Senate debates
Tuesday, 5 September 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)
- Customs Legislation Amendment (Controlled Trials and Other Measures) Bill 2022; In Committee (1 speech)
Honourable senators, the committee is considering the Customs Legislation Amendment (Controlled Trials and Other Measures) Bill 2022 and amendments (1) and (2) on sheet 1888 revised, moved by...
- Customs Legislation Amendment (Controlled Trials and Other Measures) Bill 2022; Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2023, Financial Accountability Regime (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023; In Committee (18 speeches)
The committee is considering the Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2023 and a related bill and amendments (1) to (13), on sheet 1913, to the Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2023, moved by...
- Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2023, Financial Accountability Regime (Consequential Amendments) 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.
- Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Modernisation) Bill 2022; Second Reading (3 speeches)
The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security plays a critical role, but I have to say that, from the view of the Greens, the oversight mechanisms that relate to this country's security...
- Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Modernisation) Bill 2022; In Committee (29 speeches)
My question to the minister is in relation to a number of recommendations that came from the PJCIS. The first is in relation to recommendation 1. The committee recommended that the Australian...
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Azerbaijan (1 speech)
It's a long way from home, but I want to spend my two minutes today talking about the plight of Christian Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region which has been blockaded since 12 December 2022...
- Emerald Secondary College (1 speech)
Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting Emerald Secondary College in Melbourne's beautiful outer-eastern suburbs. Close to the iconic Puffing Billy Railway line, Emerald Secondary is a...
- Menopause (1 speech)
Menopause and perimenopause are not publicly spoken about much, but more needs to be done to understand their health and economic impacts on women and people who menstruate and the impacts on our...
- National Radioactive Waste Management Facility (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about the situation for the Kimba radioactive waste facility in South Australia, where the views of the local community were ignored by this Labor government after years of...
- National TAFE Day (1 speech)
Tomorrow marks National TAFE Day, and it's an opportunity to celebrate our public TAFE system. Last week I saw firsthand how free TAFE is changing lives. At Gippsland TAFE in Morwell, I met with...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
The PM was recently caught out by a classic cost-of-living got-you question, this time at the ALP conference. The Prime Minister was asked the price of petrol, and he said $1.80. On that day it...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
There's a shadow hanging over the agricultural industry, particularly in my home state of Western Australia. A recent survey right across Australia found that in the east the most important...
- We Are Womxn (1 speech)
Last month I had the pleasure of meeting Kate Raston, Nicolette Beard and Alexis Pallister, the incredible founders of We Are Womxn. We Are Womxn is an evidence-based, trauma-informed educational...
- Economy (1 speech)
Our broken economic system has to be fixed. It is a system that protects the wealthy and creates a merry-go-round of money amongst the elite while ordinary people are squeezed further and...
- Oil and Gas Exploration (1 speech)
Yesterday the University of Sydney released a new report on what we know today about the impacts of oil and gas development on human health. We now know a lot. We have incredibly rich evidence...
- Australian Children's Content Summit (1 speech)
I rise today to reflect on what was a fantastic opportunity to participate as a panellist last week at the inaugural Australian Children's Content Summit in Coffs Harbour. This fantastic event,...
- Queensland: Forestry Industry (1 speech)
I rise to speak in support of Queensland's timber workers and the regional communities which rely on this renewable industry. The 22nd of last month was National Forestry Day, and I want to...
- Tasmania: Forestry Industry (3 speeches)
On 14 August this year a photo was taken of a log truck just outside Maydena in southern Tasmania, and it clearly shows a single tree on the back of a log truck. Photos like this are an obscenity.
- New South Wales: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I reminded the Senate recently that Western Sydney needed to be careful about Labor turning their backs on us and taking our communities for granted again. Predictably, Labor is doing this at...
- Rural Road Safety Month (2 speeches)
September is Rural Road Safety Month. With crashes on rural roads overrepresented in fatalities in the national road toll, it's an important month for all Australians. Rural Road Safety Month is...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (39 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator Watt. Minister, in the more than 700 pages of the 'closing the loopholes' bill and...
- Economy (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Tomorrow the ABS will release the national accounts for the June quarter, providing the most up-to-date snapshot of how the...
- Aviation Industry (41 speeches)
My question is for the minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Yesterday the Western Australian Labor Premier, Roger Cook, added his voice to the chorus of state Labor leaders who...
- Climate Change (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, Senator Wong. Last week the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, approved yet another coalmine. This year...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Can the minister please remind the Senate how and why the proposal for the Voice to Parliament was developed, why it...
- Murray-Darling Basin (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, Minister Wong. The mighty Murrumbidgee River flows through the ACT, and it has been in poor condition for...
