House debates
Monday, 25 June 2012
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Responses (1 speech)
Ministerial responses to petitions previously presented to the House have been received as follows:
- Statements (1 speech)
Madam Deputy Speaker, as we near the end of this financial year, and in this last sitting week of the winter sittings, I would like to give a brief overview of petition trends over the last 12...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- International Arms Trade Treaty (3 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) calls on Australian parliamentarians to endorse the Global Parliamentarian Declaration on the Arms Trade Treaty; (2) recognises: (a) that the poor regulation of arms:...
- International Year of Cooperatives (8 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) 2012 is the International Year of Cooperatives; (b) there are two million more cooperative members in Australia than retail share investors; (c)...
- Pension Assistance (15 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) after almost 12 long years of inaction by the former Australian Coalition Government, the current Australian Labor Government has delivered historic...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (1 speech)
The Speaker has received four messages from the Senate informing the House of the appointment of senators to certain joint committees. As the list of appointments is a lengthy one, I do not...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Economics I present the committee's advisory report on the Tax Laws Amendment (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Bill 2012, together with the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- London Olympic Games (1 speech)
Today I am delighted to pay tribute to three inspiring young athletes from my electorate of Higgins. Three young women—Shelley Chaplin and Cobi Crispin, both of Ashburton, and South Yarra's...
- Sydney Dance Company (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate everyone involved in the Sydney Dance Company's excellent production of The Land of Yes and the Land of No. On 15 June I had the pleasure of attending a performance...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Today I highlight the fantastic work being done by Co.As.It in Queensland. For 25 years Co.As.It has been providing community care services for the Italian aged care community in Queensland....
- Fowler Electorate: Sustainable Streets program (1 speech)
Earlier this month, together with the Fairfield City Mayor, Frank Carbone, I attended the opening of stage 1 of Bibby's Place Sustainable Streets project. The first stage of the project involved...
- Mental Health (1 speech)
I inform the House that a headspace centre will soon be established in the Knox area in my electorate, which is a terrific outcome. It is a combination of a more than 12-month-long campaign which...
- Macarthur Electorate: Australian Defence Force (1 speech)
Today, I would like to share with everyone an email I received from an Australian soldier serving our country in Afghanistan: G'Day Russell, I am a deployed member serving in Afghanistan that...
- Shortland Electorate: Diabetes Week (1 speech)
I rise today to share with the House the fact that I am holding a diabetes forum in Swansea on 12 July. I will be inviting all residents from the Swansea-Caves Beach-Marks Point area to come...
- Bennelong Electorate: Rotary Clubs (1 speech)
Last week I attended Epping Rotary's 50th anniversary dinner at the Epping Club with over 300 people supporting this black-tie event to congratulate Epping Rotary on 50 years of charitable work...
- Blair Electorate: Lions Clubs (1 speech)
I had the privilege yesterday with my wife, Carolyn, to attend the Lions Club of Fernvale changeovers. The Lions Club of Fernvale did a fantastic job in the Brisbane Valley when it was ravaged by...
- National Pain Week, National Carers Week (1 speech)
I rise today to draw attention to National Pain Week, which will occur during the parliamentary winter break from 22 to 28 July, and National Carers Week, which occurred last week. These two...
- Canberra Legends Program (2 speeches)
Recently, I put out a call for local sporting legends in the Canberra electorate, extending my Canberra Legends Program, with the hope of discovering some hidden sporting talent. With the London...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I appreciate that everybody in the parliament is very concerned about issues being raised in respect of services provided to children who visit Parliament House under the school visitation...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
On behalf of the House I want to acknowledge the dreadful tragedy that happened on Thursday last week, when an asylum seeker boat capsized with considerable loss of life. The precise details of...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I would like to welcome into the gallery today a delegation from the Regional Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia. I welcome them to the parliament today, and I hope they enjoy...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Alcoa (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer her to the government's intention to give the Alcoa aluminium smelter at Point Henry $42 million in hush money to help pay its carbon tax bill. Given...
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Justice and Minister for Defence Materiel. Will the minister update the House on the search-and-rescue efforts for survivors of the...
- Carbon Pricing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the government's decision to give the Alcoa aluminium smelter at Port Henry $42 million to help pay its carbon tax bill. Why...
- G20 Summit (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the outcomes of the G20 leaders' summit?
- Carbon Pricing (10 speeches)
My question is for the Prime Minister. I refer her to page 107 of the government's carbon price modelling which shows a 61.7 per cent decrease in aluminium production as a consequence of the...
- Fisheries (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, what on earth were regulators thinking when they gave approval for the world's second-biggest trawler, the 142 metre Margiris, to operate...
- Rio+20: United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How have the outcomes of the Rio+20 Summit advanced the world's commitment to economically, socially and environmentally sustainable development?
