House debates
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That, unless otherwise ordered, so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following arrangements applying for this sitting: 1. during...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Dental Benefits Amendment Bill 2012; Second Reading (30 speeches)
After the last election, of which everyone knows the result, the voters of Melbourne put me in the fortunate position of being able to sit down with the now Prime Minister to negotiate the...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Defence will be absent from question time this week as he is attending the NATO defence ministers' meeting in Brussels. The Minister for Home Affairs,...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Speaker (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister continue to have full confidence in the Speaker? If not, what steps will she take to remove him from the speakership?
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Speaker (36 speeches)
I move: That so much of standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition from moving the following motion forthwith—That, as provided for by section...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Reports Nos 5, 6 and 7 of 2012-13 (1 speech)
I present the following Auditor-General's Audit reports for 2012-13 entitled: Audit report No. 5, Performance audit: management of Australia’s air combat capability—F/A-18 Hornet and...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Documents are presented as listed in the schedule circulated to honourable members. Details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings and I move: That the House take note of...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (2 speeches)
I have received advice from the Chief Opposition Whip nominating members to be members of certain committees.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pricing (17 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Wannon proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The adverse impact of the...
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I rise to present an oral statement to the House regarding a possible matter of privilege, namely the unauthorised disclosure of committee material. On Monday, 17 September the Standing Committee...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the order of the day, private Members’ business, relating to the disallowance of the...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Office Holders (0 speeches)
- Speaker (3 speeches)
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the House this afternoon for its continued support and for the great privilege of serving as the 27th Speaker of the House of Representatives. I...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Electoral Matters Committee; Report (5 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters I present the committee's report, incorporating dissenting reports, entitled Review of the AEC analysis of the FWA report on the...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (1 speech)
I move: That the sitting of the House be suspended until the ringing of the bells. The House will suspend. For people's information, I have received advice from the Clerk that this is the...
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (2 speeches)
I also move: That standing order 31 (automatic adjournment of the House) be suspended for this sitting.
- Parliamentary Office Holders (0 speeches)
- Speaker (11 speeches)
I move: That the honourable member for Chisholm do take the chair of this House as Speaker. The member for Chisholm has done me the great honour of asking me to move a nomination for her to be...
- Deputy Speaker (20 speeches)
Madam Speaker, I start by congratulating you unconditionally and without qualification on your elevation. The most august role you have been elected to deserves no less. With great pleasure, I...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Queensland Centre for Advanced Technology (1 speech)
I was delighted to be invited to visit the Queensland Centre for Advanced Technology last week for a guided tour of CSIRO's state-of-the-art research facilities at Pinjarra Hills. I do thank...
- National Broadband Network (1 speech)
Last week Senator Kate Lundy and I attended the laying of the distribution fibre cable in Palmerston, in my electorate of Fraser. NBN Co. forecast that construction should be complete in the...
- Mental Health (1 speech)
This Wednesday, 10 October, is United Nations World Mental Health Day and this week is also Western Australia's Mental Health Week. These present us with an opportunity to raise awareness of...
- Ipswich Regional Advocacy Service (1 speech)
Last week I had the great privilege of delivering some very good news to some hardworking, dedicated community workers in Ipswich. Arlene Lewis, Sally Spencer, Jacqui Clarke, Lyn Guilfoyle and...
- Hasluck Electorate: Childcare (1 speech)
I rise today to highlight an increasingly important sector in the community—one that needs more attention from government—the childcare sector. People in this sector across Hasluck...
- Duff, Mrs Margaret Anne (1 speech)
Margaret Anne Duff made a community contribution far beyond her role as an electorate officer before her death on 25 August 2012. She was an inspiration, activist and advocate for people in the...
- Campervan and Motorhome Club of Australia 27th National Rally (1 speech)
I rise to speak in support of the Campervan and Motorhome Club of Australia 27th National Rally 2012, which will officially open next Tuesday, 16 October. The rally will be held in Boonah at the...
- Petition: Easter Sunday, Brunswick Sinhala Language School (1 speech)
I rise to present a petition to the House requesting the amendment of the employment standards in the Fair Work Act to recognise the Monday and/or the Tuesday following Christmas, Boxing Day, New...
- Mallee Electorate: Wine Industry (1 speech)
I rise to draw the public's attention to a very sad state of affairs occurring in my electorate. The liquidators of a failed wine business, which collapsed three years ago in June 2009, are...
- Lindsay Electorate: Education (2 speeches)
I rise to express my condemnation of the New South Wales government for the cuts they have inflicted upon the New South Wales community, and my community in particular, with their $1.7 billion...
- Bills (0 speeches)
