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ISSN 1322-0330 RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Hansard Home Page: http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/work-of-assembly/hansard Email: [email protected] Phone (07) 3553 6344 Fax (07) 3553 6369 FIRST SESSION OF THE FIFTY-FIFTH PARLIAMENT Tuesday, 8 August 2017 Subject Page ASSENT TO BILL ................................................................................................................................................................1923 Tabled paper: Letter, dated 22 June 2017, from his Excellency the Governor to the Speaker, advising of Assent to a certain bill on 22 June 2017. ........................................................................1923 PRIVILEGE ..........................................................................................................................................................................1923 Register of Members’ Interests .......................................................................................................................1923 SPEAKER’S STATEMENTS ................................................................................................................................................1923 The ‘Eggsembly’ ...............................................................................................................................................1923 Vacancy in Senate of Commonwealth of Australia ........................................................................................1924 Tabled paper: Letter, dated 20 July 2017, from his Excellency the Governor to the Speaker, Hon. Peter Wellington, advising of a vacancy in the Senate and attaching a letter, dated 19 July 2017, from the President of the Senate to His Excellency the Governor regarding the vacancy in the Senate. ..................................................................................................................................1924 SPEAKER’S RULING ..........................................................................................................................................................1924 Answers to Questions on Notice ....................................................................................................................1924 SPEAKER’S STATEMENT ..................................................................................................................................................1925 Integrity Commissioner, Appointment ............................................................................................................1925 APPOINTMENTS .................................................................................................................................................................1926 Changes in Ministry .........................................................................................................................................1926 Tabled paper: Extract from Queensland Government Extraordinary Gazette No. 73, dated 20 July 2017, regarding the acting arrangements for the portfolios of the Minister for Main Roads, Road Safety and Ports and Minister for Energy, Biofuels and Water Supply. ...................................1926 PETITIONS ...........................................................................................................................................................................1926 TABLED PAPERS................................................................................................................................................................1927 MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS ..............................................................................................................................................1934 US Marine Corps, Incident ...............................................................................................................................1934 Queenslanders, Achievements; Buy Queensland..........................................................................................1934 PW WELLINGTON NJ LAURIE LJ OSMOND SPEAKER CLERK OF THE PARLIAMENT CHIEF HANSARD REPORTER Table of Contents – Tuesday, 8 August 2017 Jobs.................................................................................................................................................................. 1935 Waste ............................................................................................................................................................... 1935 Fairer Fares ...................................................................................................................................................... 1935 Water Prices .................................................................................................................................................... 1936 State Finances ................................................................................................................................................. 1937 Hospitals, Car Parking .................................................................................................................................... 1937 Playgroup ......................................................................................................................................................... 1938 Tow Truck Industry ......................................................................................................................................... 1938 Vocational Education and Training ................................................................................................................ 1939 Better Budgeting ............................................................................................................................................. 1939 National Disability Insurance Scheme, Taxi Subsidy Scheme ..................................................................... 1940 Accelerate Small Business Grants Program ................................................................................................. 1940 NOTICE OF MOTION .......................................................................................................................................................... 1941 Palaszczuk Labor Government, Policies ....................................................................................................... 1941 PRIVATE MEMBERS’ STATEMENTS ................................................................................................................................. 1941 Palaszczuk Labor Government, Performance ............................................................................................... 1941 Electricity Prices ............................................................................................................................................. 1942 Tabled paper: Graph titled Wholesale electricity price increases 2011-12 to 2014-15. .................... 1943 Tabled paper: Graph titled Wholesale electricity price increases 2014-15 to 2016-17. .................... 1943 Queensland Rail .............................................................................................................................................. 1943 Queensland Rail .............................................................................................................................................. 1944 Tabled paper: DB Engineering & Consulting, Whole of Business Review of Queensland Rail, Report prepared for the Citytrain Response Unit, July 2017. ........................................................... 1944 Tabled paper: Media release, dated 29 January 2014, by the former Treasurer and Minister for Trade, Mr Tim Nicholls MP, and the former Minister for Transport and Main Roads, Mr Scott Emerson MP, regarding contract for 75 new trains in South East Queensland. ............................... 1944 US Marine Corps, Incident; Palaszczuk Labor Government, Performance ................................................. 1944 Tabled paper: Article from the Gold Coast Bulletin, dated 1 August 2017, titled ‘Derailed’. .............. 1944 Tabled paper: Article from the Gold Coast Bulletin, dated 2 August 2017, titled ‘Yay! Labor celebrates as Coast loses’. ............................................................................................................. 1945 Tabled paper: Article from the Gold Coast Bulletin, dated 2 August 2017, titled ‘Palaszczuk scorns own study to kill resort’. ....................................................................................................... 1945 Tabled paper: Article from the Courier Mail, dated 2 August 2017, titled ‘Going for broke’. .............. 1945 Tabled paper: Article from the Gold Coast Bulletin, dated 2 August 2017, titled ‘Patch me if you can’. ......................................................................................................................................... 1945 DISTINGUISHED VISITORS ................................................................................................................................................ 1945 QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE ........................................................................................................................................ 1945 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, Transport ............................................................................................. 1945 Queensland Rail .............................................................................................................................................