Senate debates
Thursday, 21 November 2024
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
If there are no objections, the meetings are authorised.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
(): I move: That the consideration of private senators' bills not proceed today. Question agreed to. I seek leave to amend notice of motion No. 1, to add 'for the purposes of the Aged...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (2 speeches)
URQUHART (—) (): At the request of the Chair of the Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation, Senator O'Neill, I give notice of the committee's intention to...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection of Bills Committee; Report (24 speeches)
I present the 13th report of 2024 of the Selection of Bills Committee, and 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. 689 be considered during general business today. Question agreed to.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
If there is no objection, the business is postponed.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Brockman for 21 November to 28 November 2024 for personal reasons. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Procedure Committee; Reference (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senators David Pocock, Van, Babet, Thorpe and Rennick, move: That the following matter be referred to the Procedure Committee for inquiry and report by 13 February 2025:...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I seek leave to postpone business of the Senate notice of motion No. 3, standing in my name for today, until the next sitting day. Leave granted.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Communications) Bill 2024 (1 speech)
When Labor introduced the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Communications) Bill 2024 earlier this week, it represented the greatest attack on free and fair elections in my lifetime....
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (1 speech)
I want to take note of two articles that have been published just in recent hours: one by David Ross from the Australian Business Review, entitled 'Former PwC partner Paul McNab points the finger...
- Australian Defence Force, Legalising Cannabis Bill 2023 (1 speech)
The 2024 Defence workplace experience survey results were squeezed out of Defence in Senate estimates and they are pretty ugly reading for Defence leadership. Support for senior leadership in the...
- Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
Access to banking services is absolutely an essential right. Without a bank account people cannot really buy food, they can't really pay their rent and they cannot basically live. Recently, I met...
- Energy (1 speech)
I recently had the opportunity to meet with Karrina Nolan from the First Nations Clean Energy Network to discuss how Australia can maximise the economic and industrial benefits of the move to net...
- Veterans (1 speech)
With a federal election coming up soon, hopefully Tasmanians will give me another go. But no matter what happens, I'm not done fighting for our veterans. We're a long way off from getting what we...
- Tobacco Regulation (1 speech)
In an inquiry regarding therapeutic amendments for vaping three months ago, at the end of the inquiry I asked the department, 'What does failure look like?' They said, 'We haven't looked at...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
There's no doubt that many Australian households are doing it tough right now because of the cost-of-living crisis that we inherited from the previous government. It takes a long time to turn...
- Raise Our Voice in Parliament (1 speech)
Today I am reading a speech from Dana, a young person from my state, South Australia. This is part of the Raise Our Voice in Parliament campaign, which amplifies the voices of young people and...
- Albanese Government (1 speech)
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say,' and in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis we've got the government prioritising giving millions more...
- Housing (1 speech)
With Dr Jim Chalmers running the Treasury in Australia, sometimes I wonder whether I am in Argentina or Venezuela. It is true that we are in Australia, but we have a bizarre situation where the...
- One Nation (1 speech)
As frequently happens, the Senate is dealing with a tangled mess of legislation that is flawed in design and will have unintended consequences. That's inevitable when pressure groups run the...
- Prahran Post Office, Science (1 speech)
The Greens join the Prahran community in calling on the government to stop the closure of the Prahran AusPost in Pran Central. This post office, which is slated for closure on 22 November, is a...
- Multicultural Media Organisations (1 speech)
Multicultural media organisations are the glue that hold our communities together, catering to diverse voices and telling incredible stories. Longstanding mastheads such as Il Globo, the...
- Student Visas (4 speeches)
There's an old saying that goes: when you get caught with your hand in the cookie jar, deny it's your hand. Senator Henderson has given that an award-winning rendition. The Sydney Morning Herald...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Future Fund (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Has the government received advice or modelling—
- Energy (9 speeches)
Happy Thursday! My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Senator McAllister. We know Australian families have been experiencing cost-of-living...
- Future Fund (28 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. The announcement this morning that the government will break bipartisan consensus on the Future Fund and direct it to invest in the...
- Medicare (27 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Gallagher. Australia marks the 40th anniversary of Medicare this year—40 years of health care for...
- Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024 (14 speeches)
My question is for Senator Watt, representing the Minister for Education, regarding the Wage Justice for Early Childhood Education and Care Workers (Special Account) Bill 2024. If passed, there...
- Superannuation (21 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Will Australians be able to access their superannuation to invest in housing?
- Banking and Financial Services (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Financial Services, Senator Gallagher. Minister, Australians opening insurance renewals have been falling off their chairs. Brendan...
- Donations to Political Parties (11 speeches)
My question is to the Special Minister of State, Minister Farrell. The proposed electoral donation reform bill contains some good measures, such as the lowering of the disclosure threshold....
- Antisemitism (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Wong. All Australians were disturbed to learn of a series of anti-Israel vandalism attacks in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra overnight....
- Tertiary Education (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Education, Senator Watt. Education is one of our proudest national assets, and Australians expect governments to safeguard it....
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Comcare (1 speech)
In question time on Tuesday 19 November I undertook to provide further information in response to questions asked of me by Senator Lambie relating to the independent review of the Safety,...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (6 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked by coalition senators today. We had some very interesting answers to questions around the...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That on Monday, 25 November 2024, following the authorisation of any committee meetings, senators may make statements, of not more than 5 minutes each, relating to the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
