House debates

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

  • Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to widowed disability pensioner Jenny Anderson of Cordalba, who had insulation installed in September last year and was left with...
  • Health (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister update the House on the challenges facing the Australian health system? What action has the government already taken and why is there...
  • Home Insulation Program (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday Tony and Maria Harvey of Allpro Insulation in my electorate of Fadden were forced to lay off 13 staff and now have half a million dollars worth of...
  • Private Health Insurance (13 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. What was the outcome of the latest private health insurance premium round and what are the latest statistics on private health insurance?
  • Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. How does the Prime Minister explain to a single mum like Ms Kerri Borg, who was retrenched on Friday night along with 80 of her workmates at the insulation...
  • Rural and Regional Health Services (14 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Service Delivery. What is the government doing to ensure Australians living in rural and regional...
  • Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to Mr Mark Anderson in my electorate whose insulation business has operated for 16 years with a permanent workforce of 15 people...
  • Pensions and Benefits (9 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. What will be the benefits of the government’s proposed...
  • Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
    I am not getting ahead of myself, even if others are. My question is to the Prime Minister—the current Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his department’s annual report,...
  • Income Support for Students Legislation (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and the Minister for Social Inclusion. What are the consequences for students of the coalition’s continuing...
  • Home Insulation Program (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the comments of the South Australian Coordinator-General, Mr Rod Hook, that safety concerns regarding the home insulation...
  • Mortgages (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Treasurer. Treasurer, what have been the recent developments in home loan funding for smaller Australian lenders?
  • Rail Infrastructure (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. The minister would recall announcing on 12 December 2008 an amount of $290 million as part...
  • Budget (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Minister, what support is the government providing to families and pensioners and why is certainty...
  • Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Now that the Prime Minister has accepted responsibility for the home insulation scandal, will the government compensate businesses involved in the scheme...
  • National Security (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. What is the government doing to foster better cooperation in response to international terrorism?
  • Home Insulation Program (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Now that the Prime Minister has accepted personal responsibility for the scandal around the home insulation program, which has been suspended with the...
  • Emissions Trading Scheme (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science and Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change. Why is an emissions trading scheme the most economically...
  • Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Now that the Prime Minister has accepted personal responsibility for the home insulation scandal, can he tell us by what date the inspections of the 48,000...