Ms Parke (9:54am) – In eleven days time the City of Fremantle will play host to the 2011 International Sailing Federation, ISAF, Sailing World Championships, known as Perth 2011.

Perth 2011 runs from 3 December to 18 December and will see the world's most accomplished sailors compete for a place in the 2012 London Olympic Games. Seventy-five per cent of the national participants who will be competing at the London Olympics will be chosen on the basis of their team's performance throughout the duration of the ISAF event. More than 1,400 sailors and 850 boats from 80 nations will be in attendance, along with tens of thousands of support crew, families, media and spectators.

Ms Parke (11:01pm) — As a member of this federal Labor government, it is with quiet satisfaction that I join my colleagues at the end of a difficult but momentous year of reform in order to support the passage of the minerals resource rent tax legislation. This is a Labor initiative. It is about making this country fairer and stronger. It is about sharing the wealth that should be better shared. It is about ensuring that the development of finite mineral resources is translated into wide and long-term benefits for all Australians, and that those benefits are translated into a stronger, more diversified Australian economy.

Low and middle income households are now guaranteed to receive tax cuts or rises in their payments following today's passage of the government's Clean Energy Future legislation by the Senate.

Federal Member for Fremantle, Melissa Parke, said the additional income would be provided to compensate for the expected modest impact on the price of some goods and services following the introduction of a carbon price on 1 July 2012.

Federal Labor Member for Fremantle, Melissa Parke has revealed that 48,100 local workers and 18,200 small businesses will soon start receiving a fairer share from the mining boom as a result of the Federal Labor Government's Mineral Resource Rent Tax (MRRT).

"I am very much aware that the booming resource sector doesn't benefit everyone, and indeed produces higher costs for many households. That's why the Gillard Government is working to boost the superannuation nest eggs of working people in the Fremantle electorate," Ms Parke said.