Senate debates
Monday, 25 November 2019
- Parliamentary Office Holders (0 speeches)
- Temporary Chairs of Committees (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing order 12, I lay on the table a warrant nominating Senator Polley as an additional Temporary Chair of Committees when the Deputy President and Chair of Committees is absent.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That general business order of the day No. 7 (Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Unsolicited Communications) Bill 2019)—be considered today at the time for private senators'...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Australian Bushfires (5 speeches)
by leave—Over recent weeks, Australians have been responding to bushfires across the continent. I would like to update the Senate on the fires, as well as our response in dealing with them....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians, Senator Colbeck. When 16,000 older Australians died in one year waiting to receive the home care package for which they had...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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I draw to the attention of honourable senators the presence in the chamber of members of a parliamentary delegation from ASEAN. On behalf of all senators, I wish you a warm welcome to Australia...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (10 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians, Senator Colbeck. Can the minister please further update the Senate on the progress of the government's response to the...
- Banking and Financial Services (21 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Industrial Relations, Senator Payne. Last week it was reported that an organisation had broken anti-money-laundering laws 23 million...
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Women, Senator Payne. Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Can the minister inform the Senate of the government's...
- Climate Change (15 speeches)
My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Cormann. Minister, last week the Prime Minister tried to mislead the Australian people by claiming there's no direct link...
- Workplace Relations (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Industrial Relations, Senator Payne. A report by PwC has found one in five employees in the construction, healthcare, retail,...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! I'd like to draw to the attention of honourable senators the presence in the gallery of a delegation from the Czech Republic led by the Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Dairy Industry (10 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Agriculture, Senator McKenzie. Minister, your own department was worried about a mandatory dairy code driving down farmgate milk prices. As a consequence, they...
- Infrastructure (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, Senator Canavan. Can the minister update the Senate on...
- Pensions and Benefits (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Government Services, Senator Ruston. In the face of two Federal Court actions and a national class action, the government last week...
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (9 speeches)
Senator Molan. Honourable senators: Hear, hear!
- Pensions and Benefits (41 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Government Services, the Minister for Families and Social Services, Senator Ruston: Minister, now that the government has finally...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Pensions and Benefits (10 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Families and Social Services (Senator Ruston) to a question without notice asked by Senator Kitching today relating to...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Community Television (1 speech)
I seek leave to make a short statement in relation to the petition I lodged. Leave not granted.
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Humphreys, Hon. Benjamin Charles, AM (4 speeches)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death on 17 November 2019 of the Hon. Benjamin Charles Humphreys AM, a former minister and member of the House of Representatives for the...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Domestic and Family Violence (4 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 226 standing in my name for today, relating to violence against women—given that today is International Day for the Elimination...
- Newstart and Youth Allowance (1 speech)
I move That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) as of October 2019, there are 289,489 people of a total of 686,000 people on Newstart who are categorised as having a 'partial...
- Australian Bushfires (1 speech)
Before moving general business notice of motion No. 264, I inform the chamber that Senators Wong, Kitching, Marielle Smith, Walsh, Davies, Scarr and O'Sullivan will sponsor the motion. I seek...
- Visa Processing (4 speeches)
Before moving general business notice of motion no. 265, I wish to inform the chamber that Senators Bilyk, Lambie, McKim, Polley, Whish-Wilson and I will also sponsor the motion. I also seek...
- Australia's Family Law System Joint Select Committee (1 speech)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 266 standing in my name for today. Leave granted. I also add the name of Senator Polley to the motion. I, and also on behalf of Senator...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Newstart Allowance (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) Newstart has not had an increase in real terms for 25 years, and (ii) Newstart is a poverty trap; and (b) calls on the...
- Science (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate notes that: (a) valid scientific data proving cause-and-effect is vital as the only credible justification for policies claimed to be based on science; and (b) the...
- Export Policy (1 speech)
I will now move to a deferred motion. On Thursday afternoon, after 4.30 pm, a division was called for on a motion moved by Senator Patrick relating to export policy. I understand that it suits...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
by leave—I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I will move a co-sponsored motion about stillbirth. That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) more than 2000 children...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Violence Against Women (12 speeches)
The President has received the following letter from Senator Wong: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Zone (0 speeches)
- Proposal for Works (1 speech)
In accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act 1974, I present two proposals for works within the Parliamentary Zone relating to (a) the National Gallery of Australia foreshore public...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Queensland: Economy (1 speech)
I rise to speak tonight about the parlous state of the Queensland economy and the way that it is directly related to the Queensland government's failure to plan. There's a cheesy old saying: 'If...
- Child Care (1 speech)
There are few matters more important to young Australian families than the quality, access and affordability of early childhood education and care. So it is with frustration that I rise to call...
- South Australia: Steel Industry (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about a most important issue for my home state of South Australia. On Thursday 14 November—that is, the last sitting day—I rose at question time and asked a...
- Palaszczuk Government: Paradise Dam (1 speech)
Today marks the 59th day since Annastacia Palaszczuk's state Labor government made the stupid decision to release 105,000 megalitres of precious water from the Paradise Dam in Queensland. There...
