Senate debates

Friday, 24 March 2023

  • Committees (0 speeches)
    • Meeting (1 speech)
      I remind senators that the question may be put on any proposal at the request of any senator.
  • Business (0 speeches)
    • Rearrangement (37 speeches)
      I seek leave to move a motion relating to consideration of legislation as circulated in the chamber. It would allow for consideration this morning of the Criminal Code Amendment (Prohibition of...
  • Motions (0 speeches)
    • Australian Bureau of Statistics: Mortality Data (1 speech)
      I remind senators that yesterday a division was deferred relating to a motion moved by Senator Babet concerning Australian Bureau of Statistics mortality data. The question is that the motion...
  • Bills (0 speeches)
  • Statements (0 speeches)
    • Personal Explanation (7 speeches)
      In accordance with standing order 190, I seek leave to make a personal explanation about what transpired in the chamber this morning.
  • Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
    • Merredin (1 speech)
      On a bit of a change of tone, and hopefully in a more positive light, when we've just seen a very sad reflection on this place and in that response from Senator Watt—to be perfectly honest,...
    • Yunupingu, Ms Yalmay (1 speech)
      I'd like to share with the Senate the incredible career and work of one of our educators, a dear friend in the remote East Arnhem region, Yalmay Yunupingu. Having spent more than 40 years working...
    • New South Wales State Election (1 speech)
      Tomorrow, the people of New South Wales will go to vote. Frankly, the election cannot come too soon. Twelve years of a rotten Liberal-National government have done immense damage to New South...
    • Laverty, Mr Declan, Darwin: Crime (1 speech)
      Declan Laverty was a young man living in Darwin with his father, who described Declan as a wonderful, opinionated, strong lad who loved his football, was working to become a musician, and was...
    • Australian Constitution: Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
      It's been a huge and positive week. We have seen significant progress on a First Nations Voice referendum. Australia's Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Bill passed through this chamber...
    • Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
      As a servant to the many amazing people who make up our one Queensland community, I note that if an everyday Australian steals a few thousand dollars they go to jail, yet if a banker steals $4.7...
    • Faith-Based Schools (1 speech)
      The Labor government want to destroy faith based schooling, and they have engaged the Australian Law Reform Commission, through its recent consultation paper entitled Religious Education...
    • Labor Government (1 speech)
      It has been a long week here in parliament, so I thought that, to help us shake it off, I would bring a little cheer to the chamber. When my staff wrote this speech, I should have said no, but I...
    • New South Wales State Election (1 speech)
      Tomorrow is the New South Wales state election, and there is a stark choice for voters on gambling reform. For too long, the gambling industry has been untouchable in New South Wales because of...
    • World Indigenous Tourism Summit (1 speech)
      Last week I had the honour of attending the World Indigenous Tourism Summit in Perth, where I spent two days learning about First Nations tourism around the world, how different countries are...
    • Chorus Melville (1 speech)
      Earlier this year I had the pleasure of hosting a visit by the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. Peter Dutton, to Western Australia. He met with multiple organisations that have been...
    • Tasmania: Housing Australia Future Fund (1 speech)
      I asked the government yesterday how many homes their Housing Australia Future Fund was going to build in Tasmania. They did not say. I asked for a number: I didn't get one. This government talks...
    • Marine Environment (1 speech)
      Today I'd to bring the Senate's attention to an important article published in the prestigious journal Nature just yesterday, 'Continent-wide declines in shallow reef life over a decade of ocean...
    • Gender And Sexual Orientation (1 speech)
      I must say that I was eating my breakfast this morning, flicking through my Twitter account, only to find out that I'd been copping smears from the other side, where I was accused of, basically,...
    • New South Wales State Election (2 speeches)
      A few quick reasons to vote for Labor and Chris Minns tomorrow. Mr Perrottet has flogged off our roads, electricity, ports and housing to his mates on the cheap, and now he wants to privatise...
  • Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
    • Income Tax (10 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. I welcome the statement made by both Minister Farrell and the Minister for Finance this week in relation to the...
    • Australian Constitution: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (8 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Gallagher. An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament will give Indigenous...
    • Economy (22 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. Earlier this week we asked you how much electricity prices had gone up since the Albanese Labor government was...
    • Nuclear Waste Management: Submarines (14 speeches)
      My question is directed to Senator Farrell in his capacity representing the Minister for Resources. Nuclear submarines mean weapons grade nuclear waste. Five Australian governments over 70 years...
    • Infrastructure (17 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Senator Watt. Commonwealth Government infrastructure investment...
    • Ambassador for First Nations People (8 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and thus today to Senator Farrell. An ambassador is a person sent as the chief representative of his or her own government in another country....
    • TikTok (29 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. Will the minister update the Senate on the status of TikTok bans announced or implemented by other Five Eyes nations?
    • Defence Procurement: Submarines (29 speeches)
      My question is to Minister Farrell, the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. How many kilograms of highly enriched uranium—that's, nuclear weapons grade uranium—will be...
    • Trade with the United Kingdom (15 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister for Trade and Tourism, Senator Farrell. In the minister's speech delivered on 14 November last year at the Australian APEC Study Centre at RMIT, the minister...
    • Energy (15 speeches)
      My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. In question time on Wednesday, Senator Farrell stated to us all, 'It is the objective of the Albanese-Labor...
  • Motions (0 speeches)
    • Albanese Government (87 speeches)
      I seek leave to move a motion relating to the Albanese Labor government as circulated in the chamber: That the Senate: Notes that: (a) Senator Farrell has demonstrated how out of touch the...
  • Committees (0 speeches)
  • Bills (0 speeches)
  • Adjournment (0 speeches)
    • Labor Government (1 speech)
      I rise in the adjournment debate after what has been a very odd day in this place. It has been a rather peculiar week in this place, and there has been an extraordinary circumstance in this place...
    • Nuclear Industry (1 speech)
      The truth about our nuclear waste disposal systems is that finding a permanent solution for the safe storage of the world's nuclear waste remains a big, dangerous challenge everywhere. It's a...