Senate debates

Monday, 18 June 2018

  • Budget (9 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield. On the eve of the 2013 federal election the then Liberal Leader of the Opposition, Mr Abbott, promised that under a...
  • Employment (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Senator Cash. Can the minister update the Senate about recent ABS labour force statistics, including the number of jobs created in recent years?
  • Taxation (23 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. The Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the Minister for Finance have repeatedly refused to be up-front about the cost of the...
  • Broadband (14 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield.
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (10 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield. Before becoming Prime Minister, Tony Abbott promised that there would be no cuts to the ABC. He broke that promise and cut...
  • Taxation (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. Can the minister confirm that under the Turnbull government's income tax plan the Prime Minister's own electorate of Wentworth will...
  • Goods and Services Tax (9 speeches)
    My question to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. Minister, earlier this month, Perth's TheSunday Times published an article suggesting the government is getting ready to announce an 80c...
  • Mining Industry (8 speeches)
    My question is to Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator Canavan. Can the minister update the Senate on the contribution the resources sector makes to the Australian economy?
  • Taxation (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. Can the minister confirm that, under the Turnbull government's income tax plan, former Prime Minister Abbott's electorate of Warringah...
  • Pensions and Benefits (10 speeches)
    My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Social Services, Senator Fierravanti-Wells. Could the minister outline how the Turnbull government is providing more choice in...
  • Asylum Seekers (13 speeches)
    My question is to Senator Fifield, representing the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Minister, I refer you to the death last week on Nauru of Fariborz, a man who sought...
  • Minister for Jobs and Innovation (20 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Senator Cash. I refer to the minister who, on 30 May, in relation to the Australian Federal Police investigation into leaks about an AFP...
  • Skilling Australians Fund (9 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Education and Training, Senator Birmingham. Can the minister update the Senate on the states and territories that have recently signed up to the Turnbull...