Senate debates
Monday, 6 March 2023
- Superannuation: Taxation (1 speech)
TH () (): I rise to provide a two-minute statement about Labor's proposed super changes. My speech will take no longer than two minutes, but somehow it'll still be longer than Labor's so-called... - International Women's Day (1 speech)
On Friday, I joined Ged Kearney at Preston High School and got to speak to a bunch of students, mothers and grandmothers about International Women's Day. We discussed equality and equity in the... - Fox News (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the absolute shame and horror of what is unfolding in the Fox News court case in America right now. We've known for a long time that the Murdoch machine has not been... - Superannuation: Taxation (1 speech)
With this government, the devil is always in the detail, and that's what we'll find as we dig into their broken promise on superannuation. Already, once the guidance has come out on how this is... - Rare Disease Day (1 speech)
February 28 marked Rare Disease Day. Approximately eight per cent of Australians are currently living with a rare disease. That's about two million Australians. There are some 7,000 rare diseases... - Gender Equality (1 speech)
Last month we welcomed our first grandchild, a boy, and I thank the Senate for that leave of absence. Observing the world that my grandson has been born into, I know he will need to fight the... - Blood Contamination (1 speech)
Today I want to raise the plight of thousands of Australians who became severely ill or died after being infected with blood containing hepatitis C or HIV between the 1970s and the early 1990s,... - Koalas (1 speech)
Koalas were declared endangered in New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT, but our regional communities are working hard, particularly in New South Wales, to deliver change and to deliver... - Iraq, Ukraine (1 speech)
Twenty years ago, in March 2003, I was the most angry I've ever been in my life, when I realised my country was participating in an illegal, immoral war of aggression on another nation. I wasn't... - Covid-19 (1 speech)
For three years, we've been censored, cancelled and ridiculed for simply questioning 'the science'. The truth always comes out, one way or another, and the flood gates have opened. We're now... - Homelessness (1 speech)
Everyone here would have slept with a roof over their heads last night. I share with you now, with the permission of this family, a story of a family who didn't. This is a cruel eye-watering... - Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
Last year, at least 61 women were killed by violence in Australia. That's more than one woman per week. Already, in 2023, at least six women have been killed. We've all heard these figures, but... - National Radioactive Waste Management Facility (1 speech)
I rise in solidarity with the Barngarla traditional owners, who are in the Federal Court today to overturn the decision to construct a nuclear waste dump on their lands at Napandee, near Kimba on... - Golden Shears (1 speech)
We know there's always a healthy competition between Australia and our friends across the ditch in New Zealand, and one such competition is shearing. Shearing is a massive sport in New Zealand,... - National Reconstruction Fund (2 speeches)
The COVID pandemic highlighted Australia's vulnerability at the end of global supply chains and put on display the consequences of a decade of coalition government neglect for Australian...
