Senate debates
Thursday, 11 May 2023
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (49 speeches)
President, I appreciate you giving me the call straight up. I seek leave to move a motion relating to the consideration of the Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 and related bills. Leave not...
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the consideration of private senators' bills not proceed today. The effect of this motion is that the Senate will proceed immediately to the next item of business,...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Consideration by Estimates Committees (34 speeches)
The opposition has moved a motion in the Senate because apparently they weren't happy with two of the answers to questions on notice that they received. The hypocrisy of this particular...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection of Bills Committee; Report (10 speeches)
I present the fifth report of 2023 of the Selection of Bills Committee and seek leave to have the report incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The report read as follows— SELECTION OF...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That general business notice of motion no. 233, standing in the name of Senator Bragg, relating to the 2023-24 Budget, be considered during general business today. Question agreed to.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I seek leave to postpone business of the Senate notice of motion No. 1, standing in my name for today, relating to the reference of a matter to Environment and Communications References...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Babet from 13 to 16 June 2023, for personal reasons. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Legislation Committees; Reference (7 speeches)
I ask that government business notice of motion No. 1, relating to the reference of time-critical bills to legislation committees, be taken as formal.
- Parliamentary Zone (0 speeches)
- Proposed Works (6 speeches)
I ask that government business No. 2, standing in the name of Senator Chisholm, proposing the approval of works within the parliamentary zone, be taken as a formal motion.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Consideration by Estimates Committees (11 speeches)
I wasn't sure, given the hard marker, what would happen with this, but I thank the opposition for the opportunity to talk about the government's performance in answering estimates questions on...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (30 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to the consideration of government bills. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice, I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as...
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Criminal Justice System in the Australian Capital Territory (1 speech)
I note that Mr Drumgold, the ACT DPP, today backflipped on his allegations of political interference in the AFP investigation. Let me be very, very clear: as I did yesterday, I categorically...
- Lung Cancer (1 speech)
Today, I rise to speak on an issue that is extremely close to my heart: lung cancer. Lung cancer is a cruel and evil disease. It has stolen people that I love too painfully and too quickly, and I...
- Housing (1 speech)
Twelve months out from the last election, I visited a housing and homeless service in Mackay. There, I heard firsthand about the housing crisis in that city, and how they were forced to turn away...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
I rise in this place on occasion to reflect on the current status of the live export industry—this is something I've talked about many times—and today I rise to give this chamber an...
- Housing (1 speech)
'Dirty deeds', AC/DC—that's what we've witnessed here in this chamber this week. The Greens, the Liberals and the Nationals are all doing their dirty deeds right in front of our eyes. We...
- Budget (1 speech)
Three prominent ecological scientists assessed this week's budget in an article in the Conversation this morning. Sarah Bekessy, Brendan Wintle and Rachel Morgain were blunt. They noted that the...
- Freedom of the Media (1 speech)
A journalist's job is to hunt the truth. That means following the evidence, wherever it leads, and faithfully reporting their findings to the public. The pursuit of truth is a vital service to...
- Housing Australia Future Fund (3 speeches)
Madam Acting Deputy President Polley, I want to follow on from your comments. You've contributed to this debate too. You and I came in here together 18 years ago, with hopes of—
- Nakba (1 speech)
Palestinians around the world mark the Nakba, or 'the catastrophe', every year on 15 May, referring to the violent dispossession by Israeli forces of 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in...
- Parliament (1 speech)
I say this, as someone who is new to this place: it's Thursday afternoon and we haven't got through any legislation this week. It's been incredibly frustrating. We're not living up to what...
- Fitzroy Crossing: Floods (1 speech)
Two weeks ago I visited Fitzroy Crossing, a place you know very well. It's a town that went underwater in a record flooding event earlier this year. A hundred buildings were flooded, including...
- First Nations Australians (1 speech)
The pathetic pants-wetting senators in this chamber, all bar two, prevented me from introducing my Acts Interpretation Amendment (Aboriginality) Bill 2023. This stunt has rarely ever been done....
- Donations to Political Parties (2 speeches)
There's been a lot of attention on the budget night fundraiser event for the Labor business forum this week. The gall of a Labor fundraiser being sponsored by PwC, a company that had leaked...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
I advise the Senate of changes to ministerial arrangements. Senator Farrell will be absent from question time today on account of ministerial business overseas. In his absence, ministers will...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Yesterday the Treasurer said in parliament: 'Bill Evans from Westpac, a very respected economist, said, "I don't...
- Budget: Women (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Women, Senator Gallagher. Can the minister outline how the budget delivers for women in Australia?
- Infrastructure (22 speeches)
My question is to Minister Watt, representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. The government has had almost a year to assess and evaluate...
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance. On 16 November, the Tax Practitioners Board ruled that the former PwC partner Peter Collins leaked confidential government tax plans and sold advice to...
- Housing (19 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the minister for regional development, Senator Watt. Colleen is a registered nurse living in Theodore, west of Gladstone. Colleen has found it...
- Health Care (20 speeches)
Thank you, President, I appreciate it. My question is for the minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator Gallagher. Your government has acknowledged that your proposed changes to the...
- Budget (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Yesterday on Sky News, former Labor leader Bill Shorten said this: I always think, well, there are plenty of property tax...
- Trade (16 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Tourism, Minister Wong. We live in a global economy, and Australia has a lot to contribute to international trade. We are...
- Medicare (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. After nine long years of cuts and neglect, how is the Albanese Labor government investing in Medicare and,...
- Budget (9 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. What proportion of Australian households will face the impact of higher inflation and interest rates being higher...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked by opposition senators today. I'm going to start with a history lesson, and Senator Gallagher...
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (1 speech)
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 PricewaterhouseCoopers. I rise to take...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Elstob, Mr Ronald Charles (3 speeches)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death on 16 March 2023 of Ronald Charles Elstob, a senator for the state of South Australia from 1978 to 1987.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Budget (13 speeches)
I move: That the Labor Government has delivered a Budget that does not have a plan to tackle inflation, fails to reduce cost of living for all Australians, increases spending that will add to...
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Statements and Documents (2 speeches)
I seek leave to table the Leader of the Opposition's budget reply speech and have it incorporated in the Hansard. Leave granted. The speech read as follows— INTRODUCTION Thank you, Mr...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (2 speeches)
I rise this evening to speak about the appalling misuse of confidential government information by auditing and assurance company PwC. In response to questions I asked in February at Senate...
