House debates
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Minister for Health and Ageing (7 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Dickson from moving the following motion forthwith: That this House calls on the Minister...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Economics I present the committee's report entitled Advisory report on the National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Home Loans and Credit Cards) Bill...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Macarthur Electorate: Medicare (1 speech)
I have been contacted by residents in my electorate regarding the lack of Medicare facilities in the vicinity of the Mount Annan, Currans Hill, Harrington Park and Narellan areas. Residents who...
- Melbourne Ports Electorate: Child Care (1 speech)
Last week I was at Elwood neighbourhood house to hear from local mothers that in both Port Melbourne and Elwood the Victorian government had cut the part-time childcare program Take a Break,...
- Bonner Electorate: Gateway Counselling and Wholeness Centre (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the recent opening of the Gateway Counselling and Wholeness Centre in my electorate of Bonner. The Gateway Counselling and Wholeness Centre at the Gateway Baptist Church in...
- National Palliative Care Week (1 speech)
A few weeks ago I attended the National Palliative Care Week launch. The theme for the week was 'Let's chat about dying', which is a pretty confronting subject but essential to ensuring our...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
I want to press the urgency of having the live cattle trade to Indonesia resumed within days, not months. I commend the work that is already being undertaken by the government and the industry...
- Home and Community Care Program (1 speech)
The simple pleasure of sharing a coffee and cake with friends at a riverside cafe is not something everyone can take for granted and, indeed, for some of our most vulnerable residents it is only...
- Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
Sir Winston Churchill once stated, 'We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give.' In the seat of Higgins there are many people who give their time to support others in our...
- New South Wales: Workers' Rights (3 speeches)
Today I support the nurses, teachers, firefighters, bus drivers and other public sector workers who are coming together in Sydney and other regional towns around New South Wales to speak out...
- Logan Country Chamber of Commerce (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate and thank the Logan Country Chamber of Commerce, which recently held an awards night for 120 businesses within the district of Jimboomba in the electorate of Wright. I am...
- Wellington, Mrs Patricia (2 speeches)
I rise to congratulate Mrs Patricia Wellington, who was recognised in the recent Queen's Birthday Honours. Patricia has worked since 1980 with the Launceston Horticultural Society. This society...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (47 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her words on ABC TV last month, 'I've always believed we had to price carbon.' I ask: if the Prime Minister has always believed...
- Murray-Darling Basin (12 speeches)
() (): My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister would be aware of the highly acclaimed Inquiry into the impact of the Guide to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
- Workplace Relations (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why did the government overturn Work Choices? What risks are there of a return to Work Choices and why is it important to protect the rights of Australians...
- Carbon Pricing (12 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer to comments, reported just before question time, by Stephen Jones, the member for Throsby, who is reportedly the Labor-Left faction convenor. In relation...
- Workplace Relations (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government and Minister for the Arts, representing the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and...
- Carbon Pricing (10 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer to a report from the Australian Energy Market Commission which shows that, even without a carbon tax, average electricity bills will increase by 30 per...
- Hearing Impairment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Human Services and Minister for Social Inclusion. What is the government doing to bring sound into the lives of Australian babies who are born with hearing...
- Carbon Pricing (7 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to comments by garage door manufacturer Mr Geoff Didier, whom the Leader of the Opposition visited today, that a carbon tax would force him...
- Murray-Darling Basin (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Will the minister update the House on the progress of water reform in the Murray-Darling Basin?...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report of the Independent Auditor (1 speech)
In accordance with the Auditor-General Act 1997, I present the report of the Independent Auditor, dated June 2011, entitled Planning and Scoping of Performance Audits by the Australian National...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the Selection Committee's report No. 24 relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday, 20 June 2011. The report will be...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (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...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (31 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Indi proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The imminent threat to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Broadband (1 speech)
The matter I want to speak about in the brief time available to me is the regrettably creative nature of the fact sheets—and I use that term advisedly—which have been issued by the...
- Chisholm Electorate: Manufacturing (1 speech)
We have been speaking a great deal in this House today about manufacturing. I want to talk about manufacturing in my electorate of Chisholm. Given that my electorate is pretty much wall-to-wall...
