House debates
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, True-up Shortfall Levy (Excise) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, True-up Shortfall Levy (General) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Climate Change Authority (Abolition) Bill 2013, Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates and Other Amendments) Bill 2013, Clean Energy Finance Corporation (Abolition) Bill 2013; Second Reading (17 speeches)
Climate change is real. We know it on this side, it is known around the world and it is known in my community. Unfortunately, it seems that it is not known on the other side of this House in...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- National Security (2 speeches)
by leave—In the past 24 hours there have been calls for Australia to detail our intelligence operations and to apologise for them. The first duty of every government is to protect the...
- White Ribbon Day (2 speeches)
Madam Speaker, on indulgence, I wish to note that this is the 10th anniversary of White Ribbon Day here in Australia. White Ribbon Day is an opportunity for all of us to recommit ourselves to the...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Assistant Minister for Defence is hosting the Singaporean Minister for Defence in Queensland and will be absent from question time today. The Deputy Prime Minister...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Can the minister confirm reports that last Friday an Australian Navy patrol boat near Christmas Island sought to tow an...
- Carbon Pricing (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister explain to the House what impact the carbon tax has on the operating costs of Australian businesses? How will scrapping the carbon tax...
- Asylum Seekers (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. I refer the minister to his previous answer about the reported tow-back vessel that sank. Were all those on board this asylum...
- Mining Tax (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline how Western Australian mining companies will have their compliance costs reduced after the abolition of the mining tax, and will the...
- Asylum Seekers (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. On what basis did the minister publicly assert last Friday that the Abbott government's boat buyback policy was not a measure...
- Indonesia (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, would you agree that every Australian would be appalled if you and your wife's phones were tapped and worried why Indonesia would do this? If...
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. Can the minister tell the House how repealing the carbon tax will reduce the price of...
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. I refer to the removal of automatic visa on arrival for Iranians arriving in Indonesia. How has this measure contributed to...
- Public Service (22 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to media reports that the previous government had secret plans to cut 14,500 jobs from the Public Service over the next four years. What do...
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the government considering formally abandoning its failed boat buy-back policy in order to improve its relationship with Indonesia?
- Budget (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service. I refer the minister to a report in today's Daily Telegraph which says that the...
- Asylum Seekers (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Firstly, I would like to thank the minister for visiting an Afghan family in Townsville who had spent 24 years in refugee...
- Reserve Bank (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the government's grant of almost $9 billion to the Reserve Bank, blowing out this year's budget deficit and adding over $1...
- National Broadband Network (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. I remind the minister that in my electorate of Solomon the previous government spent tens of thousands of dollars promoting the switch-on of the...
- Early Years Quality Fund (4 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Education. I refer the minister to her election policy, which I have here, handy, which states: If elected, the Coalition will honour funds contracted...
- Child Care (2 speeches)
My question, too, is to the Assistant Minister for Education. I remind the minister of her visit to the Sunshine Coast, where she was asked to ensure that there was available and affordable child...
- Special Child Care Benefit (2 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Education. I refer the minister to the fact that over 18,000 families rely on the special child care benefit for children at risk or children with...
- Road Infrastructure (7 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. Is the minister aware that a recent South Australian Royal Automobile Association travel time report revealed...
- Child Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister provide a clear commitment to Australian parents with children in child care, a guarantee not to cut childcare payments they receive...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Child Care (14 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Adelaide proposing that a different matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's refusal...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
Madam Speaker I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (10 speeches)
I move: That, in relation to proceedings on the Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2013, so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the...
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (12 speeches)
Before I call the member for Banks, I remind the House that it is the honourable member’s maiden speech and I ask the House to extend the normal courtesies to the member.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, True-up Shortfall Levy (Excise) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, True-up Shortfall Levy (General) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Climate Change Authority (Abolition) Bill 2013, Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013, Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates and Other Amendments) Bill 2013, Clean Energy Finance Corporation (Abolition) Bill 2013; Second Reading (7 speeches, 3 comments)
Continuing my contribution to this debate from earlier today, for me it is the lost future economic opportunity that makes removing a price on carbon so wrong. For some time now the coalition and...
- Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2013; Second Reading (8 speeches)
We will oppose this legislation in the House and we will oppose it in the other place. We will oppose it on several grounds. We will oppose it because we do not believe the minerals resource rent...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment (1 speech)
On 16 October a bushfire started in Lithgow, New South Wales. The next day two more fires began nearby in Mt York and Springwood. These fires led to the loss of at least 210 properties, with over...
- Macarthur Electorate: White Ribbon Golf Day (1 speech)
Next Monday I will join men and women from across Macarthur in a White Ribbon Golf Day to take a stance against violence towards women. The Campbelltown Domestic Violence Liaison Committee have...
- Wills Electorate: Brunswick Terminal Station (1 speech)
This year the power company SP AusNet undertook at the Brunswick Terminal Station in my electorate works including removal of a dozen or so large heritage trees on the King Street fence line,...
- Small Business (1 speech)
I am delighted to advise the House that since the 7 September federal election businesses in my local region have been reporting a lift in confidence. Our nation is under new management and...
- Queensland Government (1 speech)
When the LNP Premier of Queensland, Campbell Newman, decided to slash and burn in my home state of Queensland, including slashing all funding to the Queensland tenant advice and advocacy service,...
- Child Protection (1 speech)
Listening to so many excellent and thoughtful first speeches in the parliament over the last week, I reflected on those things that unite us across this chamber rather than divide us. Each person...
