Senate debates

Wednesday, 4 May 2016

  • Budget (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Finance, the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Cormann. Can the minister update the Senate on the government's plan for jobs and growth in our economy?
  • Housing Affordability (12 speeches)
    My question is to the minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. On ABC radio this morning the Prime Minister, in response to Jon Faine saying his own kids were locked out of the...
  • Budget (12 speeches)
    My question is to the minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. Last night, the budget did not mention global warming once, not a peep. The Treasurer's speech completely ignored...
  • Goods and Services Tax (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. Two years ago I first stood in this place to ask your government the first of my four questions about Western Australians being robbed...
  • Budget (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Regional Development, Senator Nash. Can the minister update the Senate about the benefits which will flow to regional Australia as a result of the recent...
  • Telecommunications (20 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield. In April 2016 a bus driver was walking with a school group in the historic rural town of Walhalla, in my state of Victoria,...
  • Budget (16 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. Can the minister confirm that the 2014 Abbott-Hockey budget forecast a deficit for 2016 of $10.6 billion, which has now blown out in...
  • Trade (11 speeches)
    My question is to the Cabinet Secretary, Senator Sinodinos, representing the Minister for Trade and Investment. How is the government's success in securing free trade agreements benefiting...