Senate debates
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statement by the President (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Language (1 speech)
Before we move to questions without notice, I'd like to bring a matter back to the chamber. Yesterday, I undertook to review two points of order taken in relation to a supplementary question from...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Broadband (22 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield. Yesterday, NBN Co announced an immediate halt in the rollout of its second-rate HFC cable because it's unable to deliver a...
- Schools (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education and Training, Senator Birmingham. Can the government provide an update on the latest student enrolment census and student characteristics and the...
- Queensland State Election (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator Canavan. This week, the minister sought to distance the federal National Party from the Queensland election result,...
- International Day of People with Disability (11 speeches)
My question is directed to Senator Fifield, representing the Minister for Social Services. As I hope you know, this Sunday, 3 December, is the 25th International Day of People with Disability,...
- Western Australia: Goods and Services Tax (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. The Productivity Commission's October draft report, Horizontal Fiscal Equalisation, HFE, has considered a new GST distribution model....
- Banking and Financial Services (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. I refer to the minister's statement yesterday that a royal commission into the banks will take forever and achieve...
- Medicare (22 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator Fierravanti-Wells. Will the minister outline to the Senate the Turnbull government's ongoing commitment to...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services, Senator Fifield. We've done some sums and worked out that $180 million could fund nearly 1,000 full-time carers for...
- Queensland State Election (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. The minister yesterday told the Senate that 'flirting with One Nation is poison for my side of politics'. Why then...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (22 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield. What is the government's response to yesterday's announcement by the ABC's triple j that its Hottest 100 countdown will no...
- Women's World Cup (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Sport, Senator Fifield. In September, Minister Hunt's department said that FIFA and the Football Federation of Australia governance...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Queensland State Election (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia (Senator Canavan) to a question without notice asked by Senator Watt today relating to...
- International Day of People with Disability (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services (Senator Fifield) to a question without notice asked by Senator Steele-John...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Hearn, Mrs Jean Margaret (7 speeches)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death on 20 November 2017 of Jean Margaret Hearn, a senator for the state of Tasmania from 1980 to 1985.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Myanmar (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Watt, move: That the Senate— (a) remains extremely troubled by the continuing conflict between minorities, including Rohingya Muslims, and armed forces in...
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) 25 November 2017 marked International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, (ii) the United Nations (UN)...
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Immigration Detention (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) on 23 and 24 November 2017, Papua New Guinea police and immigration officials entered the Regional Processing Centre on Manus...
- Universal Service Obligation (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) reviews conducted by the Regional Telecommunications Review Committee, the Productivity Commission and the Australian National Audit...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That general business notice of motion no. 599 standing in my name for today, relating to an order for production of documents relating to a potential Northern Australia...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Returning of the Remains of Mungo Man to Country (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) acknowledges the historic occasion of the returning of the remains of Mungo Man to country on 17 November 2017; (b) pays its respects to the Aboriginal...
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Commonwealth Ombudsman; Consideration (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. This is not my first speech. I sit here today filled with those emotions which so often bring that sentence to your mouth: I hate to say I told...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Human Rights Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present the 12th report of 2017: Human rights scrutiny report. Ordered that the report be printed. I seek leave to have the tabling statement...
- Treaties Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the 175th report of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties: OECD tax measures BEPS; International Solar Alliance—agreement; Air Services—three agreements. I move: That the...
- Cancer Funding; Report (2 speeches)
I present the report of the Select Committee into Funding for Research into Cancers with Low Survival Rates, together with the Hansard record of proceedings and documents presented to the...
- Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the report of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee on the law of contempt, together with the documents presented to the committee. Ordered that the report be...
- Membership (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That senators be discharged from and appointed to committees as follows: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee— Appointed—Substitute member:...
- Bills (0 speeches)
