Senate debates
Wednesday, 13 September 2023
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations: Qantas, Consultancy Services, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
Statements by senators is a prized opportunity for us to talk about things that matter to us and that have a significant impact on the nation. I think it would be remiss if I did not begin today...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I rise today to talk directly to the many hundreds of thousands of self-employed tradies right across Australia, particularly in my home state of Western Australia. When I say 'many hundreds of...
- Indigenous Australians (1 speech)
I want to talk about FISH Myalup Karla Waangkiny, a proposal for First Nations people in south-west WA to deliver justice and healing. The proposal is for a site in Myalup, which was a meeting...
- Workplace Relations: Qantas (3 speeches)
Today is a monumental day for the rights of working people in this country. It was truly special to be down at the High Court this morning with some of the Qantas workers who have been through...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
Domestic violence is insidious in Western Australia and is an absolute blight on our community. WA police statistics show the number of family related offences reported increased by almost 35 per...
- Services Australia (1 speech)
I want to speak today about the South Melbourne Centrelink office, which Services Australia have announced will close in October. This closure is going to have a major impact on so many residents...
- Small Business (2 speeches)
I rise to speak on boosting small-business productivity in Australia. According to the 2021 Intergenerational report, labour productivity has contributed more than 80 per cent of the growth in...
- Fitzroy Crossing: Floods (1 speech)
I rise on a brighter note than I did a few minutes ago. I want to talk about the fine work being done up in Fitzroy Crossing in God's country over in WA, the best state of the greatest country,...
- Australian Constitution: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
I am sure other senators and MPs in this place have been receiving correspondence in recent days from people furious that they have been spammed by Senator Nampijinpa Price, from the...
- Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
GG () (): Financial advice is now virtually unaffordable in Australia. The average piece of financial advice costs $5,000. That is largely a result of enormous regulatory costs which have been...
- Workplace Relations: Qantas (1 speech)
Today's unanimous decision by the High Court was a victory for 1,700 workers. Three court judgements have now found it was illegal. I congratulate the workers on their hard-fought campaign...
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
I rise to respond to Marcia Langton's dismissal of the no voters as racist and stupid. It has been further revealed that, at an event in Brisbane in July this year, she accused no voters of...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
The Labor government's industrial relations agenda is killing small business. At every turn of government policy, the Labor Party are hitting small business with blow after blow, just to appease...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
I just want to put on the record, after some of the comments that have been said earlier this afternoon and this morning, that I would encourage Australians out there to look through the vitriol...
- Human Rights: Iran (1 speech)
We are marking one year since the tragic death of 'Jina' Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody after being arrested and beaten by Iran's morality police. Her horrific death sparked a mass...
- Djokovic, Mr Novak (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate Novak Djokovic on winning the US Open at the weekend to equal Margaret Court's record 24 grand slam victories. His 24 grand slam titles are especially commendable given he...
- Canning Vale: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to once again highlight the urgent need for the Nicholson Road and Garden Street intersection project in Canning Vale to go ahead. Those who are familiar with this area...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
This week a deceptive letter pretending to be from the First Peoples Assembly of Victoria was distributed to a town in north-west Victoria not far from my home town of Swan Hill. I felt sick...
- Homelessness (1 speech)
Today the Senate finally passed the package of bills that set up the Housing Australia Future Fund. This is great news, but it is only the start. Tonight one in two Australian children seeking...
- Human Rights: China (1 speech)
Individual liberty is a fundamental principle that unites us all, and it is what, in liberal democracies, we fight and die for. We must never, ever allow the deprivation of the liberty of any...
- Parliamentary Workplace Support Service (1 speech)
Everyone deserves to be safe in their workplace, and Parliament House is no exception to that. It should be the benchmark, a place that girls and women can look to and believe that they belong....
- New South Wales: Energy (2 speeches)
Recently I got to travel around western New South Wales and I dropped in at Dunedoo, where I ran into the Hackney family. The Hackney family are a longstanding farming family out there just on...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Voice (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Minister, over the last few days we've seen widespread media reports that Marcia Langton, who is leading the 'yes'...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. It is just over one month before Australians head to the polls to vote on the referendum on a Voice to Parliament....
- Special Purpose Flights (8 speeches)
My question is to the Special Minister of State, Senator Farrell. Has the Albanese Labor government finalised new guidelines for the use of special-purpose aircraft? In what year were the...
- Sexual and Reproductive Health (8 speeches)
My question is to Minister Gallagher, representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care. The Senate inquiry report on universal access to reproductive health care made 36 recommendations to...
- Workplace Relations: Qantas (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator Watt. In the middle of the pandemic, Qantas sacked 1,700 of their ground crew workers and...
- Taxation (23 speeches)
My question is to Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. The Productivity Commission's role is to help governments make better policy in the long term for the Australian...
- Aviation Industry (27 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Senator Watt. I refer the minister to comments made last week by...
- Fuel (17 speeches)
POCOCK () (): My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Minister Watt. The price of petrol most...
- Housing Australia Future Fund (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Housing and Homelessness, Senator Farrell. Earlier today, the Senate passed the Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 and sent the...
- Illicit Drugs (17 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Watt. From 28 October 2023 the ACT will decriminalise the possession of small amounts of the most commonly used...
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Valedictory (4 speeches)
by leave—Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend Senator Payne's valedictory this afternoon as I'll be travelling to the Pacific Island Forum Foreign Ministers Meeting. When I said this to...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, Special Purpose Flights, Aviation Industry (7 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked today by Senator Cash, Senator McGrath and Senator Cadell relating to the Aboriginal and...
- Taxation (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 taxation. Today in the chamber I...
- Sexual and Reproductive Health (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 reproductive health care. My question...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I give notice that on the next day of sitting, I shall move that the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (8) of standing order 111 not apply to the Social Security Amendment (Australian Government...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators: Senator Hughes for the period from Monday, 11 September to Thursday, 14 September inclusive, for personal...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator. We will now proceed to formal business.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (3 speeches)
I seek leave to amend government business notice of motion No. 1. Leave granted. I amend the motion by omitting 'for a period of up to 90 minutes'. The full text of the revised motion has been...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Nuclear Energy (13 speeches)
I inform the Senate that I have received the following letter, dated 13 September, from Senator Babet: Pursuant to standing order 75, the United Australia Party propose to move that, in the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (7 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: Mr Albanese...
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Valedictory (28 speeches)
Well, this came around quickly! On a beautiful Sydney day on 22 July, I joined members of the US Navy, the Royal Australian Navy, senior members of the Australian Defence Force and the Defence...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
Last Sunday, I attended the launch of the Yes23 campaign for the Franklin electorate at Kangaroo Bay. Addressing the launch were the member for Franklin, Julie Collins; Senator McKim; and Palawa...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
The Albanese government made a political calculation that dividing Australia through the Voice referendum would work in their favour. That was confirmed by the Sydney Morning Herald report today...
- Aviation Industry (1 speech)
There are some events in life that make people reflect on where they were when it happened. I think of the assassination of JFK, the dismissal of the Whitlam government and the closure of...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
I rise, as I have before in this place, to speak of an issue of enormous importance to the agricultural communities and regional areas of WA, and therefore of great importance to our entire...
