House debates

Monday, 24 May 2010

  • Budget (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister confirm that official ATO taxation statistics on the Taxation Office website show that the effective company tax rate for the mining...
  • Education (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Education, the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and the Minister for Social Inclusion. How is the government supporting quality teaching through...
  • Budget (3 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the letter dated 17 May 2010 from BHP Billiton Chairman Mr Jac Nasser AO to shareholders and released to the Australian Stock...
  • Health (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister update the House on the implementation of the government’s GP superclinics and of the level of community support for...
  • Budget (38 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the claim he made earlier in question time that the undergraduate research paper from the University of North Carolina was a...
  • Superannuation (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Human Services and Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law. How will the government’s stronger and fairer superannuation reforms...
  • Mining (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister and relates to the mining companies BHP and Shenhua Coal, and their coal exploration licences on the Liverpool Plains in the electorate of New England. The...
  • China (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Trade. Will the minister advise the House—
  • Home Insulation Program (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to today’s comments by insulation small-business owner Ms Kellie Jackson of Albury: He, Mr Rudd, has ruined an industry and is getting away...
  • Housing (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Housing and Minister for the Status of Women. How is the government tackling housing affordability for working Australians and their families? What are the...
  • Building the Education Revolution Program (25 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Education. Can the minister explain why, under the school hall program over which she has presided, a cubbyhouse canteen, like this one at the Orange Grove...
  • Rail Infrastructure (14 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Why has the government prioritised upgrading the national rail freight network? How will...