- Carbon Pricing (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to this official 53-page outcome statement from the Rio+20 United Nations conference she attended last week. Given that the...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline for the House what the pipeline for investment projects says about the strength of our nation and of our economy?
- Carbon Pricing, Mining (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and it refers to the Treasurer's immediate answer. Prime Minister, can you confirm this UBS research report that states that, because of the carbon tax and...
- Carbon Pricing (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and Minister for Industry and Innovation. Minister, with the carbon price due to start in six days time, what are the...
- Electricity Prices (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to this letter from Global Switch—which runs a data centre for leading Australian companies—to its customers, dated 14 May 2012. The...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (38 speeches)
by leave—I move: That so much of standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition from moving the following motion forthwith: That this House calls...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- School Visits to Parliament House (16 speeches)
Will you consult with the Clerk of the House and identify (1) whether the cuts that the Treasurer just referred to in relation to the School Visitation Program were contemplated by the...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Madam Deputy Speaker, under standing order 105, could you write to the Minister for Health and Ageing regarding six questions—questions in writing Nos 643, 644, 645, 646, 647 and...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (13 speeches)
Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Reports Nos 47 to 50 of 2011-12 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit reports Nos. 47 to 50 for 2011-12. Details of the reports will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings. Ordered that the reports be made parliamentary papers.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent: (1) the time and order of business for Tuesday, 26 June 2012 being as follows: (a) the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the committee's report 3/2012: Referrals made 2011 to March 2012. In accordance with standing order 39(f) the report...
- National Broadband Network Committee; Report (4 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on the National Broadband Network I present the committee’s report entitled Review of the rollout of the National Broadband Network: third report,...
- Social Policy and Legal Affairs Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs I present the committee's advisory report on the Judicial Misbehaviour and Incapacity (Parliamentary Commissions) Bill 2012...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (2 speeches)
(): by leave—I move: That the resolution relating to the time and order of business for Tuesday, 26 June 2012 agreed to earlier today, be amended by omitting 12 noon wherever it appears and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Chinese Australians (7 speeches)
I move: That this House recognise the: (1) strong history of Chinese migration to Australia over the past 200 years; (2) significant contribution that Chinese-Australians have made over this...
- Vocational Education and Training (9 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) considers that the extreme funding cuts to Victorian TAFEs announced by the Victorian Liberal Government will: (a) damage the opportunities of hundreds of thousands...
- 2012 London Olympic Games (5 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes: (a) that the 2012 London Olympics will take place from 27 July to 12 August and the Paralympics will take place from 29 August to 9 September, with London...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Macarthur Electorate: Carbon Tax (1 speech)
There is less than a week to go until the people of Macarthur are hit with the world's biggest carbon tax. I take this opportunity tonight to stand up for the residents, families, seniors and...
- Calwell Electorate: Graffiti Prevention (1 speech)
The Hume City Council in my electorate of Calwell last week received $127,830 of federal government funding aimed at fighting graffiti in our local community. The funding for this project comes...
- Carbon Pricing (1 speech)
We are now six days away from the launch of the carbon tax—the tax that dares not speak its name. I would like to use this opportunity to advise the people of Herbert and Townsville just...
- Chifley Electorate: Western Sydney Wanderers (1 speech)
In April this year the federal government made two significant announcements which will bring lasting benefits to young people who play football in Western Sydney. First, we announced a special...
- Carbon Pricing (1 speech)
Thank you for the opportunity, Madam Deputy Speaker. On 2 June this year, I celebrated 50 years of wonderful marriage to a beautiful woman. That beautiful woman presented me with a new wedding...
- Media (1 speech)
Over recent months we have heard much about the need to review the laws which regulate our media. The debate has been prompted by a range of developments, including the scandal involving the...
- Carbon Pricing (1 speech)
For the first time in living memory an Australian government is introducing what it claims is an economic reform that will have the effect of reducing our nation's productivity and...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Bearing in mind the speeches by the opposition tonight, I hope they listen to what I have to say. Despite the relentless denials of global warming by vested interests that support the opposition,...
- Carbon Pricing (3 speeches)
Those were very interesting comments from the previous speaker, but I rise today to speak about the damage that this government is set to inflict on the constituents in the electorate of Hasluck,...
- Coalmining (2 speeches)
I commend all members of the House who were able to keep a straight face during the contribution of the member for Hughes just now—particularly during the part of his dissertation where he...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Riverina Electorate: Carbon Pricing (1 speech)
The Riverina, as with each and every corner of this wide, vast land, will be hit hard with the carbon tax, and my constituents are not happy. The people I represent have every reason for feeling...
