House debates
Monday, 18 March 2013
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Hume Electorate: Barton Highway; Responses (1 speech)
Ministerial responses to petitions previously presented to the House have been received as follows:
- Disability Services; Statements (1 speech)
As I have noted in the past, and reiterated at the beginning of this year, the House Petitions Committee's primary role is as a certifier and conduit for the tabling of in-order petitions and...
- 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 132: Treaties tabled on 18 September and 30 October 2012. In accordance with standing order...
- Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity, I present the committee's report entitled Examination of the annual report of the...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
At the request of the member for Kennedy, I fix the next sitting Monday as the day for presenting the Imported Food Warning Labels Bill 2013.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Superannuation (9 speeches)
I move: That the House: (1) commends the historic achievement of the previous Labor Government in establishing universal superannuation through the Superannuation Guarantee; (2) notes: (a) that...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No. 1, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
I rise to expose once again the hypocrisy of the Gillard Labor government. Last week, they mendaciously accused the coalition of reducing GST revenue in South Australia and Tasmania. The truth...
- Health and Hospitals (1 speech)
I recently visited the very impressive Isabella Plains Medical Centre in my electorate of Canberra. I was there to sign myself up for my own personally controlled electronic health record. It is...
- Macarthur Electorate: Camden Show (1 speech)
Today I rise to congratulate the Camden Show Society on a fantastic show last week. Crowd numbers were at an all-time record, with more than 42,000 people attending the 127th annual show on...
- Health (1 speech)
I have just returned from a lunchbox briefing organised by the Parliamentary Friends End-of-Life-Care Group. It was held to discuss advanced care planning, as part of encouraging people to take...
- Wesley Hospital (1 speech)
I rise to speak about some extraordinary work being carried out by the Wesley Hospital in Brisbane. It is leading Australia in pioneering an extremely complex surgery using the state-of-the-art...
- Diabetes (1 speech)
I am pleased to talk today about diabetes. I am concerned about the epidemic of diabetes that exists in Australia and particularly in my electorate of Bass. It is unbelievable that 65 per cent of...
- Hughes Electorate: Menai Swim Academy (1 speech)
More than 50 Australian children under the age of 17 drown in Australia. It highlights the importance of swimming and water safety education for all our kids. While many children are learning...
- Bass Electorate: Sporting Facilities (1 speech)
I rise to inform the House of a wonderful event I attended in Launceston on Saturday. It was the opening of the Launceston Church Grammar School's new oval and change room facility. This has been...
- Automotive Industry (3 speeches)
I rise on a very important issue—that of the desperate actions of the member for Corangamite in fabricating quotes. I am used to being taken out of context, but I never expected to see the...
- Chifley Electorate: Local Environment Plan (2 speeches)
I do not know how to follow that, Speaker; I still have lava all over me! I wanted to mention to the House that yesterday I took the opportunity of meeting about a hundred local residents...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of data released this month that shows 900 Australian firms are currently being placed in administration each month, a level 12...
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Industry and Innovation. What are the facts about the actual impact of the carbon price? How do the facts compare with the...
- Budget (12 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I remind the Treasurer that he forecast for this year a budget surplus of $1.5 billion—but he abandoned that promise in December. I refer the Treasurer to...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the efforts the government is making to ensure that Australian working people are put first when it comes to jobs?
- Carbon Pricing (10 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I remind the Treasurer that the government expects to collect $10.5 billion from the carbon tax in 2015 based on a price of $29 a tonne. With the European carbon...
- Natural Disaster Relief (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Following eight weeks of floods and damaging seas in my mid-North Coast communities—the third summer floods in just three years—and with our...
- Migration (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. What are the next steps the government is taking to make the 457 visa system fairer and to prevent abuse and exploitation in the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I would like to welcome in the gallery today His Excellency Ovidiu Dranga, State Secretary of Global Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania. Honourable members: Hear, hear!
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Media Reform (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. If this week she is unable to persuade the parliament to establish a public interest media advocate to regulate the content of newspapers for the first time...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation. Will the minister outline what the government is doing to make sure...
- Prime Minister (18 speeches)
I have a question for the Prime Minister. I remind her that she has presided over the live cattle export fiasco, announced and abandoned the East Timor solution, promised a surplus and then...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister; Censure (20 speeches)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition from moving the following motion forthwith—That this...
- 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 Proceedings and I move: That the House...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Indigenous Affairs; Presentation (1 speech)
On behalf of the Speaker, I present the Speaker's response to recommendations of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs' Our land,our...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No. 4, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day or the next sitting. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Juvenile Delinquency (2 speeches)
The former US President Harry Truman had a sign on his desk that read, 'The buck stops here.' Perhaps every home should have one of those signs. Someone in every home needs to take...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Youth Engagement in Politics (1 speech)
There has been a lot said in our country in recent times about young people and their engagement with Australian national political life. Some are sceptical about the ability of young people...
- Wright Electorate: Broadband (1 speech)
I rise today to highlight the plight of a group of my constituents in relation to access to broadband internet access. Now, the one thing that everyone in this chamber can agree on is that fast,...
- Blair Electorate: Salvation Army (1 speech)
The Salvation Army has had an official presence in the Ipswich area since 1885. Apart from a significant spiritual ministry in the region, the Salvos have provided aged-care services; chaplaincy...
- Wentworth Electorate: Seniors Week (1 speech)
During Seniors Week it is appropriate to pay tribute to our seniors and the work they have done to make my electorate of Wentworth such an amazing place to live. At least 13 per cent of all our...
- Creative Australia (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the fantastic new opportunities for this nation contained in the national cultural policy for a creative Australia, announced by the Minister for the Arts, the Hon. Simon...
