Senate debates

Monday, 6 November 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.
  • Documents (0 speeches)
  • Bills (0 speeches)
  • Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
    • Economy (1 speech)
      I return to this place from my home state of Western Australia having spent many, many hours out in the community, at the recent Diwali festival at Langley Park, talking to businesses in rural...
    • Daylesford: Motor Vehicle Crash (1 speech)
      Many in the chamber will have heard about yesterday's tragedy at the Daylesford Royal Hotel. I'd like to join the Prime Minister, local member Catherine King and all who have expressed their...
    • Israel (1 speech)
      I stand here today alongside the millions of Australians and the hundreds of millions of people around the world calling for a ceasefire. I want to reiterate the condemnation of the war crimes of...
    • Health Care (2 speeches)
      Over the past 18 months, the Albanese Labor government has continually labelled the crisis engulfing primary health care as everybody else's problem. It was the responsibility first of the former...
    • Senate Estimates (1 speech)
      As a servant to the many different people who make up our one Queensland community, in my criticism of this and previous governments I often use the word 'accountability'. Here's why. When I was...
    • Myanmar (1 speech)
      Several years ago, long before I was elected to this place, I had the wonderful opportunity to visit Myanmar for the launch of Walk Free, a movement to eliminate modern slavery. Myanmar is a...
    • Queensland: Bushfires (1 speech)
      Bushfires don't discriminate. They wreak havoc in regional and rural communities, taking livestock and razing homes, and in tragic circumstances they can even take people's lives. These...
    • Voting Age (1 speech)
      Last week my office had the privilege of hosting year 10 student Audrey for work experience, and I would like to share her words on an issue that she is passionate about. When I was kid and I was...
    • Healthy Masculinity (1 speech)
      The Labor government recently announced $3.5 million in funding for what it calls the 'healthy masculinities project'. It is to help teenage boys to be the right kind of masculine, a bit of a soy...
    • Jeffriess, Mr Brian, AM (1 speech)
      I'll change gear a little bit. I'd like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to a hero of the seafood industry in the state of South Australia by the name of Brian Jeffriess AM. He is retiring...
    • Northern Tasmania: Liberal Party (1 speech)
      At home, we've all seen the news: the member for Braddon in the other place wants the member for Bass out of the party. Allegedly, the member for Braddon issued an ultimatum to the Tasmanian...
    • Gambling Advertising (1 speech)
      According to the newspapers, the Minister for Communications will be announcing reforms to gambling advertising soon. Important to remember is what we're trying to fix here. On a per capita...
    • Human Trafficking (1 speech)
      As an Australian parliamentary representative to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, last month I had the honour of attending its 147th assembly in Angola. While there was a lot of global turmoil...
    • Australia: Bushfires (2 speeches)
      For months now, the government has been preparing for a difficult bushfire season. All around us, we can see it has now arrived. On Saturday, Queensland Fire and Emergency Services confirmed the...
  • Ministry (0 speeches)
    • Temporary Arrangements (5 speeches)
      I inform the Senate that Senator Wong will be absent from question time from Monday to Wednesday this week on account of ministerial business overseas. Senator Gallagher will be absent from...
  • Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
    • Economy (26 speeches)
      My question is to the minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Farrell. With core inflation still almost twice the top of the RBA's band, what is the change in real wage—and I emphasise...
    • Israel (8 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Watt. Minister, can you update the Senate on the situation in the Middle East and how Australia is responding...
    • Ideologically Motivated Extremism (18 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. Media reporting over the weekend has revealed that an Islamic preacher in Sydney delivered a radical sermon that...
    • Israel (10 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. The State of Israel is carpet-bombing Gaza, targeting civilians and committing war crimes for the world to see. So far, Israel has...
    • Trade with China (13 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister for Trade and Tourism, Senator Farrell. Over the last 18 months, the Albanese Labor government has been hard at work repairing our international relationships and...
    • Housing Supply (14 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Watt. Australia has 300,000 hotel rooms and 140,000 Airbnbs. These are, of course, turned over many times. There...
    • Queensland: Infrastructure (9 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Today is day 190 of the 90-day review—making it 100 days overdue—that the minister for infrastructure told us would be...
    • Cost of Living (10 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Farrell. The Albanese government recognises that many Australians are doing it tough, feeling the pinch of rising costs as a...
    • Defence Procurement (25 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. Can the minister guarantee that all nine of the scheduled Hunter class frigates, or any variation to them, will be...
    • Queensland: Bushfires (8 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister for Emergency Management, Senator Watt. Minister, for the past few weeks I, like many Australians, have been monitoring the increasing fire activity across...
    • Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (10 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister presenting the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. Should the Chinese government's attempted coercive trade sanctions against Australia be considered a reason not to...
  • Documents (0 speeches)
  • Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
    • Cost of Living, Defence Procurement (8 speeches)
      I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked today. The medical community talk about a condition known as the illusory truth effect. In...
    • Housing Supply (1 speech)
      I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Minister for Emergency Management, Senator Watt, to a question without notice...
    • Israel (1 speech)
      I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Trade and Tourism (Senator Farrell) to a question without notice asked by Senator Faruqi today relating to Israel. All...
  • Notices (0 speeches)
    • Presentation (1 speech)
      I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I shall move: That the provisions 5 to 8 of standing order 111 not apply to the Federal Court Legislation Amendment (Judicial Immunity) Bill 2023,...
  • Business (0 speeches)
    • Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
      I move: That general business order of the day No 55 Competition and Consumer Amendment (Continuing ACCC Monitoring of Domestic Airline Competition) Bill 2023 be considered on Wednesday 8...
    • Leave of Absence (2 speeches)
      I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators: (a) Senator Gallagher from 6 to 8 November 2023, for personal reasons; (b) Senator Wong from 6 to 8 November 2023, on account...
  • Committees (0 speeches)
    • Reporting Date (1 speech)
      Thank you, Clerk. I remind senators that the question may be put on any of those proposals at the request of any senator. There being none, we will move on.
  • Business (0 speeches)
    • Consideration of Legislation (8 speeches)
      I move: That further consideration of the Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023 be made an order of the day for the next day of sitting after the Chair of the Murray-Darling Basin...
  • Bills (0 speeches)
  • Motions (0 speeches)
    • Aviation Industry (1 speech)
      We now come to a deferred vote. I remind senators that, after 4.30 pm on Thursday 19 October 2023, a division was called on the motion moved by Senator McKenzie relating to the Albanese...
  • Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
    • Defence Personnel (8 speeches)
      A letter has been received from Senator Lambie: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion: The recruitment...
    • Infrastructure (30 speeches)
      The Senate will now consider the proposal from Senator McKenzie, which is also shown at item 15 on today's Order of Business. Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of...
  • Documents (0 speeches)
  • Bills (0 speeches)
  • Committees (0 speeches)
    • Community Affairs References Committee; Reference (5 speeches)
      I move: That the following matter be referred to the Community Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by 10 September 2024: Issues related to menopause and perimenopause, with...
    • Community Affairs References Committee; Report (3 speeches)
      by leave—I present the report of the Community Affairs References Committee's inquiry into assessment and support services for people with ADHD together with accompanying documents and I...
  • Bills (0 speeches)
  • Adjournment (0 speeches)
    • Cost of Living (1 speech)
      Senator Scarr, I'm sure you're very good with your procedure, and I'm glad that you corrected the record. That's always helpful for a procedural debate of this kind in the Senate. But tonight I...

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