Senate debates
Monday, 26 September 2022
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: That the following general business orders of the day be considered today at the time for private senators' bills: No. 17 Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Benefit...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Teach for Australia's Leadership Development Program: Mountain Heights School (1 speech)
I noticed that Senator Canavan was running in, so I thought I would stand and he can go next. Queenstown sits on the rugged west coast of Tasmania. It's a community of around eighteen hundred...
- Renewable Energy: Wind farms (1 speech)
Today, the Queensland government has announced that it plans to waste 780 million taxpayers' dollars on building a useless wind farm, when we already have too much unreliable energy in Australia....
- Iran: Women (1 speech)
I rise today to speak in solidarity with the women of Iran. Since the brutal death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died in custody after being detained by the country's morality police,...
- STEPtember (3 speeches)
I rise to talk about a great charity I am participating in called STEPtember. Every 20 hours in Australia, an Australian is diagnosed with cerebral palsy. It is the most common physical...
- Regional Queensland: Manufacturing (1 speech)
Madam Acting Deputy President Allman-Payne, I'm pleased to talk about an issue close to both our hearts: regional manufacturing in regional Queensland. The Albanese Labor government sees a future...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Well done, everyone. What an amazing job you've done. I'm delighted to announce that the Commonwealth of Australia has reached its net zero target under the United Nations Paris climate agreement...
- Dividend Imputation (1 speech)
I rise in relation to an article which appeared in the Australian Financial Review this morning entitled, 'Labor "at it again" in surprise move on dividends'. It's by John Kehoe, an outstanding...
- Victoria: Medical Manufacturing (1 speech)
It has never been more important to make more of the essential vaccines and medicines that we need right here in Australia, like lifesaving mRNA vaccines. Despite the need for urgency, despite...
- Tasmania: Wine Industry (1 speech)
Tasmania produces the best wine in the world. You mainlanders make an okay drop, but Tassie wine is special. Mainlanders know it; they come in droves to Tassie to sample our wine and eat our...
- Human Trafficking (1 speech)
As a senator, sometimes an issue comes to your attention that is so egregious that you have no choice but to act. For me, this was in 2016 when I learnt that, unknowingly, tens of thousands of...
- Tasmania: Medical Research (1 speech)
It was announced in May this year that an Albanese Labor government would provide $4 million in funding to the Clifford Craig research hub based at the Launceston General Hospital. This funding...
- Victorian Government (1 speech)
Victorians have had enough. Victorians have had enough of the lies, the cover-ups and the corruption. Victorians are sick of living their lives under a man whose incompetence is only matched by...
- Environment: Whales (1 speech)
Nearly two years ago to this day, a global tragedy unfolded off the west coast of Tasmania. At remote Strahan Beach, near Macquarie Harbour, over 470 whales were stranded. Despite the valiant...
- Drug Abuse and Addiction (1 speech)
An Australian dies almost every hour—yes, every single hour—from alcohol, drug and gambling harm. One in four Australians will struggle with the misuse of alcohol and other drugs or...
- Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (2 speeches)
Last week marked 10 years since the murder of Jill Meagher, who was attacked by a stranger while walking home from a night out with friends. Her murder sparked an impassioned national debate on...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
by leave—I advise changes to ministerial arrangements. Senator Wong will be absent from question time today on account of ministerial business overseas. In her absence, I will represent the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Pensions And Benefits (20 speeches)
My question is to the Minister Representing the Minister for Social Services, Senator Farrell. When asked on 28 July 2022 if the government is intending to remove compulsory income management...
- Budget (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Can the minister update the Senate on the state of the budget and some of the challenges...
- Cybersecurity (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Cyber Security, Senator Watt. On 22 September Optus confirmed they were responding to a significant cyberattack. Can the minister...
- Paid Parental Leave (8 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Finance and Minister for Women. Minister, Australia now has one of the poorest paid parental leave schemes in the OECD. We're stuck at 18 weeks paid leave with...
- Exports, Trade (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade and Tourism, Senator Farrell. Could the minister provide an update on the Albanese Labor government's progress on diversifying Australia's export markets?
- Covid-19: Treatment (8 speeches)
My question is to Senator Gallagher, the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Minister, I understand that the TGA is conducting a review of their ban on prescribing...
- Online Privacy (19 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. Since July, the opposition has been calling on the government to adopt the coalition's online privacy bill, which...
- Freedom of Information (16 speeches)
My question, with minimal notice, is to Senator Watt, representing the Attorney-General. Former Senator Rex Patrick is in the Federal Court challenging the Information Commissioner for...
- Australia: Floods (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Emergency Management, Senator Watt. Can the minister please update the Senate on recent rain and subsequent flooding recorded in central and northern New South...
- Taxation (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Can the minister guarantee that the Albanese Labor government will put an end to the uncertainty faced by farmers and...
- Australian Constitution: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Gallagher. Can the minister outline the latest details in the government's plan to deliver an...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
I would like to add some additional information to the answer I provided to Senator Liddle on the topic of income management. While income management legislation in the Social Security...
- Answers to Questions on Notice (0 speeches)
- Question Nos 98, 126, 127, 128, 129, 139, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 254, 255, 256, 257, 289 and 326 (32 speeches)
Pursuant to standing order 74(5), which requires that questions on notice be answered within 30 days, I, at the request of Senators Cash and Bragg, seek an explanation from Minister representing...
- Pensions And Benefits (5 speeches)
I rise to take note of answers to questions from senators Liddle, Paterson and Henderson during question time today. In response to a question from Senator Liddle, Senator Farrell said some of...
- Paid Parental Leave (1 speech)
I rise to take note of the answer given by Minister Gallagher to a question I asked today relating to paid parental leave. Twenty-one years ago, in 2001, I sat at the back of this chamber, as a...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (4 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators: (a) Senator Wong for 23 and 26 September 2022, on account of ministerial business; (b) Senator Ayres from 26 to...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Housing (22 speeches)
(Quorum formed)I inform the Senate that the President has received the following letter, dated 26 September, from Senator McKim: Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today I propose...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Australian Research Council (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I rise to take note of document 9 on page 4 relating to the Australian Research Council funding schemes. Senators will know that I have a strong...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 4 of 2022-23 (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. This is the Auditor-General's performance report, Australian government implementation of the National Waste Policy Action Plan for the...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Intelligence and Security Joint Committee; Report (4 speeches)
(—) (): On behalf of the Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, I present the report of the committee on its Review of the listing and re-listing of eight...
- Economics Legislation Committee; Membership (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That Senator Cox replace Senator McKim on the Economics Legislation Committee for the committee's inquiry into the provisions of the Atomic Energy Amendment (Mine...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Disability Support Pension (1 speech)
I was recently contacted by Dr Sophie Reid-Singer, who shared with me the awful experience she had accessing the disability support pension. Tonight, I have the honour of sharing Sophie's story...
- Tasmania: Local Government (1 speech)
I recently highlighted the work of two outgoing Tasmanian mayors, Annie Revie and Julie Arnold, in this chamber. Today I would like to acknowledge the remaining eight mayors who are retiring at...
- Workplace Relations: Apple (1 speech)
I rise having listened to the contributions of two of my female colleagues in this chamber, from both the Greens political party and the Liberal National Party. I want to acknowledge the...
