Senate debates
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (33 speeches)
President, I seek leave to move a motion, as circulated in the chamber, relating to the consideration of a private senator's bill. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice of motion...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Western Australia: Floods (1 speech)
With the five minutes I have, I want to put some happiness into what was a dire situation in January this year up at Fitzroy Crossing in the Kimberley in WA. We all know the damage that was done....
- Parliamentary Friends of Dementia (1 speech)
Today I am delighted to talk about Friends of Dementia. We had an event here at Parliament House this morning. It's hard to believe, but that friendship group has been going for 20 years. That's...
- Cashless Debit Card (1 speech)
Senators statements is a great time to be able to hear from senators and the issues that they really care about. I am following on from two very good presentations here to the Senate. Firstly,...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Often in this place I feel the weight of our duty—our duty to our kids, our duty to young people in our community like those sitting up in the gallery, our duty to future generations. We're...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Like many in this place, I'm a very strong supporter of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice to the parliament. It's pretty simple in my mind. Should Indigenous Australians be...
- Infrastructure (1 speech)
The former coalition government had an ambitious infrastructure investment agenda. We were delivering a $120 billion, 10-year infrastructure pipeline of projects providing certainty to help...
- National Indigenous Australians Agency (1 speech)
The $4.5 billion per year National Indigenous Australians Agency has been quick to deny it's been developing demands to be made by the Voice to Parliament which were revealed in a letter sent to...
- Housing Australia Future Fund (1 speech)
As a member of the previous opposition, I was very passionate about housing policy in this country. I spoke many times in this chamber about the need to invest in social and affordable housing....
- Parliamentary Friends of Dementia, Finance and Public Administration References Committee (3 speeches)
Before I begin my substantive contribution today, can I acknowledge the statement made by Senator Polley earlier in senators' statements in her role as co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of...
- Police (1 speech)
I wish to speak about the ongoing horrors of police violence and brutality in this country. The police are an armed branch of this racist, colonial project who have persecuted First Nations...
- Central Bank Digital Currency (1 speech)
While Australians are closely watching the Reserve Bank's movements on interest rates each and every month, there is another activity of the Reserve Bank that demands our close inspection. In...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
I wish to bring to the attention of the Senate some commentary recently—even as recent as in Senators' statements—on the Voice here and in the other house. I remind senators and...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Joint Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Chair of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the committee's second report of 2023, Department of Defence—Cocos (Keeling) Islands Airfield Upgrade...
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Save Sorry Business Coalition (1 speech)
This week, campaigners for Save Sorry Business have come to the national parliament. The Save Sorry Business campaigners are a small group of people in number, but they are the voice for more...
- Mobile Black Spot Program (1 speech)
Earlier this afternoon, Senator McKenzie continued to spread mistruths about supposed cuts to road safety spending. I am so tired of the Liberals' and Nationals' attempts to politicise road...
- Sriranganathan, Mr Jonathan (1 speech)
Over the weekend, my friend Jonathan Sriranganathan announced he would step down as councillor for Brisbane's Gabba ward. Jono was elected in 2016 as Queensland's first Greens councillor, and the...
- Gender and Sexual Orientation: Protests (1 speech)
Last week a group of brave women in Victoria gathered to protest men using their bathrooms and dominating their sports, and, as sure as night turns to day, the activist media and the leftist...
- International Development Assistance (1 speech)
Australia's official development assistance program is our nation's primary source of financing for Australia's contribution to international development aid. Our ODA funding has the potential to...
- Immigration (2 speeches)
Australia is in serious trouble. We have an unprecedented housing and rental crisis. We don't have enough homes for everyone in Australia. Rental vacancy rates are lower than one per cent in our...
- Workplace Safety (1 speech)
This week we have had a very special guest in this building. Yavuz is the uncle of Burak Dogan, a 30-year-old food delivery rider who was tragically killed on the job on 2 April 2020. Burak is...
- Oil and Gas Exploration (1 speech)
Today I want to talk about a megafracker that is currently on its way from the US to Australia. This is one of five megafrackers that Tamboran intends to use to frack the Beetaloo basin, against...
- Premier of Victoria (1 speech)
Something is different in my home state of Victoria this week. There is a sense of calm and order as the Victorian people go about their everyday lives. The media are silent. They don't know what...
- Hunt, Mrs Alison (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge and remember the life of another great Territorian, Alison Hunt, who was also a family member of my own. Alison, sadly, lost her life to cancer earlier this month....
- Cost of Living, Food Banks (1 speech)
As interest rates soar, families are struggling to put food on the table. Just about every person who has stopped me on the streets in Lonnie has mentioned how tough things are at the moment. One...
- First Nations Australians (1 speech)
Just an hour ago I spoke about police violence. Last weekend, tragically, police violence got completely out of hand in Mareeba, where a First Nations man, Aubrey Donahue, who was just in his...
- Liberal-National Coalition (1 speech)
I rise today to speak directly to the many millions of Australians who support the Liberal Party, the National Party, the LNP and the CLP right across Australia. I remind them that sometimes it...
- Transport Industry (3 speeches)
I wanted to talk about something positive, but I can't let that one go, Senator Brockman. What an absolute crack-up. You got two seats back there in WA the last time I looked—two seats out...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Given the higher than expected inflation rate announced today, will the government commit to limiting spending growth...
- National Reconstruction Fund (8 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Industry and Science, Senator Farrell. Yesterday, members of the government and the crossbench came together to support the passage...
- Energy (19 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. The October budget forecast a 56 per cent increase in electricity bills for Australian households over the next two...
- Cost of Living: Students (8 speeches)
My question is to Minister Watt, representing the Minister for Education. Every week I hear heartbreaking stories about students struggling to put food on the table, pay for medicine, afford a...
- Budget (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Gallagher. Can the minister please tell us what key health services have been left with funding that...
- Migration (22 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Senator Wong, in a question time in September 2022, I asked you a question in relation to immigration. In response to...
- Budget (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. On Monday, and again today in question time, the minister criticised terminating funding for My Health Record. Given...
- Youpla Group Funeral Benefits Program (8 speeches)
My question is to the minister acting for the Minister for Indigenous Australians. My question is regarding First Nations people targeted by Youpla funeral insurance. Many now cannot afford to...
- Cybersafety (28 speeches)
WHITE () (): My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Communications, Senator Watt. We know it is fundamental that our online world is a safe and inclusive environment. The...
- Infrastructure (27 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development and Local Government, Senator Watt. On 9 February this year the minister...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Ukraine (1 speech)
In question time yesterday I undertook to provide further information in response to questions asked of me by Senator Van in my capacity as the Minister representing the Minister for Defence,...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (15 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked today. It is absolutely unbelievable, the way that you come in here and just blatantly lie to...
- Cost of Living: Students (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Senator Watt) to a question without notice I asked today relating to the cost of...
- 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...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Environment and Communications References Committee; Reference (4 speeches)
I move: That the following matter be referred to the Environment and Communications References Committee for inquiry and report by 5 December 2023: Greenwashing, with particular reference to: (a)...
- Public Works Joint Committee; Reference (1 speech)
On behalf of Senator Gallagher, I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
