Senate debates
Wednesday, 5 February 2020
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Statement by the President (0 speeches)
- Deputy Clerk of the Senate (4 speeches)
Senators, as many of you will know, shortly after the Senate rose last year our Deputy Clerk, Maureen Weeks, announced her intention to retire. It was perhaps her intention to slip away without...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Paradise Dam (3 speeches)
Last year, I along with other members of the Liberal and National parties raised concerns about the biggest infrastructure fail in Australia's history—that is, the scandal of Paradise Dam.
- McKenzie, Senator the Hon. Bridget (5 speeches)
If Senator McGrath wants to talk about a scandal, he wants to be listening to me. What's the biggest scandal to happen in this parliament in the past—at least—decade? That's the...
- Environment (1 speech)
Nearly eight years ago, in my first senators' statement in this chamber, I talked about the need to tackle plastic pollution in our oceans. This is one of the key reasons I wanted to be a...
- Australian Bushfires (1 speech)
Yesterday I rose in this place to express our condolences to those who suffered loss in the recent devastating bushfires and to thank those who have done so much and worked so hard to combat...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I want to use my first senator's statement of the year to urge the federal government to get real on climate change. Why? Because: how good is clean air; how good is it to have a home, a town and...
- Perth: 2019 School Awards (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to recognise the recipients of 2019's school awards across Perth's northern suburbs. Attending school graduations is a highlight of the end of the year. Not only do I get to...
- Tuxworth, Mr Ian Lindsay (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge the late Ian Tuxworth, whose recent passing has been mourned in the Northern Territory with a state funeral. Ian, of course, had been a chief minister of the Northern...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
For the information of senators, I table a revised ministry list reflecting the updated ministerial arrangements advised yesterday. Further announcements about the revised ministry arrangements...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Community Sport Infrastructure Grants Program (36 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Youth and Sport, Senator Colbeck. I refer the minister to the now infamous colour-coded spreadsheet of applications under the corrupt sports rorts scheme,...
- Coalition Government (11 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. Can the minister inform the Senate—
- Community Sport Infrastructure Grants Program (28 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Youth and Sport, Senator Colbeck. The independent Auditor-General's report on the corrupt sports rorts scheme states: The award of funding reflected the...
- Coronavirus (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Women, Senator Payne. Can the minister update the Senate on what the government has done, and is doing, for Australians to keep...
- Australian Bushfires (16 speeches)
My question is to Minister Reynolds representing the Minister for Natural Disaster and Emergency Management. On the last sitting day of last year, I asked the then minister, Bridget McKenzie, if...
- Climate Change (22 speeches)
My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, representing the Prime Minister. After the devastating summer that we've had, does the government accept that we are in a climate...
- Australian Bushfires (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, Senator Cash. We all know that the bushfires have had a devastating impact on small businesses throughout the...
- Community Sport Infrastructure Grants Program (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. What was the role of the Prime Minister's office in the awarding of funding under the community sport...
- Tourism (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Senator Birmingham. Can the minister update the Senate on the challenges that Australia's tourism industry, including in my home...
- Community Sport Infrastructure Grants Program (13 speeches)
nator MARIELLE SMITH () (): My question is to the Minister for Women, Senator Payne. In response to a question about the government's sports rorts scandal, at the National Press Club on 29...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Community Sport Infrastructure Grants Program (9 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Women (Senator Payne) to a question without notice asked by Senator Marielle Smith today relating to the Community Sport...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Leader of the Government in the Senate, representing the Prime Minister, (Senator Cormann) to a question without notice asked today...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Tchen, Mr Tsebin (6 speeches)
Senators, it is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death on 25 November last year of Tsebin Tchen, a senator for the state of Victoria from 1999 until 2005, and I acknowledge...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I shall move: That provisions of paragraphs 5 to 8 of standing order 111 not apply to the Laws Amendment (2019-20 Bushfire Tax Assistance) Bill...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators: (a) Senator Brockman for 4 February 2020, for personal reasons; and (b) Senator McMahon for today, on account of...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I give notice of my intention of the giving of notices on the next day of sitting to withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 1 standing in my name for 26 February 2020, proposing the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
by leave—I withdraw general business notice of motion No. 354 standing in my name for today, relating to the introduction of a bill.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Newstart and Youth Allowance (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that Newstart is a poverty trap; and (b) calls on the Federal Government to mark the new decade by immediately increasing the rate of Newstart and Youth...
- National Family Violence Prevention Legal Services (4 speeches)
Before moving notice of motion No. 367, I wish to inform the chamber that Senator Dodson will also sponsor the motion. At the request of Senators McCarthy and Dodson, I move: That the...
- Tasmania: Bushfires (1 speech)
Before moving general business notice of motion No. 368, I wish to inform the chamber that Senators Colbeck, Chandler, Abetz, Askew, Duniam and Lambie will also sponsor the motion. I, and also on...
- Townsville: Floods (2 speeches)
Before moving general business notice of motion No. 369, I wish to inform the chamber that Senator Waters will also sponsor the motion. At the request of Senators Watt, Chisholm and Waters, I...
