Senate debates
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
If there is no objection, the meetings are authorised.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Middle East Conflict: Protests (4 speeches)
At the request of Senator Waters, I seek leave to move a motion commending student protest encampments, as circulated. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice standing in the name of...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Senate Estimates (28 speeches)
I table the document Approaches to Senate Estimates Questions on Notice Asked of All Agencies. It's certainly no secret.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Discrimination (1 speech)
'Antisemitism is being expressed more openly than at any other time in my lifetime': a phrase reportedly uttered by Prime Minister Albanese while addressing the Labor caucus yesterday. No level...
- South Australia: Rural and Regional Health Services (1 speech)
One of the great privileges that I get in this job is to spend a lot of time in regional South Australia—a world-renowned tourist destination, a food bowl and a growing economic powerhouse....
- Environment (1 speech)
Two weeks ago, the bulldozers rolled into the ancient woodlands at Lee Point in the Northern Territory—the home of the endangered gouldian finch and the eastern curlew. These bulldozers...
- Grocery Prices (1 speech)
During the break in sitting down here, we produced a number of committee reports. It was great to work on the Senate Select Committee on Supermarket Prices with so many across the chamber,...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
Our country is hurting. We have a deadly crisis on our hands, and it is a crisis that is seeing women's lives cut short, often at the hands of men that they know. There has been a lot of...
- Communications Legislation Amendment (Prominence and Anti-siphoning) Bill 2023 (1 speech)
The Australian government has brought new laws before parliament that aim to keep sport free for all Australians to watch—except, let me be honest with you here: they do not do that. You...
- Beef2024, Rockhampton: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I want to take a moment to congratulate the team at Beef Australia who successfully put on a fantastic Beef2024—'beef week', so to speak—in Rockhampton last week. It was a very...
- Kimberley Blak Pride Festival (1 speech)
I rise today to celebrate the success of the inaugural Kimberley Blak Pride festival, held on the lands of the Djukan and Yawuru people in Broome, Western Australia. It took place from 26 April...
- Oil and Gas Exploration (1 speech)
This is a message to all those Australians out there—my tribe, surfers; divers; ocean lovers; communities right around the coastline of this big country—who've fought and rallied...
- Homelessness (1 speech)
How can we tackle homelessness when crucial developments are being knocked back? I was horrified last week when Hobart City Council voted against a development for social housing in North Hobart....
- Orthodox Easter (1 speech)
On 4 May I attended a Greek Orthodox service at the invitation of Archbishop Makarios, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia, and the president of the Kogarah parish, Nick Varvaris,...
- Personal Information and Privacy (1 speech)
Last weekend across every capital city, as well as in Cairns and Mackay in my home state of Queensland, thousands of Australians came out to protest this Labor government's Digital ID Bill and...
- Violence against Women (1 speech)
Violence against women is a national emergency, and this government, in the budget tonight, should fund it as such. As I've done for years now I'm going to read the names of women killed by...
- Space Industry (1 speech)
In all our Defence white papers, from the 2020 DSU through to last year's DSR and this year's NDS, it has been made clear to the Australian public that space is a new domain alongside air, land,...
- Ukraine (2 speeches)
It's now over two years since Russia began its illegal, full-scale invasion of Ukraine. While the media attention in Australia has waned in favour of more recent world events, the violence, the...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
by leave—I advise of changes to ministerial arrangements. The Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher, will obviously be absent from question time today on account of commitments relating...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- International Relations: Australia and China (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Wong. Media reporting on 7 May revealed that on 4 May a Chinese military jet intercepted and deployed flares in front of an Australian...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Australian Political Exchange Council: New Zealand (3 speeches)
I draw to the attention of honourable senators the presence in the gallery of the Australian Political Exchange Council's 15th delegation from New Zealand. On behalf of all senators, I wish you a...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. While I know we have to wait until later today for the budget detail, I've heard the Treasurer talk about how...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Australian Political Exchange Council: New Zealand (1 speech)
I now draw to the attention of honourable senators the presence in the gallery of the real Australian Political Exchange Council's 15th delegation from New Zealand, and I apologise because I...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Live Animal Exports (20 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Watt. The National Farmers Federation has warned that the government shutdown of live sheep exports legitimises...
- Domestic and Family Violence (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Women today, who I believe is Senator Wong. At least 28 women have been killed by violence this year, almost twice as many as at this...
- Higher Education (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Education, Senator Watt. The Albanese government has stated that tonight's budget is about providing cost-of-living relief without...
- Housing (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Housing, Senator Farrell. Minister, the government has said that housing will be one of the centrepieces of the budget, with regard to...
- Export Finance Australia (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade and Tourism, Minister Farrell. Given that the role of Export Finance Australia is to support Australian exports, can the minister inform the Senate of how...
- Communications Legislation Amendment (Prominence and Anti-siphoning) Bill 2023 (10 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Communications. Watching free sport on our TV is part of the Australian way of life. Whether it's the footy, the cricket or watching...
- Manufacturing Industry (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Industry and Science, Senator Farrell. I refer to the Albanese Labor government's recent announcements about our plan to rebuild...
- Members of Parliament: Staff (20 speeches)
My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Wong. Minister, the following are your words from 2021, directed at the coalition government: 'A serious crime was covered...
- Women's Economic Security (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Women, Senator Wong. The Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the Minister for Finance—who is helpfully also the Minister for...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Export Finance Australia (1 speech)
I have an update on the question that Senator Van asked me. Since December 2023, EFA has provided $396.1 million in finance to the defence sector since the release of the Defence Export Strategy....
