Senate debates
Monday, 9 August 2021
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
At the end of July hundreds of family and domestic violence frontline workers, academics, policy experts and, most importantly, victim-survivors were due to meet in Canberra for a summit on... - Agriculture Industry (1 speech)
I grew up on a family farm in the south-west of Western Australia and so I know how much of life in rural and regional communities is shaped by the success of our food and agricultural sectors.... - COVID-19: Arts and Entertainment Industry (1 speech)
As half the country was plunged back into lockdown over the weekend I was inundated with messages from artists and musicians from right across the country who are just devastated by another... - Tokyo Olympic Games (1 speech)
I rise as Labor's shadow minister for sport to thank and congratulate Australia's Olympic team. The Tokyo Games will perhaps be remembered as the toughest ever, due to the challenges of COVID-19.... - Water (1 speech)
The humble veggie garden is about to become an unlikely place in the battle for freedom. Vegetable gardens are more than fresh vegetables, exercise, effort and reward. When we Australians tend... - COVID-19: Income Support Payments (1 speech)
I rise today to give voice to and support my fellow Victorians, who find themselves today in their sixth lockdown in over six months of lockdowns since the pandemic started. They are doing it... - Gambling (1 speech)
The royal commission into Melbourne's Crown casino heard damning evidence about Crown engaging in unlawful and criminal activities. The most serious claim is that the operator allowed the casino... - COVID-19: Manufacturing (1 speech)
The COVID pandemic has revealed many things about our nation, but central and very important is that Australia can and should be a nation that makes things, from vaccines to medicines, from... - Burnside, Mr Julian William Kennedy, AO, QC (1 speech)
I rise to condemn in the strongest possible terms the decision of the WA Bar Association to defend the right of Victorian barrister and former Greens candidate Julian Burnside to make... - National Cabinet (1 speech)
Last week, Federal Court Justice White ruled that the national cabinet is not a committee of the federal cabinet and is not protected by cabinet in confidence. The judgement was scathing of the... - Australian Content Broadcasting (1 speech)
[by video link] Australian stories told through feature films, documentaries and television series are a way of preserving and promoting Australia's culture, identity and history. From Underbelly... - COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
The delta variant is changing the way we think about COVID and children. It's transmitting to children more easily and making them sicker. As we've seen in Queensland and New South Wales, schools... - Brisbane Olympic Games: Netball (1 speech)
What an Olympics we've just seen, with some very interesting new sports: rock climbing, or sport climbing; three-on-three basketball; skateboarding—congratulations to Keegan Palmer; and... - COVID-19: Morrison Government (1 speech)
[by video link]. Very disappointingly, I'm joining the Senate today from Cairns, which is in lockdown. We started a three-day lockdown yesterday at four o'clock. Although the community are doing... - Western Australia: Greek Community (1 speech)
In the few moments that are available to me, I want to stand here with my other Western Australian colleagues, Senator Cash, Senator Brockman, Senator O'Sullivan and Senator Reynolds, and...
