Senate debates
Tuesday, 8 July 2014
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Underwood, Peter George, AC (1 speech)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death on 7 July 2014 of His Excellency the Hon. Peter George Underwood, AC, Governor of the state of Tasmania from 2008. I ask honourable...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], True-up Shortfall Levy (General) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], True-up Shortfall Levy (Excise) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates and Other Amendments) Bill 2013 [No. 2]; Second Reading (23 speeches)
Today is an important day in the history of this nation. It seems that, contrary to what would seem to me to be best practice, this new Senate is set to go to a final and determining vote on the...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
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I inform the Senate that Senator Brandis will be absent from question time from today, Tuesday, 8 July, until Thursday, 10 July owing to ministerial business overseas. Senator Johnston will...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Future of Financial Advice (9 speeches)
My question is to the still Acting Assistant Treasurer, Senator Cormann. Is the Acting Assistant Treasurer aware of the statements made at the most recent estimates by ASIC Senior Executive...
- Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement (8 speeches)
I congratulate you on your election to the position as President of this chamber and I wish you well in controlling the rabble on your left. My question is to the Leader of the Government in the...
- Asylum Seekers (26 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Senator Cash. Minister, how many Sri Lankan asylum seekers have been returned to Sri Lankan authorities via sea...
- Australia-Japan Defence Agreement (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Johnston. Will the minister outline to the Senate details of the defence equipment and technology agreement signed today between the prime...
- Financial Services (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Cormann. Given statements by the Prime Minister last week that the ongoing financial systems inquiry will advise the government...
- Budget (14 speeches)
Mr President, I join with my Senate colleagues in congratulating you on your election to the office you hold. My question is to the Minister for Finance and Minister representing the Treasurer....
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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I acknowledge the presence in the gallery of former senator Natasha Stott-Despoja. It is good to see her. Honourable senators: Hear, hear!
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Unemployment (10 speeches)
My question without notice is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate and Minister for Employment. Does the senator from Tasmania agree that his and his fellow Liberal Tasmanian...
- Veterans' Affairs (22 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs. I refer to the minister's pre-election comments in June 2013 about military pensions. I quote: CPI has not been a measure of cost- of-living...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (46 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked by Opposition senators today. The Minister for Finance has audaciously rolled back the...
- Financial Services (1 speech)
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 Whish-Wilson today relating to the Financial...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
I withdraw government business notice of motion No. 1.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted for Senator Brandis from 8 July 2014 to 10 July 2014 on account of ministerial business. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Accounts and Audit Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
I move: That the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit be authorised to hold private meetings otherwise than in accordance with standing order 33(1), during the sittings of the Senate, as...
- Treaties Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
I move: That the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties be authorised to hold a public meeting during the sitting of the Senate on Monday, 14 July 2014, from 11 am to 1 pm. Question agreed to.
- National Capital and External Territories Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
I move: That the Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories be authorised to hold a private meeting otherwise than in accordance with standing order 33(1), followed...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Western Australian Shark Cull (7 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that 305 senior scientists and experts have submitted their concerns about the shark cull to the Environment Protection Authority in a Letter of Expert...
- Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary (13 speeches)
I ask that general business notice of motion No. 318 standing in my name for today relating to the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary be taken as a formal motion.
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (18 speeches)
I have received the following letter from Senator Siewert: Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today I propose to move "That, in the opinion of the Senate, the following is a matter...
- Answers to Questions on Notice (0 speeches)
- Question No. 621 (1 speech)
I table a document relating to question on notice No. 621, asked by Senator Ludlam, concerning the use and export of native timber from Western Australia.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- East West Link Project (1 speech)
I seek leave to move a motion in relation to the response just tabled by the government with regard to the East West Link. Leave granted. I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I must...
- Roe 8 Highway; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the Senate take note of the documents. I thank the chamber for the opportunity to speak to these documents that were tabled by Senator Payne a short time ago and I...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], True-up Shortfall Levy (General) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], True-up Shortfall Levy (Excise) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates and Other Amendments) Bill 2013 [No. 2]; Second Reading (15 speeches)
I am pleased, in continuation, to oppose the environmental and economic vandalism by the Abbott government of the climate change infrastructure that has been put in place in this country. We...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Australian Muslim Women's Centre for Human Rights (1 speech)
Tonight I rise to inform this chamber that, despite decades of hard work and research, family violence remains one of the most persistent forms of violence against women and children. As Minister...
- Australian Red Cross (1 speech)
I rise to note a centenary that should be celebrated by all Australians, and that is the centenary of the Australian Red Cross. On 13 August 1914, the Australian branch of the British Red Cross...
- NAIDOC Week (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee, commonly known as NAIDOC. This week is NAIDOC Week and as I speak events are taking place right across...
- Mental Health (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on another unjust, entirely short-sighted and altogether cruel decision by this government—the axing of the Dementia and Severe Behaviours Supplement. On Thursday, 26...
- Gasnier, Mr Reg (1 speech)
Last Saturday afternoon rugby league fans at Jubilee Oval in Kogarah, the heart of the St George rugby league district, remembered and honoured the career of a champion of St George and...
- Taxation (1 speech)
In the last sitting week I met with Chloe, Sinead, Nick, Maddison and Caleb from Micah Challenge. Nick is the chaplain at Cressy District High School and Chloe, Sinead, Maddison and Caleb are...
- Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (1 speech)
I want to stop and just imagine something for a moment. Imagine if you worked for a service funded by the government and you had been put on notice, since the election in September 2013, that...
- Underwood, His Excellency Peter George, AC, Greste, Mr Peter (1 speech)
I would like to start by noting my deep regret for the passing of the Governor of Tasmania, the Hon. Peter Underwood AC, and pass on my condolences to his family. Mr Underwood was certainly...
- Care Leavers Australia Network (1 speech)
Last Saturday I was honoured to be invited to the 14th anniversary of CLAN. People in this place well know that term 'CLAN', which stands for the Care Leavers Australia Network. This...
- Australian Youth Climate Coalition, Aboriginal Elders Visiting Program (1 speech)
On Monday this week I had the great pleasure of meeting 200 enthusiastic, passionate young people who had converged on parliament from all over Australia with a very clear message for the...
- Employment (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak as Australia marks yet another free trade agreement—this time with Japan. I rise at the end of a day of self-congratulation by both sides of politics. Prime Minister...
- Nielsen, Ms Juanita, WestConnex, International Development Assistance (1 speech)
Thirty-nine years ago on 4 July 1975, Juanita Nielsen went to Abe Saffron's Carousel Club in Kings Cross. She was never seen again. As another year passes and as we mark one more anniversary of...
- Agriculture (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak on a matter of importance for beef producers in Australia and, in particular, for beef producers in northern Australia—that is, northern Australia as described in a...
- Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement (2 speeches)
Congratulations, Mr Deputy President, on your unanimous election earlier this week. I rise to celebrate, as we all have been in this place today, a significant milestone in our trade partnership...
