House debates
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (16 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister that this is the second anniversary of the last election. With the next election less than 12 months away, when will the Prime...
- Economy (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the major reforms the government is undertaking to improve our schools, our economy and our community?
- Carbon Pricing (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the fact that HM Gem Engines, a 50-year-old business based in Dandenong, is facing— Ms Gillard interjecting— Would...
- Schools (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for School Education and Minister for Early Childhood and Youth. Will the minister update the House on the development of the government's plans to improve all...
- Carbon Pricing (10 speeches, 2 comments)
My question is to the Prime Minister.
- Taxation (9 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Treasurer, comprehensive tax reform advocates like New South Wales Treasurer Mike Baird, Ken Henry, and myself and many other MPs, have been repeatedly making the...
- Economy (21 speeches)
I too have a question for the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline for the House the importance of delivering the big reforms like improving our schools, investing in infrastructure and putting...
- Carbon Pricing (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the fact that the Lakes Entrance Fishermen's Co-operative in my electorate is facing an increase in its power bill of $24,000...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon members of a parliamentary delegation from the United Kingdom. On behalf of the House, I extend a very warm welcome to the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and Minister for Industry and Innovation. Will the minister update the House on international efforts to tackle dangerous...
- Carbon Pricing (8 speeches)
My question is the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to a statement of Tom Maguire of Teys meatworks—a company on the carbon tax hit list—in my electorate. Mr Maguire said:...
- Health and Hospitals (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister update the House on how the government is getting on with the job of ensuring all Australians have access to quality health care?
- Carbon Pricing (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the fact that the West Adelaide Football Club is facing an increase of $32,000 in its power bill this year because of the...
- Employment (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation. Will the minister update the House on how the government is making...
- Economy (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister guarantee not to increase the government debt to pay for the government's big new spending promises on an NDIS, submarines and asylum...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Gillard Government; Censure (17 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for North Sydney moving immediately— That this House condemns the government for failing...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (36 speeches)
Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Deputy Speaker, I would like to seek your assistance under standing order 105(b) in relation to unanswered questions in writing in my name on the Notice Paper. To assist you, the questions that I...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (10 speeches)
I seek an opportunity to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
In accordance with standing order 105(b), replies to written questions unanswered having been on the Notice Paper for more than 60 days, I ask that you kindly write to the Minister for...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Question Time: Points of Order (16 speeches)
Deputy Speaker, I have a question for you in relation to some rulings over the last two days. Today I took a couple of points of order, as did other members on our side under standing order 90...
- Parliamentary Language (2 speeches)
Last week on several occasions the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency referred to the opposition, as a group, as making mendacious claims. My question to you is: can you advise the...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 1 of 2012-13 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's performance audit report No. 1 of 2012-13 entitled Administration of the Renewable Energy Demonstration Program—Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism....
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Documents are presented as listed in the schedule circulated to honourable members earlier today. Details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedingsand Hansard. Debate adjourned.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Education Funding (28 speeches)
The Speaker has received letters from the honourable member for La Trobe and the honourable the Leader of the Opposition proposing that definite matters of public importance be submitted to the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That orders of the day Nos. 2 and 3, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Fly-In Fly-Out Workers (1 speech)
I rise to talk about the implications of fly-in fly-out workers in the resource sector. I will confine my remarks to my own electorate, where we have the Surat and Galilee basins, two enormous...
- Employment (1 speech)
This evening I want to articulate an increasing trend among constituents coming to my office. My electorate is younger than the national average, so this situation will be more pronounced in many...
- Dunkley Electorate: Health (1 speech)
Madam Deputy Speaker, may I correct something I said when referring to military superannuation earlier? I should have talked about my role in the Podger review, not the Matthews review. I just...
- Banks Electorate: Hurstville City Council (1 speech)
I recently met with representatives of Hurstville City Council, on site, to inspect works at the Hurstville golf course. Under its Water for the Future initiative, the government has invested...
- State Emergency Service (1 speech)
I am proud to inform the federal parliament of the work of the Petrie SES. In communities across Australia, when natural disasters strike State Emergency Service volunteers are vital to our...
- Atkin, Ms Anne (1 speech)
I rise tonight to pay tribute to a real community champion in my electorate, Anne Atkin, who has worked tirelessly and passionately both to promote awareness of Parkinson's in the broader...
- Operation Flinders (1 speech)
I would like to speak about Operation Flinders, a South Australian based charity. Earlier this month my wife Kate and I visited an exercise of Operation Flinders at Yankaninna Station....
- Climate Change (1 speech)
As some may know, North Carolina had recently intended to introduce laws to prohibit state agencies from acting on scientifically valid warnings of sea-level rises driven by global warming....
- Nation Building (1 speech)
Earlier today I was fortunate to meet with His Excellency Mr Yuval Rotem, Ambassador of the State of Israel to Australia. The ambassador was proud to talk of his nation's transition to a position...
- Hindmarsh Electorate: Ethiopian Community (1 speech)
It is a great privilege and honour for me to rise about an emerging community in my electorate, one that is growing at an enormous pace—and that is, the Ethiopian community. I have many...
- Flinders Electorate: Phillip Island (1 speech)
I want to talk to the House on behalf of the people of Phillip Island in relation to four issues—two negative and two positive. In terms of the mistreatment of Phillip Islanders, there are...
- Goods and Services Tax (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about a very serious issue for my home state of Tasmania. There is a big threat heading to my electorate of Bass at the weekend. A big, dark cloud is coming, and it stems...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Longman Electorate (1 speech)
Today marks two years since the people of my community entrusted me to be their federal member of parliament. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the good people of my electorate for...
- Hunter Electorate: Coal Transport (1 speech)
I am eternally grateful to the government for providing the equity required to allow the Australian Rail Track Corporation to invest $1.2 billion in the upgrade of the coal chain going to...
- Regional Australia: Spatial Accounting (1 speech)
For some reason, some still refer to the members for Lyne and New England as Independents—joke! During the member for Lyne's painful speech, Mr Oakeshott boldly proclaimed: We believe in...
- Lebanon, Cyprus (1 speech)
I recently visited Lebanon and Cyprus, where I held meetings with senior government officials to discuss transport infrastructure and joint business opportunities, and to further improve what are...
- Taxation (1 speech)
Last week I received a letter from a constituent, Mr Paul Korczak-Krzeczowski, on behalf of his 10-year-old son, Aaron. In this letter—which was sent to the Minister for Families, Community...
- Adelaide Electorate: Meals on Wheels (1 speech)
We come to this parliament, no matter what electorate we represent, no matter where our constituency resides, knowing that we represent communities who are supported by thousands of volunteers...
- Health Warnings (1 speech)
I want to applaud the Attorney-General for her success in recently being able to implement a policy to put plain packaging on cigarettes. I do not think there are many thinking Australians who...
- Taxation (1 speech)
I want to talk today about GST. As many people in this place know, I am the member for Franklin and a very loyal Tasmanian indeed. Tasmanians are feeling a little bit under attack from coalition...
- Local Government (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to talk about the impact of the forced amalgamations of local councils which were forced on Queensland by the previous Labor government. I welcome a change of...
- Wyndham, Mr Cyril (2 speeches)
I rise to pay tribute to a distinguished former national secretary of the ALP, Mr Cyril Wyndham, who died recently aged 82. He died on 2 July this year, at Newcastle. Cyril was born in London,...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- London Olympic Games (10 speeches)
I had the privilege to attend the official welcome home ceremony for our Olympians in Sydney on Wednesday morning. It was certainly a very proud moment to watch the Qantas jumbo jet pull into the...
