Senate debates
Tuesday, 2 August 2022
- Party Office Holders (0 speeches)
- Liberal Party of Australia (1 speech)
by leave—I advise the Senate that Senator Birmingham will be absent from the Senate today, for personal reasons. In his absence, I will be the Acting Leader of the Opposition in the Senate.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Roach, Uncle Archibald William (Archie), AM (15 speeches)
I , and also on behalf of Senators Dodson and Stewart, move: That the Senate— (a) marks the passing of Gunditjmara and Bundjalung man Archie Roach; (b) recognises: (i)...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1 speech)
I want to talk a little bit about the ABC appointing an ombudsman, which is something that has been historically resisted. I am of the view that the ABC generally does a good job. I do think it...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the importance of stemming the staff shortages currently plaguing the aged-care sector and on why the delivery of a Community Care TASMANIA training and respite centre in...
- JobSeeker Payment (1 speech)
( Today I have the honour of sharing, in her own words, a statement from Melissa, a person struggling to survive on the on the meagre JobSeeker payment: I'm on Jobseeker with a reduced capacity...
- Home Ownership (1 speech)
On any given night in Australia, there are 116,000 people experiencing homelessness. According to the 2016 census, in my home state of South Australia there were more than 6,000 people...
- Deniliquin (1 speech)
Not to take away from the very serious issues that have already been raised in this section of the day, I will be lightening the tone a bit. I rise to encourage people not to forget the regions...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
The Albanese Labor government has introduced legislation to deliver 10-days paid family and domestic violence leave for all Australian workers. This landmark legislation started with strong union...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
Last 19 July marked nine years since the former Labor government announced that people who arrived in Australia by boat to seek asylum could not settle here and would be exiled and detained...
- Norfolk Island (1 speech)
Recently, I had the pleasure of visiting the good people on Norfolk Island. It is a beautiful part of the world, some 2,000 kilometres out in the Pacific Ocean. There's an amazing, generous...
- Australian National Audit Office (1 speech)
Last week, the Auditor-General released an audit report into the Building Better Regions Fund and tried to somehow allege that the government didn't act in the best interests of the taxpayers in...
- Australian Society (1 speech)
I often end my speeches with the words, 'We are one community, we are one nation,' for a reason. Oneness is a fundamental teaching of Christianity. I quote I Corinthians 12:14: For the body does...
- Standing Order 175 (1 speech)
Disabled people deserve access to this parliament. Why is this concept one which every single Labor or Liberal government finds so confronting? This week my colleagues Senator David Pocock and...
- Northern Australia Joint Committee (2 speeches)
Surprise, surprise! Just when we elected the Labor government, guess what happened: they took the first opportunity to turn their back on Western Australia. Not only did Anthony Albanese, the...
- Australian Road Safety Awards (1 speech)
Yesterday, I had the honour to present some remarkable Australian organisations and councils with Australian road safety awards. The awards, organised by the formidable Australian Road Safety...
- Manufacturing (3 speeches)
I rise to condemn Labor's decision to block the delivery of the coalition's $1.3 billion Modern Manufacturing Initiative, including a $12 million grant for Carbon Revolution—one of...
- Tauondi Aboriginal College (2 speeches)
I rise to make a reflection on an experience I had a couple weeks ago when visiting the Tauondi Aboriginal College in Port Adelaide. It's a college that was set up in 1973 to recognise the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (24 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. An honourable sen ator interjecting— I'm out of practice! Stop interjecting! The Prime Minister said in April:...
- Energy (62 speeches)
My question as to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Can the minister outline the current state of the Australian energy market and its consequences for Australians?
- Australian Building and Construction Commission (32 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator Watt. Minister, last week the Federal Court fined the CFMMEU and two officials in our...
- Interest Rates (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Minister, in just a minute or two, the RBA will announce a further increase in interest rates. Last week, the...
- Homelessness (20 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Housing, Senator Farrell. This week is National Homelessness Week, which draws attention to the over a hundred thousand people who...
