House debates

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

  • Carbon Pricing (16 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I ask the Prime Minister: will she repudiate Professor Garnaut's proposal for an unelected, unaccountable body to set emissions reductions targets?
  • Budget (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline for the House the importance of saving measures to return the budget to surplus? How has the approach been received, and what is the...
  • Carbon Pricing (13 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to a letter from New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell raising concerns that the imposition of a carbon tax will destroy $5...
  • Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Tasmanian grandmother Dorothy Thurley has been fighting bowel cancer for eight years and is being kept alive by a drug not covered by the PBS. Too sick to...
  • Infrastructure (14 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. How are the government's infrastructure investments through the economic stimulus package and the flood and cyclone reconstruction...
  • Carbon Pricing (11 speeches)
    My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to his remarks in the House yesterday on the carbon price: We will use every cent from that price paid to assist households and to assist...
  • Social Inclusion Agenda (30 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Human Services and the Minister for Social Inclusion. Would the minister inform the House about how the government's Social Inclusion Agenda is ensuring that...
  • Emissions Trading Scheme (10 speeches)
    My question is to the Treasurer. I remind the Treasurer that the government's former emissions trading scheme proposed to increase industry compensation over time, while Professor Garnaut...
  • Tobacco Products (13 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. What are the government's positions in regard to plain packaging of tobacco and the interaction of tobacco companies with the policy...
  • Carbon Pricing (21 speeches)
    Mr Speaker, my question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to an article by Australian Workers Union National Secretary Paul Howes in The Australian Worker magazine, which reads: The AWU...