House debates

Thursday, 8 February 2007

  • Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. What will the minister do to guarantee that no Australian parent has to go without needed medication for their sick children because of...
  • Water (9 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware of an allegation that there is a $900 million hole in the provision of funds for the government’s national...
  • Employment (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Treasurer, would you outline to the House the results of the January labour force survey?
  • Water (15 speeches)
    My question is also to the Treasurer. Treasurer, given that the Prime Minister has not made his officials available to brief us, how much of the $10 billion water plan is additional to what the...
  • Economy (17 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer outline to the House how business expectations have improved, and are there alternatives that could damage business prospects?
  • Water (2 speeches)
    My question, which is not about chickens, is directed to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Does the minister support the fact that, under the new management arrangements for...
  • South Australia (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware of potential threats to the future economic growth of South Australia and to jobs for the people in this important part...
  • Climate Change (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister and is also on climate change. Given the Prime Minister’s reference to coalminers and their jobs as an excuse for his inaction on climate change, I ask...
  • Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Would the minister inform the House of full-time jobs growth since the introduction of Work Choices? What are the...
  • Climate Change (2 speeches)
    My question is again to the Prime Minister and, again, on climate change. Prime Minister, why, after three days in parliament, do you still refuse to repudiate the statement by the Minister for...
  • Private Health Insurance (20 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister advise the House how the government’s support for private health insurance is taking the pressure off our...
  • Water (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister. Deputy Prime Minister, given the government’s attempt to overcome state borders as impediments to water reform, and assuming the...
  • Education: Schools (8 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the excellent Minister for Education, Science and Training. Would the minister please advise the House if she has received reports on whether state governments are...
  • Climate Change (16 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister and is again on climate change. Does the Prime Minister accept the connection between climate change and the severity and length of droughts into the future?
  • Water (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister and relates to the statement he tabled earlier today from Wendy Craik of the Murray-Darling Basin Commission responding to this official report I am holding...
  • Australian Technical Colleges (12 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Vocational and Further Education. Would the minister inform the House how new Australian technical colleges in cities like Gladstone and Townsville...