Senate debates
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
Does any senator wish to have the question put on any of those items? There being none, we shall proceed.
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Western Australia; Qualifications of Senators (10 speeches)
For the information of senators, I also table letters sent to me by Senator Roberts and by the Leader of the Australian Greens, Senator Di Natale, requesting that I establish an audit of the...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (7 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to deaths in Australia's offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru and the need to evacuate the people there to safety in Australia. Leave not...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
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I seek leave to make a short statement about changes to the ministry and ministerial absences from question time this week. Leave granted. For the information of honourable senators, I table the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (8 speeches)
There might not be anyone left to ask questions of! My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. In a recent interview with Fran Kelly, the Treasurer, Mr...
- Queensland: United States Marine Corps Aircraft Accident (8 speeches)
My question is to the Defence minister, Senator Payne. Can the minister update the Senate on how Australia is assisting the US-led recovery operation following the tragic MV-22 incident off the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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I inform senators that in the gallery this afternoon we have a parliamentary delegation from Myanmar and also the Australian Political Exchange Council's 16th Delegation from Japan. On behalf of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Murray-Darling Basin (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Senator Nash. On 26 July, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources,...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Before I call the next questioner, I acknowledge the presence in the President's gallery today of three former senators: former Senator Lightfoot, former Senator Forshaw and former Senator...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (22 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Minister, Reza Barati, Sayed Ibrahim Hussein, Hamid Kehazaei, Omid Masoumali, Rakib, Kamil Hussain,...
- Workplace Relations (8 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Employment, Senator Cash. Can the minister update the Senate on recent proceedings in the Federal Court relating to unlawful strike action by registered...
- Energy (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. On 1 July, EnergyAustralia's electricity prices for the average household in New South Wales went up by nearly 20...
- Building Better Regions Fund (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Development, Senator Nash. Can the minister update the Senate on the outcomes of the first round of the coalition government's Building Better Regions...
- Marriage (7 speeches)
My question is to Attorney-General, Senator Brandis, representing the Prime Minister. Former Liberal Prime Ministers John Howard and even Tony Abbott have said in the past that change to the...
- Housing Affordability (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. Given that it is now over two years since former Commonwealth Bank chief executive David Murray called on the...
- Literacy and Numeracy (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education and Training, Senator Birmingham. Can the minister update the Senate on what the latest NAPLAN data shows on the performance of Australian students in...
- Child Care (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education and Training, Senator Birmingham. A recent survey conducted by The Parenthood found that 34 per cent of respondents have been late in paying their...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Economy (6 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Attorney-General (Senator Brandis) to a question without notice asked by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Wong)...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Employment (Senator Cash) to a question without notice asked by Senator Di Natale today relating to the deaths of asylum...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Australian Embassy (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 69(6) I present this petition as presented to me in my capacity as President of the Senate. I do not have any association with this petition. Further to the...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That the following general business orders of the day be considered on Thursday, 10 August, 2017 at the time for private senators' bills: No. 42 Competition and Consumer Legislation...
- Leave of Absence (2 speeches)
I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators: (a) Senator Abetz from 8 August to 10 August 2017, for personal reasons; (b) Senator Fierravanti-Wells for today and 9 August...
- Party Office Holders (0 speeches)
- Australian Greens (1 speech)
by leave—I inform the Senate that Senator Rachel Siewert and Adam Bandt are Acting Deputy Leaders for the Greens at this stage.
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Qualifications of Senators (1 speech)
I seek leave to table statements of facts regarding the citizenship of Larissa Waters and Scott Ludlam, as have been circulated in the chamber and provided to government and opposition whips....
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Indigenous Incarceration (8 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 389 standing in my name for today relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander incarceration. Leave granted. I move the motion as...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Economy (10 speeches)
I inform the Senate that at 8.30 am today, 10 proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by lot....
