Senate debates
Tuesday, 11 September 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 continue.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Liberal Party Leadership (10 speeches)
My question is to Minister for Communications and the Arts, Senator Fifield. On Thursday, 23 August, the day before Malcolm Turnbull was sacked by his own party room, Minister Fifield announced...
- National Security (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Payne. Can the minister advise the Senate as to how Australia is working with its international partners and allies around the world to...
- Liberal Party Leadership (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and the Public Service, Senator Cormann. When announcing support for his friend Peter to become Prime Minister, the minister was asked whether he had...
- Minister for Home Affairs (19 speeches)
My question is to the minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. Minister, I note with alarm revelations in today's Fairfax papers that the home affairs minister, Peter Dutton,...
- Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (31 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Senator Birmingham. Can the minister confirm that the Labor Party objected to ISDS and labour market testing provisions in their...
- Morrison Government (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. On Monday last week, the government's entire infrastructure plan was leaked to the media. On Tuesday, the...
- Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Senator Birmingham. Notwithstanding that the minister touched on this in an earlier question, will the minister advise the Senate...
- Law Enforcement (7 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. I was a member of the select committee which recommended a Commonwealth agency to address crime and corruption...
- Minister for Home Affairs (37 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator McKenzie. In an article in this morning's Age newspaper entitled 'Dutton sought job help for mate' it is...
- Indigenous Affairs (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Senator Scullion. It was great to see Senator Scullion in Western Australia last week. Can the minister advise the Senate about how the...
- Members of Parliament: Conduct (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. Yesterday, during question time, the Prime Minister said that the government whip would handle complaints about...
- Drought (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Services, Sport, Local Government and Decentralisation, Senator McKenzie. Can the minister update the Senate on the support that the coalition...
- Climate Change (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Payne. Does the Morrison government remain committed to the Paris climate change agreement?
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Liberal Party Leadership (20 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Finance and the Public Service (Senator Cormann) to a question without notice asked by Senator Chisholm today relating to...
- Minister for Home Affairs (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Finance and the Public Service (Senator Cormann) to a question without notice asked by Senator McKim today relating to...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That— (a) on Wednesday, 12 September 2018, the business of the Senate notice of motion proposing the disallowance of items 1 and 2 of Schedule 1 of the Great Barrier Reef Marine...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Dementia Awareness Month (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Hinch, move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) September is Dementia Awareness Month, (ii) the theme for 2018 is 'Small actions....
- National Stroke Week (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Bilyk, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) 3 to 9 September 2018 was National Stroke Week, (ii) stroke is a leading cause of death...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- National Wattle Day (4 speeches)
At the request of Senators Singh and Storer, I move: That the Senate notes that— (a) 1 September 2018 was National Wattle Day; (b) since 1993, the Australian Republic Movement has supported...
- National Independent Commission Against Corruption (8 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senators Hinch and Storer, move: That the Senate— (a) recognises: (i) the notion that the Federal Government is less prone to corruption than its...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Single-Use Plastic (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that Virgin Australia has joined Grill'd and many small business operators across Australia by banning all plastic straws and stirrers from their flights...
- Gender and Sexual Orientation (4 speeches)
I inform the chamber that Senator Pratt will also be sponsoring this motion, and I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 1027 standing in my name and the name of Senator Pratt...
- Live Animal Exports (16 speeches)
I inform the chamber that Senator Brown will also be sponsoring this motion and I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 1022 standing in my name and the names of Senators...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- International Whaling (8 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Hanson-Young, move: That the Senate— (a) notes that the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will be meeting in Brazil this week to discuss Japan's...
- Myanmar (5 speeches)
I ask that general business notice of motion No. 1030, standing in my name for today, relating to the fact-finding mission on Myanmar, be taken as a formal motion.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Gender and Sexual Orientation (14 speeches)
I inform the Senate that at 8.30 am today four proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by lot....
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Legislation Committees; Report (1 speech)
Pursuant to order and at the request of the chairs of the respective committees, I present reports on examination of annual reports tabled by 3 April 2018. Ordered that the reports be printed.
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Minister for Home Affairs (1 speech)
I table a response to a question taken on notice during question time on 10 September 2018 asked by Senator Marshall relating to the matter of declarations of private interests made by the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (2 speeches)
The President has received a letter requesting changes in the membership of committees.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Imported Food Control Amendment Bill 2017; Second Reading (2 speeches)
I rise to speak on the Imported Food Control Amendment Bill 2017. In February 2015, dozens of people contracted hepatitis A after eating frozen berries made by the Nanna's and Creative Gourmet...
- Imported Food Control Amendment Bill 2017; Explanatory Memorandum (1 speech)
I table a further replacement explanatory memorandum relating to the Imported Food Control Amendment Bill 2017.
- Imported Food Control Amendment Bill 2017; In Committee (4 speeches)
by leave—I move items (1) to (17) on sheet 8193, revised, together: (1) Schedule 1, item 23, page 12 (line 24) to page 13 (line 3), subsection 8(2) to be opposed. [strict liability...
- Imported Food Control Amendment Bill 2017; Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Accelerated Depreciation for Small Business Entities) Bill 2018; Second Reading (10 speeches)
The first thing I want to say is that Labor will support this bill, the Treasury Laws Amendment (Accelerated Depreciation for Small Business Entities) Bill 2018. It will extend, for another year,...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Accelerated Depreciation for Small Business Entities) Bill 2018; In Committee (2 speeches)
I move Greens amendment (1) on sheet 8491: (1) Schedule 1, page 4 (after line 2), at the end of the Schedule, add: 12 After subsection 328 -180(5) Insert: Assets costing less than...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Dementia Awareness Month (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak about Dementia Awareness Month 2018, which runs for the month of September and aims to raise awareness of the leading cause of death amongst Australian women and the...
- Disability Services (1 speech)
Every Australian, every human being, has the right to feel safe, to live a life without fear, without violence, and yet for so many disabled people this is a right which is continually,...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Today more than 100,000 ageing Australians are waiting for home care packages due to the chronic underfunding and neglect of this coalition government. Of that number more than 88,000 are people...
- Bureau of Meteorology, Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I rise tonight to raise some very concerning issues for all Tasmanians, whom I continue to represent, and proudly so. I want to make it crystal clear that any decision by the Bureau of...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
'Get your hands off it, Prime Minister.' That was the banner that Greenpeace tied to the flagpoles in front of this very building this week, calling on Australia's latest Prime Minister to break...
- Alcoa (1 speech)
Last Wednesday I met with members of the Australian Workers' Union who were working for Alcoa. Today marks, very sadly and disgracefully, their 35th day of strike action—and they're not...
- Liberal Democrats (1 speech)
The Liberal Democrats are not led by a rotund supporter of the renewable energy target who is, apparently, spending $50 million telling people he wants to lower electricity prices. We are not led...
- Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
This coming Saturday marks the 10th anniversary of Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy. Lehman was one of the world's largest investment banks. It had been around for nearly 150 years and...
- Endangered Species (1 speech)
Australia has the highest rate of mammal extinctions, and one of the highest overall extinction rates, in the world, with 448 animals currently threatened with extinction. Think about that: 448...
