Senate debates
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Community Affairs Legislation Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the community affairs legislation committee be authorised to hold a private meeting otherwise than in accordance with standing order 32(1) during the sitting of the...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That government business notices of motion (1) and (2) relating to a first speech and proposing the exemption of bills from the cut-off order be postponed to a later hour....
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Australian Water Holdings (33 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer, Senator Sinodinos. I refer to the Assistant Treasurer's ministerial responsibilities, which include business law and practice, and to the statement of...
- Economy (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. Is the minister aware of the Fairfax-Nielsen poll published today that shows an overwhelming majority, 86 per cent, of Australians...
- Asylum Seekers (8 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Senator Cash. Can the minister advise the Senate how the coalition government's border protection policies ensure...
- Australian Water Holdings (14 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer, Senator Sinodinos. I refer to the Assistant Treasurer's responsibility for business law and practice and a statement of ministerial standards which...
- Employment (20 speeches)
Thank you, Mr President— Senator Conroy interjecting—
- Cambodia: Election (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister Brandis. I refer to Minister Bishop's recent meeting with the Prime Minister of Cambodia, Hun Sen. Did...
- Australian Water Holdings (13 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer, Senator Sinodinos. I refer to the Assistant Treasurer's statement to the Senate on 28 February 2013 concerning Australian Water Holdings which he as...
- Commission of Audit (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. I ask: can the minister inform the Senate why it was necessary to establish a Commission of Audit and to explain its importance to my...
- Veterans (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Johnston. I refer the minister to his statement on 7 February, when he expressed his confidence in Defence personnel, saying, 'I'm backing them...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Australian Water Holdings (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Assistant Treasurer (Senator Sinodinos) to questions without notice asked by Opposition senators today relating to Australian Water...
- Economy (10 speeches)
As fascinating as it has been to hear the Liberal and Labor parties comparing who is the least corrupt in their relationships with Mr Obeid—
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics References Committee; Reference (4 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senators Milne and Madigan—and I might amend that to include Senator Xenophon—move: That the following matter be referred to the Economics References...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That consideration of the business before the Senate on Wednesday, 19 March 2014, be interrupted at approximately 5 pm, but not so as to interrupt a senator speaking, to enable Senator...
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (8) of standing order 111 not apply to the following bills, allowing them to be considered during this period of sittings: Appropriation Bill (No....
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- End Cruel Cosmetics Bill 2014; First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to amend the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989, and for related purposes. Question agreed to. I present...
- End Cruel Cosmetics Bill 2014; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speech incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speech read as follows— Every year in the name...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- International Development Assistance (10 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Moore, move: (a) notes: (i) the importance of the Australian aid program to sustainable economic and social development and poverty alleviation for Pacific...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Human Rights: Sri Lanka (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) expresses concern: (i) at the arrest and subsequent detention of Ms Balendra Jeyakumari, an advocate for families of the disappeared, and the arrest of her 13...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Fulton, Ms Roseanne (7 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) acknowledges: (i) Ms Rose Anne Fulton has been held in custody in Kalgoorlie for 18 months without a trial or conviction, and (ii) that it is unacceptable for...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Education Funding (19 speeches)
The President has received the following letter from Senator Siewert: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
I withdraw a notice of motion that I submitted in error this afternoon on South Sudan.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the 137th report of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, the committee's first report of the 44th Parliament, together with the minutes of proceedings of the committee and the...
- Human Rights Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights I present the committee's fourth report of the 44th Parliament on the examination of legislation in accordance with the Human Rights...
- School Funding Select Committee; Membership (2 speeches)
The President has received a letter from a party leader seeking variations to the membership of a committee.
- Report (1 speech)
Pursuant to order and at the request of the chairs of the respective committees, I present reports from legislation committees on the 2013-14 additional estimates, together with the Hansard...
- Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of Senator Macdonald, the chair, I present the report of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee on the provisions of the Migration Amendment (Regaining Control Over...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (1 speech)
I would like to bring to the attention of the Senate tonight recent reports in The Australian of anti-Semitic incidents at university O weeks around Australia, including at the Australian...
- Fred Hollows Foundation (1 speech)
The Fred Hollows Foundation envisages a world where no-one is needlessly blind. I have spoken on numerous occasions in this chamber about the great work of the Fred Hollows Foundation in the...
- Bachelor of Agricultural Business Management Course (1 speech)
I am delighted this evening to stand in this place and record that the Bachelor of Agricultural Business Management course conducted by Charles Sturt University here in New South Wales is now...
- Brain Cancer (1 speech)
I was pleased last night to attend a briefing in Parliament House on a recently completed 12-month study into less common and rare cancers. In this report it was stated that rare and less common...
- Fulton, Ms Roseanne (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak in support of Roseanne Fulton. Specifically, I speak in support of the release of Roseanne Fulton from prison in Western Australia. She is in prison without conviction....
- Manufacturing (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak about perception and reality. If we believe the newspaper headlines, the perception is that we are in a state of crisis. In my home state of Victoria, newspapers have...
- Arts (1 speech)
I rise to address the chamber on the state of the arts in Australia and the extraordinary actions of this government in placing freedom of speech in jeopardy. Last week the arts came under...
- Diabetes (1 speech)
Last Saturday morning I jumped out of a plane. I began a speech exactly 12 months ago with that exact same statement—Senator Birmingham, I think you may have been in the chamber then; I am...
- Government and Politics (1 speech)
Having been absent from this place during my secondment to the United Nations, and as I draw closer to the end of my term, I thought I would put on the record some of my observations about the...
- Youth Connections (1 speech)
This evening I rise to put on the record some remarks regarding an amazing program, established by the Labor government, that I know has been operating across Australia in the last several years:...
- Western Australia: Shark Cull (1 speech)
Today I participated in Science meets Parliament, which is a wonderful event that enhances and strengthens our ties with the scientific community. I met and heard some inspiring people both at...
- Australian Greens (3 speeches)
I rise tonight as a witness—the only witness, if you believe the reports in The Canberra Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Vine and The Guardianto the hypocrisy, duplicity, pretence and...
