2016-04-19 44 2 1 House of Reps 0 1

Tuesday, 19 April 2016

The SPEAKER ( Hon. Tony Smith ) took the chair at 12:00, made an acknowledgement of country and read prayers.

BILLS 1 BILLS Road Safety Remuneration Repeal Bill 2016 1

Road Safety Remuneration Repeal Bill 2016

Returned from Senate 1 Assent 1 COMMITTEES 1 COMMITTEES Selection Committee 1 Meeting 1 12:01 Mr PYNE 9V5 Sturt by leave—I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent: (1) the Selection Committee: (a) meeting on or after today, to determine the order of consideration of matters and the times allotted for debate on each item and for each Member speaking, for private Members' business and committee and delegation business, for Monday, 2 May 2016; (b) communicating its determinations to all Members of the House prior to 2 May 2016; and (c) reporting its determinations to the House following the Acknowledgement of country and prayers on 2 May 2016; and (2) the Selection Committee's determinations being shown in the Notice Paper for 2 May 2016 under 'Business Accorded Priority' for the House and Federation Chamber. Question agreed to. BUSINESS 1 BUSINESS Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders 1 12:02 Mr SHORTEN 00ATG Maribyrnong I seek leave to move the following motion: That the House: (1)notes that: (a) the House of Representatives is in the extraordinary position of a Government having called a new session of Parliament only to run out of legislation to debate within 12 hours of the Governor-General opening a new session; and (b) this is just more evidence that the Government has lost all interest in trying to govern, the only thing they are interested in is trying to stay in Government; and (2) in the absence of any legislative agenda, suspend standing orders to accord priority over all other business at this sitting to the following motion to be moved immediately by the Leader of the Opposition: That the House calls on the Prime Minister to request His Excellency the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia issue Letters Patent to establish a Royal Commission to inquire into misconduct in the banking and financial services industry. Leave not granted. Mr SHORTEN 00ATG I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Opposition from moving the following motion forthwith: That the House: (1)notes that: (a) the House of Representatives is in the extraordinary position of a Government having called a new session of Parliament only to run out of legislation to debate within 12 hours of the Governor-General opening a new session; and (b) this is just more evidence that the Government has lost all interest in trying to govern, the only thing they are interested in is trying to stay in Government; and (2) in the absence of any legislative agenda, suspend standing orders to accord priority over all other business at this sitting to the following motion to be moved immediately by the Leader of the Opposition: That the House calls on the Prime Minister to request His Excellency the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia issue Letters Patent to establish a Royal Commission to inquire into misconduct in the banking and financial services industry. Why is the Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, so determined to cover up for the banks— 12:05 Mr PYNE 9V5 Sturt I move: That the Member be no longer heard. The SPEAKER 10000 The question is that the Leader of the Opposition be no further heard.

The House divided. [12:09]
(The Speaker—Hon. Tony Smith)

 80 AYES Alexander, JG Andrews, KJ Baldwin, RC Billson, BF Bishop, BK Briggs, JE Broad, AJ Broadbent, RE Brough, MT Buchholz, S Chester, D Christensen, GR Ciobo, SM Cobb, JK Coleman, DB Coulton, M (teller) Dutton, PC Entsch, WG Fletcher, PW Frydenberg, JA Gambaro, T Gillespie, DA Goodenough, IR Griggs, NL Hartsuyker, L Hastie, AW Hawke, AG Henderson, SM Hendy, PW Hogan, KJ Howarth, LR Hunt, GA Hutchinson, ER Irons, SJ Jones, ET Joyce, BT Keenan, M Kelly, C Laming, A Landry, ML Laundy, C Ley, SP Macfarlane, IE Marino, NB Markus, LE Matheson, RG McCormack, MF McNamara, KJ Morrison, SJ Nikolic, AA O'Dowd, KD O'Dwyer, KM Pitt, KJ Porter, CC Prentice, J Price, ML Pyne, CM Ramsey, RE Robb, AJ Robert, SR Scott, BC Scott, FM Simpkins, LXL Southcott, AJ Stone, SN Sudmalis, AE Sukkar, MS Taylor, AJ Tehan, DT Truss, WE Tudge, AE Van Manen, AJ Varvaris, N Vasta, RX Whiteley, BD (teller) Wicks, LE Williams, MP Wilson, RJ Wood, JP Zimmerman, T 55 NOES Albanese, AN Bandt, AP Bird, SL Bowen, CE Brodtmann, G Burke, AE Burke, AS Butler, MC Butler, TM Chalmers, JE Champion, ND Chesters, LM Clare, JD Claydon, SC Collins, JM Conroy, PM Danby, M Dreyfus, MA Elliot, MJ Ellis, KM Feeney, D Ferguson, LDT Fitzgibbon, JA Giles, AJ Gray, G Griffin, AP Hall, JG (teller) Hayes, CP Husic, EN Jones, SP King, CF Leigh, AK Macklin, JL MacTiernan, AJGC Marles, RD Mitchell, RG Neumann, SK O'Connor, BPJ O'Neil, CE Owens, J Parke, M Perrett, GD Plibersek, TJ Ripoll, BF Rishworth, AL Rowland, MA Ryan, JC (teller) Shorten, WR Snowdon, WE Thistlethwaite, MJ Thomson, KJ Vamvakinou, M Watts, TG Wilkie, AD Zappia, A 0 PAIRS

Question agreed to.

 12:15 The SPEAKER 00APG Is the motion seconded? 12:15 Mr BOWEN DZS McMahon The government is paralysed but the parliament can issue it leave—what else can this parliament do? We have been called back, with no agenda and no legislation, and we are offering to provide some—to provide some legislation which will actually say that this parliament can lead where the government has failed! And the government has failed every financial consumer in this country! The government has failed every person with a bank account in this country! The government has failed every victim of a financial scandal— Government members interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG Members on my right! Mr BOWEN DZS Well, the parliament can step in, and we are offering for the parliament to step in now. We are offering for the parliament to call a royal commission, which this Prime Minister and this Treasurer have abjectly failed to do—this Treasurer, whose great achievement is to defend $120 million worth of cuts to ASIC; this Treasurer, whose great achievement is to deny 41 warnings from ASIC that they needed more resources and more powers. This is a government which completely ignores the wishes and completely ignores the needs of Australia's consumers. This is a government which completely ignores the evidence— Mr Chester interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Gippsland! Mr BOWEN DZS that a royal commission is needed and is urgent. This is a government which is refusing to accept that the member for Gippsland's constituents and all the constituents of the members opposite absolutely want a royal commission into the banks. They absolutely want to see a government standing up for them. They actually want to see a government which is prepared to take a decision—not a decision to hold an advertising campaign, not a decision for spin but a decision for substance! We are prepared to provide plenty of speakers for this motion. We are prepared to provide plenty of agenda, because we have a Leader of the House who is having a rostered week off—a rostered week off! We were called back for urgent business. We were called down to the other place yesterday and asked by His Excellency to deal with the registered organisations bill, which the Leader of the House has not even managed to bring in for debate! Well, thank goodness the opposition is prepared to lead the debate. Thank goodness the opposition is prepared to come in and say, 'Well, if the government doesn't have any business, we have some.' Do you know what our business is, Mr Speaker? A royal commission into Australia's financial system. That is what our business is—a royal commission which will be held in public; a royal commission which, for the Treasurer's information, would have better and more powers than ASIC; a royal commission which would hear from victims; a royal commission which would recommend changes to whistleblowing laws; and a royal commission which could recommend changes to compensation. That is what the Australian people want their government to be doing. The government refuses, but the parliament is prepared to. Or, at least, this side of the parliament is prepared to. We are prepared to have our names recorded in a few moments time as voting for a royal commission— Mr Chester IPZ Help him out! Mr Joyce E5D Give us another turn! There we go—like that one! Mr BOWEN DZS Those members opposite are apparently happy to have their names recorded as voting against a royal commission. Well, at least they are being told that is what they are going to do, even if they do not want to. I wonder how the debate went in the party room this morning about a royal commission? All those people who were lions in the party room a couple of hours ago: where are they in the parliament? Lions in the party room and mice in the parliament, not prepared to vote for a royal commission! Prepared behind closed doors to tell the Prime Minister that he is out of touch, but not prepared to stand up here for their constituents today. We are prepared to stand up for them. We are prepared to stand up for a royal commission. Where is the National Party on the issue of a royal commission? Struck dumb in the House of Representatives! Not prepared to vote for it. Well, they are welcome to vote with us to send a message to His Excellency to call the royal commission now. The royal commission could get on with it. It does not have to wait for an incoming Shorten Labor government, it can be done today. But if you fail, we will act. We will lead; we will have a royal commission because Australia needs one. Australia's banks need one and Australia's financial system needs one. Australia's financial system is not working in the best interests of every Australian consumer. It is not. This Treasurer might think it is and this Prime Minister might think it is—well, they are abjectly out of touch. They are abjectly out of touch with the views of Australia's financial consumers. This opposition knows that as we provide an alternative we will lead. We will lead with the power of our ideas and policies, and we will set the agenda in this parliament—as they have singularly failed to do. What a joke for this parliament to be called back as a matter of great urgency—for the Prime Minister to stand outside and say it was so urgent for the parliament to come back and for us to end on Tuesday with a whimper, not only in this House but in the other house as well! Going home—Qantas and Virgin must be delighted! That is the only economic activity that is coming through—flights in and out of Canberra for a phantom sitting! Well, how about a real royal commission? Not a phantom sitting of the House; a royal commission which would deal with Australia's financial system. (Time expired) 12:20 Mr PYNE 9V5 Sturt Of course the government does not agree with the suspension of standing orders, because the government has a significant plan. I thought it was important to give the shadow Treasurer the opportunity to speak to the House at least one last time. I thought he was going to pop a muscle—pull a muscle or pop a hernia! He always starts too high, Mr Speaker! He always starts too high and he does not know how to come off that crescendo! He has to build to the crescendo—you cannot start with the crescendo, because then how do you build to the crescendo? The poor old shadow Treasurer had to keep that up for five minutes—bellowing at the chamber, shouting at the viewer—and not one shred of substance in the entire five minutes. Not one shred of substance— Mr Joyce E5D At least he's a snappy dresser! Mr PYNE 9V5 I can tell you, Derek Zoolander would not behave like that here! Derek Zoolander would be much calmer. And he certainly would not be wearing that tie-suit combination, I can tell you! He is a very snappy dresser, but he is not going to be a very good Treasurer because he will never get there. He makes a better shadow Treasurer. Of course, the government has a very considered agenda and a very considered plan. In December, we announced the National Innovation and Science Agenda—24 measures costing $1.1 billion, which of course the member for Isaacs regards as a joke. But I can tell you that, in the start-up industry, in the business community, amongst the millions of people in Australia who work in the innovative industries, it was regarded as a very substantial breakthrough by the government, and the government is setting about implementing the 24 measures of the National Innovation and Science Agenda. In fact, the tax breaks for angel investors in start-ups have already been introduced into the House, as has the capital gains tax discount. On the other side of the House, Labor want to increase the capital gains tax by 50 per cent. That is their policy. Now, we all know what you do when you want to discourage something: you increase the tax on it. For example, we have high taxes on tobacco because we want to discourage people from smoking. So the only possible construction you can place on the Labor Party's proposal to increase capital gains tax is that they want less investment, not more investment, in Australia. By contrast, the government, through the National Innovation and Science Agenda, want to encourage more capital investment in Australia, and that is why we are exempting certain investments in start-up businesses from any capital gains tax at all for assets held for between three and 10 years. We want to encourage investment. Labor want to close down investment through increasing taxes. But it has not been just the National Innovation and Science Agenda. Since the election of Prime Minister Turnbull, we have had an incredibly busy program of change in the country. We have democratised the Senate. We have put the power over individuals' votes back in their own hands by reforming the Senate voting system—a very significant reform to our democracy. We have introduced changes to media ownership laws in this country, an issue that was kicked into the long grass for decades, in spite of those laws being hopelessly out of date and not in the least bit prepared for a modern economy. We have reformed competition law in Australia through the effects test and the changes to section 46—a vitally important reform that supports small businesses against big businesses when they misuse their market power. We have the competition law reform, we have the media ownership law reform, we have reformed the Senate and we have the National Innovation and Science Agenda. We have had the incredible announcements around the defence industry policy statement and the defence white paper. We have committed $30 billion to new defence spending, which was reduced by the Labor Party to its lowest level since 1939 as a percentage of GDP. Mr Conroy interjecting— Opposition members interjecting— Mr PYNE 9V5 The defence industry policy statement, the defence white paper, creating jobs and creating growth: these are real decisions, real announcements that are changing our economy. In a state like mine, South Australia, the defence industry is vitally important, and yesterday we announced the winner of the Pacific patrol vessel bids, which is Austal in Henderson. We have also announced that the 12 offshore patrol vessels will be built in Adelaide and then moved to Perth when the future frigates begin in 2020. Then of course there are the future frigates; we tightened up the process for that as well, by choosing the three designs from which the final frigates will be chosen. We have the submarines decision to come, but at least we have promised a commitment to 12 submarines. In all the time that Labor were in government, six years, they never awarded one contract in Australia to build any ships at all, not one. Not one ship was built for the Navy in Australia under the Labor Party. They awarded contracts—the lowest funding since 1938—for shipbuilding but none of them for here in Australia. By the time the government are finished the continuous naval shipbuilding, we will have built 21 Pacific patrol boats, 12 offshore patrol vessels and nine future frigates, and we have a commitment to provide 12 submarines to the Navy. We are making a real difference in creating jobs. In Adelaide, in Cairns, through maintenance, in Perth and right around Australia, we are fulfilling the requirements of the Rand report on future naval shipbuilding in Australia and we are defending our country as a consequence. So this government has an agenda, and it has a budget coming up on 3 May. On 3 May, the Treasurer will hand down his first but by no means his last budget. It will be his first but by no means his last budget. In this budget, the government will outline its agenda for the election campaign that will come at some stage this year. The government will outline to the people how we will, through our policies, repair the budget mess that was left to us by the Labor Party. Let us not forget that the high-taxing, high-spending Rudd-Gillard-Rudd government— An opposition member: Where's the crescendo? Mr PYNE 9V5 took over an economy with surplus budgets— Opposition members interjecting— Mr Champion HW9 Where's the crescendo? Build it up, Chris, build it up! Where's the crescendo? Mr PYNE 9V5 You need to calm down there, Nick! Calm down there, Nick! The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Wakefield! Mr PYNE 9V5 Calm down. You look like you're whipping yourselves in a horserace over there! You've got to stop that! You've got to calm down! They took over a budget that had a surplus, that had assets in the bank, that had no net government debt—none—and they turned that around in six years into a massive government debt and a massive deficit, and they sold off most of the assets. Many people have forgotten. The Higher Education Endowment Fund, the health fund, the communications fund: Labor gave all of those things away while they were in government, in their profligate spending spree. In this budget we will see how a considered and calm government goes about doing the job that we are elected to do. We will repair the budget mess left to us by the Labor Party. We will announce reforms in areas of the tax system where it is important to have reform. We will make sure that we deliver the spending measures that are vital to a growing economy, whether it is in infrastructure, whether it is in northern Australia, whether it is in the defence industry, whether it is in health or education investments. Mr Conroy interjecting— Mr PYNE 9V5 I oppose the motion. The SPEAKER 00APG The time allotted for the debate— Mr Bowen interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for McMahon will cease interjecting. Mr Bowen interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for McMahon is warned! The time allotted for the debate has concluded. The question now is that the motion be agreed to. A division is required. In accordance with standing order 133(c), the division is deferred until the conclusion of the discussion of the matter of public importance. Debate adjourned. The SPEAKER 00APG Just before I call the member for Grayndler, there were some loud interjections obviously through that debate. I think the member for Charlton was repeatedly using an unparliamentary term and I would ask him to withdraw if that was the case. Mr CONROY 249127 I withdraw. The SPEAKER 00APG I thank the member for Charlton. Member for Grayndler? BUSINESS 6 BUSINESS Rearrangement 6 12:31 Mr ALBANESE R36 Grayndler I seek leave to move the following motion: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent private Members' business No. 1 relating to the High Speed Rail Planning Authority Bill 2016, standing in my name, being called on immediately and being given priority over all other business for passage through all stages. Leave not granted. Mr ALBANESE R36 I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent private Members' business No. 1 relating to the High Speed Rail Planning Authority Bill 2016, standing in my name, being called on immediately and being given priority over all other business for passage through all stages. This is the only legislation that is before this House. 12:31 Mr PYNE 9V5 Sturt I move: That the Member be no longer heard. The SPEAKER 00APG The question is that the member be no longer heard.  

