Senate debates
Tuesday, 1 December 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.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Pensions and Benefits (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Government Services, Senator Ruston. In question time yesterday the minister claimed, 'As soon as we became aware that the method of...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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Before we move to the next question, I'd like to take this opportunity to acknowledge members of the ADF parliamentary exchange program who are joining us in this Senate gallery today. Welcome to...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Vocational Education and Training (8 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 supporting small and...
- Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (8 speeches)
[via video link] My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator Cash. The COVID-19 report of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of...
- Climate Change: Pacific Islands (8 speeches)
My question without notice is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Birmingham, representing the Prime Minister. Today, the former President of Kiribati, Anote Tong, has written...
- COVID-19: Aged Care (38 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians, Senator Colbeck. Can the minister outline how the Australian government has responded to the threat of COVID-19 to senior...
- Health Care (8 speeches)
Turning from aged care to health care, my question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Regional Health, Regional Communications and Local Government, Senator Cash. Can the minister...
- High Commissioner to Singapore (21 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister Payne. Yesterday it was announced that the former Liberal Premier of Tasmania, Will Hodgman, will be Australia's next High...
- Pensions and Benefits (10 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Government Services, Senator Ruston. Can the minister confirm that, as early as 8 March 2017, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal...
- Defence Facilities: Greenvale Training Area (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Reynolds. Can the minister update the Senate on how the development of the Greenvale Training Area is boosting jobs in North Queensland and...
- Australian Defence Force (19 speeches)
My question is to Minister Birmingham, representing the Prime Minister. The Australian public, indeed the world, have been shocked by allegations of war crimes, criminality and human rights...
- Aged Care (9 speeches)
My question is to the Senator Colbeck. In August the minister promised that he was requiring residential aged-care facilities to 'have a designated infection control officer on site'. In the...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I shall move: That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (8) of standing order 111 not apply to the Electoral Amendment (Territory Representation)...
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
by leave—I withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No.2 standing in my name for today.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Reference (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (8) of standing order 111 not apply to the following bills, allowing them to be considered during this period of sittings: Social Services and...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Pensions and Benefits (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) acknowledges that the Productivity Commission's report into mental health has been released, providing a suite of recommended reforms to improve the mental...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Aged Care (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) Australia's aged care system was in crisis before the COVID-19 pandemic, (ii) sadly 685 older Australians have died in residential aged care...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Reference (10 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Lambie, move: That the following matter be referred to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties for inquiry and report by 30 June 2021: The China-Australia Free...
- Privatisation, Corporatisation and Outsourcing Committee; Appointment (5 speeches)
I move: (1) That a select committee, to be known as the Select Committee into Privatisation, Corporatisation and Outsourcing, be established to inquire and report on the following matters: (a)...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Australian Defence Force (14 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Chief of the Defence Force, General Angus Campbell, committed to writing to the Governor-General to request he revoke the Meritorious Unit...
- Superannuation (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes Prime Minister Morrison's commitment to the Australian people at the 2019 federal election to deliver the legislated increases to the superannuation...
- Electric Vehicles (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) electric vehicles are an important technology that will be crucial in reducing emissions and taking action on climate change, with transport...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senators Bilyk, McCarthy and O'Neill, move: That the Senate— (a) notes: (i) the Prime Minister, Mr Morrison, was: (A) Social Services Minister when robodebt was...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Pensions and Benefits (11 speeches)
I inform the Senate that, as at 8.30 am today, 23 proposals were received by the President in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Davies, Major Bruce, MBE (1 speech)
Today in this place and in front of all Australians I rise to commemorate an Australian soldier, a father, a grandfather and a husband—a man who established an intellectual reputation which...
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
Who is going to be held accountable for robodebt? Who is going to be held accountable for the harassment, for the hounding, for the stress, for the anxiety, for the lives derailed and for the...
- Business Investment (1 speech)
I rise to address one of the great opportunities of our time: the changing geopolitical environment, especially in relation to Hong Kong and China. It is my view that some of the commentary on...
- Suicide (1 speech)
COVID-19 has claimed the lives of over 900 Australians this year. Each of these lives has been a tragic loss, one that has deeply affected families and communities. Governments have mobilised to...
- Child Abuse (1 speech)
Between 1 July 2019 and 30 June this year, the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation received more than 21,000 reports of child sexual exploitation—an increase of 50 per cent on...
- North Africa (1 speech)
This evening I want to make a short contribution on a region that's too often neglected in the parliament and in Australian public debate—that is, North Africa. The ceasefire between...
- Banking and Financial Services, Land Clearing, Foreign Investment, Water (1 speech)
As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I draw attention to the Australian parliament's failure to protect the interests of the Australian people. In the Senate yesterday, the...
- Black Lives Matter Movement (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak regarding the need for Australian corporations, organisations and institutions to proceed with caution when endorsing political movements such as Black Lives Matter or...
- Superannuation (1 speech)
I rise to speak on Australia's world-class superannuation system and how the government is trying to attack it to undermine Australian workers. There has been an incredibly important role played...
- Women's Economic Security (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the plight of older women. Before this year, the fastest-growing cohort of homeless people was older women aged over 55, but this year it's women aged over 45. There are...
- Sport: Horseracing (1 speech)
I rise today to put on the record my support for one of Australia's great pastimes, a sport that is enjoyed by many and which, as an industry, is a major employer across our country—in...
- South Australia: Forestry (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about South Australia's forestry industry, but in terms that will be of interest to everyone in the chamber, especially the Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and...
- South Australia: Bushfires (1 speech)
The date of 20 December will mark 12 months since more than 200 bushfires started burning across my home state of South Australia, part of what has now become known as the Black Summer bushfires....
- Western Australia: Climate Change (1 speech)
The WA community wants climate action. They want to see their government take advantage of the opportunity created by the urgent need to rebuild in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic to...
- Pell, Cardinal George, AC (1 speech)
In my first speech regarding Cardinal Pell, I indicated my intention of laying out the details of the attack against him that resulted in him being unjustly imprisoned for more than a year. The...
- COVID-19: Northern Territory (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to the people of the Northern Territory and, indeed, all Australians as we come to the end of the year. It is December, a time when we're starting to prepare for Christmas...
- Human Rights, Climate Change: Pacific Islands, Pauga, Mr Talalelei (1 speech)
I rise again tonight to speak on the issue of human rights around the world. The Australian Greens believe that universal human rights are fundamental and must be respected and protected in all...
- Staines Memorial College (1 speech)
I'm delighted to rise this evening to speak about a memorable day I had on 3 November this year at Staines Memorial College in Redbank Plains, where I opened some new facilities: a student...
- Queensland Government: Budget (15 speeches)
The Queensland government released their budget today. Because I was raised to find the good in everything, I want to express in my chamber how pleased I am to see the Queensland Labor government...
