Senate debates
Monday, 11 November 2019
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- New South Wales (1 speech)
I inform the Senate that Senator Sinodinos resigned his place as a senator for the state of New South Wales this morning at 9 am. Pursuant to the provisions of section 21 of the Constitution, I...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any of those proposals at the request of any senator. There being none, we'll move on.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: That general business order of the day no. 33 (Protecting Australian Dairy Bill 2019) be considered today at the time for private senators' bills. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I table for the information of the Senate a revised ministry list and seek leave to have the document incorporated into Hansardand make a short statement. Leave granted. I advise...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Australian Bushfires (4 speeches)
by leave—As we gather today, all of us are very mindful of the efforts and sacrifice of thousands of brave Australians who are responding to the ongoing bushfires in north-east New South...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Regional Jobs and Investment Packages (8 speeches)
My question is to Senator McKenzie, the Minister representing the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Last Saturday's Cairns Post quoted the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! I draw to the attention of honourable senators the presence in the chamber of the Hon. Mariya Didi, Minister of Defence of the Republic of Maldives. On behalf of all senators, I wish you a...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Drought (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Water Resources, Drought, Rural Finance, Natural Disaster and Emergency Management, Senator McKenzie. Can the Minister please outline...
- Regional Jobs and Investment Packages (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development, Senator McKenzie. The Auditor-General's scathing report into the regional jobs and...
- Remembrance Day (6 speeches)
My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne. Today, 11 November, marks Remembrance Day. Can the minister please advise the Senate on the importance of...
- Australian Bushfires (16 speeches)
My question is to Minister McKenzie, representing the Minister for Natural Disasters and Emergency Management. Bushfire victims are suffering from the climate crisis. It's not just 11,000 global...
- Drought Communities Program (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Water Resources, Drought, Rural Finance, Natural Disaster and Emergency Management, Senator McKenzie. Departmental officials told...
- Dairy Industry (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Senator McKenzie. Minister, your department released an exposure draft of the competition and consumer industry code dairy regulation 2019 in the...
- Aged Care (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians, Senator Colbeck. Can the minister advise the Senate on what measures the government has been delivering to support older...
- Farm Household Allowance (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Senator McKenzie. Last month, Minister, you told farmers struggling with years of drought: A one-off drought relief payment of up to $13,000 for a...
- Employment (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, Senator Cash. Can the minister update the Senate about the recent jobs fair held in Western Australia and how...
- Centrelink (15 speeches)
My question is also to Senator Cash, the Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business. Senate estimates revealed that 104,480 jobseekers and jobactive participants who had their...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Tillem, Mr Mehmet (1 speech)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the untimely death on 9 November of former senator Mehmet Tillem, a senator for the state of Victoria from 2013 to 2014, known to many of us...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Regional Jobs and Investment Packages (1 speech)
I just wanted to address some of Senator Green's concerns and provide an answer that I took on notice to provide. I have received some advice from the minister. In relation to the questions...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Regional Jobs and Investment Packages (19 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Agriculture (Senator McKenzie) to questions without notice asked by Senators Urquhart and Green today relating to the...
- Australian Bushfires (1 speech)
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 Senator Waters today relating to climate change. I...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (3 speeches)
) ( ): by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators: (a) Senator Canavan for today, for personal reasons; and (b) Senator Hume for 11 and 12 November 2019, on...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Freshwater Sawfish (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Whish-Wilson, move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Fitzroy and Margaret Rivers in Western Australia are home to the...
- Anti-Poverty Week (3 speeches)
I wish to inform the chamber that Senator McCarthy and Senator Marielle Smith will also sponsor this motion. I also seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 207, concerning...
- Indigenous Australians (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that the Family Matters Report 2019 found that: (i) First Nations children are now 10 times more likely to be in out-of-home care than...
- Poverty (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) recognises that, according to the Poverty in Australia Report 2018: (i) in Australia, 968,000 people from wage earning households are living in...
- Wallarah 2 Coal Project (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Wallarah 2 Coal Project is a proposed longwall underground mining operation northwest of central Wyong on the New South Wales...
- Beetaloo Basin (8 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 214 standing in my name for today, concerning fracking in the Beetaloo Basin, before asking that it be taken as formal. It is just to...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (2 speeches)
The President has received letters nominating senators to be appointed to committees.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Farm Household Support Amendment (Relief Measures) Bill (No. 1) 2019, Treasury Laws Amendment (Prohibiting Energy Market Misconduct) Bill 2019; First Reading (1 speech)
I indicate that the two 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...
- Farm Household Support Amendment (Relief Measures) Bill (No. 1) 2019, Treasury Laws Amendment (Prohibiting Energy Market Misconduct) Bill 2019; Second Reading (1 speech)
I table a revised explanatory memorandum relating to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Prohibiting Energy Market Misconduct) Bill 2019, and I move: That these bills be now read a second time. I seek...
- Customs Amendment (Growing Australian Export Opportunities Across the Asia-Pacific) Bill 2019, Customs Tariff Amendment (Growing Australian Export Opportunities Across the Asia-Pacific) 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.
- Customs Amendment (Growing Australian Export Opportunities Across the Asia-Pacific) Bill 2019, Customs Tariff Amendment (Growing Australian Export Opportunities Across the Asia-Pacific) 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— CUSTOMS AMENDMENT...
- Education Legislation Amendment (Tuition Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2019, Treasury Laws Amendment (International Tax Agreements) 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. I move: That these...
- Education Legislation Amendment (Tuition Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2019, Treasury Laws Amendment (International Tax Agreements) 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— EDUCATION...
- Customs Amendment (Product Specific Rule Modernisation) 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.
- Customs Amendment (Product Specific Rule Modernisation) 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 Customs Amendment...
- Education Legislation Amendment (Tuition Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2019, VET Student Loans (VSL Tuition Protection Levy) Bill 2019, Higher Education Support (HELP Tuition Protection Levy) 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.
- Education Legislation Amendment (Tuition Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2019, VET Student Loans (VSL Tuition Protection Levy) Bill 2019, Higher Education Support (HELP Tuition Protection Levy) 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— EDUCATION...
- Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) 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.
- Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) 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— This Bill establishes...
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Outback Queensland Tourism Awards, Queensland Government (3 speeches)
I would remind Senator Ayres of our visit to Whyalla, where we heard from GFG with respect to their proposal to introduce an electric arc furnace into the steelworks at Whyalla to modernise that...
- Torres Strait Islands: Housing (1 speech)
Kirriri, or Hammond Island, is an island in the Torres Strait. It's around 3,000 kilometres from this place—or, perhaps better put, there's a ferry and a small plane then a big plane and...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
On this Remembrance Day, and as a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I want to pay tribute to those who, through their labour, helped build this amazing country. I speak of our...
- Rockliff, Lance Corporal Adye Glen (1 speech)
Today I had the privilege of laying a wreath on behalf of the Prime Minister and the people of Australia at the Hobart Cenotaph to commemorate the contribution of our service men and women on...
