Senate debates

Thursday, 11 May 2017

• Business (0 speeches)
  • Rearrangement (15 speeches)
    I seek leave to move a motion to vary the hours of meeting and the routine of business for today. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice standing in my name, I move: That so much of...
• Bills (0 speeches)
  • Competition and Consumer Legislation Amendment (Small Business Access to Justice) Bill 2017; Second Reading (28 speeches)
    The Competition and Consumer Legislation Amendment (Small Business Access to Justice) Bill 2017 is about making sure our competition laws are better enforced by giving small business better...
• Notices (0 speeches)
  • Withdrawal (2 speeches)
    On behalf of Senator Williams and pursuant to notice given on 10 May 2017, I withdraw Senate notice of motion No. 1 standing in Senator William's name for 8 August 2017 proposing the disallowance...
• Committees (0 speeches)
  • Selection of Bills Committee; Report (10 speeches)
    (—) (): On behalf of Senator Bushby, I present the 5th Report of 2017 of the Selection of Bills Committee. I seek leave to have the report incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The...
• Business (0 speeches)
  • Rearrangement (1 speech)
    I move: That— (a) government business orders of the day as shown on today's order of business be considered from 12.45 pm today; and (b) government business be called on after consideration...
• Bills (0 speeches)
  • Disability Services Amendment (Linking Upper Age Limits for Disability Employment Services to Pension Age) Bill 2017; Second Reading (2 speeches)
    I rise to talk to the Disability Services Amendment (Linking Upper Age Limits for Disability Employment Services to Pension Age) Bill 2017. This bill amendments the Disability Services Act 1986...
  • Disability Services Amendment (Linking Upper Age Limits for Disability Employment Services to Pension Age) Bill 2017; Third Reading (2 speeches)
    As no amendments to the bill have been circulated, I call the minister to move the third reading unless any senator requires that the bill be considered in Committee of the Whole.
  • Crimes Amendment (Penalty Unit) Bill 2017; Second Reading (3 speeches)
    I rise to speak to the Crimes Amendment (Penalty Unit) Bill 2017 on behalf of the opposition. At the outset, I indicate that the opposition will be supporting this bill. This bill implements a...
  • Crimes Amendment (Penalty Unit) Bill 2017; Third Reading (2 speeches)
    As no amendments to the bill have been circulated, I shall call the minister to move the third reading unless any senator requires that the bill be considered in Committee of the Whole.
  • Parliamentary Business Resources Bill 2017, Parliamentary Business Resources (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2017; First Reading (1 speech)
    I move: That these bills may proceed without formalities, may be taken together and be now read a first time. Question agreed to. Bills read a first time.
  • Parliamentary Business Resources Bill 2017, Parliamentary Business Resources (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2017; Second Reading (4 speeches)
    I move: That these bills be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speeches incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speeches read as follows— PARLIAMENTARY...
  • Parliamentary Business Resources Bill 2017, Parliamentary Business Resources (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2017; Third Reading (1 speech)
    I move: That these bills be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bills read a third time.
  • Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Amendment (Polar Code) Bill 2017; Second Reading (1 speech)
    I thank Senator Brown for her contribution and commend the bill to the Senate. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time.
  • Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Amendment (Polar Code) Bill 2017; Third Reading (2 speeches)
    As no amendments to the bill have been circulated, I shall call the minister to move the third reading unless any senator requires that the bill be considered in Committee of the Whole.
  • Personal Property Securities Amendment (PPS Leases) Bill 2017; Second Reading (5 speeches)
    I rise to speak to the Personal Property Securities Amendment (PPS Leases) Bill 2017 on behalf of the opposition. At the outset I indicate that the opposition will be supporting the bill. Labor...
  • Personal Property Securities Amendment (PPS Leases) Bill 2017; Third Reading (2 speeches)
    As no amendments to the bill have been circulated, I shall call the minister to move the third reading unless any senator requires that the bill be considered in Committee of the Whole.
  • Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) Bill 2017; Second Reading (4 speeches)
    Labor welcomes the Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) Bill 2017. This bill has been a long time coming—three years in fact. While the government has been delaying...
• Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
  • Budget (27 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Cormann. Last night Andrew Bolt asked the minister six times what peak gross debt is projected to be under the federal...
  • Economy (11 speeches)
    My question is to the minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Cormann. Can the minister confirm that since the Treasurer was last at the dispatch box delivering his budget speech, real GDP...
  • Budget (30 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Senator Cormann. On Monday evening this week, Sky News reported that the budget would include a bank...
  • Native Title (8 speeches)
    I have a question about certainty. It is addressed to the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator Canavan. We all like certainty in our lives. Senator Canavan, why is it important...
