Senate debates
Wednesday, 15 August 2007
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Order! It being 7.20 pm, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn. - President (1 speech)
When Paul Calvert arrived in Canberra to take up his seat as a Tasmanian senator, we had high hopes that the former Warden of the Clarence Council would bring a wealth of experience and vitality... - Festival of Light Australia (1 speech)
During the debate on 14 June 2007 on the Pregnancy Counselling (Truth in Advertising) Bill 2006 in a parliamentary speech, Senator Webber referred to the evidence given by Mr David d’Lima... - Sandakan Death March (1 speech)
Today marks the 62nd anniversary of the end of the war in the Pacific and the end of World War II. On this day in 1945, the Japanese emperor announced his nation’s unconditional surrender.... - Climate Change (1 speech)
In 2005, James Hansen, the Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, said: We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no... - Hindmarsh Electorate (1 speech)
I commence by adding to the record my tributes, firstly to Senator Cormann, one of my colleagues as a newer senator in this place, on his outstanding first speech today; and secondly to Senator...