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Law Enforcement Committee; Report (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the report. I rise to take note of the Joint Committee on Law Enforcement's report into human trafficking, slavery and slavery-like practices, which was...
- Privileges Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Chair of the Senate Standing Committee of Privileges, I present the committee's 166th report entitled Possible improper influence of a witness before the Environment and...
- Government Response to Report (2 speeches)
I present four government responses to committee reports as listed at item 16 on today’s Order of Business. In accordance with the usual practice, I seek leave to incorporate the documents...
- Joint Select Committee on Government Procurement; Report (2 speeches)
In relation to the Joint Select Committee on Government Procurement's report Buying into our future, I move: That the Senate take note of the report. This committee was established on 1 December...
- Environment and Communications Legislation Committee; Report (1 speech)
I table a document relating to the report of the Environment and Communications Legislation Committee on its inquiry into the provisions of the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative)...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Report (1 speech)
by leave—Pursuant to order and at the request of the chairs of the respective committees, I present reports on legislation as listed at item 20 on today's Order of Business, together with...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (1 speech)
I recently received from Professor Louis Schofield, Director of the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, the 2016 annual report of that organisation. Based in the tropics of...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
Yesterday, we heard of the death of an asylum seeker on Manus Island. Hamed Shamshiripour was a 31-year-old Iranian man. He was the fifth person to die under the Australian government's...
- Homelessness (1 speech)
There is a new face of homelessness that I want to talk about tonight as Australia marks Homelessness Week. That face belongs to our mothers, daughters, sisters and aunties, to the six out of...
- Medicinal Marijuana (1 speech)
This past July I had the pleasure of visiting a property run by Tasmanian Alkaloids, one of Tasmania's world-leading poppy industry's principal companies. I was taking the valuable opportunity to...
- Homelessness (1 speech)
Tonight in this adjournment debate I also rise to speak about an issue of great importance, and that is homelessness in our nation, noting that this week is Homelessness Week. Across Australia,...
- Cyclone Debbie (1 speech)
Four months ago Queensland was devastated by Tropical Cyclone Debbie. I'm sure we all recall the headlines and saw the television footage of entire towns that had been flooded, homes made...
- Lester , Mr Kunmanara, OAM, Yunupingu, Dr G (1 speech)
I rise to speak tonight about the passing of two beautiful-hearted Australians. The passing of Mr Lester and Dr G Yunupingu has left deep hurt in Indigenous communities and indeed across...
- Employment (1 speech)
We have obviously just returned from the winter recess, and I know that many senators took the opportunity to visit their duty electorates over that period of time. I certainly spent quite a lot...
- Wangaratta Turf Club (1 speech)
It gives me great pleasure as a National Party senator to rise and talk about exactly what our government is delivering for regional communities, including those in the state of Queensland. But...
- Aged Care (2 speeches)
I rise this evening to speak on the Turnbull government's complete lack of regard for the ageing and the aged care portfolio. Earlier this year, on 2017 February, we welcomed changes to the way...
- Refugees (1 speech)
If I had a media adviser, which I don't, and if I slavishly followed every bit of emailed political advice, which I don't, I guess there'd be some issues I wouldn't want to touch with a 40-foot...
- Nuclear Weapons, Ludlam, Mr Scott (1 speech)
On this day, 72 years ago, the Japanese city of Hiroshima still burned. Just days before, it had been laid waste by the first atomic bomb dropped on a population. Many of its citizens were...
- Immigration Detention (1 speech)
The crisis in Australia's offshore detention system, our prisons on Manus Island and Nauru, is escalating rapidly. The human rights abuses that Australia, our country, has perpetrated on so many...
- Tasmania (1 speech)
I rise this evening to raise a number of issues that were brought to my attention over the winter break. You might be interested to know that, despite the media's close attention to issues such...
- Middle East (2 speeches)
In July I visited Jordan with the Australian Aid and Parliament Project MP learning tour. I am grateful to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Save The Children for making this trip...
