Senate debates
Tuesday, 28 March 2017
- Therapeutic Goods Administration (1 speech)
Last Thursday, 23 March, the Therapeutic Goods Administration's joint advisory committee on chemicals and medicines scheduling rejected an application made by the New Nicotine Alliance to permit... - Cyclone Debbie (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak on something which I think most Queenslanders, certainly, and most Australians have been monitoring closely over the last few days, the impact of Tropical Cyclone Debbie,... - Mental Health, Carers (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about a recently released report, The economic value of informal mental health caring in Australia. The report was published last Thursday—it was launched here in... - Steel and Aluminium Imports (1 speech)
I rise to speak on an issue that is incredibly important to Australia, the future of the metals-manufacturing industry in this country. In the metals-manufacturing sector, steel and aluminium... - Project365byCampbell (1 speech)
It is a pleasure to rise tonight to continue my contributions to this place on the positive and good things coming out of Tasmania. Tonight it is a real pleasure to speak about a remarkable young... - Workplace Relations (1 speech)
On this night when Cyclone Debbie is wreaking havoc on our fellow Australians in Queensland, I would also like to acknowledge that I understand you will always be Queenslanders first but as a... - Great Barrier Reef (1 speech)
I rise tonight to put on record my alarm, anger, frustration and sadness at what is happening in the Great Barrier Reef at the moment. The whole world is hearing about a second back-to-back mass... - Burry, Mr Andrew (1 speech)
It is with sadness that I rise this evening to acknowledge the passing of Andrew Burry. His passing, this week, has come as a great shock to a great many people. Now is not the time for long... - 1800respect (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the 1800RESPECT service because over the past few months there has been a real concern about this service. This is what happens when something is not quite right, because we... - Western Australia: Goods and Services Tax (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about Western Australia and the GST. It is obvious to people in this chamber that the McGowan Labor government was swept into power a couple of weeks ago in Western... - Resources Industry (1 speech)
Last month I had the great privilege of attending Investing in African Mining Indaba 2017, or Indaba 2017, representing the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Senator Canavan and also... - Aged Care (1 speech)
On many occasions I have spoken in this chamber about the importance and the priority that this government has failed to give to the ageing population of this country. We know that there have... - Climate Change (1 speech)
I want to talk tonight about the impacts of global warming. I watched in horror recently as senior government ministers handed around a lump coal in the House of Representatives and laughed,... - Free-to-Air Television (1 speech)
It gives me great pleasure to rise tonight to participate in the adjournment debate. Last Monday evening I attended the first function held by the Parliamentary Friends of Free TV, here in... - Nuclear Weapons (1 speech)
I rise to highlight that this week, at the United Nations in New York, over 120 countries are taking part in negotiations for a new global nuclear weapons treaty. For more than two decades,... - Immigration (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the problems of immigration from Islamic countries. Australia is one of four settler countries. The others are New Zealand, Canada and the United States. Immigrants to... - Cheverton, Mr Jeff (2 speeches)
My friend Jeff Cheverton died on 2 March this year. When the news was shared around the many networks who had had the privilege of knowing this remarkable and wonderful man there was a sense of... - Turnbull Government (1 speech)
I acknowledge Australia's historic nation forged by Christian explorers and pioneers from Britain and other European lands, which created the federal Commonwealth under the Crown, and I... - Illicit Drugs, Kolomeitz, Mr Glenn, Higher Education: Australian Maritime Colleges (1 speech)
A Senate inquiry into crystal methamphetamine heard last week from Holyoake that children in Tasmania as young 10 years of age are smoking ice. Regional areas in Tasmania have the highest rates... - Human Rights (1 speech)
A couple of years ago I had the privilege of being an election observer in Myanmar. One memory stands out in particular: standing in a school quadrangle on a bright afternoon in the regional city... - Middle East: Human Rights, Housing Affordability (1 speech)
Between November 2016 and February 2017, Australian Aletia Dundas was based in the southern Hebron Hills of Palestine, serving as part of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and... - South-West Queensland: Economy (1 speech)
This evening, I would like to bring some highlights of a recent listening tour throughout South-West Queensland. I want to highlight the initiative that people show in Queensland and also... - International Transgender Day of Visibility, AFL Women's League, Senate (1 speech)
Each year on 31 March, the International Transgender Day of Visibility brings the trans and gender-diverse community and their friends, advocates and families together and offers them an...
