House debates

Monday, 29 February 2016

  • Economy (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the latest instalment of the government's ongoing tax saga. The Prime Minister has now contracted the Treasurer's job out to the secretary of the...
  • Defence White Paper (2 speeches)
    I remind the Prime Minister that my electorate of Paterson contains many defence industry businesses, Defence personnel and their families. Will the Prime Minister inform the House how the...
  • Taxation (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. On Thursday, the Australian Financial Review reported that the cabinet had decided it would not be spooked into releasing its tax plan before budget day. But...
  • G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update that House on the recent G20 finance ministers meeting and the support of the world's economic leaders for structural reform and...
  • Taxation (12 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, the Treasurer has expressed a willingness to address excesses in negative gearing. Prime Minister, what are the excesses in negative gearing?
  • Hospitals (9 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Health. I am seeking clarification about Indi hospital funding. As reported in the Wangaratta Chronicle and The Border Mail, there is a dispute between the...
  • Defence White Paper (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister advise the House how the defence white paper and the defence industry policy statement have been received both in Australia...
  • Taxation (24 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, given the Treasurer has refused to outline to the House what the excesses are in negative gearing, will the Prime Minister outline to the...
  • Defence White Paper (3 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science. Will the minister advise the House of the role that defence plays in promoting science, technology, engineering and...
  • Taxation (4 speeches, 1 comment)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Labor has ruled out retrospective changes to negative gearing. But on Thursday in question time the Prime Minister twice refused to rule out retrospective...
  • Broadband (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Since the last election, the cost of the Prime Minister's second-rate copper NBN has nearly doubled, from $29½ billion to $56 billion; the time to build...
  • Small Business (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Small Business and Assistant Treasurer. Will the minister outline recent Australian Bureau of Statistics data about small businesses and what the government has...
  • Broadband (11 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Before the last election the Prime Minister promised to deliver the NBN to all Australians by the end of this year. However, internal documents leaked to The...
  • Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (2 speeches)
    My constituency question is to the Minister for Health. Research has found that Australia has some of the highest rates in the world of babies born with permanent brain damage and other...
  • Broadband (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister promised Australians that his second-rate copper NBN would be 'Fast. Affordable. Sooner.' Given that we now know that his second-rate...
  • Illicit Drugs (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Finance. Can the minister update the House on how ice is impacting metropolitan and regional communities across Australia? What steps is the government taking...