Senate debates
Monday, 27 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.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Climate Change: Safeguard Mechanism (1 speech)
We just heard in the speech by Senator Hanson-Young that the dodgy deal by Labor and the Greens announced today to introduce a new carbon tax is a massive new stop sign in front of every coal,...
- Federation of Ethnic Communities Council of Australia (1 speech)
The Federation of Ethnic Communities Council of Australia, also known as FECCA, is the national peak body representing Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Last...
- Gambling Advertising (1 speech)
I rise today to reflect on the latest figures that show that more than half of Australians—in fact, two-thirds—want to see urgent action taken to curb gambling advertising on our...
- Goods and Services Tax (1 speech)
ITH () (): Wall-to-wall Labor on the Australian mainland has sent a shiver down the spines of Western Australians. Wall-to-wall Labor on the mainland is now wall-to-wall opposition to the GST...
- Laverty, Mr Declan (1 speech)
In Darwin over the weekend, hundreds of Territorians gathered outside Parliament House following the tragic death of young 20-year-old Declan Laverty while he was at work. They went there to...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
As a servant to the many different people who make up our one Queensland community, I propose there should not be a new body called the Voice. The Voice, if a referendum approves, would...
- National Reconstruction Fund (3 speeches)
Well, hypocrisy has a name, and it's the Labor-Greens alliance. We've heard it here today. The Greens stand up in this chamber and while they're attacking 'corporate welfare and worse', railing...
- National Banksia Sustainability Awards (1 speech)
I'm very pleased to stand here today in the Senate as a North Queenslander. Not only am I very lucky and proud to have the Great Barrier Reef on my doorstep, and all the jobs that the Great...
- Tasmania: Timber Industry (1 speech)
The definition of ecocide: severe harm to nature and mass damage and destruction of ecosystems committed repeatedly over decades. Senators, this is a photograph of what ecocide looks like. This...
- Australian Law Reform Commission (1 speech)
ET (—) (): Christian schools educate almost one-third of Australian schoolchildren, but, thanks to the Australian Law Reform Commission, Christian schools are under threat. The ALRC wants...
- National Electrical and Communication Association (1 speech)
As we all know, Australia is currently facing a skills shortage. To address this, we need organisations with the experience and passion to train our apprentices and tradespeople. I wish to...
- Early Childhood Education (1 speech)
I am being flooded with messages from early childhood educators. They're understaffed, underresourced and underpaid, but we give them one of the most important jobs in the world to do. They're...
- Australian Capital Territory: Small Business (1 speech)
The ACT is full of innovative small businesses. Over the past few months, my team and I have visited dozens of small-business owners, entrepreneurs and passionate advocates of innovation in...
- Medical Workforce (1 speech)
Rural, regional and remote Australia is often the canary in the coalmine when it comes to health and the challenges that it's currently facing, and right now that could not be a truer statement....
- South Australia: First Nations Voice (1 speech)
When you come from the best state in the country, as I do, you are given many, many opportunities to feel proud, and Sunday was no exception, when the great state of South Australia became the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (44 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. Minister, last week the Senate agreed, without dissent, to the coalition's second reading amendment to the...
- Climate Change: Safeguard Mechanism (33 speeches)
Senator Canavan.
- Tourism Industry (12 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Trade and Tourism, Minister Farrell. The government has updated the THRIVE 2030 strategy to invest in and increase the visitor economy in Australia. In this...
- Budget (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Can the minister please update the Senate about the impact of unfunded or terminating programs on budget deliberations and how the...
- Financial Claims Scheme (13 speeches)
ERTS () (): My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Last week I asked questions about the funding for the deposits guarantee scheme, which was designed to protect the money...
- Pensions and Benefits (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. The presidents and other representatives from the Western Australian shires of Leonora and Laverton wrote to Prime...
- Housing Affordability (8 speeches)
My question without notice is to Minister Farrell representing the Minister for Housing. Minister, reports last week revealed Australia is one of the worst places in the developed world to be a...
- Budget (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Emergency Management and the Minister representing the Attorney-General, Senator Watt. Can the minister explain why funding certainty is important for essential...
- Australian Constitution (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. Is it correct that the Keating government released the Solicitor-General's advice provided to the then...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (7 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to opposition questions without notice asked today. Today there were a lot of important questions asked of the government. It's...
- Tourism Industry (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of answers given by the Minister for Trade and Tourism (Senator Farrell) about THRIVE 2030. I want to thank the minister for giving some of the answers that I...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (3 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators for personal reasons: (a) Senator Wong for today; and (b) Senator Dodson from 27 to 30 March 2023. Question agreed to.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator. I note no senator has made such a request.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (7 speeches)
I withdraw general business notice of motion No. 185.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Improving Access to Medicinal Cannabis Bill 2023; Order for the Production of Documents (2 speeches)
I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, by no later than 30 March 2023 any correspondence in relation to the Improving Access...
- Australian Army: Jervis Bay Incident; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
I move: (1) That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, by 11 May 2023, all incident reports, safety evaluations, briefing notes, correspondence and...
- Australian Constitution: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice; Order for the Production of Documents (3 speeches)
I seek leave to move general business notices of motion Nos 202 and 203 together. Leave granted. At the request of Senator Cash, I move the motions: GENERAL BUSINESS NOTICE OF MOTION NO. 202 That...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (2023 Measures No. 1) Bill 2023; 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 3 pm on Wednesday, 5 April 2023: (a) all correspondence...
- Department Of Agriculture, Fisheries And Forestry; Order for the Production of Documents (2 speeches)
At the request of Senator McKenzie, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) order for production of documents no. 144 was agreed by the Senate on 8 February 2023, requiring the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Roads (14 speeches)
DEPUTY PRESIDENT (): Senator McKenzie has submitted a proposal under standing order 75 today. It is shown at item 12 on today's Order of business: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that...
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Pensions and Benefits (10 speeches)
The Senate will now consider the proposed matter of urgency which the President has received from Senator McKim: Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today the Australian Greens...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 16 of 2022-2023 (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I rise to speak about the report by the Auditor-General on the management of migration to Australia, specifically the family reunion program....
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- South Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
Today I rise to acknowledge a historic moment in this nation's history: the establishment of the inaugural First Nations voice to parliament in my home state of South Australia. Yesterday, during...
- Western Australia: Goods and Services Tax (1 speech)
The announcement earlier this month by the federal Treasurer that the Commonwealth Grants Commission is currently undertaking a review of the GST distribution has put a shudder through the entire...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Tonight I want to speak on the recent IPCC report, specifically about the impacts of climate change on first nations people. First nations people not only in Australia but across the world have...
- Gender and Sexual Orientation (1 speech)
I want to acknowledge at the outset the multiple, varied and plural views that we hold in this society. From whatever quarter we come from, from whatever ethnic or cultural background we hold, it...