- Australian Constitution (27 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Gallagher. Last night on the ABC's Q+A program, the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney,...
- Superannuation (8 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Financial Services, Senator Gallagher. Minister, right now superannuation managers can only spend their members' money to support...
- Employment (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Skills and Training, Senator Watt. According to the OECD, Australia is experiencing the second-most-severe labour shortage in the...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Australian Constitution: First Nations Voice (1 speech)
Yesterday in question time, in response to a question from Senator Thorpe I undertook to get some further information, if it were available, about the process of design for a makarrata...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (14 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 Opposition senators today. Once again, we've seen a...
- Interest Rates (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Gallagher) to a question without notice he asked today relating to interest rate increases. The question...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I shall move: That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (8) of standing order 111 not apply to the Public Sector Superannuation Salary Legislation...
- Postponement (1 speech)
I seek leave to postpone business of the Senate motion No. 13, standing in my name for today, until the next sitting day. Leave granted.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Rural and Regional Health Services (22 speeches)
IDENT (): I inform the Senate that, at 8.30 am today, 36 proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- First Speech (0 speeches)
- Pocock, Senator David (2 speeches)
Pursuant to order, I now call Senator David Pocock to make his first speech and ask senators that the usual courtesy be extended to him.
- Shoebridge, Senator David (6 speeches)
Pursuant to orders, I now call Senator Shoebridge to make his first speech and ask senators that the usual courtesies be extended to him.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Bureaucracy (1 speech)
Over the past 2½ years, Australians have witnessed the rise of the unelected and unaccountable bureaucrat. We've witnessed the power these people now have over our lives. During this time,...
- Health Care (1 speech)
As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I'm speaking to the answers Minister Gallagher provided—or, rather, failed to provide—to my questions on gender dysphoria...
- Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program (2 speeches)
It's good to see you in the chair, Acting Deputy President Reynolds. Last month I had the immense honour of attending and being able to participate in the Australian Defence Force Parliamentary...
- Bridestowe Lavender Estate (1 speech)
I want to take the opportunity tonight to highlight an iconic Tasmanian tourist destination, Bridestowe Lavender Estate, in Nabowla, in Tasmania's north-east. Bridestowe is celebrating its 100th...
- Harding, Dr Ronnie (1 speech)
Many people will have known a teacher who lit a spark of passion in them or rekindled a flickering flame to its full burning potential. For me it was Dr Ronnie Harding. She played an instrumental...
- Irish National Association of Australasia (1 speech)
I rise to make a contribution about an event that occurred in Sydney on Easter Sunday earlier this year, where I was privileged to join the leadership of the Irish National Association at...
- 8th World Parliamentarians' Convention on Tibet (1 speech)
It was a great privilege to attend the 8th World Parliamentarians' Convention on Tibet in Washington DC in June. I was a guest of the Tibetan Information Office, who worked with the Office of...
- Nuclear Weapons (1 speech)
The denuclearisation imperative has rarely been more urgent than it is right now, and it is incumbent upon the government to make all possible efforts towards its achievement. One of the best...
- Concussion (1 speech)
Today I would like to talk about concussions in sport. They are much more common than we realise, and this is an issue that needs to be taken more seriously. This is also an issue that affects...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
Today, of course, is 2 August, and for well over a year we've had the vaccine rollout. Every day I still hear from people that have suffered injuries from the vaccine or suffer through mandates...
- Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook (1 speech)
Thank you, Acting Deputy President Dean Smith. I'm delighted to give this adjournment speech in your presence. Perhaps you're somewhat of a captive audience—or a captured audience. I'm not...
- Women In Sport (1 speech)
Should eligibility for women's sporting events be based on biological sex? Over the last few years, an extraordinary amount of effort has been put into stopping anyone from even asking this...
- Federal Election (11 speeches)
cGRATH () (): Tonight I wish to expose the hypocrisy of a prominent authority on disinformation and the architect of the teal's digital campaign. In October 2021, an astroturfing campaign named,...
