Senate debates

Friday, 16 June 2006

• Notices (0 speeches)
  • Presentation (0 speeches)
    Senator Forshaw to move on the next day of sitting: That the following matter be referred to the Finance and Public Administration References Committee for inquiry and report by 19 October 2006:...
• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Electoral Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
  • Second Reading (77 speeches)
    Debate resumed from 13 June, on motion by Senator Kemp: That this bill be now read a second time.
• Adjournment (0 speeches)
  • (1 speech)
    Order! It being 3.45 pm, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
  • Queensland: Infrastructure (1 speech)
    If I am frustrated, as Senator O’Brien says, it is from hearing the same speech by 20 different Labor people today! The unions have obviously stirred them up for this because they see that...
  • Immigration Policy (1 speech)
    I rise today to speak about a significant remembrance ceremony which is held annually on 14 June and the way it relates to multiculturalism in Australian society today. An event to mark this...
  • Sri Lanka: Tamil Tigers (1 speech)
    I rise this afternoon to make some remarks about the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the civil conflict occurring in Sri Lanka. This separatist Tamil movement sparked a bloody civil war that...