House debates

Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Questions without Notice

 
  • Economy (10 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her pre-election commitments to fix the mining tax, to rule out a carbon tax and to stop the people smugglers, and I remind her...
  • Asylum Seekers (25 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. I refer the minister to his comments on ABC Radio Perth on 17 September that: I’ve certainly made no decisions or no...
  • Health Reform (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the government both modernising our economy and reforming our health and hospital system to assist and create opportunities for all Australian...
  • Asylum Seekers (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer the minister to his meeting with foreign ministers from East Timor and Indonesia in New York in September. What advice has the minister...
  • Economy (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the importance of bipartisanship to continuing economic reform?
  • Asylum Seekers (17 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. In question time yesterday, the Prime Minister refused to rule out using other defence facilities for detention centres in the future. Instead, she referred...
  • Electricity Prices (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. Will the minister update the House on the current debate surrounding increases in electricity prices and how uncertainty...
  • National Education Standards (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth. Does the minister agree with the draft national curriculum that controversy surrounds Australia’s war...
  • Australian Securities Exchange (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline for the House the regulatory and other steps that must now take place following the announcement of a proposed corporate transaction...
  • National Broadband Network (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. I refer the minister to his statement of 16 October 2008: Importantly, we...
  • Preventative Health (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. What action is the government taking to deliver more preventative health programs? How have these programs been received and what is the...
  • Broadband (4 speeches)
    Mr Speaker, my question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her comment on 7 September where she said: Whether you’re on the broadband in Tamworth or on the broadband in...
  • Murray-Darling Basin (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities and it relates to the Murray-Darling guide and specifically to quantifying the so-called...
  • United States of America (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Minister, can you please advise the House of the current state of the Australia-United States bilateral relationship?
  • Broadband (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. Is it correct that Exetel, an internet service which provides NBN services in...
  • WikiLeaks (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Defence. Will the minister advise the House on the outcome of the Defence review of WikiLeaks’ release of material on Afghanistan and the most recent...
  • Murray-Darling Basin (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. The chairman of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority has publicly said that he advised the...
  • Research and Innovation (3 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, representing the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations. Would the minister update...