Senate debates
Tuesday, 15 June 2021
- China (1 speech)
Earlier this year, I spoke of an iron curtain falling around our region, from Mandalay to Moresby and from Manila to Melbourne. Communist China is intent on domination, not through traditional... - Far North Queensland (1 speech)
Far North Queensland is facing a housing crisis. People are sleeping in cars. They're unable to get rental properties. We've got single parents unable to get homes to live in. We know that... - Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
I rise this evening to talk about the government's 'dobseeker' hotline. There is no limit to the ways in which this government do their very best to make the lives of people on income support a... - Medicare (1 speech)
When a party is devoid of a positive policy platform, it reduces itself to scare campaigns—unsubstantiated scare campaigns. That is the hapless state in which the Labor Party finds itself.... - Chau, Mr Van Kham (1 speech)
If an Australian citizen is imprisoned abroad without just cause it's an attack on the freedom of all Australians. Today I want to highlight the plight of one particular Australian citizen. He is... - Liberal Party of South Australia: Membership (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak in relation to the need to ensure that Australia's democracy remains a pluralistic, liberal and inclusive democracy which values freedom of thought, worship,... - Regional Australia (1 speech)
I rise to thank regional Australia. Our regional industries got us through the biggest economic shock since the global financial crisis. Our agricultural and resource sectors have supported us... - Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
When Priya and Nades Murugappan arrived in Australia in 2013 it should have been the beginning of a new chapter in their lives. Fleeing persecution and violence, they should have found that safe... - Agricultural Shows (1 speech)
I'd like to pay tribute to the 50,000 Australians who volunteer every year to put on agricultural shows. It has been a tough year for those involved in preparing for, and putting on, agricultural... - Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I'm not going to mince my words here tonight. The treatment of Priya, Nades, Tharnicaa and Kopika has been nothing short of depraved A three-year-old child—who just turned four, actually,... - Indigenous Australians (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about the changes that the Minister for Indigenous Australians, the Hon. Ken Wyatt, announced at the weekend relating to much-desired amendments to the Aboriginal Land... - Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I welcome today's news that the Murugappan family—four-year-old Tharnicaa and six-year-old Kopika and their parents, Priya and Nades—will be reunited in Perth and will be allowed to... - Dante Alighieri (1 speech)
Italian poet, scholar, writer, philosopher and politician, Dante Alighieri, is one of the founding fathers of the Italian language, along with Petrarch and Boccaccio—the so called 'tre... - Victoria: Floods, Australian Defence Force (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak on, among other matters, the circumstances inflicted on those in my home state as a result of last week's weather events. Sadly, in Victoria last week heavy rain and... - Oil and Gas Exploration (1 speech)
While world leaders gather in the United Kingdom this week at the G7 conference to discuss, amongst many things, the importance of climate change and decarbonising our economy, what does our... - Marine Environment (1 speech)
I rise to speak this evening about the Australian giant cuttlefish and the environmental health of South Australia's Upper Spencer Gulf. Discussions about Australia's marine environment often... - Ipswich Events Centre (1 speech)
Mr Acting Deputy President McGrath, you and I have many things in common and one of those things is our love for a great show—one of those great Queensland agricultural shows, which we have... - Human Rights (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about human rights, as is my habit every Tuesday night in sitting weeks. The Australian Greens believe that universal human rights are fundamental and must be respected... - Moranbah Mine Disaster, Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I rise initially to speak about two matters involving Central Queensland that have occurred in recent times. Just this week we saw the report of the Queensland Coal Mining Board of Inquiry into a... - COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I ask: what's happening to our country? On COVID, due to the overseas deaths early last year, I was cooperative and supportive from the...
