The SPEAKER ( Hon. Bronwyn Bishop ) took the chair at 12:00, made an acknowledgement of country and read prayers.
This is how wealthy individuals or corporations translate their economic power into political and cultural power.
… without triggering dangerous climate change—as without radical policies to cut emissions humanity will exceed the limit within 15 to 25 years …
Four of the five wettest years recorded in the UK have occurred from the year 2000 onwards. Over that same period, we have also had the seven warmest years.
That is not a coincidence.
The lack of vision and political will from the leaders of many developed countries is not just harming their long-term competitiveness, but is also endangering efforts to create international co-operation and reach a new agreement that should be signed in Paris in December 2015.
The Troika’s record of economic management has been abysmal. Greek GDP was forecast to fall by 5 per cent from 2009 to 2012; it dropped by 17 per cent and is still falling. Unemployment was supposed to peak at 15 per cent in 2012; it passed 25 per cent and is still rising. A V-shaped recovery was forecast for 2012, with Greek debt falling to sustainable levels; instead, the debt burden is larger than ever and the programme has been renewed.
… … …
The Greek economy has shrunk by a fifth, wages have fallen by 50 per cent and two-thirds of the young are out of work. In Spain, it is now commonplace for three generations to survive on a single salary or a grandparent’s pension; unemployment is running at 26 per cent, wages go unpaid and the rate for casual labour is down to €2 an hour. Italy has been in recession for the past two years, after a decade of economic stagnation, and 42 per cent of the young are without a job. In Portugal, tens of thousands of small family businesses, the backbone of the economy, have shut down; more than half of those out of work are not entitled to unemployment benefits. As in Ireland, the twentysomethings are looking for work abroad, a return to the patterns of emigration that helped lock their countries into conservatism and underdevelopment for so long.
Australia is facing a critical shortage of doctors, nurses and other health professions and attracting new people into the health system is crucial. To do this we must continue to find new and innovative ways to train and retain health care professionals and this Centre at Adventist Hospital is a great example of best practice.
There will be jobs for your children. There are jobs for your children today.
Our government knows that carbon taxes raise the price of everything, including gas, groceries, and electricity.
… has reduced greenhouse gas emissions while protecting and creating Canadians jobs—greenhouse gas emissions are down since 2006, and we've created 1 million net new jobs since the recession—and we have done this without penalising Canadian families with a carbon tax.
… regions that are vulnerable to large-scale loss of livelihood as a result of the implementation of a carbon price.
You've run a union, you understand these things, do you support him?
Oh, yeah, I believe him—
You got complete confidence in him?
… on Saturday I received information that made it clear that it was essential to correct the record …
When people engage in violent acts and in disorderly behaviour and breach fences and get involved in that sort of behaviour and go to the other side of the fence, well they will be subject to law enforcement as applies in Papua New Guinea.
… I believe that once people have come into Australia's care and control, we are obliged to look after them and to treat them in accordance with our standards, not other country's standards.
In Sunday's newspapers, for example, he—
claimed the IMF had recommended in its suite of structural reforms to reinvigorate growth that Australia should further deregulate the labour market. It must have been in the IMF report in invisible ink because it cannot be found. He is simply making it up as he goes along.
Product and labor market reforms are also needed across the membership to lay the foundations—
Labor market reforms can also boost output substantially by increasing employment.
That:
(1) Dr Stone be discharged from the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit and that, in her place, Mrs Prentice be appointed a member of the committee; and
(2) Mrs Prentice be discharged from the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties and that, in her place, Dr Stone be appointed a member of the committee.
The impact of the Government's failure to implement preventative health measures and properly manage conflicts of interest within the Health portfolio.
I looked at it very carefully, and there was nothing that struck me about it as being a draft. It just doesn't make sense.
We will be a no surprises, no excuses government, …
That business intervening before notice No. 1, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day.
That this House, in relation to the statement made on 21 May 2012 by Mr Craig Thomson, the then Member for Dobell:
(1) expresses its regret for the statement and its contents, much of which has been proven as false by the findings of the Melbourne Magistrates Court on 18 February 2014 in relation to Mr Thomson; and
(2) apologises to:
(a) those individuals named in the speech against which egregious falsehoods were made; and
(b) the members of the Health Services Union, some of the lowest paid workers in Australia, for the spending by Mr Craig Thomson of $267,721.65 of Union members’ funds on his re-election campaign and further private expenditure not authorised by the Union.
I want to thank everyone for their graciousness in listening to the member for Dobell.
Do you have complete confidence in Mr Thomson?'
So you think Julia Gillard is right to express her full confidence, as she has done in the Parliament, about Mr Thomson?
