Senate debates
Tuesday, 5 December 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)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Banking and Financial Services (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. The Prime Minister, for more than 600 days, argued that a banking royal commission 'will do nothing'. But, after...
- National Security (10 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General, Senator Brandis. Following the announcement of the Prime Minister, the Attorney-General and Senator Cormann earlier today, can the Attorney provide the...
- Taxation (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. I refer to the Prime Minister who, on Sunday, when asked about his promise of cuts to personal income tax, said:...
- Immigration Detention (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment representing the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Minister, I refer you to the situation on Nauru, where your government continues to...
- Domestic and Family Violence (12 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Employment and the Minister for Women, Senator Cash. Can the minister please update the Senate on how the Turnbull government is working to tackle the...
- Workplace Relations (42 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment, Senator Cash. Yesterday, the government again voted to cut the pay of approximately 700,000 Australian workers who rely on penalty rates. The...
- Schools (25 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education and Training, Senator Birmingham. Can the minister outline how the Turnbull government is delivering record and growing levels of needs based funding...
- Transvaginal Mesh (7 speeches)
My question is to Senator Fierravanti-Wells, representing the Minister for Health. This time last year, I gave an adjournment speech where I called transvaginal mesh 'the biggest medical scandal...
- Workplace Relations (24 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment, Senator Cash. I refer to the member for Dawson, Mr Christensen, who yesterday said: I have spoken to the Minister for Employment Michaelia Cash and...
- Medicare (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for International Development and the Pacific representing the Minister for Health, Senator Fierravanti-Wells. Can the minister confirm that the Turnbull...
- Citizenship (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Senator Cash. The explanatory memorandum, which accompanied the Turnbull government's failed...
- Indigenous Affairs (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Senator Scullion. Can the minister update the Senate on the success of the coalition government's Indigenous Procurement Policy and advise...
- Party Office Holders (0 speeches)
- Australian Labor Party (1 speech)
by leave—I inform the Senate that, at the meeting of the federal parliamentary Labor Party this morning, Senator Ketter was elected to the position of Deputy Opposition Whip in the Senate....
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
by leave—I seek to provide some further information to a question asked of me by Senator Rhiannon in question time yesterday. I've advised Senator Rhiannon of this additional information....
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Banking and Financial Services (29 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 Senator Ketter today relating to the proposed Royal...
- Immigration Detention (1 speech)
I seek leave to move a motion to take note of Senator Cash's response to my question on the Nauru RPC. I indicate that I'd like to make a five-minute statement to that motion. Leave not granted.
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Israel: Relocation of Australian Embassy (1 speech)
by leave—I want to rise just very briefly to say why I've tabled this petition today on behalf of Australian Christians for Israel, a community group in Australia that has organised a...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That general business notice of motion no. 642 standing in her name for today, proposing an order for the production of documents by the Minister representing the Minister...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics References Committee; Reporting Date (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator. There being no such request, we will move on to the discovery of formal business.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Eureka Stockade (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that 3 December 2017 marked 163 years since the Eureka Stockade rebellion of 1854; (b) recognises the Eureka Stockade as the birthplace of the Australian...
- Aged Care (5 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Hinch, move: That the Senate— (a) notes the article in The Age, on 15 November 2017, regarding the residents of Berkeley Living retirement village in...
- Murray-Darling Basin Plan (15 speeches)
I seek to add the names of Senators Wong, Farrell and Gallagher to notice of motion No. 641 standing in my name.
- Taxation, Automotive Industry (9 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that 2 December 2017 marked one year since the South Australian Treasurer, the Honourable Tom Koutsantonis, MP, called for the abolition of tariffs "such...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Community Affairs References Committee; Additional Information (1 speech)
I present additional information received by the Community Affairs References Committee for its inquiry into the future of rugby union in Australia.
- Intelligence and Security Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, I present the committee's report, Review of the listing of Islamic State East Asia as a terrorist organization under...
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present report No. 8 of 2017, Referrals made 2017.
- Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee; Report (4 speeches)
I present the interim report of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee on the integrity of the water market in the Murray-Darling Basin, together with the Hansard...
- Senate Publications Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the report of the Standing Committee on Publications on the inquiry into the printing standards for documents presented to parliament. Ordered that the report be printed. Ordered that...
- Government Response to Report (3 speeches)
I present five government responses to committee reports as listed on today's Order of Business. In accordance with the usual practice, I seek leave to incorporate the documents in Hansard. Leave...
- Membership (2 speeches)
The President has received letters requesting changes in the membership of committees.
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- First Speech (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
Pursuant to order, I now call Senator Bartlett to make his first speech and ask honourable senators that the usual courtesies be extended to him.
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- New England By-Election, Bennelong By-Election (1 speech)
Last Saturday, the people of New England returned Barnaby Joyce to his rightful place as for member of New England. It was a huge victory and all the Labor lies about selling off Medicare and...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
I'd like to do a quick shout-out tonight to the workers and unions that I met today in Parliament House. I had a fantastic meeting with a bunch of fellows, and Ruth from the ETU, who came to talk...
- Law Enforcement (1 speech)
Decades ago, when I was hosting the eponymous Hinch current affairs program on television, I nicknamed Adelaide 'suppression city', because their magistrates and judges seemed to issue more...
- Broadband (1 speech)
To speak of the National Broadband Network is to speak of an infrastructure tragedy the likes of which we have not seen in this country in many years. It is to speak of an entire...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I want to speak tonight about the terrible and heart-wrenching case of Arash Shirmohamadi. Arash is an Iranian refugee. He's currently held in Australia's offshore detention system on Nauru....
- Bennelong By-Election, Inequality (5 speeches)
I rise to make some remarks about the inequality that exists in Australia and concerns that the gap between the rich and the poor is at a 70-year high. Hardworking Australian men and women are...
- Family Matters Report 2017 (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about the escalating crisis of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care. Last week in the Great Hall, the National Voice for our Children...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak yet again about the Turnbull government's blatant disregard and disrespect for the care of older Australians. Here we are at the end of another year—it's now...
- Organ and Tissue Authority (1 speech)
Tonight, I want to highlight some interesting points raised by the Australian government Organ and Tissue Authority. One organ and tissue donor can transform the lives of 10 or more people....
- Garment Industry Workers (1 speech)
On 25 December, many Australians around the nation will come together to exchange gifts, love and delight, and the delicious tastes of the season. Australians love this time of the year and fully...
- Select Committee on Red Tape (1 speech)
I rise to speak about a 24 November article in TheAustralian by Adam Creighton, which reports that a trio of anti-smoking health nannies, led by Simon Chapman, provided a 'series of factual...
- Queensland State Election (1 speech)
Tonight I rise to talk about the increasing likelihood that Labor will be re-elected to govern the state of Queensland with a majority of 47 seats. I don't want to jinx it, but we're getting...
- Human Rights (1 speech)
In May this year, the High-Level Working Group for Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents launched its report—the first of its kind, presented to both the World Health...
- Capitalism (1 speech)
When our transitory Prime Minister, Mr Turnbull, announced a royal commission into banking, whose terms of reference he has since rorted, he added, 'It will not put capitalism on trial.' Maybe it...
- National Security (1 speech)
I rise to speak about aspects of Australia's national security, including parliamentary oversight of our intelligence agencies—an issue I briefly referred to in my first speech in the...
