House debates

Tuesday, 12 September 2006

  • Housing (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware of new figures from Deutsche Bank which estimate that household debt is now a record 171 per cent of household disposable...
  • US-Australia Free Trade Agreement (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. Would the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade inform the House how Australian companies are taking advantage of the...
  • Housing (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that, according to data from the Supreme Court of Victoria, in the first half of this year there were 1,474 mortgage...
  • Climate Change (45 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister update the House on Australia’s international action and cooperation to address the issue of climate change?
  • Medibank Private (8 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Is the minister aware of claims that privatisation is hurtful in the health sector? What is the government’s response?
  • Fruit and Vegetable Growers (3 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. I refer the minister to this statement by the former Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the National Party on 1 October...
  • Workplace Relations (14 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Is the minister aware of proposals to introduce compulsory union bargaining into Australia’s workplace...
  • Oil for Food Program (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Trade. I refer to the minister’s instructions to Australia’s ambassador in Washington in June 2003 to go in at a senior level with the US...
  • Solomon Islands (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister confirm reports that Australia will be sending an envoy to the Solomon Islands to discuss our concerns with the...
  • Oil for Food Program (4 speeches)
    My question again is to the Minister for Trade. Will the minister outline the instructions he gave to our embassy in Washington in October 2003 in response to concerns raised by US senators that...
  • Education (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Education, Science and Training. What is the government doing to ensure that parents receive accurate and clear information about their child’s...
  • Oil for Food Program (13 speeches)
    My question, for the third time, is to the Minister for Trade. I refer the minister to this email released by the Cole inquiry, from AWB to the Acting Ambassador in Washington just prior to the...
  • Indigenous Communities (23 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Is the minister aware of further allegations of violence and crime in remote Aboriginal...
  • Workplace Relations (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. When did the minister, his office, his department or the Office of Workplace Services first become aware that by June 2004,...