Senate debates
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Autism Select Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Autism Select Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Vaccination; Order for the Production of Documents (6 speeches)
by leave—I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, by no later than 7.20 pm on Tuesday, 22 June 2021: the planning...
- COVID-19: Vaccination; Order for the Production of Documents (6 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Fuel Security Bill 2021, Fuel Security (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2021; Second Reading (5 speeches)
I rise to support the Fuel Security Bill 2021. Securing Australia's fuel supply is essential for our national economy and our national security. We need a secure supply of fuel to keep planes in... - Fuel Security Bill 2021; Reference to Committee (3 speeches)
Pursuant to standing order 115(2)(a), I move: That the Fuel Security Bill 2021 be referred to the Economics Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 2 August 2021. Last week, in the...
- Fuel Security Bill 2021, Fuel Security (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2021; Second Reading (5 speeches)
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Senator Hume. This morning on RN, the Minister for the Environment, Sussan Ley, refused to guarantee that Mr... - Mining Industry (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business, Senator Cash. The mining sector generates billions of dollars of economic...
- Climate Change (8 speeches)
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Senator Seselja. When asked in 2020 about a target of net zero by 2050, Minister Seselja said it was 'reckless' and... - Climate Change: Great Barrier Reef (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment. After losing 50 per cent of the coral cover of the Great Barrier Reef since 2015, UNESCO has today recommended that... - Women's Economic Security (14 speeches)
I wish to ask a question of the Minister for Women's Economic Security, Senator Hume. Can the minister please update the Senate on the recently announced labour force figures, especially with... - Deputy Prime Minister (25 speeches)
My question is to Senator Reynolds, the Minister representing the Deputy Prime Minister. Western Australian Nationals leader Mia Davies has said of newly appointed Deputy Prime Minister Joyce's... - Agriculture Industry: Workforce (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, Senator Ruston. Can the minister please inform the Senate of the importance of a... - Asylum Seekers (8 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Payne. Three weeks ago you stated you were seized of the matter of urgently processing visas for Afghan civilians who put their lives... - Murray-Darling Basin Plan (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia, Senator Ruston. Just hours after rolling the Deputy Prime Minister, the Nationals in the... - COVID-19: Pacific Islands and South-East Asia (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for International Development and the Pacific. Can the minister update the Senate on how the Liberal-National government is responding to the health and economic... - Schools (9 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Youth, Senator Reynolds. An investigation by the Nine newspapers found Australia's 50 wealthiest private schools now...
- Climate Change (11 speeches)
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Deputy Prime Minister (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of answers given by the Minister for Women's Economic Security (Senator Hume) and the Minister for International Development and the Pacific (Senator Seselja) to... - Climate Change: Great Barrier Reef (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy and Minister for Women's Economic Security (Senator Hume) to a... - Schools (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme and Minister for Government Services (Senator Reynolds) to a question without...
- Deputy Prime Minister (8 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (1 speech)
by leave—I table a document.
- Tabling (1 speech)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (6 speeches)
by leave—I move: That today: (a) the hours of meeting be midday till adjournment; (b) the routine of business following consideration of the urgency motion be: (i) business of the Senate... - Leave of Absence (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators for personal reasons: (a) Senator McAllister for 21 June 2021; and (b) Senator Chisholm for 23 and 24 June 2021....
- Days and Hours of Meeting (6 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Postponement (1 speech)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Suitability Commission of Inquiry Bill 2021; Reference to Committee (3 speeches)
I move: That the Ministerial Suitability Commission of Inquiry Bill 2021 be referred to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 19 August 2021.
- Ministerial Suitability Commission of Inquiry Bill 2021; Reference to Committee (3 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Medicare Benefits Scheme (2 speeches)
I ask that general business notice of motion No. 1149 be taken as formal. - Temporary Visa Holders (6 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) Australia's international border has been closed for fifteen months, with the necessary speed of the closure resulting in many families becoming... - Italian Republic Day (2 speeches)
I ask that general business notice of motion No. 1151, standing in my name and the names of Senators Dean Smith, Ciccone, Lines, Pratt, Dodson and Sterle, be taken as formal. - Local Content Broadcasting (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) acknowledges that community television services Channel 31 Melbourne and Geelong and Channel 44 Adelaide provide valuable programs and services to the... - Tasmania: Queen's Birthday Honours (2 speeches)
I inform the chamber that Senator Duniam will be sponsoring the motion as well. I ask that general business notice of motion No. 1154 be taken as a formal motion. - Discrimination (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Attorney-General, the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the Minister for International Development and the Pacific, the...
- Medicare Benefits Scheme (2 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Suitability Commission of Inquiry Bill 2021; First Reading (2 speeches)
I move: That the Ministerial Suitability Commission of Inquiry Bill 2021 may proceed without formalities and now be read a first time.
