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Hansard
- Start of Business
- ATTORNEY-GENERAL
- CLASSIFICATION (PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND COMPUTER GAMES) AMENDMENT (TERRORIST MATERIAL) BILL 2007
- MIGRATION AMENDMENT (SPONSORSHIP OBLIGATIONS) BILL 2007
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (PROTECTING SERVICES FOR RURAL AND REGIONAL AUSTRALIA INTO THE FUTURE) BILL 2007
- SUPERANNUATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL 2007
- HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT AMENDMENT (EXTENDING FEE-HELP FOR VET DIPLOMA AND VET ADVANCED DIPLOMA COURSES) BILL 2007
- SOCIAL SECURITY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (2007 BUDGET MEASURES FOR STUDENTS) BILL 2007
- FINANCIAL SECTOR LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (DISCRETIONARY MUTUAL FUNDS AND DIRECT OFFSHORE FOREIGN INSURERS) BILL 2007
- CORPORATIONS (NATIONAL GUARANTEE FUND LEVIES) AMENDMENT BILL 2007
- FINANCIAL SECTOR LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (SIMPLIFYING REGULATION AND REVIEW) BILL 2007
- INTERNATIONAL TAX AGREEMENTS AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 2) 2007
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TAX LAWS AMENDMENT (2007 MEASURES
NO. 4) Bill 2007 - TAXATION (TRUSTEE BENEFICIARY NON-DISCLOSURE TAX) BILL (NO. 1) 2007
- TAXATION (TRUSTEE BENEFICIARY NON-DISCLOSURE TAX) BILL (NO. 2) 2007
- BUSINESS
- AGED CARE AMENDMENT (RESIDENTIAL CARE) BILL 2007
- COMMITTEES
- NATIONAL HEALTH AMENDMENT (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS SCHEME) BILL 2007
- COMMUNICATIONS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (CONTENT SERVICES) BILL 2007
- COMMITTEES
- AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT (CITIZENSHIP TESTING) BILL 2007
- MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS
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QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
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Child Abuse
(Rudd, Kevin, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Child Abuse
(Tollner, David, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Sea King Helicopter Accident
(Fitzgibbon, Joel, MP, Nelson, Dr Brendan, MP) -
Child Abuse
(Fawcett, David, MP, Brough, Mal, MP) -
Interest Rates
(Swan, Wayne, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Workplace Relations
(Southcott, Dr Andrew, MP, Costello, Peter, MP) -
Broadband
(Tanner, Lindsay, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Workplace Relations
(Ticehurst, Kenneth, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Prime Minister
(McMullan, Bob, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Transport Infrastructure
(Thompson, Cameron, MP, Vaile, Mark, MP) -
Prime Minister
(McMullan, Bob, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Taxation
(Barresi, Phillip, MP, Costello, Peter, MP) -
Advertising Campaigns
(McMullan, Bob, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Workplace Relations
(McArthur, Stewart, MP, Hockey, Joe, MP) -
Workplace Relations
(Gillard, Julia, MP, Hockey, Joe, MP) -
Privacy Act
(Schultz, Alby, MP, Ruddock, Philip, MP) -
Ministerial Staff
(Albanese, Anthony, MP, Macfarlane, Ian, MP) -
Health Care
(Causley, Ian, MP, Abbott, Tony, MP) -
Climate Change
(Rudd, Kevin, MP, Howard, John, MP) -
Foreign Policy
(Gash, Joanna, MP, Downer, Alexander, MP)
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Child Abuse
- QUESTIONS TO THE SPEAKER
- COMMITTEES
- AUDITOR-GENERAL’S REPORTS
- QUESTIONS TO THE SPEAKER
- PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS
- QUESTIONS TO THE SPEAKER
- SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
- QUESTIONS TO THE SPEAKER
- DOCUMENTS
- LEAVE OF ABSENCE
- MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE
- LIBERAL PARTY
- MS KATE ROBERTSON
- ADJOURNMENT
- Adjournment
- NOTICES
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Main Committee
- Start of Business
- STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS
- INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS (NOTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT) AMENDMENT (COSMETICS) BILL 2007
- INTERNATIONAL TAX AGREEMENTS AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 1) 2007
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ADJOURNMENT
- Fuel Prices
- Dobell Electorate: Roads
- New South Wales Floods
- Education
- University of Western Sydney
- Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme
- Telstra
- National Student Leadership Forum
- Australian Labor Party
- Mr Walter John Fluke
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Education
Shortland Electorate: Windale - National Community Crime Prevention Program
- Filipino-Australian Foundation of Queensland
- Broadband
- National Refugee Week
- Trade Practices: Franchises
- Broadband
- Home and Community Care Program
- Torture
- Water
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QUESTIONS IN WRITING
- Attorney-General’s: Credit Cards
- Thomson, Kelvin, MP, Ruddock, Philip, MP
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Environment and Water Resources: Telephone Costs
(Thomson, Kelvin, MP, Turnbull, Malcolm, MP) -
Foreign Affairs and Trade: Missing Property
(Thomson, Kelvin, MP, Downer, Alexander, MP) -
Human Rights Dialogue China-Australia
(McClelland, Robert, MP, Downer, Alexander, MP)
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Mr ALBANESE (9:01 AM)
—I move:
That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the House from noting with alarm that the Attorney-General has refused to provide details of the secret taxpayer funded political unit operation out of his ministerial office at 70 Phillip Street, Sydney, including:
(1) the date of the secret unit’s establishment;
(2) the annual cost to taxpayers of the secret unit’s operation;
(3) the secret unit’s full staffing arrangements;
(4) the secret unit’s reporting arrangements;
(5) the function of the secret unit including its monitoring of non-government media comment and other activities;
(6) the relationship between the secret unit and the taxpayer funded government members secretariat—
Mrs Bronwyn Bishop
—Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. You previously ruled and made comment upon the members opposite taking advantage of moving a motion to in fact make a speech and to place debate material in the course of moving the motion. That is against the standing orders, and you have made comment on this before. It is also commented upon in the Practice, and I would ask you to ask them to shorten it.
The SPEAKER
—I note the point raised by the member for Mackellar. I believe that the Manager for Opposition Business is so far certainly within normal practice. I am sure that he will come to his motion.
Mr ALBANESE
—I continue:
(7) the relationship between the secret unit and other taxpayer funded units operating out of other ministerial offices;
(8) the relationship between the secret unit and the federal secretariat of the Liberal Party;
(9) the relationship between the secret unit and Crosby Textor; and
(10) the reason that the existence of this unit has been kept secret from the Australian Parliament and the Australian people.
Further, that the House calls on the Attorney-General to provide details of the operation of this unit.
He is right here in the chamber. He should come clean—the man responsible for ‘kids overboard’.