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Hansard
- Start of Business
- MOTIONS
- BILLS
- COMMITTEES
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BILLS
- Education Services for Overseas Students Legislation Amendment (Tuition Protection Service and Other Measures) Bill 2011, Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Amendment (Tuition Protection Service) Bill 2011, Education Services for Overseas Students (TPS Levies) Bill 2011
- Education Services for Overseas Students (Registration Charges) Amendment (Tuition Protection Service) Bill 2011
- Education Services for Overseas Students (TPS Levies) Bill 2011
- BUSINESS
- PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS
- BILLS
- COMMITTEES
- BILLS
- PRIVILEGE
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STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS
- Nestle Battle of the Top End Girls Academies
- Bass Electorate: Singfest
- Petition: Medicare Centre in Narellan
- Heart and Stroke Parliamentary Friendship Group
- Swan Electorate: Lynwood Village Shopping Centre
- Belconnen Arts Centre
- Australian Volunteers Overseas
- Cardinia Primary School
- Airlie Beach
- Atherton, Gwenneth and George
- Royal Life Saving National Drowning Report
- CONDOLENCES
- QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
- DISTINGUISHED VISITORS
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QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
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Qantas
(Ripoll, Bernie, MP, Albanese, Anthony, MP) -
Interest Rates
(Hockey, Joe, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP) -
Mining
(Crook, Tony, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP) -
Workplace Relations
(Owens, Julie, MP, Crean, Simon, MP) -
Broadband
(Turnbull, Malcolm, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP) -
Mining
(Bird, Sharon, MP, Ferguson, Martin, MP) -
Carbon Pricing
(Bishop, Julie, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP) -
Mining
(Perrett, Graham, MP, Shorten, Bill, MP) -
Australian Labor Party: Leadership
(Pyne, Christopher, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP) -
Infrastructure
(Jones, Stephen, MP, Albanese, Anthony, MP) -
Asylum Seekers
(Morrison, Scott, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP) -
Older Australians
(Neumann, Shayne, MP, Butler, Mark, MP) -
Gambling
(Baldwin, Bob, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP) -
Mining
(Fitzgibbon, Joel, MP, Emerson, Craig, MP) -
Gambling
(Bishop, Julie, MP, Rudd, Kevin, MP) -
Economy
(Parke, Melissa, MP, Swan, Wayne, MP)
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Qantas
- STATEMENTS ON INDULGENCE
- PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS
- QUESTIONS TO THE SPEAKER
- COMMITTEES
- AUDITOR-GENERAL'S REPORTS
- DOCUMENTS
- MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE
- ADJOURNMENT
- NOTICES
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Main Committee
- Start of Business
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CONSTITUENCY STATEMENTS
- Apple Imports
- Shalit, Mr Gilad
- ACRES (Asia-Pacific)
- Holt Electorate: Serious Tennis, Holt Electorate: Doveton Show
- Bennelong Electorate: Trilevel Government Meeting
- Bass Electorate: Defence Science and Technology Organisation Facilities
- Child Protection
- Tibet
- Penshurst Volcanoes Discovery Centre
- Fusion Western Sydney
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ADJOURNMENT
- Hayes, Chris, MP
- Local Government Election
- Carers Week
- Child Care
- Bass Electorate: Sustainable Tourism and Hospitality Training Centre
- National School Chaplaincy Program
- Qantas
- Woodlawn Bioreactor
- Coal Seam Gas
- Rowe, Mr Louis
- Learn Earn Legend! Program
- Men's Sheds
- Werriwa Electorate: Glenquarie Anglican Church, Werriwa Electorate: Liverpool Neighbourhood Connections, Lawn Bowls
- Gippsland Electorate: Wetland Rehabilitation Project
- Australian Industry
- Glendi Greek Festival
- Poker Machines
- Financial Services
- Carbon Pricing
- Asylum Seekers
- Qantas, Workplace Relations
- Shortland Electorate: Swansea Police Station
- Bonner Electorate: Military Awards
- Braddon Electorate
- Petition: Childcare Funding
- Operation Open Heart
- White Ribbon Day
- Rhiannon, Senator Lee
- Qantas
- Minerals Resource Rent Tax
- Australia-India Relationship
- QUESTIONS IN WRITING
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Australian Labor Party: Leadership
Mr PYNE (Sturt—Manager of Opposition Business) (14:48): My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. I refer the Acting Prime Minister to reports in today's Daily Telegraph that the foreign minister is about to challenge for the leadership of the government. Does the Acting Prime Minister agree with Senator Doug Cameron that the Murdoch press is a 'threat to democracy in this country'? Don't Australians deserve better than this divided and directionless government?
Mr SWAN (Lilley—Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer) (14:48): With all of the big issues that are around at the moment—we have a meltdown in the European economy, potentially; we have a very big and important discussion about resource rent taxation; we have huge challenges when it comes to skills; we have, or should have, a big economic debate—all those opposite can concentrate on is muckraking from a newspaper which has its own motives. I do not think anyone on our side of politics would be at all surprised by anything that was written about politics in the Daily Telegraph. They are running their own agenda; they have their own motives—and that is entirely a matter for them.
But we on this side of the House get on with dealing with the big issues that matter to Australia. That is what we are doing, and we are doing that in a way which is making sure that we strengthen the fundamentals of our economy, whilst those opposite simply mouth empty rhetoric—not a clue about policy or future directions in our country. We are getting on with the job of governing Australia for the future.