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Consideration by Estimates Committees (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Carr, I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Attorney General, by 10am on 10 February 2020, all unanswered and overdue questions that...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Liberation of Auschwitz: 75th Anniversary (1 speech)
Before moving general business notice of motion No. 372, I wish to inform the chamber that Senators Van, Wong and O'Neill will also sponsor the motion. I also seek leave to amend the motion....
- Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) congratulates all finalists and recipients of the 2020 Australian of the Year awards; (b) further congratulates eye surgeon and blindness prevention pioneer, Dr...
- Tasmania: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 376 standing in my name and the names of Senators Brown, Bilyk and Urquhart for today, relating to Tasmanian recipients of Australia...
- Ovarian Cancer (1 speech)
I wish to inform the chamber that Senator Hanson-Young will also sponsor this motion. I, and also on behalf of Senators Marielle Smith and Hanson-Young, move: That the Senate— (a)...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Lake Illawarra Accident: 45th Anniversary (1 speech)
I wish to inform the chamber that Senator Bilyk will also sponsor this motion. I, and also on behalf of Senator Bilyk, move: That the Senate— (a) notes: (i) that 6 January 2020,...
- Australian Bushfires (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Ciccone, move: That the Senate— (a) notes: (i) the vital role played by Australian coastal shipping and their crews in the provision of relief...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Australian Bushfires (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that in New South Wales (NSW): (i) the bushfire crisis has wrought havoc and destruction, with the Bush Fire Danger Period starting early and winter fires...
- Australia Day Honours (1 speech)
by leave—I, and also on behalf of Senator Brockman, move: That the Senate— (a) acknowledges the following Western Australians who received Australia Day Honours on 26 January, 2020,...
- Moore, Rt Hon. Mike, ONZ, OA (4 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business motion No. 381 standing in the name of Senator Wong. Leave granted. I move the motion as amended: That the Senate— (a) notes: (i) the...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Emergency Broadcasting (5 speeches)
At the request of Senator Kitching, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has covered more than 850 emergency broadcasting...
- Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: Christmas Message 2019 (1 speech)
Before asking that the motion be taken as formal, I wish to advise the chamber that Senator Green will sponsor the motion. I, and also on behalf of Senator Green, move: That the Senate— (a)...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (9 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 353, standing in my name for today, relating to updating the figures of hectares burnt and the lives lost over summer. Leave granted. I...
- Education (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the number of children using early learning services has risen over the past 10 years, from just below 35% in 2009 to nearly 45% in 2018, (ii)...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing order 78(1) I give notice of my intention at the giving of the notices on the next day of sitting to withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 2 standing in my...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (7 speeches)
At the request of Senator Gallagher, I move: That further consideration of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity No. 2) Bill 2019 shall be made an order of the...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Arts (6 speeches)
Before I ask this motion be taken as formal, I would like to add Senator Bilyk as a co-sponsor to the motion, which relates to the contribution of the arts sector and the gutting of the...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I seek leave to put in a notice of motion. I was just a second too late earlier this afternoon, so I was hoping that that's fine. Leave granted. Senator Hanson Young: to move on the next day of...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Morrison Government (26 speeches)
I inform the Senate that, at 8.30 am today, three proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 23 of 2019-20; Consideration (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. The report of the Auditor-General on the blatant misuse of the $100 million in sports grants is a damning report. It's a damning report showing...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions on Notice (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers, Migration (1 speech)
I table responses to questions taken on notice during question time on 16 September 2019 and 26 November 2019, asked by Senators McKim and Lambie respectively, concerning Australia's refugee and...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That senators be discharged from and appointed to committees as follows: Administration of Sports Grants—Select Committee Appointed—Senators Abetz, Canavan,...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Address by the President of the Republic of Indonesia (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Messages have been received from the House of Representatives inviting senators to attend meetings of the House for addresses by His Excellency Mr Joko Widodo, President of the Republic of...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
On behalf of Senator Seselja, I withdraw the government business notice of motion given earlier today proposing a reference to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- China: Human Rights (1 speech)
Recently the Royal Australasian College of Physicians released a statement condemning organ trafficking. It set out its opposition to members 'knowingly engaging in research, clinical or...
- Health Care: Ceduna (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on essential birthing services at Ceduna hospital in South Australia. These services have been suspended since mid-October last year. Since then, the hospital has been...
- Wildlife (1 speech)
I rise today to make an urgent plea for change. There are many things that these horrific bushfires have forced a rethink on—on this government's appalling, destructive and selfish lack of...
- Sugar (1 speech)
I rise to speak tonight about sugar and obesity. I want to commend the Australian of the year, Dr James Muecke, for his work in ophthalmology and the prevention of blindness by attempting to...
- Morrison Government (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about trust and to speak about integrity. When the public go to an election, they put their trust in the elected politicians to lead the country effectively. They put...
- Mann, Professor Michael (1 speech)
How dare you, Michael Mann? Last Monday, the infamous Michael Mann, fabricator of the completely discredited hockey stick temperature graph, appeared on the ABC program Q+A and teamed up with the...
- Royal Children's Hospital (1 speech)
I rise this evening to pay tribute to the terrific work of the individuals behind the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. I wish them very well for their 150th anniversary. Founded in 1870 as...
- Tasmania: Health Care (1 speech)
I rise to note concern around access to health in my home state of Tasmania. This is an issue which is affecting all Tasmanians with people either directly or indirectly being affected. I've...
