Senate debates
Monday, 16 September 2024
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Moon Festival (1 speech)
Tomorrow, when the full moon is apparent in the sky, the Chinese Australian community will celebrate the Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival. This is a festival that traditionally marks the end of the...
- Housing (1 speech)
Today the Senate is considering our Help to Buy Scheme. It's an incredibly important reform to get more people to be able to achieve the great Australian dream of owning their own home, having a...
- Swan Electorate: Parliamentary Representation (1 speech)
Well, Swan deserves better. Swan currently has a Labor member who is just not delivering on the ground, as Labor has destroyed living standards of families across Swan and put every small...
- Gambling Advertising (1 speech)
Gambling addiction ruins families, destroys livelihoods and destroys relationships, and it is a scourge on the Australian community right now. We know that more and more Australians are losing...
- Housing (1 speech)
As Labor works diligently to address housing challenges across the nation, it's clear that the Greens and the LNP are much more interested in exploiting the situation for their own agendas. The...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Under this Albanese Labor government, the buying power of wages in Australia is now eight per cent less than when Labor took office—the develop world's worst result. Consequently, the Prime...
- Taxation (1 speech)
Capital markets in Australia need to be reformed. The Australian stock exchange is rigged to suit the big end of town, insiders and foreign investors. I call on the federal government to make...
- Universities (1 speech)
Today I rise is to speak about one of the many daggers being sunk into Australian people during the cost-of-living crisis. Amidst this hail of blades, this particular dagger is engraved with the...
- Waste Management and Recycling (1 speech)
Plastic production, mostly for packaging for food and consumer items, makes up 45 per cent of the petrochemical sector, which is projected to account for a third of growth in oil demand by 2030...
- Freedom of Speech (1 speech)
The introduction of new misinformation and disinformation legislation is just a renewed attack on freedom of speech in Australia. Labor has never understood freedom of speech or how it works, and...
- Tasmania: Cost of Living (1 speech)
Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of doorknocking in Lindisfarne on Hobart's eastern shore with the Tasmania Liberal candidate for Franklin, Josh Garvin. I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to...
- Tasmania: Agriculture (1 speech)
If you're a fan of frozen peas and you buy a brand that has been processed at Simplot's Devonport plant, you have probably eaten a pea grown in Tasmania. Simplot processes lots of vegetables...
- Raise Our Voice Australia (2 speeches)
It is my privilege to share with you a speech written by a staunch young First Nations person as part of Raise Our Voices. Lillian said: My name is Lillian. I am 16 years old and I live in the...
- Housing (4 speeches)
Talking about education, I note that the Greens are proposing an amendment to the Help to Buy Bill 2023 which once again raises the issue of rent controls. How many times do we have to come to...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Minister, for how many quarters has Australia been in a per capita recession?
- Housing (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Can the minister please detail what the Albanese government is doing to help build more homes, support renters and...
- Economy (17 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Minister, you consistently claim that the economy would be in recession if it were not for Labor's spending. Given...
- Housing (27 speeches)
My question is to Minister Wong, representing the Prime Minister. We are in a rental and housing crisis, but, instead of negotiating with the Greens to freeze and cap rents and end billions of...
- Energy (22 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Senator McAllister. Minister, during evening and morning peak hours, electricity generation from industrial...
- Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (17 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. In July of this year Prime Minister Albanese pretended to act surprised when revelations about the CFMEU's links with...
- Donations to Political Parties (8 speeches)
My question is to the Special Minister of State, Minister Farrell. Prime Minister Albanese made big promises about transparency and accountability before coming into government, but we have been...
- Housing (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Housing and Homelessness, Senator Farrell. Safe and affordable housing is central to the security and dignity of Australians, but...
- Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Minister Wong. Geoffrey Watson SC's interim report investigating unlawful behaviour into the CFMEU, released this morning, has...
- Housing (20 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Senator Watt. At the last election the Albanese Labor government...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
I informed the Senate on the last day of sitting that Senator Malarndirri McCarthy, the Minister for Indigenous Australians, would be absent from question time today and outlined ministerial...
