Senate debates
Monday, 16 September 2019
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (17 speeches)
It's a pleasure to rise to continue my address-in-reply to the Governor-General's speech to the Senate. I was talking about the importance of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I advise the Senate that Senator Reynolds will be absent from question time today due to ministerial duties. In Senator Reynolds's absence, Senator Payne will represent the Minister for Defence,...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Member for Chisholm (19 speeches)
My question is to Senator Cormann, the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Last week, media reports revealed security agencies had advised former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull not to...
- Registered Organisations (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Industrial Relations, Senator Payne. Can the minister outline how the government is taking action to provide certainty and stability...
- Member for Chisholm (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. Last week the Prime Minister repeatedly referred to a statement by Ms Liu but refused to assure the parliament and...
- Youth Jobs PaTH (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, Senator Cash. Can the minister inform the Senate how a strong budget helps create stability and certainty for...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I acknowledge former Senator Edwards, who has joined us in the gallery today. Welcome back. Honourable senators: Hear, hear!
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. The Murray-Darling Basin is in crisis. The environment is in collapse. Communities are on the brink of having no...
- Prime Minister (21 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. Can you please advise the Senate how many times Prime Minister Morrison referred to former Senator Dastyari as...
- Murray-Darling Basin (13 speeches)
As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, my question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Senator McKenzie. Last Friday I wrote this letter to the Minister for Water Resources,...
- Carers (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families and Social Services, Senator Ruston. Can the minister please advise the Senate how the Morrison government is delivering stability and certainty in the...
- Member for Chisholm (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. The Prime Minister failed to assure the parliament last week that Ms Liu was a fit and proper person. Why?
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts, Senator McKenzie. Can the minister please update the Senate on what the Liberal and...
- Asylum Seekers (8 speeches)
My question is to Minister Cash, representing the Minister for Home Affairs. Home Affairs Minister Dutton told 2GB radio last week that Nades, the father of the family from Biloela that your...
- Energy (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, Senator Birmingham. Analysis from JPMorgan shows that, under the Morrison government's energy crisis,...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Setka, Mr John (2 speeches)
Mr President, I seek leave to make a short statement in relation to threats made by a CFMMEU official towards me, Senator Griff and Senator Lambie over the weekend. Leave is granted. Senators may...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Member for Chisholm (6 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Cormann) to questions without notice asked by Opposition senators today relating to the Member for...
- 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 water resources in...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (3 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Griff for 16 to 19 September and 14 to 17 October 2019, for personal reasons. Question agreed to.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I shall move: That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (8) of standing order 111 not apply to the ANL Legislation Repeal Bill 2019, allowing it to...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Liquefied Natural Gas (4 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senators O'Sullivan and Sterle, move: That the Senate— (a) recognises that Western Australia's North West Shelf celebrated 30 years of liquefied natural gas (LNG)...
- Ivory Trade (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) welcomes the Australian Government's commitment to work with states and territories to end the domestic trade of ivory and rhino horn; and (b) calls on both...
- Climate Change (21 speeches)
I ask that general business notice of motion No. 129 standing in my name for today, relating to climate change, be taken as a formal motion.
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (5 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 132 standing in my name relating to the Prime Minister's Statement of Ministerial Standards. Leave granted. I move the motion as...
- Climate Change (7 speeches)
On a point of order: both the major parties deny denied me leave to make a short statement earlier. In light of your ruling that you didn't hear an affirmative to grant leave, I'd appeal to you...
- Dementia (1 speech)
I ask that the name of Senator Griff be added to general business notice of motion No. 116. I, and also on behalf of Senators Siewert and Griff, move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i)...
- Australian Bushfires (5 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senators McDonald, Stoker, Watt, Scarr and Rennick, move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) southern Queensland and northeast New South Wales have experienced...
- Economy (4 speeches)
We now move to the vote on the motion deferred from Thursday. On Thursday afternoon, after 4.30 pm, a division was called for on a motion moved by Senator Ayres relating to economic policy. I...
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- (9 speeches)
I inform the Senate that, at 8.30 am today, six proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (6 speeches)
I rise to continue my address-in-reply to the Governor-General's speech. Before the break, I was talking about the Minister for the Environment's target to have 100 per cent of Australia's...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Regional Queensland (1 speech)
Just prior to my maiden speech, during the winter break I undertook a two-week regional and rural listening tour of my home state, because on this side of the chamber we take the concerns of the...
- Tasmania: Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
In July this year, the Family Violence Counselling and Support Services North Adult took industrial action with concerns about the lack of budget allocation to their services in relation to...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about the threats posed to our rich marine environment in Western Australia. The Ningaloo Reef is one of the world's last healthy coral reefs. It is home to over 700 reef...