- Dairy Industry (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak on behalf of all dairy farmers across Australia, but dairy farmers in south-west Victoria in particular. I call on the Gillard government to understand their plight and to...
- Pope Benedict XVI, Makin Electorate: Feast of St Joseph (1 speech)
Tomorrow, 19 March, on the day of the Feast of St Joseph, His Holiness Pope Francis I will be officially installed as the 266th pope, succeeding Pope Benedict XVI, who retired on 28 February....
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (1 speech)
I rise to speak on an issue of great importance to the health of this nation. My concern arises out of the overt politicisation of the function of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee,...
- Bass Electorate: Faulkner, Mr Brian (1 speech)
Important needs in the community are often filled by volunteers—people working for the common good of others. I like to highlight these individuals and often in the House thank them for...
- Education (1 speech)
Over the last few weeks we have had a lot of debate about the quality of teacher education courses, with both the NSW government and the federal government announcing policies to address...
- (1 speech)
Order! I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn. Question agreed to. House adjourned at 22 : 30 The ACTING DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Dr A Leigh ) took the chair at 10:30.
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Petition: Tibet (1 speech)
I rise today to add my voice in support of those who seek a peaceful resolution in the crisis in Tibet. It is very distressing to hear that the human rights situation is driving a number of...
- Tibet, Page Electorate: dirtgirlworld (1 speech)
I would like to associate myself with the remarks and comments from the honourable member for Leichhardt and add that there is huge support in this place across the parties for the contribution...
- Member for Corangamite, Automotive Industry (1 speech)
I rise on a very grave issue for the constituents of Corangamite, the broader Geelong community and the Australian manufacturing community. I rise to request that the member for Corangamite issue...
- World's Greatest Shave (1 speech)
I rise to mention some of the outstanding fundraising efforts of the Greenway community in recent days, specifically the World's Greatest Shave, and also to mention this government's commitment...
- Central Queensland University and Central Queensland Institute of TAFE merger (1 speech)
I rise today to speak in support of the proposed merger between the Central Queensland University and the Central Queensland Institute of TAFE. This proposal has been on the negotiating table for...
- Palestine (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the supporters of Palestine in my electorate of Moreton and their connection, especially, to the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network—APAN. I am proud to say...
- Bonner Electorate: Mackenzie State Campus (1 speech)
It is with great pleasure that I rise to bring to the attention of the House one of the groundbreaking schools within my electorate of Bonner, the Mackenzie State Campus, which celebrated its...
- Victorian Technical and Further Education Sector, Corio Electorate: Gordon Institute of Technical and Further Education (1 speech)
As one of his first acts as the new Victorian Premier, Denis Napthine last week announced that he would provide the state's TAFE sector with $200 million over four years. Some media reporting...
- Australian Macedonian Medical Society (1 speech)
Today I would like to speak about the Australian Macedonian Medical Society. The society was founded in August 2009 by Dr Zoran Becvarovski, Dr Nick Cvetkovski and Dr Goran Josifoski Stevans and...
- Burgess, Mrs Mavis Margaret (2 speeches)
Unfortunately and sadly, yesterday I learnt of the passing of a friend, a confidante, a supporter and a lady whom I called the Florence Nightingale of King Island, Mrs Mavis Margaret Burgess....
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Costed Policies (13 speeches)
Transparent, costed policies are fundamental to trust, to honesty and to having a good public debate. The Parliamentary Budget Office was created in this spirit. It was created following a...
- Taxation (6 speeches)
As I did last year, I seek the support of the House to pass a motion that, in the upcoming budget, a separate document be attached to the budget papers that provides a 10-year road map on...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- His Holiness Pope Francis I (6 speeches)
I rise to speak on the Prime Minister's motion in relation to Pope Francis. On behalf of all the people of North Queensland, including the very large Catholic fraternity, I wish him all the best....
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Migration Committee; Report (3 speeches)
It is with great pleasure that I rise today to speak to the report of the inquiry by the Joint Standing Committee on Migration into multiculturalism in Australia. The committee accepted its terms...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Superannuation (4 speeches)
The collapse of Trio Capital was the largest superannuation fraud in Australian history. Around $176 million of superannuation funds were lost and are unlikely to be recovered. Nearly 6,090...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Human Rights: Vietnam (2 speeches)
As the member for Fowler, I have often raised in this place the human rights situation in Vietnam. In May last year, I raised a private members' motion that drew attention to a number of human...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Human Rights: Bangladesh (6 speeches)
At the outset I seek leave to amend my own motion by omitting paragraph (2) and replacing it with a new paragraph as circulated in my name: (2) shows concern at recent violence and reports of...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Goulburn-Murray Water Authority (1 speech)
I wish to talk about a very significant grievance I have about what is occurring in northern Victoria in my electorate of Murray. One of the most often repeated and strongly stated messages from...
- New South Wales Seniors Week (1 speech)
This week, New South Wales celebrates Seniors Week. It is an opportunity for all communities in my home state to celebrate the achievements of our senior citizens and to let them know how much we...
- Petition: Child Abduction (1 speech)
I rise today to table a petition that was presented to me by a constituent in my electorate of Macquarie, Mr Daniel Wass. This petition represents the culmination of several years of hard work...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
When this government came to office, the state of aged care was parlous. The coalition government failed to deliver a plan for a sustainable aged-care system during the long 11½ years it was...
- Small Business (1 speech)
I would like tonight to take the opportunity to touch on the lack of confidence in the small-business sector as a result of this government's policies. A recent Sensis Business Index survey of...
- Dairy Industry and Beef Industry (1 speech)
I grieve tonight about the amount of substantial legislation and regulation along with a government funded independent body to protect competition and consumers in this country, in particular...
