Senate debates
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
- Queensland: Higher Education (3 speeches)
Today I want to speak about what I believe is my home state of Queensland's most significant achievement over the last 25 years. I am not here to talk about rugby or cricket, and it is not about... - National Produce Monitoring Program (1 speech)
I want to talk today about the issue that we have seen happen in imported berries. Australians are quite rightly concerned about the recent contamination outbreak of hepatitis A in imported... - Discrimination (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about a very important issue affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Unfortunately, there continues to be discrimination, ill-treatment and, in fact, often... - Australian Capital Territory: Schools, Defence Community Organisation (1 speech)
On 5 March, I was very pleased to visit Canberra Grammar School for the official opening of the Snow Centre for Education in the Asian Century. The Snow centre comprises a new facility which has... - Abbott Government (16 speeches)
I rise today to draw attention to the lies and backflips perpetrated by this Abbott Liberal government and the effect it is having on my home state of Tasmania. Their agenda is built on lies and... - Australian Native Animals (1 speech)
Australians are good at many things, but conserving native fauna is not one of them. In the last 200 years, 11 per cent of our native mammals have become extinct. This is one of the worst... - Sugar Industry (3 speeches)
Without making light of the contribution of the previous speaker, I too want to speak about a group of mammals—or mammalia, to use a scientific term—that are under threat of... - Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (1 speech)
During the last sitting week, the Senate received the latest annual report of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission the ACNC. Although charity registers exist in most developed...
