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- Start of Business
- COMMITTEES
- PRIVATE MEMBERS BUSINESS
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STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS
- Goods and Services Tax: Beer
- Bracks Government: Scoresby Transport Corridor
- Olympic Games: Medals
- Boothby Electorate: Australian Students Prize
- Canning Electorate: Cecil Andrews Senior High School
- New England Electorate
- Banking Industry: Deregulation
- Queensland's 100-Plus Club
- Port Melbourne Colts
- Nextgen Fibre Optic Cable
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QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
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Aboriginals: Stolen Generations
(Beazley, Kim, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Private Health Insurance: Reforms
(Vale, Danna, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Aboriginals: Stolen Generations
(Beazley, Kim, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Tax Reform: Implementation
(Charles, Bob, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Aboriginals: Stolen Generations
(Beazley, Kim, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Economy: Performance
(Andrews, Kevin, MP, Costello, Peter, MP) -
Goods and Services Tax: Savings Bonus
(Beazley, Kim, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Goods and Services Tax: Effect of Roll-back
(Cadman, Alan, MP, Costello, Peter, MP) -
Goods and Services Tax: Savings Bonus
(Crean, Simon, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Private Health Insurance: Alternative Policies
(Draper, Trish, MP, Wooldridge, Dr Michael, MP) -
Goods and Services Tax: Savings Bonus
(Swan, Wayne, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Unemployment: Figures
(Cameron, Ross, MP, Reith, Peter, MP) -
Goods and Services Tax: Savings Bonus
(Crean, Simon, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Education: Alternative Policies
(Georgiou, Petro, MP, Kemp, Dr David, MP) -
Goods and Services Tax: Caravan Parks and Boarding Houses
(Albanese, Anthony, MP, Anthony, Larry, MP) -
Employment Programs: Alternative Policies
(Kelly, De-Anne, MP, Abbott, Tony, MP) -
Universities: Entrance Standards
(Lee, Michael, MP, Kemp, Dr David, MP) -
South Pacific Forum: Foreign Ministers Meeting
(Nugent, Peter, MP, Downer, Alexander, MP) -
Universities: Entrance Standards
(Lee, Michael, MP, Kemp, Dr David, MP) -
Immigration: Temporary Entry of Skilled Migrants
(Lindsay, Peter, MP, Ruddock, Philip, MP)
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Aboriginals: Stolen Generations
- QUESTIONS TO MR SPEAKER
- USE OF LAPTOP COMPUTERS IN THE CHAMBER
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PETITIONS
- Konrad Kalejs
- Goods and Services Tax: Beer
- Goods and Services Tax: Receipts
- John Simpson Kirkpatrick
- John Simpson Kirkpatrick
- Goods and Services Tax: RSPCA
- Genetically Modified Food
- Mandatory Sentencing
- Environmental Contamination Across Borders
- Ellenborough Telephone Exchange
- Medical Services: Two Rocks
- Procedural Text
- BUSINESS
- GRIEVANCE DEBATE
- ASSENT TO BILLS
- BILLS RETURNED FROM THE SENATE
- A NEW TAX SYSTEM (TAX ADMINISTRATION) BILL (NO. 2) 2000
- NEW BUSINESS TAX SYSTEM (ALIENATION OF PERSONAL SERVICES INCOME) BILL 2000
- COMMITTEES
- HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 1) 2000
- ADJOURNMENT
- Adjournment
- NOTICES
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QUESTIONS ON NOTICE
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Centrelink Offices: Queensland
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Mandatory Sentencing: International Convention Compliance
(McClelland, Robert, MP, Williams, Daryl, MP) -
Petrol Prices: Competition
(Andren, Peter, MP, Costello, Peter, MP) -
Goods and Services Tax: Mobile and Manufactured Home Sales
(Horne, Bob, MP, Costello, Peter, MP) -
Rivers: Water Flows
(Thomson, Kelvin, MP, Truss, Warren, MP) -
Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport: Runway Operations
(McClelland, Robert, MP, Anderson, John, MP) -
Job Network: Intensive Assistance Contracts
(Tanner, Lindsay, MP, Fahey, John, MP) -
Department of Family and Community Services: Commonwealth Funded Programs, Tasmania
(O'Byrne, Michelle, MP, Anthony, Larry, MP) -
Job Network: Outcomes
(Kernot, Cheryl, MP, Abbott, Tony, MP) -
Dairy Industry Deregulation Community Assistance Package: Tasmanian Allocation
(O'Byrne, Michelle, MP, Truss, Warren, MP) -
Centrelink: Contracts with IBM
(Tanner, Lindsay, MP, Anthony, Larry, MP) -
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation: Research Facilities Closure
(Crosio, Janice, MP, Moore, John, MP) -
South Pacific Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement: Garments from Fiji
(Gibbons, Steve, MP, Moore, John, MP) -
Visas: Visitors
(Sciacca, Con, MP, Ruddock, Philip, MP) -
Foreign Aid: Possible Fraud
(Danby, Michael, MP, Downer, Alexander, MP) -
Virgin Blue Airlines Pty Ltd: Services
(Ferguson, Martin, MP, Anderson, John, MP) -
UNESCO Convention on Technical and Vocational Education
(Latham, Mark, MP, Kemp, Dr David, MP) -
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry: Meeting
(Danby, Michael, MP, Truss, Warren, MP) -
Immigration Detention Centres: Detainees
(Theophanous, Dr Andrew, MP, Ruddock, Philip, MP) -
Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs: Staff Relocation
(Wilkie, Kim, MP, Ruddock, Philip, MP)
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Centrelink Offices: Queensland
Page: 18942
Mr Danby
asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, upon notice, on 6 June 2000:
(1) Did he meet his Iranian counterpart, Iran's Construction Jihad Minister, Mohammad Saeedicki in Sydney on 30 May 2000.
(2) Is he able to say whether the expression `Jihad' means Holy War.
(3) What was the purpose of his meeting with the Construction Jihad Minister.
(4) Was he invited by the Construction Jihad Minister to visit Teheran and did he accept the invitation.
(5) Did he raise Australia's concerns about human rights with the Construction Jihad Minister; if not, will he be raising these human rights issues should he visit Teheran.
Mr Truss (Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry)
—The answer to the honourable member's question's are as follows:
(1) I did not meet with Mohammad Saeedicki on 30 May 2000 in Sydney. However, I did meet with the Minister for Construction Jihad, Mr Saidi Kia and his delegation during his visit to Canberra on 29 May 2000.
(2) I am advised that the direct translation of `Jihad' in the Iranian language (Farsi) is `crusade'.
(3) Minister Kia's portfolio is responsible for key areas of agriculture including livestock and dairy, natural resource management, fisheries and aquaculture, as well as forestry. At the meeting I had with Minister Kia we discussed opportunities relevant to my portfolio's export interests.
(4) Minister Kia informally invited me to visit Iran during the meeting. I indicated that I was interested in visiting the Middle East at some time in the future. No official invitation from the Iranian Government has been received.
(5) No.