Senate debates
Monday, 25 June 2018
- Committees (0 speeches)
- 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.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (21 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to the conduct of business in the Senate—namely, a motion that government business order of the day No. 3, the Treasury Laws Amendment (Enterprise Tax...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2018-2019, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2018-2019, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2018-2019, Appropriation Bill (No. 5) 2017-2018, Appropriation Bill (No. 6) 2017-2018; 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.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2018-2019, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2018-2019, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2018-2019, Appropriation Bill (No. 5) 2017-2018, Appropriation Bill (No. 6) 2017-2018; Second Reading (5 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— A ppropriation...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2018-2019, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2018-2019, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2018-2019, Appropriation Bill (No. 5) 2017-2018, Appropriation Bill (No. 6) 2017-2018; Third Reading (2 speeches)
Pursuant to standing order 115(4), proposed expenditure has been considered by legislative and general purpose standing committees. As no amendments or requests have been circulated, I call the...
- Water Amendment Bill 2018; Second Reading (4 speeches)
When as minister in the previous Labor government Tony Burke introduced the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, he talked about the long and fraught history around this wonderful environmental asset we...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
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I advise the Senate that Senator Payne will be absent from question time today due to overseas ministerial business. In Senator Payne's absence, I will represent the Minister for Defence, the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. Can the minister confirm that, not satisfied with giving investment bankers a $7,000-a-year tax cut, the Turnbull...
- Employment (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Senator Cash. Can the minister further update the Senate about the Turnbull government's commitment to creating jobs in my home state of...
- Taxation (9 speeches)
My question's to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. Can the minister confirm that just three companies headquartered in Longman will benefit from further corporate tax...
- Telecommunications (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Communications—
- Pensions and Benefits (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services, Senator Fierravanti-Wells. Last week the government got its tax cuts through the Senate, giving people on the highest...
- Broadband (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield: Is the minister aware that Caboolture, in the electorate of Longman, has been rated as having the highest number of complaints...
- Veterans (13 speeches)
My question is to Minister Cormann, representing the Minister for Defence, Minister Payne.
- Energy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Energy, Senator Birmingham. Can the minister explain to the Senate the Turnbull government's investment in pumped...
- Donations to Political Parties (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. The Attorney-General has made clear that tackling foreign interference is a priority of the Turnbull government....
- Energy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator Canavan. Minister, last year, Australia faced a gas supply crisis where prices were high and supplies were limited....
- Live Animal Exports (8 speeches)
I direct my question to Senator Canavan, representing the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. An overwhelming number of Australians want the cruel live export trade to end. In this...
- Energy (26 speeches)
My question is to the minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. I refer to the article in this morning's The Australian entitled 'Coalition elders fire up for coal'. Former...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Broadband (1 speech)
Mr President, I wish to add to a previous answer. Senator Watt put a question to me about NBN complaints in the seat of Longman. Now I can advise colleagues that the Telecommunications Industry...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Taxation (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Cormann) to questions without notice asked by Senators Kitching and Chisholm today relating to company...
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for International Development and the Pacific (Senator Fierravanti-Wells) to a question without notice asked by Senator...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators: (a) Senator Payne for today, on account of parliamentary business; and (b) Senator Williams for 25 and 26 June...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Reporting Date (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Charitable Organisations (8 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 868, standing in my name and that of Senators Rhiannon and McKim for today, relating to charities and foreign interference legislation....
- Freedom of Speech (13 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 872 standing in my name for today by substituting the words 'New South Wales government' and replacing it with 'New South Wales...
- Great Australian Bight: World Heritage Listing (14 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) around 85 per cent of marine life within the Great Australian Bight is found nowhere else on Earth, and (ii) British...
- Mount Barker Aquatic Centre (10 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Federal Government has announced $10 million in funding for an aquatic centre rebuild in Mount Barker, in the federal electorate...
