House debates

Wednesday, 23 June 2010

  • Budget (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to his January 2007 statement that the mining boom had ‘piled in billions of dollars to this country’; to his March...
  • Health (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the government’s key reform of delivering a National Health and Hospital Network to Australian families?
  • Budget (39 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to Penrice Soda, which employs over 300 people at its Angaston mine and Osborne manufacturing plan in South Australia. In the last...
  • Health (20 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Will the minister update the House on the latest statistics on the rate of cancer in Australia? What is the government doing to improve...
  • Building the Education Revolution Program (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Education. I refer the minister to admissions from Mr Brad Orgill, head of her BER Implementation Taskforce, that he had not read the Auditor-General’s...
  • Education (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Social Inclusion and Deputy Prime Minister. Will the Deputy Prime Minister update the...
  • Veterans (7 speeches, 2 comments)
    My question is to the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel. Minister, does the Rudd Labor government believe it is a fair and equitable policy for men and women...
  • Budget (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Treasurer. Treasurer, what income tax relief can Australian families expect from 1 July this year?
  • Asylum Seekers (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to reports that the ship shown in this photograph, now known as the MV Sun Sea, is on its way to Australia. Given suspected links...
  • Small Business (25 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs and the Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy. What support is the government...
  • Suicide (6 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the fact that suicide is a leading cause of death for Australians under the age of 44 and to the fact that it is...