The House divided. [12:35]
(The Speaker—Hon. Tony Smith)

 80 AYES Alexander, JG Andrews, KJ Baldwin, RC Billson, BF Bishop, BK Briggs, JE Broad, AJ Broadbent, RE Brough, MT Buchholz, S Chester, D Christensen, GR Ciobo, SM Cobb, JK Coleman, DB Coulton, M (teller) Dutton, PC Entsch, WG Fletcher, PW Frydenberg, JA Gambaro, T Gillespie, DA Goodenough, IR Griggs, NL Hartsuyker, L Hastie, AW Hawke, AG Henderson, SM Hendy, PW Hogan, KJ Howarth, LR Hunt, GA Hutchinson, ER Irons, SJ Jones, ET Joyce, BT Keenan, M Kelly, C Laming, A Landry, ML Laundy, C Ley, SP Macfarlane, IE Marino, NB Markus, LE Matheson, RG McCormack, MF McNamara, KJ Morrison, SJ Nikolic, AA O'Dowd, KD O'Dwyer, KM Pitt, KJ Porter, CC Prentice, J Price, ML Pyne, CM Ramsey, RE Robb, AJ Robert, SR Scott, BC Scott, FM Simpkins, LXL Southcott, AJ Stone, SN Sudmalis, AE Sukkar, MS Taylor, AJ Tehan, DT Truss, WE Tudge, AE Van Manen, AJ Varvaris, N Vasta, RX Whiteley, BD (teller) Wicks, LE Williams, MP Wilson, RJ Wood, JP Zimmerman, T 55 NOES Albanese, AN Bandt, AP Bird, SL Bowen, CE Brodtmann, G Burke, AE Burke, AS Butler, MC Butler, TM Chalmers, JE Champion, ND Chesters, LM Clare, JD Claydon, SC Collins, JM Conroy, PM Danby, M Dreyfus, MA Elliot, MJ Ellis, KM Feeney, D Ferguson, LDT Fitzgibbon, JA Giles, AJ Gray, G Griffin, AP Hall, JG (teller) Hayes, CP Husic, EN Jones, SP King, CF Leigh, AK Macklin, JL MacTiernan, AJGC Marles, RD Mitchell, RG Neumann, SK O'Connor, BPJ O'Neil, CE Owens, J Parke, M Perrett, GD Plibersek, TJ Ripoll, BF Rishworth, AL Rowland, MA Ryan, JC (teller) Shorten, WR Snowdon, WE Thistlethwaite, MJ Thomson, KJ Vamvakinou, M Watts, TG Wilkie, AD Zappia, A 0 PAIRS

Question agreed to.

 12:41 The SPEAKER 00APG Is the motion seconded? 12:41 Ms CLAYDON 248181 Newcastle I would like to second motion on the High Speed Rail Planning Authority Bill, and I do so— 12:41 Mr PYNE 9V5 Sturt I move: That the Member be no longer heard. The SPEAKER 00APG The question is that the member be no longer heard.    

The House divided. [12:42]
(The Speaker—Hon. Tony Smith)

 80 AYES Alexander, JG Andrews, KJ Baldwin, RC Billson, BF Bishop, BK Briggs, JE Broad, AJ Broadbent, RE Brough, MT Buchholz, S Chester, D Christensen, GR Ciobo, SM Cobb, JK Coleman, DB Coulton, M (teller) Dutton, PC Entsch, WG Fletcher, PW Frydenberg, JA Gambaro, T Gillespie, DA Goodenough, IR Griggs, NL Hartsuyker, L Hastie, AW Hawke, AG Henderson, SM Hendy, PW Hogan, KJ Howarth, LR Hunt, GA Hutchinson, ER Irons, SJ Jones, ET Joyce, BT Keenan, M Kelly, C Laming, A Landry, ML Laundy, C Ley, SP Macfarlane, IE Marino, NB Markus, LE Matheson, RG McCormack, MF McNamara, KJ Morrison, SJ Nikolic, AA O'Dowd, KD O'Dwyer, KM Pitt, KJ Porter, CC Prentice, J Price, ML Pyne, CM Ramsey, RE Robb, AJ Robert, SR Scott, BC Scott, FM Simpkins, LXL Southcott, AJ Stone, SN Sudmalis, AE Sukkar, MS Taylor, AJ Tehan, DT Truss, WE Tudge, AE Van Manen, AJ Varvaris, N Vasta, RX Whiteley, BD (teller) Wicks, LE Williams, MP Wilson, RJ Wood, JP Zimmerman, T 55 NOES Albanese, AN Bandt, AP Bird, SL Bowen, CE Brodtmann, G Burke, AE Burke, AS Butler, MC Butler, TM Chalmers, JE Champion, ND Chesters, LM Clare, JD Claydon, SC Collins, JM Conroy, PM Danby, M Dreyfus, MA Elliot, MJ Ellis, KM Feeney, D Ferguson, LDT Fitzgibbon, JA Giles, AJ Gray, G Griffin, AP Hall, JG (teller) Hayes, CP Husic, EN Jones, SP King, CF Leigh, AK Macklin, JL MacTiernan, AJGC Marles, RD Mitchell, RG Neumann, SK O'Connor, BPJ O'Neil, CE Owens, J Parke, M Perrett, GD Plibersek, TJ Ripoll, BF Rishworth, AL Rowland, MA Ryan, JC (teller) Shorten, WR Snowdon, WE Thistlethwaite, MJ Thomson, KJ Vamvakinou, M Watts, TG Wilkie, AD Zappia, A 0 PAIRS

Question agreed to.

 12:45 The SPEAKER 00APG The question now is that the motion moved by the member for Grayndler be agreed to. There being more than one voice calling for a division, in accordance with standing order 133(c) the division is deferred until the conclusion of the discussion of the matter of public importance. Debate adjourned. BUSINESS 9 BUSINESS Consideration of Legislation 9 12:46 Mr PYNE 9V5 Sturt I move: That the proceedings on the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Bill 2016 and the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2016, which lapsed on 15 April 2016, to be resumed forthwith at the point where they were interrupted. 12:47 Mr BURKE DYW Watson I am speaking to the motion— 12:47 Mr PYNE 9V5 Sturt I move: That the Member be no longer heard. The SPEAKER 00APG The question is that the Manager of Opposition Business be no longer heard.

The House divided. [12:48]
(The Speaker—Hon. Tony Smith)

 80 AYES Alexander, JG Andrews, KJ Baldwin, RC Billson, BF Bishop, BK Briggs, JE Broad, AJ Broadbent, RE Brough, MT Buchholz, S Chester, D Christensen, GR Ciobo, SM Cobb, JK Coleman, DB Coulton, M (teller) Dutton, PC Entsch, WG Fletcher, PW Frydenberg, JA Gambaro, T Gillespie, DA Goodenough, IR Griggs, NL Hartsuyker, L Hastie, AW Hawke, AG Henderson, SM Hendy, PW Hogan, KJ Howarth, LR Hunt, GA Hutchinson, ER Irons, SJ Jones, ET Joyce, BT Keenan, M Kelly, C Laming, A Landry, ML Laundy, C Ley, SP Macfarlane, IE Marino, NB Markus, LE Matheson, RG McCormack, MF McNamara, KJ Morrison, SJ Nikolic, AA O'Dowd, KD O'Dwyer, KM Pitt, KJ Porter, CC Prentice, J Price, ML Pyne, CM Ramsey, RE Robb, AJ Robert, SR Scott, BC Scott, FM Simpkins, LXL Southcott, AJ Stone, SN Sudmalis, AE Sukkar, MS Taylor, AJ Tehan, DT Truss, WE Tudge, AE Van Manen, AJ Varvaris, N Vasta, RX Whiteley, BD (teller) Wicks, LE Williams, MP Wilson, RJ Wood, JP Zimmerman, T 55 NOES Albanese, AN Bandt, AP Bird, SL Bowen, CE Brodtmann, G Burke, AE Burke, AS Butler, MC Butler, TM Chalmers, JE Champion, ND Chesters, LM Clare, JD Claydon, SC Collins, JM Conroy, PM Danby, M Dreyfus, MA Elliot, MJ Ellis, KM Feeney, D Ferguson, LDT Fitzgibbon, JA Giles, AJ Gray, G Griffin, AP Hall, JG (teller) Hayes, CP Husic, EN Jones, SP King, CF Leigh, AK Macklin, JL MacTiernan, AJGC Marles, RD Mitchell, RG Neumann, SK O'Connor, BPJ O'Neil, CE Owens, J Parke, M Perrett, GD Plibersek, TJ Ripoll, BF Rishworth, AL Rowland, MA Ryan, JC (teller) Shorten, WR Snowdon, WE Thistlethwaite, MJ Thomson, KJ Vamvakinou, M Watts, TG Wilkie, AD Zappia, A 0 PAIRS

Question agreed to.

 12:51 Mr PYNE 9V5 Sturt I move: That the motion be put.   The SPEAKER 00APG The question is that the motion moved by the Leader of the House be put. The SPEAKER 00APG The question now is that the motion moved by the Leader of the House be agreed to. Question agreed to.

The House divided. [12:53]
(The Speaker—Hon. Tony Smith)

 80 AYES Alexander, JG Andrews, KJ Baldwin, RC Billson, BF Bishop, BK Briggs, JE Broad, AJ Broadbent, RE Brough, MT Buchholz, S Chester, D Christensen, GR Ciobo, SM Cobb, JK Coleman, DB Coulton, M (teller) Dutton, PC Entsch, WG Fletcher, PW Frydenberg, JA Gambaro, T Gillespie, DA Goodenough, IR Griggs, NL Hartsuyker, L Hastie, AW Hawke, AG Henderson, SM Hendy, PW Hogan, KJ Howarth, LR Hunt, GA Hutchinson, ER Irons, SJ Jones, ET Joyce, BT Keenan, M Kelly, C Laming, A Landry, ML Laundy, C Ley, SP Macfarlane, IE Marino, NB Markus, LE Matheson, RG McCormack, MF McNamara, KJ Morrison, SJ Nikolic, AA O'Dowd, KD O'Dwyer, KM Pitt, KJ Porter, CC Prentice, J Price, ML Pyne, CM Ramsey, RE Robb, AJ Robert, SR Scott, BC Scott, FM Simpkins, LXL Southcott, AJ Stone, SN Sudmalis, AE Sukkar, MS Taylor, AJ Tehan, DT Truss, WE Tudge, AE Van Manen, AJ Varvaris, N Vasta, RX Whiteley, BD (teller) Wicks, LE Williams, MP Wilson, RJ Wood, JP Zimmerman, T 53 NOES Albanese, AN Bandt, AP Bird, SL Bowen, CE Brodtmann, G Burke, AE Burke, AS Butler, MC Butler, TM Chalmers, JE Champion, ND Chesters, LM Clare, JD Claydon, SC Collins, JM Conroy, PM Danby, M Dreyfus, MA Elliot, MJ Ellis, KM Feeney, D Ferguson, LDT Fitzgibbon, JA Giles, AJ Gray, G Griffin, AP Hall, JG (teller) Hayes, CP Husic, EN Jones, SP King, CF Leigh, AK Macklin, JL MacTiernan, AJGC Marles, RD Mitchell, RG Neumann, SK O'Connor, BPJ O'Neil, CE Owens, J Parke, M Perrett, GD Plibersek, TJ Ripoll, BF Rishworth, AL Rowland, MA Ryan, JC (teller) Snowdon, WE Thistlethwaite, MJ Thomson, KJ Vamvakinou, M Watts, TG Zappia, A 0 PAIRS

Question agreed to.

 Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders 12 12:56 Mr PYNE 9V5 Sturt I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the passage through all stages without delay of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Bill 2016 and the Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2016. Question agreed to. BILLS 12 BILLS Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Bill 2016 12

Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Bill 2016

Second Reading 12 12:57 The DEPUTY SPEAKER 74046 In accordance with the resolution agreed to earlier, I will now put the question of the second reading. The question is that the bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time Message from the Governor-General recommending appropriation announced. Third Reading 12 12:58 The DEPUTY SPEAKER 74046 In accordance with the resolution agreed to, the question now is that the remaining stages of the bill be agreed to. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time. Mr Fitzgibbon 8K6 Mr Deputy Speaker, on indulgence: on behalf of the opposition, I think it is an outrage that the government has feigned it is doing something in this session by moving these procedural motions. This is a government that purports to care about Northern Australia— The DEPUTY SPEAKER 74046 I call the Leader of the House. Mr Pyne 9V5 It is very disorderly for the member for Hunter to pretend that he wants to speak on indulgence, which is usually the case with somebody on a personal matter, and then use it as an opportunity to slag the government. We now have to move to the address-in-reply. I am very much looking forward to the member for Lingiari's speech. I thought it was his valedictory speech! I cannot believe he is running again! But I am looking forward to hearing what he has to say. The DEPUTY SPEAKER 74046 I call the member for Lingiari. Mr Snowdon IJ4 Anyone who might have been observing the last two days would have observed them as being high farce—extremely high farce. We just saw another exhibition of it today, with the Leader of the House, who is an affable sort of character—but now he is going to have me sit down. What does he want now? Mr Pyne 9V5 Mr Deputy Speaker, also as part of the procedures for the previous bill, I think the Clerk will give you the papers for the consequential amendments bill as well, and we need to move through the same stages we moved through in the last couple of minutes for this other bill, the consequential amendments bill. The DEPUTY SPEAKER 74046 Thank you. Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2016 12

Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2016

Second Reading 12 13:01 The DEPUTY SPEAKER 74046 In accordance with the resolution agreed to earlier, I will now put the question of the second reading. The question is that the bill be now read a second time. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time. Third Reading 13 13:01 The DEPUTY SPEAKER 74046 In accordance with the resolution agreed to, the question now is that the remaining stages of the bill be agreed to. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time. GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH 13 GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH Address-in-Reply 13 13:02 Mr SNOWDON IJ4 Lingiari This is it. Mr Frydenberg FKL I'm going to leave you. Mr SNOWDON IJ4 Don't leave me! Goodness, no, don't leave me! But it does give me an opportunity to talk about the high farce in talking about the address-in-reply to the Governor-General. As we have seen in the last 24 hours, the outcome of yesterday was, I think, to treat the Australian community with absolute contempt. We saw an absolute abuse of process by the government. They asked the Governor-General firstly to prorogue the parliament and then to come to the Senate yesterday, explaining why he prorogued the parliament and the importance of that prorogation and then why he recalled the parliament. Significantly, of course, he recalled the parliament based on the same reasons that were used post the 2013 election, when the then Governor-General spoke for and on behalf of the then government, led by Prime Minister Abbott. As we saw yesterday, as the Governor-General repeated yesterday, he recalled the parliament to enable us to discuss two pieces of legislation: the Australian Building and Construction Commission legislation and the bill to improve the governance and transparency of registered organisations. He quoted the speech by Dame Quentin Bryce, the former Governor-General, in which she said, in part: The law will be changed so that registered organisations and their officials are held to the same rules and standards as companies and their directors. So we were called back to the parliament at great cost to the Australian taxpayer for the purpose of debating two pieces of legislation—not the legislation which we did debate yesterday, to do with the trucking industry, or indeed the legislation we have just passed through the parliament, to do with the Northern Australia infrastructure fund. We were invited here yesterday, requested to be here yesterday, told we had to be here yesterday, for the reconvening of parliament to talk about those two pieces of legislation I spoke about earlier. Not only did we in this chamber not address those pieces of legislation but the piece of legislation dealing with registered organisations was not even debated in the Senate. Yet we are told now that the business of the government is over, that we can all go home. Never mind the fact that we have flown from all over the country representing our constituents, doing the bidding of this government. Fancy proroguing the parliament on Friday and bringing us back here on Monday, talking about two pieces of legislation which we will not even discuss! It makes a mockery of the process. It is an absolute abuse of the process, and the Prime Minister should be ashamed of himself. He is a person who came into this place, into this job, as someone who purported to represent the greater interests of the Australian community. He was not going to be following the course of his predecessor, Mr Abbott. But in fact he used as the basis of his prorogation of the parliament and bringing us back here two pieces of legislation from the Abbott government. And we know that this is the case across a whole range of policy areas. The government is just readopting the policies of the former Abbott government.   The Prime Minister, who came into this place with the hope of the world on his shoulders, has diminished himself substantially by his actions over the last week and, as a result, has diminished the parliament. We should not be here as political playthings of the government—any government—yet that is precisely what we have seen here in the last 36 hours. What will the Prime Minister say to the Australian community now, having brought us here for the purpose that the Governor-General said in his speech yesterday, when they say to him: 'Why didn't you even debate that legislation? What was so important about getting rid of the tribunal yesterday?' Of course, the Prime Minister only found out about the tribunal a fortnight ago. Before that the word 'truckie' had never passed his lips. Yet yesterday we had a piece of legislation abolishing the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal, along with other legislation to defer its orders. Having done that, he has put nothing in its stead—another thought bubble without thinking about the consequences of his actions. This exercise in bringing the parliament back for dodgy reasons will be seen as dodgy by the Australian population, and the community will mark the Prime Minister and his government down—as they should, because this is an absolute abuse of process. Then he tells us, of course, that we now have a 74-day election campaign. I am looking forward to the opportunity post the next election, when we come to debate the address-in-reply to the Governor-General's speech, to talk about the things that happened during the campaign. We will be able to talk about the government policies that have been put up for us to debate today and what they mean for the Australian community. We will be able to tell people what we said to the Australian community about education, for example. We will be able to say—and I will be saying this, most assuredly—that we have a government here in Canberra, under Mr Turnbull, that has taken the decision, and believes it is okay, for the Commonwealth government not to fund government schools. We know that in many parts of Australia schools are already in crisis. That the federal government would walk away from funding public education demonstrates to the Australian community how aloof, detached and out of contact the Prime Minister really is. He cannot comprehend the fact that the Australian community would see it as treacherous by any government not to fund government schools. We know that the policies that exist currently have already meant a great loss in support for government schools. I refer to an article in the NT News on Saturday, 18 April 2016, which says: The Northern Territory public education system will lose the equivalent of 200 teachers and $309 million under a new federal funding arrangement to come into effect in 2017/18. The poorest constituency in terms of educational outcomes in this country is mine. There is one private school and there are a number of Catholic schools, but there is no private education system to speak of. The community relies on public education and public funding of education. We have heard the Prime Minister, in the policies they have already announced, tell the people of the Northern Territory that the government are going to take $300 million out of the public education system for the people of the Northern Territory, which will mean the loss of up to 200 teachers. Mr Deputy Speaker Goodenough, think about the context in which we are having this discussion. Around 40 per cent of the population of my electorate are Aboriginal people living in remote communities. They have the poorest educational outcomes in the country. They require a massive investment if we are ever to allow them to reach the standards that we want them to meet. We need additional teacher resources—specialist resources. We need to address issues like fetal alcohol syndrome and what it means in the classroom, as well as the broad range of other issues that confront young people, many of whom suffer from trauma. This federal government says: 'We are prepared to walk away from that. We do not want to fund public education. That is your job, states and territories. What is more, we are saying to you that we would like you to raise your own taxes to pay for those services.' Let me make this very clear: about 80 per cent of revenue for the Northern Territory's budget comes from the Commonwealth. Can you imagine what would happen if the Northern Territory government were required to raise enough revenue from personal income tax in the Northern Territory to pay for services such as education, whether or not it was in remote communities, or health, whether it was in remote communities or in the towns and cities? There is not the population base, let alone the income base, to raise sufficient taxes for those purposes. We would be massively disadvantaged. This is another idea that the Prime Minister is taking to this election; yet 48 hours after he made the initial announcement, this great change in the Federation, at the Penrith leagues club it was dismissed, as you would expect, by the state premiers—apart from the Western Australian Premier; God knows what he was eating that morning! Let's be very clear: the people I represent understand what this would mean to them. It would mean a massive erosion of services. It would mean that people who currently get access to educational facilities would not. It would mean clinics potentially closing because they would not have the revenue base to pay for their services. Yet this is seriously what this government thinks.   I spoke at the beginning about the Prime Minister being out of touch. What better evidence is there of how out of touch he is with what real Australia thinks and needs than those two absurd proposals: that the Commonwealth should walk away from public education and that states should raise their own income tax? Not only will the states raise their own income tax but it will also be a massive example of double taxation. It might be all right in the leafy suburbs surrounding Sydney Harbour to make these sorts of silly statements, but it is absolutely absurd to believe that that sort of proposition is going to have any legs or any support anywhere in the real Australia. It certainly won't in the bush. We say to Prime Minister: you think carefully about what you say. What we know now is that what is on the public record will haunt you throughout this 74-day election campaign, and I will make sure that I prosecute this argument across the length and breadth of my electorate, letting every person know the intentions of this government in relation to education and health. We will talk about other matters as well as education and health. We know, you know, Mr Deputy Speaker Goodenough, and the whole community knows that if we want to improve the life outcomes of all Australians, we have to guarantee them access to a world-class healthcare system and a great education system. A child born today needs to be given an absolute assurance that the state will provide for them in education and health. But this is not what this government are saying; quite the opposite in fact. They are saying they are prepared to walk away. We are not prepared to walk away, and, as the Leader of the Opposition has said many times, as has our relevant shadow spokesman, our policies are out there. It is very clear where we are heading. We have good education policies, great health policies, and they are things that we know most of the Australian population will support. There are other particular issues that I will prosecute in this election. One of them is the Indigenous Advancement Strategy. As a result of a stupid decision by the former Abbott government to place Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs policy and the administration of services within the Prime Minister's department, they put out this Indigenous Advancement Strategy, which was a bid based process for funding. Not surprisingly, a large number of the people who made applications for funding, who hitherto were funded by the Commonwealth government, lost their funding. Organisations closed; organisations delivering vital services to Aboriginal communities throughout my electorate were forced to think, 'How the hell are we going to pay for our services?' People are not silly. They understand what has gone on here, and they understand that the decisions taken by the government came largely at the hands of the minister, Senator Scullion. The decisions taken to fund or not fund organisations, he admits, almost were his alone. That is something that we cannot accept, and we should not accept, and I know the community of the Northern Territory do not accept. I say to the Commonwealth government: if you are really deadly serious about effecting change in this community, you will not head down this course. Instead, you will do something reasonable and push the policy areas back into their relevant agencies: the health matters that are now administered from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet should be pushed back immediately to the Department of Health, and education issues should go back to the education department. That is what needs to happen. The other area I am going to be very concerned about during this 74-day election campaign is talking about jobs and development. We just had pass through here in a matter of some minutes—although, as we have said, there were some moments of high farce involved—a piece of legislation to do with northern Australia. Let me make it very clear: there are job issues in the north of Australia, and there is a need for massive investment in roads and other infrastructure. There is a need for massive investment in housing. What we need to do is assure the Australian community, but particularly those people who live in northern Australia—people actually invest in what works. We will not create these pie-in-the-sky ideas about dams all over the north of Australia, because they will not happen. What we should do is accept the reality that people are doing damn good work at the moment and producing solid outcomes, and we should build on that work. I will give you one example. The Ord River currently produces around $50 million or $60 million worth of agricultural product each year. It is not commonly understood that around the Northern Territory we have producers—mostly in the Top End, from Katherine heading up north, but also there are some products produced around Alice Springs, Ti Tree and Ali-Curung—currently producing $200 million worth of agricultural product. What we should be doing is building on those successes, learning from what has been happening with those particular investors—people who have taken a risk with minimal government support and who are doing a great deal of good work for the Australian community in providing product and providing education. But we have to be rational about what we do. We have a current issue to do with temporary workers coming into the horticulture industry in particular. The rules that currently apply just do not make sense; they are not logical. We need to do a great deal more about effecting change in that area. I want to support the views being expressed by the horticulture industry in the Northern Territory, particularly those people in the mango-growing industry. They only require labour for about six months of the year but if they cannot get a reliable labour source then their product will rot and they will lose massive amounts of money. So it is very important, when we are talking about developing northern Australia, that we understand the implication of decisions taken on areas such as that. I could also talk about a range of other areas, like the pastoral industry and the massive amount of work they are currently doing, the live cattle exporting trade, the tourism industry, and the growing aquaculture industry in the north of Australia that we need to continue to support. But we will not be able to do this with a government that acts so irrationally. As I said at the outset, there have been moments of high farce here in the past 36 hours, and responding, as I am, to the Governor-General's speech, it makes you wonder what he is thinking, sitting over there in Yarralumla. He came into the parliament yesterday and gave a speech, partly repeating a speech given by his predecessor, that talked about two items that needed to be addressed in this parliament. One of them was passed through the Senate yesterday, the other was not. It did not even make a debate in this chamber. It just dropped off the Notice Paper. And we are back here today with nothing to do, so we have this masquerade of a debate in the Governor-General's address-in-reply. Australians are not fools and they understand when a stunt is being pulled. They will understand absolutely what this Prime Minister is up to. He will be marked down, and I am looking forward very much to this 74-day election campaign so that on every street corner I can tell every person I see about the way they have been treated with such contempt by this Prime Minister and this government. 13:22 Dr GILLESPIE 72184 Lyne I would like to thank the Governor-General in recalling us for the second session of the 44th Parliament, because it has been very worthwhile. We had the RSRT—the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal—legislation to repeal, and that has now been achieved. That in itself has been worth the trip back to Canberra. As the member for Lingiari alleged, I would like to refute that it was not anything dodgy; it was diabolical. What tribunal has the right to incarcerate someone for six months if they do not turn up to a hearing? What tribunal has the right to fine someone who does an uncommercial enforced haulage rate that sends him out of business, or has the right to charge them $58,000 in fines? It has now been abolished, and that is such a good outcome. Two hundred-plus trucks came to Canberra with the mum-and-dad operators for a reason. There were many more that came through Canberra over the last couple of days—they honked their horns several times as I was walking to work this morning. But it was diabolical. It was sending mum-and-dad small business people to the wall. Contracts from their prime contractors had been drying up in the preceding months, and bank credit was drying up as well. Fake hearings were being held by the tribunal where people were given 18 hours notice to turn up and threatened with six months jail if they did not come and give a deposition, only to be harangued in the gallery by a bunch of aggressive union members. So that is a good outcome but, now that the ABCC legislation has been rejected yet again, it demonstrates how much the other side is dependent upon and does the bidding of their union masters. In one of my last opportunities before the budget, which is what we are really focusing on now, I would like to point out that we are back to getting a budget together to direct the economic fortunes of Australia. That is what this government is focusing on and that is what the Treasurer, the finance minister and the Assistant Treasurer, along with PM&C and all of the ministry, are focusing on. Before we go on to question time, I would like to highlight how the Australian government achieves value for money in their procurement processes. The Australian government regularly procures about $40 billion worth of goods and services in any one financial year, but with the biggest infrastructure budget that has ever been rolled out being rolled out in this term of government it is even more important. With our Defence contracts just being let for shipbuilding for the next five to 10 years for a continuous ship build and beyond and with the upcoming submarine contracts, the concept of getting value for money, as well as quality products, for the Australian taxpayer is paramount. Any time there is a $40 billion spend happening those contracts have massive effects on whatever market they are applying in, but every year the federal government spends about $40 billion—and that is not counting state and local government procurement contracts. I want to point out a critical thing: when the government is doing business with business it is quite a different situation from when a business is doing business with another business, because the government gets a refund when they purchase services from Australian companies. It is like the Coke bottle with no refund and the Pepsi bottle with a $10 refund—if the one with the refund costs you three or four cents more but you get a 10c refund, what are you going to call the better deal? The one with the refund. Long-term government contracts put a floor under a lot of industries. We cannot let them get a contract by any means just because they are Australian but, when one purchases a product from an Australian manufacturer and you are the Australian government purchasing it, there is a knock-on benefit downstream. Too many of the decisions are made in a silo by departments that are not connected to the Treasury or not connected to Finance or to Social Services, which has to supply unemployment benefits, or to Industry to do retraining programs. What is entirely sensible in business when your business does not run the Treasury or does not have the responsibility for unemployment or for retraining schemes or incentives to build up new industries, is that it is a different mathematical equation. When a federal, state or local government purchases goods from a genuine domestic based producer, treasuries in state and federal departments will receive a rebate down the track of up to 40c in the dollar. First up they get PAYE tax, then they get Medicare levies, they get company tax and they get GST payments. As well, all the local suppliers do that all over again on a different level—that is, the so-called local economic multiplier. Local governments benefit from Australian producers running their businesses in their local government areas, and there are many knock-on employers. As I mentioned, the Department of Social Services misses out on having to pay unemployment benefits when the government contracts with an Australian producer. The DEPUTY SPEAKER 74046 Order! The debate is interrupted in accordance with standing order 43. The debate may be resumed at a later hour. STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS 17 STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS Northern Australia 17 13:30 Ms MacTIERNAN L6P Perth We recently passed through this House, unexpectedly, the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Bill 2016. It is an important piece of legislation that many of us would have liked to have had the opportunity to talk about. It is very important that we have this $5 billion concessional loan for infrastructure projects in the north if we are to drive northern development forward, but I need to alert the House to the unfairness inherent in this bill to Western Australia. The definition of 'northern Australia' is given generally as above the Tropic of Capricorn, but it includes in Queensland Gladstone and in the Northern Territory all of the area between the Tropic of Capricorn and the 26th parallel. No deviations are provided for in Western Australia, the most remote part. Oddly, reference is made in the definition to Newman and Exmouth, but both of these are in fact above the Tropic of Capricorn. In my view this is just a device to make it look like some exceptions have been made for Western Australia when the opposite is the case. I really urge this House, this parliament and the government to consider amending this so we also have the 26th parallel, which has historically been the boundary for the north in Western Australia. This way it would allow Carnarvon and Shark Bay— (Time expired) Anzac Day 17 13:31 Mr NIKOLIC 137174 Bass Anzac Day is almost upon us and this year we commemorate the Centenary of the Western Front. Between March 1916 and November 1918 more than 295,000 Australians served in World War I, 132,000 of our service men and women were wounded or fell ill and 46,000 lost their lives. This year my local remembrance of Anzac Day is focused on Tasmania's Alfred Gaby, who was born near Ringarooma and educated at Scottsdale. Alfred enlisted as a private soldier in January 1916 and joined the 26th Battalion on the Western Front in August 1916. Within a year he had been promoted to lieutenant. In August 1918 Lieutenant Gaby was involved in the Battle of Amiens, winning a Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration for valour in the face of the enemy. Three days after that heroic deed Lieutenant Gaby was killed by an enemy sniper. He was one of the 15,485 Tasmanians who served in the Great War. As the husband of a career nurse I also wanted our remembrance of Anzac Day to focus on the contribution of our nurses on the Western Front. Tasmanian nurses worked in casualty clearing stations, makeshift hospitals and on ships and trains, seeing firsthand the horrors of war and providing expert nursing care. On Anzac Day 2016 I will honour the bravery of Lieutenant Alfred Gaby VC and our Australian nurses for their sacrifice on the Western Front. Turnbull Government 17 13:33 Ms RYAN 249224 Lalor I rise on this bright sunny Tuesday to ask questions of the House about where we have found ourselves. Three weeks ago the Prime Minister told us that he was calling us back for three weeks and yet the planes will be leaving this afternoon filled with members of this House heading home. We have been here for two days at great expense to the taxpayer—two days to do absolutely the minimum. People in this House are not afraid of hard work, but we were dragged up here for two days to do very little work. What we have had is absolute chaos from this government from start to finish. We are still waiting for good government to start. The member for Warringah is here. I do not think we have had any governance since he was deposed as Prime Minister. All we have had is chaos. We have had a Prime Minister come out and suggest not just will he stand by the broken promise on Gonski; he is going to walk away from public education. It is absolute chaos, but chaos with a thread that I find very suspicious. Mr Hawke HWO A conspiracy? Ms RYAN 249224 You are right, a conspiracy. They are trying to divide our communities between public and private education. It will fail because the community knows that needs based education is sector blind and will apply to all schools. I say to those opposite: let us bring on this election. Let us get out there. There are 74 days. Nine times the PM has said 2 July. Will he say it in this House today? Rocher, Mr Allan Charles 18 13:35 Mr ABBOTT EZ5 Warringah I rise today to pay tribute to Allan Rocher, a senator for Western Australia and then member for Curtin from 1978 until 1998. He was the first friend that I made in this parliament. He was a friend to many from those days in this place. I especially remember two pieces of wisdom from Allan. First, his advice that it would take at least five years to become a competent parliamentarian, and with hindsight I think that was an underestimate. Second, his observation of a colleague who often told lies when it was not strictly necessary to tell lies, and that was a shrewd encapsulation of some of the conflicts which members of parliament face. There are three other things about Allan Rocher. First, you could not have a more loyal friend, as John Winston Howard found out. Second, you could not meet a more genial man, as those who dropped by his nightly office drinks would well remember. Third, he hated factions because he thought that people and issues should be judged on their merits and not on the numbers. Allan Rocher was never ambitious for himself. He was always ambitious for our party and for our country. He was an adornment to this parliament and that is why we should cherish his memory and remember him on this day. Turnbull Government 18 13:39 Mr WATTS 193430 Gellibrand The Prime Minister recalled us all to this place in order to debate issues of national significance, but just 12 hours later we are left with the farce of having no legislation—absolutely nothing—left before either house of the parliament. Today became the Seinfeld sitting—the sitting about nothing. You could have played the Seinfeld theme music instead of the division bells throughout this morning, it was such a farce. The evidence was everywhere. This morning in the coalition party room those opposite held their very own edition of Festivus, complete with the airing of grievances. We heard eight coalition members of parliament, including the members for Dawson and Leichhardt, speaking in support of the Labor opposition—soon to be government—proposal to have a royal commission into the banking sector. You can only imagine the Prime Minister's infamous impatience with his colleagues growing by the moment as he muttered slowly to himself, 'Serenity now! Serenity now!' Smash cut to the Abbott-Turnbull government's very own Cosmo Kramer, Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, who has involved himself in some kind of a bizarre caper involving a dog, Johnny Depp and a close approximation of a hostage video. The Treasurer, the Costanza of the show, when considering Labor's housing affordability policy reminds himself, 'Just remember: it's not a lie if you really believe it.' This farce, this comedy show, is the set piece sitting week that was supposed to launch the Turnbull government's re-election campaign. The PM said that this week would be a week of serious parliamentary debate. What a shambles. It leaves me asking, 'What is it with Malcolm Turnbull saying one thing and doing another?' Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal 18 13:38 Mr O'DOWD 139441 Flynn I must have been in a different party room! After yesterday's successful passing of the Road Safety Remuneration Repeal Bill 2016 I have been inundated with support and thanks. The response is heartening and just goes to show how passionate the truckies of Flynn are about their ability to provide for their families and to the nation's call. Heath Nowland of Gracemere wrote to me and said: I would just like to take the time to thank you for the support and effort you and your colleagues afforded the transport industry in getting rid of the RSRT. It does not go unnoticed    and it is widely appreciated amongst us small transport operators. I was fortunate enough to have a woman from my electorate, Julie Just, here in Canberra yesterday. I saw her late last night after she left the House after a marathon day walking between the Senate and this House. She was understandably very emotional and thanked me very much for the job we had all done for her and her industry. This emotion just shows how much was on the line for these people. That was evident from the people down at the rally on the grass outside the front of Parliament House. These hardworking people, representing 35,000 owner-drivers, can now go back to their place of work and do the very best they can for themselves and for the country. Steel Industry 18 13:39 Mr STEPHEN JONES A9B Throsby I am pleased to say that a Shorten Labor government will have a plan for the steel industry. It is the only party in this place that will have one. It is a tough plan—a plan that has faith in the future of this industry. We will crack down on dumping with antidumping legislation to ensure the countries around the world who are producing subsidised steel in excess of needs are not dumping it into our markets and destroying our local jobs and industries. We will be putting in place tough standards to ensure that government projects are complying with Australian standards. We will be ensuring that there are industry participation plans so that when we have large jobs—whether they are government funded, defence contracts or other jobs—we will ensure that local contractors get a crack at winning that business. We will also ensure that there is a steel industry advocate which will be out there advocating for the interests of the industry. I was very pleased to be there when the Leader of the Opposition announced this new steel industry policy at BlueScope's Port Kembla plant. It was a signal that Labor has faith in the future of the company and in the future of the industry. It did not pass anybody's attention that the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science and the Prime Minister have not yet visited Illawarra and the Port Kembla BlueScope plant, despite all the troubles and all of the issues that are going on within the industry. (Time expired) Gilmore Electorate: Nowra Bridge 19 13:41 Mrs SUDMALIS 241586 Gilmore In the 2013 election I promised $10 million towards the new Nowra Bridge. Now I am fighting for construction of the bridge. This will play a pivotal role in unlocking the potential of the Gilmore electorate and beyond. The initial funding has so far seen initial planning work take place including traffic studies, geotechnical studies and bridge inspections. They all have to be done to keep the project moving forward. The RMS has determined that the new bridge should be built immediately west of the existing bridges. Now I am calling upon the people of Gilmore for a groundswell of public support to see this major piece of vital infrastructure funded in the near future. Last week I launched a petition to give Gilmore residents the chance to show their support for the new Nowra Bridge. It is encouraging to see the number of people who have already signed the petition and expressed just how critical the new bridge will be to the development, expansion and vitality of our region. When the Prime Minister visited the electorate last month I showed him the existing bridge so he could see the necessity of this infrastructure. For more than two years I have continued to lobby and advocate for our new bridge. I will knock on doors in the electorate and lobby ministers while in Canberra. Together we can show how important this new bridge will be for our local region and the South Coast economy overall. The bridge is an essential piece of infrastructure to improve business productivity, unlock tourism potential and increase residential amenity. Defence Procurement 19 13:42 Mr FEENEY I0O Batman Yesterday, amidst the circus, we saw the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence decide that it would be an exciting time to announce one of Australia's strategically vital shipbuilding contracts. Amongst the many marvels of yesterday is the fact that we were here as a prorogued parliament, brought back so that we could sit here at centre stage in the spotlight to debate the ABCC legislation—legislation the Prime Minister told us was worthy of a double dissolution election and legislation the Prime Minister told us should fix the attention of our nation. Here we were, in the middle of day 1 of this, and the government and the Prime Minister himself changed the topic. They changed the topic, and so suddenly we found ourselves talking about shipbuilding. This bizarre timing by the Prime Minister and his defence minister to make such an announcement was nothing more than panic driven and cynical politics in an attempt to shore up South Australian Liberal seats for the upcoming election. Sadly, we have seen Liberal Party politics poison our shipbuilding contracts again and again. It was of course the politics of a captain's call that originally sent the Liberal Party promise to build the submarines in Adelaide to the depths. Instead, we had a captain's call to go to Japan. Then, in the midst of the collapsing leadership of Prime Minister Abbott, we saw that turned into a competitive evaluation process. Now it would seem— (Time expired)   Durack Electorate: Central Midlands Coastal Football League 19 13:44 Ms PRICE 249308 Durack It is great to have an opportunity to speak about one of WA country football's great leagues, the Central Midlands Coastal Football League. This year I am a proud sponsor of the 2016 AGLIME Central Midlands Coastal Football League. The league features teams from Jurien Bay, Cervantes—home of West Coast forward pocket, Mark Le Cras—Moora, Dandaragan and Lancelin. As a girl from the bush I know that football in country WA is possibly closer to being a religion than it is a sport, and a Saturday afternoon watching the local team is the highlight of the week in many communities across the state. Cervantes Tiger Sharks have been a competition powerhouse, winning their 15th flag in 18 years last year, and they look like having another great season, judging by the weekend's results. I would like to take this opportunity to wish President Steve Gilbert, Vice President Graham Lethlean, Secretary, Treasurer and Registrar Rayelene Wright—she has a big job!—and all the board the best for season 2016. I look forward to catching up at a game very soon. Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal 20 13:45 Mr ZAPPIA HWB Makin Today I spoke with Sue Posnakidis and her sister, Christina, who came from Canberra to Adelaide to tell their story about the road death of their brother, John. In 2010, 42-year-old John Posnakidis, a dad to three children, was killed by a semitrailer whilst he was waiting at a bus shelter. John was himself a truck driver; his truck had broken down and he was waiting for assistance. The driver of the truck that killed John was hauling 37 tonnes of steel from Ballarat to Adelaide, and reportedly had had only five hours of sleep in the previous 27 hours of work. The coroner described the driver's work schedule as 'tiring if not gruelling' with the insufficient rest being attributed to the need to meet a delivery deadline. John Posnakidis died because of a serious problem within the trucking industry, including the number of road deaths, suicides and bankruptcies that have been known about for years and which cannot continue to be ignored. Yet the Turnbull government, rather than considering the evidence and the facts relating to this very serious road safety matter, rather than sitting down with all the affected parties to seek a way forward and rather than addressing the central issue of road safety for all road users, instead moved to abolish the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal. This was a knee-jerk response to an issue of national importance by a chaotic government led by a desperate Prime Minister who has no plan, no idea and no commitment to anything but his own future. South Australia: Steel Industry 20 13:47 Mr RAMSEY HWS Grey I rise to speak to the people of Whyalla, to assure them that the government is very interested in their plight and that I believe the steel industry has a good future. The appointment of KordaMentha in the place of Grant Thornton as administrator is a good move from the point of view that they have already expressed confidence in the future—that they will run that plant as normal for the next six months and that the suppliers' bills will be met. Let me say that the government has been busy in this space. There has been an enormous amount of work done on antidumping and, despite the member for Throsby's comments of a few minutes ago, the Prime Minister has been to Whyalla, and he brought the best thing of all: more work for the Whyalla steelworks. After all, these steelworks have a very high overhead component. It is very much like running a motel at half-throttle—you lose money in that case. If, indeed, the motel is full then the operator is making money, and so it is with the steelworks. So bring forward that rail contract to Tarcoola and take action, in a measured way, on antidumping. And there is more to come from the minister in the next few weeks. We are making a difference and I have great confidence that this industry will survive long into the future, because it is too important to Whyalla, to South Australia and to the nation to allow us to let it fall over. Turnbull Government 20 13:48 Dr LEIGH BU8 Fraser When the member for Wentworth toppled the member for Warringah we were told that it would be just like John Lennon's Starting Over, but since then we have had more repetitions than a Status Quo song! We started this parliamentary term with this government giving a billion-dollar tax break to multinationals and we are ending the term with them opposing Labor's sensible multinational tax measures: closing debt deduction loopholes, ramping up penalties on multinationals and giving the tax office the resources it needs to get tough on tax avoiders. We started the term with this government trying to scrap Labor's future of financial advice protections and we have ended this term with the government colluding with the big banks to stop a royal commission into the banks to protect people like Jenny, who Bill Shorten and I met with last week. She told us about the impact on her of nearly losing her home, thanks to shonky dealing. We started the term with this government doubling the deficit and we are ending the term with the deficit for this year being more than sextupled, more than six times larger than predicted when the government came to office, and with the credit agencies warning us that our AAA credit rating—three AAA ratings attained under Labor—might now be at risk. We started the term with the government lying about the pre-election fiscal and economic outlook and we ended up with them lying over tax which, as a share of GDP, is increasing. We were promised a government of 'Control+Alt+Delete'; we got a government of 'Control+C'. (Time expired) Forde Electorate: Australian Red Cross 21 13:50 Mr VAN MANEN 188315 Forde I would like to take this opportunity to celebrate the tremendous work of two Red Cross volunteers: Dulcie Clark and Ivy Somerfield. I would like to sincerely congratulate Dulcie and Ivy for receiving their pins for 30 years of service to the Beenleigh Red Cross recently. As we all know, volunteers are the lifeblood of our local communities. They are the people who generously give their time to help others and work towards making our society a better place for all. I have tremendous respect for our volunteers, and in communities like Beenleigh we would be lost without their continued support. The Red Cross is a tremendous organisation that helps tens of millions of people around the world. With millions of volunteers worldwide, their support helps reach people and places no-one else can. I have always believed that the best traits we should all have to give back to our community are kindness, compassion and care. If everyone spent a little time volunteering or just showing some kindness, compassion and care towards others, we would live in a very different world. Again, I wish to congratulate Ivy and Dulcie on their outstanding commitment to the Red Cross in Beenleigh by notching up 30 years service as volunteers. Our community is very lucky to have you both.   Turnbull Government 21 13:51 Ms CHESTERS 249710 Bendigo The titles for books about the dysfunction and chaos of this government are already being written. Will they be called Dysfunctional? Will they be called Chaotic? Because the one thing this government cannot decide is its agenda from one day to the next. I was all ready to debate the registered orgs bill again. I have to say I am getting pretty good at that bill because it has been before the House a few times. In fact, yesterday, when we walked over to the other place for the joint sitting, it was even in the Governor-General's address—the registered orgs regulations. Yet today we see that legislation is gone. Yesterday it was on the agenda; today it is gone. What is with this government? They cannot even make up their mind from one day to the next. As was said on Lateline the other week, between lunchtime and Lateline this government changes its agenda, whether it be on workplace relations, the economy, tax policy or education—name an issue. All this government cares about is the theatre of politics. They are not interested in governing. They are not interested in standing up for working people. They are not interested in supporting Australian families. They are interested in the theatre of government, the theatre of politics, and that is all today is: 90-second statements, question time and a matter of public importance. This government is only interested in the theatre of politics, not government. Autism 21 13:53 Ms SCOTT 165476 Lindsay Nearly two weeks ago, I did a walk of nearly 100 kilometres right around the electorate of Lindsay to raise awareness of, and funds for, autism. Many children are born every year with autism, and it is a developmental condition that will stay with them their entire lives. I am very proud that the Nepean Blue Mountains region has been part of the early rollout of the NDIS. This will bring much hope to so many local families. During my walk, I visited many local schools and I would like to thank the schools and the principals of McCarthy Catholic College, Nepean high, Emu Plains Public School, Adventure Preschool, Glenmore Park High School, Caroline Chisholm College, Surveyors Creek Public School, Penrith Christian School, Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School at St Marys, Wollemi College, and Kurrambee School, of course, as well as St Marys leagues club. We followed that up with the walk for autism around Jamison Park, where many hundreds of local people came to support autism. All the funds raised from the walk for autism, as well as my walk, will go towards the Luke Priddis Foundation, a wonderful local organisation that supports so many families of children with autism. Their dream, which is becoming a reality, is to build a centre for autism in High Street, Penrith. It will have two sensory spaces, offices, a consultation room, a parents retreat, a lounge area and a kitchenette. We have already committed $20,000 to this facility as well. This is wonderful news for the people of Lindsay and wonderful news for the parents of children with autism. Workplace Relations 22 13:54 Mr BRENDAN O'CONNOR 00AN3 Gorton I think my colleagues have been a little bit harsh on the government, about it being seen as chaotic! Sure, there is chaos; sure, there is division and dysfunction. It is the parliamentary equivalent of Game of Thrones. But, when it comes to cutting penalty rates for low-paid workers, this government shows a unity of purpose. When the member for Reid was asked about cutting penalty rates, he said: … I'm not averse to that at all … When the member for Herbert was asked about this, he asked why someone who works on Sunday is worth twice as much as someone who does exactly the same job Monday to Friday. The member for Leichhardt simply said: From a personal view, I certainly support change in weekend penalty rates … The novice Liberal candidate for Brisbane, Trevor Evans, when asked whether he supported the Productivity Commission's recommendations to cut Sunday penalty rates, said, 'Broadly speaking, we do agree.' But the Liberal candidate who takes the cake, who wins the prize, is the Liberal candidate for Dunkley, the blow-in from Mildura, who basically said he supports any cut to penalty rates and there should be no penalty rates for any worker unless they work more than five days a week. That candidate wants to cut penalty rates for any worker in any industry. He wants to put his hand in the pockets of low-paid workers and steal their income because he does not believe in penalty rates—and neither does this government. Cowan Electorate: Kiara College 22 13:56 Mr SIMPKINS HWE Cowan I am very pleased to use my 559th speech in the parliament to speak about the great work of Kiara College and its leader, Principal Anne Robinson. As the local member I am delighted that Kiara College is now in the electorate of Cowan, and this is the first time that Kiara College has been spoken of in the House. I have on several occasions been able to appreciate what the college is doing, and it was good to have the opportunity to take Minister Scott Ryan to Kiara College so that he too could see the work they are doing in VET but also have a look at the Kiara College Farm. The farm is a great asset, and I support their efforts to maintain and expand the opportunities it provides. Beyond the curriculum and the great opportunities the school provides local students, I also would like to thank Anne Robinson and her staff for providing me with basketball umpires for my 9th annual schools basketball challenge. They represented the college very well with their skills and even-handed professionalism. I acknowledge and thank the Kiara College principal, staff and community for the service they do in the local area. New South Wales Government: Environment 22 13:57 Mr THISTLETHWAITE 182468 Kingsford Smith The Baird Liberal government is engaging in one of Sydney's worst cases of environmental vandalism. Over the last four months, the Liberals have been chainsawing down centuries-old fig trees that line Alison Road in Randwick and Anzac Parade at Moore Park, adjacent to the SCG, to build a light rail line. This is needless environmental destruction. We can have light rail and preserve these historic trees that are part of Sydney's heritage and character. In 1914, when troops marched from Kensington Racecourse to Circular Quay, they walked past these trees, and in 1917 Randwick Road was renamed Anzac Parade in their honour. The people of Sydney are justifiably outraged by the destruction of these trees in parkland bequeathed to the people two centuries ago by Lachlan Macquarie. One thousand six hundred people in our community have signed an open letter to you, Prime Minister, calling on you to intervene and stop the destruction of Sydney's historic trees. In 2010, you described these trees and this parkland as the 'great green lungs of our city'. It is time for you to put your money where your mouth is. On behalf of the people of Sydney, I ask: will you call on Mike Baird to halt this destruction? We can have the light rail project and preserve Sydney's historic trees, and I call on you to do something about it. Shipbuilding Industry 22 13:58 Dr SOUTHCOTT TK6 Boothby Yesterday the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence announced the build location for the offshore patrol vessels and the up to 21 Pacific patrol boats, in addition to the nine future frigates already announced. This announcement has been very well received in South Australia—by the Premier, Jay Weatherill; by Chris Burns at Defence Teaming Centre; and by the Adelaide Advertiser. The three projects represent a $40 billion investment in our naval shipbuilding industry and secure 2½ thousand jobs into the future. In the defence white paper, the government made a commitment to a continuous build of naval surface ships which were central to the government's naval shipbuilding plan. The announcement yesterday provides two shipyards to implement our commitment. The major warships will be built in Osborne, in Adelaide, and the minor vessels in Western Australia. What the government has had to deal with is the sad fact that Labor, in six years of government, never signed one contract for one naval vessel—not one. They talked a big game, they talked a very big game, but never delivered, like a lot of other things Labor talk about doing. The Turnbull government are delivering. We are now delivering on offshore patrol vessels and future frigates, and I look forward to further announcements to come. The SPEAKER 00APG In accordance with standing order 43, the time for members' statements has concluded. CONDOLENCES 23 CONDOLENCES Aldred, Mr Kenneth James 23 14:00 The SPEAKER 00APG I inform the House of the death of Kenneth James Aldred. Ken Aldred died last weekend. He was a member of this House for the divisions of Henty from 1975 to 1980, Bruce from 1983 to 1990 and Deakin from 1990 to 1996. As a mark of respect to the memory of Ken Aldred, I invite honourable members to rise in their places. Honourable members having stood in their places— The SPEAKER 00APG I thank the House. Charles, Mr Robert Edwin (Bob) 23 QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE 23 QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE Building and Construction Industry 23 14:01 Mr SHORTEN 00ATG Maribyrnong My question is to the Prime Minister. Prior to today, the Prime Minister has said at least nine times that if the ABCC bill was rejected by the Senate he would call a double dissolution election on 2 July. But four times today the Prime Minister refused to confirm the exact date of the election. Why is it that, after weeks of telling the Australian people the exact date of the election, now that it is time for a decision the Prime Minister is completely paralysed? 14:02 Mr TURNBULL 885 Wentworth The Leader of the Opposition's pathetic attempt today to misrepresent what I have said just underlines his lack of any character or commitment to jobs in Australia. Last night the Senate abolished the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal. What that did was restore tens of thousands of Australians to their employment. It put owner-drivers back on the road. It put people back into their jobs. The Labor Party talk about jobs, but every policy of theirs is calculated to destroy jobs. And it is not just prospective. We saw thousands of owner-drivers out of work. We saw grown men weeping. We saw them with their wives and their children and their idle trucks, put out of work at the behest of the Labor Party, at the behest of the Leader of the Opposition, all for the benefit of the Transport Workers Union. So when we say, 'We stand for jobs,' we mean it and we deliver. We delivered last night. We delivered jobs back to tens of thousands of Australians. Honourable members interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The Prime Minister will resume his seat. Members on my left and right will cease interjecting. Mr Burke DYW Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order on direct relevance: the Prime Minister is proving he cannot give a straight answer. The SPEAKER 00APG No. The Prime Minister. Mr TURNBULL 885 This morning I addressed that issue on a building site with the minister, Senator Cash, who has done such an outstanding job in this regard, and we talked about the Australian Building and Construction Commission and the need to restore it, because restoring the ABCC restores jobs to the construction sector. The rule of law must prevail. Lawlessness in the construction sector keeps honest men and women out of work. Once again it serves only to promote the interests of one of the Leader of the Opposition's great supporters, the CFMEU, 105 officials of which are currently before Fair Work or the courts on more than 1,000 charges of breaking industrial law. As to the election, let me say what I said already today: after the budget I will advise the Governor-General to dissolve both houses of parliament and I will advise him to call an election on 2 July. The Governor-General will consider that request and that advice and he will make a decision, and that is the constitutional fact. That is why I say I expect there to be an election on 2 July. But of course my constitutional duty is, under section 57, to advise the Governor-General of my wishes in that regard, and it is up to him whether to agree to dissolve both houses and issues the writs. Honourable members interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG Before I call the member for Dobell, members on both sides will cease interjecting. The level of noise is far too high and we are only five minutes into question time. Member for Dobell. Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal 24 14:06 Mrs McNAMARA 241589 Dobell My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline to the House the central role of small business in the government's economic plan to manage the transition to the new economy? Is the Prime Minister aware of any risks to the viability of family businesses as key drivers of jobs and growth in communities across the country? Mr Champion interjecting— Mr Brendan O'Connor interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Wakefield and the member for Gorton will cease interjecting. The Prime Minister has the call. 14:06 Mr TURNBULL 885 Wentworth The greatest risks to small business in this country are sitting opposite. It is the Labor Party that has shown again and again its determination to drive small business out of business. We have seen a Labor Party tribunal established as part of a dirty deal with the Transport Workers Union, established by the Leader of the Opposition with the express purpose of putting out of business owner-drivers, and it fulfilled its objectives perfectly. The Transport Workers Union were delighted. All of those independent operators—all of those mums and dads who borrowed money to buy their rigs, to get a start, to be independent and to realise their dreams—were put out of business. Thousands and thousands of trucks were idle. Thousands and thousands of businesses were out of business. Thanks to the coalition and to our determination to stand up for business and to stand up for jobs— Mr Danby interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Melbourne Ports! Mr TURNBULL 885 that tribunal has been abolished. Its abolition was opposed tooth and nail by the Labor Party. It was only yesterday that the member for Chifley, who is so sensitive to the concerns of the owner-drivers in his electorate, described their concerns as a 'stunt'—wonderful! Men and women out of jobs—I suppose if you have a safe Labor seat in the House of Representatives, you do not have to worry too much about the precarious existence of small business men and women. But we do, because we know that is where the jobs come in Australia. That is what drives our economy and that is what drives jobs growth. It is the enterprise, the determination and the courage of those small business men and women, who are having a go every day. We stand up for them. Every policy the Labor Party propose in this coming election will be a job-destroying policy. They are going to discourage investment by putting up capital gains tax by 50 per cent. If you want less of something, increase the tax on it. Labour clearly wants less investment. They do not want people to borrow money— Mr Champion interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Wakefield is warned! Mr TURNBULL 885 and have a go and start a business. They do not want people to borrow money and buy a rig, or buy some property. No, they are going to ban negative gearing. Only wealthy people with investment income and only companies with lots of income will be able to negative gear, but ordinary men and women—the small business men and women like the ones we were with on Sunday—will not get a start under Labor. Under Bill Shorten's view of the world, those men and women will have no choice—join the big union. That is not the Australia we believe in. We believe in a free Australia, an enterprising Australia and an Australia with great jobs. Government members interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG Members on my right will cease interjecting. I have warned of the level of interjections being far too high. It persists. I warned the member for Wakefield during that exchange. The member for Melbourne Ports was interjecting continuously; he is warned as well. The member for Bendigo and the member for Gorton early in the answer had been asked to cease interjecting, and they are warned as well. Government Advertising 25 14:10 Mr BRENDAN O'CONNOR 00AN3 Gorton () (): My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the humiliating and chaotic budget leak, which has confirmed the Prime Minister will splash taxpayers' cash for a massive advertising campaign on the budget, after already spending millions promoting his so-called ideas boom and infrastructure program. Given budget measures this year will be nothing more than election promises, will the Prime Minister today rule out using taxpayers' funds to run these ads—ads that contain 100 per cent election material? (Time expired) Mr Dutton 00AKI Declare who you're sponsored by. The SPEAKER 00APG The minister for immigration will cease interjecting. 14:10 Mr TURNBULL 885 Wentworth The honourable member— Mr Albanese R36 Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order. The SPEAKER 00APG We are five seconds in, so it cannot be on relevance, but I will call the point of order. Mr Albanese R36 No, it is certainly not. The member for Dickson should withdraw that interjection. The SPEAKER 00APG I did not hear the member for Dickson's interjection. I do not want him to repeat it. Mr Albanese R36 You cannot cast aspersions upon motivation. The SPEAKER 00APG I did not hear the interjection. I will say to the member for Dickson if he said something that is unparliamentary and it will assist the House—I did not hear it because of the noise level, I have to say. Mr Dutton 00AKI Mr Speaker, I thought he was proud of his CFMEU links. If he is offended by the association, I withdraw it. The SPEAKER 00APG The minister for immigration has withdrawn. Mr Dreyfus interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Isaacs will not interject. The Prime Minister has the call. Mr TURNBULL 885 I thank the honourable member for his question about government advertising. It recalls one of the more disgraceful exercises of the last Labor government. We all recall during the last election campaign how the then Special Minister of State, the member for Isaacs, directed the Public Service to continue the blatantly political 'By boat, no visa' advertisements during the 2013 election campaign. They ignored the advice of their own senior public servants. Mr Dreyfus interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Isaacs is warned! Mr TURNBULL 885 During this campaign, a direction was made to the then secretary of Finance, Mr Tune. He was asked in Senate estimates: Are you familiar with many other instances where very senior officials or secretaries have been directed by ministers around advertising campaigns during caretaker periods? Mr Tune said: I cannot recall any … I have certainly not come across it myself in the past. Senator Smith asked: So unique and exceptional in your experience? Mr Tune: Indeed. Senator Smith: Unprecedented, even? Mr Tune: For me, yes. Unprecedented, political interference—there it was. They wrote some letters about this. A letter from Mr Dreyfus QC, Special Minister of State to the Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship directing the Public Service to continue running a blatantly political ad, which was so dishonest. What it sought to do was claim that the Labor Party had won a great victory in the battle against people smuggling. In fact, there were never better friends for the people smugglers than the Labor Party. They dismantled the Howard government policies which worked. The consequences, we know, were 50,000 unauthorised arrivals and thousands of deaths at sea. It was a total catastrophe. Then, at the eleventh hour—after Kevin Rudd returned as Prime Minister—they tried in a scramble to adopt the coalition's policy and then claimed victory with ads that were blatantly political and should never have been run during the caretaker period but were run on the express directions of the Special Minister of State—now the shadow Attorney-General—overruling the caretaker conventions. The Labor Party's record in government advertising is a disgrace. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS 26 DISTINGUISHED VISITORS 14:14 The SPEAKER 00APG I wish to inform the House we have present in the gallery this afternoon Mr John Haslem, former member for Canberra, Mr Mike Symon, former member for Deakin, and Mr Grant Chapman, former senator for South Australia and former member for Kingston. On behalf of the House, I extend the three of you a very warm welcome. Honourable members: Hear, hear! QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE 26 QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE Transport Industry 26 14:15 Ms LANDRY 249764 Capricornia My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Will the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on how the coalition is supporting family owned transport operators across Australia? How will the coalition government's actions drive jobs and growth in my electorate of Capricornia and across Central Queensland? 14:15 Mr JOYCE E5D New England I thank the honourable member for her question. I want to congratulate the honourable member for Capricornia for the work that she did in making sure that we got mum and dad operators and mum and dad truck drivers back on the road. We are making sure that we look after the people at home who are trying to do the books, pay the bills, pay the local tyre merchant, pay the local fuel merchant and pay the local mechanic. We are making sure that we can move produce, whether it is cattle or goods. We are also helping people in the furniture removalist business to make sure that they are not compromised by this odious form of legislation brought in by the Greens, the Labor Party and the Independent Mr Windsor. We can also see that, as Bryan Smith of Rocky's Own Transport said, axing the tribunal is a fantastic outcome for the nation delivered by our country MPs and the government yesterday. It is a great result for mum and dad owner-operators and a good result for the free market. Ultimately the RSRT regulations were interfering with free enterprise, trying to tell owner-drivers what to charge for their businesses. This does not happen in other businesses. We have seen that the Labor Party have real form in making sure that they attack the working men and women of this nation and the working mums and dads of this nation. There is still a challenge because if at the forthcoming election the Labor Party, the Greens and the Independents get back in government then they will bring back this piece of legislation and put those mum and dad owner-operators out of work again. We know they will do that. Let us ask ourselves this quick question. Who would bring back the carbon tax? They would. Who would bring back weak borders? They would. Who would put mum and dad operators out of business? They would. We can see quite obviously that they have other things. We can see that the latest one is an attack not only on country working men and women but also on every suburb. We see their negative gearing policy that they are about to bring forward. It is like the Hindenburg in search of a match. Here it comes to make sure that every person who has bought a house is afflicted by a Labor government that believes something is morally wrong with negatively gearing houses. That is where they are going to earn their money. They are going to earn their money once more by going out to the well they always go to. Who do they go to to get their money? It is mums and dads. Mums and dads are the only place they know to take their money from so they can run their other policies. But we will stand behind McDonald Brothers Transport at Nemingha, we will stand behind Martin's at Scone and we will stand behind Kelly's in Armidale. We will stand behind the working men and women of Biloela. We will stand behind the working men and women of Mackay. We will stand behind the working men and women of Emerald. We will look after Central Queensland. We will look after Australia. We will keep those opposite out of government. Mr Brendan O'Connor interjecting— Mr Perrett interjecting— Mr Mitchell interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Gorton has already been warned. The member for McEwen is warned. The member for Moreton is also warned. I say to the member for Gorton that if he interjects again he will not be staying in question time. Financial Services 27 14:18 Mr BOWEN DZS McMahon My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, the Liberal government cut ASIC funding by $120 million and ignored 41 warnings by ASIC on its need for greater powers and resources. How can Australians possibly trust this Prime Minister to deal with high-profile financial scandals when the Prime Minister's own record shows he would rather cover up misconduct in the banking and financial services industry than stand up for ordinary Australians? The SPEAKER 00APG The last part of that question is out of order. It reflects— Ms Henderson interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Corangamite will not interject, particularly when I am addressing the chamber. The last part of that question is completely out of order. I am going to give the member for McMahon one opportunity to rephrase that. I remind him of my earlier warnings that I will not have endless patience on this subject in question time. Mr BOWEN DZS My question is to the Prime Minister. The Liberal government cut ASIC funding by $120 million and ignored at least 41 warnings from ASIC that they need greater powers and resources. How can Australians possibly trust this Prime Minister to deal with high-profile financial scandals when his government has failed to stand up for victims of those scandals? 14:20 Mr MORRISON E3L Cook I thank the Prime Minister for the opportunity to respond to the member. The member opposite should particularly recall that in the economic statement released in 2013 before the last election the Labor government announced an increase in the efficiency dividend for ASIC from 1.25 per cent to 2.5 per cent. That was a $38.2 million reduction in funding over the four years that was announced by the member opposite. I also remember that it was those opposite who opposed the implementation of a financial system inquiry. When we were in opposition the shadow Treasurer at the time tabled terms of reference for that inquiry which I tabled in this place yesterday. Those opposite were saying yesterday that you cannot work up terms of reference in opposition; you have to wait until you get into government. When we put forward a financial systems inquiry proposal, we tabled terms of reference—something those opposite refuse to do in their proposal for a commission on this area which has no definition. They just keep saying, 'We need a royal commission into banks.' It is always the same phrase. They think that is a policy. It is crass populism, as the member for Lilley reminded us all yesterday. I note the member for Lilley is not here today, but he referred to that type of politics as 'crass populism'. The Leader of the Opposition should reflect on that. It was the financial systems inquiry that we put in place that made the following recommendations that have been adopted by the government: product intervention powers to enable ASIC to modify or ban harmful financial products; the power to ban individuals from managing a financial service business; the power to approve changes of licensee control; the power to consider a broader range of factors in determining whether an applicant satisfies the fit-and-proper-purpose test to be granted a licence; the power to place conditions on firms to address concerns about internal systems relating to serious system misconduct; and powers to increase penalties for those who offend in all of these areas and more. We have a proposal from those opposite that does not address the concerns of Australians. It is a proposal to delay any consideration of their concerns for years. The only interest that their proposal is seeking to protect is that of the Leader of the Opposition. That is the only interest it is seeking to preserve. They are saying that they would rather invest $50 million in a process that would make them wait years and years and years. I note what the former governor of the Reserve Bank and former Treasury secretary Bernie Fraser said. He said, 'I think there are real problems, but I wouldn't myself be rushing into a royal commission at this stage, mainly because I think the basic problems are pretty clear, but more importantly, because it would take so long for a royal commission to get the point of recommending.' What they have is hot air. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS 27 DISTINGUISHED VISITORS 14:23 The SPEAKER 00APG It has been drawn to my attention that we also have present in the gallery this afternoon the former member for Capricornia, Kirsten Livermore. On behalf of the House, I extend a warm welcome to you as well. Honourable members: Hear, hear! QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE 28 QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE Northern Australia 28 14:23 Mr KATTER HX4 Kennedy Prime Minister, North Queensland was promised $5,000 million in guaranteed loans, and $500 million for water. The Hell's Gate and Herbert dams, Galilee rail line, Queensland Nickel, phosphate canal and Hann Highway will produce, if Australian, $16,000 million a year, taxation for retirees, struggling young families, 150,000 jobs, but after three years, still not a cent of money has been committed. What now? Panicked, pre-election pork-barrelling? The SPEAKER 00APG We will call that a multiple choice question. 14:24 Mr TURNBULL 885 Wentworth I thank the member for his question. He left out the Rookwood Weir site on the Fitzroy, which I visited recently with the member for Capricornia. I know the Deputy Prime Minister was there recently himself. The honourable member will obviously know very well that the Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund legislation passed through all stages of this House today. That legislation is on its way to the Senate, where we expect it to receive the same level of support and become law, so that it will be operative by 1 July. The honourable member is inspired by the prospects in Northern Australia, particularly in water, and so are we. I would ask the minister for water resources to elaborate on the great opportunities to tap into that huge water resource in Northern Australia. 14:25 Mr JOYCE E5D New England I also thank the honourable member for his question. It gives me great pleasure to talk about how we are currently already under investigation with Nullinga Dam— Opposition members interjecting— Mr JOYCE E5D Making sure we investigate Nullinga Dam, making sure we get the Ord Stage 3 underway, making sure that we get Darwin water supplies underway. Those are not the only dams that we will be looking at; there are so many dams that are coming in. I know Urannah Dam is vitally important. We have Rookwood, we have Eden Bann and we have Nathan Dam. They are all incredibly important in Central Queensland. It is not just in Central Queensland; we are looking at other dams like Mole River, the Dungowan extension, right over to Wellington in Western Australia— Mr Nikolic 137174 And Tassie! Mr JOYCE E5D Tasmania we have already started. We have $120 million worth of dams going on there. In the next couple of weeks, we will finish Chaffey Dam at Tamworth. We will finish Chaffey Dam. We started it in our term of government and we will finish it in our term of government. That is what happens when you have a coalition government that goes from merely dreaming about things to actually delivering on things. We are proud of the $5 billion that we are going to be spending to make sure that we drive that agenda forward for North Queensland, drive it forward for the Northern Territory and drive it forward for the north of Western Australia. These are the things that we do on our side of the fence, because we never heard of Northern Australia under the Labor Party, the Greens and the Independents. It was virtually invisible under them. It took a coalition government to actually stand up and deliver for the north of Australia. That is why we put $100 million on the table—to start sealing your beef roads. As you know, member for Kennedy, we are doing that. In Roads to Recovery, we have further extensions there. These are the sorts of things that give Australia a sense of vision. These are the sorts of things that make the Australian people know that if they want to have a government that knows what it is doing, has a vision for the future and has a vision for Northern Australia, then it resides with the National Party and the Liberal Party. Budget 28 14:29 Ms SCOTT 165476 Lindsay My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer advise the House of the importance of a stronger budget at this delicate time for our transitioning economy? Is the Treasurer aware of any alternative approaches that would discourage innovation, investment and growth? 14:27 Mr MORRISON E3L Cook I thank the member for Lindsay for her question. She is right—this is a very critical time for our economy as we continue on this successful transition from the mining construction boom to a more diversified economy where all of our sectors can move forward. We say that at the same time as recognising that in many parts of the country that transition is being felt with more difficulty than in others—particularly with the member for Herbert, most recently, and the members for Dawson and other places in North Queensland, we understand that transition is hard felt. But as we look across the economy, we are making way in what is a very tough economy. Our economy is growing overall—some three per cent last year. Jobs are growing—some 440,000 since the last election and, most importantly, more than 50,000 jobs for young people in the last 18 months, seeing that youth unemployment rate fall down below the rate it was at the last election. This budget that will come down on 3 May this year will be that economic plan that sets us up, that meets the challenges that we face as we continue to manage this very successful transition. We will do that by clearing the way for jobs and growth in a stronger and new economy. We will do that by supporting investment, by supporting innovation, by supporting the infrastructure and the procurement practices that drive jobs and growth, particularly in our shipbuilding industry where those important announcements have been made already this week. We will do it through better targeting of our tax system to make sure that it is sustainable to meet the challenges ahead, to ensure that it is fairer and to ensure that it is doing its job and that we do not put the $100 billion tax burden—which those opposite would propose to do—on our economy over the next 10 years. We will ensure that the government continues to live within its means because we know householders are doing it, we know businesses are doing it, and we know the government has to do it. But there are alternative approaches. The Leader of the Opposition today gave what you would call—what he thought was—his election starting address. I am happy to table it for the House. In his election address, not once is there a reference to the economy or budget—not once, not one reference to the economy or budget. That is not surprising, because they would have to then explain why they want to put a $100 billion tax burden on the Australian economy over the next 10 years and why they want to put a tax on investment in this country, a 50 per cent increase in capital gains tax, and abolish negative gearing, which would mean a hit to mum-and-dad investors, to police officers, to nurses. I note that the Leader of the Opposition has not been saying much about negative gearing for a while. Maybe he knows, maybe he has worked out, that the shadow Treasurer has led him down a very, very bad path. (Time expired) Banking 29 14:30 Mr SHORTEN 00ATG Maribyrnong My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to reports that today the Prime Minister has backed the banks over members of his own party room who support a royal commission into the banking sector. With the Prime Minister reportedly considering coming up with something less than a royal commission, Prime Minister, have the banks ticked off on your plan yet? 14:31 Mr TURNBULL 885 Wentworth Mr Speaker, I will invite the Treasurer to respond to this, but I just remind the Leader of the Opposition of this: the Leader of the Opposition claims to be responding to the concerns of Australians who have lost money when they have been given bad advice— Mr Mitchell interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for McEwen has been warned. Mr TURNBULL 885 or they have been treated unfairly by banks and financial institutions. What does a royal commission do to help them? Years and years, hundreds of millions of dollars in legal expenses, and at the end of that is written a report—not one dollar of compensation, not one measure of redress. The honourable member's call for a royal commission into the banks is nothing more than a political exercise which will do nothing to resolve the needs, the concerns, of people who have been treated unfairly. I invite the Treasurer to add to my remarks. 14:32 Mr MORRISON E3L Cook I thank the Prime Minister. To demonstrate the point of just how crass the populism and opportunistic politics are from those opposite, it was only in March of this year that the Senate Economics References Committee released a report on agribusiness managed investment schemes that ignored a dissenting Greens recommendation for a financial system royal commission. There was a dissenting report by the Greens calling for a royal commission into the financial system. When the Labor Party responded to that—and the member for Rankin will know; when he responded to that—there was no mention in their response of supporting the Greens on a royal commission into the banking and financial industry, and that was only last month. It was in March. I table the member for Rankin's statement because you cannot find it on his website—he has apparently pulled it down. Why would he pull it down? The truth is that they voted against a royal commission in June of last year, and at every opportunity to say they wanted one they would not open their mouths. The Prime Minister goes down and speaks at a Westpac function and tells them what they need to do about banking culture, and—what do you know?