Senate debates
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (21 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's AR6 synthesis report: climate change 2023, as circulated. Leave not granted. From the contingent notice...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- St Patrick's Day (4 speeches)
As many of you know, last Friday was St Patrick's Day. I had the pleasure of attending a St Paddy's day lunch hosted by the Lansdowne Club. The Lansdowne Club was founded in 1986 by a group of...
- Tasmania: Energy (3 speeches)
I join with Senator Hughes in her comments around St Patrick's Day and the Irish community. Tasmania is the home of renewable energy, and that's worth repeating—renewable energy, energy,...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
The IPCC report released overnight has to be a game changer for Australia. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres puts it starkly and clearly. He said that we need to 'massively fast-track climate...
- Defence Procurement: Submarines (1 speech)
This morning there were reports from Trudy McIntosh of Sky News, as reposted by Andrew Clavell, that three Labor MPs raised concerns about the AUKUS agreement, including the member for...
- Murray-Darling Basin (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the Murray-Darling Basin and some amazing students that I got to spend some time with the week before last. The Murray-Darling Basin is one of Australia's most...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
'Act now, or it will be too late.' That was the key message from the IPCC AR6 synthesis report out overnight—eight years of work by the world's key climate scientists. And, when they say...
- Harmony Week, Alice Springs: Housing (1 speech)
Celebrating our nation's cultural diversity, inclusiveness, respect and belonging is the purpose of this week's celebration of Harmony Week. It also coincides with the United Nations...
- Youth Voice in Parliament (1 speech)
The voices of young people can be underestimated, but they can also be powerful—filled with hope and solutions. And they are the future of our parliament. I'm happy to have been invited to...
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
Senator McKim. Overnight, the United Nations released what it describes as a lesson on how to defuse the climate time bomb. It makes it very clear that the most urgent action we need to take is...
- Rural and Regional Health Services (1 speech)
I rise to talk about regional health. We all know I live regionally; I keep talking about it. I gave birth to my daughters regionally. My family's health is reliant on an effective regional...
- First Nations Australians (1 speech)
Perhaps the most outrageous idea to rise out of racist identity victim politics is that rent should be paid to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by other Australians. It shouldn't. The...
- Dental Health (1 speech)
Everyone should be able to go to the dentist without worrying about how much it will cost. In today's reality where corporate profits are soaring and so many people are feeling the pinch, more...
- Human Trafficking (1 speech)
Often domestic problems, as we know, require global action to tackle. Australians supporting overseas orphanages is one of those issues. Last week in Bahrain MPs from 178 countries gathered to...
- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (1 speech)
Today, 21 March, is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. It marks the day in 1960 when police in Sharpeville South Africa opened fire on peaceful anti-apartheid...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Energy (26 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. Minister, did Mr Albanese promise to cut the energy bills for Australians by saying, 'Our plan will cut family...
- Climate Change (8 speeches)
I'm smiling because it's like those opposite don't own a mirror, when they're talking about lies and deceit. My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and...
- Wages (8 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. Minister, your government's submission to the Fair Work Commission last year recommended that the Fair Work...
- Racism (8 speeches)
My question is to Minister Watt, representing Minister Giles. Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. It's observed throughout the world on the day police in...
- National Reconstruction Fund (12 speeches)
While the minister is on a roll, my question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Watt. The Albanese government's National Reconstruction Fund promises to be a...
- Gambling Advertising (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Communications, Senator Murray Watt. Is the government aware that Australians are being exposed, on their social media feeds, to...
- Income Tax (30 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Minister, yesterday in question time, when asked if your government would scrap stage 3 tax cuts, you declared: 'Our...
- Defence Procurement: Submarines (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. The AUKUS submarine deal appears to be creating division within government ranks. The Labor member for Fremantle is reported...
- Housing (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Can the minister explain how the Housing Australia Future Fund will improve housing outcomes for Australians and make...
- Aged Care (29 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. Did Labor make an election promise to older Australians that every aged-care home would have a registered nurse on...
- Statement by the President (0 speeches)
- Matters of Urgency (1 speech)
Senators, I want to make a statement in relation to a review I was asked to undertake yesterday. I was asked to review the Hansard of the debate from yesterday's first urgency motion. Having done...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers To Questions (5 speeches)
CADELL (—) (): I move: That the Senate take note of all answers by the government to coalition questions. It's another day, another question time, and here I am again. I was looking for...
- Racism (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Minister for Emergency Management (Senator Watt) to questions without notice I...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Bilyk from 21 to 24 March 2023, for personal reasons. Question agreed to.
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That general business order of the day No. 35 (Improving Access to Medicinal Cannabis Bill 2023) be considered on Wednesday, 22 March 2023 at the time for private senators' bills....
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Reporting Date (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (3 speeches)
by leave—I move: (1) The hours of meeting shall be from 9.30 am to adjournment, and the routine of business shall be: (a) government business only; (b) at 1.30 pm, statements pursuant to...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Cash, I seek leave to postpone the consideration of general business notice of motion 183 to tomorrow, 22 March. Leave granted.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (20 speeches)
A letter has been received from Senator Thorpe: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion: The continuing...
- Cost of Living (30 speeches)
DEPUTY PRESIDENT ( Senator Fawcett ) (): The Senate will now consider the matter of public importance proposed by Senator Hughes, namely: Despite Labor promising cheaper mortgages, power prices...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Department of the Treasury (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I rise to take note of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Black Economy Taskforce Measures No. 1) Act 2018 statutory review of the operation of...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Migrant Resource Centre (1 speech)
Australia is often described as a multicultural country. We have for many years relied on skilled migration to support our growing economy, and this chamber has debated those benefits on many...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I recently had the honour and privilege of meeting a group of young Tamil refugees who have experienced the horrors of the genocide in Sri Lanka which continues to this day. I wish to read a...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
The previous four ABS provisional mortality statistics data releases revealed 15.1 per cent, 16 per cent, 17 per cent and 17.3 per cent increases in excess deaths above the baseline average....
- Tasmania: Employment (1 speech)
LL (—) (): Bureaucrats are costing investment in Tasmania and Tasmanian jobs all because they keep changing the goal posts. There are some projects in Tassie that have been gathering dust...
- International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (1 speech)
Earlier this month, a motion in the House of Representatives included an acknowledgement of the rise in antisemitic incidents in Australia of more than 40 per cent since 2020. It also...
- Ipswich (3 speeches)
Before I start on my contribution, I'd like to associate myself with the remarks of Senator Smith in that regard. Indeed, I think it is a great think that this country, with the support of both...
- Queensland: Floods (1 speech)
The most recent flood in northern Australia has seen floodwaters extend from the gulf south for hundreds of kilometres. The complete lack of interest and support from this federal government is...
- Cost of Living (2 speeches)
I've said it before in this chamber and I'll say it again: hypocrisy is just the latest virtue of Green-Left activists and politicians to signal, and there's nothing more hypocritical than the...
- Capitalism (5 speeches)
I speak as a servant to the many different people who make up our amazing one Queensland community. I have not yet had a chance to make fun of Treasurer Jim Chalmers's ode to soviet glory titled...