- Walk Together (1 speech)
Today I rise to congratulate everyone who took part on the weekend in the Walk Together walk. Walk Together was an event by Welcome to Australia to celebrate Refugee Week. Walk Together was a...
- Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise today to address some inaccurate information being distributed in my electorate of Hasluck by Labor Senator Glenn Sterle. On Friday, the senator distributed a letter, which I have right...
- Native Title (1 speech)
I acknowledge the Ngunawal and Ngambri peoples as the traditional custodians of this land, as well as the Nyoongah people in the south-west of WA, and pay my respects to their elders past and...
- Griggsy's Green Thumb Tropical Garden Awareness Safety Program (1 speech)
I rise this morning to advise the House of a new awareness program I launched recently in my electorate. The Griggsy's Green Thumb Tropical Garden Safety Awareness Program involves working with...
- Bass Electorate: Haywards Steel Fabrication and Construction (1 speech)
I rise to speak of a local steel fabrication and construction company in my electorate of Bass who are doing some terrific things: Haywards and Crisp Brothers. They are a Tasmanian based steel...
- Longman Electorate: Carbon Pricing (1 speech)
One of my constituents recently wrote to me saying, with the cost of water electricity and council rates increasing seemingly out of control, most families are stretched to the limit when it...
- Corio Electorate: St Patrick's Primary School (1 speech)
I would like to talk about a safety issue at one of the schools in my electorate. St Patrick's Primary School in Geelong West is one of the city's oldest Catholic primary schools. Last year, it...
- Wright Electorate: Mudgeeraba Agricultural Show (1 speech)
My electorate of Wright is predominantly a regional and rural precinct, starting from the top of the Toowoomba range and going over to Mudgeeraba and the Gold Coast. We are in the midst of our...
- Chifley Electorate: Hospitals (2 speeches)
One of the priorities I have had since being given the honour of being elected as the member for Chifley is to apply myself to ensure that I can do whatever I can to boost the quality and...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (4 speeches)
I thank colleagues for allowing this debate to occur. It is an important one not only for the international community about also for Australia's sovereign position in the way Australian aid...
- Workplace Relations (12 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) recognises the decision handed down by the Federal Court of Australia upholding Fair Work Australia's decision to allow students covered by the retail award to have a...
- Trading Hours in Adelaide (8 speeches)
This motion is all about the deal to extend trading hours in Adelaide. For a long time shop trading hours in Adelaide have been a contentious issue. My union has been at the heart of that; we...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Mabo Native Title Decision (6 speeches)
Eddie Koiki Mabo and a group of Murray Islanders challenged almost two centuries of legal doctrine when they asked the courts to recognise them as the rightful owners of their land in the Torres...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That order of the day No. 1, committee in delegation business, be postponed until the next day of sitting. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That order of the day No. 3, committee and delegation reports, be postponed until the next meeting. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Olympic Games Terrorist Attack (4 speeches)
I am very pleased to speak to the motion which I have moved in support of the memory of the 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team who were murdered in a terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich...
- Domestic Violence (8 speeches)
I am very pleased today to rise to move this important motion, which recognises that two-thirds of Australian women who have experienced domestic violence with their current partner are currently...
- Live Animal Exports (7 speeches)
In rising to speak on this motion it certainly does not give me any great pleasure at all in having to raise this issue again. If you go back to last year when decisions were made by the minister...
- Royal Australian Navy (6 speeches)
I rise tonight to acknowledge and to applaud the excellent efforts of the Royal Australian Navy as part of the international coalition in the Middle East—a coalition that has performed...
- United Nations Public Service Day (1 speech)
I thank the member for Riverina for freeing up an extra two minutes for me with his speedy speaking. The United Nations General Assembly designated 23 June as United Nations Public Service Day....
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Macarthur Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I believe that one of the most important roles I have as a member of parliament is to listen to the needs and concerns of my community and then work tirelessly to address these issues and do...
- University of Western Sydney, Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (1 speech)
A few months ago I was given the honour of addressing the graduating students of the schools of engineering, computing and mathematics from the University of Western Sydney. It was special on a...
- Regional Development Australia (1 speech)
Tonight in this grievance debate I speak about regional development in Australia, or perhaps the lack of it. That will lead me into the old area consultative committees and the current RDA...
- Canberra Electorate (1 speech)
Since becoming the member for Canberra, I have occasionally heard mutterings from some sections of the media who think the ACT would be better off if our two federal seats were what they call...
- Child Care (1 speech)
On this late evening, I rise to discuss a very important issue to my neighbours across the seat of Hughes: the childcare industry, an industry which plays a critical role in Australian society....
- Taxation (2 speeches)
I rise tonight to talk about tax reform and progress on various aspects of tax reform in Australia. Several years ago Australia's future tax system was put under review, led by former head of...
