Senate debates
Wednesday, 8 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.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Australian Constitution: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (2 speeches)
I take this opportunity in the Senate to reach out to the millions of Australians who supported the 'yes' vote for the referendum for a voice to the parliament to be enshrined in the...
- Services Australia (1 speech)
Centrelink's performance has become worse under Labor. Over the last fortnight at Senate estimates I have challenged the government about this, and I have been angered and disappointed at what I...
- Fitzroy Crossing: Floods (1 speech)
I've got a great story to tell, but before I do, a couple of days ago in here I referred to Senator Bridget McKenzie from the Victorian Nationals as the 'minister for rorts', and it's come to my...
- Economy (1 speech)
Australia faces a leadership crisis. We have a crisis amongst our leadership with their intellect and with their integrity and—most notably in regard to their integrity—with their...
- Australian Defence Force (1 speech)
Australians know that I talk a lot about cover-ups that go on in Defence and the Department of Veterans' Affairs, but there is another agency which, if it were doing its job properly, would have...
- Tourism Industry (1 speech)
I rise today to commend the work of the Albanese government in the realm of foreign affairs and trade. Many Australians all over the country have seen the images of the Prime Minister meeting...
- Meat Industry (1 speech)
The Australian meat industry is facing attacks on multiple fronts and most assertively from the plant protein lobby. From a quick glance at the websites of such companies as Food Frontier and...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
NDIS participants should be valued and respected as experts in their own experience and deserve to have their needs met under the very scheme that was designed to do just that. Healthcare...
- Aviation Industry (2 speeches)
It's clear we need more competition in Australia to drive down prices and improve protections for consumers, not just in aviation but right across the board, everything from groceries to banking...
- Housing (1 speech)
The biggest issue facing young Australians is housing. The Reserve Bank's decision to increase interest rates because of the Labor government's loose budget policy has meant that housing is going...
- Inter-Parliamentary Union: 146th Assembly (1 speech)
Apparently a few in the financial services industry expressed some disappointment over, and noted, my absence at the last budget estimates. While budget estimates are usually somewhere I would be...
- Gaza: Casualties (4 speeches)
This parliament is doing everything possible to avoid acknowledging the killing of thousands of civilians by Israel in Gaza. We will not let you forget. Your cowardice and shameful greenlighting...
- Queensland: Bushfires (1 speech)
While there has been some good news in Queensland, with positive rainfall over the past few days, over the last week we've witnessed some shocking bushfires across Queensland, including on the...
- Road Safety (1 speech)
Tomorrow is the national Road Worker Day of Remembrance, which strives to acknowledge road workers who have been killed or seriously injured at work. Road workers play an often unrecognised and...
- Queensland: Judicial System (1 speech)
What has happened to the presumption of innocence? This was the criticism levelled at the media by the Sofronoff inquiry for broadcasting Brittany Higgins's version of events for years before the...
- Queensland: Bushfires (1 speech)
It is one of life's cruel ironies and contrasts that fire can provide both life-saving comfort and unimaginable horror. The giver of warmth, light and energy is also a taker of all that we hold...
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (1 speech)
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, is a condition that can cause inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity. Young Australians are facing a crisis in accessing services to diagnose...
- Youth Voice in Parliament Week (1 speech)
This speech is part of the Raise Our Voice campaign where parliamentarians are asked to read speeches from our young people to ensure that their voices are heard in this place. My speech reads:...
- Digital Economy (1 speech)
Before I begin my excellent presentation, I want to say hello to the kids upstairs from King's College, Warrnambool. Hello, kids! I hope you're doing well. Today's Optus outrage should act as a...
- Universities (1 speech)
In the wake of another shocking interest rate rise, which shows the Albanese government has no plan to drive down inflation and address the cost-of-living crisis that so many Australians are...
