Senate debates
Thursday, 21 November 2024
- Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Communications) Bill 2024 (1 speech)
When Labor introduced the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Communications) Bill 2024 earlier this week, it represented the greatest attack on free and fair elections in my lifetime.... - PricewaterhouseCoopers (1 speech)
I want to take note of two articles that have been published just in recent hours: one by David Ross from the Australian Business Review, entitled 'Former PwC partner Paul McNab points the finger... - Australian Defence Force, Legalising Cannabis Bill 2023 (1 speech)
The 2024 Defence workplace experience survey results were squeezed out of Defence in Senate estimates and they are pretty ugly reading for Defence leadership. Support for senior leadership in the... - Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
Access to banking services is absolutely an essential right. Without a bank account people cannot really buy food, they can't really pay their rent and they cannot basically live. Recently, I met... - Energy (1 speech)
I recently had the opportunity to meet with Karrina Nolan from the First Nations Clean Energy Network to discuss how Australia can maximise the economic and industrial benefits of the move to net... - Veterans (1 speech)
With a federal election coming up soon, hopefully Tasmanians will give me another go. But no matter what happens, I'm not done fighting for our veterans. We're a long way off from getting what we... - Tobacco Regulation (1 speech)
In an inquiry regarding therapeutic amendments for vaping three months ago, at the end of the inquiry I asked the department, 'What does failure look like?' They said, 'We haven't looked at... - Cost of Living (1 speech)
There's no doubt that many Australian households are doing it tough right now because of the cost-of-living crisis that we inherited from the previous government. It takes a long time to turn... - Raise Our Voice in Parliament (1 speech)
Today I am reading a speech from Dana, a young person from my state, South Australia. This is part of the Raise Our Voice in Parliament campaign, which amplifies the voices of young people and... - Albanese Government (1 speech)
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say,' and in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis we've got the government prioritising giving millions more... - Housing (1 speech)
With Dr Jim Chalmers running the Treasury in Australia, sometimes I wonder whether I am in Argentina or Venezuela. It is true that we are in Australia, but we have a bizarre situation where the... - One Nation (1 speech)
As frequently happens, the Senate is dealing with a tangled mess of legislation that is flawed in design and will have unintended consequences. That's inevitable when pressure groups run the... - Prahran Post Office, Science (1 speech)
The Greens join the Prahran community in calling on the government to stop the closure of the Prahran AusPost in Pran Central. This post office, which is slated for closure on 22 November, is a... - Multicultural Media Organisations (1 speech)
Multicultural media organisations are the glue that hold our communities together, catering to diverse voices and telling incredible stories. Longstanding mastheads such as Il Globo, the... - Student Visas (4 speeches)
There's an old saying that goes: when you get caught with your hand in the cookie jar, deny it's your hand. Senator Henderson has given that an award-winning rendition. The Sydney Morning Herald...
