Senate debates
Tuesday, 28 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.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Conference with House of Representatives (28 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to a conference with the House of Representatives, as circulated. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice standing in my name, I move: That so much...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
It is rare that we look over the ditch to our friends in New Zealand and like to praise them! It's rare; we have a healthy level of competition with our New Zealand fellow citizens of this part...
- Leader of the Opposition (27 speeches)
The opposition leader is known to many Australians. He's the man who requires no introduction—you know who: he who shall not be named. His views over many years are on the public record. We...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
(): This month in Australia six women were murdered in just one week, five of them killed by men they knew. This is an epidemic, and we must do more as a nation and as a government to...
- Western Australia: Bushfires (1 speech)
Today, I rise to talk about the catastrophic bushfire that hit the Perth area of Wanneroo a little under a week ago. This bushfire was devastating in size and scope, and it resulted in the tragic...
- Capital Grants Program (1 speech)
Last week, I had the privilege of visiting the St Jakobi Lutheran School in Lyndoch, South Australia. It was wonderful to join the students, teachers and their broader community and see the new...
- Defence Personnel (1 speech)
During question time just a few weeks ago, I asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence why the defence minister was giving our diggers a pay cut for Christmas. I asked him why the...
- Barossa Gas Project (1 speech)
Yesterday, I was grateful to meet members of the Top End Aboriginal Coastal Alliance, who represent the Tiwi Islands, Arnhem Land and other areas across Northern Australia. It's concerning to...
- Health Care (1 speech)
This week, I was in Townsville. I was very pleased to be there to announce that the urgent care clinic in Townsville will be opening on 18 December. A provider has been found, and I was very...
- Middle East (1 speech)
Ceasefire now! The people of Gaza need more than a temporary truce, with the Israeli government flagging that they'll continue the war with full force after the truce, including moving into...
- Economy (1 speech)
Rent for a one-bedroom apartment now costs more than 75 per cent of the JobSeeker rate in every Australian capital city. As costs continue rising, the RBA continue increasing interest rates. As...
- Northern Territory: Gas Industry (1 speech)
I, too, draw attention to the presence in the public gallery of the Top End cultural alliance. Hello. Welcome. I see you; I hear you; so do my colleagues. I respect that you support gas projects...
- Immigration (1 speech)
The Albanese Labor government is placing the safety of Australians and the security of our nation at risk by giving temporary protection visas to more than 860 Palestinians. For almost 20 years,...
- Youth Voice in Parliament Week (2 speeches)
I'm here to raise the voice of 18-year-old Tasmanian Aisha Bissett. Aisha says this: To create a safe and prosperous future for Australians, those in power need to prioritise climate action....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Environmental Defenders Office (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, Senator Wong. Late last year, Minister Plibersek justified granting nearly $10 million of taxpayers' money...
- Immigration Detention (42 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Watt. I refer to the recent High Court rulings which determined that successive Liberal and National party...
- Schools (24 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Education, Minister Watt. Only 1.3 per cent of public schools in this country are fully funded, meaning teachers are burning out from...
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Wong. Can the minister update the Senate on the actions the Australian government is taking to uphold rules and norms in our region,...
- Nuclear Weapons (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Wong. In October, at the UN General Assembly First Committee, Australia abstained on a resolution on the humanitarian consequences of...
- Workplace Relations (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator Watt. Can the minister comment on the concerns raised by BHP in their submission regarding...
- Defence Industry (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. Last night I had the privilege to go and see the Australian Industry & Defence Network Sovereign Capability Showcase....
- Gender Equality (8 speeches)
My question this afternoon is for the Minister for Women, Senator Gallagher. Women's economic equality is central to achieving gender equality. Gender equality at work is an important aspect of...
- School Strike for Palestine: Protests (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Education, Senator Watt. Last week, many school students skipped class to attend School Strike for Palestine protests, which Jewish...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (11 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of all questions without notice asked by coalition senators today. What we saw in question time today, and have seen from the conduct of the government over many...
- Schools (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 I...
- Defence Industry (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of answers given by the Minister representing the Minister for Defence (Senator Wong) to questions without notice I asked today relating to Australian defence...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I give notice in general terms under standing order 76 of my intention to move a motion on the next day of sitting relating to the routine of business.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Reporting Date (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Hayden, Hon. William George (Bill), AC (7 speeches)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death on 21 October 2023 of the Hon. Bill Hayden AC, Governor-General from 1988 to 1996 and a former minister and member of the House of...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Joint Committee; Reference (1 speech)
I move general business notices of motion No. 1 and No. 2 together, and I table statements in relation to the works: GENERAL BUSINESS NOTICE OF MOTION NO. 1 That, in accordance with the...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Immigration Detention (12 speeches)
Senator Paterson has submitted a proposal under standing order 75 today. It is shown at item 13 on today's Order of Business. Is consideration of the proposal supported? More than the number of...
- Workplace Safety: Engineered Stone Industry (8 speeches)
The Senate will now consider the proposal from Senator McKim, which is also shown at item 13 on today's Order of Business. Is consideration of the proposal supported? More than the number of...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Albanese Government (3 speeches)
by leave—before I begin my adjournment contribution, I inform the chamber that I withdraw some comments I made earlier that were deemed unparliamentary under the standing orders earlier today.
- Doig, Brevet Sergeant Jason, Stevens, Mr Charles Hinchcliffe (1 speech)
On Friday 17 November, our home state of South Australia woke to the news that police officer Brevet Sergeant Jason Doig, after 34 years of service keeping our community safe, had died in the...
- Health Care: Multiple Sclerosis (1 speech)
It's very hard to follow that. Tonight I'm excited, though, to speak about the opening of the MS Plus Wellbeing Centre in Hobart earlier this year. As a Tasmanian senator and co-chair of the...
- Animals Australia (1 speech)
There are few in this place or the other place who you would sooner have in the political trenches at your side than my good very good friend and colleague Rick Wilson MP, the member for...
- World Health Organization (1 speech)
The people of the world are waking up to the World Health Organization. They are waking up to this unelected globalist body—an organisation seeking to accrue power at the expense of our...
- Tasmania: Health Care (1 speech)
Small GP clinics in rural and regional areas of Tassie are collapsing at a rapid pace. In the last few years, we've lost clinics at Brighton, Evandale, Westbury and East Devonport, and this year...
- Far North Queensland Pearls, Challenge of the Nations Netball Tournament, African Cup of Nations (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about three wonderful sporting events that occurred recently in my home state of Queensland. They were more than just sporting events; they were events that lifted up young...
- World Health Organization, COVID-19 (5 speeches)
As a servant to the many varied people who make up our one Queensland community, tonight I address continuing misinformation around the World Health Organization pandemic agreement and associated...
- Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Workplace Relations (11 speeches)
I know we're not allowed to use props in this place, so I won't, but here is my Christmas card for the coming year. And it's very important, because each year I use a country church from...
