Senate debates
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Conduct (7 speeches)
As I have previously indicated to the chamber, all ministers are expected to conduct themselves consistent with the requirements in the Statement of Ministerial Standards. The Minister for Energy...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (7 speeches)
I move: That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (8) of standing order 111 not apply to the following bills, allowing them to be considered during this period of sittings: Future Drought Fund...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Earle Haven Retirement Village (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians, Senator Colbeck. I refer to the minister's letter answering questions taken on notice in Senate question time yesterday in...
- Australian Defence Force (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Can the minister update the Senate on how the government is getting on with the job of securing our nation through our defence engagement in the Pacific?
- Ministerial Conduct (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. In the Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet's report in relation to the application of...
- Media (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Payne. After the arrest of four French journalists in Queensland yesterday, has the minister or her department been in contact with the...
- Drought (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture. Can the minister please outline to the Senate how the Liberal and Nationals government is getting on with the job of supporting our farmers and...
- Superannuation (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. Senator Cormann, yesterday you ruled out any changes to the legislated Superannuation Guarantee, despite seven...
- Tourism (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. Will the minister outline to the Senate how the government is getting on with the job of delivering its plan to back Australian...
- Apprenticeships (8 speeches)
My question is to Senator Canavan representing Senator Cash, the Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business. In the latest budget, the government committed about $350 million over...
- Pensions and Benefits (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families and Social Services, Senator Ruston. I refer to reports that the Liberal-National government is targeting Townsville flood victims as part of its...
- Welfare Reform (8 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Families and Social Services. Can the minister update the Senate on how the government is getting on with the job of delivering better outcomes through the...
- Climate Change: Great Barrier Reef (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing Minister for the Environment, Senator Birmingham. Last week the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority released a position statement recognising that...
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (8 speeches)
My question is also to the minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Senator Birmingham. I refer to reports that the now Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, Mr Angus...
- Energy (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator Canavan. Affordable energy is vital to jobs and prosperity in my home state of Queensland. Could the minister update...
- Asylum Seekers (21 speeches)
My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Reynolds. The Department of Home Affairs has confirmed: From 1 July 2014 to 31 January 2019, 81,596 Protection...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Earle Haven Retirement Village (11 speeches)
I rise to take note of the answer given by Senator Colbeck to the question that I asked in relation to the Earle Haven nursing home. We've had another pretty ordinary performance today in...
- Climate Change: Great Barrier Reef (1 speech)
I rise to take note of the answer given by Senator Birmingham to my question. I asked about the really powerful position statement that the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (2 speeches)
by leave—at the request of Senator Cash, I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Cash from 22 to 25 July 2019, for personal reasons. Question agreed to.
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
I move: That general business notice of motion No. 38, standing in my name for today, proposing an order for the production of documents relating to the Phoenix Australia report, be withdrawn...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (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 proceed.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- First Speeches (1 speech)
I move: That consideration of the business before the Senate on the following days be interrupted at approximately 5 pm, but not so as to interrupt a senator speaking, to enable senators to make...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Higher Education (3 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Higher Education Accommodation and Financial Stress Survey released on 8 July 2019 found that more than half of students...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Law Enforcement (9 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Dodson, move: That the Senate— (a) notes that the age of criminal responsibility is currently set at 10 years old around Australia, meaning children as...
- Domestic and Family Violence (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) since the last sitting of the Senate, there have been a further 3 women killed by violence in Australia, taking the overall national...
- Agriculture Industry (4 speeches)
Before moving general business notice of motion No. 37, I ask that the names of Senators Brockman, Hanson and Roberts be added to the motion. I, and on behalf of Senators McGrath, Stoker,...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Human Rights (25 speeches)
I inform the Senate that at 8.30 today three proposals were received. In accordance with standing order 75, the question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by lot....
- First Speech (0 speeches)
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Pursuant to order, we'll now move to first speeches. I call upon Senator McDonald to make her first speech and ask honourable senators that the usual courtesies to be extended to her.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Report (1 speech)
Pursuant to order and at the request of the chairs of the respective committees, I present reports from the examination of annual reports tabled by 31 October 2018 and 30 April 2019. Ordered that...
- Economics Legislation Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Economics Legislation Committee I present the report of the committee on the provisions of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Members' Interests First) Bill 2019, together with...
- Law Enforcement Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement, I present four reports: Examination of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission annual report 2016-17;...
- Additional Information (1 speech)
I present additional information relating to estimates.
- Senators' Interests Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of Senator Bilyk, I present the report of the Senate Standing Committee of Senators' Interests, incorporating statements of registrable interests and notifications of alterations lodged...
- Community Affairs References Committee, Community Affairs Legislation Committee; Additional Information (1 speech)
On behalf of the Community Affairs Legislation and References committees, I present additional information received by the committees for their inquiries into aged care assessment and...
- Intelligence and Security Joint Committee; Government Response to Report (2 speeches)
I present two government responses to committee reports as listed on today’s Order of Business. In accordance with the usual practice, I seek leave to incorporate the documents in Hansard....
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (2 speeches)
The President has received a letter requesting changes in the membership of various committees.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Federal Election (1 speech)
I rise to make a brief contribution tonight. This is the first opportunity I've had since our quite remarkable election victory to pay tribute to some of the unsung, hard workers of the campaign....
- Schumacher, Wilhelm Bernard Darrel (1 speech)
This is not my first speech. I rise tonight to pay tribute to a former colleague and friend, Wilhelm Bernard Darrel Schumacher, who sadly passed away in the early hours of Wednesday, 3 July, just...
- China: Human Rights (1 speech)
More than one million Uygurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities are detained in Xinjiang by the Chinese government in what the UN calls re-education camps. This mass detention of Uygurs against...
- Road Safety (1 speech)
I note that while this is the first time I rise to speak in the chamber, this is not my official first speech. I want to thank the Senate for allowing me to speak on a tragic event in advance of...
- Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program (1 speech)
A couple of weeks ago, in early July, I had the privilege of spending a week with the Army Aboriginal Community Assistance Program in Jigalong, in my home state of Western Australia. This...
- Apprenticeships (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the Industry Specialist Mentoring for Australian Apprentices program, or ISMAA for short, a $60 million national program I negotiated with the government almost two years ago,...
- Rural Australia (1 speech)
As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I wish to discuss the burden, the suffering and the courage of a group under assault across our country or, as former State of Origin rugby...
- Defence Procurement (1 speech)
'Not a single submarine seaworthy'. That was the news broken by Cameron Stewart of the Australian on 10 June 2011. He wrote: 'For the first time in a generation, Australia does not have a single...
- Forestry (2 speeches)
You might have missed a notable event this month: Australia Post issued a stamp series featuring three freshwater crayfish: Astacopsis gouldi, or the Tasmanian Giant Freshwater Crayfish, which is...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
This is not my first speech. I rise tonight to speak about the latest salvo in the coalition government's culture war on working Australians in the form of the Fair Work (Registered...
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak again on the lived experiences of people in our community trying to survive on Newstart and youth allowance. Yesterday I reintroduced the Australian Greens' fifth bill to...
- Disability Services (1 speech)
When Michael and Sharon Camac entrusted the care and support of their son, Eden, to the Bundaberg based Community Lifestyle Support service provider, they expected him to be treated with care,...
- NAIDOC Week (1 speech)
I rise to speak tonight about an important event that occurred this month, called NAIDOC Week. I hope that senators here were able to take part in NAIDOC ceremonies, whether it was in there...
- Freedom of Religion (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak on the important issue of religious freedom. I recently launched a petition calling for a religious freedom act. Enshrined in this act should be the right to the...
