- Migration Amendment (Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2014; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Migration Amendment (Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2014 amends the Migration Act to make changes to the way asylum seekers are... - Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Measures) Bill (No. 2) 2014; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Today I am introducing the Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Measures) Bill (No. 2) 2014which will maintain the Child Care... - Meteorology Amendment (Online Advertising) Bill 2014; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Meteorology Amendment (Online Advertising) Bill 2014 (the Bill) amends the Meteorology Act 1955 to provide certainty in relation to the... - Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (No. 1), (No. 3) and (No. 5)) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (No. 2), (No. 4) and (No. 6)) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (Parliamentary Departments)) Bill 2014; Second Reading (14 speeches)
This is a joke! We have legislation that is probably meant to be bipartisan. This was handed to the parliament at 4.30 yesterday, which, at more than 500 pages, in the words of the second reading... - Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (No. 1), (No. 3) and (No. 5)) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (No. 2), (No. 4) and (No. 6)) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (Parliamentary Departments)) Bill 2014; Consideration in Detail (5 speeches)
I move the opposition amendment to the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2014, as circulated under my name: (1) Schedule 2, page... - Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (No. 1), (No. 3) and (No. 5)) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (No. 2), (No. 4) and (No. 6)) Bill 2014, Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential Modifications of Appropriation Acts (Parliamentary Departments)) Bill 2014; Third Reading (1 speech)
The question is that these bills be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bills read a third time. - Excise Tariff Amendment (Fuel Indexation) Bill 2014, Customs Tariff Amendment (Fuel Indexation) Bill 2014, Fuel Indexation (Road Funding) Bill 2014, Fuel Indexation (Road Funding) Special Account Bill 2014; Second Reading (37 speeches, 1 comment)
I begin my speech on the government's big new tax on fuel with a couple of quotes: Fuel tax is a tax on distance. If ever there was a country that should not aggressively tax fuel, it is a vast...