary for them to participate in...
- Blood Donor Week (1 speech)
This week is Blood Donor Week in this year, 2009, the Year of the Blood Donor—a year when the Australian Red Cross Blood Service is running educational campaigns aimed to raise awareness of...
- Forde Electorate: Veteran Associations (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the valuable commitment that our veteran associations and sub-branches give to a large number of returned soldiers and their families in my electorate of Forde. I want...
- Access to Justice (Civil Litigation Reforms) Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 7 September, on motion by Mr McClelland: That this bill be now read a second time.
- 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 (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 25 June, on motion by Mr Martin Ferguson: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Legislation Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Safety Levies) Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (0 speeches)
Debate resumed from 19 March, on motion by Mr Martin Ferguson: That this bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time. Ordered that the bill be reported to the...
- National Health Security Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 24 June, on motion by Mrs Elliot: That this bill be now read a second time.
