Senate debates
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
I remind senators the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Parliamentary Procedure (3 speeches)
by leave—I move: That the rules for remote participation in Senate proceedings recommended by the Procedure Committee in its first report of 2021 have effect during the sittings of the...
- Statement by the President (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (17 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to confidence and the lack thereof in this government. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice of motion, I move: That so much of standing orders...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Today, thousands of shifts in aged care are going unfilled every week. Vulnerable residents are suffering appalling conditions and aged-care workers are at breaking point. This is the Morrison...
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the cashless debit card, as I have many times in this place. But today I rise with an update for the Senate—one that I'm particularly proud of and one that I've...
- Environment (1 speech)
Australians have around 100 days before this nation goes into one of the most important federal elections, if not the most important, in this country's history. For those Australians who care...
- Morrison Government: Health (1 speech)
I draw the attention of the Senate today to the recent decision of the Morrison government to cut funding to peak health organisations across a range of health sectors. Governments, communities...
- Covid-19 (1 speech)
[by video link] Today I put on the record One Nation's demand for the establishment of a royal commission into the management of the COVID-19 pandemic by Australian governments. It is essential...
- Employment (1 speech)
I rise to shift the focus. I want to talk about not what the media are focused on but what the Nationals and the government are focused on. That is doing what we were elected to do: creating jobs...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1 speech)
Of everything the ABC is known for, nothing is more important to Australians and to Australian democracy than its news service. All Australians depend on the ABC for its public interest...
- Tasmania: Hillcrest Primary School (1 speech)
While our students are preparing to return to school in Tasmania, the students, teachers and community of Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport and the wider Tasmanian community remember Peter...
- Donations to Political Parties (1 speech)
You know that feeling you get when the big parties aren't working for you anymore? I think I found the reason why. It's pretty simple, actually: it's because normal people just can't afford them....
- Afghanistan (1 speech)
Welcome back, Madam Acting Deputy President. Last year I rose to speak about why our defence forces should be proud of their efforts in Afghanistan. Today I rise to speak of the humanitarian...
- Gas Industry (1 speech)
If Russia invades the Ukraine there will be huge consequences for Australia. The EU depends on Russia for about a third of its gas supplies and will need alternative sources if there's a major...
- Morrison Government (1 speech)
Welcome back, Madam Acting Deputy President Bilyk. It's great to see you back in Canberra. I stand here now nearly 10 years after the election of this tired, stale Liberal-National government....
- Religious Discrimination (1 speech)
I received a text message from a trans woman this morning. She said: Thoughts with you today as this hideous bill goes to debate. To be honest— she said— I'm scared. I'm scared of the...
- Western Australia: Kimberley Region (3 speeches)
Welcome back to you, Senator Bilyk.
- Middle East (2 speeches)
The Amnesty International report published last week confirms that Israeli policies against Palestinians fit the definition of the international crime of apartheid. We are witnessing these...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
BIRMINGHAM (—) (): by leave—I inform the Senate that Senator Reynolds, the Minister for Government Services and Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, will be absent...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care Services, Senator Colbeck. Minister, is the aged-care system in crisis—yes or no?
- COVID-19: Economy (8 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Birmingham. Can the minister please advise the Senate how the Liberal-National government is taking action to strengthen...
- COVID-19: Aged Care (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services, Senator Colbeck. How many Australians in aged care have died from COVID-19 since 1 January 2022?
- Independent Review Into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces (12 speeches)
My question is to Senator Birmingham, the Minister representing the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has said that he's committed to making workplaces safe, but Commissioner Jenkins's earlier...
- Employment (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business, Senator Cash. Can the minister update the Senate on how the Liberal and...
- COVID-19: Aged Care (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services, Senator Colbeck. Since 1 January this year, Jeta Gardens Aged Care home, south of Brisbane, has experienced a major...
- Women's Economic Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Women's Economic Security, Senator Hume. Can the minister update the Senate on how the Liberal and Nationals government is supporting the economic prosperity of...
- Parliamentarians' Entitlements (8 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Finance, Senator Birmingham. Minister, there are 75 politicians up here right now who own a second home in Canberra. Each and every one of them can claim the...
- Aged Care (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care Services, Senator Colbeck. When former New South Wales Liberal Premier and current CEO of HammondCare Mike Baird called for the ADF to be deployed to...
- Australian Floods (11 speeches)
My question is to the , Senator McKenzie. Minister, we've recently seen some extensive flooding across Australia—including in my state, around Griffith in the Riverina; to the north of the...
- Koalas (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Senator Hume. Experts have warned that, without urgent action, koalas will become extinct by 2050. Loss of habitat,...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (7 speeches)
by leave—I move: That today— (a) the routine of business from 7.20 pm be consideration of the Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve's Law) Bill 2021 (second reading speeches only);...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Aged Care, Aged Care (7 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 Gallagher, Bilyk...
- Parliamentarians' Entitlements (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Birmingham) to a question without notice I asked today relating to politicians' travel allowances....
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave Of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators from 8 to 10 February 2022: Senators Askew, Reynolds and Scarr for COVID-19 medical and quarantine reasons, and...
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators from 8 to 10 February for personal reasons: Senators Wong, Sterle, Polley and Green. Question agreed to.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (2 speeches)
I withdraw general business notice of motion No. 1298 standing in the names of Senators Dodson and McCarthy.
- Presentation (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing order 78(1), I give notice of my intention, at the giving of notices on the next day of sitting, to withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 6 standing in my name...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Grimes, Hon. Donald James (Don), AO (4 speeches)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death on 20 November 2021 of the Hon. Donald James Grimes AO, a former minister and senator for the state of Tasmania from 1974 to 1987.
- Beahan, Hon. Michael Eamon, AM (1 speech)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death, on 30 January 2022, of the Hon. Michael Eamon Beahan AM, a senator for the state of Western Australia from 1987 to 1996 and President...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (2 speeches)
We will now move on to notice of motion No. 1299 in the name of Senator Waters. Senator McKim, is that being withdrawn?
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Privileges Committee; Reference (8 speeches)
On behalf of the Community Affairs References Committee, I move: That the following matter be referred to the Standing Committee of Privileges for inquiry and report: Having regard to the matters...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (11 speeches)
I inform the Senate that, at 8.30 am today, 22 proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by lot....
- Bills (0 speeches)
