Senate debates
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
( I remind senators that the question may be put on either of those at the request of any senator.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Queensland: Bushfires (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the bushfire emergency that is currently underway in substantial parts of Queensland. Warm temperatures, low humidity and little to no rain during the winter months meant...
- Queensland: Bushfires, Queensland: Cape York Peninsula (1 speech)
I want to start by acknowledging the words of Senator Stoker as a Queensland senator. I pass on my thoughts and condolences as well. I acknowledge the hard work of emergency service providers,...
- Indigenous Australians (1 speech)
Under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples countries such as Australia are obliged to: … consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples … in order...
- Starlight Children's Foundation, Zoe Support Australia, Krofne, R U OK? Day (1 speech)
A few weeks ago, I was very fortunate to visit the Starlight space at the Centenary Hospital for Women and Children here in Canberra. As I'm sure many will be aware, the Starlight Children's...
- Road Safety (1 speech)
I rise to make a contribution today in senators' statements about one of my key interests since I have been in this place, and that is road safety. As the co-chair and co-founder of the...
- Defence Procurement (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about a total failure by the government in respect of the local content component of our most expensive Defence project, the Future Submarine project. I have established...
- Riverina Electorate: Drought (1 speech)
I rise to put on the record some significant engagements I've had in the duty Senate seats which I have been allocated by the Labor Party, and to which I attend with considerable joy—not...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (18 speeches)
My question is to Senator Cormann, the Minister representing the Treasurer. I refer to yesterday's release of the NAB Monthly Business Survey for August 2019, where their chief economist, Alan...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I'd like to draw to the attention of honourable senators the presence in the gallery of the Australian Political Exchange Council's seventh delegation from the Republic of Korea. On behalf of all...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Employment (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families and Social Services, Senator Ruston. Can the minister please advise the Senate how the Morrison government is delivering stability and certainty for...
- China (21 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Payne. In 2016, an arbitral tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled that many of China's claims to the South China Sea had...
- Climate Change (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Water Resources, Drought, Rural Finance, Natural Disaster and Emergency Management, Senator McKenzie. Minister, following on from...
- Health (8 speeches)
My question is to Senator Cash, the Minister representing the Minister for Health. Can the minister advise the Senate how a strong economy enables the Morrison government to provide the certainty...
- Defence Procurement (19 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. I'm sure the minister is aware that there are a number of companies under her portfolio who appear not to be paying tax. I'll give an example from tax...
- Superannuation (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, representing the Assistant Treasurer, Senator Cormann. In a recent column titled 'Tax office threat to self-managed super funds', Robert Gottliebsen...
- China (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Payne. On 18 August Senator Wong wrote to the minister requesting comprehensive and detailed briefings for parliamentarians by relevant...
- Gas Industry (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator Canavan. Can the minister please advise the Senate how the Liberal-National government is working to reduce gas...
- Asylum Seekers (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. The member for Flynn, Ken O'Dowd, the member for New England, Barnaby Joyce, and the member for Indi, Dr Helen...
- Trade (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Senator Birmingham. Minister, how is the government delivering certainty for Australian exporters by growing export markets,...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I want to tidy up one of my answers in response to a question from Senator Di Natale. The Secretaries Group on Climate Risk was looking at issues primarily related to Public Service...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Economy (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Cormann) to a question without notice asked by Senator Gallagher today relating to living standards and...
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Agriculture (Senator McKenzie) to a question without notice asked by the Leader of the Australian Greens (Senator Di...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That Senator Brown be granted leave of absence for the period 11 September 2019 to 12 September 2019 inclusive, for personal reasons. Question agreed to.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I remind senators that that question may be put, if anyone seeks for it to be put. If not, we will now move to the discovery of formal business.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Privileges Committee; Reference (4 speeches)
I move: (1) That the Senate notes that: (a) during its examination of the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Bill 2017, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Pratt, I move: That the Senate— (a) acknowledges the impact that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (Global Fund) has had since 2002, including: (i)...
- Domestic and Family Violence (23 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) since my last motion on this issue in the Senate, there have been a further 6 women killed by violence in Australia, taking the overall national...