- Middle East (4 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 860, standing in my name for today relating to the Palestinian Authority. Leave granted. I amend the motion in the terms circulated in...
- United States of America (4 speeches)
I ask general business notice of motion No. 878, standing in my name today relating to the policy of US President Trump to forcibly separate families of people seeking asylum in the US be taken...
- Suspension of Standing Orders (25 speeches)
Pursuant to contingent notice and at the request of Senator Di Natale, I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent Senator McKim moving a motion relating to the...
- Bush, Mrs Laura (2 speeches)
I ask that general business notice of motion No. 883 standing in my name for today be taken as a formal motion.
- Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation (8 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 871 standing in my name for today before asking that it be taken as a formal motion. Leave granted. I move the motion as amended: That...
- Australia Day (10 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) supports: (i) Australia Day being held on 26 January each year, and (ii) our national flag and anthem; and (b) opposes any move to...
- Australian Government Procurement (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Australian Government's hire of public sector workers and purchase of goods and services makes it the largest single spender in...
- Aged Care (4 speeches)
At the request of Senator Polley, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the public release of the latest quarterly data on the home care package wait list has been...
- Poverty (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) on 23 June 2018, it will be 31 years since the then Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, told the Australian Labor Party's election campaign...
- Climate Change, Agriculture Industry (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (1) commends recent public comments relating to the impacts of climate change from the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, including that "we need to help...
- Cambodia: General Election (3 speeches)
I move That the Senate— (a) notes: (i) the suppression of democracy in Cambodia, the jailing of Opposition leader Kem Sokha and the dissolution of the main Opposition party, the...
- Yemen (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) 80 per cent of people in Yemen are dependent on humanitarian assistance or protection, (ii) 30 per cent of people in...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Electoral Matters Committee; Reference (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Farrell, I move: That the Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Lowering Voting Ages and Increasing Voter Participation) Bill 2018 be referred to the Joint Standing...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Special Broadcasting Service (7 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) a 2016 sub-licensing deal between Optus and the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) allowed Optus to screen all 64 matches of the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Health Care (8 speeches)
I inform the Senate that at 8.30 am today, four proposals were received by the President in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
I table the response to a question taken on notice during question time, asked on 19 June by Senator Rice, relating to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—PFAS—contamination.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (Single Quality Framework) Reform Bill 2018, Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2018, National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Mandatory Comprehensive Credit Reporting) Bill 2018, Social Services Legislation Amendment (Payments for Carers) Bill 2018, Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Measures No. 4) Bill 2018, Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2018, Treasury Laws Amendment (Accelerated Depreciation for Small Business Entities) 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...
- Aged Care (Single Quality Framework) Reform Bill 2018, Australian Research Council Amendment Bill 2018, National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Mandatory Comprehensive Credit Reporting) Bill 2018, Social Services Legislation Amendment (Payments for Carers) Bill 2018, Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Measures No. 4) Bill 2018, Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2018, Treasury Laws Amendment (Accelerated Depreciation for Small Business Entities) 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— Aged Care (Single...
- Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card Trial Expansion) Bill 2018; First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill may proceed without formalities and be now read a first time. Question agreed to. Bill read a first time.
- Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card Trial Expansion) Bill 2018; Second Reading (2 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speech incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speech read as follows— S ocial S ervices L...
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Amendment Bill 2018, Corporations (Review Fees) Amendment Bill 2018, Treasury Laws Amendment (APRA Governance) 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...
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Amendment Bill 2018, Corporations (Review Fees) Amendment Bill 2018, Treasury Laws Amendment (APRA Governance) 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— Australian...
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Braddon By-Election (2 speeches)
It is a pleasure to make a contribution to the adjournment debate tonight. Here we are in the last week of parliament, before we depart this place for the winter break—and I can see the...
- The Greens New South Wales (1 speech)
The Greens New South Wales is the party I joined in 1990. It is the party I'm very proud to be a member of, the party that has consistently shown what a well-organised, small, left-wing party can...
