Senate debates
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I have a statement to make relating to parliamentary privilege. By letter dated 17 September, Senator Patrick has raised a matter of privilege concerning comments of Mr John Setka reported in the...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Member for Chisholm (22 speeches)
Gladys Liu is the elected member for Chisholm because a majority of Australians in Chisholm preferred her and the Liberal Party to the Labor alternative. Her Labor opponent was a member of a...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Tasmania (1 speech)
It is an absolute pleasure to take the opportunity to make a contribution in the senators' statements slot for the week. As usual, I'm taking the opportunity to speak about my favourite...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
I rise to speak today on a matter of grave concern to us all: family violence. It's one of the greatest community safety and law and order issues that we face in Australia, and it is the greatest...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
In this place there has quite rightly been a focus on the stain that is this government's approach to the treatment of innocent people seeking asylum and the establishment of offshore prisons to...
- Parliamentary Friends of Basketball (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about the great game of basketball. There has been a lot of coverage of basketball in Australia in recent times, with our Boomers doing very well but, unfortunately, falling...
- Welfare Reform (1 speech)
I rise to talk about this government's plans to impose a cashless debit card on 23,000 people in the Northern Territory. We have a long experience of compulsory income management in the Northern...
- Ministerial Conduct (1 speech)
Trust—as a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I want to speak today about one word—'trust'—and a friend who earned, through hardship, many people's enormous...
- Single-Use Plastic (1 speech)
Our oceans are choking with plastic and other waste, yet conversations within our community are repetitive, and action needs to move at a quicker pace. Single-use plastics are everywhere. Plastic...
- Childhood Cancer Awareness Month (2 speeches)
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, an important opportunity for all of us in this place and in the other place to learn the facts about the most dangerous disease for children....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (31 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Senator Ruston. What is the current wait time for an NDIS package? How many people with a...
- Timor-Leste (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Reynolds. Can the minister please update the Senate on plans to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the INTERFET mission?
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the NDIS, Senator Ruston. I refer to reports on the ABC which show that the Morrison government has propped up its 2018-19 budget...
- Climate Change (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Education, Senator Birmingham. I refer to an article in The Australian today in which the Minister for Education, Mr Tehan, cautioned...
- Agriculture Industry (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Senator McKenzie. Can the minister advise the Senate what the Liberal-National government is doing to support sugarcane farmers across Queensland...
- Aged Care (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians, Senator Colbeck. On 14 September 2017, the Legislated review of aged care, better known as the Tune review, was tabled in...
- Trade with the United Kingdom (8 speeches)
My question is to Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Senator Birmingham. What is the government doing to secure stability and certainty for our exporters interested in improved market...
- Economy (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann, representing the Treasurer. Reserve Bank interest rate cuts and recent tax cuts have not yet proved successful in stimulating our...
- Aged Care (34 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians, Senator Colbeck. Prime Minister Morrison told the St George and Sutherland Shire Leader that aged care was one of three major...
- Mining Industry (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator Canavan. Can the minister please inform the Senate how mining safety practices help improve stability and certainty in...
- Member for Chisholm (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Cash. It's been reported in the Herald Sun today that the member for Chisholm promised she would write...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (9 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Families and Social Services (Senator Ruston) to questions without notice asked by Senators Brown and Gallagher today...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment (Senator Birmingham) to a question without notice asked by Senator Steele-John today...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances, I give notice of my intention, at the giving of notices on the next day of sitting, to withdraw notices of motion proposing the...
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
Pursuant to notice given yesterday, I withdraw business of the Senate motion No. 1 standing in my name for the next day of sitting, proposing the disallowance of the Civil Aviation (Community...
- Postponement (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator. There being none, I call the Clerk.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Fierravanti-Wells for 18 and 19 September 2019, for personal reasons. Question agreed to.
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Ruston, I move: That— (a) the address-in-reply be presented to His Excellency the Governor-General by the President and senators who wish to...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Reference (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Seselja, I ask that government notices of motion Nos 2 and 3, proposing the reference of works to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, be taken together...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Drane, Mr Adrian (3 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senators Duniam and Urquhart, move: That the Senate— (a) notes: (i) the contribution to the school community made by Mr Adrian Drane, formerly principal...
- Grandparents (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senators Brown, Urquhart, Dean Smith and Marielle Smith, move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) there are thousands of grandparents across Australia...
- Murray-Darling Basin (7 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) on 14 September 2019, the National Party voted to oppose the recovery of 450 gigalitres (GL) of water under the Murray-Darling Basin...
- Energy (4 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senators Green, Chisholm, Bilyk, Brown, Sterle, Watt, Pratt, Dodson, Polley and Lines move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the Minister for Energy...
- Climate Change (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate declares that anyone who sacks their workers for going to the climate strikes is a bum.
- Meat Free Week (11 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) Meat Free Week, organised by Bowel Cancer Australia, runs from 23 to 29 September 2019, and challenges participants to give up meat...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Drought (4 speeches)
( I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the winter crop is failing along the Murray River irrigation area owing to poor winter rains, (ii) if this crop fails,...
- Murray-Darling Basin (2 speeches)
I seek leave of the chamber to add the name of Senator Farrell to general business notice of motion No. 140, which we have already dealt with.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- International Overdose Awareness Day (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) 31 August marked International Overdose Awareness Day, commemorating all those who have died or been seriously injured due to drug...
- Endangered Species (11 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) the speartooth shark (Glyphisglyphis) is listed as critically endangered; and three species of sawfish (Pristispristis,...
- Disability Support Pension (4 speeches)
Before I move general business notice of motion No. 149, I wish to inform the chamber that Senator Brown will also sponsor the motion. I, and also on behalf of Senators Steele-John and Brown,...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (3 speeches)
I inform the Senate that at 8.30 am today four proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by lot....
- First Speech (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Before we move on, I draw senators to the attention of and acknowledge former senator Nigel Scullion, who has joined us in the chamber for the next item. Pursuant to order, I now call Senator...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (12 speeches)
I rise to speak on the matter of public importance. I do so because, like colleagues on this side, I recognise that Australia's aged-care system is broken. It is broken because of years of...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Superannuation (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about a very important national matter: the inability of the opposition to seriously and credibly engage in the economic policy debate in this country, especially in...
- Economy (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about the wages crisis in Australia today—a crisis of low and persistently stagnant wages. This crisis is having a devastating impact on people across the country....
- The Conversation (1 speech)
Tonight I call on the publication which calls itself The Conversation to live up to its name. Yesterday, its daily newsletter arrogantly determined to stop conversation. The lack of...
- Tasmania: Family Violence Counselling and Support Service (1 speech)
Last week, the Tasmanian Liberal government had an opportunity in state parliament to show that they are serious about addressing family violence. Instead, the 12 Liberal members of the house of...
