Senate debates
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Law Enforcement Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator. There being none, we will move on.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Death Penalty (2 speeches)
Mr President, I want to draw your attention to a matter that occurred yesterday during formal motions which I believe may have invalidated a vote. I seek your guidance. Senator Dean Smith...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Royal Flying Doctor Service, Drought (1 speech)
I must comment to Minister Cormann that he demonstrated some better dance moves there than the member for Dawson—if that is even possible! But now a change of pace, if I might. In the time...
- Economy, Cooper, Professor David, AC (1 speech)
We know in Australia that the economy, supposedly of jobs and growth, is absolutely not delivering for middle Australians. Hardworking Australian men and women are working in an environment where...
- Marine Plastic Pollution (1 speech)
This is a very special senators' statement for me today. I've just passed my sixth year in this place, officially. Nearly six years ago, as a new senator, I did my first 'senators' statements',...
- Education (3 speeches)
It is a pleasure to rise to make a statement today on an issue that I've been quite passionate about since my election to this place a couple of years ago, and that's the issue of civics...
- Music Industry, John Lennon Educational Tour Bus (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the current state of the Australian music industry and the general decline of interest in and support for new Australian music in this great country. I recently came...
- Department of Veterans' Affairs (1 speech)
I want to go back to question time yesterday when I put several questions to defence minister Payne, representing the latest Minister for Veterans' Affair, Darren Chester. He is probably the...
- James Cook University, Australian National University (1 speech)
Freedom is a basic principle of the political party I support, the Liberal National Party of Queensland. It is also an underlying principle of the Liberal Party of Australia and the National...
- Child Care, Early Childhood Education (2 speeches)
I want to use my time in senators' statements for the very practical purpose of alerting working families who rely on child care that the system is about to change and their payments may well be...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Employment (9 speeches)
My question without notice is to the Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Senator Cash. Today, Telstra workers and their families have been devastated by the announcement that Telstra will shed...
- Infrastructure (10 speeches)
It's evident after yesterday's performance that the government tacticians have established the potency of the O'Sullivan-Scullion team!
- Income Tax (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. In question time yesterday the Prime Minister's advice to a 60-year-old aged-care worker in Burnie who will be...
- Asylum Seekers (22 speeches)
My question is to Senator Fifield representing the Minister for Home Affairs. Minister, I refer you to the case of a 63-year-old Hazara man who sought asylum in Australia and is currently being...
- Space Industry (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Minister Cash. Can the minister update the Senate about the government's announcement in the budget on investing in Australia's civil space...
- Defence Procurement (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence and concerns the nationally important Future Submarine project. Is it not the case that, at estimates, your department testified that the design and...
- Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (8 speeches)
In directing my question to the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, I thank him for his energy in the work he does towards the development of northern Australia. I ask the minister if...
- Taxation (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Cormann. The government expects a $3.7 billion boost to revenue from tobacco excise and customs duty over the next four years...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield. In his first speech to the Senate, Assistant Minister McGrath, the former deputy federal director of the Liberal Party, said,...
- Defence (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne. Can the minister update the Senate on how Australia is strengthening defence cooperation with our Pacific partners?
- Special Broadcasting Service (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield. On Monday, SBS managing director Michael Ebeid said of the decision to sublicense World Cup games to Optus: … it does...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (10 speeches)
My question is to Senator Fierravanti-Wells, the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services. Can the minister provide the Senate with an update on the rollout of the National...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (88 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to the consideration of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Personal Income Tax Plan) Bill 2018. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice standing in my...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Employment (14 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Jobs and Innovation (Senator Cash) to a question without notice asked by Senator Carr today relating to Telstra. In doing...
- First Speech (0 speeches)
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I ask senators to remember the traditional courtesies for a first speech and to observe them.
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Employment (2 speeches)
After a speech like that, it's fantastic to come and talk about smaller government and lower, fairer and simpler taxes. The things we just heard from Senator Stoker are about the importance of...
- Defence Procurement (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Defence (Senator Payne) to a question without notice asked by Senator Patrick today relating to the Future Submarine...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That general business order of the day no. 57 (Taxation Administration Amendment (Corporate Tax Entity Information) Bill 2017) be considered on Monday, 25 June 2018 at the time for...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- World Haemochromatosis Week (1 speech)
At the request of Senators Bilyk and Sterle, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) 4 June to 10 June 2018 was World Haemochromatosis Week, (ii) around 1 in...
- Johnson, Mr Tori (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Smith, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that on 29 March 2018, the late Mr Tori Johnson was honoured by being posthumously awarded the Star of Courage (SC),...
- Asylum Seekers (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate calls upon the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr Dutton), to ensure that: (a) South African minorities targeted by hate crimes can seek asylum as easily as any other groups...
- Immigration Detention (16 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Shorten, was quoted in the Guardian as saying, "We don't believe that mandatory detention has the necessary result...
- World Refugee Day (5 speeches)
I inform the chamber that Senator Griff will also sponsor this motion. and I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 866 standing in my name and the name of Senator Griff in the...
- Chronic Disease (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes the launch today of Preventing Chronic Disease - How does Australia Score?, a score card produced by Prevention 1st, a campaign by the Foundation for...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- United Nations World Refugee Day (1 speech)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 858 standing in the name of Senators Pratt, Singh and Carr relating to the United Nations World Refugee Day. I seek to amend '22...
- Brain Cancer (1 speech)
At the request of Senators Bilyk and Griff, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the month of May was Brain Cancer Awareness Month, (ii) brain cancer is the...
- Feral Animals (12 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the agricultural industry is vital to the Australian economy, (ii) farming families face hardships such as drought,...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Funde, Mr Eddie (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) Mr Eddie Funde, the first diplomat to be appointed to the African National Congress's Mission to Australasia and the Pacific, died...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) encompasses a range of conditions that can occur in an individual with prenatal exposure to...
- Marine Plastic Pollution (4 speeches)
I'm so glad we got to this one today. I move: That the Senate— (a) notes: (i) that Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the European Union signed an Oceans...
- Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript (4 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 851 standing in my name for today. The terms of the amendment were circulated in the chamber earlier. Leave granted. I move the motion...
- Goods and Services Tax (11 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 855 standing in my name by substituting the word 'Treasurer' for the words 'Minister for Finance (Senator Cormann)' in paragraph (c)....
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Grandparents (1 speech)
I'd like to take a little time this evening on the adjournment to talk about an important issue, which is grandparent carers across the Australian community, specifically the progress that has...
- Braddon By-Election (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the upcoming Super Saturday elections. In particular, I'd like to talk about the by-election in Braddon. The upcoming by-election in Braddon is a fantastic opportunity for the...
- EX-MED Cancer (1 speech)
As many in this place know, I'm a passionate advocate for cancer patients and their families. We need to find better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancers of all kinds. I want to speak...
- Voting Age (1 speech)
One of the joys of being a senator—and I'm currently the youngest to occupy that role in this place—has been meeting with hundreds of young people. I've had the opportunity to speak...
- United Nations Human Rights Council (1 speech)
This is not my first speech. I rise today to highlight the utter failure that is the United Nations Human Rights Council. This worm-eaten body of foreign despots and failing states has lost all...
- United Nations Human Rights Council, Young Liberal Movement, Cancer, Braddon By-Election (1 speech)
This is an adjournment debate. I want to make a couple of comments, first of all, to Senator Anning, to say that Australia was proudly just recently elected to the United Nations Human Rights...
