Hello Is Mise,
Parliament house Yes - that is the whole idea of this posting.
I am not particularly interested in who put the bill forward if it is a good bill I support it.
The Cenotaph - war is the perfect example - if there was a god there would be no wars. A bit late praying for the fallen.
St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney it is stupid to pray anywhere. What is wrong is tax payers money being wasted on such an structure.
Which government donated this money? They have no right to do that. Discrimination. Every other church - faith sect will want equal share.

Maybe it has nothing to do with religion, ponde.

>>St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney it is stupid to pray anywhere. What is wrong is tax payers money being wasted on such an structure<<

You need to separate the purpose of the structure from its architectural and historical context. Old buildings, whatever their provenance, are eligible for preservation via public funds. You wouldn't necessarily withhold funds from, say, Hyde Park Barracks, simply because it started its life as a prison camp, and shortly afterwards became a "female asylum".

To ask private enterprise to value our heritage is like asking a politician to value the promises made before the election. Expediency will always trump responsibility to the community, and without taxpayer support via the government, in place of the impressive cathedral Sydneysiders might easily be gazing upon another Blues Point Tower.

Yummmm, tasty architectural goodness.

Shadow, since when is 60.89% 2/3 it actually 3/5. Even 4 out of 10 silvertails couldn't bring themselves to vote for the Mad Monk. How appropriate, Abbott is only worth 3/5th of FA at the best of times.
You are all spin with adding Labor into the Greens the combined Liberal/One Nation vote was also down. You will say so what.
Try this one. At the last federal election more people voted for the Australia Labor Party that any other party including the Liberal Party. Twice as many people voted for The Greens than voted for your coalition partner The National Party. You can make numbers say anything you like.
How about this one only 0.4% of voters voted for Abbott.

Ponde.

Are you Suseonline in disguise?

You object to prayers being said in a place that is maintained by Government money so do you object to prayers at the Cenotaph and at all War Memorials by a Parliamentarian who is present, often officially and being paid?
You may think that it is useless but do you object to the politician praying for our fallen on the grounds that it is a mis-spending of public money?

You neglected to respond to the apparent supernatural cures at Lourdes, i.e. answers to prayers; if you are not Suse you might ask her about the medical aspects involved.

Pericles.
The Hyde Park Barracks is a public structure owned by the public.
St Mary's is not.
If a House is heritage listed it is the owners's responsibility to maintain it, not use public funds.
Adding a flight of stairs into a steeple has nothing to do with heritage.

Is Mise,
Lourds - approximately five million people visit that site every year.
So far there has been 10 declared "Miracles" There is no records kept of these claims so it is not determined what they were cured of.
Five million over 150 years and 10 doubtful miracles - amounts to no miracles at all. Just another Roman Catholic joke.