—the Leader of the Opposition pops up a few days later with a royal commission which has the terms of reference of a blank sheet of paper. This royal commission proposal is about one person and one person only: the Leader of the Opposition. This is all about pursuing his crass populism and undermining an institution that is critical to our economy, and he has no proposals. He would rather spend $51 million going through an exercise for several years, when he could spend that and announce that he wanted to spend that on ASIC. But, no, he wanted the stunt. He is the stunt master. Small Business, Transport Industry 30 14:34 Mr WHITELEY 207800 Braddon Game, set and match. My question is to the Minister for Small Business and Assistant Treasurer. Will the Assistant Treasurer outline how the government is supporting small businesses, including owner-driver and small trucking businesses, particularly in the hardworking electorate of Braddon? Mr Mitchell interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for McEwen has been warned. I have warned the member for McEwen twice. He will leave under 94(a). The member for McEwen then left the chamber. 14:34 Ms O'DWYER LKU Higgins I would like to very much thank the member for Braddon. The member for Braddon, of course, works hard each and every day on behalf of the more than 6,500 small businesses in his community, many of which are owner-drivers in the trucking industry. I am very proud to stand here today and announce that we had a big win in the parliament yesterday on behalf of small business. We had a big win because this parliament abolished the RSRT, which is the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal— Mr Conroy interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Charlton! Ms O'DWYER LKU a tribunal that was set up at the behest of the Transport Workers Union and at the behest of Bill Shorten— Mr Conroy interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Charlton is warned! Ms O'DWYER LKU who was then the minister responsible for this particular piece of legislation. Ms MacTiernan interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Perth! Ms O'DWYER LKU This tribunal was really set up with one purpose only, and that was to drive small business owner-operators out of business. It was to drive them out of business, tens of thousands of them out of business, and we saw that with the very first payment order. The first payment order declared that owner-operators would have to be paid a certain amount. It did not apply to anybody else in the industry, only to owner-drivers. The implications are very severe. Ms MacTiernan interjecting— Mr Conroy interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Perth is warned. The member for Charlton is persistently interjecting. He has been warned. He will now remove himself under 94(a). The member for Charlton then left the chamber. Ms O'DWYER LKU The implications are very severe. I will quote from Nicole Leape and her partner, Richard Jenkins, both of whom are owner-drivers, who said about the payment order: If it goes through, it will affect me and my family … We've got a huge chance we'd end up bankrupt. We're a family with four children, we don't need to be uprooting all of that. We just want fair rates. And they are absolutely right. I do not expect those opposite to understand, and I do not expect the shadow minister for small business to understand, because, quite frankly, when they conduct small business forums, where do you think they conduct those forums? They conduct those forums at the headquarters of the Transport Workers Union in Sydney. Ms Rowland 159771 And truckies come! The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Greenway is warned. Ms O'DWYER LKU People on the other side do not understand the needs of small business. We not only understand the needs of small business but we are prepared to fight for small business. We understand that they are at the heart of the Australian economy. They are the people who are taking risks, who are employing more than 4.7 million Australians and who are contributing more than $340 billion to our economy. We are making sure that we not only fight for small business but create the right framework for small business—an economic framework that gives them a cut to the company tax rate of 1.5 per cent, a discount for those that are unincorporated entities. We are allowing them to invest in their businesses with the instant asset write-off and we are allowing them to make sure that they are not paying capital gains tax when they readjust the order of their small business, because we care for small business. Those opposite do not. Mr Stephen Jones interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Greenway was warned during that answer. The member for Throsby will not interject when I am addressing the chamber. The member for Greenway should be aware she has been warned. I call the member for Adelaide. Education Funding 31 14:38 Ms KATE ELLIS DZU Adelaide My question is to the Prime Minister. Given that it is the chaotic first day of the Prime Minister's marathon election campaign, we believe that Australians have a right to know— Mr Fletcher interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Adelaide will resume her seat for a second. The Minister for Major Projects, Territories and Local Government will cease interjecting. Though he is a long way from me I cannot hear the question from here. He will cease interjecting. Ms Burke interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Chisholm will cease interjecting. I would like the member for Adelaide to resume her question again. Mr Dutton interjecting— Mr Stephen Jones interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The Minister for Immigration and Border Protection will cease interjecting. The member for Throsby is delaying the member for Adelaide. The member for Adelaide will start her question again. The clock will start again. Ms KATE ELLIS DZU Thank you, Mr Speaker. My question is to the Prime Minister. Given that today is the chaotic first day of the Prime Minister's marathon election campaign, Australians have a right to know: why did the Prime Minister suggest that every single dollar of Commonwealth funding for Australian public schools should be cut? 14:39 Mr TURNBULL 885 Wentworth Neither the substance of the question nor the premise has any basis in fact. As for the first day of the second session of the 44th Parliament, I think it was remarkably efficient. The Senate concluded its vote on two items, rejecting one, the ABCC bill, and then abolishing the RSRT. It was a very efficient day's work from the Senate's point of view, and I have to say that the decision to recall the parliament on 18 April has proved to be one that has been met with enormous efficiency and dispatch. Mr Dutton interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The Minister for Immigration and Border Protection will cease interjecting. Building and Construction Industry 31 14:40 Mrs SUDMALIS 241586 Gilmore My question is to the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, representing the Minister for Employment. Will the minister update the House on why restoring the Australian Building and Construction Commission is essential to the creation of more jobs for Australians? What action is the government taking to restore the rule of law to the building and construction sector? 14:41 Mr PYNE 9V5 Sturt Last night we saw the Labor Party again standing up for the CFMEU against small business—against mums and dads and individuals in Australia. The Senate last night rejected the Australian Building and Construction Commission bills put up to it by the House of Representatives—not for the first time. In doing so, it set up industrial relations, support for business, support for freedom and support for the rule of law on construction sites as major and central election issues. We are looking forward to fighting an election around the Labor Party's support for the CFMEU, the TWU and the rogues in the union movement. We are looking forward to fighting an election where we are on the side of the rule of law and on the side of the royal commission headed by Dyson Heydon, which found that the CFMEU was a malignancy in the building and construction industry. The building and construction industry, productivity in it, jobs and growth will be central issues at the coming election, whenever that might be held. Opposition members interjecting— Mr PYNE 9V5 On 2 July! I think we now know that for sure, Mr Speaker—subject to His Excellency's approval. The Independent Economics report in 2013 found that when the ABCC existed productivity in the building and construction industry improved by nine per cent. It found that consumers were better off to the tune of $7½ billion a year when the ABCC existed and that industrial disputes in building and construction fell under the ABCC, when the ABCC was a tough cop on the beat. All that changed when the Leader of the Opposition bowed to the demands of the CFMEU, did the bidding of the CFMEU, in abolishing the ABCC. It was not just the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal for the TWU; he went through the whole gamut. He gave the CFMEU what they wanted. He did it because he needed their support to win the leadership of the Labor Party. Let's be clear: the Labor Party has received $12 million in donations from the CFMEU since the year 2000. On this side of the House we are in favour of jobs and growth in the building and construction industry. One way to bring that about is to bring back the ABCC, for which we had a mandate at the last election. We took that to the people. They voted for it. The Senate obstructed that yesterday. They are an obstructionist Senate, not a house of review. Far from 'keeping the bastards honest', as Don Chipp once said was the purpose of the Senate, the Senate is now working to stop the government implementing the policies that it took to the election. Shame on the opposition! You will pay at the ballot box. (Time expired) Medicare 32 14:44 Ms KING 00AMR Ballarat Mr Speaker, my question is to the Prime Minister. Given it is the first chaotic day of the Prime Minister's marathon election campaign, Australians want to know: will the Prime Minister abandon his cuts to pathology that will make it more expensive for Australians suffering from cancer to get blood tests? 14:45 Mr TURNBULL 885 Wentworth If every day between now and the election can be as successful as yesterday, it will be a very, very good time up to the election. There is something distinctly Orwellian about the Labor Party's line that somehow or another everything is going very well when their Transport Workers Union's Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal, which at the Labor Party's instruction had— Mr Ewen Jones interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Herbert will cease interjecting, and he will cease blaming the member for Braddon! The member for Ballarat on a point of order? Ms King 00AMR Thank you, Mr Speaker. It was a very serious question about cancer patients and the pathology cuts that are in your budget—a serious question! The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Ballarat will resume her seat. The member for Ballarat, in seeking the call for a point of order, must state the point of order, not give a speech. Prime Minister, have you concluded your answer? Mr TURNBULL 885 Mr Speaker, I invite the Minister for Health to complete the answer. 14:46 Ms LEY 00AMN Farrer It is a delight to take a question from the opposition. It does not have one single health policy. I thought health was important to the Labor Party, but it does not have one single health policy. The Leader of the Opposition is skipping around the country visiting the laboratories of a listed multinational company, whose profit has increased 500 per cent since 2000, while also claiming to protect the vulnerable. My question back to the Leader of the Opposition, and back to the shadow minister for health, is: can they reassure the patients of Australia that the Medicare rebate for every single pathology item remains unchanged, and, indeed, under review with the MBS task force? Mr Dreyfus HWG Are you going to cut pathology tests or not? The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Isaacs has been warned on a number of occasions. He will leave under 94(a). The member for Isaacs then left the chamber. Ms LEY 00AMN What we have said is that the bulk-billing incentive of between $1 and $3 per test, introduced by Labor to raise the rate of bulk-billing, which did not raise the rate of bulk-billing at all— Ms King interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Ballarat is now warned! Ms LEY 00AMN will be removed as a save. And if those listed multinational pathology companies want to claim that that will cause $30 in additional costs per test, and the Leader of the Opposition wants to believe them, then shame on him. This is a Labor Party with not one single health policy, but I remind members opposite that the sensible save that the government made in MYEFO last year allowed us to make the biggest ever listing on the PBS, which was $1 billion worth of medicines to treat hepatitis C—$1 billion worth of medicines to cure hep C within a generation. We are the only jurisdiction in the world to do that. We are a government that is running budget deficits, not budget surpluses, thanks to the mess that was left us by the Labor Party. So in taking a rational, sensible, serious approach, it made sense to remove a small bulk-billing incentive, not the Medicare rebate, and to invest in the future health of the nation. Building and Construction Industry 33 14:48 Mr HUTCHINSON 212585 Lyons Mr Speaker, my question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer advise the House of the importance of investment and enterprise to our transitioning economy? How important is investment confidence and lower costs in our building and construction industry to drive economic growth and create more jobs? 14:49 Mr MORRISON E3L Cook I thank the member for Lyons for his question. Like the other Tasmanians here, he is incredibly energised by the strong growth we are seeing coming out of Tasmania—particularly the growth that has been supported by the trade agreements that have been put in place, which are providing real growth and real opportunities. Mr Turnbull 885 And that Labor opposed. Mr MORRISON E3L The Prime Minister reminds me: those agreements were opposed by the Labor Party for so long. What we have now are Tasmanian members who are seeing what is happening with jobs and growth in their own state. Our economy is successfully transitioning because of the hard work of those Australians and those Australian businesses that are out there making it happen every single day. That is being reflected again and again in what we are seeing in the confidence and other surveys that are coming forward. The NAB business confidence survey showed that last month it was up three points, conditions were up four points. That is the highest level since 2008. We are seeing that confidence—it was represented again today in the ANZ consumer confidence survey, which showed that consumer confidence was up 10 per cent since last September, and up 23 per cent when they were asked about economic conditions over the next 12 months. So despite the many challenges that we have, people are looking forward and they can see the opportunities. But they know there needs to be a clear plan that ensures we do not take this transition for granted and we back them in with what they are doing in the economy to make this transition a success. One of the most important things we have to do, and why this parliament was recalled for these votes, is to deal with the issue of the Australian Building and Construction Commission. This issue is about economic productivity. It is about growth and jobs. It is about supporting investment in the construction industry that employs more than one million Australians in around 100,000 businesses. Now while they see the ABCC as an opportunity to defend unions—not union workers, but unions—not the workers that unions are supposed to represent, but just for them representing the unions and supporting the unions' position—the reason we want to see the ABCC brought back is not just because it has been recommended by two royal commissions, but because it is also important to ensure greater productivity in our economy by removing the lawlessness that we have seen in the building and construction industry. Around two out of every three working days is lost to industrial disputes in the construction industry. With an ABCC building code, infrastructure could be built up to 30 per cent more cheaply than without it. Prior to the creation of the ABCC, the average number of working days lost to industrial disputes in the construction industry was a huge five times the rate of other industries. Once the ABCC was established, that rate fell to just twice the rate of other industries. After the abolition of the ABCC, the rate unfortunately rose again and now sits at four times the rate of other industries. The ABCC was started to bring down costs, and would have achieved a reduction of at least 25 per cent. (Time expired) Taxation 33 14:52 Mr BOWEN DZS McMahon My question is to the Prime Minister. Why did the Prime Minister propose that states be allowed to levy their own income taxes? 14:52 Mr TURNBULL 885 Wentworth What we have seen in recent times is state governments urging the federal government to raise the GST and to raise income tax and to give the proceeds to the states to spend. We had a very good and revealing moment of clarity at COAG when I invited the states to consider taking responsibility for raising some taxes themselves, and they did not want to do that. They did not want to raise tax. That is great, because we do not want to raise income tax and neither do they. That means that the only people who want to raise income tax in this chamber are the opposition—the Shadow Treasurer and the Leader of the Opposition. Shipbuilding 34 14:53 Mr HASTIE 260805 Canning My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs representing the Minister for Defence. Will the minister advise the House how the government's continuous naval shipbuilding plan is supporting Australia's shipbuilding industry? 14:53 Ms JULIE BISHOP 83P Curtin I thank the member for Canning for his question and I acknowledge his deep interest and concern as a former serving member of our Defence forces in a local defence industry in Australia. The government's announcement yesterday of a $40 billion investment in a continuous shipbuilding program means that not only does our navy have the capability to deal with future security challenges, but we are also securing local jobs. This continuous shipbuilding program will now secure about 2½ thousand jobs that were at risk under Labor because, as the House now knows, Labor did not commission one new ship—not one new vessel from one Australian shipyard, zero—in its entire six years in office. Indeed, 10 per cent of the workforce in Australia's shipyards lost their jobs because of Labor's inability and incompetence in managing shipbuilding or, indeed, Defence contracts. Austal Ships in Western Australia has been selected as the preferred tenderer for 21 Pacific patrol boats. Austal Ships is a great example of advanced and innovative manufacturing in this country. It has designed and built about 225 ships, has exported to about 44 countries and is currently the prime contractor for two continuous shipbuilding programs in the United States for the United States Navy. Now, under this government, we have a local continuous shipbuilding program for Australian industry. Premier Barnett welcomed the 130 jobs that will be secured at Henderson under the government's announcement, but the benefits will flow beyond Western Australia. We know that Austal plans to sustain and support those ships at facilities in Cairns over the life of the project and, indeed, the up to 12 offshore patrol vessels we announced yesterday that will be built in Adelaide and Western Australia will also be housed and maintained in Cairns. This means an additional $800 million investment in Cairns in shipbuilding facilities in northern Queensland. What we saw yesterday was an example where the Australian public can compare and contrast our approach to defence and local industry, and Labor's. While our defence minister, Senator Marise Payne, was announcing the $40 billion investment continuous shipbuilding program, support for local jobs and support for defence capability, the Leader of the Opposition's pick for defence minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, was personally attacking one of the most decorated and distinguished soldiers in Australia's history. His personal attack on Sir Peter Cosgrove follows his attack on General Campbell. He is a disgrace, and the Leader of the Opposition has chosen him to be their defence minister. (Time expired) Turnbull Government 34 14:56 Mr SHORTEN 00ATG Maribyrnong My question is to the Prime Minister. In the last seven months the Prime Minister has floated ideas on cutting every dollar of Commonwealth funding to public schools, allowing states to levy income taxes and increasing the cost of everything with a 15 per cent GST. How can Australians trust anything this Prime Minister says from one day to the next? 14:57 Mr TURNBULL 885 Wentworth I am glad the honourable member has asked me about trust, because that is what this election will be all about. Who do you trust to ensure Australia continues successfully to transition from an economy fired up by a mining-construction boom to one that is more diverse, more innovative, more productive, more open to the world to an economy that will drive jobs and growth to ensure that our children and grandchildren have the great jobs they deserve? Australians know that they can trust the coalition because we have a track record to prove it. We are seeing strong jobs growth—300,000 last year and 26,000 last month—strong GDP growth, and business confidence is up. When you look at the Labor Party you do not have to judge them solely on their policies; look at what they actually did! Look at the RSRT: that was in the course of destroying tens of thousands of jobs—tens of thousands of owner-drivers put out of work, their trucks idle, their mortgages unpaid, their homes at risk because they could not meet their mortgage payments, and that was done deliberately by the Labor Party. It was yet another job-destroying policy from the Labor Party. Then you go through the rest of their list. We are promoting investment; we are providing incentives for people to invest in new businesses, in start-up companies; we are providing incentives for innovation. What is the Labor Party doing? It is jacking up the tax on investments by 50 per cent and capital gains tax up by 50 per cent. We all know that if you want to have less of something, then you increase the tax on it. So what does Labor want less of? It wants less investment, and if you have less investment you will have less jobs. What about the road to entrepreneurship? How does it start? Not everybody can get a cushy job with a trade union. Some people have to go out and work and borrow some money, and they might buy a truck or they might buy some property; they might buy a farm. The way they are able to finance that is being able to offset the losses against their personal income. That is what negative gearing is. That is the road to entrepreneurship for people who start off in life with their human capital. And what does Labor want to do to that? Put a huge barrier in front of it. Labor wants to stand in the way of investment and entrepreneurship. It wants to crush small business, and its track record is clear. If you doubted it, look at all those owner-drivers who have been protesting here in Canberra at Mr Shorten's bad work. (Time expired) Ms Owens interjecting— The SPEAKER 00APG The member for Parramatta will cease interjecting. I am trying to call the Leader of the Opposition. MOTIONS 35 MOTIONS Prime Minister 35 Attempted Censure 35 15:00 Mr SHORTEN 00ATG Maribyrnong I seek leave to move the following motion: That the House: (1) notes that: (a) the House of Representatives is in the extraordinary position of a Government having called a new session of Parliament only to run out of legislation to debate within 12 hours of the Governor-General opening a new session; (b) this is just more evidence that the Government has absolutely no plan for the future of this country beyond the extreme cuts of the Abbott Government’s 2014 Budget, including its plans for $100,000 university degrees, cuts to family payments, cuts to pensions, cuts to Medicare and cuts to schools and hospitals; (c) large parts of the Government’s Budget have been leaked to media outlets because of the chaos and division at the heart of this Government, with members of the Prime Minister’s backbench actively trying to undermine the Prime Minister; and (d) the Government is colluding with the banks to protect them from a Royal Commission; and (2) censures the Prime Minister for being out of touch and leading a chaotic and divided Government with no positive plan for Australia’s future. Leave not granted. Mr SHORTEN 00ATG I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Maribyrnong from moving the following motion forthwith—That the House: (1) notes that: (a) the House of Representatives is in the extraordinary position of a Government having called a new session of Parliament only to run out of legislation to debate within 12 hours of the Governor-General opening a new session; (b) this is just more evidence that the Government has absolutely no plan for the future of this country beyond the extreme cuts of the Abbott Government’s 2014 Budget, including its plans for $100,000 university degrees, cuts to family payments, cuts to pensions, cuts to Medicare and cuts to schools and hospitals; (c) large parts of the Government’s Budget have been leaked to media outlets because of the chaos and division at the heart of this Government, with members of the Prime Minister’s backbench actively trying to undermine the Prime Minister; and (d) the Government is colluding with the banks to protect them from a Royal Commission; and (2) censures the Prime Minister for being out of touch and leading a chaotic and divided Government with no positive plan for Australia’s future. Who would have thought that Malcolm Turnbull would ever have nothing to say? And that is what is happening— 15:03 Mr PYNE 9V5 Sturt I move: That the Member be no longer heard. The SPEAKER 00APG The question is that the Leader of the Opposition be no longer heard.  

