Senate debates
Thursday, 14 May 2015
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection of Bills Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the fifth report of 2015 of the Selection of Bills Committee and I seek leave to have the report incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The report read as follows— SELECTION OF...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That— (a) government business orders of the day as shown in the list circulated in the chamber be considered from 12.45 pm today; and (b) government business be called on after...
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to the consideration of legislation on Wednesday 12 August 2015. I indicate to the chamber that this is to facilitate a vote during government business in...
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senators Abetz and Wang for today for personal reasons. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That business of the Senate notice of motion no. 3 standing in the my name, relating to a reference to the Economics References Committee, be postponed for further...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- National Palliative Care Week (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Bilyk, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that National Palliative Care Week runs from 24 May to 30 May 2015; (b) encourages all Australians to use National...
- Childhood Diseases (4 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senators Williams and Canavan, move: That the Senate— (a) notes that childhood immunisation is one of the most effective ways of preventing disease; (b)...
- Environment (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate notes— (a) the Coalition Government was returned in New South Wales at the 28 March 2015 election; (b) the intention of the New South Wales Coalition Government to...
- Australian Fisheries (7 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) in regard to the operation of the FV Geelong Star in the Small Pelagic Fishery, notes: (i) the Report of the Expert Panel on a Declared Commercial Fishing...
- Nuclear Weapons (13 speeches)
I ask that general business notice of motion No. 693, which relates to nuclear weapons abolition be taken as a formal motion.
- Income Support (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate calls on the Government to drop its ideological attack on young job seekers by withdrawing the budget measure that forces young people under 25 to wait one month before...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Legislation Amendment (Exit Arrangements) Bill 2015; Second Reading (10 speeches)
I rise to continue my contribution to the debate on the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Legislation Amendment (Exit Arrangements) Bill 2015. As I was saying last night, I am Chair of the...
- Norfolk Island Legislation Amendment Bill 2015, Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (Norfolk Island Reforms) Bill 2015, A New Tax System (Medicare Levy Surcharge — Fringe Benefits) Amendment Bill 2015, Health and Other Services (Compensation) Care Charges Amendment (Norfolk Island) Bill 2015, Health Insurance (Approved Pathology Specimen Collection Centres) Tax Amendment (Norfolk Island) Bill 2015, Health Insurance (Pathology) (Fees) Amendment (Norfolk Island) Bill 2015, Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment (Norfolk Island) Bill 2015, Private Health Insurance (Risk Equalisation Levy) Amendment (Norfolk Island) Bill 2015; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Norfolk Island Legislation Amendment Bill 2015 and related bills. As the deputy chair of the Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and...
- Norfolk Island Legislation Amendment Bill 2015, Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (Norfolk Island Reforms) Bill 2015, A New Tax System (Medicare Levy Surcharge — Fringe Benefits) Amendment Bill 2015, Health and Other Services (Compensation) Care Charges Amendment (Norfolk Island) Bill 2015, Health Insurance (Approved Pathology Specimen Collection Centres) Tax Amendment (Norfolk Island) Bill 2015, Health Insurance (Pathology) (Fees) Amendment (Norfolk Island) Bill 2015, Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment (Norfolk Island) Bill 2015, Private Health Insurance (Risk Equalisation Levy) Amendment (Norfolk Island) Bill 2015; Third Reading (2 speeches)
As no amendments to the bills have been circulated, I shall call the minister to move the third reading unless any senator requires that the bills be considered in Committee of the Whole.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That government business order of the day No. 3, Australian Border Force Bill 2015 and related bill, be postponed till a later hour of the day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That government business order of the day no. 1 be postponed until a later hour. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
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by leave—I advise the Senate that the Leader of the Government, Senator Abetz, will be unavoidably absent from question time again today. Any questions in the Prime Minister's and the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (17 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. I refer the minister to Peter Costello, the man the minister calls 'a great Australian'. Does the minister agree with this great...
- Budget (21 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Finance and Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Cormann. Why is it so important for the parliament to support the government's plan for stronger...
