Displaying all ' Question Time '
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11:31 pm Dec 9, 2011
Gillard's highwire act gets a bit easier
Julia Gillard has walked a tightrope in trying to hold together minority government since the 2010 election.
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6:25 am Mar 20, 2012
Labor set to appoint Slipper as Speaker
Labor looks set to appoint embattled Liberal MP Peter Slipper to the role of Speaker of the House of Representatives, easing pressure on the Gillard minority government.
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5:18 pm Nov 24, 2011
Harry Jenkins resigns as Speaker
Harry Jenkins has resigned as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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6:17 pm Nov 26, 2011
Parliament of Australia: Question Time (21/11/2011)
THE Greens are threatening to rebel over the mining profits tax after the Government bought the support of an Independent MP. A LIBERAL National Party (LNP) government would double subsidy entitlements for Queenslanders who needed to travel to the city for…
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8:20 pm Dec 5, 2011
Hockey wrong on IMF funding: Swan
Acting Prime Minister Wayne Swan says Joe Hockey is wrong to suggest Australia shirk its longstanding responsibility to provide adequate funding for International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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7:57 pm Nov 13, 2011
Parliament of Australia: Question Time (1/11/2011)
So the second favourite won the Cup and the Reserve Bank cut interest rates by 25 points.
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9:13 pm Oct 13, 2011
Opinion: Rupert Murdoch Declares War On Occupy Wall Street
In what amounts to a declaration of war against Occupy Wall Street, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has launched a misinformation assault on the 99% across multiple parts of his media empire.
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8:54 pm Oct 13, 2011
Federal Parliament Question Time: Malaysia swap deal #QT
Prime Minister Julia Gillard says the Federal Government has no choice but to process all asylum seekers onshore after it failed to get the numbers in Parliament to pass its Malaysian people swap deal.
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7:08 pm Nov 14, 2011
Climate drama takes over parliament
So when does political rhetoric and demonstration cross a line into something dangerously and mindlessly populous?
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2:14 am Dec 8, 2011
Jack Gunston traded from Adelaide to Hawthorn
JACK Gunston has got his wish to become a Hawk as Adelaide and Hawthorn finally sign off on an agonising trade deal.
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8:08 pm Feb 27, 2012
Gillard Government's carbon tax package passes through the House of Representatives
THE Gillard Government has passed the controversial carbon tax package through the House of Representatives.
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10:44 am Oct 12, 2011
I didn't know about dirt campaign: Newman
Queensland's would-be premier Campbell Newman insists he didn't know his own party hired a former Labor staffer to investigate Labor MPs, including their sexual habits.
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10:13 am Oct 3, 2011
Community Cabinet Meeting
The Prime Minister, the Hon Julia Gillard MP, advises there will be a Community Cabinet meeting at Kingston High School, Kingston View Drive, Kingston, Hobart, Tasmania 7051 on Monday 3 October 2011.
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7:13 am Sep 21, 2011
Stamp duty should be removed, says Treasury boss
Treasury boss Martin Parkinson believes real estate stamp duty should be removed or decreased.
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11:26 am Mar 9, 2012
Question Time: Questions continue over refugee policy
A BRISBANE jury has been urged to ignore the raging public debate over asylum seekers while considering the fate of an Indonesian national on trial for people smuggling.
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8:59 am Sep 13, 2011
Government agrees to an inquiry into Australian media
THE Government will proceed with an inquiry into Australian media, but it will not deal with the break up of newspaper groups to increase competition.
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2:37 am Jan 6, 2012
Time for deeds on pollution: PM
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has introduced the government's carbon tax legislation to Parliament saying it is "what is best for Australian families''.
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5:46 am Sep 13, 2011
Abbott coy on Migration Act changes
Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is still refusing to say whether the coalition will back a Labor plan to legalise the offshore processing of asylum seekers."Let's see the legislation," he told ABC Radio, a day after the Gillard government announced.
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9:57 am Sep 12, 2011
Migration changes tricky, says expert
The federal government's plan to amend the law so it can resurrect its controversial Malaysian people swap deal could prove tricky to execute, a law expert has warned.
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10:57 am Sep 12, 2011
Labor Caucus backs offshore processing
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has appealed to the coalition to back migration law changes to put beyond legal doubt offshore processing of asylum seekers and the ability to make deals with other countries.
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10:21 pm Aug 24, 2011
Union refers Thomson allegations to police
The Health Services Union (HSU) has decided to refer allegations involving Federal Labor MP Craig Thomson to police.
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11:21 am Aug 23, 2011
Minister defends Orica leak silence
The New South Wales Environment Minister says the Opposition has been frightening the people of Stockton over two recent chemical leaks at Orica's plant in the Hunter.
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11:46 am Aug 22, 2011
Craig Thomson scandal: who's Grattan's mystery MP?
Radio National Breakfast is essential listening among the Canberra wonkery and so it was again this morning when Michelle Grattan dropped a tasty tit bit that Labor had “dirt” on an unnamed Coalition MP and might pull the trigger if the Craig Thomson allegations gathered any more steam.
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6:45 am Aug 17, 2011
Winter break does nothing for quality of Question Time
Tobacco industry warns against ‘expensive experiment’ NBN Committee visits Broken Hill and Melbourne Federal parliament's National Broadband Network Committee will hold inspections and public hearings in Broken Hill and Melbourne on 27 and 28 July as part of its review of the rollout of the National Broadband Network.
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7:19 am Jul 21, 2011
UK PM Cameron defends Coulson over hacking
Prime Minister David Cameron emphatically denied claims that his staff tried to stop an inquiry into phone hacking and police bribery at the News of the World and defended his decision to hire one of the tabloid's editors as his communications chief.
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8:30 am Jul 6, 2011
Lights, cameras, over-reaction - Question time descends into mayhem
This is a tale of two parliaments.
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10:36 am Jul 6, 2011
Big business backs climate price
A group of more than 50 businesses representing finance, energy, technology and retail have signed a letter supporting a carbon price.
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9:01 pm Oct 20, 2011
Gillard accused of ducking carbon scrutiny
The Opposition has used Question Time to accuse the Government of ducking scrutiny by announcing its carbon pricing plan after Parliament rises for the winter break.
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11:08 am Jul 5, 2011
RBA board leave cash rate at 4.75%
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) left the cash rate steady at 4.75 per cent at its regular monthly board meeting on Tuesday.
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1:36 pm Nov 26, 2011
Abbott to abide by carbon tax vote result
The federal government has been challenged to reveal how the carbon tax will hit heavy transport, buses and boats, as the committee drafting the scheme entered its final days of talks.
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2:07 am Jun 23, 2011
Question Time: The best tweets from Parliament House
Rudd lets 'Bogan Ville' dig pass through to keeper, Katter uses parliament to fight Thurston's cause and Abbott helps pass 'class warfare' family payment cuts.
