Senate debates
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
- Statement by the President (0 speeches)
- Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III (1 speech)
PRESIDENT (): At the commencement of business, I wish to acknowledge the coronation of King Charles III on the weekend and extend congratulations to His Majesty on this occasion. I am pleased...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Sudan (3 speeches)
by leave—I start by extending my thoughts and the thoughts of all those in this place to the people of Sudan and to the Sudanese-Australian community. What is taking place in Sudan is...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (21 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion to provide for the consideration of the Education and Other Legislation Amendment (Abolishing Indexation and Raising the Minimum Repayment Income for Education and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Bagdad Community Singers (1 speech)
I rise today with a tinge of sadness to pay tribute to the Bagdad Community Singers, a community choir that has spread song throughout southern Tasmania for almost 30 years. The group started as...
- Housing Australia Future Fund (1 speech)
There are some comments from this morning I'd like to talk about. We heard the Liberal Party telling us that Labor's housing plan won't build any housing, which is a ridiculous statement. It is...
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
No-one deserves to live in poverty, but you wouldn't know that from Labor's deliberate measures to keep people living well below the poverty line. If the reports this week are true, Labor is...
- Boer War Memorial (1 speech)
The Boer War was our nation's first expeditionary war. Initially all six colonies provided troops between 1899 and 1900. Then, as a nation, we came together between 1901 and 1902 to support the...
- Budget (1 speech)
I thank Senator Reynolds for her comments on commemoration of the Boer War and also recognise those who served during the Boer War conflict. It is an incredibly important thing for us to remember...
- Artificial Intelligence (1 speech)
AI, or artificial intelligence, is becoming a big part of our lives, but it can also have some negative effects. Here are some reasons why AI can be bad. Firstly, job losses: AI can do tasks that...
- Budget (1 speech)
Tonight Australia is expecting its first budget surplus in 15 years, and it's entirely due to the resources sector of this country. Unfortunately, the Labor Party does not want to recognise that...
- Audit and Assurance Industry (1 speech)
I seek to draw the attention of the chamber today to a matter of national importance, and that's the integrity of the audit and assurance sector. In recent days it's become very clear PwC,...
- Tasmania: Australian Football League (1 speech)
Last week the AFL finally announced that Tasmania would get licences for AFL men's and women's teams, but what should have been a day of unity and celebration for our state was tarnished. Instead...
- Coronation Of His Majesty King Charles III (1 speech)
On 3 May, an official media release went out on the Prime Minister's letterhead. It announced a whopping $10,000 contribution to Friends of the Western Ground Parrot as a coronation gift to His...
- Human Rights: Myanmar (1 speech)
Australia cannot allow the Burma conflict to become the forgotten conflict. A few weeks ago I took myself privately to India, to Delhi, and I thank those people that gave up their time to meet...
- United Nations (1 speech)
As a servant to the many different people that make up our one Queensland community, I draw the Senate's attention to the United Nations World Health Organization's current attempt at child...
- People with Disability (1 speech)
No-one should ever be made to feel like their very existence is a burden or like their lives are the reason for the challenges that our country faces. The lead-up to the budget has been...
- E-Cigarettes and Vaping Products (3 speeches)
Last week at the National Press Club we saw the Minister for Health and Aged Care get up and declare himself as Australia's new vape tsar. He pledged that he was going to stop kids vaping and...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
The concept of the four-day week has been gaining significant traction globally due to the measurable effects on productivity and quality of life. Recently, Australian Services Union members at...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
by leave—I advise changes to ministerial arrangements. Senator Gallagher will be absent from question time today on account of ministerial business relating to budget. In Senator...
- Shadow Ministry (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
by leave—I advise the Senate that Senator Nampijinpa Price has been appointed shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Paterson as shadow minister for home affairs, Senator...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Housing (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Wong. Has the government modelled the impact of the decision to increase immigration by 715,000 people over the next two years...
- Budget (28 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Can the minister update the Senate on how the government's budget will fix legacy issues Labor inherited from the...
- Assange, Mr Julian Paul (8 speeches)
My question is to Minister Wong in her capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs. With the helpful ending of the quiet diplomacy strategy from both the Prime Minister and the opposition leader...
- Infrastructure (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. The Albanese Labor government has committed to investing in...
- Taxation (13 speeches)
D POCOCK () (): My question is to Senator Wong, the Minister representing the Treasurer. How much petroleum resource rent tax has been paid by LNG projects to date?
