Senate debates
Wednesday, 28 September 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 Acting Leader of the Opposition in the Senate.
- Statement by the President (0 speeches)
- Points of Order (1 speech)
I wish to make a statement to the chamber. After yesterday's debate, Senator McKim asked me to reflect on the right of senators to raise points of order. The issue of points of order arose during...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Military Rehabilitation and Compensation and Other Legislation Amendment (Incapacity Payments) Bill 2022; Second Reading (3 speeches)
ator DAVEY (—) (): I rise to speak on the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation and Other Legislation Amendment (Incapacity Payments) Bill 2022. I want to point out that the opposition...
- Military Rehabilitation and Compensation and Other Legislation Amendment (Incapacity Payments) Bill 2022; Third Reading (2 speeches)
No amendments have been circulated. Does any senator require a committee stage? If not, I shall call the minister to move the third reading.
- Defence, Veterans' and Families' Acute Support Package Bill 2022; Second Reading (4 speeches)
The Defence, Veterans' and Families' Acute Support Package Bill 2022 mirrors one that was brought in by the coalition in March this year that, had it passed, would already be in effect. It was...
- Defence, Veterans' and Families' Acute Support Package Bill 2022; Third Reading (2 speeches)
We have no circulated amendments. Does any senator require that the bill be considered in Committee of the Whole? If not, I call the minister to move the third reading.
- Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022; Second Reading (3 speeches)
It won't come as a surprise to people, but the opposition will be supporting the substantive elements of the Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the...
- Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Lifting the Income Limit for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card) Bill 2022; In Committee (34 speeches)
I table the supplementary explanatory memorandum relating to the government amendments to be moved to this bill.
- Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022; Second Reading (8 speeches)
Twenty-five years ago, when the Rights of the Terminally Ill Bill was introduced into the Northern Territory parliament, I wanted the Northern Territory parliamentarians to vote against it. Based...
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Road Safety (1 speech)
Nineteen years old: that is the age of the latest victim killed on our roads, right here in Canberra—a life lost too soon, a young life which has now joined more than 1,170 people killed on...
- Ipswich: Waste Management (1 speech)
Today I stand up for the people of Ipswich in relation to the New Chum landfill site, which has been an environmental disaster for the people of Ipswich. I stand up for the people of Collingwood...
- Tertiary Education (1 speech)
Today I rise to speak about the urgent need to tackle the student debt crisis. Each year we send thousands of students out into the world with a burden of increasingly large, crushing debts that...
- Road Transport (1 speech)
I'm going to quote words today from a very good friend of mine, Mike Williams. Mike Williams is a long-distance truck driver, very well-known in the trucking industry, and is also a co-host of...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
Today over 4.3 million Australians live with a disability. Since its implementation in 2013, the NDIS has grown to transform the lives of over 540,000 Australians with significant and permanent...
- Workplace Relations: McDonald's Australia (1 speech)
[inaudible] tiring work in hot, often dangerous conditions and too often dealing with difficult and impatient customers. In recognition of that fact, fast-food workers are entitled to a paid...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
I would like to speak about the vaccine rollout, and, in particular, the number of COVID cases we've had in the last nine months. Effectively, Australia opened up from its lockdowns in December...
- Australia (1 speech)
Although I was born in India near the Pakistani border, and spent my formative years there, as a senator I am a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia. I normally finish my speeches...
- Shark Nets (2 speeches)
There is certainly only one Senator Malcolm Roberts! So far this season in Queensland, we've seen 12 federally protected humpback whales entangled in shark nets. Twelve federally protected whales...
- Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Week (1 speech)
Composer Irving Berlin wrote 'My heart beats so that I can hardly speak' in the song 'Cheek to Cheek' for the musical Top Hat. While this No. 1 song depicts love, there are other reasons for a...
- Asbestos (1 speech)
This week we have seen the last resident of the infamous asbestos-riddled WA town of Wittenoom move out. This closes the door on what has been a very dark chapter of Western Australian history,...
- Workplace Relations: Southern Cross University (1 speech)
I rise, as I have many times before, to speak about the plight of higher education workers—specifically, in this case, the staff at Southern Cross University. Following reports about...
- Geelong Football Club (1 speech)
It's my great pleasure to rise and pay tribute to an extraordinary footy club, the mighty Geelong Cats. I was so proud to be there on the weekend, watching a magnificent club underpinned by...
- Galiwin'ku Women's Space (1 speech)
I was pleased to be able to visit leaders in Galiwin'ku in far north-east Arnhem Land earlier this year with Senator Jenny McAllister and Marion Scrymgour MP to listen to the community about the...
- Australia (1 speech)
As we return home to our families this weekend, I am reminded of the reason many came to this chamber in the first place. We are here for our families, our children. With my first grandchild on...
- Macneil, Mr Angus, AM (1 speech)
Today I would like to take the opportunity to mark the life and mourn the passing of Angus Macneil, and celebrate his life. Angus was a stalwart of the Liberal Party in New South Wales, coming...
- Aviation Industry (1 speech)
Just when you think Qantas can't sink any lower, it outdoes itself again. It is not enough that Qantas has illegally sacked 2000 ground staff, dangerously understaffed its engineering workforce,...
- Pensions And Benefits (1 speech)
Despite being one of the richest countries in the world, we know that millions of Australians are just scraping by on meagre income support payments that are well below the poverty line. How can...
- Tasmania: Australian Football League (1 speech)
A couple of weeks ago I spoke in the chamber about the Tasmanian bid for the 19th standalone team in the AFL and questioned the demand from the AFL for a new stadium as a part of that bid. My...
- Tasmania: Child Care (1 speech)
There's a group of people in Tasmania who I really admire: grandparents raising grandchildren. These grandparents have stepped up to raise their grandchildren in really tough circumstances....