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Consideration by Estimates Committees (7 speeches)
HODGINS-MAY () (): Pursuant to standing order 74(5), I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate for an explanation as to why answers have not been provided to questions on notice Nos 111,...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (14 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of answers given by ministers to all questions without notice asked today. One of the things that concern me the most is the ongoing challenges in relation to...
- Energy (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer from the Minister for Emergency Management (Senator McAllister) to a question without notice I asked today relating to energy policy. My question...
- Donations to Political Parties (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Trade and Tourism (Senator Farrell) to a question without notice I asked today relating to electoral reform. The Greens...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I give notice that on the next day of sitting I shall move: That the provisions of paragraphs 5 to 8 of standing order 111 not apply to the Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Adding Superannuation...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: That the following general business orders of the day be considered this week at the time for private senators' bills: No. 79 Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Removing...
- Leave of Absence (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators: (a) Senator McCarthy for 16 and 17 September 2024, on account of ministerial business; and (b) Senator Polley...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I seek leave, at the request of Senator Bragg, to have general business notice of motion No. 614, standing in the name of Senator Bragg, postponed until the next day of sitting. Leave granted.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide (5 speeches)
We now come to a deferred vote. I remind senators that after 4.30 pm on Thursday 12 September 2024 a division was called on the amendment moved by Senator Watt to general business notice of...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Human Rights: Iran (10 speeches)
A letter has been received from Senator Chandler: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion: Despite the...
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Freedom of Speech (9 speeches)
The Senate will now consider the proposal from Senator Roberts, which is shown at item 14 on today's Order of Business: That, in the opinion of the Senate, the following is a matter of urgency:...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Climate Change Authority (7 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I rise to take note of document No. 1, which is the report from the Climate Change Authority's Sector pathways review. This report considers the...
- Australian Army: Jervis Bay Incident, Bureau of Meteorology, Middle East: Migration, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, Australian Bureau of Statistics, McPhillamys Gold Project; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
I table documents relating to orders for the production of documents concerning a 2023 helicopter incident at Jervis Bay, the Bureau of Meteorology's ROBUST program, visas issued to Palestinians,...
- Bureau of Meteorology; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
In respect of documents relating to an order for the production of documents concerning the Bureau of Meteorology ROBUST program, I move: That the Senate take note of the documents. I seek leave...
- Australian Bureau of Statistics; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
In respect of documents relating to an order for the production of documents concerning the 2026 census, I move: That the Senate take note of the documents. I seek leave to continue my remarks...
- Australian Army: Jervis Bay Incident; Order for the Production of Documents (2 speeches)
In respect of documents relating to an order for the production of documents concerning a 2023 helicopter incident at Jervis Bay, I move: That the Senate take note of the documents.
- Middle East: Migration; Order for the Production of Documents (10 speeches)
In respect of a document relating to an order for the production of documents concerning visas issued to Palestinians, I move: That the Senate take note of the document.
- McPhillamys Gold Project; Order for the Production of Documents (2 speeches)
In respect of documents relating to an order for the production of documents concerning the McPhillamys Gold Project, I move: That the Senate take note of the documents.
- United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Order for the Production of Documents (8 speeches)
I rise to speak initially to the UNRWA funding document that has been tabled. Can I indicate initially—
- Committees (0 speeches)
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- Committees (0 speeches)
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- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Insurance Industry: Genetic Testing (1 speech)
I rise to speak to an important development that happened last Wednesday here in the parliament, where I stood with many of my Labor colleagues and the Minister for Financial Services, Stephen...
- Antisemitism (1 speech)
We're approaching the one-year anniversary of the horrific events of 7 October, and Jewish communities in Western Australia and across Australia are feeling every bit as vulnerable now, as they...
- Reproductive Health Care (1 speech)
Periods, menopause, endo, egg retrievals—we don't often talk about these things in the Senate. That is starting to change, thanks to some work of some excellent colleagues. But we...
