Senate debates
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
- Youth Connections (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about Youth Connections. Last Friday, I had the pleasure of meeting 17-year-old Tanika, who lives south of Hobart. I met with Tanika to talk about her experience of the... - Budget (6 speeches)
So here we are tonight on budget day and we have just heard the disastrous budget that we all thought was going to be evident finally delivered tonight. Shame on those on the opposite side. It... - Medicare Locals (4 speeches)
I do not know how one continues on after that, except that I rise tonight to share — - Brain Cancer Action Week, National Palliative Care Week (1 speech)
National awareness weeks are powerful tools for raising public awareness of important issues and encouraging discussion in the community. I rise tonight to speak about two such campaigns: Brain... - National Broadband Network Select Committee (4 speeches)
I rise to make some further remarks on the Interim report of the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network. This report is an indictment of the NBN strategic review. When... - Domestic Violence (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about a confronting issue, one that has been taboo because it is so awful and so unjust that Australians would prefer to pretend that it is not happening. But it is time... - World War I (1 speech)
This is the fifth of six speeches I intend to give to the parliament regarding my grandfather's role on the Western Front during World War I. It is entitled 'France Again and the War Ends'. In my... - Western Australia Senate Election (1 speech)
I rise tonight to pay my respects to the people who took on the 2014 election campaign in Western Australia in support of the Greens—took it on and won. Senator Milne was asked in an... - Budget (2 speeches)
Today the budget reveals the truly twisted priorities of the Abbott government. They doubled the deficit. They forged a Commission of Audit report written exclusively for and by the top end of... - Nigeria: Abductions (1 speech)
On 14 April, 200 schoolgirls, most of them between the ages of 16 and 18, were abducted in an overnight raid on the government girls secondary school in Chibok, north-eastern Nigeria. This... - Jones, Mr Henry (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak of a good man; a humble, hard-working man—a man who made a real difference for his community and in the management of water in Australia. I speak of Henry Jones, who... - National Party Victoria (1 speech)
I rise to comment on a fabulous event held last weekend, the 98th Victorian National Party state conference, which was held at the Lakeside Centre at the Benalla showgrounds. These showgrounds I... - Wran, Mr Neville Kenneth, AC, QC (1 speech)
Almost 2,000 years have passed since the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, 'Life is like a play: it is not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters. Neville Wran's first love was... - Mining and Hydro-electric Power Projects (1 speech)
Tonight I will speak on two projects. They are separated by thousands of kilometres, but both highlight the problems of a one-sided view of the economy—that is, that mining and power... - Justice (1 speech)
Eighteen years is a long time to wait for some form of justice to be delivered. Eighteen years ago, on 9 March 1996, Corinna Horvath, who was 21 at the time, was assaulted in her own home. Her...
