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-THIRD PARLIAMENT Page Wednesday, 24 March 2010 SPEAKER’S STATEMENTS .......................................................................................................................................................... 1025 Unparliamentary Statement ............................................................................................................................................... 1025 First Parliament, Digitisation of Parliamentary Record ....................................................................................................... 1025 PETITION ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 1026 TABLED PAPERS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1026 MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS ........................................................................................................................................................ 1026 People’s Question Time ..................................................................................................................................................... 1026 Cyclone Ului ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1026 Cross River Rail ................................................................................................................................................................. 1027 Tabled paper: Map of Cross River Rail study corridor and project elements. ....................................................... 1028 Telehealth Services ............................................................................................................................................................ 1028 Papua New Guinea, Trade Mission .................................................................................................................................... 1029 Tabled paper: Report on Queensland government trade mission to Papua New Guinea on 16 and 17 March 2010........................................................................................................................................................ 1029 Asbestos Removal, Australasian Technical Services ........................................................................................................ 1030 Public Transport Infrastructure, Cross River Rail ............................................................................................................... 1030 Road Network, Flood Damage ........................................................................................................................................... 1031 Wild Dog Barrier Fence; Mackay-Whitsunday Region, Recovery Assistance .................................................................... 1031 Cape York Welfare Reform Trial ........................................................................................................................................ 1032 Far North Queensland, Infrastructure Planning .................................................................................................................. 1032 Multiculturalism ................................................................................................................................................................... 1033 Indigenous Housing ............................................................................................................................................................ 1033 Napranum Safe House ....................................................................................................................................................... 1034 Smoke Alarms .................................................................................................................................................................... 1034 National Playgroup Week ................................................................................................................................................... 1034 LNG Industry ...................................................................................................................................................................... 1035 Courthouse Building Program ............................................................................................................................................ 1035 Outback Tourism ................................................................................................................................................................ 1036 TRANSPORT AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL; TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (ROAD USE MANAGEMENT—INTERLOCKS) AMENDMENT BILL ................................................................................................................ 1036 Cognate Debate ................................................................................................................................................................. 1036 J MICKEL N J LAURIE L J OSMOND SPEAKER CLERK OF THE PARLIAMENT CHIEF HANSARD REPORTER Table of Contents — Wednesday, 24 March 2010 NOTICE OF MOTION ......................................................................................................................................................................1037 Sale of Public Assets ..........................................................................................................................................................1037 SPEAKER’S STATEMENT .............................................................................................................................................................1037 School Group Tours ............................................................................................................................................................1037 QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE ...................................................................................................................................................1037 Ministerial Correspondence ................................................................................................................................................1037 Tabled paper: Email, dated 22 December 2009, regarding Minister Reeves’s office’s request for change in signatory arrangements for departmental self-generated correspondence.........................................................1037 Ministerial Correspondence ................................................................................................................................................1038 Tabled paper: Letter from the principal adviser to the Treasurer regarding the economic challenges facing Queensland. .................................................................................................................................................1038 Cross River Rail ..................................................................................................................................................................1038 Rail Services .......................................................................................................................................................................1039 LNG Industry .......................................................................................................................................................................1039 Rail Services .......................................................................................................................................................................1040 Regional Hospitals ..............................................................................................................................................................1041 Connecting SEQ 2031 ........................................................................................................................................................1041 Division: Question put—That Mr Seeney’s motion be agreed to. ...........................................................................1042 Resolved in the negative.........................................................................................................................................1042 Tabled paper: Press release from Leader of the Opposition titled ‘Auditor-General blasts Labor’s transport planning’...................................................................................................................................................1043 Homeownership ..................................................................................................................................................................1043 Teacher Registration, Sex Offences ...................................................................................................................................1044 Local Government Reform ..................................................................................................................................................1044 Forestry