The House divided. [15:07]
(The Speaker—Hon. Tony Smith)

 83 AYES Abbott, AJ Alexander, JG Andrews, KJ Baldwin, RC Billson, BF Bishop, BK Bishop, JI Briggs, JE Broad, AJ Broadbent, RE Brough, MT Buchholz, S Chester, D Christensen, GR Ciobo, SM Cobb, JK Coleman, DB Coulton, M (teller) Dutton, PC Entsch, WG Fletcher, PW Frydenberg, JA Gambaro, T Gillespie, DA Goodenough, IR Griggs, NL Hartsuyker, L Hastie, AW Hawke, AG Henderson, SM Hendy, PW Hogan, KJ Howarth, LR Hunt, GA Hutchinson, ER Irons, SJ Jones, ET Joyce, BT Keenan, M Kelly, C Laming, A Landry, ML Laundy, C Ley, SP Macfarlane, IE Marino, NB Markus, LE Matheson, RG McCormack, MF McNamara, KJ Morrison, SJ Nikolic, AA O'Dowd, KD O'Dwyer, KM Pitt, KJ Porter, CC Prentice, J Price, ML Pyne, CM Ramsey, RE Robb, AJ Robert, SR Scott, BC Scott, FM Simpkins, LXL Southcott, AJ Stone, SN Sudmalis, AE Sukkar, MS Taylor, AJ Tehan, DT Truss, WE Tudge, AE Turnbull, MB Van Manen, AJ Varvaris, N Vasta, RX Whiteley, BD (teller) Wicks, LE Williams, MP Wilson, RJ Wood, JP Zimmerman, T 52 NOES Albanese, AN Bandt, AP Bird, SL Bowen, CE Brodtmann, G Burke, AE Burke, AS Butler, MC Butler, TM Chalmers, JE Champion, ND Chesters, LM Clare, JD Claydon, SC Collins, JM Danby, M Elliot, MJ Ellis, KM Feeney, D Ferguson, LDT Fitzgibbon, JA Giles, AJ Gray, G Griffin, AP Hall, JG (teller) Hayes, CP Husic, EN Jones, SP King, CF Leigh, AK Macklin, JL MacTiernan, AJGC Marles, RD Neumann, SK O'Connor, BPJ O'Neil, CE Owens, J Parke, M Perrett, GD Plibersek, TJ Ripoll, BF Rishworth, AL Rowland, MA Ryan, JC (teller) Shorten, WR Snowdon, WE Thistlethwaite, MJ Thomson, KJ Vamvakinou, M Watts, TG Wilkie, AD Zappia, A 0 PAIRS

Question agreed to.

