Senate debates

Thursday, 8 October 2020

• Committees (0 speeches)
  • Meeting (6 speeches)
    I remind senators the question may be put on any of the proposals at the request of any senator. There being none, Senator Urquhart.
• Bills (0 speeches)
  • Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020; Second Reading (15 speeches)
    [by video link] The arts and the humanities are amazing, and anyone who studies them should be celebrated. We know that the future of employment in this country, the industries that are needed...
• Committees (0 speeches)
  • Tobacco Harm Reduction Select Committee; Membership (1 speech)
    I have received two letters from minor party senators nominating to be members of the Select Committee on Tobacco Harm Reduction. There being two nominations, in accordance with the standing...
• Business (0 speeches)
  • Days and Hours of Meeting (18 speeches)
    by leave—I move: That— (1) On Thursday, 8 October 2020: (a) the routine of business from 11.45am shall be:   (i) placing of business;   (ii) notices of motion;...
• Committees (0 speeches)
  • Tobacco Harm Reduction Select Committee; Membership (1 speech)
    I can announce the result of the ballot as follows: Senator Griff, 51 votes; and Senator Roberts, nine votes. Senator Griff is therefore elected as the crossbench member of the Select Committee...
  • Public Works Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
    by leave—I move: That the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works be authorised to hold a private meeting otherwise than in accordance with standing order 33(1) during the sitting...
• Business (0 speeches)
  • Rearrangement (1 speech)
    I move: That— (a) the following government business orders of the day be considered from 12.45 pm today: No. 4 Sport Integrity Australia Amendment (World Anti-Doping Code Review) Bill 2020...
• Committees (0 speeches)
  • Education and Employment References Committee; Reporting Date (1 speech)
    I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator. There being none, we will now go to notices of motion.
• Notices (0 speeches)
  • Withdrawal (1 speech)
    by leave—I withdraw business of the Senate notices of motion Nos 1 and 2 standing in my name for eight sitting days after today, proposing the disallowance of the ASIC Corporations (Foreign...
  • Presentation (1 speech)
    On behalf of Senator Wong, I rise to give notice of a motion concerning the rural, regional and transport committee.
• Committees (0 speeches)
  • Selection of Bills Committee; Report (16 speeches)
    Pursuant to order and at the request of the chairs of the respective committees, I present the ninth report of 2020 of the Selection of Bills Committee. I seek leave to have the report...
• Bills (0 speeches)
  • Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020 (11 speeches)
    In accordance with the resolution just agreed to, I will now put the questions required to dispose of the Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and...
  • Sport Integrity Australia Amendment (World Anti-Doping Code Review) Bill 2020; Second Reading (2 speeches)
    The Sport Integrity Australia Amendment (World Anti-Doping Code Review) Bill 2020 seeks to amend the Sport Integrity Australia Act 2020 and the National Sports Tribunal Act 2019. These amendments...
  • Sport Integrity Australia Amendment (World Anti-Doping Code Review) Bill 2020; Third Reading (2 speeches)
    No amendments have been circulated. Does any senator require a committee stage? If not, I shall call the minister to move the third reading.
• Notices (0 speeches)
  • Presentation (1 speech)
    by leave—Earlier I foreshadowed a motion in the name of Senator Wong. It should have been in the name of Senator Green. I'd just like to correct the record.
• Bills (0 speeches)
  • Family Law Amendment (Risk Screening Protections) Bill 2020; Second Reading (2 speeches)
    This bill provides legislative support for a domestic violence risk screening pilot program being rolled out by the Family Court of Australia and the Federal Circuit Court of Australia. This...
  • Family Law Amendment (Risk Screening Protections) Bill 2020; Third Reading (2 speeches)
    No amendments have been circulated. Does any senator require a committee stage? If not, I shall call the minister to move the third reading.
  • Treasury Laws Amendment (A Tax Plan for the COVID-19 Economic Recovery) Bill 2020; 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. by leave—I move: That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to...
  • Treasury Laws Amendment (A Tax Plan for the COVID-19 Economic Recovery) Bill 2020; Second Reading (7 speeches)
    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 implements...
• Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
  • Women's Economic Security (14 speeches)
    My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Women, Senator Ruston. Can the minister confirm that of the approximately 754,000 women currently without work and on JobSeeker or...
  • Budget (42 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Reynolds. Can the minister update the Senate on what the Morrison government's 2020-21 defence budget delivers for Australia's national security?
  • Climate Change (8 speeches, 1 comment)
    My question is to Senator Cormann, representing the Prime Minister. For the anthropogenic-global-warming hypothesis to be accepted scientifically, it must be based on physical empirical data....
  • Mining Industry (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia, Senator Birmingham. Australia's resources sector represents nine per cent of Australia's GDP,...
  • National Security (17 speeches)
    My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs.
  • Employment (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Cormann. What guarantees can the minister give that that government's hiring credits scheme will not be used by employers to cut...
  • Budget (28 speeches)
    I have a question for the Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, Senator Cash. Can the minister outline to the Senate how the budget's JobMaker plan is backing small...
• Statements (0 speeches)
  • Minister for Finance (4 speeches)
    I seek leave to make a very short statement.
• Business (0 speeches)
  • Days and Hours of Meeting (1 speech)
    by leave—I move: That divisions may take place on Friday, 9 October 2020. Question agreed to.
• Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
  • Women's Economic Security, Budget (5 speeches)
    I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Families and Social Services (Senator Ruston) to questions without notice asked today by Senators McCarthy, Keneally and...
  • Budget (1 speech)
    I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Prime Minister (Senator Cormann) to a question without notice asked by Senator Hanson-Young today relating...
• Committees (0 speeches)
  • Membership (2 speeches)
    I have received letters requesting changes in the membership of committees.
• Condolences (0 speeches)
  • Ryan, Hon. Susan Maree, AO (16 speeches)
    Senators, it is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death, on 27 September 2020, of the Hon. Susan Maree Ryan AO, a senator for the Australian Capital Territory from 1975 to 1988 and...
• Committees (0 speeches)
  • Appropriations, Staffing and Security Committee; Report (1 speech)
    On behalf of the Appropriations, Staffing and Security Committee, I present the committee's report Estimates for the Department of the Senate 2020-21and I move: That the Senate take note of the...
  • Australia's Family Law System Joint Select Committee; Report (1 speech)
    On behalf of the Deputy Chair of the Joint Select Committee on Australia's Family Law System, Senator Hanson, I present the interim report of the committee and I move: That the Senate take note...
  • Senate Procedure Committee; Report (1 speech)
    I present the Procedure Committee's second report of 2020, entitled COVID-19 and the Senate, and I move: That the Senate take note of the report. On 3 September 2020 the Senate agreed to a...
  • Australia's Family Law System Joint Select Committee; Report (1 speech)
    I rise to speak to the tabling of the interim report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Australia's Family Law System in my capacity as a member of that committee. The interim report...
  • Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit; Report (1 speech)
    On behalf of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, I present the 2021 Budget day statement of the committee and seek leave to have the report incorporated into Hansard. The...
  • Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee; Report (3 speeches)
    I present the report of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee, Identification of leading practices in ensuring evidence-based regulation of farm practices that impact...
• Bills (0 speeches)
  • Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020; Third Reading (3 speeches)
    I move: That this bill be now read a third time. I move: That the question be now put.
• Budget (0 speeches)
  • Statement and Documents (5 speeches)
    I seek leave to have the opposition's 2020-21 budget reply speech incorporated into Hansard. Leave granted. The speech read as follows— My fellow Australians. We live in a great country....
• Committees (0 speeches)
  • Membership (2 speeches)
    Order! The President has received letters requesting changes in the membership of various committees.
  • Meeting (1 speech)
    by leave—I move: That committees be authorised to meet in accordance with the list circulated in the chamber: Question agreed to.
  • Community Affairs Legislation Committee; Reference (1 speech)
    I advise senators that a clerical error was made in the Selection of Bills Committee report tabled today. The National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Amendment (Technical...
• Business (0 speeches)
  • Days and Hours of Meeting (1 speech)
    Pursuant to the order agreed earlier today, the sitting of the Senate is suspended until 9 am tomorrow. Proceedings suspended from 21 : 39 to 09 : 00 The Senate transcript was published up to...