Senate debates
Tuesday, 3 August 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.
- Statement by the President (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Parliamentary Procedure (1 speech)
Unfortunately I have to once again inform the Senate of revised arrangements for the chamber and Parliament House due to the COVID-19 outbreaks across the country. The Speaker is making a similar...
- Party Office Holders (0 speeches)
- Australian Greens (1 speech)
by leave—I inform the chamber that this week I will represent the Australian Greens as acting whip and acting leader of business.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Morrison Government (1 speech)
What a mess Australia is in. We have the very sad occurrence of New South Wales being in extensive lockdown because of the new delta strain of COVID. We've seen deaths in that state, and both in...
- Tokyo Olympic Games, COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
In the national newspapers yesterday, the Prime Minister summed up the spirit of Australians, which comes in all forms in all our people. Our Olympians have inspired us in Tokyo. They have...
- Oil and Gas Exploration (1 speech)
Communities right around this country have stood up and said, 'No more oil and gas drilling, no more seismic testing off our coasts'. In this time of climate emergency, when we need to be...
- Qantas (1 speech)
[by video link] I rise to congratulate the 2,000 aviation workers and the Transport Workers Union, who on Friday won a monumental case in the Federal Court against Qantas. Last year, while taking...
- Covid-19 (1 speech)
The architect of our Parliament House, Romaldo Giurgola, gave the Australian flag pride of place in his design—a flag the size of a double-decker bus, atop an 80-metre pole, with supports...
- Tokyo Olympic Games (1 speech)
Two weeks of iso was made considerably easier thanks to the Olympics, Tokyo 2020 and 2021, and of course the outstanding Emma McKeon. If Emma were a country, as of today she would be in front of...
- Scibilia, Ms Ada, Jones, Ms Nola (1 speech)
[by video link] Last month, delegates to the Victorian branch conference of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association voted unanimously to bestow life membership on Ada Scibilia and...
- Senate Procedure (1 speech)
Can I just say that I think these two minutes are a load of rubbish. Honestly, here we go. The major parties are squeezing the crossbench again because they know we're a threat. We're coming and...
- Superannuation (1 speech)
I will quote from a speech by the father of modern superannuation, Paul Keating. It's from a speech he gave in 2007. He said: In other words, had employers not paid nine percentage points of...
- Murray-Darling Basin (1 speech)
In the early days of the Murray-Darling water extraction was pretty much a free-for-all. It was around the 1960s when water quality became an issue. From 1980 to 1983 we saw the River Murray's...
- Parliament House: Staff (1 speech)
[by video link] This past week I participated in the independent review into parliamentary workplaces, otherwise known to those of us in this place as the Jenkins review. I wanted to put on the...
- Forestry (1 speech)
[by video link] Today I want to speak out about the terrible devastation that's occurring in a special patch of forest in Alberton West in South Gippsland, Victoria. I want to give a shout-out to...
- Nuclear Energy (1 speech)
It is time that we shake ourselves out of our deep, deep nuclear coma and consider adopting this technology here in Australia, in particular modern small modular reactors. They are not a new...
- National Security (1 speech)
More than 100,000 Australians have viewed a video online supposedly showing AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw plotting a coup against the Australian government. It's a fake—Commissioner...
- Parliamentary Behaviour (2 speeches)
I would like to take this opportunity in this first session of two-minute statements—although it looks like I've got one minute left—to address the comments of Senator Lambie earlier....
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
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I table for the information of the Senate a revised ministry list, and I seek leave to have the document incorporated into Hansard and make a short statement. Leave granted. The document read as...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Vaccination (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator Colbeck. Why did Mr Morrison repeatedly tell Australians that getting vaccinated is 'not a race'?
- Covid-19 (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Birmingham. Can the minister please advise the Senate how the Liberal and Nationals government is implementing its plan to...
- COVID-19: New South Wales (8 speeches)
[by video link] My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator Colbeck. In late June the Prime Minister said in response to the Delta COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney, 'I...
- COVID-19: Economy (8 speeches)
[by video link] My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Colbeck. Minister, the Prime Minister's press conference on the modelling by the Doherty...
- Independent Review into Circumstances relating to the Death of Ann-Marie Smith (8 speeches)
[by video link] My question is to the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Senator Reynolds. Last week Rosa Maione pleaded guilty to killing Ann-Marie Smith. Ms Smith was an...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator Colbeck. The Prime Minister has announced that Australia will enter its next phase out of the pandemic when 70 per...
- COVID-19: Income Support Payments (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Emergency Management and National Recovery and Resilience, Senator McKenzie. As we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are becoming...
- Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide (18 speeches)
My question is for the Attorney-General, Minister Cash. The Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide is under way and people are ready to make submissions. They are awaiting further...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator Colbeck. Can the minister confirm the Morrison government's 70 per cent phase b target includes only Australians aged...
- COVID-19: Employment (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business, Senator Cash. In light of the unprecedented economic situation caused by the...
- Minister for Emergency Management and National Recovery and Resilience (19 speeches)
My question is to the new Minister for Emergency Management and National Recovery and Resilience, Senator McKenzie. How many discretionary grant programs is the minister responsible for in her...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Taxation (25 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to tax policy in Australia as circulated in the chamber. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice standing in the name of Senator Waters, I move:...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Vaccination (11 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Minister for Health (Senator Colbeck) to a question asked without notice by Senator Wong today relating to...
- COVID-19: Economy (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians (Senator Colbeck) to the question asked of him by Senator Siewert today relating to...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators from 3 to 5 August 2021: Senators Keneally, Ciccone, Kitching, Green, Bilyk, McAllister, Sheldon, Ayres, Dodson,...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
by leave—I withdraw business of the Senate No.1 in the name of Senator Kitching, and general business motion 1169 in the name of Senator McAllister.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators from 3 to 5 August 2021: Senators Waters, Siewert, Rice, Thorpe, Steele-John and Faruqi for COVID-related...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Reporting Date (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any of those proposals at the request of any senator.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Vaccination (25 speeches)
I inform the Senate that, at 8.30 am today, 12 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)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Vaccination (2 speeches)
I understand that there is a request to seek leave to allow Senator Steele-John to speak. However, I haven't had a response from him as yet.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Vaccination (2 speeches)
My understanding is that Senator Steele-John is now good to go, so I seek leave for him to make his multi-delayed three-minute contribution on the matter of public importance. Leave granted.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Tokyo Olympic Games: Transgender Athletes (1 speech)
Over the last week we've witnessed many moments which capture the essence of the Olympic spirit, moments which inspire and bring joy to the world even during these dark days of pandemics and...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
Before I start making my contribution around independent assessment, I just want to inform the Senate that Laurel Hubbard, a transgender Olympian from New Zealand, is quoted as saying, 'I just...
- West Papua: Human Rights (1 speech)
[by video link] I rise tonight on the issue of human rights, as is my habit on Tuesday nights, even when I am here remotely. The Australian Greens believe that universal human rights are...
- Bushfires (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about something that may seem a little out of place in the middle of a cold Canberra winter. In my home state of Western Australia, we've just had one of the wettest Julys...
- Parish, Mr Kevin Phillip, OAM (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the tragic passing earlier this year at the wonderful age of 89 of my dear friend and local Central Coast luminary Kevin Parish OAM. Kevin was a community activist and Labor...
- Freedom (1 speech)
As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I speak tonight on freedom. On many occasions in the last year I have addressed the Senate in regard to freedom as a counterbalance to...
- East Gippsland: Bushfires (1 speech)
[by video link] I'd like to take this opportunity to speak on the current situation in East Gippsland regarding the lack of federal government financial support provided to rebuild crucial...
- COVID-19: New South Wales (1 speech)
[by video link] Millions of people are in COVID lockdown this week; many of them are in my home state of New South Wales. Tens of thousands have lost their livelihoods without adequate support...
- Veterans: Suicide (1 speech)
I was sitting at my desk and saw the National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020. We don't need consequential amendments because the bill...
- Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (1 speech)
[by video link] Thousands of disabled people have already had the opportunity to share their experience with our disability royal commission. This is a vital step in the act and process of...
- Urannah Dam (4 speeches)
I rise to tell a tale of two cities; it is the best of times and the worst of times. In this tale of two cities, I want to talk about two towns in central North Queensland, the towns of Emerald...
- World Ranger Day (1 speech)
[by video link] Last week, on 31 July, it was World Ranger Day, a day where we pause and reflect on the work that rangers do, particularly First Nations rangers, who protect and care for country....
- Queensland Olympic and Paralympic Games, Bol, Mr Nagmeldin (Peter), Independence of the Republic of South Sudan (1 speech)
Let me at the outset note how wonderful it is that Brisbane has secured the Olympics for the year 2032. I pay tribute to my great friend Graham Quirk, former Lord Mayor of Brisbane and probably...
- Regional Security (1 speech)
In December 2017 I gave a speech to the Senate in which I highlighted Australia's changing strategic circumstances. I argued that we were living in a time of rapid strategic change characterised...
- Griff, Mrs Kristin (2 speeches)
A little over two weeks ago, on the morning of 16 July, my beautiful wife, Kristin Griff, passed away. Kristin was a special soul who lit up everywhere she went. Her vibrant and caring soul...
