Senate debates
Wednesday, 2 August 2023
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Climate Trigger) Bill 2022 [No. 2] be considered today at the time for private senators' bills, and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Road Transport Industry: Razorback Blockade (1 speech)
I've got a good-news story. About a month ago or so, I was doing the Wednesday night live On the Road radio show with Mike Williams, Glenn 'Yogi' Kendall and Craig Forsyth. These guys got...
- Labour Productivity (1 speech)
For some time now, I've been talking in this place about the lack of action from this government on labour productivity. Labour productivity is a key economic indicator. Positive labour...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
We are entering an era of global boiling. Last month we saw the hottest three-week period ever recorded on the planet. Countries around the Mediterranean are being devastated by fires that are...
- Road Safety (1 speech)
ROWN (—) (): Over the break, I spent my time across the country speaking with road safety experts and advocates and the transport industry about how we can move towards Vision Zero. In...
- Sport (1 speech)
Today I stand to acknowledge the recent amazing achievements of Australian athletes on the world stage. I want to congratulate those who have already won, I want to cheer on those who are getting...
- National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the theft of millions of dollars of taxpayers' money. Linda Burney, Bill Shorten and Ken Wyatt have all been completely aware of this matter for at least two years. I refer...
- Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
Banking is an essential service. Like most other essential services in Australia, we have both a private sector and a public sector. We have private and public schools and we have private and...
- Australian Culture (1 speech)
As a servant to the many different people who make up our one Queensland community, I speak on cancel culture. Australian politics is facing a crossroads regarding the climate of cancel culture....
- Australian Constitution: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
The Labor government quietly announced, a few months ago, that they would deliver water ownership rights to Indigenous Australians. This particular decision raises several pertinent questions...
- Agriculture Industry (3 speeches)
Over the winter break, I had the opportunity to attend a study tour organised by the National Farmers Federation and the Australian Forest Products Association at Jigsaw Farms in western...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Last week, the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, announced that the era of global warming has ended, and the era of global boiling has arrived and it's terrifying! Now, we know...
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
nator URQUHART (—) (): On 2 July, the Yes23 national day of action, I hosted a Come Together for Yes event alongside the Tasmanian Premier, Jeremy Rockliff, in Devonport, on the north-west...
- Greyhound Racing (1 speech)
Beautiful, gentle greyhounds are subjected to unimaginable cruelty, neglect and exploitation every single day in this country. The greyhound racing and gambling industry abuses, maims and kills...
- Freedom of Speech (1 speech)
Voltaire famously said, 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.' This famous quote was an expression of the Western world's commitment, on both the...
- World Hepatitis Day (1 speech)
28 August each year is World Hepatitis Day, which highlights the important work globally of eliminating hepatitis and supporting those with the virus. One in 75 people in Australia are living...
- Covid-19 (1 speech)
ANSON (—) (): Revelations of a cover-up over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and of the Australian government's deliberate suppression of free speech during the pandemic have made the...
- FIFA Women's World Cup (1 speech)
I today would like to congratulate the organising committee of the FIFA Women's World Cup, which is being jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand—by FFA here in Australia and by New...
- Early Learning Matters Week (1 speech)
Last week was Early Learning Matters Week, our opportunity to come together and celebrate the amazing early learning sector and all the workforce within that sector. This year the theme was...
- Taylor Cuimara, Mr (1 speech)
Today, with a heavy heart, I want to devote my speech to the memory of my pop Alfred Taylor Cuimara, who sadly passed away last weekend at the age of 77. Pop Alf was a proud Noongar man who grew...
- Child Abuse (1 speech)
The revelation that an Australian Federal Police investigation recently led to a former childcare worker being charged with 1,623 child abuse offences is shocking and deeply disturbing. It's hard...
- Prime Minister (1 speech)
Labor's Canberra Voice is risky, unknown, going to be permanent and going to be divisive. More dangerously, it's going to lead to a treaty. The Prime Minister of this country has talked about...
- Family Law (1 speech)
Politics can be pretty frustrating. Politicians don't often go for the obvious commonsense solution. Instead they go round and round in circles like a dog looking for a ball that's right under...
