Senate debates

Thursday, 22 March 2018

  • Taxation (17 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. Analysis by the Prime Minister's former employer Goldman Sachs has found that up to 60 per cent of the Turnbull...
  • Employment (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Senator Cash. Can the minister update the Senate about today's figures from the ABS in relation to Australian jobs?
  • Defence Industry (12 speeches)
    My question without notice is for the Minister representing the Minister for Defence Industry, Senator Payne. I refer to the Prime Minister, who, prior to the 2016 election, emphatically denied...
  • Privacy Act 1988 (13 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Attorney-General, Senator Cash. The majority of Australians mistakenly believe that political parties must abide by the Privacy Act. However, since...
  • Schools (19 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Education and Training, Senator Birmingham. The Australian today revealed that the anger stemming from the government's decision to rip out $250 million of...
  • Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (8 speeches)
    My question is directed to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann. In this chamber last year I asked the government why it wouldn't agree to a royal commission into our finance sector. Former...
  • Health Care (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator McKenzie. Can the minister outline to the Senate how the Turnbull government's record investment in hospitals across...
  • Murray-Darling Basin (12 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Minister Canavan. Minister, yesterday Fairfax reported the former water minister Barnaby Joyce...
  • Taxation (45 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services, Senator Fierravanti-Wells. Yesterday the minister was forced to correct her misleading statements made in the Senate...