Senate debates
Wednesday, 15 August 2018
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- North Queensland (1 speech)
I am a senator for Queensland. I represent the whole state of Queensland and am a very proud Queenslander. I hope that, over the years, I've done things in this place that will help my state. But...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Last month, I was in Townsville with the Labor Medicare Caucus Committee. We met with locals—and I'm sure Senator Macdonald will be interested in this issue—aged-care providers and...
- Migration (1 speech)
It was pleasing to see this morning such a strong, unified voice from senators across most of the party spectrums in this place reaffirming total opposition to not just the White Australia policy...
- Early Learning Matters Week, Australian Capital Territory: Seniors, National Science Week, Gordon Community Centre, Australian Capital Territory: Constituent Celebrations (1 speech)
In recognition of Early Learning Matters Week, which runs from 5 to 12 August, I was very grateful to be hosted by the brilliant team at YMCA Holt Early Learning Centre. Supported by federal...
- Road Safety (1 speech)
I rise in this period of senators' statements to talk about an issue that I refer to frequently in this place. It's probably fairly ironic that we've spent a couple of days debating euthanasia,...
- Murray-Darling Basin (1 speech)
I rise to speak on an issue that I have spoken about several times, but it's not an issue that's only restricted to South Australia; it's an issue that deals with a national asset of ours, which...
- Jameikis, Mr Stasys, Armenian Genocide (1 speech)
Imagine slowly waking up, familiarising yourself with your frozen surroundings and realising you're on a heap of frozen bodies left for dead in a makeshift morgue. This is just part of Stasys...
- Energy (1 speech)
I rise to speak about energy policy and the significance of bipartisanship in energy policy. The Prime Minister this week, of course, has made real efforts at bipartisanship. I'm talking about...
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- New South Wales (1 speech)
I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from Senator Rhiannon resigning her place as a senator for the state of New South Wales. Pursuant to the provisions of section 21 of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (29 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. On Monday, the minister told the Senate, 'We are absolutely committed to taking business tax cuts to the next election.' Yesterday,...
- National Energy Guarantee (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Energy, Senator Birmingham. Will the minister please update the Senate on how the National Energy Guarantee will...
- Energy (19 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Energy, Senator Birmingham. The Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering released a statement on Monday...
- Centrelink (8 speeches)
My question is to Senator Fierravanti-Wells, the Minister representing the Minister for Human Services. It has been reported today that the government had recently decided to bypass its own...
- Income Tax (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Senator Cash. Can the minister update the Senate about how the Turnbull government's personal income tax cuts for individual Australians...
- Immigration Detention (8 speeches)
My question is to Senator Fifield, representing the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. I refer to the Queensland coroner's report of two weeks ago on the preventable death of Iranian...
- Enhancing Online Safety (Non-consensual Sharing of Intimate Images) Bill 2018 (8 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield. Can the minister please update the Senate on what the coalition government is doing to protect victims of image based abuse?
- Breastfeeding (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator McKenzie. Yesterday the Senate agreed, without any opposition, to my motion to remove the GST from breastfeeding...
- Great Barrier Reef Foundation (39 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Energy, Senator Birmingham. On Monday, Minister Frydenberg said in relation to the government's grant of almost...
- Drought (7 speeches)
My question is to Senator Canavan, the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Minister, how is the coalition government assisting farming households with help and...
- Great Barrier Reef Foundation (15 speeches)
I thank Senator Ketter for his question. I don't have details on the consultancies that may or may not have been engaged by the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. I am quite happy to take on notice...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Great Barrier Reef Foundation (9 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Education and Training (Senator Birmingham) to questions without notice asked by Senators Keneally and Ketter today...
- Centrelink (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)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That the following general business orders of the day be considered on Monday, 20 August 2018 at the time for private senators' bills: No. 86 Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Tuberculosis (4 speeches)
At the request of Senator Singh, I move: That the Senate: (a) notes that: (i) Tuberculosis (TB) was declared an emergency in 1993 by the World Health Organization and causes more deaths than any...
- Political Re-Education Internment Camps (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) expresses the view that political re-education internment camps are the tool of brutal totalitarian government; and (b) urges the Minister for Foreign Affairs...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Australian Antarctic Division (4 speeches)
At the request of Senators Bilyk and Brown, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Australian Antarctic Division’s (AAD) headquarters is based in Kingston, Tasmania, (ii)...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That Business of the Senate order of the day No. 5, proposing a reference to the Finance and Public Administration References Committee, be discharged from the Notice...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- R U OK? Day (1 speech)
I seek leave to amend the motion to include the name of Senator Siewert. Leave granted. I, and also on behalf of Senator Siewert, move the motion as amended: That the Senate— (a) notes...
- Raue, Mr Tom (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that Mr Tom Raue, recently preselected as the New South Wales Greens candidate for the inner Sydney seat of Summer Hill, once wrote in a student newspaper...
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate: (a) notes that: (i) since September 2015, there have been a number of parliamentary inquiries into contamination of Defence-owned and neighbouring properties...
- Confucius Institute (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate: (a) notes the increasing number of Confucius classes or institutes being established within the Australian education system, accompanied by generous foreign government...
- Digital Encryption (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate: (a) notes that: (i) on 27 March 2018, the Senate passed a motion recognising the importance of strong digital encryption in protecting the personal and...
- Glyphosate (14 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 959 standing in my name for today, relating to glyphosate, before asking that it be taken as a formal motion. Leave granted. I move the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Scrutiny of Bills Committee; Scrutiny Digest (1 speech)
On behalf of Senator Polley, I present Scrutiny Digest No. 8 of 2018 of the Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills, together with the corrigendum to the annual report for 2017.
- Regulations and Ordinances Committee; Delegated Legislation Monitor (1 speech)
I present Delegated Legislation Monitor No. 8 of 2018 of the Standing Committee and Regulation and Ordinances. I move: That the Senate take note of the report. I rise to speak briefly on the...
- Select Committee on Red Tape; Report (1 speech)
I present two interim reports of the Select Committee on Red Tape, as listed at item 13 of today's Order of Business, together with the Hansard record of proceedings and documents presented to...
- Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present the seventh report of 2018, Human rights scrutiny report. I seek leave to have the tabling statement incorporated into...
- Joint Standing Committee on Treaties; Report (1 speech)
I present the 180th report of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, entitled Report 180: Peru FTA; EU framework agreement; Timor Treaty-maritime boundaries; WIPO Australian Patent Office;...
- Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights; Report (1 speech)
In regard to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights seventh report of 2018, Human rights scrutiny report, tabled by Senator Bushby, I move: That the Senate take note of the report....
- Joint Standing Committee on Treaties; Report (1 speech)
I rise to make a statement concerning report 180 of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, which has just been tabled. The report deals with seven treaty actions, including the Peru-Australia...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Halal Action Movement (1 speech)
Having spoken to the whips, I have a nonconforming petition which was supposed to be tabled just before, and I seek leave to do that. Leave granted.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- NAIDOC Week (5 speeches)
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- Forsaken Fighters Australia (1 speech)
Back in May, I spoke in this place about a group of Australians—Australian residents and Australian citizens—who have come to this place in recent years. I revisit the topic I raised...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
Today I would like to speak about the average staffing level cap on public servants. This blunt instrument, as it is described by the secretary of the Prime Minister's own department, causes...
