Senate debates
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
If there is no objection, the meetings are authorised.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- ISLAND Clinic (1 speech)
I was fortunate enough to recently visit the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, the Wicking centre, which is part of the University of Tasmania. The Wicking centre, founded in 2008,...
- Housing (1 speech)
The Help to Buy scheme is one of the Labor government's central housing policies, and we have seen this week the new Minister for Housing talk about Help to Buy as one of the centrepieces of...
- New South Wales: Local Government Elections, Defence Industry, Immigration Detention (1 speech)
Across my home state of New South Wales as we speak, local council elections are happening. My party, the Greens, is running some 377 council candidates and 21 mayoral candidates across 61...
- Energy (1 speech)
This afternoon I rise to support the wonderful work being done by the community of Collie towards a just transition—work supported by the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union. Collie is a...
- Israel: Attacks, Queensland Election (1 speech)
I want to remind the Senate and the country about the atrocities that took place on 7 October, when we saw the largest massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust. Since then, more than 200...
- Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
The Australian newspaper reported on 29 August that 'a government owned bank created out of Australia Post is understood to be back on the Labor government's agenda' and that it is 'seen as a...
- Health Care (1 speech)
We know that Labor made Medicare and it's only a Labor government that will strengthen and protect it. That is exactly what our government is doing right across the country but especially in...
- Water Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the lack of water infrastructure being built in this country and the distraction by both state and federal governments away from talking about it. I note that over the...
- Road Transport Industry (1 speech)
Last Friday, I had the privilege of chairing a national road transport industry round table here in parliament. Thirty-seven industry leaders from right across the road transport sector came...
- Cybersafety (1 speech)
The government is going to legislate the banning of children from social media in order to protect them from harm. Is anyone in this place really buying this? If this government was really...
- Tasmania: Education (1 speech)
Whenever a government, any government, wants to avoid expert advice, they commission their own inquiry. That's exactly what the Tasmanian Liberal government did when there were calls for a...
- Water (1 speech)
I rise to speak with a bit of a wake-up call for stakeholders, river managers and state governments. On 28 June this year, water ministers met to discuss the release of the Productivity...
- Smith, Mr Ian (1 speech)
Today I stand here to honour the memory of a very dear friend of mine and a wonderful South Australian, Ian Smith, who passed away in July this year. In doing so, my thoughts are with Ian's wife,...
- Middle East (1 speech)
'We were all asleep and then suddenly everything was turned upside down. The colour of the sky changed. The sky was filled with screams, crying and the sound of ambulances.' That was how an...
- Agriculture Industry (1 speech)
My parents were farmers. My grandparents were farmers. My great-grandparents were farmers. If you go to my office, you will see an old milk can and you'll see some old K-knives up on the wall. So...
- Wages (1 speech)
Young people in the workforce have many advantages. It builds skills, responsibility and confidence and it introduces these fine young people to managing their own finances. That's why it's so...
- Australian Society (6 speeches)
It was 28 years ago yesterday that I made my first speech in this building as the member for Oxley. It was eight years ago today that I made my first speech in the Senate. It would be an...
- International Students (1 speech)
I am calling on the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Treasury to stop misrepresenting the export value of international students. Foreign students pay $13 billion in tuition fees and are...
- Labor Government (1 speech)
Today I rise to address an oft-forgotten segment of our society. I speak of generation Z, who will be playing a substantial role in the next election, and generation alpha, who will start to come...
- Watson, Mr Paul Franklin (1 speech)
That was a very skibidi speech, Senator Payman. Around the world, for far too long, environmentalists have been persecuted, assaulted and, in some cases, tragically, murdered just for defending...
- National Farmers Federation: Protests (1 speech)
Yesterday on the lawns out the front of this place, our nation's farmers assembled to show the government that they have had enough. Many drove their trucks for thousands of kilometres to be...
- Cybersafety (1 speech)
Prime Minister Albanese says his government will impose a ban on younger teenagers and children using social media, but it's not going to happen for a while. It may be even as long as two years....
