Senate debates
Tuesday, 1 August 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)
- Queensland: Floods (1 speech)
Over the past few weeks, I've spent a lot of time driving around Queensland, holding a lot of mobile offices—everywhere from Cairns to Burketown, Hughenden to Gundy and a few places in...
- Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme (1 speech)
Yesterday we saw the former Prime Minister stand up in the parliament and take absolutely no responsibility for the illegal and devastating robodebt scheme that he presided over. In fact, Mr...
- Abortion (1 speech)
The recent Greens initiated Senate inquiry into universal access to sexual, maternal and reproductive health care delivered a strong cross-party statement on the importance of access to abortion...
- Ipswich: Waste Management (1 speech)
I'm very, very, very pleased to rise today to announce some good news for the people of Ipswich, where my office is located, in Queensland, and that is that Cleanaway, an ASX listed company, has...
- National Transport Reform Convoy (1 speech)
Good on you, Senator Scarr! There's nothing like giving Cleanaway a good industrial tap on the nose. They deserve it. But this weekend there's something bigger happening in town and happening...
- Tasmanian Government (1 speech)
There are rumblings in Tasmania about an early election. The Liberal government down there is governing in the minority because two of their MPs quit over—guess what—the lack of...
- Turner, Dr Margaret Kemarre (MK), OAM (1 speech)
MK Turner OAM was a relentless advocate for the education of Aboriginal children. As an Arrernte elder, professor, writer, artist, linguist and human rights champion, her recent passing leaves a...
- First Nations Australians (1 speech)
Last week I travelled to the APY Lands in the remote north-west of South Australia with my good friend and colleague Senator McCarthy. During our trip Senator McCarthy and I met with key...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I rise to talk about the appalling circumstances facing refugees in Australia who are trapped on temporary protection visas. Two weeks ago I met Reeta Arulruban, who was distraught because her...
- Heart2Heart Walk (1 speech)
I rise to update the Senate on the progress of the Heart2Heart Walk and give a shout-out to Vince Pannell and the team, who are now on day 31 of their 90-day walk covering 3,000 kilometres from...
- Developing Northern Australia Conference (1 speech)
I rise today with even more enthusiasm for northern Australia and the role it must play in Australia's future prosperity. The Developing Northern Australia Conference in Darwin last week drew...
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
The Prime Minister's deceptive messaging on the Voice has downplayed its potential power and implications. That's certainly what he tried with Ben Fordham the other day. He could not, would not,...
- Migration (1 speech)
Australia has an ableist immigration system which deliberately provides for discrimination based on disability. We are seeing many migrant families on temporary visas, including many who are on...
- National Radioactive Waste Management Facility (4 speeches)
I want to highlight an issue that has bedeviled this country for around 50 years. We should be proud that we run a world-class nuclear medicine facility at Lucas Heights in Sydney. However, the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Cultural Heritage Protection (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, Senator Wong. Minister, considering the shambolic and disastrous impact of the Western Australian Labor...
- Cost of Living (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Noting the Treasurer recently stated in an interview with Sky News: … as a government, we very deliberately...
- Cultural Heritage Protection (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, Senator Wong. On 30 May 2023, Minister Plibersek said that the Albanese government was: …...
- Climate Change (11 speeches)
The question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, Senator Wong. It's been reported that 44 per cent of the world's oceans are currently experiencing...
- Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Government Services, Senator Farrell. During the winter recess, Commissioner Holmes handed down the final report of the Royal...
- Lobbying Code of Conduct (8 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Attorney-General, Minister Watt. The Lobbying Code of Conduct prohibits former government advisers actively lobbying for 12 months in a relevant...
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Voice (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Gallagher. In 2020 the Prime Minister tweeted: Voice. Truth. Treaty. That's the future I want for...
- Awards and Honours (12 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. The recipients of Australian honours and awards are rightly held in high regard by everyday Australians. In 2019,...
- Economy (19 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Can the minister please update the Senate on the independent Reserve Bank board's interest rates decision today and...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Cultural Heritage Protection (12 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water (Senator Wong) to questions asked by Senator Cash and myself today...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water (Senator Wong) to questions without notice I asked today relating to...
- 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)
- Reporting Date (1 speech)
IDENT (): I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (19 speeches)
Senator Roberts has submitted the following proposal under standing order 75 today: Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today I propose to move "That, in the opinion of the Senate,...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Cultural Heritage Legislation (17 speeches)
A letter has been received from Senator Brockman: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion: The federal...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Foreign Interference through Social Media — Select Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the final report of the Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media, together with the accompanying documents. I move: That the Senate take note of the report. I am...
- Community Affairs References Committee; Additional Information (1 speech)
On behalf of the Chair of the Community Affairs References Committee, Senator Rice, I present additional information received by the committee on its excellent inquiry into universal access to...
- Corporations and Financial Services Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the report. I rise to take note of the Corporate insolvency in Australia report, dated July 2023, which was presented out of sittings. In the absence of the...
- Intelligence and Security Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, I present the report of the committee on its review of administration and expenditure relating to Australian...
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee; Government Response to Report (1 speech)
I present the government's response to the report from the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade on its inquiry into the Department of Defence annual report 2019-20. I...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Joint Committee; Government Response to Report (1 speech)
I want to speak on the government response to the report of the Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs inquiry into community safety, support services and job...
- Public Accounts and Audit Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the Senate take note of the report. I take note of the 496th report of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit into the Hunter class frigates, and I seek...
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee; Government Response to Report (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I take note of the Australian government's response to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade inquiry into the...
- Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee; Membership (2 speeches)
The President has received a letter requesting changes to the membership of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme (1 speech)
'Embarrassed' and 'humiliated'—these are the words that Minister Shorten rightly chooses to describe how the opposition should feel about its cruel, vicious and disgusting conduct in going...
- Chinese Communist Party (1 speech)
Communism has been a scourge on humanity since its inception. It's an ideology that minimises, oppresses and brutalises human beings, and it has led to the deaths of tens of millions of men,...
- Australian Public Service (1 speech)
Beating up on the Public Service is a popular pastime in this place. I know I have been guilty of it from time to time; I will confess my sins there. It's worth remembering that the majority of...
- Oil and Gas Exploration: Protests (1 speech)
An incident happened this morning in Perth that should shock every Australian and should certainly shock every member of this place. At 6.45 am, three protesters invaded the private residence of...
- Energy (1 speech)
Labor says families will be better off under them, but families don't see it that way when they open their electricity bills. Labor's dream of decarbonising the electricity system without nuclear...
- Parliamentary Privileges Act (1 speech)
I rise to provide some comments in relation to a recent case in the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory and on how it bears to the interpretation of parliamentary privilege and its...
- Medicinal Cannabis (1 speech)
I recently went public on the fact that I have joined the more than 300,000 Australians who are legally accessing medicinal cannabis in this country. I may well be the first politician who has...
- COVID-19: Response, Climate Change (1 speech)
As a servant of the many different people who make up our one Queensland community, tonight I'm going to speak about the need for a royal commission into the federal government's response to...
