Senate debates
Monday, 1 August 2022
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (2 speeches)
A point of order on item No. 4, President. I want to seek your advice and some clarity on advice around when we might expect advice from the opposition in terms of their committee membership. I...
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Victoria (1 speech)
As Senator Thorpe was absent from the Senate on 26 July 2022, I will now administer the affirmation of allegiance, as required by section 42 of the Constitution. Senator Thorpe, please come to...
- Senators Sworn (3 speeches)
I, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I will be faithful and I bear true allegiance to the colonising Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, her heirs—
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Revie, Mrs Annie (1 speech)
On a different topic, today I would like to acknowledge the work of Mrs Annie Revie, who has resigned from the Flinders Council after serving as mayor of this beautiful island paradise for almost...
- Roach, Uncle Archibald William AM (2 speeches)
I want to say a few words about the late Archie Roach. I remember sitting under my bower shed in Broome with Mr Bill Johnston, the late British actor Pete Postlethwaite and Archie. Archie and...
- Canice's Kitchen (1 speech)
I want to give a plug to Canice's Kitchen in Elizabeth Bay in Sydney. It has been providing meals and services for more than 30 years to people who are doing it tough. This year I'm going to be...
- Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, Superannuation (1 speech)
I rise to give tribute to the very hard work of the SDA 'shoppies' union, who, along with others in the trade union movement, notably the ASU and the ANMF, fought very, very hard in the last...
- Commonwealth Integrity Commission (1 speech)
I'm meeting this week with Attorney-General Dreyfus to review the planned national anticorruption commission. I'll be taking One Nation's position to the Attorney-General—that checks and...
- Australian Parliament (1 speech)
It's passing strange that, in a world like the one we're living in today, with all of the challenges households and businesses face, we'd be debating something at least in the public domain like...
- Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures (1 speech)
I would like to just share with the Senate an incredible weekend with the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land and take this opportunity in the minute and a half that I have to thank all of...
- 47th Parliament (1 speech)
This country is changing, our community is changing and our parliament is changing. More than half of us were born overseas or have a parent born overseas and a quarter of us have a non-European...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I know this is not my first speech. I rise today to speak of the sheer madness of the government's plan to deindustrialise and shut down Australia in pursuit of an unachievable fantasy of net...
- Australian Constitution: First Nations Voice (1 speech)
Many complex issues come before this parliament. With all of them I am open-minded and ambitious but also pragmatic. Take Labor's 43 per cent emissions reduction target. I'm supportive of the...
- Abortion (1 speech)
Beryl Holmes, one of the co-founders of Queensland's Children by Choice, described the campaign for abortion rights as 'one of the oldest and hardest-fought of women's political struggles', and,...
- Superannuation (1 speech)
No sooner had the electoral writs been signed than Labor's new finance minister, Stephen Jones, had come out and said that Labor were going to look at investigating raising the superannuation...
- Arts and Culture (1 speech)
It was exciting to join Minister for the Arts Tony Burke in Hobart, recently, for the first of a series of meetings across Australia to consult on a national cultural policy. The hundred or so...
- Tasmania (1 speech)
The former coalition government had 10 years to deliver for Tasmania, and they didn't. They failed miserably. A majority Albanese Labor government outlined a holistic plan during the election...
- Statement by the President (0 speeches)
- Questions Without Notice (1 speech)
Before we move to question time I was asked on Thursday to review the Hansard, and I make the following statement. During question time on 28 July I undertook to review two lines of questions to...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Wages (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations said recently in Gladstone: People will be seeing in their bank...
- Australian Constitution: First Nations Voice (40 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Can the minister outline the Albanese government's plans for a voice to parliament?
- Building Better Regions Fund (21 speeches)
My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Senator Watt. Could the minister outline the findings of the...
- Health Care (8 speeches)
My question is to Senator Gallagher, representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care. The Tavistock gender clinic in the UK, a leading provider of gender dysphoria services, will close in...
- Energy (29 speeches)
HUGHES () (): My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Labor's Powering Australia plan says, in black and white, that it will cut power bills for families and...
- Workforce Australia (14 speeches)
My question is for the minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations: Your government has rushed the implementation of the previous Liberal government's new Workforce...
- Covid-19 (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Gallagher. Can the minister please update the Senate on the government's response to the latest wave of...
- Health Care (19 speeches)
My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator Gallagher. Why is the government creating uncertainty for people with serious medical conditions by refusing to...
- Budget (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Minister Gallagher. With inflation and rate rises compounding existing housing and inequality crises, we need real action to address cost-of-living...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
I have some additional information for the chamber in response to questions I took on notice from Senator Lambie last week relating to family and domestic violence leave. I did write to Senator...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Wages, Energy (17 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Gallagher) to questions without notice asked by Senators Hume and Hughes today relating to wage growth...
- Australian Constitution: First Nations Voice (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Wong) to a question without notice asked by Senator Thorpe today relating to the government...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (2 speeches)
Are there any notices of motion to be given for another day? Senator Hanson-Young?
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Ayres from 1 to 4 August 2022, on account of parliamentary business. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators: Senator Canavan, for 1 to 3 August, for personal reasons. Senator Liddle, for 1 to 4 August, for personal...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Energy (17 speeches)
I inform the Senate that at 8.30 am today 34 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)
- Auditor-General (1 speech)
I rise to take note of document No. 2, the Auditor-General's Report No. 45 of 2021–22, and I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I welcome this report, an Australian...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- First Speech (0 speeches)
- Allman-Payne, Senator Penny (3 speeches)
Pursuant to order, I now call Senator Allman-Payne to make her first speech and ask that the usual courtesies be extend to her.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Hocking, Ms Debra Ann (1 speech)
Tonight I'm continuing my very personal condolence motion about an amazing Australian and an amazing Tasmanian, Debra Hocking. As I've stated, I knew Deb for about 50 years, so I have lots of...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about the groundbreaking work being done by Tiwi traditional elders in opposing the terrible Barossa gas project. Santos's Barossa gas project in the Northern Territory is...
- Employment (1 speech)
We're experiencing a skills shortage in industries that are vital to the wellbeing of Australia. We have a situation where industries that everyone across this chamber will agree are vital, such...
