Senate debates
Tuesday, 20 August 2024
- Labor Government (1 speech)
Under this weak Labor Prime Minister, Australians are hurting more than ever, yet our weak Prime Minister refuses to acknowledge how tough things really are. We've got a prime minister with the... - South Australia (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the great state of South Australia, and I'll give you my top 3 for the week in SA. We are kicking goals all across the field right now. On Saturday, the mighty Port... - Housing (1 speech)
I'm from Queensland, which last week earned the title of the homelessness capital of Australia. Two in three Queenslanders are struggling to pay their rent or meet their mortgage repayments,... - E-Cigarettes and Vaping Products (1 speech)
In just under six weeks the legislation that we passed in here that will mean vapes will be sold by pharmacies and pharmacies alone comes into effect. Before we get to that six weeks, there will... - Road Safety (1 speech)
In June last year I spoke about the enforcement anomalies that face our hardworking truck drivers every day in Queensland, New South Wales, ACT, Victoria and South Australia—but not in my... - Tasmania: Economy (1 speech)
Saul Eslake has delivered his report on the state of Tasmania's books, and it's not pretty. We are broke. According to Mr Eslake, Tasmania's financial position will become worse than that of any... - Western Australia: Health Care (1 speech)
In July this year, paramedics across Western Australia spent more than 6½ thousand hours waiting outside our hospitals in a queue—waiting to ensure that their patients got the hospital... - Ukraine (1 speech)
This Saturday marks Ukraine's Independence Day, which celebrates the country's declaration of independence on 24 August 1991. Although this war appears to no longer be newsworthy in light of... - Albanese Government (1 speech)
If Prime Minister Albanese isn't careful, he is going to sleepwalk Australia into a government led by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Dutton. Mr Albanese, acting like a diet version of Mr... - Donations to Political Parties (1 speech)
Yesterday, we heard a lot about political donations and the CFMEU—the coalition bashing the government, the government bashing the Greens, the Greens then trying to bash the government, and... - Vietnam Veterans' Day (1 speech)
I rise today to commemorate and to add to the many remarks that have been made over the weekend just past to honour Vietnam Veterans' Day. It was 1962 when the first Australian servicemen arrived... - Rinehart, Mrs Georgina, AO (1 speech)
The 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games will go down in history as Australia's most successful in terms of gold medals—all 18 of them! Olympic success at such an unprecedented scale requires... - Environment (1 speech)
I speak today on WA's Scott Reef. The Environmental Protection Authority of WA has recently ruled that Woodside's plan to drill for oil and gas in the Scott Reef would cause unacceptable impacts... - Low-Carbon Liquid Fuels (1 speech)
Australia's overreliance on imported liquid fuels threatens our energy security and therefore is a great threat to our national security. The aviation industry, one of the hardest to decarbonise,... - Australian Greens (2 speeches)
Yesterday, here in the Senate, a lot happened. But I'm not sure if everyone noticed that a Queensland Greens senator stood up and said that the only way to get real change is to vote for the...