- Housing (1 speech)
I know what it's like to be on the waitlist for public housing. I was a single mum and a carer for my nephew, and I had a very tight budget. I know the value of having somewhere safe to live that...
- Aukus (1 speech)
In five days time the AUKUS agreement will be three years old, but, in the last 36 months, all we've really got from AUKUS is the cancellation of other needed defence programs so that Australian...
- Paris Paralympic Games (1 speech)
Eighteen gold, 17 silver and 28 bronze medals: after competing for 11 days, Australia's Paralympic team has made Australia extremely proud of them, finishing in the top ten in the world. There's...
- Australian Services Union (1 speech)
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting with Ella, Jo and Sheila, who work in housing and homelessness, financial counselling and family and domestic violence from my home state of Victoria. They...
- Labor Government (2 speeches)
I'm very pleased to talk today about all the great things the Labor government is doing to make sure that you can keep more of what you earn and earn more of what you deserve—blah, blah,...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallaher. Minister, despite both your own and the Treasurer's attempts to blame the shocking national accounts figures on...
- Cybersafety (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Minister Wong. Families in Western Australia have welcomed news that the Albanese government will create a new minimum age for...
- McPhillamys Gold Project (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, Senator McAllister. Minister Plibersek yesterday tried to equate the blocking of the billion-dollar,...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Delegation: Indonesia (1 speech)
I draw to the attention of honourable senators the presence in the enclosed gallery of a parliamentary delegation from Indonesia. On behalf of all senators, I wish you a warm welcome to Australia...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Maugean Skates (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, Senator McAllister. Minister, the federal government's own Threatened Species Scientific Committee recently...
- Workplace Relations (18 speeches)
G'day everyone. It's Wednesday. Excellent! My question is to my good friend the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator Watt.
- Veterinary Medicines (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator McCarthy. A few years ago sheep farmers had limited access to an Australian manufactured...
- Superannuation (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Minister, a few weeks ago APRA ordered Cbus and BUSSQ super to review their governance arrangements, given recent...
- Asylum Seekers (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Senator Watt. Over the weekend I visited a group of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees protesting in the...
- Paid Parental Leave: Superannuation (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Women and Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Minister, you've spoken before about the Albanese government's commitment to paid parental leave, a policy...
- Electric Vehicles (16 speeches)
My question—
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Veterinary Medicines (1 speech)
I have a response for Senator Hanson. There is currently no active application before the APVMA to register the footrot vaccine.
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (12 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice today, particularly those given by the Minister representing the Treasurer (Minister Gallagher). To...
- Maugean Skates (7 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water (Senator McAllister) to a question without notice I asked today...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Joint Committee; Reference (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Chisholm, I move: That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (8) of standing order 111 not apply to the following bills, allowing them to be considered during this period...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Steele-John, I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, by no later than midday on...
- Department of Industry, Science and Resources; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Kovacic, I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Industry and Science, by no later than midday on 4 October 2024: (a) all...
- Department of Defence; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Shoebridge, I move: That— (a) there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, by no later than 9 am on Wednesday, 18 September...
- Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 608. Leave granted. At the request of Senator Hanson-Young, I move the amended motion: That there be laid on the table by the Minister...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- International Students (14 speeches)
I inform the Senate that the President has received the following letter, dated 11 September 2024, from Senator McKim: Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today I propose to move...
- Cattle Industry (8 speeches)
The Senate will now consider the proposal from Senator Canavan and Senator Ciccone, which has also been circulated and is shown on the Dynamic Red: That, in the opinion of the Senate, the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Women in Parliament (1 speech)
Today I rise to celebrate a milestone. It's not just a moment in our party's history but a testament to the ongoing fight for gender equity in Australia. Thirty years ago, the Australian Labor...
- Monash Electorate (1 speech)
One of my very favourite parts of being a senator for Victoria is getting out and about to visit different parts of the state, getting off some of those major highways and out of the big towns...
- Economy (1 speech)
You'll often hear in the media commentary that Western Australian voters were pivotal to the election of the Albanese Labor government. Well, if WA voters are the ones who handed the Prime...
