Senate debates

Monday, 14 July 2014

  • Carbon Pricing (32 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Minister Eric Abetz. I refer to the government's agreement to include a so-called price pay-through mechanism in its carbon price...
  • Future of Financial Advice (9 speeches)
    My question is to the Acting Assistant Treasurer, Senator Cormann. I refer to the financial advice regulations that Labor tabled last Thursday, and I refer to comments by Mr Michael O'Neill, the...
  • Budget (8 speeches)
    My question is also to the Minister for Finance and the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Cormann. Can the minister advise the Senate of support by prominent Australians for the need...
  • Carbon Pricing (11 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Abetz. Given that the Prime Minister has promised that Australian families will be $550 better off with the abolition of...
  • Asylum Seekers (11 speeches)
    My question is to the Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Senator Cash. Will the minister advise the Senate of the need to ensure appropriate rules apply to people on...
  • Manufacturing (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Defence. The minister may be aware of a front page report in today's Adelaide Advertiser that Rossi Boots, an Adelaide based bootmaker since 1910, has lost a...
  • Education (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Human Services, Senator Payne, representing the Minister for Education. I ask: will the minister advise the Senate how the government's higher education reforms...
  • Carbon Pricing (10 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. I refer the minister to an article by Simon Benson in TheDaily Telegraph last Friday that quotes a coalition minister, describing...
  • Aboriginal Hostels Limited (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Senator Scullion. Will the minister advise the Senate of the work by Aboriginal Hostels Limited and the important contribution it is making...
  • Budget (12 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Employment, Senator Abetz. I refer to the assessment of the Commission of Audit that Australia's minimum wage is too high and its recommendation that the...