House debates

Thursday, 12 March 2009

  • Pensions and Benefits (34 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Will the minister update the House on government support for pensioners and on any responses?
  • Economy (3 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, given the $10 billion Christmas cash splash failed to prevent negative growth in the December quarter, given it failed to create 75,000 jobs...
  • Nation Building and Jobs Plan (16 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. How is the government’s Nation Building and Jobs Plan helping farmers? Why is it needed? How has it been received?
  • Workplace Relations (11 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister explain why there has been a 400 per cent increase in days lost to strikes in the first year of his government?
  • Employment (20 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Does the government agree with suggestions that removing workplace rights from workers would be good for the Australian economy?
  • Durban Review Conference (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer the minister to the fact that Canada, Italy, Israel and the United States have all withdrawn from the Durban Review Conference due to...
  • Housing Affordability (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Housing and the Status of Women. Will the minister explain to the House what this week’s ABS housing finance data tells us about the impact of the...
  • Special Air Service Regiment (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for Defence. I refer to the minister’s statement to this House on 25 February: No special forces soldier in this country has a debt against his name...
  • Higher Education (17 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Youth and Minister for Sport. Will the minister update the House on any further evidence of the need to secure the future of university student support services?
  • Nation Building and Jobs Plan (9 speeches)
    My question is to Peter Costello.
  • Australian Federal Police: Iraqi Policing (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister inform the House about what the Australian Federal Police are doing to support policing in Iraq?
  • Nation Building and Jobs Plan (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I draw the Prime Minister’s attention to comments by the Queensland Premier yesterday where she stated that federal funds to Queensland would be...
  • Road and Rail Infrastructure (16 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Will the minister outline the government’s record road and rail infrastructure...
  • Alcopops (3 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister outline to the House the government’s action on alcopops and any obstacles in its way?