Senate debates
Thursday, 28 November 2019
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (24 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion to provide for the consideration of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill 2019. Leave is not granted. Pursuant to contingent...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (6 speeches)
Pursuant to notice given on 27 November 2019, I withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 2 standing in my name for today proposing the disallowance of the Quality of Care Amendment...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection of Bills Committee; Report (4 speeches)
I present the ninth report for 2019 of the Selection of Bills Committee and I seek leave to have the report incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The report read as follows— SELECTION OF...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That the order of general business for consideration today be as follows: (a) general business notice of motion no. 303; and (b) orders of the day relating to documents. Question put and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (21 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. The former commissioner of the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption, David Ipp, in relation...
- Small Business (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, Senator Cash. Can the minister please update the Senate on how the Morrison government is addressing real issues...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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While Senator Cash stole my thunder in welcoming former Senate President Alan Ferguson back to the chamber, I would like to welcome Alan Ferguson back to the chamber. He is leading the Australian...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (41 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. I refer to the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction's use of doctored travel costs in official ministerial...
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture. On Tuesday night this week, Channel 9 ran yet another story about PFAS contamination of livestock around defence bases. This time the contamination...
- Rural and Regional Australia (8 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Agriculture, Senator McKenzie. Can the minister please outline how the government is addressing the real issues of importance for Australians living in...
- Forestry (12 speeches)
My question is to Senator Birmingham representing the Minister for the Environment. In the face of a worsening climate crisis, protecting our forests, the lungs of our planet, is essential to...
- Member for Chisholm (18 speeches)
My question is to Senator Cormann, the Minister representing the Prime Minister. The government's ensuring integrity bill proposes to introduce a fit and proper person test to apply to trade...
- Resources Industry (8 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator Canavan. Can the minister update the Senate on how the Liberal-National government is addressing real issues of...
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, Senator Birmingham. The minister continues to rely on Minister Taylor's statement that false travel...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Privileges Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the report of the Standing Committee of Privileges entitled Foreign influence transparencya scheme for Parliament, together with the Hansardrecord of proceedings and documents presented...
- Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee, I present the report of the committee on the provisions of the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Legislation...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Northern Australia (6 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Federal Government's Northern Australia White Paper was released more than four years ago, (ii) there have been...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (2 speeches)
Order! The President has received letters nominating senators to be members of committees.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Loaves and Fishes Tasmania (1 speech)
I rise to speak about what is an unacceptable situation facing families, adults and children in dire need of emergency food relief in Tasmania. After a year of inaction and neglect by the...
- Indigenous Australians (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak on issues currently impacting First Nations children and young people in Australia. Like all children, First Nations children have the right to live in safety, free from...
- Palaszczuk Government: Paradise Dam (1 speech)
I rise in this chamber this evening to speak about what I will refer to as the Paradise Dam fiasco in my home state of Queensland. I previously brought the chamber's attention to the fact that...
- Dams (1 speech)
I commend Senator Scarr for that speech on the Paradise Dam, the dam which is Australia's worst infrastructure fail, and for bringing further attention to that particular dam and the shameful...
