Senate debates
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (5 speeches)
Mr President, I seek leave to move a motion to declare a climate emergency. The motion has been circulated. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice, I move: That so much of standing...
- 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 Electoral Amendment (Territory Representation) Bill 2020, allowing it to be considered during this...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Queensland State Election (3 speeches)
During the last sitting week, I made some remarks with respect to the result of the Queensland state election.
- Cormann, Mr Mathias (1 speech)
[by video link] I would like you all to imagine this situation: you resign from a job, as most people do from time to time, your colleagues say farewell, there are drinks and speeches and you...
- Queensland: Coalmining Industry (1 speech)
The Carmichael coalmine proposed by the Adani Group is a triple-bottom-line dud. It's a financial dud, it's a social dud and it's an environmental dud, and it's proposed by a company which has an...
- Regional Australia: Manufacturing (1 speech)
Australia is at a critical time in our history. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an economic crisis the likes of which has not been seen in Australia for generations. It has restricted...
- Superannuation (1 speech)
This year has been marred by crises: first the bushfires, then COVID-19, both contributing to a deep and damaging jobs crisis. The government have a choice for how to approach our recovery. They...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I want to respond to Senator Waters's speech in which she claimed the need to declare a climate emergency. She's acting. Her opening...
- Baby Give Back, Gladstone Area Promotion and Development Limited, Priceless House (1 speech)
I'm a big believer in the power of civil society. By that I mean that we can often achieve so much more when local people get together to solve a problem in their own backyard, in a way that...
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
I want to make a contribution in this time allotted for senators' statements to complement the statement by Senator Walsh. Senator Walsh has opened up an avenue of concern that I believe is going...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Australian Bushfires (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, Senator Ruston. Can the minister confirm that the Morrison government has spent $500...
- Economy (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Birmingham. Can the minister inform the Senate how the Morrison Liberal-National government's strong budget measures and...
- Employment (12 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Birmingham. Yesterday the Governor of the Reserve Bank, Dr Lowe, confirmed that unemployment in Australia will remain high...
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, Senator Cash. Can the minister update the Senate on how the latest ABS labour force figures for October show the...
- COVID-19: Aviation Industry (8 speeches)
My question is to Senator Cash, representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Minister, given that the government is underwriting key domestic routes through...
- Mining Industry (10 speeches)
My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia, Senator Ruston. Because I live in Central Queensland, I know how important mining jobs are to...
- Coronavirus Supplement (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families and Social Services, Senator Ruston. Minister, through you Mr President, on 1 January 2021, the new rate of the coronavirus supplement will result in...
- China (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, Senator Ruston. South Australia produces half of Australia's wine, and 80 per cent of...
- Australian Bushfires (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, Senator Rushton. The royal commission into the 2019-20 bushfire season recommended...
- Cybersecurity (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Reynolds. Can the minister update the Senate on the steps the government is taking to protect Australians against cybercrime?
- Pensions and Benefits (20 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Government Services, Senator Ruston. Yesterday, the minister failed to tell the Senate the exact date on which the government first...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Australian Bushfires, Economy (9 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by Senators Ruston and Birmingham to questions asked by Senators Gallagher, Chisholm and myself today. Right now, across Australia, we're...
- Coronavirus Supplement (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Families and Social Services (Senator Ruston) to a question without notice asked by Senator Siewert today relating to the...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
I give notice of my intention at 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 until 7 December 2020, proposing...
- Postponement (1 speech)
I remind senators the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator. There being none, I call Senator Urquhart.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (3 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to leave of absence.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Ruston, I move: That the days of meeting of the Senate for 2021 be as follows: Autumn sittings: Tuesday, 2 February to Thursday, 4 February Monday, 15 February to...
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Consideration by Estimates Committees (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Ruston, I move: (1) That estimates hearings by legislation committees for 2021 be scheduled as follows: 2020-21 additional estimates: Monday, 22 March and Tuesday, 23...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- World AIDS Day (1 speech)
Before moving general business notice of motion No. 893, I ask that the names of Senators Hughes and McLachlan be added to the motion. I, and on behalf of Senators Pratt, Siewert, Hughes and...
- Domestic and Family Violence (4 speeches)
At the request of Senators McAllister and Waters, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) 25 November 2020 marked the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against...
- Gender Equality (4 speeches)
I, and on behalf Senator Waters, move: That the Senate— (a) notes that the 2020 Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Scorecard found that: (i) gender pay gaps continue to favour men...
- Australian Bushfires (4 speeches)
At the request of Senators Ayres and Watt, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC has predicted above normal fire potential across New South Wales...
- Banking and Financial Services (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Government's proposed consumer credit reforms would: (A) repeal responsible lending obligations that require banks to ensure that a loan is...
- Aged Care: Home-Care Packages (5 speeches)
At the request of Senator Walsh, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) more than 102,000 older Australians are waiting for their approved home care package, (ii) 41,221 and 15,873...
- Murray-Darling Basin (10 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Whish-Wilson, move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Murray-Darling Basin has been plagued by greed, corruption, water theft and a lack of action on...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Australian Bushfires (11 speeches)
I inform the Senate that as at 8.30 am today 22 proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by me...
- First Speech (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Pursuant to order, I will now call Senator Thorpe to make her first speech. I ask honourable senators that the usual courtesies be extended to her.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Australian Bushfires (1 speech)
I rise to speak on this motion. Again I find myself thanking a senator on the other side for putting up an MPI which for us is really just a dorothy dixer. It's really quite amazing. It is quite...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Superannuation (1 speech)
Deputy President: Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free...
- Western Australian Liberal Party (1 speech)
Tonight I rise to make some remarks about the Liberal Party in Western Australia—the state opposition—and the ongoing and significant risk they pose to the health and wellbeing of...
- Australian Workers Union (1 speech)
Twelve days ago, a full bench of the Federal Court, 3-0, brought to an end three years of desperate 'lawfare' by the Australian Workers Union in its attempt to shut down an investigation by the...
- Amazon.com (1 speech)
The Christmas season is nearly here. Of course, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many Australians will be buying gifts online this year. Many will be using Amazon Australia for the first time, a...
- Workplace Relations: Food Delivery Industry (1 speech)
I would like to speak tonight about the recent tragic deaths and serious injuries of food delivery workers in Sydney and across the country. We have seen a tragedy unfolding on our streets over...
- Food Labelling (1 speech)
In Australia we have a health star rating system, which is a system designed to help consumers make healthier choices. It is a system of good intent. Currently, there are over 10,300 packaged...
- Sheean, Ordinary Seaman Edward (Teddy), VC (1 speech)
Yesterday, Tuesday 1 December, was a somewhat special day to some but not to others. Seventy-eight years ago on the same day, Ordinary Seaman Edward 'Teddy' Sheean went down with his ship, HMAS...
