Senate debates
Monday, 9 August 2021
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Closing the Gap (1 speech)
by leave—In question time last week I inadvertently said in my response that $280 million was being provided to the city-to-country partnerships. The correct figure is $26 million.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: That the following general business orders of the day be considered today at the time for private senators' bills: No. 42—Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Waiver of Debt and Act of Grace Payments) Bill 2019; Second Reading (11 speeches)
I rise to speak on the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Waiver of Debt and Act of Grace Payments) Bill 2019. This bill, introduced by my colleague Senator Gallagher,...
- Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Waiver of Debt and Act of Grace Payments) Bill 2019; Third Reading (3 speeches)
No amendments have been circulated. Does any senator require a committee stage? If not, I call a senator to read that the bill be read a third time.
- Migration Amendment (New Maritime Crew Visas) Bill 2020; Second Reading (2 speeches)
I rise today to make a contribution on this important piece of legislation that was introduced by Senator Keneally, the Migration Amendment (New Maritime Crew Visas) Bill 2020. In doing so, I...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (COVID-19 Economic Response No. 2) Bill 2021; Consideration of House of Representatives Message (11 speeches)
I move: That the committee does not insist on its amendment, to which the House of Representatives has disagreed.
- Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021; Second Reading (5 speeches)
The Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill contains two measures, one that Labor will support and one that we strongly oppose. Schedule 1 of the bill allows companies to hold virtual...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
At the end of July hundreds of family and domestic violence frontline workers, academics, policy experts and, most importantly, victim-survivors were due to meet in Canberra for a summit on...
- Agriculture Industry (1 speech)
I grew up on a family farm in the south-west of Western Australia and so I know how much of life in rural and regional communities is shaped by the success of our food and agricultural sectors....
- COVID-19: Arts and Entertainment Industry (1 speech)
As half the country was plunged back into lockdown over the weekend I was inundated with messages from artists and musicians from right across the country who are just devastated by another...
- Tokyo Olympic Games (1 speech)
I rise as Labor's shadow minister for sport to thank and congratulate Australia's Olympic team. The Tokyo Games will perhaps be remembered as the toughest ever, due to the challenges of COVID-19....
- Water (1 speech)
The humble veggie garden is about to become an unlikely place in the battle for freedom. Vegetable gardens are more than fresh vegetables, exercise, effort and reward. When we Australians tend...
- COVID-19: Income Support Payments (1 speech)
I rise today to give voice to and support my fellow Victorians, who find themselves today in their sixth lockdown in over six months of lockdowns since the pandemic started. They are doing it...
- Gambling (1 speech)
The royal commission into Melbourne's Crown casino heard damning evidence about Crown engaging in unlawful and criminal activities. The most serious claim is that the operator allowed the casino...
- COVID-19: Manufacturing (1 speech)
The COVID pandemic has revealed many things about our nation, but central and very important is that Australia can and should be a nation that makes things, from vaccines to medicines, from...
- Burnside, Mr Julian William Kennedy, AO, QC (1 speech)
I rise to condemn in the strongest possible terms the decision of the WA Bar Association to defend the right of Victorian barrister and former Greens candidate Julian Burnside to make...
- National Cabinet (1 speech)
Last week, Federal Court Justice White ruled that the national cabinet is not a committee of the federal cabinet and is not protected by cabinet in confidence. The judgement was scathing of the...
- Australian Content Broadcasting (1 speech)
[by video link] Australian stories told through feature films, documentaries and television series are a way of preserving and promoting Australia's culture, identity and history. From Underbelly...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
The delta variant is changing the way we think about COVID and children. It's transmitting to children more easily and making them sicker. As we've seen in Queensland and New South Wales, schools...
- Brisbane Olympic Games: Netball (1 speech)
What an Olympics we've just seen, with some very interesting new sports: rock climbing, or sport climbing; three-on-three basketball; skateboarding—congratulations to Keegan Palmer; and...
- COVID-19: Morrison Government (1 speech)
[by video link]. Very disappointingly, I'm joining the Senate today from Cairns, which is in lockdown. We started a three-day lockdown yesterday at four o'clock. Although the community are doing...
