Senate debates
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Estimates 2014 (1 speech)
I move: Senator Fifield: I move: (1) That estimates hearings by legislation committees for 2014 be scheduled as follows: 2013-14 additional estimates: Monday, 24 February and Tuesday,...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing Orders (6 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the Australian Greens from moving the following motion: That the Senate calls on the Attorney-General to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Interest (0 speeches)
- Foreign Investment (3 speeches)
Today I rise to talk about something that the press has been full of in recent times—that is, the proposed takeover of GrainCorp by ADM. I have been very disappointed in most of the...
- Ageing (2 speeches)
I rise today to speak about some of the challenges that an ageing population presents for Australia. Plenty of people have spoken in this chamber and in the other place about these challenges...
- Defence (1 speech)
Abraham Lincoln has been credited with the statement comparing a politician to a statesman, saying the difference is that a politician has an eye on the next election, whereas a statesman has an...
- Blue Mountains Bushfires (1 speech)
I rise on a matter of public importance, the serious policy issues arising from the experience of the Blue Mountains bushfires. It is now 48 days since the bushfires in the Blue Mountains. There...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Before I call Senator Brandis I acknowledge in the President's Gallery the presence of former senator Sandy Macdonald. Welcome to question time. Honourable senators: Hear, hear!
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- National Security (1 speech)
by leave—Yesterday, search warrants were executed at premises in Canberra by officers of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and, in the course of the execution of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia (11 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Health, Senator Nash. Did the Prime Minister write to the Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia on 14 October? Did that letter say: 'I look...
- Economy (24 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer, Senator Sinodinos. Can the Assistant Treasurer update the Senate on the state of the Australian economy?
- Education Funding (12 speeches)
My question without notice is to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. Does the government still maintain the view, as expressed by the Minister for Education only last week, that...
- Asylum Seekers (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration, Minister Cash. I refer the minister to the Minister for Immigration's announcement today that there will be a freeze on...
- Government Policy (11 speeches)
My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Abetz. Will the minister update the Senate on the government's plans to build a stronger Australia and thereby reflect the...
- Superannuation (29 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer, Senator Sinodinos. Is the minister aware of the census data analysis, undertaken by the Australia Institute, of the electorate-by-electorate impact of...
- Ayers Rock Resort (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Senator Scullion. Can the minister advise the Senate about the benefits that the Ayers Rock Resort is offering Indigenous Australians in...
- Road Infrastructure (6 speeches)
My question is to Senator Johnston, representing the Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. In Adelaide, the South Road project is part of the north-south corridor, an economically...
- Asylum Seekers (6 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Senator Cash. Can the minister advise the Senate of the current capacity, how many people are currently held and...
- Human Services: Online Service Delivery (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Human Services, Senator Payne. I refer the minister to the government's provision of online services. Can the minister please explain how the government is...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Education Funding (9 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Human Services (Senator Payne) to a question without notice asked by Senator Carr today relating to schools funding. The...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (Senator Cash) to a question without notice asked by Senator Hanson-Young...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I table information in relation to questions asked of me by Senator Wong in question time today.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
I seek leave to take note of the documents tabled by Senator Cash in relation to an order for the production of documents concerning border protection that was passed by the Senate yesterday....
- Suspension of Standing Orders (13 speeches)
Pursuant to contingent notice, I move: That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent Senator Hanson-Young moving a motion to take note of documents tabled by Senator Cash in...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (2 speeches)
I move: That a motion relating to a document tabled by a minister in response to an order of the Senate be moved immediately and have precedence over all other business today until determined.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers; Order for the Production of Documents (9 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I thank the Senate for allowing me the opportunity to speak in response to this document as tabled by Senator Cash today. This issue is becoming...
- First Speech (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! Before I call Senator O'Neill, I remind honourable senators that this is her first speech; therefore, I ask that the usual courtesies be extended to her.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (2 speeches)
On behalf of Senator Carr, I ask that business of the Senate notice of motion No. 1 standing in his name for today, proposing a reference to the Economics References Committee relating to the...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Ukraine Famine: Holodomor (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that 2013 is the 80th anniversary of Holodomor, an enforced famine in Ukraine caused by the deliberate actions of Stalin's Communist Government of the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Data Collection (13 speeches)
I inform the Senate that at 8.30 am this morning Senator Bernardi and Senator Siewert each submitted a letter in accordance with standing order 75 proposing a matter of public importance. The...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Scrutiny of Bills Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of Senator Polley, I present the report and Alert Digestof the Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills. Ordered that the report be printed. I move: That the Senate take note of the...
- Regulations and Ordinances Committee; Delegated Legislation Monitor (1 speech)
On behalf of Senator Edwards, I present the Delegated Legislation Monitor No. 8 of 2013 of the Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances. Ordered that the report be printed. I move: That...
- Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Chair of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee, I present the report on the ownership arrangements of grain handling, together with the Hansard record...
- Membership (2 speeches)
The President has received letters from party leaders requesting changes in the membership of committees.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics References Committee; Reference (4 speeches)
I rise to speak on the motion to refer the provisions of this bill to the Economics References Committee. One of the disappointments, of course, is opposition, but one of the little joys you can...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Ayers Rock Resort (1 speech)
One of the things that disheartens me is not only the sad stories about hardship, disadvantage and disconnection in remote Indigenous communities; what is more important and what has a bigger...
- Owens, Mr James Cleveland (1 speech)
Tonight I rise to speak about James Cleveland Owens, better known as Jesse Owens, who was born a century ago on 13 September 1913 in Oakville, Alabama. He was the child of freed slaves and...
- Legal Aid Funding (1 speech)
I rise tonight to tell the story of a woman I will identify as 'Sharon'. Sharon's real name is different and has been changed for this speech as well as media reports to protect her identity for...
- Petroleum Industry (1 speech)
This information may shock, but Australian fuel petroleum reserves stand at just 23 days. Furthermore, Australia is almost totally dependent on Singapore refineries for our fuel supplies. In...
