- Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Bill 2023; Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
I move: That the amendments be agreed to. These amendments will clarify that it's the Special Minister of State who is the identified minister where the bill references the minister. They will... - Parliamentary Workplace Support Service (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023; Consideration of Senate Message (1 speech)
I move: That the amendments be agreed to. These amendments provide for a sunset clause for one part of the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Act 2023 from commencement. Question agreed to. - Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023; Second Reading (3 speeches)
Many years ago, a wise lecturer said, in my criminology and sentencing class, that he believed that future wars would be fought over water. At the time, I thought that that sounded a little...