Senate debates
Monday, 18 June 2018
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
I seek leave to make a statement relating to my parliamentary representation. Leave granted. I advise the Senate that I have become a member of the National Party of Australia and will sit with...
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Consideration by Estimates Committees (1 speech)
I seek leave to make a short clarifying statement. Leave granted. On behalf of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, I wish to provide additional information in relation to my...
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- New South Wales (1 speech)
I seek leave to take note of the statement made by Senator Burston. Leave not granted.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: That the following bills be considered today at the time for private senators' bills: No. 78, Treasury Laws Amendment (Axe the Tampon Tax) Bill 2018 Animal Export Legislation Amendment...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Axe the Tampon Tax) Bill 2018; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I rise to speak on the Treasury Laws Amendment (Axe the Tampon Tax) Bill 2018, which seeks to remove the goods and services tax from sanitary products. Sanitary products are defined in this bill...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Axe the Tampon Tax) Bill 2018; Third Reading (2 speeches)
As no amendments to the bill have been circulated, I shall call Senator Rice to move the third reading unless any senator requires that the bill be considered in Committee of the Whole.
- Animal Export Legislation Amendment (Ending Long-haul Live Sheep Exports) Bill 2018; First Reading (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senators Rhiannon and Storer, move: That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to the long-haul export of live sheep, and for...
- Animal Export Legislation Amendment (Ending Long-haul Live Sheep Exports) Bill 2018; Second Reading (13 speeches)
I present the explanatory memorandum and move: That this bill be now read a second time. As an intro to this now, sadly, repetitive debate about a cruel, barbaric practice—which I promise...
- Criminal Code Amendment (Impersonating a Commonwealth Body) Bill 2017; Third Reading (2 speeches)
I didn't speak during the second reading debate on the Criminal Code Amendment (Impersonating a Commonwealth Body) Bill 2017, because the speakers' list collapsed, so I now want to address the...
- National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2018, National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2018; 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.
- National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2018, National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2018; Second Reading (9 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— NATIONAL REDRESS...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield. On the eve of the 2013 federal election the then Liberal Leader of the Opposition, Mr Abbott, promised that under a...
- Employment (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Senator Cash. Can the minister update the Senate about recent ABS labour force statistics, including the number of jobs created in recent years?
- Taxation (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. The Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the Minister for Finance have repeatedly refused to be up-front about the cost of the...
- Broadband (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield.
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield. Before becoming Prime Minister, Tony Abbott promised that there would be no cuts to the ABC. He broke that promise and cut...
- Taxation (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. Can the minister confirm that under the Turnbull government's income tax plan the Prime Minister's own electorate of Wentworth will...
- Goods and Services Tax (9 speeches)
My question to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. Minister, earlier this month, Perth's TheSunday Times published an article suggesting the government is getting ready to announce an 80c...
- Mining Industry (8 speeches)
My question is to Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator Canavan. Can the minister update the Senate on the contribution the resources sector makes to the Australian economy?
- Taxation (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. Can the minister confirm that, under the Turnbull government's income tax plan, former Prime Minister Abbott's electorate of Warringah...
- Pensions and Benefits (10 speeches)
My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Social Services, Senator Fierravanti-Wells. Could the minister outline how the Turnbull government is providing more choice in...
- Asylum Seekers (13 speeches)
My question is to Senator Fifield, representing the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Minister, I refer you to the death last week on Nauru of Fariborz, a man who sought...
- Minister for Jobs and Innovation (20 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Senator Cash. I refer to the minister who, on 30 May, in relation to the Australian Federal Police investigation into leaks about an AFP...
- Skilling Australians Fund (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education and Training, Senator Birmingham. Can the minister update the Senate on the states and territories that have recently signed up to the Turnbull...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Taxation, Broadband (6 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Cormann) and the Minister for Communications (Senator Fifield) to questions without notice asked by...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Communications (Senator Fifield) to a question without notice asked by Senator McKim today relating to the death of an...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Carrick, Hon. Sir John Leslie AC, KCMG (5 speeches)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death, on 18 May 2018, of the Hon. Sir John Leslie Carrick AC, KCMG, a senator for the state of New South Wales from 1971 to 1987.
- Jessop, Mr Donald Scott (4 speeches)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death, on 21 May 2018, of Donald Scott Jessop, a senator for the state of South Australia from 1971 to 1987 and a member of the House of...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing order 78(1), I give notice of my intention, at the giving of notices on the next day of sitting, to withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 2 standing in my name...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Ruston for today, on account of parliamentary business. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Reporting Date (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal of the request of any senator.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Broadband; Order for the Production of Documents (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) in its response to question on notice no. 197 from the October 2017 supplementary estimates hearings, NBN Co provided breakdowns on...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Bangladesh (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) this year marks the 50th anniversary of the one of world's worst mass industrial manslaughter incidents in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (32 speeches)
I inform the Senate that, at 8.30 am today, three proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2018, A New Tax System (Medicare Levy Surcharge — Fringe Benefits) Amendment (Excess Levels for Private Health Insurance Policies) Bill 2018, Medicare Levy Amendment (Excess Levels for Private Health Insurance Policies) Bill 2018; 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.
- Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2018, A New Tax System (Medicare Levy Surcharge — Fringe Benefits) Amendment (Excess Levels for Private Health Insurance Policies) Bill 2018, Medicare Levy Amendment (Excess Levels for Private Health Insurance Policies) Bill 2018; Second Reading (1 speech)
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— PRIVATE HEALTH...
- Road Vehicle Standards Bill 2018, Road Vehicle Standards (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018, Road Vehicle Standards Charges (Imposition — General) Bill 2018, Road Vehicle Standards Charges (Imposition — Customs) Bill 2018, Road Vehicle Standards Charges (Imposition — Excise) Bill 2018; 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.
- Road Vehicle Standards Bill 2018, Road Vehicle Standards (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018, Road Vehicle Standards Charges (Imposition — General) Bill 2018, Road Vehicle Standards Charges (Imposition — Customs) Bill 2018, Road Vehicle Standards Charges (Imposition — Excise) Bill 2018; Second Reading (1 speech)
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— ROAD VEHICLE...
- Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer) Bill 2018, Telecommunications (Regional Broadband Scheme) Charge Bill 2018; 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.
- Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer) Bill 2018, Telecommunications (Regional Broadband Scheme) Charge Bill 2018; Second Reading (1 speech)
I table the revised explanatory memoranda relating to the bills, and I move: That these bills be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speeches incorporated in Hansard....
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Black Economy Taskforce Measures No. 1) Bill 2018, Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2018, Treasury Laws Amendment (Medicare Levy and Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2018, Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Veteran-centric Reforms No. 2) Bill 2018; First Reading (1 speech)
These bills are being introduced together. After debate on the motion for the second reading has been adjourned, I shall move a motion to have the bills listed separately on the Notice Paper. I...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Black Economy Taskforce Measures No. 1) Bill 2018, Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2018, Treasury Laws Amendment (Medicare Levy and Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2018, Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Veteran-centric Reforms No. 2) Bill 2018; Second Reading (1 speech)
I table a revised explanatory memorandum relating to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Black Economy Taskforce Measures No. 1) Bill 2018, and I move: That these bills be now read a second time. I seek...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Personal Income Tax Plan) Bill 2018, Water Amendment Bill 2018; First Reading (1 speech)
These bills are being introduced together. After debate on the motion for the second reading has been adjourned, I shall move a motion to have the bills listed separately on the Notice Paper. I...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Personal Income Tax Plan) Bill 2018, Water Amendment Bill 2018; Second Reading (1 speech)
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— This Bill...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Personal Income Tax Plan) Bill 2018; Report from Committee (1 speech)
Pursuant to order and at the request of the Chair of the Senate Economics Legislation Committee, I present the report of the committee on the Treasury Laws Amendment (Personal Income Tax Plan)...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2018; Report from Committee (1 speech)
Pursuant to order and at the request of the Chair of the Senate Economics Legislation Committee, I present the report of the committee on the Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Superannuation Measures...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Integrity and Other Measures No. 2) Bill 2018; Report from Committee (1 speech)
Pursuant to order and at the request of the Chair of the Senate Economics Legislation Committee, I present the report of the committee on the Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Integrity and Other...
- Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Veteran-centric Reforms No. 2) Bill 2018; Report from Committee (1 speech)
Pursuant to order and at the request of the Chair of the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee, I present the report of the committee on the Veterans' Affairs...
- National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2018, National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2018; Second Reading (15 speeches)
Senator Moore, you're in continuation.
- National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2018, National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2018; In Committee (218 speeches)
I'd like to direct to the minister a question asking her to explain why the government chose a maximum compensation payment of $150,000 rather than the $200,000 recommended by the royal commission.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Royal Australian Survey Corps (1 speech)
I rise this evening to honour a number of Australian servicemen who were recently recognised at a recognition ceremony conducted by the Royal Australian Survey Corps Association of Western...
- Taxation (1 speech)
This week I suspect that overall the time in this chamber is mostly going to be spent debating various different proposals around tax cuts. I thought it was important to take the opportunity,...
- South Africa (1 speech)
This is not my first speech. Appallingly, we've heard a deafening silence from the vast majority when it comes to the dire straits that white South African farmers face. While there have been a...
- Motorsport (1 speech)
You may be aware that I have spoken in this place before about the widespread participation in and the positive impact of motorsport across Australia. Every week many thousands of Australians...
