Senate debates
Wednesday, 13 February 2019
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (64 speeches)
I move: That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent me moving a motion to provide for the consideration of a matter, namely a motion to provide that the motion circulated in the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Cancer (1 speech)
Colleagues, it's good to be back. I love this place and the vocation we all share. We're here on the trust of our fellow Australians, who look to us to use our very privileged positions here to...
- Tasmania: Bushfires (1 speech)
May I say, before I start: thank you, Senator Sinodinos, for that wonderful speech. I hope it gives hope to a number of cancer patients. On a different topic, a little over a week ago I visited...
- Donations to Political Parties (6 speeches)
One hundred million dollars is the amount of corporate donations that the Labor, Liberal and National parties have taken since 2012—$100 million from industries like the banks, big mining,...
- Tasmania: Small Business, Tasmania: Community Services, Tasmania: Bushfires (1 speech)
It's a delight to be here to talk about something I have a great deal of interest in—that is, backing those who back themselves, people who are willing to take a risk to improve things for...
- South Australia: Road Safety (1 speech)
I want to make a contribution in senators' statements about my work in the electorate of Grey, which is my duty seat. It's in relation to road funding and a pressing issue which is arising on the...
- Migration (1 speech)
You can tell which countries are better and which are worse. People vote with their feet. People are voting with their feet to come to Australia. They're also voting with their feet to go to...
- North Queensland (1 speech)
I'm pleased to see you in the chair for this speech, Mr Acting Deputy President O'Sullivan. The recent floods in the north and the cheerful responsiveness of northerners to this and other regular...
- Queensland (1 speech)
I want to start by echoing the thoughts of Senator Macdonald, particularly for those in Townsville, close to his home town, and for those in the north-west as well, which is obviously still...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education, Senator Cash. In evidence to the Federal Court today, Minister Cash's former senior media adviser...
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. Can the minister provide an update on Operation Sovereign Borders following the passage of the Home Affairs...
- Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education (26 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. I refer to new evidence in relation to the unauthorised leaking of a Federal Police raid on the Australian...
- Murray-Darling Basin (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Minister, my question goes to the scathing reports and findings of two reports, the South Australian...
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Cash. I refer to what Minister Dutton said yesterday about the Liberal-National government's strong measures to...
- Rural and Regional Health Services (8 speeches)
My question is to Senator McKenzie, the Minister for Regional Services. South Australia is reportedly set to receive $122 million from the $1.45 billion committed in January to mental health...
- Cybersafety (7 speeches)
I would like to begin by congratulating the Minister for Communications and the Arts on his outstanding success to date. This includes the record rollout of mobile base stations across Australia,...
- Liberal Democrats (8 speeches)
My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, the Minister for Finance and the Public Service and the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Cormann. Minister, in your areas...
- Ministerial Staff (18 speeches)
My question is to Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. In question time in the House of Representatives today, Minister Keenan repeated his assurance, previously given on...
- Trade (8 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Senator Birmingham. How are Australia's trade opportunities growing under the Liberal-National government and how does this...
- Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann, and I refer again to the inconsistency between the evidence given in the Federal Court by Minister Cash's former...
- Pacific Islands (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Payne. Before I ask my question, Minister, I note that we've had a number of delegations in this place over the last few days from our...
- Banking and Financial Services (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. After its voting against a royal commission 26 times and former Prime Minister Turnbull's conceding that the...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Leyonhjelm, Senator David (1 speech)
I move: That on Wednesday, 13 February 2019, following valedictory statements being made relating to SenatorWilliams, that valedictory statements be also made relating to Senator Leyonhjelm....
- Closing the Gap (1 speech)
I move: That, on Thursday, 14 February 2019, contingent on the tabling of the Prime Minister's annual report on Closing the Gap, the documents be considered at the time for general business, for...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (the Royal Commission) commenced on 18 January 2019, and started hearing evidence from...
- Boochani, Mr Behrouz (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senator McKim, move: That the Senate— (a) congratulates refugee Mr Behrouz Boochani on winning Australia's richest literary award, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Safer Internet Day (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Bilyk, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) 5 February 2019 was Safer Internet Day, an annual, worldwide event to help raise awareness about internet...
