Senate debates
Monday, 1 August 2022
- Revie, Mrs Annie (1 speech)
On a different topic, today I would like to acknowledge the work of Mrs Annie Revie, who has resigned from the Flinders Council after serving as mayor of this beautiful island paradise for almost... - Roach, Uncle Archibald William AM (2 speeches)
I want to say a few words about the late Archie Roach. I remember sitting under my bower shed in Broome with Mr Bill Johnston, the late British actor Pete Postlethwaite and Archie. Archie and... - Canice's Kitchen (1 speech)
I want to give a plug to Canice's Kitchen in Elizabeth Bay in Sydney. It has been providing meals and services for more than 30 years to people who are doing it tough. This year I'm going to be... - Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, Superannuation (1 speech)
I rise to give tribute to the very hard work of the SDA 'shoppies' union, who, along with others in the trade union movement, notably the ASU and the ANMF, fought very, very hard in the last... - Commonwealth Integrity Commission (1 speech)
I'm meeting this week with Attorney-General Dreyfus to review the planned national anticorruption commission. I'll be taking One Nation's position to the Attorney-General—that checks and... - Australian Parliament (1 speech)
It's passing strange that, in a world like the one we're living in today, with all of the challenges households and businesses face, we'd be debating something at least in the public domain like... - Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures (1 speech)
I would like to just share with the Senate an incredible weekend with the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land and take this opportunity in the minute and a half that I have to thank all of... - 47th Parliament (1 speech)
This country is changing, our community is changing and our parliament is changing. More than half of us were born overseas or have a parent born overseas and a quarter of us have a non-European... - Climate Change (1 speech)
I know this is not my first speech. I rise today to speak of the sheer madness of the government's plan to deindustrialise and shut down Australia in pursuit of an unachievable fantasy of net... - Australian Constitution: First Nations Voice (1 speech)
Many complex issues come before this parliament. With all of them I am open-minded and ambitious but also pragmatic. Take Labor's 43 per cent emissions reduction target. I'm supportive of the... - Abortion (1 speech)
Beryl Holmes, one of the co-founders of Queensland's Children by Choice, described the campaign for abortion rights as 'one of the oldest and hardest-fought of women's political struggles', and,... - Superannuation (1 speech)
No sooner had the electoral writs been signed than Labor's new finance minister, Stephen Jones, had come out and said that Labor were going to look at investigating raising the superannuation... - Arts and Culture (1 speech)
It was exciting to join Minister for the Arts Tony Burke in Hobart, recently, for the first of a series of meetings across Australia to consult on a national cultural policy. The hundred or so... - Tasmania (1 speech)
The former coalition government had 10 years to deliver for Tasmania, and they didn't. They failed miserably. A majority Albanese Labor government outlined a holistic plan during the election...
