Senate debates
Tuesday, 10 August 2021
- Climate Change (1 speech)
[by video link] The latest report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has found that South Australia is already facing more extreme heat, drought and catastrophic bushfires and... - Medical Workforce (1 speech)
[by video link] I rise to pay tribute to doctors and health professionals everywhere, but especially those in our rural towns and those who train them. James Cook University in my home town of... - Climate Change (1 speech)
[by video link] Yesterday's report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was described as a code red for humanity by none other than the UN Secretary-General. He said: The alarm bells... - Newman, Mr Campbell Kevin Thomas, AO (1 speech)
I'd like to commend the actions of all South-East Queenslanders over the last few days in taking serious steps to ensure that we could emerge from lockdown. I also express my concern for... - COVID-19: International Travel (1 speech)
[by video link] It is time to close Australia's international border to non-Australian citizens and protect our nation from state premiers obsessed with endless lockdowns triggered by imported... - Climate Change (1 speech)
This morning we saw some Australians exercising their democratic right to protest out the front of this building. Unfortunately some of them did not do so in a respectful way, and they deserve to... - Tokyo Olympic Games, Gambling Advertising (1 speech)
[by video link] I'd like to begin by congratulating our Olympic squad on their fantastic performance in Tokyo. One thing that makes the Olympics special is its power to bring us together in one... - Census (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the 2021 census. It's a critically important survey of our nation which has tremendous impact on the work of parliament. I want to call out a campaign led by Humanists... - Climate Change (1 speech)
This morning, we saw an act of complete bastardry against the Australian people here at Australian Parliament House. The Greens support group Extinction Rebellion vandalised this place—the... - Defence Equipment, Defence Procurement (1 speech)
Hardly a month goes by without a warning, a prediction or a story about a Defence project that is over budget, running late or failing to deliver. Today, again, shipbuilding is in the news. The... - Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
[by video link] I want to update the Senate on the refugees held in Darwin. We've had big changes in the last 24 hours. Mojtaba, his wife, Afsaneh, and their son Benham, who were waiting to go to... - Aquaculture Industry (1 speech)
Last week big, aggressive, foreign-owned, multinational corporation JBS announced it is buying into Huon Aquaculture, diving into the troubled, divisive and controversial Tasmanian salmon... - Magnitsky, Mr Sergei (1 speech)
Yesterday in this place there was a discussion in relation to global Magnitsky laws. I think it is incredibly important that whenever we discuss these laws we remember and pay tribute to the man... - Sterling Income Trust (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to express my dismay that victims of the Sterling Income Trust collapse have been left out of the compensation scheme of last resort as currently drafted by Treasury. There... - Climate Change (1 speech)
Today we saw a disgraceful shutting down of debate by the Morrison government when Labor, in this place, tried to move an urgency motion to discuss the IPCC's latest report. It came out last...
