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Record of Proceedings PROOF ISSN 1322-0330 RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Hansard Home Page: http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/hansard/ E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (07) 3406 7314 Fax: (07) 3210 0182 Subject FIRST SESSION OF THE FIFTY-SECOND PARLIAMENT Page Thursday, 4 December 2008 PRIVILEGE ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 4143 Director-General, Salary ..................................................................................................................................................... 4143 Referral to Members’ Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee .............................................................................. 4143 REPORT ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 4143 Ombudsman ....................................................................................................................................................................... 4143 Tabled paper: Report of the Queensland Ombudsman—The Q150 contract report: an investigation of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet’s contracting process for the writing of a history of Queensland, December 2008. ..................................................................................................................................................... 4143 SPEAKER’S RULINGS .................................................................................................................................................................. 4143 Tabled Papers, Out of Order .............................................................................................................................................. 4143 Privilege, Comments by Minister for Health ....................................................................................................................... 4144 PETITIONS ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 4144 TABLED PAPERS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 4144 MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS ........................................................................................................................................................ 4145 Right to Information Bill; Information Privacy Bill ................................................................................................................ 4145 Tabled paper: Right to Information—Explanatory Guide: Right to Information Bill 2009, Information Privacy Bill 2009. .................................................................................................................................................... 4145 Tabled paper: Public consultation draft, Right to Information Bill 2009. ................................................................. 4145 Tabled paper: Public consultation draft, Information Privacy Bill 2009................................................................... 4145 Tabled paper: Public consultation draft, Right to Information Regulation 2009...................................................... 4145 Tabled paper: Ministerial statement by the Premier—Right to Information Bill and Information Privacy Bill.......... 4146 Charter of Budget Honesty ................................................................................................................................................. 4146 Queensland 2020 Forum, Government Response ............................................................................................................. 4147 Tabled paper: Document titled ‘Queensland 2020 Ideas to Action—Queensland Government Response’........... 4147 Gilmore, Ms S ..................................................................................................................................................................... 4148 Yungaba, Development Approval ....................................................................................................................................... 4148 Federal Banking Guarantee ............................................................................................................................................... 4149 Queensland Stadiums ........................................................................................................................................................ 4149 M F REYNOLDS N J LAURIE L J OSMOND SPEAKER CLERK OF THE PARLIAMENT CHIEF HANSARD REPORTER Table of Contents — Thursday, 4 December 2008 MindMatters ........................................................................................................................................................................4150 Tabled paper: Media release—Department of Health and Ageing, 30 March 2000, titled ‘Landmark initiative takes mental health into classifications’. ...................................................................................................4150 Go Card ..............................................................................................................................................................................4151 Hendra Virus, Report ..........................................................................................................................................................4151 Tabled paper: Report, dated 2 December 2008, titled ‘AusVet Animal Health Services—Independent review of the Hendra virus cases at Redlands and Proserpine in July and August 2008’. .....................................4151 International Volunteers Day ..............................................................................................................................................4152 Department of Public Works, Achievements .......................................................................................................................4152 SPEAKER’S STATEMENT .............................................................................................................................................................4153 Member for Beaudesert, Hon. KR Lingard ..........................................................................................................................4153 MOTION ..........................................................................................................................................................................................4153 Referral to Legal, Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee ............................................................................4153 PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE ...............................................................................................................................................4153 Report .................................................................................................................................................................................4153 Tabled paper: Public Accounts Committee report No. 81, titled ‘Review of the Auditor-General Report 7 for 2007—Addressing Skills Shortages in Queensland’..........................................................................................4154 MINISTERIAL PAPERS ..................................................................................................................................................................4154 Queensland Closing the Gap Report: 2007/08, Quarterly Report ......................................................................................4154 Tabled paper: Queensland Closing the Gap Report: 2007/08, Indicators and Initiatives for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.................................................................................................................................4154 Tabled paper: Quarterly report on key indicators in Queensland’s discrete Indigenous communities, July-September 2008..............................................................................................................................................4154 INVESTIGATION INTO ALTRUISTIC SURROGACY COMMITTEE ..............................................................................................4154 Report, Motion to Take Note ...............................................................................................................................................4154 QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE ...................................................................................................................................................4155 Queensland Ambulance Service, Response Times ............................................................................................................4155 Tabled paper: Transcript of 000 call by Mrs Silman................................................................................................4155 Indigenous Child Placement Principle Audit Report ...........................................................................................................4156 Tabled paper: Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian: Indigenous Child Placement Principle Audit Report 2008 (133 pages)...............................................................................................................................4156
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