- Ministerial Suitability Commission of Inquiry Bill 2021; First Reading (2 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
I ask that general business notice of motion No. 1157, about superannuation, be taken as a formal motion. - Parliament House: Functions (3 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Steele-John, move: (1) That the Senate— (a) notes that, on budget night, the Great Hall of Parliament was booked by the New South Wales Liberal Party who... - Medicare, Tasmania: Queen's Birthday Honours, Superannuation (8 speeches)
I seek leave to move general business notices of motion Nos 1149, 1154 and 1157 together and that they be determined without amendment or debate. Leave not granted. I move: That so much of the... - Italian Republic Day (5 speeches)
At the request of Senator Birmingham, and pursuant to contingent notice, I move: That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent motion No. 1151 relating to Italian Republic Day...
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Morrison Government: Housing (14 speeches)
I inform the Senate that at 8.30 am today 28 proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by lot....
- Morrison Government: Housing (14 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Intelligence and Security Joint Committee; Report (4 speeches)
I present the report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, Review of the re-listing of Hizballah's External Security Organisation as a terrorist organisation under...
- Intelligence and Security Joint Committee; Report (4 speeches)
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Australian Renewable Energy Agency Amendment (2020-21 Budget Programs) Regulations 2021; Disallowance (6 speeches)
I, and on behalf of Senator McAllister, move business of the Senate notices of motion Nos 1 and 2 together: That the Australian Renewable Energy Agency Amendment (2020-21 Budget Programs)...
- Australian Renewable Energy Agency Amendment (2020-21 Budget Programs) Regulations 2021; Disallowance (6 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Fuel Security Bill 2021, Fuel Security (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2021; In Committee (74 speeches)
I've got some relatively simple questions in relation to the $200 million grant program that is associated with the Fuel Security Bill 2021. I'm wondering what the status of that particular grant... - Fuel Security Bill 2021, Fuel Security (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2021; Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills be now read a third time. Question agreed to Bills read a third time.
- Fuel Security Bill 2021, Fuel Security (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2021; In Committee (74 speeches)
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Australian Renewable Energy Agency Amendment (2020-21 Budget Programs) Regulations 2021; Disallowance (26 speeches)
I missed a division a little bit earlier. I seek the Senate's indulgence to recommit for a vote on that and provide an explanation as to why I missed the division. It was in relation to...
- Australian Renewable Energy Agency Amendment (2020-21 Budget Programs) Regulations 2021; Disallowance (26 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2021-2022, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2021-2022, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2021-2022; 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. - Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2021-2022, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2021-2022, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2021-2022; Second Reading (5 speeches)
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— APPROPRIATION... - Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2021-2022, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2021-2022, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2021-2022; Third Reading (2 speeches)
As no amendments to the bills have been circulated, I shall call the minister to move the third reading unless any senator requires that the bills be considered in Committee of the Whole.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2021-2022, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2021-2022, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2021-2022; First Reading (1 speech)
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Australian Renewable Energy Agency Amendment (2020-21 Budget Programs) Regulations 2021; Disallowance (5 speeches)
Madam Acting Deputy President, with the Senate's indulgence, I again seek leave to recommit the vote on business of the Senate notices of motion Nos 1 and 2, in the names of Senator Waters and...
- Australian Renewable Energy Agency Amendment (2020-21 Budget Programs) Regulations 2021; Disallowance (5 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 3) Bill 2021; Second Reading (4 speeches)
I rise to speak to the Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 3) Bill 2021. This bill implements a number of minor Treasury law amendments and measures from the 2021-22 budget. At the outset,... - Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 3) Bill 2021; In Committee (4 speeches)
I move Greens amendment (1) on sheet 1302: (1) Schedule 2, page 5 (after line 8), at the end of the Schedule, add: 2 At the end of section 51 Add: Limit on guarantee (4) The Commonwealth must... - Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 3) Bill 2021; Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time. - Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Age of Dependants) Bill 2021; Second Reading (4 speeches)
The opposition will be supporting the Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Age of Dependants) Bill 2021. We know the scale and impacts of private health insurance cost increases under... - Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Age of Dependants) Bill 2021; Third Reading (1 speech)
The question now is that the remaining stages of the bill be agreed to and the bill be now passed. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time. - Online Safety Bill 2021, Online Safety (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2021; Second Reading (21 speeches)
I will now deal with the Online Safety Bill 2021 and the Online Safety (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2021. I will first deal with the second reading amendment moved... - Financial Regulator Assessment Authority Bill 2021, Financial Regulator Assessment Authority (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2021; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I seek leave to table my second reading speeches for these bills and have them incorporated into Hansard. Leave not granted. - Financial Regulator Assessment Authority Bill 2021, Financial Regulator Assessment Authority (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2021; Third Reading (1 speech)
I seek leave to have my speech in the second reading debate on the Financial Regulator Assessment Authority Bill 2021 tabled and incorporated into Hansard. Leave granted. The speech read as... - Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I will first deal with the second reading amendment circulated by the opposition. The question is that the second reading amendment on sheet 1335, circulated by the opposition, be agreed to. Op... - Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021; Third Reading (1 speech)
The question now is that the remaining stages of the bill be agreed to and the bill be now passed. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time. Senate adjourned at 23:06
- Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 3) Bill 2021; Second Reading (4 speeches)