House debates

Thursday, 11 March 2010

  • Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister and I refer the Prime Minister to remarks made last Friday by the Secretary of the new Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, who told a meeting...
  • Hospitals (34 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the need for reform in Australia’s health system after years of neglect and inaction?
  • Home Insulation Progam (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the government’s concession that foil insulation is a potential death trap and that the 50,000 homes installed with it...
  • Hospitals (28 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How will the government’s health reform plan improve the financial sustainability of the health system and end both blame shifting and...
  • Home Insulation Program (14 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the project control group which ran his Home Insulation Program, comprising his department, the Deputy Prime Minister’s...
  • Employment (21 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. Will the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on...
  • Home Insulation Program (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister and it again relates to his role in the failure of the Home Insulation Program. I refer the Prime Minister to his department’s annual report, in which...
  • Paid Parental Leave (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Treasurer. How will paid parental leave policies that rely on new taxes on business harm the economy and impact on the costs of living?
  • Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
    My question is, again, to the Prime Minister. In light of the Prime Minister’s previous answer, is he seriously telling the House that he was never informed about the safety problems, fires...
  • Paid Parental Leave (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Will the government consider significant new policy proposals from other sources? Why is it important for such proposals to be...
  • Home Insulation Program (9 speeches)
    My question is again to the Prime Minister. As the Prime Minister has informed the House that Minister Garrett informed him of problems with the Home Insulation Program by letter of 14 August,...
  • Paid Parental Leave (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Why do Australian families need certainty about paid parental leave?
  • Home Insulation Program (2 speeches)
    My question is again to the Prime Minister. What reasons did Minister Garrett give in his letter of 14 August for wanting increased compliance, increased inspections and a process of...
  • Paid Parental Leave (9 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs and Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy, Dr Emerson. Will the minister advise...
  • Climate Change (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. With a reported 1,000 homes at risk from coastal erosion at Old Bar in the Manning Valley, can the Prime Minister provide a status report on...
  • Tourism (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Tourism. Will the minister update the House on the recovery of the Australian tourism industry following setbacks such as the global financial crisis and swine flu?
  • Hospitals (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. How can the Prime Minister say that the efficient casemix price of public hospital procedures will be set by an independent body under his health reform...
  • Small Business: Superannuation (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law. Will the minister update the House on the progress of the government’s small business...
  • Building the Education Revolution Program (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Education. I refer the minister to the case of the Tyalgum Public School in New South Wales, which received a library off the back of a semitrailer, under...
  • Parliament (17 speeches)
    My question is to the Leader of the House. Would the Leader of the House outline the importance of orderly processes in ensuring the timely passage of legislation through the parliament?