Senate debates
Tuesday, 17 October 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)
- Spinal Cord Injuries (1 speech)
Today, approximately 20,800 Australians live with serious spinal cord injuries, often the result of very traumatic accidents. These injuries have a devastating impact on the quality of life and...
- National Bird Week, Environment (1 speech)
Today is one of the days in National Bird Week. If you've got 20 minutes to spend in your backyard or your favourite place, BirdLife Australia would be delighted to hear a list of the birds you...
- Centrelink (1 speech)
On 11 August, Services Australia announced they would be closing the South Melbourne Centrelink office, with no plans to open a new office anywhere in the local area. The timing of this closure...
- Australian Constitution: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
On Saturday just gone, Saturday 14 October, Australians rejected Labor's idea to enshrine a legislated Voice to Parliament in our Constitution. They rejected the proposal because, when they...
- Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month (1 speech)
October is officially recognised as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. This is an important time to come together in recognition of women and their families across our community who have...
- Royal Commission Into Defence And Veteran Suicide (2 speeches)
I did an interview last week with an ABC journalist who wanted to know if I was shocked that Defence wasn't handing over documents and reports to the royal commission into veteran suicide. I wish...
- Israel (2 speeches)
As this government stood together as one, decrying the atrocities conducted by the terrorists known as Hamas, as we took a stand in solidarity with Israel, a nation we have a long history with,...
- Harmsen, Dr Collette Joan (1 speech)
Last weekend I joined Bob Brown and many other supporters to give Dr Colette Harmsen a hero's welcome out of prison. Collette was sentenced to three months imprisonment for her part in peaceful...
- Armstrong, Mr Lance John Edward (1 speech)
WHISH-WILSON () (): Lance Armstrong passed away peacefully in his sleep in a Melbourne nursing home on 14 October 2023. He was 83 years of age. He was born in Perth Western Australia on 17...
- Sri Lanka Day Multicultural Food and Cultural Festival (1 speech)
I must say what a terrific title for a book! That's pretty terrific. I rise to tell a good news story, and that is in relation to the Sri Lanka Day Multicultural Food and Cultural Festival 2023...
- Australian Constitution (3 speeches)
Whatever may be said about the Voice to Parliament referendum, one thing is clear: the 'no' campaign may have won, but the real winners were equality and Australian democracy. This referendum...
- Nuclear Weapons (1 speech)
The fifteenth of October marked 70 years since the first mainland nuclear testing conducted in Australia. Emu Field in South Australia was the site of Operation Totem, a pair of nuclear tests...
- Israel (1 speech)
I rise again to continue my remarks from yesterday condemning the heinous attacks on Israelis by Hamas. Make no mistake: we saw last Saturday some of the most heinous crimes conducted against...
- Road Vehicle Standards (4 speeches)
It's take 2 on my endeavours to let the Senate know about the wonderful announcement I made a few weeks ago at the Kenworth truck yard in Bayswater.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- First Nations Australians (8 speeches)
My question today is to the Minister representing the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Gallagher. Minister, more than $4 billion goes to the National Indigenous Australians Agency....
- Employment (8 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Finance and the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Last month the Albanese Labor government delivered on its commitment to release the...
- Cost of Living (25 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Minister, you and your colleagues continue to justify Mr Albanese's disastrous and divisive referendum by saying it...
- Pensions and Benefits (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister Watt. This week is Anti-Poverty Week, a week to raise awareness and take action to...
- Vocational Education And Training (11 speeches)
My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Skills and Training, Senator Watt. After the May 2022 election, not only was it clear that the Albanese government inherited $1...
- Australian Institute of Sport (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Sport, Senator Gallagher. Will the government immediately rule out relocating the Australian Institute of Sport away from the ACT...
- Defence Procurement (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, Minister Wong. My question is regarding Land 400 Phase 3 bravo. I think congratulations are deserved on choosing Hanwha's...
- Defence Personnel (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, Senator Wong. Just yesterday the Chief of the Defence Force, General Angus Campbell, announced an increase in Australian...
- Israel (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Wong. Following the abhorrent attacks by Hamas on Israel, can the minister update the Senate on the Albanese government's efforts to...
- Fuel (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Just prior to the election, the now Prime Minister posted a photograph of unleaded petrol advertised in Canberra at...
- Tasmania: Salmon Industry (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade and Tourism, Senator Farrell. I refer to the minister's recent visit to the great state of Tasmania, where he met with representatives of the salmon...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Fuel (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Wong), to a question without notice asked by Senator Colbeck today relating to fuel. The Voice...
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Senator Watt) to a question without notice I asked today relating to poverty. This...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
Pursuant to notice of intention given yesterday, on behalf of Senator Thorpe, I withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 1 standing in her name for today proposing the disallowance of...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Dodson from 16 to 19 October 2023, for personal reasons.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Nehl, Mr Garry Owen Barr, AM (1 speech)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death of Garry Owen Barr Nehl AM, a former member of the House of Representatives for the division of Cowper, New South Wales, from 1984 to 2001.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
I withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 312 standing in the name of Senator Bragg.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Bushfires (8 speeches)
Senator David Pocock has submitted a 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, the...
- First Nations Australians (41 speeches)
The Senate will now consider the proposal from Senator Nampijinpa Price: Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today I propose to move "That, in the opinion of the Senate, the...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Truro Bypass (1 speech)
by leave—I table a fantastic non-conforming petition wanting investment in the Truro bypass, signed by over 1,200 South Australians. It was previously circulated and agreed by the whips.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Administrative Appeals Tribunal (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I rise to take note of the annual report of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal for the year ending 30 June 2023. We know that the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Israel (23 speeches)
I also rise to contribute to the motion on the Hamas attacks on Israel and the ongoing conflict. Like so many, I condemn the unprovoked and abhorrent attack on Israel by Hamas. It is without a...
