Senate debates
Monday, 1 July 2024
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
If there are no objections, the meetings are so authorised.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- War Memorials: Vandalism (59 speeches)
by leave—I move: That the Senate condemns the act of defacing war memorials by pro-Palestinian protestors, which is deeply insulting for current and former members of the Australian Defence...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (11 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion to vary the hours of meeting and routine of business for today. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice, and at the request of the Leader of the Government...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Tassie's Top Tourism Towns Awards (1 speech)
It is with great pride that I rise in the Senate today to celebrate the township of Richmond's outstanding achievement as the winner of the Small Tourism Town category in the search for Tassie's...
- Albanese Government (1 speech)
Today, 1 July, is a big day. It's a big day because, from today, all 13.6 million Australian taxpayers will get a tax cut, with an average cut being $1,888 a year, or $36 a week. The Albanese...
- Coorong (1 speech)
I rise today to talk of the devastation of the health of the Coorong in my home state of South Australia. Over the last two months there have been two massive fish kills in the southern lagoon of...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
The next set of nationwide crime statistics, due in the next few days, won't tell Australians what they want to hear. Vulnerable Australians are fleeing their homes that have become less safe...
- Taxation (1 speech)
It's a great day around the country today because from today every one of the 13.6 million Australian taxpayers will get a tax cut, and 84 per cent of those taxpayers will get a bigger tax cut...
- Covid-19 (1 speech)
Proverbs 18:15 teaches that the heart of the prudent attains knowledge and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. The worst virus response in Australian history—the most destructive and...
- Albanese Government (1 speech)
Here we go. We are two years into my first term in this place, and we are two-and-a-bit years into this government. We know there will be an election before my third anniversary is up. In fact,...
- Basketball (1 speech)
It was a great weekend of basketball on Larrakia country, with the Darwin Salties taking out the women's game against Mackay 75 to 61, with leading goal scorer Cat MacGregor contributing to an...
- Environment (1 speech)
This morning the Tarkine/Takayna rainforest in Tasmania was silent except for the sound of birdsong, the wind in the trees and the buzzing of insects. The forest-killing machines have left a...
- National Water Initiative (1 speech)
Last week we saw the first meeting of all state water ministers in over a decade. You would think that they would need more than an hour over Skype just to introduce themselves to each other. But...
- Tasmania: Flinders Island Airport (1 speech)
Let me paint you a picture. You live on a beautiful, rugged and remote island. It's the dead of night, pitch black and dark, and you're having a medical episode that is serious enough that you...
- First Nations Australians (1 speech)
Over the weekend we heard that the Greens will introduce a bill to put some pressure on the government to recommit to a makarrata commission, which Labor promised ahead of the last election and...
- Australian Greens, Tasmania: Environment (1 speech)
I would point out to Senator Thorpe that the Australian Greens aren't big at acknowledging things generally, especially when they get it wrong, including when former Senator Bob Brown, the...
- Cost of Living (3 speeches)
It's very good to be here on 1 July, because we know what that means to Australians. We know that today the Albanese Labor government is delivering a tax cut to every Australian taxpayer. This...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Middle East (27 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. The bipartisan motion passed in this place in October of last year following the Hamas terrorist attack of 7 October,...
- Cost of Living (10 speeches)
My question to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Over the last two years, people in my home state of South Australia have benefited from cheaper child care, fee-free...
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Reports in the Australian last week revealed extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir had issued a press release, which has...
- Middle East (13 speeches)
FARUQI () (): My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Minister, for almost nine long months now we have witnessed Israel's full-blown genocide in Gaza, during which Israel has...
- Cost of Living (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Today is the day Australians will receive cost-of-living relief in the form of a tax cut. This will be crucial relief...
- Renewable Energy (17 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Senator Wong. Minister, exactly how many wind turbines, solar panels, batteries and kilometres of...
- Live Animal Exports: Sheep (19 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Watt. Can the minister confirm what scientific evidence the government has based its decision to ban the live sheep...
- Governor-General (9 speeches)
My question is for the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Wong, representing the Prime Minister. Today Australia's newest Governor-General spoke about Australia's history being made...
- Cost of Living (29 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Mr Watt. Cost-of-living pressures are top of mind for all Australians, especially low-paid...
- Middle East (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Minister Watt. Two weeks ago the Canadian government listed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity,...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (7 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked by Opposition senators today. I want to deal first with the last question, which was asked by...
- Renewable Energy (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Wong) to a question without notice I asked today relating to renewable energy. In question time...
- Governor-General (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Wong) to a question without notice asked by Senator Cox today relating to constitutional reform....
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: That general business order of the day no. 72 (Commission of Inquiry into Antisemitism at Australian Universities Bill 2024) be considered on Wednesday, 3 July 2024 at the time for...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Reporting Date (1 speech)
If there is no objection, the postponements and extensions are agreed to.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Birmingham for today, for personal reasons. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Whistleblower Protection (1 speech)
I remind senators that, after 4.30 pm on Thursday 27 June 2024, a division was called on the motion moved by Senator Shoebridge relating to general business notice of motion No. 540, concerning...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Economy (10 speeches)
A letter has been received from Senator Hughes: Pursuant to standing order 75, I propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion: Australia is in...
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Energy (8 speeches)
The Senate will now consider the proposal from Senator Hanson: Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today I propose to move "That, in the opinion of the Senate, the following is a...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Murujuga Rock Art; Tabling (1 speech)
I seek leave to table documents related to Murujuga rock art protection. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice standing in my name, I move: That so much of the standing orders be...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Export Control Amendment (Ending Live Sheep Exports by Sea) Bill 2024; Second Reading (63 speeches)
Too many animals have died and too many have suffered on the ships of misery for decades. Sheep that have been treated as cargo, not as the living, breathing sentient beings that they are, have...
- Export Control Amendment (Ending Live Sheep Exports by Sea) Bill 2024; Third Reading (1 speech)
The question now is that the remaining stages of the bill be agreed to and the bill be now passed.
- Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Bill 2023, Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Bill 2023, Primary Industries (Services) Levies Bill 2023, Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Bill 2023, Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Bill 2023, Primary Industries (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023; Second Reading (2 speeches)
I table addenda to the explanatory memoranda relating to the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Bill 2023 and the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Bill 2023. The...
- Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Bill 2023, Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Bill 2023, Primary Industries (Services) Levies Bill 2023, Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Bill 2023, Primary Industries Levies and Charges Disbursement Bill 2023, Primary Industries (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023; Third Reading (1 speech)
PRESIDENT (): The question now is that the remaining stages of the bills be agreed to and the bills be now passed. Question agreed to. Bills read a third time. Senate adjourned at 22 : 46
