Senate debates
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
- Community Affairs References Committee (5 speeches)
I rise to speak in relation to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee's third interim report into Centrelink's income compliance program that was presented a little earlier today.... - Housing Affordability (1 speech)
Safe, secure, affordable housing is a human right, but decades of neoliberal policy in housing and homelessness has made speculative assets of what should be homes. Federal governments have... - Radford, Mr Gary (Ripper), OAM (1 speech)
I rise today to speak in my capacity as the duty senator for the federal seat of Parkes, particularly representing the historic mining city of Broken Hill. I want to speak on the sad passing... - Rotary Club of Archerfield (1 speech)
Every day I am in this place, I'm honoured to represent my beautiful state of Queensland. Nothing gives me greater honour than when I have the opportunity to report to the Senate the great work... - Competition Policy: Taxation (1 speech)
This week, the eyes of the technology world have turned to Australia and our parliament. Our competition regulator has proposed a new approach to dealing with the awesome market power of two of... - Wanneroo RSL Sub-Branch, Le Cras, Mr Jack, OAM (1 speech)
I rise this evening to congratulate the Wanneroo RSL Sub-Branch on the opening of its new clubrooms at the Wanneroo Community Centre. On 20 August, I was delighted to join Sub-Branch President... - Manufacturing (1 speech)
We are in the grip of a jobs crisis and, as we have known for a while and as the statistics and economic figures showed today, we are in a recession. As debates in the parliament have shown...