- Indie Schools (1 speech)
Most of us know someone with a child who is struggling at school, struggling to fulfil their potential. I know what it's like to be a struggling parent, worried about how to give your kids the...
- Sydney Metro West (1 speech)
This is not my first speech; however, as a senator for New South Wales and with deep connections to Western Sydney, I felt this issue was too important not to speak on. I was delighted that, at...
- Launceston Medical Centre (3 speeches)
It gives me great pleasure to inform the chamber that a provider for the Launceston Medicare Urgent Care Clinic has been selected. The Launceston Medical Centre will establish the Medicare Urgent...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. There have been 11 rate rises since Labor came to government just over a year ago, but core inflation remains higher...
- Australian Constitution: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (23 speeches)
My question is to the Special Minister of State, Senator Farrell. It is really important that all eligible Australians are enrolled to vote in the lead-up to this year's referendum. However, we...
- Oil and Gas Exploration (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Minister, as you know, the Greens have written to the Treasurer informing him that we will not pass the government's...
- Medicines (8 speeches)
PRATT (—) (): My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Gallagher. At a time when we know many Australians are seeing additional pressure on...
- Energy (19 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Minister Wong. Minister Wong, people in your state of South Australia are paying an average cost of 35c per...
- First Nations Australians (24 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Minister, you have explicitly posted on social media and spoken about your support for a treaty, as has the Minister for Indigenous...
- Oil and Gas Exploration (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Senator Lambie and I have worked with the Greens and with Senator David Pocock to make you an offer. We're prepared...
- Housing (8 speeches)
My question is to the minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. From speaking to people in our home state of South Australia who faced a decade of inaction on housing and...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (14 speeches)
My question is the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Following the disgraceful incident at the Perth home of Woodside CEO Meg O'Neill yesterday in which protesters tried to...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Economy, Australian Constitution: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, First Nations Australians (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given to questions from Senators Chandler, McGrath and Liddle in question time today. What we see from the government is a continued attempt to...
- Energy (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy (Senator Wong) to a question without notice I asked today relating to...
- Taxation (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Treasurer (Senator Gallagher) to a question without notice I asked today relating to taxation. I have to say...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
Pursuant to notice given on 1 August 2023 on behalf of the Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation, I withdraw business of the Senate notices of motion Nos 1 and 2 for today,...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Dean, Mr Arthur Gordon (1 speech)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death, on 27 July 2023, of Arthur Gordon Dean, a former member of the House of Representatives for the division of Herbert, Queensland, from...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Gallagher, I move: That on 3 August 2023, after motions to take note of answers or at 3.45 pm, whichever is earlier, the notice of motion proposing the disallowance of...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living Select Committee; Reporting Date (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Hume, I move: That paragraph (2) of the resolution of 28 September 2022 establishing the Select Committee on the Cost of Living be amended to read as follows: (2) That...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (10 speeches)
A letter has been received from Senator Dean Smith: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion: The number...
- Assange, Mr Julian Paul (8 speeches)
The President has also received the following letter from Senator McKim: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Report on Government Responses (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I rise to briefly take note of the report President's report to the Senate on the status of government responses to parliamentary committee...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Community Affairs References Committee; Reference (2 speeches)
This is the third time that I've raised this issue in this parliament, about having a Senate inquiry into gender dysphoria, and I've stated my reasons why. In Senator Birmingham's speech, the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Housing (1 speech)
I rise this evening to discuss the Housing Australia Future Fund, a policy we took to the last election—and at that election we actually won. I know those opposite don't understand the...
- Transgender Athletes in Sport (1 speech)
Last night I had the pleasure of speaking with one of the world's best-known defenders of women's sport, the champion British swimmer Sharon Davis. Sharon knows better than most the devastating...
- Veterans: MATES Program (1 speech)
I just wanted to make sure all the veterans out there are listening to me because you are going to not want to know about this if you don't already. Remember the Optus data breach? Remember the...
- Workplace Relations: Consulting Industry (2 speeches)
Over the past few months, we've seen rolling scandals of unethical behaviour in the big four consultancies. It's evident the issues are not just confined to PwC; they stem from the big four...
