Senate debates
Monday, 9 December 2013
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Community Affairs Legislation Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the Community Affairs Legislation Committee be authorised to hold public meetings during the sittings of the Senate today and on Tuesday, 10 December 2013 from 4 pm to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I inform the Senate that Senator Payne, the Minister for Human Services, will be absent from question time today. Senator Payne's question time responsibilities will be handled by...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Automotive Industry (26 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. I refer to four days of persistent and pernicious backgrounding against Holden by senior ministers in the coalition government....
- Carbon Pricing (10 speeches)
My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Abetz. Is the minister aware of reports in today's media that in the year following the introduction of Labor's...
- Automotive Industry (10 speeches)
My question is to Senator Ronaldson, the Minister representing the Minister for Industry. I refer to the government's repeated statements that any further funding for the auto manufacturing...
- Manufacturing (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Industry, Senator Ronaldson. Can the minister outline the government's commitment towards a strong and viable manufacturing industry...
- Uranium Mining (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Senator Cormann. I refer to the spillage over the weekend of a million litres of strongly acidic radioactive sludge...
- Mining (8 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer, Senator Sinodinos. Can the minister outline the impact that the mining tax has had on the Australian resources sector?
- Automotive Industry (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. I refer to the minister's responsibility for budget policy advice and processes and review of government programs. Is the minister...
- Carbon Pricing (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Investment, Senator Cormann. Can the minister inform the...
- Employment (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Eric Abetz. Can the minister confirm that the Department of Human Services told ICT staff in Hobart on 5 December that it...
- Aged Care (16 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Social Services, Senator Fifield. Can the minister outline to the Senate the coalition's plans to reduce the administrative burden on aged-care...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Automotive Industry (40 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Employment (Senator Abetz) and the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs (Senator Ronaldson) to questions without notice...
- Uranium Mining (1 speech, 1 comment)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Cormann) to a question without notice asked by Senator Ludlam today relating to an incident at the...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Mandela, Mr Rolihlahla (Nelson) Dalibhunga, AC (4 speeches)
by leave—I move: That the Senate records its deep regret at the death on 5 December 2013 of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela AC, former President of the Republic of South Africa, places on record...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Wage Connect (7 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) acknowledges the success of the Wage Connect program in helping long term unemployed back into the workforce; (b) expresses concern that this program has been...
- Asylum Seekers (6 speeches)
I move: That the Senate calls on the Minister assisting the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (Senator Cash) to: (a) provide a statement to the Senate on the United Nations High...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
I ask that general business notice of motion No. 22 standing in my name for today relating to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Plurilateral Free Trade Agreement be withdrawn.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Kangaroo Island (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes the public comment period has started for Bight Petroleum’s referral (reference number 2013/6770) under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity...
- Middle East (4 speeches)
I move: (c) reaffirms its commitment to a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) supports the Tasmanian Government's Climate Smart strategy which aims to achieve 100 per cent renewable production and a 35 per cent cut in emissions on 1990...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Automotive Industry (32 speeches)
A letter has been received from Senator Moore: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion: "The Coalition's...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That senators be discharged from and appointed to committees in accordance with the document circulated in the chamber, as follows: Community Affairs Legislation and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Western Australia: Elections (7 speeches)
2013 has been an exceptionally eventful year for Western Australia in political terms. In the space of six months, we have been through a state election and a federal election. It is pleasing to...
- Bungaree Reserve, Bouddi at Bells (1 speech)
I would like to place on the record information about two events that happened on the Central Coast over the last month. One of them was a particularly historic event. When I indicated to the...
- Whaling (1 speech)
Slaughter season in the Southern Ocean has begun. This weekend three vessels left the Japanese port of Shimonoseki to join the factory ship Nisshin Maru on their way to the Southern Ocean. They...