- World Cholangiocarcinoma Day (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Bilyk, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) 12 February 2019 was World Cholangiocarcinoma Day, an international effort to raise awareness of a form of...
- Ochre Ribbon Week (4 speeches)
At the request of Senators McCarthy and Siewert, I move: That the Senate— (a) observes that: (i) this week marks Ochre Ribbon Week, raising awareness of the devastating impacts of family...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) February is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, (ii) this year, Australians are being encouraged to take 'ovary-action' by knowing the signs,...
- Tasmania: Australia Day Honours (1 speech)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 1377, standing in my name and Senator Duniam's name, in the terms circulated in the chamber. Leave granted. I move the motion as...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- National Redress Scheme (3 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the National Redress Scheme, which was established in response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, has...
- Answers to Questions (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Collins, I move: That the Senate— (a) requires legislation committees to set a deadline for the return of answers to questions on notice from the 2018-19...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Queensland: Floods (6 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senators O'Sullivan, Stoker, Macdonald, Canavan, Moore, Watt, Ketter, Chisholm and Hanson, move: That the Senate— (a) recognises the severe impact that flooding in...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- al-Araibi, Mr Hakeem (8 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 1 standing in my name relating to the recent detention of Mr Hakeem al-Araibi. Leave granted. I move the motion as amended: That the...
- Water (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate calls on the Federal Government immediately to allocate $10 billion to commence the construction of the much-needed hybrid Bradfield Scheme.
- Illicit Drugs (17 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) over the 2018-19 summer, more than five people have died or been injured as a result of taking illicit drugs, (ii) there is a real possibility...
- Gambling (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the gambling industry donated almost $3 million dollars to the Liberal, Labor and Australian Conservatives political parties in 2017-18, (ii)...
- Australian Defence Force: LGBTQ Personnel (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) until 24 November 1992, gay, lesbian and bisexual people were explicitly banned from serving in the Australian Defence Force (ADF), (ii) between...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Environment (12 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes the decision of the NSW Land and Environment Court to block the proposed Rocky Hill coal mine on the ground that it will contribute to climate change...
- Law Enforcement (7 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— a.affirms the right of every citizen to feel safe in their own home; b.recognises the sad reality that the police cannot be everywhere at every time; c.accepts that...
- Senate Standing Orders (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) in the last 15 years, Labor Governments around Australia have progressively forced Parliaments and every government department and...
- Prevention of Violence Against Women (14 speeches)
Senators, I note this is a topic that has provoked some tension in the chamber in the past, and I will ask all senators to keep that in mind.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Indigenous Affairs (8 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 1387 standing in my name for today relating to the federal government's spending to commemorate the 250th anniversary of James Cook's...
- Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education (2 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 1384, standing in my name, by omitting all words after 'minutes' in part (c) and inserting 'to explain this apparent inconsistency'....
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Valedictory (22 speeches)
Pursuant to the orders of the Senate agreed to on 5 December last year and earlier today, we will now move to valedictory statements.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (2 speeches)
Order! The President has received letters from the Leader of the Government in the Senate and the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate requesting changes in the membership of various committees.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Aged Care, Tasmania: Bushfires (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak about aged care and the state of the aged-care sector in this country. Under the leadership of the Morrison government, it's now at crisis point. It's in crisis...
- Disabled Persons (1 speech)
Tonight, we are on the cusp of a historic achievement. For the first time in years there now exists, I am pleased to inform the chamber, consensus among the majority parties of both the Senate...
- Migration Amendment (Urgent Medical Treatment) Bill 2018 (1 speech)
This is going to be the hardest and most personal speech I will ever make in this place. This morning, when I saw my colleagues here in this chamber cheering and high-fiving each other on the...
- Coalition Government (1 speech)
After five years of chaos and division, last night this government managed to provide us with something new. No, it wasn't responsible government. We are used to seeing the coalition lose control...
- Venezuela (1 speech)
I rise tonight to express my support for the people of Venezuela, who are currently experiencing what can only be described as a humanitarian catastrophe. As recently as 2001, Venezuela was the...
- Migration (1 speech)
Today's disappointing debate on border security is a timely reminder of one of the important consequences of outsourcing our immigration policy to people smugglers. A key benefit of the coalition...
