Senate debates
Monday, 10 October 2016
- Statement by the President (0 speeches)
- Dress Standards (1 speech)
Could I just make an observation to senators. I have made this observation in the past. I do not want to have strict rules about dress standards but I think some senators made a point this...
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Victoria (1 speech)
I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from Senator Conroy resigning his place as a senator for the state of Victoria. Pursuant to the provisions of section 21 of the Constitution, I...
- Statement by the President (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (1 speech)
In May 1986 the parliament established, by legislation, a parliamentary commission of inquiry to advise the parliament whether any conduct of the Hon. Lionel Keith Murphy was such as to amount,...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Attorney-General (8 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General, Senator Brandis. I refer to the explanatory statement on the Legal Services Amendment (Solicitor-General Opinions) Direction 2016 tabled by the...
- Vocational Education and Training (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education and Training, Senator Birmingham. Can the minister inform the Senate why the Turnbull government decided to axe the VET FEE-HELP loan scheme that...
- Attorney-General (8 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General, Senator Brandis. On 12 September when asked whether he stood by his assurance to the Senate that he had consulted the Solicitor-General on the Legal...
- Defence (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne. Can the minister update the Senate on the progress of the force posture initiative between Australia and the United States?
- Health Care: World Mental Health Day (12 speeches)
My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator Nash. Today is World Mental Health Day. Each year in Australia, one in five Australians experiences mental illness....
- Attorney-General (8 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General, Senator Brandis. Can the Attorney-General advise the Senate when he first determined that he would issue the Legal Services Amendment (Solicitor-General...
- Medicinal Marijuana (8 speeches)
My question comes from Bec Bridson of Buderim, and goes to the minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Nash. November sees Australia one step closer to the use of...
- Rural and Regional Infrastructure (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Development, Senator Nash. Can the minister update the Senate on how the Turnbull-Joyce government is investing in regional infrastructure?
- Attorney-General (28 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General, Senator Brandis. I refer to the Solicitor-General's submission to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee regarding the Legal Services...
- Renewable Energy (10 speeches)
My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Environment and Energy, Senator Birmingham. A Galaxy poll was published today in The Adelaide Advertiser showing that a whopping 73...
- Mining (8 speeches)
At 128 kilos, I think that deserves an explanation, Mr President! My question is to the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator Canavan. Can the minister advise the Senate of the...
- Marriage (8 speeches)
My question this afternoon is to the Attorney-General, Senator Brandis. My question is: can the Attorney-General confirm that he considers LGBTIQ advocates who do not support the government's...
- Broadband (7 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield, and I ask: can the minister update the Senate on the rollout of the Sky Muster satellite NBN service?
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (9 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Attorney-General (Senator Brandis) to questions without notice asked by Opposition senators today relating to the Solicitor-General....
- Renewable Energy (14 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Education and Training (Senator Birmingham) to a question without notice asked by Senator Hanson-Young today relating to...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Siddons, Mr John Royston (5 speeches)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death on 22 September this year of John Royston Siddons, a senator for the state of Victoria from 1981 to 1983 and again from 1985 to 1987....
- Peres, Mr Shimon (3 speeches)
I move: Motion not available at the time of publication— Shimon Peres was one of the most important statesmen of the second half of the 20th century. In his almost seven-decade-long...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—at the request of Senator Day, I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Day from 10 October to 13 October 2016 for personal reasons. Question agreed to.
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That order of the day No. 6, Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security Amendment Bill 2015, be considered on Thursday, 13 October 2016, under...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Equal Rights for All Australians (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) reaffirms its commitment to the right of all Australians to enjoy equal rights and be treated with equal respect, regardless of race, colour, creed or origin;...
- Mental Health (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Polley, I move: That the Senate— (a) recognises that: (i) World Mental Health Day takes place on 10 October, (ii) Mental Health Week will...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Nuclear Weapons (4 speeches)
I ask that general business notice of motion No. 62 standing in my name for today which relates to the abolition of nuclear weapons be taken as a formal motion.
- Suspension of Standing Orders (3 speeches)
Pursuant to contingent notice, I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent me from moving a motion relating to the conduct of the business of this Senate, namely the...
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Attorney-General (12 speeches)
I inform the Senate that the President has received the following letter, dated 10 October, from Senator Gallagher: Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today I propose to move...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Indigenous Affairs, Aboriginal Deaths in Custody; Consideration (1 speech)
I move: That Senate take note of the responses to the Senate resolutions Nos. 1 and 2 on the list for today. That is the response to the motion that went through on incarceration rates of...
- Estimates Committees (5 speeches)
I move: That Senate take note of Statements of departmental and agency unanswered estimates questions on notice. I am not sure if I can take note of that block of documents, or whether I should—
- Responses to Senate Resolutions; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
I table documents relating to the orders for production of documents concerning the relocation of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, and the government's response to...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- National Broadband Network - Joint Standing; Membership (1 speech)
The President has received letters requesting changes in the membership of committees. There are two nominations for the one position on the Joint Standing Committee on the National Broadband...
- Membership (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That senators be discharged from and appointed to committees as follows: Community Affairs Legislation Committee— Discharged— Senator Farrell Participating...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Addresses by World Leaders (0 speeches)
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A message has been received from the House of Representatives inviting senators to attend a meeting of the House for an address by His Excellency Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of the Republic...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Report (4 speeches)
Pursuant to order and at the request of the chairs of the respective committees, I present reports on legislation as listed at item 19 of today's Order of Business, together with the Hansard...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Whitrow, Mr David Lawrence (1 speech)
Tonight I want to pay tribute to a father, grandfather and husband, a long-time contributor to this nation's political landscape and a friend of mine, David Lawrence Whitrow. Sadly, David passed...
- Palliative Care Tasmania (1 speech)
This is the third time in two months that I have risen to speak about Palliative Care Tasmania and the dire future facing them. Even though my petition was tabled in the parliament last sitting...
- Pork Industry (1 speech)
Despite being a retailer, a business previously known as shopkeeping, Coles apparently believes it knows enough about pig production to tell pig farmers how to produce their pigs. And if they do...
- Walker, Mr Max Henry Norman (1 speech)
I rise tonight to pay tribute to a much-loved Australian cricketer, raconteur, commentator and writer, one who was born in and spent his formative years in my home state of Tasmania. On...
