Senate debates
Thursday, 25 February 2016
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
Pursuant to notice given on 24 February 2016, I withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 1 standing in my name for 10 May 2016 proposing the disallowance of the Charter of the United...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection of Bills Committee; Report (98 speeches)
I present the second report of the 2016 of the Selection of Bills Committee and seek leave to have the report incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The report read as follows— SELECTION...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That— (a) That intervening business be postponed until after consideration of No (3) Tax Laws Amendment (Small Business Restructure Roll-over) Bill 2016, No (4) Parliamentary...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Defence Procurement (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne. Prior to the last election, Senator Johnston promised to build 12 submarines in South Australia. Two and a half years later, today's...
- Defence (6 speeches)
I congratulate the Prime Minister and the minister on the release of the 2016 Defence white paper this morning. Will the minister inform the Senate about the 2016 Defence white paper and...
- Indigenous Affairs (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Senator Scullion. Can the minister confirm that, on top of the $500 million cut to Indigenous affairs programs in the 2014 budget, the...
- Defence, Climate Change (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne. In the defence white paper today, you outlined a massive increase in expenditure: an extra $30 billion on Defence over the next 10...
- Northern Australia, Taxation (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Canavan. I refer to the minister's statement that: To protect small businesses we need stronger competition laws like an effects...
- Defence (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Before the government commits to $30 billion of expenditure: a well-equipped defence force could become a museum exhibit if it cannot be supported by...
- Defence White Paper (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne. I too would like to join Senator Back in congratulating the minister and the government for this really very new approach to defence...
- Foreign Investment (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Development, Senator Nash. I refer to the minister's comment last week that 'there are some real synergies between regional development and...
- Defence White Paper (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne. Will the minister advise the Senate how the 2016 white paper will benefit Australia's defence industry?
- Media Ownership (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield. Did the government approve changes to media ownership laws on Monday night, including scrapping the 'reach rule' and the 'two...
- Defence White Paper (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education and Training, Senator Birmingham. Will the minister advise the Senate on the critical importance of the 2016 Defence white paper to education,...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Northern Australia (6 speeches)
I seek leave to make a short statement of no more than one minute.
- Answers to Questions on Notice (0 speeches)
- Question Nos 2642 and 2907 (1 speech)
I would like to provide additional information in regard to Senator Ludlam's question yesterday about overdue answers to questions on notice. The senator asked me, as the Minister representing...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Fair Work Commission (3 speeches)
Mr President, I seek leave to make a brief statement to the Senate in relation to the inquiry into matters relating to complaints about Vice President Lawler.
- Answers to Questions on Notice (0 speeches)
- Nos 2896, 2897, 2898 and 2899 (25 speeches)
Under standing order 74(5)(a), I seek an explanation from the Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator Nash, as to why question Nos 2896, 2897, 2898 and 2899, which I placed on...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Indigenous Affairs (6 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Indigenous Affairs (Senator Scullion) to a question without notice asked by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Report (2 speeches)
At the request of the chairs of the respective committees, I present reports from the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee and the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: [HSU to take in motion] Question agreed to.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Free Speech (18 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Day, move: That the Senate notes the Turnbull Government's failure to uphold free speech. Treasurer Scott Morrison is currently having tax troubles with unicorns....
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Fall of Singapore: 74th Anniversary (1 speech)
Across the ages—through peace and war—the flame of freedom and liberty has shone in the world. In the darkest of times, when it seems that there is only turmoil and sorrow, that flame...
- Education Funding (1 speech)
I want to speak again tonight about the Safe Schools Coalition. I mentioned in this place yesterday the research that shows the shocking statistics about young LGBTIQ Australians. More than 60...
- Drugs in Sport (1 speech)
Yesterday afternoon, I moved a motion for a Senate committee inquiry into Australia's participation in the international sports antidoping framework. My goal was to have this issue—and the...
