• Former Liberal Party Senator for SA
• Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (since 28 May 2025)
  Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care (since 5 Jun 2022)
• Became a Senator on — unknown
• Left Senate on n/a — Still in office

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Statements by Senators: Senior Australians (19 Aug 2026)

“There is a generation of Australians who built this country. They worked, they paid their taxes, they raised their families, and they were told that, if they did the right thing, the country would look after them when they needed it. This week, older Australians learned what that promise is worth to this government because this is a government that has decided which Australians are worth...”

Motions: Aged Care (18 Aug 2026)

“I stand also to support the urgency of the issue that has been put forward by Senator Allman-Payne because the evidence before us is absolutely damning. The integrated assessment tool is not working, and there is not one piece of evidence to suggest that it is. This is no longer about a few teething problems. This is a systematic structural flaw in the algorithm that is put in charge of...”

Motions: Aged Care (18 Aug 2026)

“I'd ask the people of Australia: do you think it is urgent that we should make changes to a computer algorithm that is making decisions about older Australians that is causing them to die while they wait for the care that they need? I don't believe that there is any more urgent thing that we should be doing in this place or the other place. The fact is that this place has already passed...”

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• Has spoken in 89 debates in the last year — above average amongst Senators.
• People have made 0 comments on this Senator's speeches — average amongst Senators.
• 10 people are tracking whenever this Senator speaks .
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 1201 times in debates — well above average amongst Senators. (Why is this here?)