- Emergency Management (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Emergency Management, Senator Watt. Minister, the National Emergency Management Agency's website claims it has boots on the ground across Australia through the...
- Australian Defence Force (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. I refer to the government's recently announced retention bonus for ADF personnel who have just completed their...
- Budget (10 speeches)
My question is to Senator Farrell, the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services. Can the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services outline how the Albanese government...
- Macquarie Point Stadium (34 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Wong. I refer the minister to the Albanese government's $240 million commitment to a new stadium being built on Hobart's...
- Statement by the President (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Standards (2 speeches)
I refer to the matter about which the President made a statement on Thursday 30 March 2023. I was not in the chamber when the statement was made by the President, and Senator Hughes withdrew her...
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Consideration by Estimates Committees (9 speeches)
Pursuant to standing order 74(5), I seek an explanation from the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Minister Farrell, as to why answers to Senate estimates questions on...
- Answers to Questions on Notice (0 speeches)
- Questions Nos 1520 and 1521 (4 speeches)
Pursuant to standing order 74(5), I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness for an explanation as to why an answer has not been provided to questions...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Housing (11 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Treasurer (Senator Wong) to a question without notice asked by Senator Dean Smith today relating to...
- Assange, Mr Julian Paul (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 asked by Senator Shoebridge today relating to Julian Assange....
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: That general business order of the day No. 37, Productivity Commission Amendment (Electricity Reporting) Bill 2023, be considered on Wednesday 10 May 2023 at the time for private...
- Leave of Absence (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators: (a) Senators Bilyk and Dodson from 9 to 11 May 2023, for personal reasons; and (b) Senator Farrell for 11 May...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Kerin, Hon. John Charles, AM, AO, FTSE (5 speeches)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death, on 28 March 2023, of the Hon. John Charles Kerin AO, a former minister and member of the House of Representatives for the divisions...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Covid-19 (7 speeches)
A letter has been received from Senator Roberts: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion: "The need for a...
- Budget (11 speeches)
The Senate will now consider the proposal from Senator Dean Smith, which is also shown at item 13 on today's order of business, namely: The only cost of living relief that helps all Australians...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Statement and Documents (1 speech)
I table the following documents: The Budget 2023-23—Statement by the Treasurer (Dr Chalmers), dated 9 May 2023. Budget papers— No. 1—Budget strategy and outlook. No....
- Proposed Expenditure (1 speech)
I table the following documents: Particulars of proposed expenditure in respect of the year ending on 30 June 2024. Particulars of certain proposed expenditure in respect of the year ending on 30...
- Portfolio Budget Statements (1 speech)
I table portfolio budget statements for 2023-24 for the Department of the Senate, the Parliamentary Budget Office and the Department of Parliamentary Services.
- Portfolio Budget Statements, Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements (1 speech)
I table portfolio budget statements for portfolios and executive departments as listed on the Dynamic Red. The list read as follows Estimates of proposed additional expenditure for...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Legacy Australia: 100th Anniversary (1 speech)
Legacy Australia is celebrating its centenary this year. It is doing so by holding a torch relay beginning on the old battlefields of France and finishing in Melbourne. The relay celebrates 100...
- Palestine: Nakba Anniversary (1 speech)
Monday 15 May will mark the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophe that saw the violent expulsion of approximately three-quarters of all Palestinians from their homes and homelands by...
- Defence (1 speech)
Tonight I want to make a short contribution on the Defence strategic review that was released last month. The government commissioned this review in the first 100 days after its election. It set...
- Regional Queensland (1 speech)
It was good to get back on the road throughout this parliamentary break and go and see some regional towns in Queensland. It has been a long time since I've been out there, and in the last month...
- Human Rights: Sri Lanka (1 speech)
The month of May is the most painful month for the Eelam Tamils. Eelam Tamils have endured 14 years of pain without any form of accountability from the Sri Lankan state, who committed the most...
- Holocaust Remembrance Day, Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon (1 speech)
During the month of April two incredibly important commemorations occurred in Brisbane in my state of Queensland. The first was the Holocaust Remembrance Day service, which took place on 16...
- Tasmanian Honour Roll for Women (1 speech)
Throughout history women have been quietly going about their work. They have been the gatherers, the caregivers, the cheer squad, the homemakers, the breadwinners. Women play many roles. Every...
