Senate debates
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- Thorpe, Senator Lidia (11 speeches)
I wish to make a statement on a matter of privilege. By letter dated 24 October 2022, Senator Thorpe has raised an issue of privilege—the question: whether her failure to declare a...
- 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)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Collinsvale Primary School (1 speech)
DUNIAM (—) (): Today I want to reflect on a great experience I had down in Tasmania, noting a statistic I remember reading recently around the amount of Australians that ordinarily have...
- Tasmania: Energy, Tasmania: Manufacturing (1 speech)
Australians have a unique sense of pride about their jobs. We are proud workers. Labor cares about jobs, and an Albanese Labor government will invest in the future of secure Tasmanian jobs and...
- Victoria: Floods (1 speech)
Right now, thousands of people in my home state of Victoria are experiencing the devastating impacts of flooding. Major flooding is occurring along the Murray River at Echuca Moama, Torrumbarry...
- Budget (1 speech)
I rise with some solemn, sad and disappointing news: Labor's first budget will make Australian families poorer. The National Australia Bank's consumer sentiment survey found that the...
- Workplace Relations: Qantas (1 speech)
I rise to provide some free advice to the Liberal-National opposition: if you insist on opposing Labor's reforms to grow wages before you've even seen the bill and if you want to get the...
- Tasmania: Employment (1 speech)
A lot of businesses are finding it hard to get workers. It's not a new thing; it's been an issue in rural areas for years. But we're Aussies, so we find crafty ways to get around the lack of...
- Rural And Regional Health Services (1 speech)
We know tonight's budget is going to have a few surprises in it, and we know that it's going to specifically target the people who didn't vote for them. We know those sitting opposite who are in...
- South Australia: Environment (1 speech)
I recently attended a women's environmental breakfast in Adelaide, which was hosted by Bush Heritage Australia. I was joined by my parliamentary colleague Senator Barbara Pocock and also by...
- Human Rights: Iran (1 speech)
We've seen recently in Iran the most inspiring and courageous resistance by so many Iranian people. They are protesting and speaking out for justice, for their rights and for freedom, and they're...
- Hunt, Ms Claire (1 speech)
In our jobs as senators we often encounter the most extraordinary Australians quietly delivering amazing things for their communities. Today I'd like to acknowledge the work of Claire Hunt, the...
- Budget (2 speeches)
Today, on budget day, it's important to remember that the budget is about priorities. I believe it's time to rethink some of those priorities. Last financial year the federal government spent...
- Australian Greens (4 speeches)
Conservative values, including freedom, mean we embrace diverse opinions within our wider embrace of the rich tapestry of God's creation. From free debate of different opinions comes strong...
- Democracy (1 speech)
I rise to make a contribution for this short two-minute session about the democracy that we actually get to function in. I want to acknowledge the people of Ukraine and how fragile democracy is,...
- India: Kashmir (2 speeches)
Since 1947, the year the British carved up and departed the Indian subcontinent after centuries of lives taken, of looting and extracting wealth and resources, Kashmir has been a disputed...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
I advise changes to ministerial arrangements due to the budget. Senator Gallagher will be absent from question time today on account of ministerial business relating to budget arrangements. In...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Israel (11 speeches)
Not to disappoint Senator Wong, my question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. I refer to the Minister for Foreign Affairs's announcement last Tuesday reversing...
- Budget (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Can the minister update the Senate on Labor's responsible approach to budgeting and how tonight's budget will start...
- Energy (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Senator Wong. It follows revelations reported yesterday by Sky News that the Australian Energy Regulator...
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (11 speeches)
I rise to ask a question to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, Minister Wong. CSIRO recently provided a fracking fact sheet in English, which was then...
- Australia: Floods (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Emergency Management, Senator Watt. Minister, I note with concern the devastating impact that floods are having on so many Victorians throughout my state. Could...
- Building and Construction Industry (12 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher, represented by Minister Wong. The government has said that today's budget is all about delivering on new election commitments. One...
- Queensland: Roads (40 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Minister, on 22 January 2019 Anthony Albanese put out a press release titled 'Rockhampton Ring Road a certainty under...
- Australia: Natural Disasters (11 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Emergency Management, Minister Watt. Minister, you said this week that you're talking to the defence minister about the need for a stand-by emergency response...
- Australia-Japan Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation (11 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Wong. Last weekend Australia and Japan signed a joint security declaration. Can the minister advise the Senate on how the agreement...
- Cybersecurity (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Watt. On 13 October, Medibank released a statement confirming it had been subject to a cyberattack and that it...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Cybersecurity (1 speech)
I table a response to questions that I took on notice on 28 September 2022. They were questions asked by Senator Roberts. I have written to him and provided the answer to those questions in...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked by Opposition senators today. Israel has been a close and dear friend of Australia for...
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (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 she asked today relating to a fact sheet produced by the...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
Pursuant to notice given on 28 September 2022 on behalf of the Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation, I withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 4 for nine...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the following bills be considered this week at the time for private senators' bills: (a) Wednesday, 26 October 2022—Environment Protection and Biodiversity...