Does Craig Thomson have your full confidence?
You've run a union, you understand these things, do you support him?
Oh, yeah, I believe him.
… you got complete confidence in him?
Will you or the Party apologise for how much you stuck by Craig Thomson given what has happened in the court this week?
As I said yesterday, no-one is above the law.
There would have been 900 delegates … I kid you not … This is after I went to the police … (Michael) Williamson got a standing ovation … they played the Rocky theme when he walked in … there were people heckling me and screaming at me and (fellow HSU whistleblower) Marco Bolano … that I was a traitor to the movement … people were calling out ‘Judas’ from the crowd … this went for four hours.
… may change the nature of union-employer relations; it may change the ability of trade union leaders to remain in positions for years and hand power to a chosen candidate.
Jackson, Athena, toppled two union leaders … In her wisdom, and in deciding to wage war with the HSU, she may well have strangled the union-ALP umbilical (ac)cord.
I've left messages throughout the day requesting that you contact me.
Neither I nor Fair Work Australia has the power to neither inquire or investigate, nor reach any conclusions about whether a reporting unit or anybody have been contravened by New South Wales criminal law. Accordingly, I regret to advise that I do not consider it would be appropriate for me or for any of my staff to meet with you to discuss Fair Work Australia's investigation into the HSU.
One of the things that I have difficulties in making an explanation about—and I am certainly not going to use parliamentary privilege to lie or change that—is in relation to phones and how records were on my phones.
… he would seek to ruin any political career that I sought and would set me up with a bunch of hookers.
… but that is a far cry from standing up in the parliament and making statements which are deliberately misleading, which are lies, to the chamber. It is the role of the Privileges Committee to determine whether that was done in a deliberate way and, if so, to recommend to the parliament what sanction might apply to the former member for Dobell.
But I will leave the deliberations on those matters to the Privileges Committee. That is their purpose.
… I hope the Privileges Committee will deal with the issue in speed and also in an entirely nonpartisan way, in order to protect the reputation of the parliament.
She withstood the pressure of a culture of corruption in the Health Services Union. She deserves the respect and support of the entire labour movement. Instead, many revile her.
I am not Joan of Arc. I am not a political virgin. I have been an activist in the labor movement all my adult life, played the political game and have the bruises to prove it.
Things rarely work out well for whistle-blowers and I didn’t enter into my current endeavour in the expectation of arriving at glory days for me. My expectations are a lot more modest. I want to see wrongdoing exposed. I’d like to see my union put in a position of strength and with the confidence of the membership restored, and I’d like to see reforms made to make union leadership more accountable to members and which would protect against possible future financial and political corruption.
The minute that I became aware of what was going on and tried to bring it forward, I was stymied at every point by the executive of that union.
Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Amendment (Dairy Produce) Bill 2014
That all the words after "That" be omitted with a view to substituting the following words:
"whilst not declining to give the bill a second reading the House notes the:
(1) failure of the Government to act urgently in response to the effect of the drought on the dairy and other agricultural sectors; and
(2) omission of 'resource sustainability' in the terms of reference for the Government's agriculture white paper."
“A drop doesn’t come as a surprise - we would have been happy with a stable milk price or even a 5 per cent drop—
… more understandable …
“Morale is low and from the people who were asking questions and commenting—
you could hear the emotion in their voices.
“There’s not enough for the older guys to keep going.”
Our farm is small, producing high quality and desirable cheeses. We don't get side tracked by others agendas. The heart of a business started years ago. We are ethical, idealistic and can stay in business.
… dairy farms are expected to be more affected by the carbon price than any other sector considered.
"whilst not declining to give the bill a second reading the House notes the:
(1) failure of the Government to act urgently in response to the effect of the drought on the dairy and other agricultural sectors; and
(2) omission of ‘resource sustainability’ in the terms of reference for the Government’s agriculture white paper."
The heightened international interest in food produced in Australia from Australian sourced ingredients should provide Norco with opportunities to enter into new business partnerships which are designed to enhance our export opportunities.
We are considered one of the biggest players in the vegetable seedling game yet we are losing business every week due to poor communications. We have tried training our customers to call our landline but they don't want to speak to the receptionist, they want an answer straight away.
Labor will amend the Marriage Act to ensure equal access to marriage under statute for all adult couples irrespective of sex who have a mutual commitment to a shared life.
Between 2007 and 2011 the number of employed medical practitioners increased in all jurisdictions, except Western Australia.
The FTE rate increased in all jurisdictions, except in Western Australia, where it declined from 383.1 to 348.8 FTE medical practitioners per 100,000 population, with the increase in both the number of medical practitioners and the hours they worked not keeping pace with the increase in population.