- Casey Electorate (3 speeches)
It is my pleasure to rise in the adjournment debate tonight to pay tribute to a great primary school and a great small business, both of which I visited last Friday in the electorate of Casey. I...
- Firefighters (1 speech)
Recently I met with a delegation from the United Firefighters Union of Australia who came to Canberra to raise awareness about a life-threatening aspect of their profession. I draw the attention...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
I wish to put on the record my deep concern that any animals could ever again be tortured in the way that we saw recently on ABC television. Nothing could excuse the behaviour of the workers in...
- 150th Anniversary of Italy's Unification (1 speech)
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy. It seems extraordinary that a country with such a long and fascinating history that dates back thousands of years only became...
- Foreign Aid Budget (1 speech)
Speaking after the member for Makin, I also record my support for his very generous remarks on the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy. Tonight I want to speak about the aid budget. The...
- Hindmarsh Electorate: Glenelg Cinema (1 speech)
I rise tonight to draw the House's attention to the Save the Glenelg Cinema campaign which is being run in my electorate, run by many of the residents—my constituents—and local...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
'There is a winter of growing discontent out in the nation's workplaces.' These are not my words but those of respected journalist Alan Kohler, on ABC's Inside Business just a few days ago. The...
- Namadgi School (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about the great work being done at Namadgi School in Kambah in my electorate. A few weeks ago it was my real privilege to join the new Deputy Chief Minister of the ACT and...
- Renewable Energy (1 speech)
I rise to update the House on the ongoing battle to bring about an immediate moratorium on all wind turbine developments in New South Wales. Appropriately, today is Global Wind Day. This industry...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
The federal government's blanket ban on live exports to Indonesia is creating shockwaves across regional Australia. While I was shocked and appalled by the footage of Indonesian abattoirs...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
The following notices were given:
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
Like all Australians, I was shocked and deeply disturbed by the mistreatment of Australian livestock exposed in the recent Four Corners program and agreed that urgent action should be taken to...
- Sport (2 speeches)
The government has increased its support for young Australian athletes under the Local Sporting Champions grants of 2010-11. All members would be aware that the funding has increased to improve...
- Small Business (1 speech)
Yesterday's flippant remark by Labor's Minister for Small Business, Nick Sherry, that bookstores will soon 'cease to exist' was, for many small business owners, the last straw. This government's...
- Dalai Lama (2 speeches)
At a time when we are seeing sweeping changes in the world, we need more than ever voices advocating peaceful democratic change, non-violent solutions to conflict and freedom of speech....
- Beyer, Mr Luke (2 speeches)
I stand to make a tribute following the tragic death of my constituent Luke Beyer, from Ballajura. On Friday night, 27 May 2011, on the corner of Illawarra Crescent and Sloop Rise in Ballajura,...
- Blair Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
The people of South-East Queensland, particularly Ipswich and the Somerset, deserve to know the attitude of the coalition to the upgrade of the Ipswich Motorway. The Ipswich Motorway takes about...
- Cook Electorate: Sutherland Shire Relay for Life (1 speech)
I wish to inform the House of an immensely successful community event, one of the largest of its kind in New South Wales and certainly the biggest in the shire—the Sutherland Shire Relay...
- Petition: Easter Sunday (2 speeches)
Today I am presenting a petition signed by 194 retail workers from in and around the electorate of Deakin that calls on the federal government to recognise Easter Sunday as a public holiday. This...
- Boothby Electorate: Home Insulation Program (1 speech)
I would like to speak about the Home Insulation Program. The government knew the risks about quality, fire, safety and the potential for fraud but did nothing to mitigate them. The program has...
- Israel (2 speeches)
It saddens me to be again calling for the release of Gilad Shalit. Saturday, 25 June 2011 will mark the fifth anniversary and 1,825th day since he was kidnapped by the terrorist group Hamas. On...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That further proceedings on orders of the day Nos 3, 5 and 10, private members’ business, be conducted in the House. Question agreed to. Main Committee adjourned at 19:38.