 15:11 The SPEAKER 00APG Is the motion seconded? 15:11 Mr BURKE DYW Watson We should not be too mean to the Prime Minister. After all, he has not done anything. The SPEAKER 00APG The Manager of Opposition Business needs to second— Mr BURKE DYW He has not done a thing—no legislation, no policy— The SPEAKER 00APG The Manager of Opposition Business will resume his seat. 15:11 Mr PYNE 9V5 Sturt I move: That the member be no longer heard. The SPEAKER 00APG The question is that the Manager of Opposition Business be no longer heard.  

The House divided. [15:12]
(The Speaker—Hon. Tony Smith)

 83 AYES Abbott, AJ Alexander, JG Andrews, KJ Baldwin, RC Billson, BF Bishop, BK Bishop, JI Briggs, JE Broad, AJ Broadbent, RE Brough, MT Buchholz, S Chester, D Christensen, GR Ciobo, SM Cobb, JK Coleman, DB Coulton, M (teller) Dutton, PC Entsch, WG Fletcher, PW Frydenberg, JA Gambaro, T Gillespie, DA Goodenough, IR Griggs, NL Hartsuyker, L Hastie, AW Hawke, AG Henderson, SM Hendy, PW Hogan, KJ Howarth, LR Hunt, GA Hutchinson, ER Irons, SJ Jones, ET Joyce, BT Keenan, M Kelly, C Laming, A Landry, ML Laundy, C Ley, SP Macfarlane, IE Marino, NB Markus, LE Matheson, RG McCormack, MF McNamara, KJ Morrison, SJ Nikolic, AA O'Dowd, KD O'Dwyer, KM Pitt, KJ Porter, CC Prentice, J Price, ML Pyne, CM Ramsey, RE Robb, AJ Robert, SR Scott, BC Scott, FM Simpkins, LXL Southcott, AJ Stone, SN Sudmalis, AE Sukkar, MS Taylor, AJ Tehan, DT Truss, WE Tudge, AE Turnbull, MB Van Manen, AJ Varvaris, N Vasta, RX Whiteley, BD (teller) Wicks, LE Williams, MP Wilson, RJ Wood, JP Zimmerman, T 52 NOES Albanese, AN Bandt, AP Bird, SL Bowen, CE Brodtmann, G Burke, AE Burke, AS Butler, MC Butler, TM Chalmers, JE Champion, ND Chesters, LM Clare, JD Claydon, SC Collins, JM Danby, M Elliot, MJ Ellis, KM Feeney, D Ferguson, LDT Fitzgibbon, JA Giles, AJ Gray, G Griffin, AP Hall, JG (teller) Hayes, CP Husic, EN Jones, SP King, CF Leigh, AK Macklin, JL MacTiernan, AJGC Marles, RD Neumann, SK O'Connor, BPJ O'Neil, CE Owens, J Parke, M Perrett, GD Plibersek, TJ Ripoll, BF Rishworth, AL Rowland, MA Ryan, JC (teller) Shorten, WR Snowdon, WE Thistlethwaite, MJ Thomson, KJ Vamvakinou, M Watts, TG Wilkie, AD Zappia, A 0 PAIRS

Question agreed to.

15:15 The SPEAKER 00APG The question is that the motion moved by the Leader of the Opposition be agreed to.

The House divided. [15:15]
(The Speaker—Hon. Tony Smith)

 52 AYES Albanese, AN Bandt, AP Bird, SL Bowen, CE Brodtmann, G Burke, AE Burke, AS Butler, MC Butler, TM Chalmers, JE Champion, ND Chesters, LM Clare, JD Claydon, SC Collins, JM Danby, M Elliot, MJ Ellis, KM Feeney, D Ferguson, LDT Fitzgibbon, JA Giles, AJ Gray, G Griffin, AP Hall, JG (teller) Hayes, CP Husic, EN Jones, SP King, CF Leigh, AK Macklin, JL MacTiernan, AJGC Marles, RD Neumann, SK O'Connor, BPJ O'Neil, CE Owens, J Parke, M Perrett, GD Plibersek, TJ Ripoll, BF Rishworth, AL Rowland, MA Ryan, JC (teller) Shorten, WR Snowdon, WE Thistlethwaite, MJ Thomson, KJ Vamvakinou, M Watts, TG Wilkie, AD Zappia, A 83 NOES Abbott, AJ Alexander, JG Andrews, KJ Baldwin, RC Billson, BF Bishop, BK Bishop, JI Briggs, JE Broad, AJ Broadbent, RE Brough, MT Buchholz, S Chester, D Christensen, GR Ciobo, SM Cobb, JK Coleman, DB Coulton, M (teller) Dutton, PC Entsch, WG Fletcher, PW Frydenberg, JA Gambaro, T Gillespie, DA Goodenough, IR Griggs, NL Hartsuyker, L Hastie, AW Hawke, AG Henderson, SM Hendy, PW Hogan, KJ Howarth, LR Hunt, GA Hutchinson, ER Irons, SJ Jones, ET Joyce, BT Keenan, M Kelly, C Laming, A Landry, ML Laundy, C Ley, SP Macfarlane, IE Marino, NB Markus, LE Matheson, RG McCormack, MF McNamara, KJ Morrison, SJ Nikolic, AA O'Dowd, KD O'Dwyer, KM Pitt, KJ Porter, CC Prentice, J Price, ML Pyne, CM Ramsey, RE Robb, AJ Robert, SR Scott, BC Scott, FM Simpkins, LXL Southcott, AJ Stone, SN Sudmalis, AE Sukkar, MS Taylor, AJ Tehan, DT Truss, WE Tudge, AE Turnbull, MB Van Manen, AJ Varvaris, N Vasta, RX Whiteley, BD (teller) Wicks, LE Williams, MP Wilson, RJ Wood, JP Zimmerman, T 0 PAIRS

Question negatived.

15:17 Mr TURNBULL 885 Wentworth I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper. DOCUMENTS 39 DOCUMENTS Presentation 39 15:17 Mr PYNE 9V5 Sturt A document is presented as listed in the schedule circulated to honourable members. Details of the document will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings. MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE 40 MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE Turnbull Government 40 15:17 The SPEAKER 00APG I have received a letter from the honourable Deputy Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The division and disarray of the Government putting Australia's future at risk. I call upon those members who approve of the proposed discussion to rise in their places. More than the number of members required by the standing orders having risen in their places— 15:17 Ms PLIBERSEK 83M Sydney Thank you so much, Mr Speaker, for giving me the call— 15:17 Mr PYNE 9V5 Sturt I move: That the business of the day be called on.   15:22 The SPEAKER 00APG The question is that motion moved by the Leader of the House be agreed to.

The House divided. [15:22]
(The Speaker—Hon. Tony Smith)

 82 AYES Abbott, AJ Alexander, JG Andrews, KJ Baldwin, RC Billson, BF Bishop, BK Bishop, JI Briggs, JE Broad, AJ Broadbent, RE Brough, MT Buchholz, S Chester, D Christensen, GR Ciobo, SM Cobb, JK Coleman, DB Coulton, M (teller) Dutton, PC Entsch, WG Fletcher, PW Frydenberg, JA Gambaro, T Gillespie, DA Goodenough, IR Griggs, NL Hartsuyker, L Hastie, AW Hawke, AG Henderson, SM Hendy, PW Hogan, KJ Howarth, LR Hunt, GA Hutchinson, ER Irons, SJ Jones, ET Joyce, BT Keenan, M Kelly, C Laming, A Landry, ML Laundy, C Ley, SP Macfarlane, IE Marino, NB Markus, LE Matheson, RG McCormack, MF McNamara, KJ Morrison, SJ Nikolic, AA O'Dowd, KD O'Dwyer, KM Pitt, KJ Porter, CC Prentice, J Price, ML Pyne, CM Ramsey, RE Robb, AJ Robert, SR Scott, BC Scott, FM Simpkins, LXL Southcott, AJ Stone, SN Sudmalis, AE Sukkar, MS Taylor, AJ Tehan, DT Truss, WE Tudge, AE Van Manen, AJ Varvaris, N Vasta, RX Whiteley, BD (teller) Wicks, LE Williams, MP Wilson, RJ Wood, JP Zimmerman, T 51 NOES Albanese, AN Bandt, AP Bird, SL Bowen, CE Brodtmann, G Burke, AE Burke, AS Butler, MC Butler, TM Chalmers, JE Champion, ND Chesters, LM Clare, JD Claydon, SC Collins, JM Danby, M Elliot, MJ Ellis, KM Feeney, D Ferguson, LDT Fitzgibbon, JA Giles, AJ Gray, G Griffin, AP Hall, JG (teller) Hayes, CP Husic, EN Jones, SP King, CF Leigh, AK Macklin, JL MacTiernan, AJGC Marles, RD Neumann, SK O'Connor, BPJ O'Neil, CE Owens, J Parke, M Perrett, GD Plibersek, TJ Ripoll, BF Rishworth, AL Rowland, MA Ryan, JC (teller) Snowdon, WE Thistlethwaite, MJ Thomson, KJ Vamvakinou, M Watts, TG Wilkie, AD Zappia, A 0 PAIRS

Question agreed to.

 15:26 The SPEAKER 00APG In accordance with standing order 133(c), I shall now proceed to put the question on the motion moved earlier today by the Leader of the Opposition, on which a division was called for and deferred in accordance with the standing order. No further debate is allowed. The question is that the motion be agreed to.

The House divided. [15:28]
(The Speaker—Hon. Tony Smith)

51 AYES Albanese, AN Bandt, AP Bird, SL Bowen, CE Brodtmann, G Burke, AE Burke, AS Butler, MC Butler, TM Chalmers, JE Champion, ND Chesters, LM Clare, JD Claydon, SC Collins, JM Danby, M Elliot, MJ Ellis, KM Feeney, D Ferguson, LDT Fitzgibbon, JA Giles, AJ Gray, G Griffin, AP Hall, JG (teller) Hayes, CP Husic, EN Jones, SP King, CF Leigh, AK Macklin, JL MacTiernan, AJGC Marles, RD Neumann, SK O'Connor, BPJ O'Neil, CE Owens, J Parke, M Perrett, GD Plibersek, TJ Ripoll, BF Rishworth, AL Rowland, MA Ryan, JC (teller) Snowdon, WE Thistlethwaite, MJ Thomson, KJ Vamvakinou, M Watts, TG Wilkie, AD Zappia, A 82 NOES Abbott, AJ Alexander, JG Andrews, KJ Baldwin, RC Billson, BF Bishop, BK Bishop, JI Briggs, JE Broad, AJ Broadbent, RE Brough, MT Buchholz, S Chester, D Christensen, GR Ciobo, SM Cobb, JK Coleman, DB Coulton, M (teller) Dutton, PC Entsch, WG Fletcher, PW Frydenberg, JA Gambaro, T Gillespie, DA Goodenough, IR Griggs, NL Hartsuyker, L Hastie, AW Hawke, AG Henderson, SM Hendy, PW Hogan, KJ Howarth, LR Hunt, GA Hutchinson, ER Irons, SJ Jones, ET Joyce, BT Keenan, M Kelly, C Laming, A Landry, ML Laundy, C Ley, SP Macfarlane, IE Marino, NB Markus, LE Matheson, RG McCormack, MF McNamara, KJ Morrison, SJ Nikolic, AA O'Dowd, KD O'Dwyer, KM Pitt, KJ Porter, CC Prentice, J Price, ML Pyne, CM Ramsey, RE Robb, AJ Robert, SR Scott, BC Scott, FM Simpkins, LXL Southcott, AJ Stone, SN Sudmalis, AE Sukkar, MS Taylor, AJ Tehan, DT Truss, WE Tudge, AE Van Manen, AJ Varvaris, N Vasta, RX Whiteley, BD (teller) Wicks, LE Williams, MP Wilson, RJ Wood, JP Zimmerman, T 0 PAIRS

Question negatived.

15:30 The SPEAKER 00APG In accordance with standing order 133(c), I shall now proceed to put the question on the motion moved earlier today by the honourable member for Grayndler, on which a division was called for and deferred in accordance with the standing order. No further debate is allowed. The question is that the motion moved by the member for Grayndler be agreed to.

The House divided. [15:32]
(The Speaker—Hon. Tony Smith)

 51 AYES Albanese, AN Bandt, AP Bird, SL Bowen, CE Brodtmann, G Burke, AE Burke, AS Butler, MC Butler, TM Chalmers, JE Champion, ND Chesters, LM Clare, JD Claydon, SC Collins, JM Danby, M Elliot, MJ Ellis, KM Feeney, D Ferguson, LDT Fitzgibbon, JA Giles, AJ Gray, G Griffin, AP Hall, JG (teller) Hayes, CP Husic, EN Jones, SP King, CF Leigh, AK Macklin, JL MacTiernan, AJGC Marles, RD Neumann, SK O'Connor, BPJ O'Neil, CE Owens, J Parke, M Perrett, GD Plibersek, TJ Ripoll, BF Rishworth, AL Rowland, MA Ryan, JC (teller) Snowdon, WE Thistlethwaite, MJ Thomson, KJ Vamvakinou, M Watts, TG Wilkie, AD Zappia, A 82 NOES Abbott, AJ Alexander, JG Andrews, KJ Baldwin, RC Billson, BF Bishop, BK Bishop, JI Briggs, JE Broad, AJ Broadbent, RE Brough, MT Buchholz, S Chester, D Christensen, GR Ciobo, SM Cobb, JK Coleman, DB Coulton, M (teller) Dutton, PC Entsch, WG Fletcher, PW Frydenberg, JA Gambaro, T Gillespie, DA Goodenough, IR Griggs, NL Hartsuyker, L Hastie, AW Hawke, AG Henderson, SM Hendy, PW Hogan, KJ Howarth, LR Hunt, GA Hutchinson, ER Irons, SJ Jones, ET Joyce, BT Keenan, M Kelly, C Laming, A Landry, ML Laundy, C Ley, SP Macfarlane, IE Marino, NB Markus, LE Matheson, RG McCormack, MF McNamara, KJ Morrison, SJ Nikolic, AA O'Dowd, KD O'Dwyer, KM Pitt, KJ Porter, CC Prentice, J Price, ML Pyne, CM Ramsey, RE Robb, AJ Robert, SR Scott, BC Scott, FM Simpkins, LXL Southcott, AJ Stone, SN Sudmalis, AE Sukkar, MS Taylor, AJ Tehan, DT Truss, WE Tudge, AE Van Manen, AJ Varvaris, N Vasta, RX Whiteley, BD (teller) Wicks, LE Williams, MP Wilson, RJ Wood, JP Zimmerman, T 0 PAIRS

Question negatived.

ADJOURNMENT 44 ADJOURNMENT 15:33 Mr PYNE 9V5 Sturt I move: That the House do now adjourn. Question agreed to. House adjourned at 15:33