Senate debates
Tuesday, 19 October 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.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (7 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion in relation to a target for emissions reduction as just circulated in the chamber. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice standing in my name, I move: That...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Youth Voice in Parliament Week (1 speech)
It is a privilege to give this speech on behalf of Alexis Pallister, as part of Raise Our Voice Australia. Alexis says:
- National Water Week (1 speech)
[by video link] Leonardo da Vinci said, 'Water is the driving force of all nature.' None of us could survive without water. It is a vital ingredient in our daily lives, and our greatest resource....
- Youth Voice in Parliament Week (1 speech)
[by video link] Today in the Australian Senate I speak the voice of Cooper Meikle, a young Tasmanian. This is part of Raise Our Voice Australia, lifting the voices of diverse young Australians in...
- Climate Policy (1 speech)
You would think Halloween would be a good time for Prime Minister Morrison. After all, this is a Prime Minister who just loves a good scare campaign—a Prime Minister who generally prefers...
- Media Influence (1 speech)
This parliament's descent into a one-party state could not have happened without the media's complicity. The cancelling of Jessica Rowe's interview with Senator Pauline Hanson is the latest...
- Energy (1 speech)
The world cannot get enough of the great Australian coal we produce. They cannot get enough of it. Right now lights are going off right across Europe, Asia and North America because they don't...
- Nobel Peace Prize (1 speech)
[by video link] We often talk about the importance of public interest journalism in Australia. But we must remember that such work is even more necessary and even more dangerous elsewhere. I was...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Question time is almost upon us, and I have a question for the other side: what on earth is going on? Last week the Prime Minister outsourced decision making on climate and energy policy to the...
- Youth Voice in Parliament Week (3 speeches)
This afternoon I would like to use my time to speak in the Youth Voice in Parliament Week, and I will be reading the following words written by Jai Briggs-Ford, who is a young man living in...
- Voice in Parliament Week (1 speech)
Today I am delighted to be participating in the Raise Our Voice in Parliament campaign, which asked Australians aged 21 or under to write a vision statement for Australia for members of...
- Western Australia: Order of Australia (1 speech)
I was delighted to host an event welcoming all new Western Australian recipients of Order of Australia honours at the Bull Creek RAAFA Club on 17 August. Travel restrictions meant I remained in...
- Youth Voice In Parliament Week (1 speech)
Like others, I am speaking today on behalf of a young Australian—a young South Australian—as part of Youth Voice in Parliament Week. Ms Winter Birkett is 17 years old, and she lives...
- Climate Change, Morrison Government (1 speech)
Here we are, a day closer to COP26, and there is more disarray from the government. We still don't have a policy. If Mr Morrison thinks it's okay for him to get a policy by the end of this week...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Party of Australia (28 speeches)
Congratulations on your appointment, Mr President. My question is to the Minister representing the Deputy Prime Minister, Senator McKenzie. Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes said yesterday: The...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Colbeck. Can the minister update the Senate on how Australia's COVID-19 vaccination rollout is...
- Climate Change (29 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Deputy Prime Minister, Senator McKenzie. Mr Morrison said yesterday in House question time: The government's decision on the government's...
- E-Cigarettes (8 speeches)
[by video link] My question is to Senator Colbeck, representing the minister for health, and it relates to tobacco control and non-nicotine vaping products. Minister, non-nicotine e-cigarettes...
- National Party of Australia (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for , Senator McKenzie. The Cabinet Handbook requires members of cabinet to observe cabinet solidarity. Does cabinet solidarity extend to this minister and...
- National Security (8 speeches)
Congratulations, Mr President. My question is to the Attorney-General, Senator Cash. Can the Attorney-General update the Senate on how the Liberal and Nationals government is equipping our law...
- Climate Change (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister and the Minister for Finance, Senator Birmingham. How much will taxpayers have to pay for Mr Morrison's deal to get the National...
- Tasmania: COVID-19 (10 speeches)
[by video link] Thank you for the call, Mr President, and congratulations once again. My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator Colbeck. When the Prime Minister...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- National Party of Australia (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Emergency Management and National Recovery and Resilience (Senator McKenzie) to a question without notice asked by...
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Birmingham) to a question without notice she asked today relating to the UN Climate Change Conference in...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
IERRAVANTI-WELLS () (): Pursuant to notice given yesterday on behalf of the Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation, I withdraw notices of motion proposing the disallowance...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave Of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Polley for 18 to 21 October 2021, for personal reasons Question agreed to.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
On behalf of Senator Whish-Wilson, I withdraw general business notice of motion No. 1244 for today.
- Postponement (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Members of Parliament: Staff (4 speeches)
I move: That— (1) The Senate notes: (a) the duties and responsibilities of senators and their staff employed under the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984; (b) that all senators and...
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That consideration of the business before the Senate be interrupted at approximately 5 pm, but not so as to interrupt a senator speaking, to enable senators to make their first speeches...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Australia's Family Law System Joint Select Committee; Reporting Date (1 speech)
At the request of the deputy chair of the Joint Select Committee on Australia's Family Law System, Senator Hanson, I move: That— (a) the time for the presentation of the final report of the...
- Privileges Committee; Reference (11 speeches)
I move: That the following matter be referred to the Standing Committee of Privileges for inquiry and report: Having regard to the matters raised by Senator Patrick in correspondence tabled by...
- Job Security; Reporting Date (5 speeches)
Mr President, I congratulate you on your election to the position of President. I move: That the time for the presentation of the report of the Select Committee on Job Security be extended to the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Morrison Government (15 speeches)
I inform the Senate that, at 8.30 am today, 18 proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by lot....
- First Speech (0 speeches)
- Cox, Senator Dorinda (2 speeches)
Pursuant to order, I now call Senator Cox to make her first speech. I ask honourable senators that the usual courtesies be extended to her.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Returned and Services League of Australia (1 speech)
I rise to draw attention to the great work of the Returned and Services League of Australia, the RSL, and in particular to recognise the sub-branches spread across my home state of Western...
- McCulloch, Ms Deborah, Coutts, Professor Reginald (1 speech)
Sadly, I rise tonight to speak following the passing of two eminent South Australians: Deborah McCulloch and Reg Coutts. I will speak about each of these remarkable individuals in turn, but at...
- Independent Commission Against Corruption (1 speech)
FARUQI () (): It's true: a day can be a long time in politics. Friday 1 October was a long day for the then Premier Gladys Berejiklian, who resigned from her position as the first woman ever...
- Energy (1 speech)
If you want net zero emissions by 2050, build the Tully-Millstream hydro-electric scheme and build it now. Today, I am joining Counsellor Andrew Cripps and my colleague Senator Canavan and, I...
- South Australia: Water (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak on an issue of significant importance to the people and industries of the Lower Eyre Peninsula, particularly a number of businesses around Boston and Proper Bay in Port...
- Beef Industry (1 speech)
I rise tonight to pay tribute to two Australian pioneers in Blair and Josie Angus. Blair and Josie Angus are graziers who run a family business in North Queensland. They graze right across North...
- Retail Workers (1 speech)
Mr President, I also place on the record my congratulations to you. As the COVID-19 pandemic has made abundantly clear, there are some workers in this country whose contribution to our...
- Corporate Governance (1 speech)
This is yet another speech I need to make on franchising. I speak on an abuse of corporate power by an overseas car manufacturer Mercedes Benz to squeeze their Australian Mercedes Benz car dealer...
