Senate debates
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
- Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (1 speech)
I recently received from Professor Louis Schofield, Director of the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, the 2016 annual report of that organisation. Based in the tropics of... - Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
Yesterday, we heard of the death of an asylum seeker on Manus Island. Hamed Shamshiripour was a 31-year-old Iranian man. He was the fifth person to die under the Australian government's... - Homelessness (1 speech)
There is a new face of homelessness that I want to talk about tonight as Australia marks Homelessness Week. That face belongs to our mothers, daughters, sisters and aunties, to the six out of... - Medicinal Marijuana (1 speech)
This past July I had the pleasure of visiting a property run by Tasmanian Alkaloids, one of Tasmania's world-leading poppy industry's principal companies. I was taking the valuable opportunity to... - Homelessness (1 speech)
Tonight in this adjournment debate I also rise to speak about an issue of great importance, and that is homelessness in our nation, noting that this week is Homelessness Week. Across Australia,... - Cyclone Debbie (1 speech)
Four months ago Queensland was devastated by Tropical Cyclone Debbie. I'm sure we all recall the headlines and saw the television footage of entire towns that had been flooded, homes made... - Lester , Mr Kunmanara, OAM, Yunupingu, Dr G (1 speech)
I rise to speak tonight about the passing of two beautiful-hearted Australians. The passing of Mr Lester and Dr G Yunupingu has left deep hurt in Indigenous communities and indeed across... - Employment (1 speech)
We have obviously just returned from the winter recess, and I know that many senators took the opportunity to visit their duty electorates over that period of time. I certainly spent quite a lot... - Wangaratta Turf Club (1 speech)
It gives me great pleasure as a National Party senator to rise and talk about exactly what our government is delivering for regional communities, including those in the state of Queensland. But... - Aged Care (2 speeches)
I rise this evening to speak on the Turnbull government's complete lack of regard for the ageing and the aged care portfolio. Earlier this year, on 2017 February, we welcomed changes to the way... - Refugees (1 speech)
If I had a media adviser, which I don't, and if I slavishly followed every bit of emailed political advice, which I don't, I guess there'd be some issues I wouldn't want to touch with a 40-foot... - Nuclear Weapons, Ludlam, Mr Scott (1 speech)
On this day, 72 years ago, the Japanese city of Hiroshima still burned. Just days before, it had been laid waste by the first atomic bomb dropped on a population. Many of its citizens were... - Immigration Detention (1 speech)
The crisis in Australia's offshore detention system, our prisons on Manus Island and Nauru, is escalating rapidly. The human rights abuses that Australia, our country, has perpetrated on so many... - Tasmania (1 speech)
I rise this evening to raise a number of issues that were brought to my attention over the winter break. You might be interested to know that, despite the media's close attention to issues such... - Middle East (2 speeches)
In July I visited Jordan with the Australian Aid and Parliament Project MP learning tour. I am grateful to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Save The Children for making this trip...