- Emmanuel Christian Community School (1 speech)
Emmanuel Christian Community School in Girrawheen, close to my electorate office in Perth's northern suburbs, celebrated its 40th anniversary on 14 August this year. Past and current students,...
- Cannabis (1 speech)
Forty per cent of Australians have used cannabis. But it's not the wealthy, the privileged or politicians who go to prison for smoking a joint. Do you know why? Because the war on drugs isn't...
- McDonald's: Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Over 250,000 current and former employees of McDonald's right across this country may be eligible for compensation as part of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association's latest...
- Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (1 speech)
Today I acknowledge 40 years of remarkable work from a small and highly effective agency in my portfolio. The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research was established by...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Yesterday in question time, in a question from Senator Pocock regarding people like his constituents Sam and Leilani, who were in...
- National Anti-Corruption Commission (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. How is the government delivering on its pledge to return accountability, transparency and integrity to government?
- Banking and Financial Services (25 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Is the minister aware of any authorised deposit-taking institutions—that is, banks—in Australia that have account...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (8 speeches)
I ask this question to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Today I ask these questions on behalf of the over 500,000 NDIS participants and their families across the country. Firstly, is...
- Budget (12 speeches)
My question as to the Minister for Finance and the minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Can the minister update the Senate on the 2021-22 final budget outcome tabled earlier today?
- Cybersecurity (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Cyber Security, Minister Watt. The Optus data breach has resulted in the personal details of millions of Australians being exposed and...
- Wine Tourism and Cellar Door Grant (35 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade and Tourism, Senator Farrell. The Australian government's ongoing, fully budgeted, $10 million per annum Wine Tourism and Cellar Door Grant program...
- Climate Change (12 speeches)
My question is to Minister Wong. A recent report by Oxfam and ActionAid shows that Australia is funding just one-tenth of its fair share of global climate action. For one of the world's largest...
- Biosecurity: Exotic Animal Disease Preparedness Taskforce (13 speeches)
My question as to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Watt. Can the minister please give an update to the Senate on the progress of the Exotic Animal Disease...
- Infrastructure (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. On Tuesday 13 September, at the Regional Australia Institute national summit, minister...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Freedom of Information (1 speech)
In question time on Monday I took questions asked of me by Senator Shoebridge on notice, in my capacity as the Minister representing the Attorney-General, relating to freedom of information. I've...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (12 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of answers by ministers to questions from members of the opposition. On the issue of the cost of living, it's amazing that, as opposed to giving some direct...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (3 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Gallagher) to a question without notice asked by Senator Steele-John today relating to the National...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Bali Bombings: 20th Anniversary (5 speeches)
by leave—I, and also on behalf of Senator Birmingham, move: That the Senate— (a) acknowledges: (i) 12 October 2022 marks 20 years since that terrible night in Kuta, Bali, when 202...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation, I give notice of my intention at the giving of notices on the next day of sitting to withdraw business of the Senate...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection of Bills Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the fifth report of 2022 of the Selection of Bills Committee. I seek leave to have the report incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The report read as follows— SELECTION OF...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Birmingham for 28 September 2022, for personal reasons. Question agreed to.
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Community Affairs References Committee; Reference (1 speech)
I move: That the following matter be referred to the Community Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by 31 March 2023: Barriers to achieving priorities under the National Women's...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Senate Standing Orders (5 speeches)
On behalf of Senator Gallagher, I move: That standing order 50 be amended, with effect from the first sitting day in October 2022, to read as follows— 50 Acknowledgement of country and...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living Select Committee; Appointment (1 speech)
by leave—I move: (1) That a select committee, to be known as the Select Committee on the Cost of Living, be established to inquire into and report on: (a) the cost of living pressures...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics Legislation Committee; Meeting (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate requires the Economics Legislation Committee to invite the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Dr Phillip Lowe, to attend the committee's 2022-23 Budget estimates...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Infrastructure (34 speeches)
I inform the Senate that, at 8.30 am today, 29 proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by lot....
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Statement and Documents (1 speech)
On behalf of the Treasurer and the Minister for Finance, I table the document Final budget outcome 2021-22.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (1 speech)
I seek leave to move a motion to appoint members to committees. Leave not granted.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Ukraine (1 speech)
I rise to declare that I stand with the people of Ukraine in their fight for sovereignty and in their defence of democracy and the international rule of law. I speak to continue to draw attention...
- Iran: Women (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute this evening to Mahsa Amini and to recognise the incredible bravery of the women of Iran, who are right now fighting back against decades of oppression against them because...
- Greyhound Racing (1 speech)
Last Friday was Dogs in Politics Day, and although I have been talking about animal rights for many years, this one is a hard speech to make. My beloved companion dog, Cosmo, passed away suddenly...
- Early Childhood Education (1 speech)
Early childhood education plays a vital role in our society. I'm a firm believer, as are my Labor colleagues, in the importance it plays in children's development, for families, particularly...
- Telecommunications (1 speech)
I rise to raise serious concerns about the Albanese government's commitment to regional communications. Labor, when it was in opposition, went to the election promising a $155 million cut to...
- Nuclear Energy (1 speech)
As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, my topic tonight is nuclear power. The war on the most cost-effective energy source, coal, means nuclear is the only way to overcome...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
In the lead-up to the Jobs and Skills Summit that was held here in Canberra, throughout that summit and in the preceding days, the overwhelming feedback that we received as a government, from...
- Sport: Australian Football League (1 speech)
From the perspective of an individual seeking redemption, it is by its very nature a deep longing for one's life to be made good through being engaged in a pursuit that is greater than oneself....
