Senate debates
Friday, 16 June 2023
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (30 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to the routine of business today, as circulated. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice standing in my name, I move: That so much of the standing...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Creative Australia Bill 2023, Creative Australia (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023; Second Reading (35 speeches)
Australia's enduring embrace of the arts and culture has entered a new era. Under the Albanese Labor government, a new national cultural policy named Revive will jump-start and revitalise the...
- Creative Australia Bill 2023, Creative Australia (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023; In Committee (16 speeches)
I just seek some clarification in relation to the correction to the explanatory memorandum. I obviously did hear Senator Brown's explanation, but, to just give us comfort, are you able to direct...
- Creative Australia Bill 2023, Creative Australia (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023; Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bills read a third time.
- Treasury Laws Amendment (2023 Measures No. 2) Bill 2023; Second Reading (23 speeches)
I rise to speak to the Treasury Laws Amendment (2023 Measures No. 2) Bill 2023. The coalition will support this bill, as the intention of the bill is to implement what are essentially a number of...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (2023 Measures No. 2) Bill 2023; In Committee (2 speeches)
by leave—I move opposition amendments (1) and (2) on sheet 2007, standing in my name: (1) Clause 2, page 2 (at the end of the table), add: (2) Page 13 (after line 19), at the end of the...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (2023 Measures No. 2) Bill 2023; Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023; Second Reading (10 speeches)
In 1967, Australians voted resoundingly to fix a fundamental gap in our Constitution to allow Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to be counted in the population of the country they had...
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Tasmania: Mining Industry (1 speech)
Thank you, Acting Deputy President, and allow me to change gears now to talk about a different matter, equally important! It's the matter of the state of Tasmania, a place of which I am very...
- South Australia: Eyre Peninsula (1 speech)
Today I want to talk about the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. I have stood in this chamber many times before and spoken about various issues, projects, towns and exciting things that happen...
- Yates, Mr Dean (1 speech)
I want to give a shout-out in the Australian Senate today for a good mate of mine—fellow Tasmanian Dean Yates. Dean is a highly experienced and acclaimed journalist who spent 20 years...
- Education (1 speech)
I rise to raise serious concerns about declining standards in Australian schools, which are arguably escalating under the Albanese government. In the May budget papers we learnt that 11 per cent...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
If you're an elected representative in this parliament, the public deserves to know what you stand for. I'm for better wages and better working conditions, whether you be an employee or a...
- Infrastructure (1 speech)
There is no better way to create jobs in this country than by building infrastructure. Yet we see the Albanese Labor government cutting funding for infrastructure projects in the latest federal...
- Aged Care (2 speeches)
At the last election, or during the campaign, the member for Braddon and I went to Queenstown in support of Queenstown's West Coast Council to make a commitment of $3 million to support the...
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (1 speech)
I rise to continue to make statements about the shameful scandal that is emerging around the practices of those who have been in charge at PwC, PricewaterhouseCoopers. The last time I stood to...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
Three days ago, while this parliament was consumed with weaponising the traumatic experiences of women, another woman was killed by violence, in Bedford, Western Australia. On the available...
- Immigration Detention (1 speech)
It's going on 10 years since the Australian Labor Party began a program of systemic exile of forced deportation which saw thousands of people detained on Manus Island and Nauru for nothing more...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Everyone who works in this place has sacrificed something to come here for the extraordinary privilege of representing our communities and, in the case of the Senate, our state. But this has been...
- Budget (1 speech)
MARIELLE SMITH () (): The parliament is a unique institution, full of its own quirks, standing orders and ways of doing things. When children come and visit us, they go to the Parliamentary...
- Parliamentary Standards (1 speech)
Today I want to send a message of love and support to the women, girls and gender diverse people out there, black, brown and white, who have experienced gender based violence and harassment. I...
- Agriculture Industry (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about the disdain and ignorance with which this federal Labor government and the Labor government in my home state of WA treat the agriculture sector. I'll give you three...
- Workplace Relations: Food Delivery Industry (1 speech)
I want to pay my respects to the many transport workers who have lost their lives while working in one of Australia's deadliest industries, and to their families and loved ones. The Transport...
- Statement by the President (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (1 speech)
Before I go to question time, yesterday I was asked to consider arguments put by Senators Wong and Birmingham. Yesterday, the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Wong, asked me to...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Members of Parliament: Staff (8 speeches)
My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Wong. In relation to the settlement of a compensation claim on 13 December 2022, why didn't the Commonwealth or its legal...
- Employment (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. After a year in office, under the Albanese Labor government the number of Australians in work remains at record...
- Members of Parliament: Staff (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. I refer the minister to her statement to the Senate on Tuesday and subsequent answers in multiple question times. How is it a breach...
- Mining Industry (9 speeches)
My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Minister Wong. Earlier this month, global temperatures crept 1½ degrees above historic averages for the first time in human...
- Women's Economic Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Women, Senator Gallagher. As we know, gender inequality remains a significant issue for women in Australia, with women still on average being paid less,...
- Small Business (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Senator Gallagher. Noting that legislation to enact the Small Business Technology...
- Yipirinya School (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Gallagher. Minister, the Yipirinya School student accommodation proposal is a local led initiative to...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Communications, Senator Watt. Yesterday we saw the shocking decision that over 100 jobs will be cut from the ABC. I want to express my...
- Housing (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness, Senator Farrell. The Albanese government understands safe and affordable housing is essential...
- Economy (11 speeches)
My question is to the minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. The Prime Minister was quoted in the Australian newspaper on 2 May last year as saying, 'Labor has real, lasting...
- Wages (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator Watt. We know that people on low and modest wages have the least capacity to deal with the...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (6 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked today. I particularly want to take note of the answer to the question from my good friend,...
- Mining Industry (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Wong) to a question without notice...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators for personal reasons: (a) Senator Ciccone for 15 and 16 June 2023; and (b) Senator Sterle for today. Question...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2023-2024, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2023-2024, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2023-2024; First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills may proceed without formalities, may be taken together and be now read a first time. Question agreed to. Bills read a first time.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2023-2024, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2023-2024, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2023-2024; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speeches incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speech es read as follows— APPROPRIATION...
- Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill 2023; First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill may proceed without formalities and be now read a first time. Question agreed to. Bill read a first time.
- Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill 2023; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speech incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speech read as follows— Australia's security...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2022-2023, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2022-2023, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2022-2023; Second Reading (2 speeches)
I would like to thank all members who have contributed to the debate on the additional estimates Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2022-2023, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2022-2023 and Appropriation...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2022-2023, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2022-2023, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2022-2023; Third Reading (2 speeches)
No amendments to the bill have been circulated. Does any senator require a committee stage? If not, I shall call the minister to move the third reading.
- Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023; Second Reading (41 speeches)
I'm pleased to be able to continue my remarks from earlier on this very, very important piece of legislation which is, as I said before, a once-in-a-generation choice that Australians are going...
- Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023; In Committee (815 speeches)
I move amendment (1) on sheet 1923: (1) Schedule 1, item 2, page 3 (after line 24), at the end of Chapter IX, add: 130 Sovereignty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples Nothing in this...