- Maugean Skate (1 speech)
The fate of the endangered Maugean skate is being blamed on fish farming, but the science is incomplete. The environment minister thinks that reducing fish farming in Macquarie Harbour is the...
- Economy: Stage 3 Tax Cuts (2 speeches)
When I voted for the stage 3 tax cuts in exchange for getting Tassie's housing debt wiped, I said that if the economy was not travelling well in 2024 we would have to reconsider them; we would...
- Stephen, Cr Strange (1 speech)
Across our great country, Australians are very, very well served by the many, many people who put their hand up for local government. I want to honour one of those great Western Australian local...
- Telecommunications (1 speech)
I would like to provide an update to the chamber on the outage impacting customers using fixed-line mobile and broadband services over the Optus network today. It goes without saying that...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Conduct (61 speeches)
I seek leave to make a three-minute statement on chamber procedure. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice standing in my name, I move: That so much of standing and sessional orders be...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (37 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Farrell. Minister, how is the government lowering aggregate demand in the economy?
- Housing (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Housing and the Minister for Homelessness, Senator Farrell. The Albanese government is delivering on its wide-reaching housing agenda...
- Cost of Living (42 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. Minister, what does the Albanese Labor government define as mortgage stress?
- Domestic and Family Violence (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. The murders of five women in just 10 days are a tragic reminder that domestic, family and sexual violence remains a national...
- Infrastructure (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Senator Watt. The Albanese government was elected on the promise...
- Immigration (27 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, Senator Watt. With Labor embarking on the largest immigration program in...
- Tasmania: Aquaculture Industry (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment. Can the minister tell the Senate how many jobs depend on aquaculture on Tasmania's West Coast, and how many jobs...
- Mental Health (16 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Farrell. We're currently living through a mental healthcare crisis, with closed books and long...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister For Health, Senator Farrell. Minister, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme provides all Australians with access to affordable, essential...
- Aged Care (20 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Aged Care, Senator Farrell. It was reported this week that a further 16 residential aged-care facilities have been forced to close...
- Answers to Questions on Notice (0 speeches)
- Question No. 1917 (3 speeches)
Pursuant to standing order 74(5), I ask the Minister representing the Treasurer for an explanation as to why an answer has not been provided to question No. 1917 asked on 11 April—yes, 11...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked by Opposition senators today.. I've got to be honest: I really don't know where to start....
- Immigration (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs (Senator Watt) to a question without notice...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Prime Minister (Senator Farrell) to a question without notice I asked today relating to domestic and family...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Personal Explanation (1 speech)
I seek leave to make a short statement of one minute in response to remarks made by Senator Lambie prior to question time. Leave granted. I thank the Senate. Prior to question time, Senator...
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Reynolds for 8 November 2023 for parliamentary reasons. Question agreed to.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Treasury; Order for the Production of Documents (7 speeches)
I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Treasurer, by no later than midday on Monday, 27 November 2023: (a) any correspondence between the Victorian Treasurer and...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (22 speeches)
A letter has been received from Senator Hanson: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion: With the...
- Economy (11 speeches)
The Senate will now consider the proposal from Senator Dean Smith: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (2 speeches)
Senator Hanson, are you seeking the call?
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- E-Cigarettes and Vaping Products (1 speech)
Vaping is a scourge on our society. In my youth, tobacco smoking was much the same. So many teenagers took it up, being unaware of the health risks. They got addicted, due to the nicotine...
- Economy (1 speech)
Labor's ability to wreck an economy is well known, but it is very concerning to see that, in the pantheon of Labor's economic failure, the Albanese administration seems hell-bent on assuming...
- Early Childhood Education, Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
When I worked as a early childhood educator, I was heavily involved in union campaigns to see that educators' pay was commensurate with the demands of their profession. Decades later—in...
- Middle East (1 speech)
Hamas has murdered more than 1,400 civilians deliberately and in the most horrific ways imaginable, and yet they have found support in Australia. Their leadership has promised to carry out such...
