Senate debates
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
- Age of Consent (1 speech)
In 1977 a group of French leftist intellectuals signed a petition for children to be able to legally give sexual consent. Now, there are some sections of society that have wanted to lower the age... - Tasmania: Hillwood Berries (1 speech)
I rise to speak about a recent visit to Hillwood Berries farms, at Hillwood in northern Tasmania. Hillwood Berries is a national supplier of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and... - Iraq War (1 speech)
The Australian Senate spent an hour today debating a motion around the one-year anniversary of the war of aggression by the Russian government on the sovereign state of Ukraine, an illegal,... - Tasmania: Callington Mill (1 speech)
If you were to assign a symbol that would recognise human ingenuity and encapsulate the technological advancement of our society, what would it be? A plane or a car? Perhaps a computer, or... - Homelessness (1 speech)
Hear, hear for Oatlands! I love me a bit of Oatlands. What kind of words are there to describe what it's like to be homeless? Is it possible to really communicate what it feels like to someone... - Northern Territory: Housing (1 speech)
I want to talk today about priorities. There are few matters more fundamental to government than the safety of its citizens. Providing the conditions for safety and prosperity should be No. 1,... - New South Wales Government (1 speech)
Sometimes the happenings of New South Wales politics are so deeply dystopian it seems like it couldn't really be that bad. Surely, you'd think, no serious adults could behave like that, but then... - Cashless Debit Card (1 speech)
Last week, I did something that the Prime Minister of Australia still hasn't bothered to do. I visited the Western Australian northern Goldfields towns of Laverton and Leonora. The people of... - Victoria: Heavy Vehicles, Pensions and Benefits, Tibetan Uprising Day (1 speech)
In 2015 the residents of Footscray, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, secured a curfew on heavy trucks from the Andrews Labor government. Footscray is my home, so I know what a huge win this... - Freedom of Religion (1 speech)
I rise to speak this evening in relation to the Labor government's review of religious educational institutions and anti-discrimination laws, which, to be frank, has become an absolute car... - Therapeutic Goods Administration (1 speech)
In my capacity serving the people of Queensland and Australia, I note that during the last Senate estimate hearings, Adjunct Professor John Skerritt, Deputy Secretary, Health Products Regulation... - COVID-19: Vaccination (11 speeches)
If there's one thing I've learnt in my 3½ years of being a senator it's that, if anyone thinks that this country is being run by the people in this chamber or in the other place, they are...
