Senate debates
Tuesday, 13 June 2023
- Rural and Regional Australia: Infrastructure (3 speeches)
We've had a year of Labor and what have we got for it? We've got a raft of broken promises, we've got a country unnecessarily divided over the Voice and absolutely everybody is worse off. But, as... - Health Care: Women (1 speech)
In my first speech to this place, I spoke about my aunty, who, after she gave birth to her daughter some years ago, was separated from her for 17 long weeks. She was separated because my aunty is... - Housing (1 speech)
Australia is experiencing its worst housing crisis in generations. Many renters have seen their rents skyrocket by 20 per cent or more in the last year, with no end in sight. Meanwhile, there are... - Ukraine (1 speech)
We're all seeing that the long-awaited counteroffensive in Ukraine has begun, and brave men and women are beginning their march to eject the unjust and unlawful invaders from their homeland. Day... - Gunida Gunyah Aboriginal Corporation (1 speech)
Gunida Gunyah Aboriginal Corporation is a community services and housing hub in Gunnedah, New South Wales. A few weeks ago, it opened its brand new premises in the middle of Conadilly Street in... - Vocational Education and Training (1 speech)
Labor proudly claim they are the party of TAFE. That's true, but, as a proud parent, shouldn't you be doing more? In the 2022-23 budget, the minister announced free TAFE places and a partnered... - Pharmaceutical Industry (1 speech)
Labor's drug dispensing changes are putting the delivery of vital health services at risk in my home state of Tasmania. There are genuine fears that pharmacies in regional communities will be... - Workplace Relations: Mining Industry (1 speech)
I am a proud supporter of Australian mining. By that I mean I support the hardworking men and women working in our mine sites. They work in remote, difficult and dangerous environments. They... - Environment (1 speech)
It's long, long past time that native forest logging ended in this country. It is an industry that slaughters countless native animals, it poisons our rivers and it contaminates the very air that... - Australian Music Industry (1 speech)
We all love Australian music, from AC/DC and Crowded House to King Stingray, Gordi, Gang of Youths, Mallrat, Jack River, Lime Cordiale, Lucy Sugerman and many, many others. Our nation develops... - Hunter Valley: Bus Crash (1 speech)
At 11.30 on Sunday night in the Hunter Valley, a bus full of people who had been celebrating a wedding had a terrible accident. The Hunter Valley is home to the people of Singleton. Singleton... - Roberts-Smith, Mr Benjamin, VC, MG (1 speech)
Thirteen years ago last Saturday, soldiers from the Australian Special Operations Task Group, supported by the United States and Afghan units, began an offensive against the Taliban stronghold in... - Iran: Human Rights (1 speech)
-JOHN () (): I read to the Senate the words of Mohammad Hashemi, a cousin of Majid Kazemi, who was executed by the Uranian regime. Mohammad is in the chamber with us today. Under normal... - Queensland: Crocodiles (1 speech)
On the weekend my son competed in his first rowing regatta in Rockhampton. I was a proud dad. Unfortunately, river rowing and other river activities in Rockhampton have been restricted for the... - Uganda (1 speech)
The Australian government is very rightly gravely concerned by the Ugandan parliament's passing of the Anti-homosexuality Bill on 21 March this year. These heinous laws implement punishments and... - Hunter Valley: Bus Crash (1 speech)
I seek to state on the record in this chamber my thoughts I tweeted yesterday morning. It was a struggle to find the words to respond to the tragedy in the Hunter. I simply said: Such deep...
