Senate debates
Tuesday, 7 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.
- Statement by the President (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Labor went to the last election promising to put the care back into aged care. Instead, we're seeing the exact opposite, with the government turning a blind eye as providers struggle to keep...
- Education (1 speech)
Over the next two weeks, over 12,000 South Australian students will sit their SACE exams—their final exams after a long career in the school system. I want to acknowledge that this is a...
- Violence Against Women (1 speech)
The murders of five women in just 10 days last month must increase the urgency of governments and communities to tackle men's violence against women and their children. Seven...
- Members of Parliament: Staff (1 speech)
I rise to speak about an appalling line of questions that was asked in the Senate Community Affairs Committee earlier today in relation to the former staff of my good friend Senator Reynolds. I'm...
- Melbourne Cup (1 speech)
Today I want to highlight the immense significance of the 2023 Melbourne Cup carnival, an event that goes far beyond the exhilarating races and extravagant fashion. The race that stops the nation...
- Tasmania: Foreign Investment (1 speech)
The Prime Minister is back from China. Apparently, there were warm handshakes all around, but the PM is saying that the meeting wasn't transactional, which I guess means that we didn't promise...
- Great Barrier Reef Arena (1 speech)
Recently, I had the privilege to visit the newly upgraded Great Barrier Reef Arena in Mackay with the member for Dawson, Mr Andrew Willcox. The former coalition government invested $10 million to...
- Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (1 speech)
After a child is diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, Australian families and these children find themselves in a world of unknowns, unsure about what will happen next or how to best...
- Palestine: Gaza (5 speeches)
On 18 October, as the State of Israel was raining bombs down on Gaza, as civilians perished and hospitals lay in ruins, the Labor and Liberal parties passed a motion through this place that said...
- Community Services (1 speech)
Almost a fortnight ago, I sat down with a roomful of Canberra's heroes—frontline service providers here in the ACT delivering desperately needed services to some of the most vulnerable in...
- Politics (1 speech)
I rise today to make a speech on behalf of Sophia Huckel from the Blue Mountains Grammar School. Sophia spent a week during the last sitting period as a work experience student in my office and,...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I rise to urge the Albanese Labor government to get a move on with reining in the out-of-control National Disability Insurance Scheme. Since announcing a reboot of the NDIS, this government has...
- Aviation Industry: People with Disability (1 speech)
Broken wheelchairs, the ignoring of instructions and disabled people being bumped off flights—the list of injustices suffered by disabled people at the hands of Australia's airlines goes on...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
It's Melbourne Cup day today, and normally most Australians would be looking forward to three o'clock—having a bit of a punt, a chicken sandwich and a glass of bubbles as they await the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (28 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Farrell. The two budgets of the Albanese Labor government have committed an additional $188 billion in spending, with economists...
- Trade with China (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade and Tourism, Senator Farrell. Stabilising our relationship with China is vitally important for Australia and important for Australian exporting businesses...
- Murray-Darling Basin Plan (38 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, Senator Watt. Minister, in his second reading speech to the House on the Water Amendment (Water for the...
- Trade: Department of Defence (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. Over recent years Australians have been watching in increasing horror as reports of war crimes and human rights abuses take...
- Renewable Energy (13 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Senator Watt. Given the opposition are opposed to building the renewable energy that our country needs...
- Energy (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Minister Farrell: Last week, the Treasurer delivered a keynote speech where he acknowledged: … without more decisive action across...
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Finance, Minister Farrell. A recent statement by the IMF, the International Monetary Fund, stated that the Australian government...
- Defence Personnel (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence.
- Medicare (17 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Farrell. Last week the Albanese government tripled the incentives that general practitioners receive to...
- Interest Rates (25 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Farrell. How much more per month will a family with a $750,000 mortgage have to pay as a result of today's interest rate increase?
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Budget, Interest Rates (15 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Trade and Tourism (Senator Farrell) to questions without notice asked by Senator Scarr and Senator Hume today relating...
- Trade: Department of Defence (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Minister for Defence to a question without notice I asked today relating to weapons exports. Few people know...
- Defence Personnel (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Minister for Defence to a question without notice I asked today relating to ADF pay cuts. During question...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I remind senators that a question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (4 speeches)
I move: That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (8) of standing order 111 not apply to the Federal Courts Legislation Amendment (Judicial Immunity) Bill 2023, allowing it to be considered during...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Israel (12 speeches)
I inform the Senate that the President has received the following letter, dated 7 November 2023, from Senator McKim: Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today the Australian Greens...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Economy (28 speeches)
A letter has been received from Senator Hume: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion: Pursuant to...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
by leave—at the request of Senator Canavan, I table two non-conforming petitions relating to bank closures in Western Australia, including at Waroona, received by the Rural and Regional...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Israel (1 speech)
I rise this evening to put on the record some remarks in relation to the very sad conflict in the Middle East and some of the effects it is having on our community in Australia and most...
- Tasmania State Emergency Service (1 speech)
In the inherent chaos of an emergency, there is one constant, reassuring presence that we can all rely on: the state emergency services. The volunteers who give up their time to respond to...
- Women's Economic Security (1 speech)
Today marks one year since Senator Cash declared that the government's secure jobs, better pay legislation would close down Australia. It's been 12 months, and I'm proud to say that Australia is...
- Medicare (1 speech)
One of the good things to come out of COVID was telehealth. Telehealth has been a game changer for Tasmanians. You used to hear stories about people driving hours to get an appointment, meaning...
- Trade Unions (1 speech)
In the words of our national anthem: We've golden soil and wealth for toil, Our home is girt by sea. Australia by geographical favour is an island nation and is naturally positioned to be a great...
- Economy (1 speech)
I rise to speak to the millions of Australians who have been hit with yet another interest rate rise today—No. 12 since Labor was elected. If you have a $750,000 mortgage, you're now paying...
- Western Australia: Arts (1 speech)
In my community of Boorloo Perth there is an arts scene that has given Australia some of the most exciting artists of the last few decades. Just north of the CBD is the Pickle District, a...
- Amagula, Mr T (1 speech)
In our First Nations acknowledgement of country, we often hear reference to emerging leaders. Last week, people came together across the Groote Eylandt archipelago and the Northern Territory to...
- Tasmanian Community Fund (1 speech)
Money is in short supply, and that is no more the case anywhere than with taxpayers' money, which is a finite resource, and I think we have to respect that. Much of the debate in this place and...
- Superannuation: Taxation (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak on an issue that, perhaps, has gone off the radar a little over the last few months. We've had the debate over the Voice, and we've had the debate in Western Australia,...
- Ipswich: Waste Management (1 speech)
Before I commence my remarks in relation to my chosen subject, I would like to compliment Senator Brockman for the contribution he's just made. It is common sense that we should not be taxing...
- Medicinal Cannabis, Renewable Energy (1 speech)
As a servant to the many different people in our one Queensland community, I was pleased to accept an invitation from Isaac Balbin, founder of cannabis.org.au, to attend last Thursday's national...
- Diwali (4 speeches)
I just want to celebrate Western Australia's Indian community—
