House debates

Tuesday, 28 March 2006

  • Workplace Relations (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the exchange last night on the ABC’s Lateline program when the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, in response to the question,...
  • Economy (13 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer inform the House of the results of the Reserve Bank’s financial stability review? What does this review indicate about the...
  • Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to comments by the Leader of the Government in the Senate and Minister for Finance and Administration, Nick Minchin, to the HR Nicholls Society:...
  • India (7 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister inform the House of the government’s response to the agreement reached between the United States and India...
  • Cyclone Larry (4 speeches)
    My question without notice is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister would be aware that an estimated 3,500 of Australia’s estimated 4,500 banana and agricultural workers directly...
  • Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer again to evidence presented to the Cole inquiry yesterday that the minister said to AWB chief executive Andrew Lindberg last year that...
  • Climate Change (11 speeches)
    My question is also addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister update the House on the progress of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate? Are there...
  • Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer to the minister’s advice to AWB last year that AWB ‘can’t be responsible for what happened to the money after it was...
  • Iraq (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. Would the minister update the House on work being done by Australian troops as part of a coalition to bring security and democracy to Iraq?...
  • Oil for Food Program (10 speeches)
    My question is again to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer to the minister’s advice to AWB last year that AWB ‘can’t be responsible for what happened to the money after...
  • Medicare (4 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister inform the House how the government’s Strengthening Medicare package has lifted the rate of bulk-billing...
  • Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
    My question again is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer also to evidence presented in the Cole inquiry yesterday that the government told the AWB’s CEO, Andrew Lindberg, that, in...
  • Workplace Relations (12 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Workforce Participation. Would the minister advise the House on the government’s success in moving Australians into work?
  • Oil for Food Program (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer to the fact that in February 2005 Mr Volcker claimed to the Australian ambassador to the UN that the Howard government’s...
  • Workplace Relations (8 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Small Business and Tourism. Would the minister inform the House how the new workplace relations system will benefit Australian small businesses? Are...