Senate debates
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to climate change. Leave not granted.
- Suspension of Standing Orders (23 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent me moving a motion to give precedence to a motion relating to climate change. What we've seen today is the total and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Energy (48 speeches)
My question is to Senator Brandis, the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Can the minister confirm that on various occasions Prime Minister Turnbull has supported each of the following...
- Education (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education and Training, Senator Simon Birmingham. English is our national language. The livelihood and prosperity of all Australians depends on how proficient...
- Energy (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. Can the minister confirm that under the Turnbull government's latest energy policy renewable energy is forecast to...
- Higher Education (7 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Education and Training, Senator Birmingham. In 2015 the government introduced legislation to attempt to recover HECS debt from Australians living...
- Hadgkiss, Mr Nigel (31 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment, Senator Cash. The minister has told the Senate she first became aware of the behaviour of the former commissioner of the Australian Building and...
- Energy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Affairs representing the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator Scullion. Can the minister outline how the coalition government is...
- Automotive Industry (16 speeches)
My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, Senator Cash. This morning, Minister Cash shared 'the good news about the impending closure of...
- Energy (9 speeches)
My question is to Senator Birmingham, the Minister for Education and Training, representing the Minister for the Environment and Energy. Can the minister outline how the Turnbull government's...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Energy (14 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Attorney-General (Senator Brandis) to questions without notice asked by Senators Kitching, Dastyari and Singh today. What an...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I shall move: That the provisions of paragraphs 5 to 8 of standing order 111 not apply to various bills as set out in the list circulated in the...
- Postponement (3 speeches)
Does any senator wish to have the question put on any of those postponement or committee notifications?
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Singh, move: That the Senate— (a) notes that the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was launched in Melbourne in 2007, and is now made...
- Extreme Weather Events (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes with concern that the current wildfires in California are the deadliest and most destructive cluster of fires in California's history; (b) expresses...
- Garvan Institute of Medical Research (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Garvan Institute for Medical Research (the Garvan Institute) is conducting ground-breaking work on cancer, including cancer genomics, which...
- Orthopaedic Trauma (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes: (i) that this week is Bone and Joint Awareness Week, and today, 17 October 2017, is World Orthopaedic Trauma Day, (ii) that Australians who suffer...
- Anti-Poverty Week (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that this week is Anti-Poverty Week 2017; (b) recognises that more than three million Australians are living in poverty and hardship; (c) acknowledges...
- Higher Education (4 speeches)
I wish to inform the chamber that Senator O'Neill will also sponsor this motion. I, and also on behalf of Senator O'Neill, move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Government has...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Student Visas (10 speeches)
I inform the Senate that, at 8.30 am today, six proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by...
- First Speech (0 speeches)
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Order! Before I call Senator Brockman, I remind honourable senators that this is his first speech; therefore, I ask that the usual courtesies be extended to him. With pleasure, I call Senator...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Privileges Committee; Report (5 speeches)
At the request of Senator Collins, I present the 167th report of the Senate Standing Committee of Privileges, entitled Persons referred to in the Senate: Ms Jane Carrigan. Ordered that the report...
- Community Affairs Legislation Committee; Additional Information (1 speech)
On behalf of the Chair of the Community Affairs Legislation Committee, Senator Brockman, who you just heard from, I present additional information received by the committee on its inquiry into...
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present report No. 7 of 2017, Referrals made June 2017.
- Treaties Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of Senator Fawcett, I present the 174th report—I repeat that: the 174th report—of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, Report 174: IMF new arrangements to borrow;...
- Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Committee, Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Government Response to Report (2 speeches)
I present two government responses to committee reports as listed at item 14 on today's Order of Business. In accordance with the usual practice, I seek leave to have the documents incorporated...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Law Enforcement Committee; Membership (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That Senator O'Sullivan be discharged from and Senator Bushby be appointed to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Freedom of Speech (1 speech)
Free speech is one of the great virtues that underpin our society. Failure to celebrate free speech, especially for one's political or ideological opponents, is to seriously undermine this...
- Burma (1 speech)
by leave—I table a nonconforming petition in relation to the current humanitarian crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh. Last week in Adelaide I met with members of Bangladeshi community and I...
- Victoria: Courts (5 speeches)
Boy, it's tempting to say, 'I told you so'. Recent events in the High Court—I'm not talking about the munificent 7 and their dual-citizenship imbroglio—make it look like somebody has...
- India Australia Business & Community Awards, McHappy Day (1 speech)
It's hard to disagree with anything that Senator Hinch just said. It's a great privilege to be the Assistant Minister for Social Services and Multicultural Affairs. In that role I've had the...
- Streets Ice Cream (1 speech)
Today in Canberra we enjoyed a beautiful sunny day. Indeed, many Australian towns enjoyed unseasonably warm weather today, up in the high 20s and 30s. Around the country, Australians were taking...
- Cape York (1 speech)
As a servant of the people of Queensland and Australia, I love being out with the people and listening. I want to continue a summary of my recent trip to Cape York and to name some of the other...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
There is a statistic and a fact that should be damning to all of us. It is this: when we go, on a weekend, to a Bunnings and are greeted by a worker—often a young male or female, often a...
- Scott, Dr Evelyn, AO (1 speech)
I'd like to pay tribute to an amazing woman whose life we celebrated recently in Townsville, Dr Evelyn Scott. A state funeral was held for Dr Scott, and I was able to attend the service along...
- Anti-Poverty Week (2 speeches)
This is Anti-Poverty Week, when we pay attention to issues of poverty in this country. The aims of Anti-Poverty Week this year are to strengthen public understanding of the causes and...
- Timor-Leste (1 speech)
I rise to speak in the Senate on the recent landmark agreement between Timor-Leste and Australia. This agreement, regarding the legal status of maritime boundaries in the Timor Sea, was reached...
- Regional Queensland (1 speech)
I rise tonight to make a contribution, as I often do, about the future of regional Queensland. I'm the duty senator for Labor for the electorate of Capricornia in Central Queensland, and it's an...
- Billson, Mr Bruce, Tasmania: Law Enforcement (1 speech)
You'd think it would be a simple statement of truth that if you're paid to lobby you're a lobbyist. But for some reason we have laws in this country that say night is day, black is white, east is...
- Workplace Relations, Aged Care, Horse Racing (1 speech)
I congratulate the New South Wales Teachers Federation on a significant outcome in a recent New South Wales Industrial Relations Commission settlement. This settlement secures continuity of...
- Whaling (1 speech)
Every summer, Japan sends its fishing fleet and harpoon boats to the Southern Ocean to kill our whales. And in every Christmas break, I've pressured governments to act. I've done what I can as a...
