House debates

Wednesday, 17 June 2015

  • Pensions (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Independent analysis reveals that couples on lower than average incomes will be hardest hit by the Prime Minister's cut to part pensions. What does the Prime...
  • Trade (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Trade and Investment. Will the minister update the House on the response from industry to the landmark free-trade agreement with China. What are some of the...
  • Superannuation (16 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister and follows his last answer. The leader of the Greens, Richard Di Natale, says that superannuation tax concessions are on the table as part of a deal to cut...
  • Biofuels (7 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment. There are now three biofuels projects almost shovel ready—Ingham NQBE, Charters Towers and Townsville UBurIS and Atherton...
  • Trade (2 speeches)
    I have a substantial question for the Minister for Health, on trade. Will the minister update the House on benefits to the health sector of the free trade agreement concluded with China?
  • Age Pension (9 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Under this Prime Minister's deal with the Greens to cut the pension, a single age pensioner with a super income of less than $25,000 a year will lose $8,200...
  • Budget (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Agriculture. Will the minister update the House on the benefits to the Australian agriculture sector and to regional Australia, including my electorate of...
  • Age Pension (10 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Independent analysis shows that couples on incomes of $62,000 a year, who are still in the workforce and due to retire in 10 years' time, stand to lose over...
  • Budget (12 speeches)
    My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer explain how the passage of key small business measures will help create jobs, growth and opportunity in our economy?
  • Asylum Seekers (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to reports that the government is paying wads of cash to criminal people smugglers at sea to smuggle asylum seekers back to Indonesia. Is the Prime...
  • Workplace Relations (13 speeches)
    My question is to the Acting Minister for Employment. I ask the Minister to update the House on the steps the government is taking to restore integrity to the union movement. And I further ask:...
  • Asylum Seekers (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Does the Minister regret denying categorically that the government has made cash payments to criminal people smugglers to smuggle asylum...