House debates

Thursday, 30 September 2010

  • Climate Change: Economy (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister that since December 2007 electricity prices are up by 34 per cent, water prices are up 29 per cent, gas prices are up 26 per cent...
  • Trade (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on Australia’s role in promoting international trade and what this says about the importance of reform?
  • Interest Rates (12 speeches)
    My question is to the Treasurer. I refer to broad market expectations that interest rates will increase by up to one per cent over the next 12 months. That is more than $3,000 per annum on the...
  • Economy (10 speeches)
    My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on what the International Monetary Fund and other international institutions have had to say about the government’s...
  • Emissions Trading Scheme (10 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, I refer you to the New South Wales government analysis showing that households will pay an extra $300 a year for electricity if a carbon tax...
  • Broadband (11 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. How will high speed broadband, such as that being rolled out in my electorate, drive a modern, productive Australian economy?
  • Afghanistan (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Defence. Why has the government decided to provide additional artillery trainers to Afghanistan? What further commitments of Australian personnel and equipment...
  • National Broadband Network (7 speeches)
    My questions is to the minister representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. I refer to a statement reported on 17 August by the CEO of the iiNET, a firm...
  • Health (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How are the health services improving due to the government’s Health and Hospitals Fund? What is planned for the next round of the fund...
  • Immigration Detention Centres (16 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. Will the minister confirm whether contractors working or tendering for work on the Curtin Detention Centre during the election...
  • Superannuation (5 speeches)
    Mr Speaker, my question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation.
  • Murray-Darling Basin (4 speeches, 1 comment)
    Mr Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. As the minister responsible for the joint issues of population and water, and with...
  • Pensions and Benefits (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. How will Australian families benefit from the government’s new paid parental leave scheme?
  • Ministerial Performance (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the Auditor-General’s report released yesterday into the Green Loans Program, which exposed a failure of governance...
  • Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. Will the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship please update the House on issues relating to the suspension of processing asylum...
  • Education Funding (10 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government representing the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations. I refer...
  • Age Pension (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Minister, how has the government improved support for pensioners?
  • Asylum Seekers (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the government’s denials before the last election of any plan to expand the immigration detention facilities at...
  • Education Funding (3 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Would the minister update the House on the Gillard government’s commitment to school education?