Senate debates
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put by on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (4 speeches)
nator GALLAGHER (—) (): by leave—I move: That— Tuesday, 29 November 2022 (1) The routine of business from 6.30 pm to not later than 9.30 pm today be government business only for...
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Western Australia: Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Western Australians are wondering why it is that this new Labor government has deserted them. Why is it that this new Labor government has deserted them? During the course of this week, we will...
- Great Barrier Reef (1 speech)
They're resorting to props now, Mr Deputy President! Exactly three years ago this week I stood in this Senate and gave an emotional and angry speech about the sad and devastating decline of the...
- Chidlow Progress Association (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate the Chidlow Progress Association on their 125th anniversary. Chidlow is a small, beautiful Perth hills community with a population of less than 2,000, in the federal...
- FIFA World Cup (1 speech)
What a day for historic wins it was on Saturday! Not only did the Andrews Labor government secure a third term in Victoria but of course our Socceroos made World Cup history. For the first time...
- Tasmania: Health Care (1 speech)
You tip up the container and there is nothing there—your medication is empty; you urgently need more. The local medical clinic has been closed for months and the closest ones are too full...
- New South Wales: Floods (1 speech)
I would like to thank everyone in this chamber and colleagues in the other place for the enormous support across the political divide in acknowledging the devastating floods across all of the...
- Youth Voice In Parliament Week (1 speech)
Today I want to amplify the words and hopes of one young Victorian who I represent. The Raise Our Voice Campaign helps turn up the volume of the voices of our young people and put on the record...
- Housing (2 speeches)
Australians are living through a rental crisis. Today, yet again, we have confirmation that Hobart, in my home state of Tasmania, is the most unaffordable city in the country for renters. This is...
- Digital Economy (1 speech)
Australian cities are becoming digital surveillance precincts, with so-called 'smart city programs' being rolled out across the country. Invasive technologies such as facial recognition cameras,...
- Deep Sea Mining (1 speech)
Unreliable, weather-dependent solar and wind power has put a price tag on our oceans. The phrase 'blue economy' is used to soften the ugly truth that, to achieve Australia's transition to net...
- Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (1 speech)
I couldn't have segued into this conversation better. I thank Senator Roberts for doing that so eloquently for me. Today I want to talk about the importance of science, more notably the...
- Reserve Bank of Australia (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the importance of an independent Reserve Bank. Speaking at the annual CEDA dinner, just last Tuesday night, Dr Lowe argued that lifting wages to match inflation would...
- Flight Centre, Emirates (1 speech)
Recently I was approached by a constituent who had to change flights for a overseas family holiday. He made the changes through Flight Centre, the same travel agency through which he'd booked the...
- World AIDS Day (2 speeches)
This Thursday is World AIDS Day, a time to reflect on the devastating loss of over 40 million lives over the course of this 40-year epidemic, and a time to review our progress and renew our...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Energy (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Yesterday in this chamber the minister said: … we are a government that delivers on our commitments—every...
- Workplace Relations (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator Watt. The Liberals and Nationals said that low wages were a deliberate design feature of...
- Assistant Treasurer (30 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. I refer to comments by the Assistant Treasurer reported in the Sydney Morning Herald on negotiations between the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- New Zealand Parliament Delegation (4 speeches)
President, before I start—or before you start the clock ticking over, and I'm sorry if I've missed it—I just wonder if we could acknowledge the visiting New Zealand delegation of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Great Barrier Reef (18 speeches)
My question is to Senator Wong, representing the climate minister. Minister, another UNESCO scientific report has recommended that the Great Barrier Reef be put on the World Heritage in danger...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Minister, how will an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice help close the gap in life outcomes for Indigenous...
- Asylum Seekers (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the minister for immigration, Minister Watt. Many would have seen the hundreds of people gathered out the front of Parliament House rallying against...
- Regional Small Business Support Program (12 speeches)
I'm glad the minister has been talking about workers in the regions because my question is to the same minister—but with his emergency management hat on—Senator Watt. Minister, in...
- Australian Defence Force (8 speeches)
MBIE () (): My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, Minister Wong. Last week it was revealed that the Chief of the Australian Defence Force, General Angus Campbell,...
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Can the minister update the Senate on some of the challenges facing the country and how the government is responding...
- Senate Committees (19 speeches)
My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Wong. I refer to the proposed parliamentary sitting schedule for 2023 that has been widely distributed by the government and...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Assistant Treasurer (11 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Gallagher) to a question without notice I asked today relating to the performance of the Assistant...
- Defence Personnel (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Minister for Defence (Senator Wong) to a question without notice I asked today relating to defence...
- Great Barrier Reef (2 speeches)
Senator Whish-Wilson, there are 30 seconds remaining. Do you wish to take note?
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That Senator McCarthy be granted leave of absence for today, for personal reasons. Question agreed to.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (6 speeches)
Madam Acting Deputy President, I just want to make a correction—
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Voting Age (11 speeches)
Senator McKim has submitted a proposal under standing order 75 today: That the voting age in Australia be lowered to 16. Is the proposal supported? More than the number of senators required by...
- Workplace Relations (9 speeches)
he ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT ( Senator Polley ) (): The Senate will now consider the proposal from Senator Cash: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public...
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Consideration by Estimates Committees (1 speech)
Pursuant to order and at the request of chairs of the respective committees, I present two reports, from the Education and Employment Legislation Committee and the Foreign Affairs, Defence and...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Middle East (1 speech)
Recently the US ordered an investigation into the death of one of its citizens, Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran Al Jazeera journalist and one of the biggest names in Arab journalism. She was also a...
- Western Australia: Labor Government (11 speeches)
In March 2021, the WA Premier Mark McGowan and his Labor government were rewarded with a thumping majority, based largely on their perceived handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The line 'Mark...
- Middle East (1 speech)
FARUQI () (): Today is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people. The year 2022 has been a year of tragedy after tragedy. Yet, day after day, the courageous Palestinian...
- Tasmania: Christmas (5 speeches)
This is the best time of the year: it's Christmas time, and I love it! It brings back many, many memories. I know that we won't get much more opportunity up here this week, so I just want to wish...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
Speaking as a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I note that the RMIT fact checkers jumped to the government's rescue last week when I asked questions about the reported decline...
- Neal, Mr Colin (Col) (1 speech)
I rise to pay my respects to Col Neal, a wonderful tip truck owner-driver who was the section head for the Transport Workers Union in New South Wales. Col was an owner-driver who spent a lot of...
- Youth Voice in Parliament Week (1 speech)
I'm delighted to have been asked to read out the speeches of several intelligent, passionate and articulate young people from Queensland as part of the Raise Our Voice in Parliament campaign. The...
- Workplace Relation: Amazon, Victoria: Racing Industry (1 speech)
ONE (—) (): I know many Australians have been looking around for a bargain as Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales continue this week, but this evening I want to shine a light on the...
