Senate debates
Monday, 2 December 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. There being none, we'll move on.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (18 speeches)
by leave—I move: That general business notice of motion No. 295 standing in my name, relating to the Saving Australia Dairy Bill 2019, be called on immediately.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (10 speeches)
I seek leave to move general business of notice of motion No. 314 standing in my name for today, relating to the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (24 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. I refer to Prime Minister Morrison's call to the New South Wales police commissioner about the criminal...
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Cash. Can the minister please update the Senate on how the government is addressing real issues of importance to...
- Prime Minister (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Attorney-General, Senator Payne. I refer to Prime Minister Morrison's call to the New South Wales police commissioner about the criminal...
- National Security (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Reynolds. Can the minister update the Senate on how the government is addressing real issues of importance, including strengthening Australia's...
- Climate Change (18 speeches)
My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Cormann, representing the Prime Minister. Minister, last week Australia's emissions data was released and it showed that...
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, Senator Birmingham. The Prime Minister and the minister have both repeatedly promised this parliament...
- Murray-Darling Basin (26 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Senator McKenzie. Minister, farmers are here en masse and want answers to these questions they gave my office: the major storage dams of the lower...
- Dairy Industry (13 speeches)
My question is to Minister for Agriculture, Senator McKenzie. I refer the minister to her letter that she wrote to Senator Hanson on 16 October 2019 about when the dairy code of conduct would...
- Infrastructure (8 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 outline how the...
- Murray-Darling Basin (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Water Resources, Senator McKenzie. Minister, in response to the numerous scandals, water theft, corruption and mismanagement that have...
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, Senator Birmingham. I refer to his statement on 24 July 2019 that Mr Taylor 'has always declared his...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Dairy Industry (16 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 Senator Green today. It's the last week of...
- Murray-Darling Basin (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 Hanson-Young today. I asked questions in...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Religious Freedom (1 speech)
I seek leave to make a one-minute statement in relation to the petition. Leave not granted.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Zone (0 speeches)
- Approval of Works (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Colbeck, I move: That, in accordance with section 5 of the Parliament Act 1974, the Senate approves the following proposals by the National Capital Authority for capital...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Islamophobia (4 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senators Di Natale and O'Neill, move: That the Senate— (a) notes with deep concern the findings of the: (i) Charles Sturt University's report...
- Australian Bushfires (1 speech)
I, and on behalf of Senators Brockman and Watt, move: That the Senate— (a) notes the devastation recent bushfires have inflicted on communities across New South Wales and Queensland; (b)...
- World AIDS Day (1 speech)
At the request of Senators Pratt, Dean Smith and Di Natale, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) 1 December 2019 is World AIDS Day, an annual day to acknowledge those we...
- Housing Affordability (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Faruqi, move: That the Senate— (a) notes that the November 2019 Rental Affordability Index Report found that: (i) a single person on Newstart...
- Workplace Safety (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) on 25 November 2019, Mr Brad Duxbury was tragically killed at the Carborough Downs mine site at Coppabella, Queensland,...
- Animal Welfare (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) fires have ravaged Australia before the start of summer with more than 1,650,000 hectares of land, including koala habitat, burned...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Environment; Order for the Production of Documents (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate orders that there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reductions, on 4 December 2019, the corporate emissions and...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Economy (4 speeches)
At the request of Senator Ayres, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) each year the Harvard University Growth Lab produces the world Atlas of Economic Complexity,...
- Department of Home Affairs (4 speeches)
At the request of Senators Lines, Sterle, Dodson and Pratt, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Department of Home Affairs employs over 135 dedicated and...
- Work Health and Safety (4 speeches)
At the request of Senators Watt, Green and Chisholm, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) in the past 18 months, there have been seven workplace deaths in the mining...
- West Papua (7 speeches)
I ask that general business notice of motion No. 312 standing in my name for today, relating to West Papua, be taken as a formal motion.
- Racism (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes with deep concern that: (i) the 2019 report on anti-Semitism in Australia, published by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, found a 30%...
- Great Australian Bight: Oil Exploration (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) Norwegian oil giant, Equinor, plans to drill for oil in the pristine ocean environment of the Great Australian Bight,...
- Seismic Testing (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) Asset Energy and their project partners are planning to conduct further seismic testing for gas off the coast of Newcastle and the...
- Mining (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) in August 2019, the Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) released a briefing note concluding that the Adani...
- Department of Home Affairs (1 speech)
At the request of Senators Kitching, Ciccone, Carr and Walsh, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Department of Home Affairs employs over 125 dedicated and hardworking...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (12 speeches)
At the request of Senator Wong, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) 2 December 2019 marks ten years since the Senate failed to pass legislation for a comprehensive...
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (25 speeches)
I inform the Senate that, at 8.30 am today, 14 proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by lot....
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 15 of 2019-20; Consideration (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I rise to speak on the National broadband network fixed line migration—service continuity and complaints management report by the ANAO. We...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Joint Select Committee on Road Safety; Appointment (2 speeches)
Messages have been received from the House of Representatives informing the Senate that the House has proposed amendments to the resolution of appointment of the Joint Select Committee on Road...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Trade Unions (3 speeches)
I rise today to speak of hope. Earlier today, a journalist asked the Prime Minister a question. The question was: 'Prime Minister, on ensuring integrity, do you share the view of your colleagues...
- Superannuation (1 speech)
I rise in support of fairness in our superannuation system—fairness for workers and fairness for women especially. Today in my office here in Parliament House I met with members of my...
- Violence Against Women (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak on a topic that many might find difficult to discuss: the sexual assault of older women in their homes and in aged-care facilities. Last week, I hosted a roundtable on...
- Murray-Darling Basin (1 speech)
Today hundreds if not thousands of irrigators, irrigation farmers, community members, business people from our regional communities in the Murray-Darling Basin—particularly the southern...