- Climate Change (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Cormann. I refer to reports that the new Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility announced in the budget could see taxpayers'...
- Budget (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. I refer to the Prime Minister's promise: … we, the Coalition Government, are not going to repair our Budget this year at the...
- Hayden Royal Commission (20 speeches)
My question is to Senator Brandis, the spokesperson for the Abbott government in this place today. I refer the senator to section 99 of the interim report of the Hayden royal commission, which...
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Senator Cash, representing the Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. Can the minister outline to...
- Asylum Seekers (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Brandis. My question is in relation to reports that up to 8,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshi asylum seekers are...
- Paid Parental Leave (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. I refer to the 80,000 women affected by the government's cuts to paid parental leave and attacks on them by senior ministers, who have...
- Budget: Aged Care (6 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Social Services, Senator Fifield. Can the minister please update the Senate on how the budget delivers more choice and control to older Australians in...
- Arts Funding (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Arts, Senator Brandis. Can the minister confirm that in this year's budget he has taken over $100 million away from the independent Australia Council to...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (12 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to all questions without notice asked today. I take note of all answers to questions to ministers in question time today as a...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That— (a) consideration of government business order of the day no. 3 (Australian Border Force Bill 2015 and related bill) be called on immediately and that the time...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present the 22nd report of the 44th Parliament Human Rights Scrutiny Report. Ordered that the report be printed. I...
- Publications Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Chair of the Publications Committee, I present the 14th report of the Publications Committee. Ordered that the report be adopted.
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (4 speeches)
On behalf of the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women, Senator Cash, I table a ministerial statement on the 59th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. The...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (2 speeches)
Order! The President has received a letter from a party leader requesting changes in the membership of various committees.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Budget (25 speeches)
At the request of Senator Moore, I move: That the Senate notes that the Abbott Government ' s 2015 budget locks in cuts to health and education and delivers higher spending, taxes, deficits and...
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Statement and Documents (3 speeches)
The real test of a budget is not just in the numbers but in whether the decisions that underpin it make Australia a better nation. Does it reflect and promote a more caring society and relieve...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Western Australia: Budget (1 speech)
This afternoon in the Western Australian parliament Treasurer Nahan brought down a budget which confirms a $1.3 billion deficit this year, moving to a $3 billion deficit in the next financial...
- Western Australia: Budget, Housing Affordability (1 speech)
Thank you, Mr Acting Deputy, for swapping our chair spots tonight so I could listen to our budget reply. I too rise as a proud Western Australian and before I get onto the issue that I really...
- Forests (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about the two biggest threats to our native forests and the communities that rely upon them—Regional Forest Agreements and the burning of native forests for energy....
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Tonight I want to remind the Senate of the ongoing ineptitude of the Abbott coalition government when it comes to the environment and its abysmal failure to address the escalating problem of...
- Budget (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the Abbott government's unfair budget and its impact on my home state of Tasmania. Tonight, Labor's leader, Bill Shorten, delivered the budget reply speech Australia was...
- New South Wales Central Coast: Women's Issues (1 speech)
It gives me great pleasure to stand in this place this evening, having spent a little bit of the evening over in the green chamber listening to the budget in reply by Mr Shorten, and I concur...
- She Matters: 2015 International G7/20 Parliamentarians' Conference (1 speech)
In April this year, the German parliamentary group on population and development hosted the She Matters conference in Berlin. This conference was actually stimulated by a request from German...
- Australian Public Service (1 speech)
Tonight I am rising the speak about EDOs—environmental defenders offices. I want to talk about the exceptionally important role they play throughout Australia, which is essentially legal...
- Budget (1 speech)
When you reflect on the 2015-16 budget, it is timely to remember what Dr Martin Parkinson, former Treasury secretary, was reported as saying in The Australian Financial Review on 2 May 2015:...
- Higher Education (1 speech)
In January this year, the Chilean congress passed a landmark law introducing free higher education at Chilean universities. The law marks an end to the country's 30-year market based higher...
