Senate debates
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
- Dementia Awareness Month (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak about Dementia Awareness Month 2018, which runs for the month of September and aims to raise awareness of the leading cause of death amongst Australian women and the... - Disability Services (1 speech)
Every Australian, every human being, has the right to feel safe, to live a life without fear, without violence, and yet for so many disabled people this is a right which is continually,... - Aged Care (1 speech)
Today more than 100,000 ageing Australians are waiting for home care packages due to the chronic underfunding and neglect of this coalition government. Of that number more than 88,000 are people... - Bureau of Meteorology, Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I rise tonight to raise some very concerning issues for all Tasmanians, whom I continue to represent, and proudly so. I want to make it crystal clear that any decision by the Bureau of... - Climate Change (1 speech)
'Get your hands off it, Prime Minister.' That was the banner that Greenpeace tied to the flagpoles in front of this very building this week, calling on Australia's latest Prime Minister to break... - Alcoa (1 speech)
Last Wednesday I met with members of the Australian Workers' Union who were working for Alcoa. Today marks, very sadly and disgracefully, their 35th day of strike action—and they're not... - Liberal Democrats (1 speech)
The Liberal Democrats are not led by a rotund supporter of the renewable energy target who is, apparently, spending $50 million telling people he wants to lower electricity prices. We are not led... - Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
This coming Saturday marks the 10th anniversary of Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy. Lehman was one of the world's largest investment banks. It had been around for nearly 150 years and... - Endangered Species (1 speech)
Australia has the highest rate of mammal extinctions, and one of the highest overall extinction rates, in the world, with 448 animals currently threatened with extinction. Think about that: 448...