- Leave of Absence (3 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators from 25 to 27 October 2022: (a) Senators Antic and Molan, for personal reasons; and (b) Senator Van, on account...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics References Committee; Reference (5 speeches)
At the request of Senator Bragg, I move: That the following matter be referred to the Economics References Committee for inquiry and report by the last sitting day of 2023: The fairness and...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Fuel; Order for the Production of Documents (5 speeches)
At the request of Senator Dean Smith, I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Treasurer, by no later than midday on Monday, 31 October 2022: (a) any briefing...
- Superannuation; Order for the Production of Documents (0 speeches)
- Australian Electoral Commission; Order for the Production of Documents (5 speeches)
I move: That there be laid on the table by the Special Minister of State, by no later than 9.30 am on 27 October 2022, any reports, briefing notes, file notes and emails of 13 December 2021 or...
- Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
At the request of Senator McKenzie, I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 50, relating to an order for the production of documents. Leave granted. I move the motion as...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Reference to Committee (1 speech)
I move: That— (1) To ensure appropriate consideration of time critical bills by Senate committees, the provisions of all bills introduced into the House of Representatives after 27 October...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That— (1) On Tuesday, 25 October 2022 the hours of meeting be midday to 6.30 pm and 8.30 pm to adjournment and the routine of business from 8.30 pm be: (a) Budget statement and...
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- State of Israel (10 speeches)
I inform the Senate that I have received the following letter, dated 25 October 2022, from Senator Birmingham: Dear President Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today I propose to...
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (9 speeches)
The Senate will now consider the following proposal from Senator McKim, which is also shown at item 12 on today's Order of Business: Dear President Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Accounts and Audit Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of Senator Reynolds and the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, I present a report on the committee's activities for 2021-22 and executive minutes relating to several reports...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2022, Financial Sector Reform Bill 2022, Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Bill 2022, Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy (Collection) Bill 2022; First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills may proceed without formalities, may be taken together and be now read a first time. Question agreed to. Bills read a first time.
- Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2022, Financial Sector Reform Bill 2022, Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy Bill 2022, Financial Services Compensation Scheme of Last Resort Levy (Collection) Bill 2022; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speeches incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speeches read as follows— FINANCIAL...
- National Health Amendment (General Co-payment) Bill 2022, Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Incentivising Pensioners to Downsize) Bill 2022; First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills may proceed without formalities, may be taken together and be now read a first time. Question agreed to. Bills read a first time.
- National Health Amendment (General Co-payment) Bill 2022, Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Incentivising Pensioners to Downsize) Bill 2022; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speeches incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speeches read as follows— NATIONAL HEALTH...
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Statement and Documents (1 speech)
I table the budget statement for 2022-23 and other documents as listed on the Dynamic Red. The Budget 2022-23—Statement by the Treasurer (Dr Chalmers), dated 25 October 2022. Budget...
- Proposed Expenditure; Portfolio Budget Statements (2 speeches)
I table the portfolio budget statements for 2022-23 for the Department of the Senate, the Parliamentary Budget Office and the Department of Parliamentary Services.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Tassie Mums (1 speech)
We know families throughout Australia have been doing it tough, facing a housing and homelessness crisis and rising cost of living. Shamefully, the previous government dropped the ball on...
- Bali Attacks: 20th Anniversary, Lucev, Mr Dusan (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the recent 20th anniversary of the Bali bombings. Early on the morning of 12 October, as the sun rose over Perth, survivors, their loved ones and several hundred members of the...
- Racing Industry, India: Kashmir (1 speech)
The Melbourne Cup is on again next week. Seven horses have been killed at the last nine Melbourne Cup races. And that's just part of the story. The horseracing industry continues to tolerate...
- Due South Australia (1 speech)
QUHART (—) (): Due South Australia—who are they? One might think they're a South Australian organisation, but they're based in Tasmania. They are a self-funded organisation with their...
- Budget (1 speech)
I rise on this budget night to address a couple of issues in tonight's budget. Obviously, it is early days. It's less than an hour since the budget speech was delivered, and, as with all complex...
- Australia: Natural Disasters (1 speech)
The floods that have impacted most of eastern Australia over the past few weeks have exceeded all expectations across New South Wales. What started out as an amazing spring season for so many of...
- Human Rights: Iran (1 speech)
The government of Iran—the dictatorship of Iran—is killing Iranian women and girls. Day after day, week after week, women and girls in Iran are being shot, beaten to death or...
- Rockhampton Ring Road (1 speech)
I rise to make some comments in relation to the Rockhampton Ring Road, which was the subject of some discussion earlier today during question time. Whilst I didn't have the benefit of...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
This evening it gives me great pleasure to be speaking about the much-anticipated UN climate change conference being held in Egypt, better known as COP27. We know that tackling climate change...
- Ukraine (1 speech)
If the carnage and human tragedy of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have taught us anything, it's that everyday people are made to suffer at the hands of elites who lack the empathy to understand...
- Budget (1 speech)
What is the point of Labor? I've just watched Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Labor deliver a budget that gives billionaires and politicians a $9,000 tax cut per year but does absolutely nothing to...
- Covid-19 (5 speeches)
As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I note that at the European parliament inquiry into COVID two weeks ago, Janine Small, the President of International Developed Markets for...
- Myanmar, Standards in Sport: Australian Football League (1 speech)
The media has been full recently, and for good reason, of the conflict in Ukraine, with Russia's illegal and unjustifiable invasion of its neighbour. We have seen the pushback by Ukrainian...
