Senate debates
Thursday, 12 September 2024
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
If there is no objection, the meetings are authorised.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That general business order of the day no. 78, Building and Construction Industry (Restoring Integrity and Reducing Building Costs) Bill 2024, be considered today at the time for private...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection of Bills Committee; Report (8 speeches)
I present the 10th report of 2024 of the Selection of Bills Committee. I seek leave to have the report incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The report read as follows— SELECTION OF...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That general business notice of motion no. 613 standing in the name of Senator Lambie, relating to the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide, be considered during general...
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators for today: (a) Senator McCarthy, on account of ministerial business; (b) Senator Marielle Smith, for personal...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
Due to the Education and Employment Legislation Committee resolving to extend the reporting date, take further submissions and hold another public hearing in relation to its inquiry into the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Amendment (Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission) Bill 2024; In Committee (62 speeches)
by leave—I move Greens amendments (1) to (5) on sheet 2852, revised: (1) Schedule 1, item 41, page 44 (line 4), before "The", insert "(1)". (2) Schedule 1, item 41, page 44 (after line 30),...
- Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Amendment (Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission) Bill 2024; Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Future Made in Australia Bill 2024, Future Made in Australia (Omnibus Amendments No. 1) Bill 2024; Second Reading (8 speeches)
Before I speak to the specifics of the Future Made in Australia Bill 2024, I want to share a personal story—one that highlights why I care so deeply about manufacturing in Australia and why...
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- St Lukes Health Insurance (1 speech)
If you ask anyone about their experiences with health care in this country, no doubt you will hear many horror stories about a system crumbling under the pressure to provide adequate diagnosis...
- Albanese Government (1 speech)
It remains an incredible privilege to serve in this role each day as a member of the Albanese Labor government, Australia's first majority female government. This wasn't by accident. Our...
- Black Lung Disease (1 speech)
Black lung disease remains a serious and persistent health issue for coal workers in Queensland, including in my hometown of Gladstone. Currently, former coalmine and quarry workers are able to...
- Labor Government (1 speech)
Labor is bad for my home state of Western Australia. I've only got two minutes so I can't tell you all the reasons why Labor is bad for WA, but I'll go through just a few of the top reasons....
- Morton, Mr Ken (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge the remarkable career of Ken Morton, one of Tasmania's most influential, respected and successful football managers, as he steps down from his role as head coach of...
- Australian Defence Force: Afghanistan (1 speech)
It's been a big week for current and former soldiers, sailors and aviators, but it's been made worse by this government reminding our veterans that it chooses the top brass over them. Veterans...
- Australian Football League (1 speech)
It's a very important rule for life that a person should never be trusted if they have changed their football team. I just wanted to put on record that the reason I've never changed my football...
- Agriculture (2 speeches)
Senator Chisholm—on another subject, I hope!
- Tibet (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the issue of Tibet. I want to thank my former colleague Janet Rice who was a passionate defender of human rights in this chamber. Having taken over her role as co-chair of the...
- Medical Workforce (1 speech)
Today I want to thank our GPs. GPs play a huge role in our health system. I've been privileged to meet with quite a few in the ACT over the past two years, and, from what I can see, it is very...
- Nuclear Energy (1 speech)
No matter what side you're on in the nuclear debate going forward, there are so many great people I've got to meet as part of this conversation. The New South Wales Nationals Women's Council,...
- Kean, Hon. Matt (1 speech)
The chair of the agency that helps set the price of carbon credits is paid a government salary as the federal adviser and regulator and will simultaneously be on the payroll of a company that...
- Grocery Prices, Paraquat (1 speech)
Every day, Australians are making impossible choices—choices between food, medicine and paying their rent—all while corporations like Coles and Woolworths are taking off with billions...
- Electric Vehicles (1 speech)
Imagine a Sunday drive that doesn't damage the planet and where every kilometre cleans the air instead of polluting it. Switching to electric vehicles is a powerful step towards cutting carbon...
- Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence (1 speech)
In Australia, one in three women has experienced physical violence and one in five has experienced sexual violence since the age of 15. Such violence against women is experienced at all ages and...
- R U OK? Day (7 speeches)
It's R U OK? Day today, and most Australians aren't okay because they've got a terrible Labor government—
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
by leave—I advise changes to ministerial arrangements. Senator McCarthy will be absent from question time today on account of ministerial business interstate. In her absence, ministers will...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Before the election, the Prime Minister promised, 'All families will be better off.' However, since the election,...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Gallagher. The Albanese Labor government went to the election saying we would reform aged care—for...
- Middle East: Migration (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Watt. How many of the almost 3,000 Palestinians granted a visa by the Albanese Labor government who have arrived...
- Middle East (22 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, Minister Wong. The UK recently cancelled 30 military exports permits to the State of Israel, including the direct transfer of...
- Renewable Energy (10 speeches)
My question is—
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Edwards, Mr Sean Edwards (1 speech)
Order! I would like to acknowledge in the public gallery former senator Sean Edwards. Honourable senators: Hear, hear!
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- McPhillamys Gold Project (17 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, Minister McAllister. A meeting is planned for the 121 New South Wales Aboriginal land councils in Orange to...
- Health Care (8 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Gallagher. Private hospitals, especially not-for-profit services, are losing money and fast becoming...
- Australian Defence Force: Afghanistan (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, Senator Wong. Minister, on the recommendation of the then Chief of the Defence Force General Angus Campbell, the government...
- First Nations Australians (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Gallagher. The regrettable outcome of the Voice referendum has deepened the divide and left a profound...
- McPhillamys Gold Project (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. It follows the environment minister's cultural heritage declaration on old the McPhillamys gold mine project. On 29...
- Cost of Living (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister presenting the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Senator Watt. Cost-of-living pressures are top of mind for all...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked today. I was particularly interested in the questions in relation to the economy from Senator...
- Middle East, Australian Defence Force: Afghanistan (3 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Wong) to questions without notice asked by Senators Shoebridge and Roberts today relating to...
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Consideration by Estimates Committees (1 speech)
I present additional information received by the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee relating to estimates. The information was unavailable at the time of publishing .
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Human Rights Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
In relation to Human rights scrutiny report 8 of 2024, I move: That the Senate take note of the report. Deputy President, you and the chamber will recall that earlier this week, on behalf of the...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Middle East (1 speech)
by leave—I table a nonconforming petition that calls on the government to impose targeted sanctions on Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli war cabinet in line with the government's...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- National Disability Insurance Agency; Consideration (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the government response to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. I seek leave to continue my remarks....
- Australian Human Rights Commission (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the Women in native title—Native title report 2024 on page 7 of the Notice Paper. I rise to speak on the Australian Human Rights Commission's Women in...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Australian Defence Force: Afghanistan (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Mr Marles, I table a statement concerning the closure of the Afghanistan inquiry report.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) recognises that the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide Final Report demonstrates that successive governments have failed to support service...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- QPNG GOLD Netball Club, Papua New Guina: Independence Day (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate my Wantoks at the QPNG GOLD Netball Club for the 10th anniversary of the establishment of that club. Senators here may be aware of the fact I lived and worked in Papua New...
- Sex Discrimination Amendment (Acknowledging Biological Reality) Bill 2024 (1 speech)
If anyone thought it was an oversight in 2013 when the Gillard Labor government removed the definition of 'woman' from the Sex Discrimination Act and destroyed the rights of women to have...
- Australian Labor Party: Life Membership (1 speech)
I rise to speak on a matter that is close to my heart: the recognition of three remarkable individuals who have been awarded life membership in the Australian Labor Party's Tasmanian branch. They...
- Horak, Mrs Olga, OAM (1 speech)
Thank you, Acting Deputy President Chandler, and the chamber for the fast movement of people in and out of roles so that I'm able to make this contribution this evening. On 15 August 2024,...
