Senate debates
Tuesday, 21 August 2018
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Shadow Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I advise that the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Shorten, has announced variations to the composition of the shadow ministry. These involve the promotion of three women, two of them...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Liberal Party Leadership (20 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Senator Fierravanti-Wells. Does the minister retain full confidence in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull?
- Manufacturing (13 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Senator Cash: Can the minister update the Senate on how the Turnbull government's policies are helping the manufacturing sector in Australia?
- Liberal Party Leadership (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Communications, Senator McKenzie. Does the minister retain full confidence in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull?
- Climate Change (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. Today, Minister, 117 bushfires are burning across the country, 100 per cent of the state of New South Wales is...
- Defence Equipment (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne. Can the minister update the Senate about the capability of Australia's new P-8 Poseidon aircraft and how that's contributing to...
- Liberal Party Leadership (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. I refer to reports that, following this morning's leadership ballot in the Liberal party room, Prime Minister...
- Pensions and Benefits (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services, Senator Fierravanti-Wells. How is the budget giving greater choice to age pension recipients, particularly in...
- Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Attorney-General. Since the Senate agreed to my motion for the terms of reference for the royal commission into banking to be extended to include...
- Liberal Party Leadership (22 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator McKenzie. I refer to reports that the member for Dickson, Peter Dutton, was running a joint ticket with the member for...
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Law Enforcement and Cyber Security, Senator Fifield. Will the minister update the Senate on actions the government is taking to give...
- Liberal Party Leadership (8 speeches)
Mr President, my question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Payne. In an interview on 2GB radio yesterday, when asked whether she supports Prime Minister...
- Pensions and Benefits (8 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services, Senator Fierravanti-Wells. Could the minister update the Senate on the recent release of the Australian Priority...
- Liberal Party Leadership (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. I refer to the former Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Peter Dutton, who this afternoon said: … I believe I had...
- Broadband (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Communications, Senator McKenzie. Can the minister update the Senate on what the coalition government is doing to deliver reliable internet to some of...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Liberal Party Leadership (7 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for International Development and the Pacific (Senator Fierravanti-Wells) and the Minister for Regional Communications...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Cormann) to a question without notice asked by Senator Hanson-Young today relating to climate change...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
I withdraw general business notice of motion No. 976 standing in my name for today.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
On behalf of Senator Birmingham, I move: That consideration of the business before the Senate on Tuesday, 21 August 2018 be interrupted at approximately 5 pm, but not so as to interrupt a senator...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Love Your Body Week (1 speech)
At the request of Senator O'Neill, I move: That the Senate: (a) notes that: (i) Love Your Body Week is from 3 to 9 September 2018 and is Butterfly's annual awareness campaign,...
- World Humanitarian Day (1 speech)
At the request of Senators Singh and Moore, I move: That the Senate: (a) notes that 19 August 2018 was World Humanitarian Day, and this year's theme is #NotATarget, recognising that humanitarian...
- Australian Bravery Decorations (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate: (a) notes the announcement of the Australian Bravery Decorations by the Governor-General, among which: (i) 1 person has received the Star of Courage for acts...
- Lyons, Dame Enid Muriel, AD, GBE, Tangney, Dame Dorothy Margaret, DBE (3 speeches)
I ask that Senator Urquhart's name be added to government business notice of motion No. 988 standing in my name.
- Energy (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Chisholm, I move: That the Senate calls on the Federal Government to implement an energy policy that both: (a) lowers energy prices for both households and businesses;...
- India: Floods (4 speeches)
At the request of Senators Wong and Singh, I move: That the Senate: (a) expresses its deepest sympathy to the people affected by the devastating floods in southern India's Kerala state; (b) notes...
- Global Citizen (3 speeches)
I ask that Senator Rice's name be added to government business notice of motion No. 986 standing in the name of Senator Moore.
- Annan, Mr Kofi, Myanmar (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate: (a) acknowledges the passing of Kofi Annan on 18 August 2018, and expresses its condolences to his family; (b) notes that 19 August 2018 marked World Humanitarian Day,...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Indigenous Affairs (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate: (a) acknowledges the release of the report by Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Healing Foundation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Stolen...
- Regulation of Energy Retailers (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate: (a) acknowledges that deregulating energy retailing has enriched the big energy companies and has completely failed to benefit consumers; (b) notes that energy retailing...
- Sustainable Hunting Practices (4 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 922 standing in my name for today relating to sustainable hunting practices. Leave granted. I move the motion as amended: That the...
- Australian Greens (1 speech)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 994 standing in my name and the names of senators Bernardi and Anning for today relating to the Australian Greens handling of...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Turnbull Government (10 speeches)
I inform the Senate that at 8.30 am today three proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Inter-Parliamentary Union: 138th Assembly (1 speech)
by leave—I table and present the report of the Australian parliamentary delegation to the 138th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, which was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 24 to...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
by leave—I table a non-conforming petition relating to live export in Townsville.
- First Speech (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Pursuant to order, I call Senator Faruqi to make her first speech, and I ask that honourable senators extend the usual courtesies to her.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Lyons, Dame Enid Muriel, AD, GBE (13 speeches)
On behalf of the Minister for Women, Ms O'Dwyer, I table a ministerial statement on the commemoration of Enid Lyons's election to parliament.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Live Animal Exports, Glyphosate (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak briefly on a couple of very important issues for my home state of Western Australia, in particular the live export trade and the recent events in the United States that...
- Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, Middle East (1 speech)
I rise tonight to congratulate a tremendous organisation, the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, on another successful annual dinner. The APAN annual dinner was held in Parramatta last Friday...
- Inequality in Australia Report (1 speech)
Tonight I rise to speak on the ACOSS, Australian Council of Social Service, and University of New South Wales report Inequality in Australia2018, which was released last month. This report...
- Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the banking royal commission. After having a total hip replacement six or seven weeks ago, I spent some time at home after a week in hospital and found it very interesting...
- Vietnam Veterans Day (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about Vietnam Veterans Day, which is commemorated on 18 August each year. Vietnam Veterans Day has a long history. It goes back originally to the Battle of Long Tan. Over a...
- Palmer, Mr Clive (1 speech)
When I see a sign saying, 'Bill stickers will be prosecuted', I'm heartened when I then see graffiti tagged on the sign saying, 'Bill Stickers is innocent.' But one person whose innocence is in...
- Frusher, Mr Douglas Boyd (1 speech)
I want to take a few moments of the Senate's time to commemorate the contribution to the Transport Workers Union of Douglas Frusher. Doug died on 27 June 2018. On 17 August 2018, last Friday, I...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak about the aged-care home-care package waiting list, which is blowing out under this incompetent and inept government. It's important that the severity of the crisis...
- Goods and Services Tax: Sanitary Products (1 speech)
For 18 years, menstruating Australians have been unfairly taxed on their periods. The tax on our sanitary products provides marginal economic value to the states. But, in doing so, it places a...
- Cambodia: General Election, Uygur People (1 speech)
I rise tonight to raise the dire situation in Cambodia and condemn the sham election which recently took place. Cambodia is a beautiful country, culturally rich and vibrant. The Cambodian people...
- Rohingya People (1 speech)
The Cox's Bazar region on the border of Bangladesh and Myanmar has become the temporary home for more than 900,000 Rohingya people who have been fleeing violence in Myanmar. The latest influx of...
- Tangney, Dame Dorothy Margaret, DBE (1 speech)
I rise tonight to remark on a very important occasion. On this day 75 years ago Dorothy Tangney made history by being the first woman elected to this place, the Australian Senate. During her 25...
