House debates

Monday, 27 March 2006

  • Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, isn’t it the case that from today, the first day of the government’s war on workers, nearly four million Australian employees...
  • Economy (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Would the Prime Minister inform the House how the government is delivering on its promise to the Australian people at the last election to keep the...
  • Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the launch of the coalition’s industrial relations election policy in September 2004 when, in response to a question...
  • Indonesia: Relations with Australia (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister update the House on the state of relations with Indonesia?
  • Workplace Relations (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to comments on 16 March by the President of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, Justice Geoffrey Giudice, that the creation of the Fair...
  • Economy: Private Sector (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer outline recent data on Australian private sector wealth? How has the government contributed to this improvement and what more needs...
  • Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
    My question is again to the Prime Minister. Isn’t it the case that the legislation and regulations which take effect from today consist of 1,252 pages of legislation and explanatory...
  • Trade (2 speeches)
    My question is directed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. Would the Deputy Prime Minister outline to the House how global trade liberalisation will help Australian exporters...
  • Oil for Food Program (3 speeches)
    My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. I refer to the statement by Mr Warren Truss, a cabinet minister, a former Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and...
  • Cyclone Larry (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Attorney-General. Would the Attorney-General update the House on the government’s role in the recovery effort in North Queensland following the severe...
  • Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Has the Prime Minister seen comments by respected defence analyst Neil James, who wrote in the latest edition of Defender, the journal of the Australian...
  • Human Rights (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister inform the House of the latest developments in the case against an Afghan man accused of converting to Christianity?
  • Oil for Food Program (12 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer to his meeting with Paul Volcker in September 2005 and to reports today in which a Volcker inquiry official who participated in that...
  • Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Would the minister inform the House of the safeguards built into the government’s workplace relations...
  • Oil for Food Program (13 speeches)
    My question is again to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer to the minister’s statement last week regarding the many warnings the government received on the $300 million ‘wheat...
  • Cyclone Larry (4 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Would the minister advise the House of assistance being provided to residents of North Queensland...
  • Oil for Food Program (4 speeches)
    My question is again to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and I refer to evidence presented today in the Cole inquiry. Is it a fact that the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in a meeting with Mr...
  • National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister inform the House of how Darwin’s new National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre will better prepare...
  • Oil for Food Program (9 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and follows the question he was just asked and his evasion of the implications in that question. Will the foreign minister accept any...