Senate debates
Tuesday, 2 July 2024
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
If there is no objection, the meetings are authorised.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (22 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to the routine of business for today.
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Renewable Energy, Great Barrier Reef (1 speech)
Billions of dollars going into wind farms over several years has been unable to prevent a drought in wind power generation this quarter that has surprised the market. Electricity generation from...
- Women's Economic Security (1 speech)
The child support payment has become a tool of violence used to economically abuse women. According to a survey that Swinburne University of Technology conducted last year, eight in 10 women have...
- Labor Government (1 speech)
Labor is bad for the bush and bad for WA. I'm going to go through the list, and it just keeps getting longer. We can go back to the Aboriginal Heritage Act, an absolute shemozzle and absolute...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Labor has always been the only party for working people, and we are delivering record pay rises for every Australian worker. Since Labor was elected we've delivered minimum wage increases of $143...
- Tasmania: Youth Services (1 speech)
I feel for young people growing up in today's world. It's really tough. According to the Productivity Commission, young people are much worse off than their parents were before them. They are...
- Corporate Governance: E-Conveyancing (1 speech)
Last week we saw an inflation figure with a four in front of it. It was four per cent in Australia. Part of that is due to excessive government spending—expansionary state and federal...
- Taxation (3 speeches)
Tax cuts, cheaper medicines, higher wages, energy bill relief, lower student debt—these are just some of the supports that are on the way to the Australian people.
- Middle East (1 speech)
I rise today to send a message to the Labor Party from Feras Shaheen, who is co-president of the Tasmanian Palestine Advocacy Network and a Palestinian-Australian desperately trying to bring his...
- Early Childhood Education (1 speech)
Today in Parliament House up in the glass gallery we have educators, parents, grandparents and more than 40 very small children who've come to ask for our support. They've asked for our support...
- War Memorials (1 speech)
Over the weekend the Australian War Memorial was desecrated. It was vandalised with political graffiti. Yesterday, Senator Jacqui Lambie moved a motion condemning the act of defacing war...
- International Relations: Australia and Papua New Guinea (1 speech)
Rugby league fans in Queensland and New South Wales are having a hard time understanding why the Albanese government has given $600 million of Australian taxpayers' money to Papua New Guinea for...
- Health Care (2 speeches)
The Greens are joining with the chorus of community members who want to see pathology tests continue to be bulk-billed. Right now, 99.6 per cent of all pathology tests in Australia are...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (17 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Minister, what changes have been made to the budget rules since the budget?
- Paid Parental Leave (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Women, Senator Gallagher. Government funded paid parental leave is a vital support for many new parents in Australia. It is a proud...
- Interest Rates (22 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. What is the current rate of mortgage stress in Australia?
- International Students (26 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. Minister, your government's Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Quality and Integrity) Bill is a blatant...
- Budget (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. I was pleased to see that, from yesterday, if you're a taxpayer in this country then a tax cut is coming your way....
- Tasmania: Cradle Mountain (14 speeches)
My question is for the minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Senator Watt. In 2018, the coalition government committed $30 million to build a cableway at Cradle Mountain. That...
- New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Senator Watt. With the government passing the new vehicle...
- Afghanistan (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, Senator Wong. There is ongoing anger and resentment among former and current serving members of the Australian Defence Force...
- Housing (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Housing and Homelessness, Minister Farrell. I refer to the Albanese Labor government's recent budget and its new investment in housing...
- North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Minister Wong. In recent weeks, we saw shocking revelations that the man appointed as the chair of the North Australian Aboriginal...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (11 speeches)
Senators, Senator Hanson-Young asked me privately to review the tape on the giving of leave to Senator Ayres shortly before the two-minute statements, as Senator Ayres sought leave to move a...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Interest Rates (9 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Gallagher) to questions without notice asked by Senator Bragg today relating to interest rates. Senator...
- International Students (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister representing the Minister for Education (Senator Watt) to questions without notice I asked today in relation to...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
I withdraw general business notice of motion No. 316 standing in my name for the next day of sitting.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Housing (9 speeches)
Senator McKim has submitted a proposal under standing order 75 today: Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today the Australian Greens propose to move "That, in the opinion of the...
- Nuclear Energy (17 speeches)
The Senate will now consider the proposal from Senator Duniam. The President has received the following letter, dated 2 July 2024, from Senator Duniam: Pursuant to standing order 75, I give...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Duggan, Mr Daniel (1 speech)
by leave—I present a non-conforming petition signed by some 24,720 Australian citizens seeking the release of Australian citizen Dan Duggan, and I table the petition.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Consideration by Estimates Committees (1 speech)
In respect of the budget estimates report of the Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee, I move: That the Senate take note of the report. I will speak on the report very briefly,...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics References Committee; Reference (7 speeches)
I move: That the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation GenCost 2023-24 report be referred to the Economics References Committee for inquiry and report by 10 October 2024,...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
July is going to be the month that the Albanese Labor government is going to deliver new financial assistance for Australian families that are doing it tough through the cost-of-living crisis...
- Education (1 speech)
The state of education in this country at the moment is absolutely dire. When the national curriculum was introduced in 2010 we were told that it would be a world-class back-to-basics system....
- Community Services (1 speech)
I rise to speak about deep and justified community concerns around the slated closure of the Shakespeare Grove Post Office in St Kilda, where I live. This vital community asset has long served as...
- Social Cohesion (1 speech)
I am grateful for the opportunity to make a few comments about where I think the nation is going. One of the main reasons I joined the Liberal Party was because I had a high conviction that there...
- War Memorials: Vandalism (1 speech)
As a man who has borne witness to the ravages that war has inflicted on all involved, soldier and civilian alike, and the impact on our soldiers long after the guns have fallen silent and they...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Since I arrived in this place, the No. 1 issue that we have been dealing with is the cost-of-living crisis or the cost-of-everything crisis. The cost of everything has gone up, whether it's for...
- Renal Dialysis (1 speech)
Recently I travelled to the remote outback town of Coober Pedy in South Australia, and I had the great honour of officially opening the renal dialysis clinic there. It was an emotional day for...
- Christian Medical College and Hospital Ludhiana, Toowoomba International Food Festival, Senate Standing Committees on Economics (1 speech)
I'm sure, Senator, your mother would be so extremely proud of everything you've achieved. She must have been a remarkable woman. I was so pleased last Saturday night to attend a wonderful event....
- Westbrook, Eden Jayde (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the life and sudden death of 15-year-old Eden Jayde Westbrook in 2015. Many people around the world already know Eden's story better than most people in Tasmania and...
- Covid-19 (1 speech)
My Senate office held the first inquiry into COVID and response measures, called COVID Under Question, on Wednesday 23 March 2022. Another was held on Wednesday 17 August of the same year....
