Senate debates
Tuesday, 15 June 2021
- 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 for Government Services, Senator Reynolds. In approving an almost $2 billion settlement for victims of the coalition government's unlawful robodebt scheme, Justice...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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Order! I draw the attention of honourable senators to the presence in the chamber of the President of the Legislative Council of South Australia, the Hon. John Dawkins. On behalf of all...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Security (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Payne. Can the minister outline Australia's approach to working with partners to address current regional and global challenges to...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Colbeck. On at least 11 occasions in budget estimates, this minister refused to say whether or not the...
- Asylum Seekers (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs. Minister, I refer to the Murugappan family, which your...
- COVID-19: Quarantine (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator Colbeck. In Senate estimates, the CMO confirmed the source of the Victorian outbreak was from a breach in hotel...
- Law Enforcement (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs. Last week we saw an exceptionally successful police operation that landed a significant blow on organised crime in...
- Defence Personnel (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne. At estimates, I asked the Chief of Army about the issues at the Sydney University Regiment. Since then I've...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (8 speeches)
My question this afternoon is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Colbeck. After four months, why is it that less than 15 per cent of Australia's 366,000...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Senator Reynolds. Can the minister please update the Senate on the Morrison government's commitment to ensuring there...
- Prime Minister (17 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Birmingham. The Prime Minister has, for almost two years, refused to answer any questions about his friendship with...
- Women's Safety (9 speeches)
My question is to the Senator Ruston. Can the minister advise how the Morrison government is supporting Australians who are escaping violence?
- Community Sport Infrastructure Grant Program (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sport, Senator Colbeck. In a submission to the Senate Select Committee on the Administration of Sports Grants, dated 14 February 2020, the secretary of the...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions on Notice (0 speeches)
- Question No. 3359 (8 speeches)
In accordance with standing order 74(5), I seek an explanation from the minister representing the defence minister as to why question on notice No. 3359 has not been answered.
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Vaccination, COVID-19: Quarantine (6 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of answers given by the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services (Senator Colbeck) to questions without notice asked by Senators Watt, O'Neill and...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Attorney-General (Senator Cash) to a question without notice asked by Senator McKim relating to asylum seekers. Well, here we are...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators from 15 to 24 June 2021: (a) Senator Griff, for personal reasons; and (b) Senator Molan, medical reasons....
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Domestic and Family Violence (7 speeches)
I seek leave to, sadly, increase the number of women killed from 11 to 18. Leave granted. I move the motion as amended: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) 18 women have been killed by...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Privileges Committee; Reference (5 speeches)
I seek leave to amend notice of motion No. 1. Leave granted. I move the motion as amended: That the following matter be referred to the Committee of Privileges for inquiry and report: Having...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Legal Aid (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the additional public money for women's legal services in the Budget is very welcome, (ii) other legal assistance services like Aboriginal and...
- JobKeeper Payment (5 speeches)
I move: (1) That the Senate— (a) notes that the 2020-21 Budget delivered the JobKeeper wage subsidy, which saw over $1 billion in JobKeeper payments paid to companies that made a profit or...
- Child Care (9 speeches)
At the request of Senator Bilyk, I ask that general business notice of motion No. 1120 be taken as a formal motion.
- Gender Dysphoria (6 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 1114 in the terms circulated in the chamber, before asking that it be taken as a formal motion. Leave granted. I move the motion as...
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Gas Industry (21 speeches)
I inform the Senate that at 8.30 am today 26 proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by lot....
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Financial Regulator Assessment Authority Bill 2021, Financial Regulator Assessment Authority (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2021; First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills may proceed without formalities, may be taken together and be now read a first time. Question agreed to. Bills read a first time.
- Financial Regulator Assessment Authority Bill 2021, Financial Regulator Assessment Authority (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2021; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speeches incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speeches read as follows— FINANCIAL...
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Charges) Bill 2021, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2021; First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills may proceed without formalities, may be taken together and be now read a first time. Question agreed to. Bills read a first time.
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Charges) Bill 2021, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2021; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills now be read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speeches incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speeches read as follows— TERTIARY...
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021; 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.
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021; Second Reading (2 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— The Broadcasting...
- Competition and Consumer Amendment (Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Information Sharing Scheme) Bill 2021, Higher Education Support Amendment (Extending the Student Loan Fee Exemption) Bill 2021, Private Health Insurance Amendment (Income Thresholds) Bill 2021, Sydney Harbour Federation Trust Amendment Bill 2021, Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 3) Bill 2021, Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021, Treasury Laws Amendment (Your Future, Your Super) Bill 2021; First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills may proceed without formalities, may be taken together and be now read a first time. Question agreed to. Bills read a first time.
