House debates

Monday, 8 February 2010

  • Emissions Trading Scheme (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that, on the government’s own figures, a family with three children under 12 where one parent works as a correctional...
  • Nation Building and Jobs Plan (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister please update the House on recent information relating to the impact of the stimulus provided by the Nation Building and Jobs Plan on...
  • Emissions Trading Scheme (17 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy, Minister Assisting the Finance Minister on Deregulation and Minister for Competition Policy and...
  • Migration (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Education, the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and the Minister for Social Inclusion. Deputy Prime Minster, how will the announced changes to...
  • Emissions Trading Scheme (12 speeches)
    I ask the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs to confirm that a maritime worker on over $125,000 whose wife is a stay-at-home mum looking after two dependent...
  • Economy (11 speeches)
    My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the closure of the bank guarantee?
  • Asylum Seekers (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I note that, since August 2008, 79 boats have arrived illegally in Australian waters carrying 3,618 passengers, including 11 boats carrying 647 passengers...
  • Economy (14 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Minister, why is rigorous analysis and attention to detail crucial in economic and fiscal management, and what are the consequences if...
  • Hospitals (24 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his 2007 promise to fix public hospitals by 30 June last year or, if he did not, to take them over from the states. Why has...
  • Superannuation (2 speeches)
    My question is the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his statement on radio 4BC just 12 days before the last election, when he said: There will be no change to the superannuation...
  • Infrastructure (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Why is investment in infrastructure critical to Australia’s economic growth and...
  • Workplace Relations (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his statement to this parliament on 20 August 2008, when he said: No working families in this country will be worse off as a...