- Western Australia: Greek Community (1 speech)
In the few moments that are available to me, I want to stand here with my other Western Australian colleagues, Senator Cash, Senator Brockman, Senator O'Sullivan and Senator Reynolds, and...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Covid-19 (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Colbeck. When the parliament met in June the Prime Minister arrogantly boasted, 'There is not one person...
- Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Sport, Senator Colbeck. Can the minister advise the Senate on the performance of Australia's Olympic team at the recently completed Tokyo Olympics?
- COVID-19: Vaccination (10 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Colbeck. Mr Dutton has said, 'Anything to incentivise people to get vaccinated I'm in favour of.' Is Mr...
- Closing the Gap (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families and Social Services, Senator Ruston. Can the minister advise the Senate of the social services measures the Liberal and National government is...
- Climate Change (8 speeches)
My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, representing the Prime Minister. In a few hours, the premier global body on climate science, the IPCC, will warn us that, unless...
- Commuter Car Parks (25 speeches)
[by video link] My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Birmingham. Does Mr Morrison agree with Mr Fletcher when he asserts that decisions made in relation to the...
- JobKeeper Payment (8 speeches)
[by video link] Thank you very much, Mr President. My question is to Minister Birmingham representing the Treasurer. Minister, the Morrison government set up robodebt to pursue welfare recipients...
- Women's Economic Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Women's Economic Security, Senator Hume. Can the minister advise the Senate how the Liberal-National government's plans are supporting Australian women to start...
- Prime Minister (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Birmingham. On at least 18 occasions Mr Morrison has refused to answer questions from the media and in the parliament about...
- Vocational Education and Training (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business, Senator Cash. Can the minister advise the Senate how the Liberal and...
- COVID-19: Aged Care (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Senator Colbeck. How many residential aged-care workers have tested positive for COVID-19 this year? How...
- Black Summer Bushfires (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Emergency Management and National Recovery and Resilience, Senator McKenzie. Can the minister please advise the Senate of the programs that our government has...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Covid-19 (1 speech)
[by video link] I want to give details of the number of Australians in ICU. As of 12 pm today, there are 70 people in ICU, with 29 on ventilation. Sixty-seven are in New South Wales, one is in...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- COVID-19, Prime Minister (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Birmingham) and the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services (Senator Colbeck) to...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I move: The Leader of the Australian Greens in the Senate (Senator Waters) moved—That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Birmingham) to a question...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (2 speeches)
At the request of Senator Dodson, I advise that he amends the notice for the disallowance of the Social Security (Parenting payment participation requirements—class of persons) Instrument...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Martyr, Mr John Raymond (3 speeches)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death, on 18 June 2021, of John Raymond Martyr, a senator for the state of Western Australia from 1981 to 1983 and a member of the House of...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Income Support (6 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to Australians in lockdown who are without sufficient access to income support, as circulated in the chamber.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (3 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senators Keneally, Ciccone, Kitching, Green, Bilyk, McAllister, Sheldon, Ayres, Dodson, McCarthy, Gallacher, Marielle Smith, Walsh and...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Reporting Date (1 speech)
I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: That the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Streamlining Environmental Approvals) Bill 2020 and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Commonwealth Integrity Commission (2 speeches)
We're now moving to a deferred vote. Last Thursday, a division was deferred on a motion moved by Senator Carr for the closure of debate on general business notice of motion No. 1203. I understand...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (12 speeches)
I inform the Senate that, at 8.30 am today, 14 proposals were received in accordance with standing order 75. The question of which proposal would be submitted to the Senate was determined by lot....
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Napier, Hon. Sue, Goodwin, Dr Vanessa (1 speech)
Over recent months, I've spoken in this place about some of Tasmania's celebrated leaders, like Joe and Dame Enid Lyons and the Hodgman family. These people were instrumental in shaping the...
- Mental Health (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak on the proposed national mental health and suicide prevention agreement. In all the multitude of inquiries into the mental health system in Australia the problems...