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- International Relations: Australia and China, Live Animal Exports (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Wong) and the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Senator Watt) to questions...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Minister for Women (Senator Wong) to a question without notice I asked today relating to violence against...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: That general business order of the day No. 66, Airline Passenger Protections (Pay on Delay) Bill 2024, be considered on Wednesday, 15 May 2024 at the time for private senators' bills....
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Law Enforcement Joint Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
by leave—On behalf of the chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement, I move: That the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement be authorised to hold a private...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (3 speeches)
I seek leave to present a notice of motion.
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
On general business notice of motion No. 513, an order for the production of documents, the government has actually provided documents just recently, and so we won't be proceeding with this motion.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Schools (10 speeches)
A letter has been received from Senator Tyrrell: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion: The failure of...
- Budget (8 speeches)
The President has received a letter from Senator Dean Smith: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion:...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Accounts and Audit Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, I present a statement on the draft estimates for the Australian National Audit Office and the Parliamentary Budget Office for...
- Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Report (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the report. On behalf of One Nation, I thank the committee and the secretariat for their marvellous work during this inquiry into a COVID-19 royal commission,...
- Community Affairs References Committee, Electoral Matters Joint Committee, Environment and Communications Legislation Committee, Environment and Communications References Committee, Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee, Intelligence and Security Joint Committee, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, Political Influence of Donations Select Committee, Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee; Government Response to Report (1 speech)
I present 26 government responses as set out in the document available in the chamber and listed on the Dynamic Red, and I seek leave to have the documents incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted....
- Public Accounts and Audit Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the report. As Deputy Chair of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, I rise to speak on the draft budget statement for the ANAO and the PBO, which...
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee; Government Response to Report (3 speeches)
In respect of the government response to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade report Strengthening Australia's relationships in the Pacific, I move: That the Senate...
- Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Report (1 speech)
I'm going to do my best to be very quick, because I know other people want to contribute, so in the spirit of collegiality I'll try and be as quick as I can. I rise to take note of the report...
- Supermarket Prices Select Committee; Report (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the report. Coles and Woolworths have been making billions in profits by price gouging in a cost-of-living crisis. For far too long, the big supermarkets have...
- Economics References Committee; Report (3 speeches)
In respect of the interim report of the inquiry conducted by the Senate Economics References Committee into retirement outcomes, dealing particularly with existing and proposed superannuation for...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Australia's Disaster Resilience Select Committee, Community Affairs Legislation Committee, Community Affairs References Committee, Cost of Living Select Committee, Economics Legislation Committee, Economics References Committee, Education and Employment Legislation Committee, Education and Employment References Committee, Environment and Communications Legislation Committee, Environment and Communications References Committee, Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee, Finance and Public Administration References Committee, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee, Implementation of the National Redress Scheme — Joint Committee, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, Perth Mint and Commonwealth Regulatory Compliance Select Committee, Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee, Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee, Selection of Bills Committee; Membership (2 speeches)
The President has received letters requesting changes in the membership of committees.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Statement and Documents (1 speech)
I table the following documents: The Budget 2024-25—Statement by the Treasurer (Dr Chalmers), dated 14 May 2024. Budget papers— No. 1—Budget strategy and outlook. No....
- Proposed Expenditure (1 speech)
I table the following documents: Particulars of proposed expenditure in respect of the year ending on 30 June 2025. Particulars of certain proposed expenditure in respect of the year ending on 30...
- Portfolio Budget Statements (1 speech)
I table the portfolio budget statements for 2024-25 for the Department of the Senate, the Parliamentary Budget Office and the Department of Parliamentary Services.
- Portfolio Budget Statements, Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements (1 speech)
I table the portfolio budget statements for portfolios and executive departments in accordance with the list circulated in the chamber. The list read as follows— Estimates of proposed...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Women in Sport (1 speech)
I rise tonight to offer my congratulations to the Flying Bats Football Club, not for dominating amateur women's competition while fielding five male players, forcing female players to walk away...
- Dental Health (1 speech)
We know that there has been a lot of talk about cost-of-living pressures in this parliament. I speak tonight on the urgent need to give our communities the opportunity to free themselves of the...
- Media (1 speech)
Have you ever wondered why the government is so adamant about shielding you from online content, or why the media is always in total lock step? I've no doubt it's quite comforting to believe that...
- Budget (1 speech)
Today is my first budget day as a senator, and I note it is the third budget of the Albanese Labor government. It is the third budget of this government that has inflicted the cost-of-living...
- Migration Amendment (Removal and Other Measures) Bill 2024 (1 speech)
Over the weekend I spoke with representatives from the Home to Bilo campaign. They told me about the concerns that two women living in Biloela, which is in my home region of Central Queensland,...
- Walk for a Veteran with PTSD (1 speech)
I rise to advise the Senate and honourable senators that the 2024 Walk for a Veteran with PTSD will be held in Adelaide on 27 July. I am a proud patron of this charity where veterans, families...
- Holocaust Remembrance Day, Migration, Housing (1 speech)
I rise to speak on an event whose message and symbolism is more important—and more important particularly in 2024—than it has been for many, many years. On 5 May the world observed...
- Queensland: Community Events (2 speeches)
I was absolutely delighted to attend once again the Malayalee Association of Queensland's Sangamam festival, which was held to celebrate Easter, Vishu and Eid. I'd like to congratulate Sudha...