- New South Wales: Land Clearing (11 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the New South Wales Liberal-National Government has granted amnesty to hundreds of farmers who cleared land illegally before the disastrous new...
- Murray-Darling Basin (11 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Murray-Darling Basin is in crisis, (ii) the Murray-Darling Basin is being exploited by water barons and big corporate irrigators who are...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Medicinal Marijuana (11 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 106 standing in my name for today, relating to medicinal cannabis oil. Leave granted. I move the motion as amended: That the...
- Message Sticks Carried by Alwyn Doolan (8 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Dodson, move: That the Senate— (a) notes that Mr Alwyn Doolan carried 3 Message Sticks and the aspirations of many First Nations peoples for Treaty, Truth...
- Newstart Allowance (5 speeches)
Before moving general business notice of motion No. 108, I wish to inform the chamber that Senator Dodson will also sponsor the motion. I, and also on behalf of Senator Dodson, move: That the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate acknowledges that the burning of thermal coal is the single biggest contributor to climate change.
- Iran (7 speeches)
I ask that general business notice of motion No. 111 standing in my name for today relating to the Strait of Hormuz be taken as a formal motion.
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Newstart Allowance (4 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....
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to acknowledge former Prime Minister the Hon. Julia Gillard in the chamber. Honourable senators: Hear, hear!
- First Speech (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
Pursuant to order I now call Senator Marielle Smith to make her first speech. I ask honourable senators that the usual courtesies be extended to her on this occasion.
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Newstart Allowance (8 speeches)
There are a million different reasons that Newstart is too low. Of course it's time to raise it—we should have done it years ago. The government says they want people on Newstart to get a...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Centrelink (1 speech)
by leave—I table a petitioning document relating to restoring Centrelink services to the Huon Valley.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Ending Grandfathered Conflicted Remuneration) Bill 2019; 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.
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Ending Grandfathered Conflicted Remuneration) Bill 2019; Second Reading (1 speech)
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— TREASURY LAWS AMENDMENT...
- Aged Care Amendment (Movement of Provisionally Allocated Places) Bill 2019, Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Extend Family Assistance to ABSTUDY Secondary School Boarding Students Aged 16 and Over) Bill 2019, Migration Amendment (Streamlining Visa Processing) Bill 2019, National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2019; 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 Amendment (Movement of Provisionally Allocated Places) Bill 2019, Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Extend Family Assistance to ABSTUDY Secondary School Boarding Students Aged 16 and Over) Bill 2019, Migration Amendment (Streamlining Visa Processing) Bill 2019, National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2019; 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...
- Higher Education Support (Charges) Bill 2019, Higher Education Support Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2019; 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.
- Higher Education Support (Charges) Bill 2019, Higher Education Support Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2019; 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— HIGHER EDUCATION...
- Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment Bill 2019, Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2019; 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.
- Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Regulatory Levies) Amendment Bill 2019, Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2019; 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— ON THE...
- Fair Work Laws Amendment (Proper Use of Worker Benefits) Bill 2019; 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.
- Fair Work Laws Amendment (Proper Use of Worker Benefits) Bill 2019; Second Reading (1 speech)
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— The Fair Work Laws...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Papua New Guinea (1 speech)
I rise to speak about my recent visit to Papua New Guinea as part of the Australian Regional Leadership Initiative, a Save the Children Australia project supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates...
- East Timor (1 speech)
I thank Senator Green for making a contribution about the trip we did to PNG. It was, indeed, a great trip. I'm going to move next door to Timor-Leste now and talk about the strategic blunder we...
- Indigenous Ranger Forum (1 speech)
I rise to speak about one of the culturally important events that took place in Darwin over the winter break. The north Australia Indigenous Ranger Forum , which was held in Darwin, on...
- New South Wales Legislation: Health (1 speech)
I rise to speak on a matter very close to my heart. New South Wales is currently having a really important debate on abortion law reform—reform that has the overwhelming support of the...
- Timor Sea: Oil Spill (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about an issue on which I have spoken on many occasions in this place, and that is the Montara oil spill. I'll continue to do that until this issue is finally addressed. 21...