  • Immigration Detention (23 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Employment, representing the Minister for Immigration. Minister, I refer you to comments made by Minister Dutton on Sky News on 19 April, when he was asked what...
  • Budget (30 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Cormann. On 23 April the Assistant Treasurer said: 'The housing package will be extraordinarily large. It will be far reaching....
  • Country Fire Authority (16 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Employment, Senator Cash. Can the minister update the Senate on the Victorian government's latest attack on Country Fire Authority volunteers?
  • Budget (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. On polling day for the 2013 election, Liberal candidates displayed a corflute in blue and white that declared,...
• Business (0 speeches)
  • Rearrangement (1 speech)
    I seek leave to move a motion to vary the routine of business for today. Leave granted. I move: (a) the routine of business from not later than 4.30 pm shall be government business order of the...
• Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
  • Budget (17 speeches)
    I move: That the Senate take note of the answers provided by Senators Cormann and Brandis to questions asked by Labor senators. Having listened to those answers today, it is very clear that this...
• Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
  • President's Official Visits to the United Kingdom, Belgium, France and Singapore (1 speech)
    On behalf of the President, I present two reports of the President's visits to the United Kingdom, Belgium, France and Singapore, which took place in April.
• Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
  • Election Petition (1 speech)
    by leave—For the information of senators, I present a non-conforming election petition received from Rodney Norman Culleton, together with the Clerk's advice on the document.
• Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
  • Empowering Parliaments to Empower Women (1 speech)
    by leave—I present the report of the parliamentary event organised by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the UN Women at the 61st session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of...
• Budget (0 speeches)
  • Consideration by Estimates Committees (1 speech)
    I present additional information received by committees relating to estimates.
• Committees (0 speeches)
  • Publications Committee; Report (1 speech)
    On behalf of the Chair of the Publications Committee, I present the sixth report of the Publications Committee. Ordered that the report be adopted.
  • Economics References Committee; Additional Information (1 speech)
    On behalf of the Chair of the Economics References Committee, I present additional information received by the committee on its inquiry into the operation of the Australian Tax Office.
  • Finance and Public Administration References Committee; Additional Information (1 speech)
    On behalf of the Chair of the Finance and Public Administration References Committee, I present additional information received by the committee on its inquiry into the operation of the...
  • Community Affairs References Committee; Report (3 speeches)
    As Chair of the Community Affairs References Committee, I present the report on price regulation associated with the Prostheses List Framework together with the Hansard record of proceedings and...
  • Environment and Communications References Committee; Report (4 speeches)
    I present the report of the Environment and Communications References Committee on its inquiry into oil or gas production in the Great Australian Bight, together with the Hansard record of...
• Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
  • Therapeutic Goods and Other Legislation Amendment (Narcotic Drugs) Regulation 2016; Disallowance (11 speeches)
    I move: That items 1 and 4 of Schedule 1 of the Therapeutic Goods and Other Legislation Amendment (Narcotic Drugs) Regulation 2016 and made under the Crimes Act 1914 and the Therapeutic Goods Act...
• Committees (0 speeches)
  • Environment and Communications References Committee; Report (2 speeches)
    The petroleum resource rent tax system in this country is a tail-wagging dog, encouraging companies like Chevron to take these risks to extract uneconomic resources that we do not need at a time...
  • Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee; Report (1 speech)
    I present the report of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee on the management of credit and other transaction cards by the Department of Defence, together with the Hansard...
  • Membership (2 speeches)
    The President has received letters requesting changes in the membership of various committees.
• Documents (0 speeches)
  • Schools; Tabling (1 speech)
    by leave—I table a document that was referred to by Senator Watt in an earlier address to the Senate.
• Bills (0 speeches)
  • Native Title Amendment (Indigenous Land Use Agreements) Bill 2017; Second Reading (24 speeches)
    I have already made a few brief comments on this bill, the Native Title Amendment (Indigenous Land Use Agreements) Bill 2017, and I want to curtail my remarks because I think it is very important...
• Budget (0 speeches)
  • Statement and Documents (19 speeches)
    We acknowledge that we meet on Aboriginal land, that this land was never ceded, that we have unfinished business and that we the Australian Greens are committed to working with Aboriginal and...
• Committees (0 speeches)
  • Membership (2 speeches)
    Order! I have received letters requesting changes in the membership of committees.
• Budget (0 speeches)
  • Statement and Documents (1 speech)
    I seek leave to have the opposition's 2017-18 budget speech incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speech read as follows— This is the Budget and a government that wants to bury its...
• Adjournment (0 speeches)
  • (1 speech)
    Order! I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn. The House tran script was published up to 22:26 . The remainder of the transcript will be published progressively as it is completed.