- Government Accountability (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Minister Wong. A recent report by the Centre for Public Integrity revealed that the former Morrison government—this mob over...
- Biosecurity (8 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Until last year, Australia was one of the last remaining countries to be free of Varroa destructor mite, a bug that has...
- Workplace Relations (28 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator Watt. Last year's Secure Jobs, Better Pay reforms were passed to get wages moving again...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (13 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked by Opposition senators today. I'd like to go to the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing...
- Climate Change (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 I asked today relating to coal mine approvals. Eighteen years...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: That the following general business orders of the day be considered this week at the time for private senators' bills: No. 40—Digital Assets (Market Regulation) Bill 2023—on...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senators. I shall now proceed to the discovery of formal business.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Gallagher, I move: That consideration of the business before the Senate on Tuesday, 5 September 2023, be interrupted at approximately 5 pm, but not so as to interrupt a...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
O'SULLIVAN ( — ) ( ): At the request of Senator Rennick, I withdraw general business notice of motion No. 305.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Higher Education: Practical Placements (3 speeches)
A letter has been received from Senator Tyrell: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion: Students...
- First Speech (0 speeches)
- Kovacic, Senator Maria (2 speeches)
In accordance with the resolution agreed to earlier today, I call Senator Kovacic to make her first speech. I ask, senators, that the usual courtesies be extended to her.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Higher Education: Practical Placements (6 speeches)
I would like to thank Senator Tyrrell for raising this issue, an issue that is deeply important in the context of the skills crisis that we are facing in this country, particularly given that...
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Energy (24 speeches)
The President has received the following letter from Senator McDonald: That, in the opinion of the Senate, the following is a matter of urgency: The failure of the Albanese Government to secure...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Legislation Committees; Report (1 speech)
Pursuant to order and at the request of the chairs of the respective legislation committees, I present reports on the examination of annual reports.
- Community Affairs References Committee; Report (5 speeches)
I present the report of the Community Affairs References Committee on concussions and repeated head trauma in contact sports, together with accompanying documents, and I move: That the Senate...
- Education and Employment References Committee; Report (1 speech)
In respect of the Education and Employment References Committee report Potential impacts of the Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave scheme on small businesses and their employees, which was...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Tasmania: Cancer Care (1 speech)
At the last election the Albanese Labor government made a commitment to support ongoing cancer services at the W.P. Holman Clinic in Launceston. This was a great announcement, and I'm pleased...
- Gender and Sexual Orientation (9 speeches)
Australians were shocked to see our first female prime minister, Julia Gillard, dodging the question 'What is a woman?' when asked recently by a member of the Women's Rights Network Australia at...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Poverty is a political choice. It's a choice made every day by the government of this country when they choose to keep the rate of income support below the poverty line, and every day that they...
- Great Barrier Reef (1 speech)
September 7 marks National Threatened Species Day, a day that commemorates the death of the last Tasmanian tiger in 1936. Fortunately, our practices towards threatened species have changed...
- Australian Defence Force: Disaster Management (1 speech)
I'm currently hosting an ADF member from the Royal Australian Air Force in Williamtown, New South Wales. Leading Aircraftwoman Milliscent Cox, or Milli, as we affectionately know her, is with the...
- Sex Industry (1 speech)
The Summary Offences (Prostitution Law Reform) Amendment Bill 2023, introduced by my friend and colleague the Hon. Nicola Centofanti MLC in the South Australian state parliament last week, seeks...
- Government Accountability (1 speech)
Every member of parliament gets the toughest job interview there is. Those people up there—the press, the journalists—put a microscope on our lives. They go through everything we've...
- Economy (1 speech)
Yesterday the government finally shed light on its Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill, or, more aptly, it should be called the 'closing down Australian business' bill. The...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
On 14 October I will be voting yes in the referendum to enshrine a First Nations Voice in our Constitution. I'll be doing that because not only do I think it's the right thing to do but I think...
- Aviation Industry (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about a Labor government in crisis. A transport minister who spent 12 months failing to make decisions suddenly makes one in the national interest. It has been more than...
- Cost of Living, Minister for Defence, Premier of Queensland (3 speeches)
I spend my life travelling around Queensland as a proud LNP senator. Across these travels I speak to and listen to thousands of Queenslanders on the many issues that impact how they live their...
- Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (1 speech)
I speak tonight in the context of the disability royal commission. The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability is scheduled to make its final...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to a young Queenslander who I met recently, who is finishing grade 12 and who has just turned 18. Now, I would like to be able to state the young Queenslander's name. I...
- Covid-19 (1 speech)
As a servant to the many different people who make up our one Queensland community, tonight, on the fourth anniversary of COVID-19, I ask the Senate to consider the latest scientific discoveries....