- Competition and Consumer Amendment (Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Information Sharing Scheme) Bill 2021, Higher Education Support Amendment (Extending the Student Loan Fee Exemption) Bill 2021, Private Health Insurance Amendment (Income Thresholds) Bill 2021, Sydney Harbour Federation Trust Amendment Bill 2021, Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 3) Bill 2021, Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021, Treasury Laws Amendment (Your Future, Your Super) Bill 2021; Second Reading (1 speech)
I table the revised explanatory memorandum relating to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Your Future, Your Super) Bill 2021 and move: That these bills be now read a second time. I seek leave to have...
- Transport Security Amendment (Serious Crime) Bill 2020; In Committee (37 speeches)
I just want to go back to questions we were asking, particularly regarding foreign seafarers and comparing those foreign seafarers with the MCV card as opposed those with the MSIC. I want to draw...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- China (1 speech)
Earlier this year, I spoke of an iron curtain falling around our region, from Mandalay to Moresby and from Manila to Melbourne. Communist China is intent on domination, not through traditional...
- Far North Queensland (1 speech)
Far North Queensland is facing a housing crisis. People are sleeping in cars. They're unable to get rental properties. We've got single parents unable to get homes to live in. We know that...
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
I rise this evening to talk about the government's 'dobseeker' hotline. There is no limit to the ways in which this government do their very best to make the lives of people on income support a...
- Medicare (1 speech)
When a party is devoid of a positive policy platform, it reduces itself to scare campaigns—unsubstantiated scare campaigns. That is the hapless state in which the Labor Party finds itself....
- Chau, Mr Van Kham (1 speech)
If an Australian citizen is imprisoned abroad without just cause it's an attack on the freedom of all Australians. Today I want to highlight the plight of one particular Australian citizen. He is...
- Liberal Party of South Australia: Membership (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak in relation to the need to ensure that Australia's democracy remains a pluralistic, liberal and inclusive democracy which values freedom of thought, worship,...
- Regional Australia (1 speech)
I rise to thank regional Australia. Our regional industries got us through the biggest economic shock since the global financial crisis. Our agricultural and resource sectors have supported us...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
When Priya and Nades Murugappan arrived in Australia in 2013 it should have been the beginning of a new chapter in their lives. Fleeing persecution and violence, they should have found that safe...
- Agricultural Shows (1 speech)
I'd like to pay tribute to the 50,000 Australians who volunteer every year to put on agricultural shows. It has been a tough year for those involved in preparing for, and putting on, agricultural...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I'm not going to mince my words here tonight. The treatment of Priya, Nades, Tharnicaa and Kopika has been nothing short of depraved A three-year-old child—who just turned four, actually,...
- Indigenous Australians (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about the changes that the Minister for Indigenous Australians, the Hon. Ken Wyatt, announced at the weekend relating to much-desired amendments to the Aboriginal Land...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I welcome today's news that the Murugappan family—four-year-old Tharnicaa and six-year-old Kopika and their parents, Priya and Nades—will be reunited in Perth and will be allowed to...
- Dante Alighieri (1 speech)
Italian poet, scholar, writer, philosopher and politician, Dante Alighieri, is one of the founding fathers of the Italian language, along with Petrarch and Boccaccio—the so called 'tre...
- Victoria: Floods, Australian Defence Force (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak on, among other matters, the circumstances inflicted on those in my home state as a result of last week's weather events. Sadly, in Victoria last week heavy rain and...
- Oil and Gas Exploration (1 speech)
While world leaders gather in the United Kingdom this week at the G7 conference to discuss, amongst many things, the importance of climate change and decarbonising our economy, what does our...
- Marine Environment (1 speech)
I rise to speak this evening about the Australian giant cuttlefish and the environmental health of South Australia's Upper Spencer Gulf. Discussions about Australia's marine environment often...
- Ipswich Events Centre (1 speech)
Mr Acting Deputy President McGrath, you and I have many things in common and one of those things is our love for a great show—one of those great Queensland agricultural shows, which we have...
- Human Rights (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about human rights, as is my habit every Tuesday night in sitting weeks. The Australian Greens believe that universal human rights are fundamental and must be respected...
- Moranbah Mine Disaster, Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I rise initially to speak about two matters involving Central Queensland that have occurred in recent times. Just this week we saw the report of the Queensland Coal Mining Board of Inquiry into a...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I ask: what's happening to our country? On COVID, due to the overseas deaths early last year, I was cooperative and supportive from the...
