Senate debates
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
- ALP Cost of Living Committee (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to talk about the recent launch in Hobart of the ALP caucus Cost of Living Committee. The committee is chaired by Ms Terri Butler and the secretary of the... - Penalty Rates (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about the issue of penalty rates and also briefly talk about an issue which the government sometimes claims is on the backburner but which is surely waiting in the wings... - Point Peron (1 speech)
I want to speak to note about an issue that has captured the imagination and attention of an increasing number of Western Australians, and that is the impending debacle of a new 500-berth marina... - Bullying (1 speech, 1 comment)
Bullying is a scourge and we all have a role to play. Firstly, we can ensure that we ourselves do not engage in it personally. Secondly, we need to express our disapproval in no uncertain terms... - Evans, Mr Harry (1 speech)
Tonight I want to recognise the public service of a very private man, Harry Evans. Harry was the longest serving Clerk of the Australian Senate ever, but it is the quality, not the quantum, of... - National Security (1 speech)
It is the primary responsibility of governments to keep its citizens safe and that is something I have been reflecting on in recent days, as we here in parliament are operating under increased... - Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Student Unions (3 speeches)
I was really interested in what happened here earlier this afternoon. I am very new to this place and some of the old hands who are here have said they have never seen anything like it—like... - Women's Suffrage Petition Database (1 speech)
On 9 September this year, the Speaker of the Queensland Parliament, Fiona Simpson, welcomed us to celebrate the launch of the Women's Suffrage Petition database. This is a particularly exciting... - Peacekeeping Operations (1 speech)
(): I think we should keep having peace in Australia because of many reasons. Firstly, we are lucky to be able to go to school safely. I am allowed to go to school and learn. It does not matter... - Financial Rural Debt Roundtable, Australian Labor Party (3 speeches)
I would like to speak on two issues this evening. The first is the Financial Rural Debt Roundtable, which concluded this afternoon and which the Minister for Agriculture, Barnaby Joyce hosted. It... - White Balloon Day (1 speech)
There are a few months before the next Queensland state election, but if I have to sit here every night and hear about it in adjournment from the government side of the Senate, I will probably... - Other People's Money (1 speech)
My name is David and I am an OPM addict. Actually, that is not true; I am not addicted. I might be one of the very few people in this house who is not, because addiction to OPM is a national... - Senate Procedures (3 speeches)
Today I felt a little bit cheated, as we had quite energetic exchanges and debates here this afternoon on a motion I refer to as the Labor/PUP motion to investigate Queensland's government,... - Chevron Australia (3 speeches)
On 2 and 3 September in this place, two Labor senators, both Western Australian senators, made speeches—or, should I say, the same speech, because each replicated the other and followed the... - Health Care (1 speech)
Tonight I rise to both celebrate and lament on behalf of the primary health care of this country. Globally Australia delivers some of the best primary health care in the world. Our Medicare Local... - Tasmania: Indigenous Affairs (1 speech)
I rise in this adjournment debate to alert the people of Tasmania to a crisis which has developed in the management of Indigenous affairs in Tasmania. I have written today to the Prime Minster... - Manufacturing (1 speech)
Tonight I wish to confirm what I see are some of the challenges of the parliament and the country. These are issues that underpin the Australian way of life and present us as the parliament with... - Independent Commission Against Corruption (5 speeches)
The ICAC report into New South Wales politics is due to be handed down in December, possibly close to Christmas. The work of ICAC holds significance for our own work as federal MPs and all...
