House debates

Tuesday, 12 June 2007

  • Fuel Prices (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his Treasurer’s statement on 11 December 1996 that the government would abandon petrol prices surveillance because it...
  • Employment (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Would the Prime Minister update the House on how many jobs have been created in Australia over the past year? Prime Minister, what is the reason...
  • Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the government have a target for the percentage of the Australian workforce to be covered by Australian workplace agreements? Specifically, does the...
  • Economy (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Treasurer. Treasurer, would you inform the House of recently released economic data? Are there any threats to the Australian economy?
  • Workplace Relations (8 speeches)
    My question is for the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, is it not a fact that in early May the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations circulated a request for tender to economic research...
  • State Governments: Economic Management (8 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Would the Treasurer inform the House of the fiscal outcomes of recent state government budgets? What do the growing deficits and debt levels at state...
  • Workplace Relations (22 speeches)
    My question is again to the Prime Minister. I refer again to his government’s request for tender for economic modelling. Prime Minister, doesn’t this document reveal your...
  • Employment (3 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport and Regional Services. Would the Deputy Prime Minister inform the House how coalition policies are driving...
  • Capital Gains Tax (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer and relates to the government’s statement last Friday on compensation for those who have given up groundwater entitlements...
  • Japan (7 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. What is the significance of the first ever Australia-Japan Foreign and Defence Ministerial Consultation? Is the minister aware of any...
  • Liberal Party (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that the Australian Public Service Commission’s ministerial conversations event held in the Great Hall on 12 August...
  • Workplace Relations (13 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Would the minister inform the House of how employees can be well represented in negotiations to improve their pay and...
  • Liberal Party (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I again refer to the Liberal Party function at Kirribilli House—which included fine wine, oysters and prawns—overlooking the magnificent Sydney...
  • Macular Degeneration (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Would the minister advise the House of the government’s decision to list Lucentis on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme? How...
  • Liberal Party (5 speeches)
    My question is again to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that attendees at the Liberal Party fundraising drinks function at Kirribilli House on Friday, 1 June 2007 were met by...
  • Disability Services (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Would the minister update the House on the progress of the negotiations with the states and...
  • Liberal Party (7 speeches)
    My question is again to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that the price charged for the Liberal Party fundraising function at Kirribilli is based on the same pricing principles...
  • Workplace Relations (16 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Small Business and Tourism. Will the minister inform the House of the findings of the latest Sensis small business survey? What does this survey show...