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 Tuesday, 16 October 2007 SPEAKER’S STATEMENTS .......................................................................................................................................................... 3517 Appointment—Reappointment of Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Commissioner ................................................... 3517 Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Queensland Branch ....................................................................................... 3517 SPEAKER’S RULING ..................................................................................................................................................................... 3517 Privilege, Explanatory Notes .............................................................................................................................................. 3517 MOTION .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 3518 Criminal Code (Assaults Against Police and Others) Amendment Bill, Explanatory Notes ............................................... 3518 TABLED PAPERS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 3518 MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS ........................................................................................................................................................ 3519 Gas Rebate ........................................................................................................................................................................ 3519 Water Management ............................................................................................................................................................ 3519 Schoolies Week .................................................................................................................................................................. 3520 Bravehearts ........................................................................................................................................................................ 3521 Central Queensland Gas Pipeline ...................................................................................................................................... 3521 Queensland Economy ........................................................................................................................................................ 3522 Queensland Waste Strategy .............................................................................................................................................. 3522 Tabled paper: Document, dated October 2007, by the Environmental Protection Agency, titled ‘Let’s Not Waste our Future—Queensland Waste Strategy—Discussion Paper for Public Comment’. ................................. 3522 Water Smart Buildings ........................................................................................................................................................ 3523 Seat Belts on School Buses ............................................................................................................................................... 3523 Play by the Rules Ad Campaign ......................................................................................................................................... 3524 Tarong Energy Corporation, Meandu-Kunioon .................................................................................................................. 3524 Sustainable Schools ........................................................................................................................................................... 3525 SES Floodboats; Cyclone Summit ..................................................................................................................................... 3525 Drought Assistance ............................................................................................................................................................ 3525 Great Artesian Basin, Bores ............................................................................................................................................... 3526 Yeppoon Western Bypass .................................................................................................................................................. 3526 Wine Industry ..................................................................................................................................................................... 3527 Foster and Kinship-Carers ................................................................................................................................................. 3527 Multicultural Festival ........................................................................................................................................................... 3528 Justice McMeekin, Central Judge ...................................................................................................................................... 3528 L J OSMOND N J LAURIE CHIEF HANSARD REPORTER CLERK OF THE PARLIAMENT Table of Contents — Tuesday, 16 October 2007 QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE ...................................................................................................................................................3529 Nuttall, Mr GR .....................................................................................................................................................................3529 Speaker’s Ruling—Questions Concerning Matters Sub Judice ..........................................................................................3529 Prisons, Air Conditioning ....................................................................................................................................................3529 Federal Government, Funding ............................................................................................................................................3530 Goods and Services Tax ....................................................................................................................................................3531 Water Tanks, Tax ...............................................................................................................................................................3531 Water Infrastructure ............................................................................................................................................................3532 Tabled paper: Document, dated 14 March 2007, by Kellogg Brown & Root Pty Ltd titled ‘South East Queensland Regional Water Supply Strategy—Levels of Service—Discussion Paper (draft)’...............................3532 Tabled paper: Copy of a page from the Caloundra City Council web site titled ‘Calaqua’......................................3532 Tabled paper: Media release, dated 30 August 2007, by Steve Dickson MP titled ‘Our dam’s running over—let’s lift restrictions’. ......................................................................................................................................3533 Water Infrastructure ............................................................................................................................................................3533 Nuttall, Mr GR .....................................................................................................................................................................3534 State Schools of Tomorrow ................................................................................................................................................3534 Research Involving Human Embryos and Prohibition of Human Cloning Amendment Bill .................................................3535 Home WaterWise Service ...................................................................................................................................................3535 Smartcard Ticketing System, Newsagents .........................................................................................................................3536 Dangerous Sex Offenders ..................................................................................................................................................3536 Tabled paper: Copy of Commissioner’s Guidelines issued pursuant to section 69(2) of the Child Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2004...............................................................................................................3537 Tabled paper: Copy of a delegation, dated 27 November 2006, made pursuant to Section 69(1)(a) of the Child Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2004, titled ‘Access to the Child Protection Register’ .....................3537 Tabled paper: Copy of a delegation, dated 27 November 2006, made pursuant to Section 69(1)(b) of the Child Protection (Offender Reporting) Act 2004, titled ‘Disclosure of Information in the Child Protection Register’.................................................................................................................................................3537