Senate debates
Thursday, 5 August 2021
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights and pursuant to standing order 78(1), I give notice of the committee's intention, at the giving of notices on the next sitting day,...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection of Bills Committee; Report (3 speeches)
I present the eighth report of 2021 of the Selection of Bills Committee and seek leave to have the report incorporated into Hansard. Leave granted. The report read as follows— SELECTION...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That— (a) the National Health Amendment (Decisions under the Continence Aids Payment Scheme) Bill 2021 be considered from 12.15 pm today; (b) government business then be called on...
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator O'Neill for today, for personal reasons. Question agreed to.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I remind senators that question may be put at the request of any senator. There being none, so notified and we will proceed.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Minister for Industry, Science and Technology (1 speech)
Yesterday, Scott Morrison sent women and survivors of sexual assault in Australia a damning message. He sent them a message that he simply doesn't care. Yesterday the Prime Minister appointed...
- Great Barrier Reef (1 speech)
I rise to speak briefly on the fantastic and wonderful Great Barrier Reef. I'm one of only a few senators in this place who lives near or in the Great Barrier Reef catchment area—I think...
- Homelessness (1 speech)
[by video link] It's Homelessness Week this week and Australia is in an affordable housing crisis. In a wealthy nation like ours, no-one should be without a roof over their heads. In Queensland...
- Queensland: Aged Care (1 speech)
[by video link] Tara is a small town in the Darling Downs in Queensland, with a population of around 2,000 people. It has a school, a hospital and a library, and it has one aged-care facility,...
- Indigenous Australians (1 speech)
[by video link] Despite every effort to close the gap between First Nations descendants and Australians of all colours and creeds, we continue to entrench their victim status with endless cash...
- Tasmania: COVID-19 (1 speech)
Down in Tasmania, we normally like to take a team approach—'Team Tasmania', as many colleagues call it. Just yesterday some great news came out of Tasmania, and that was that 50 per cent of...
- Homelessness (1 speech)
[by video link] This week is National Homelessness Week, the theme being 'everybody needs a home'. I think most of us would agree that, during this pandemic, our homes have never felt more...
- Australian Army Reserve: Sydney University Regiment (1 speech)
I want all the parents out there who have kids who are going through officer training to pull them out immediately. I'm not mucking around. Get them out of there. They are dangerous to your...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
[by video link] From the team who brought you the pink batts scandal and $900 cheques to people who'd passed away, now we have Labor's 'cash for jabs'. We shouldn't be surprised to learn, though,...
- Covid-19 (1 speech)
Deaths, loss of jobs, businesses closing, $300 billion plus of public expenditure, border closures, lockdowns: COVID has had the biggest effect on Australian life since World War II. It has also...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
[by video link] Yesterday the High Court ruled and delivered a judgement in the WorkPac v Rossato case. Let's make no mistake: it is a victory for labour hire companies and the Morrison...
- Closing the Gap (1 speech)
[by video link] Today the do-nothing, 'I don't hold a hose, mate' Prime Minister stood up in the other place to again highlight the failures of the government he leads with regard to First...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
The care a community provides for its elders is a mark of that community, and I rise to give due respect and hearty congratulations to volunteers and staff at aged-care facilities, particularly...
- Prime Minister (1 speech)
We've all come across that person—the bloke who wants the title, the big contract, the money or the glory but doesn't really want to do the job that goes with it; the middle manager from...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
Recently workers at McCain Foods in Smithton, through their union, the AMWU, notified the company, in accordance with the law, that they'd be taking industrial action in support of claims for...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Vaccination (9 speeches)
[by video link] My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator Colbeck. In an article in today's Sydney Morning Herald entitled 'NSW pharmacists stuck in waiting...
- Closing the Gap (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Ruston. Can the minister advise the Senate how the Commonwealth's Closing the Gap Implementation Plan...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Birmingham. In section 1.1 of the Morrison government's fourth vaccine plan released in just two months, the Morrison...
- Great Barrier Reef (14 speeches)
My question is to Senator Hume representing the environment minister. Minister, Australia has just successfully lobbied a UNESCO World Heritage Committee to vote against the scientific advice...
- Closing the Gap (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Colbeck. Can the minister advise the Senate on the latest health measures to support Closing the Gap?
- COVID-19: Vaccination (13 speeches)
[by video link] My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Colbeck. If children between the ages of 12 and 16 are not included in the government's...
- Morrison Government (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Birmingham. I refer to the answer the minister for urban infrastructure gave in the House yesterday about the commuter car...
- Closing the Gap (16 speeches)
My question is to the magnificent Minister for Regionalisation, Regional Communications and Regional Education.
- COVID-19: Vaccination (25 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Birmingham. Yesterday the minister refused to say whether Mr Morrison agrees with coalition Senator Rennick's use of social...
- Closing the Gap (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business, Senator Cash. Can the minister advise the Senate how the Liberal and...
- Statement by the President (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Language (5 speeches)
I'm going to ask Senator Wong to withdraw the interjection directed at Senator McKenzie.
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Vaccination (9 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services (Senator Colbeck) and the Minister for Finance (Senator Birmingham) to...
- 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 (Senator Hume) to a question without notice he asked today...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Human Rights Committee; Report (6 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present two reports as listed at item 15 of today's order of business, together with the accompanying documents: the Human rights...
- Intelligence and Security Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the advisory report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security on the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020, and I move: That the...
- Law Enforcement Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement, I present the report of the committee on the operation of the Australian Crime Commission Amendment (Special Operations and...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- COVID-19; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
I table documents relating to the orders for the production of documents concerning the Doherty Institute modelling of COVID-19 vaccination targets and COVID-19 vaccination certificates.
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Closing the Gap (1 speech)
On behalf of the Prime Minister, I table the annual report on Closing the Gap and accompanying ministerial statement. For the information of senators, the documents will be considered next...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Commonwealth Integrity Commission (7 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) on 13 December 2018 the Prime Minister and the then Attorney-General announced the Government would establish a Commonwealth Integrity...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
