Senate debates
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
If there is no objection, the meeting is authorised.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Paterson Electorate, Antcliff, Mr Laurence (1 speech)
Last week I was delighted to join the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Sussan Ley, in the electorate of Paterson, to announce our outstanding new candidate, Laurence Antcliff. Laurence is a true...
- South Australia: Black By-Election, South Australia: Reproductive Autonomy (1 speech)
How good was the weekend? Not only did we see the Port Power AFLW make an amazing run, up towards the finals—very impressive—but also we saw the absolutely excellent Alex Dighton win...
- Middle East (1 speech)
There's a genocide underway in Gaza, and Labor has made Australia complicit. We're complicit because we're exporting Australian-made military hardware that is being used in the genocide. We are...
- First Nations Australians (1 speech)
In my home state of South Australia, the social and economic mess in Ceduna continues with the removal of the cashless debit card. Take up of Labor's enhanced income management is now so very low...
- Smith, Mr Peter (1 speech)
A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of attending the 50th anniversary of Specialised Container Transport in Melbourne. SCT was established in 1974 by Mr Peter Smith. SCT is now a national...
- Ashley Youth Detention Centre (1 speech)
Children in Tasmania's Ashley Youth Detention Centre are unsafe and they have been for many years. This is despite decades of promises, reviews and inquiries to improve conditions and outcomes....
- Western Australia: Roads (1 speech)
Once again I stand here to talk about the Nicholson Road and Garden Street intersection in Canning Vale. You would remember Labor's campaign slogan in 2022, which was 'building Australia's...
- Renewable Energy (1 speech)
For decades Gippsland has powered Victoria. And now, as Australia's first offshore wind zone, it's set to lead the way in clean energy for generations to come. This new energy future isn't...
- Housing (1 speech)
The housing market in this country is completely broken, and first home buyers are one of the primary targets of this manufactured cost-of-living crisis, with interest rates putting so much...
- Building and Construction Industry (1 speech)
Today I met with subcontractors who have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on work that they have completed because of our lax security-of-payment laws in Australia. The blame for this lies...
- Gordon, Mr Paul (1 speech)
Today I want to pay tribute to my brother-in-law Paul Gordon, who passed away last week. Paul was a much loved sibling of my husband Richard, and of Philip, Peter, Anne, John and...
- Foreign Investment (1 speech)
Labor's opened yet another front and it's war against Australian farmers. This time they have a Chinese ally. Xi Jinping, the authoritarian dictator leading the oppressive Chinese communist...
- Youth Voice in Parliament Week (1 speech)
It's a privilege to read out a speech today as part of the Raise Our Voice in Parliament campaign. Sophie from New South Wales says this: 'Massive floods, horrifying bushfires, smoke-filled...
- Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024 (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024. This bill, as it currently stands, has significant flaws, and I will not...
- Leader of the Opposition (3 speeches)
The biggest threat to housing relief in this country is the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Dutton. For two years, he has tried to block Labor's record investment in housing, and last night we saw...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Nuclear Energy (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. I ask the minister firstly: does the government welcome cooperation between the United States, United Kingdom and...
- Health Care (20 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. After a decade of reckless neglect and mismanagement of the healthcare system by the Liberals and Nationals, which...
- Housing Australia Future Fund (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. Construction levels have declined to rates not seen since 1989. Housing affordability has fallen to the lowest point...
- Donations to Political Parties (16 speeches)
My question is to the Special Minister of State, Minister Farrell. After two years of promises, yesterday the government finally introduced electoral reform legislation. But there's no ban on...
- National Reconstruction Fund (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Industry and Science, Senator Farrell. I refer to the announcement this morning that the National Reconstruction Fund has made its...
- Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Reform) Bill 2024 (20 speeches)
My question is also to the Special Minister of State, Senator Farrell. Minister, yesterday the government introduced the 400-page electoral reform bill that you, in your own words, said is...
- Regional Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, Minister Wong. In estimates, not last week but the week before, I put to you some questions about our relationship with Japan...
- Comcare (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister Watt. On 24 June this year, Minister Burke, the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations at the time,...
- International Students (14 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister representing the Minister for Education, Senator Watt. Australians understand the importance of a high-quality, robust education, and we hold the integrity of...
- Indigenous Australians (24 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Minister McCarthy. There was an election commitment from this government to establish a Makarrata commission to oversee truth-telling...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked by the coalition today. I asked a very good question about housing and the fact that, in this...
- Donations to Political Parties (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Special Minister of State (Senator Farrell) to a question without notice I asked today relating to donations to political parties. Any...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Independent Review of Commonwealth Funding for Strategic Policy Work; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Paterson, I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Prime Minister, by no later than midday on Monday, 25 November 2024: (a) the completed...
- Department of the Treasury; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Dean Smith, I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Treasurer, by no later than midday on Monday, 25 November 2024, all written or...
- Report on Outstanding Orders for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
I move: (1) That the Senate notes that: (a) procedural order of continuing effect no. 23 requires that the Leader of the Government in the Senate, not later than 2 calendar months after the last...
- Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
I move: (1) That the Senate notes that: (a) the Government tabled documents in response to order of production of documents no. 647 on 31 October 2024; (b) the Government has made a claim of...
- Avoca Drive Upgrade Project; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, by no later than midday on 25 November...
- Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Reform) Bill 2024; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
I move: That there be laid on the table by the Special Minister of State, by no later than 9:30 am on 20 November 2024, a list of the Minister's meetings with stakeholders and parliamentarians in...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- National Organic Standard Bill 2024; First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to regulate the sale and import of organic goods, and for related purposes. National Organic Standard Bill 2024. Question agreed...
- National Organic Standard Bill 2024; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I seek leave to table an explanatory memorandum relating to the bill. Leave granted. I table the explanatory memorandum and I seek leave to have...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I seek leave to postpone business of the Senate notice of motion No. 4, standing in my name for today, until the next day of sitting. Leave granted.
- Parliamentary Zone (0 speeches)
- Approval of Works (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with section 5 of the Parliament Act 1974, the Senate approves the proposal by the National Capital Authority for capital works within the Parliamentary Zone, relating...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I seek leave to postpone general business notice of motion No. 638, standing in my name for today, until the next day of sitting. Leave granted.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Hong Kong (9 speeches)
A letter has been received from Senators Sharma and O'Neill: Pursuant to standing order 75, we propose that the following matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion:...
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Aukus (17 speeches)
I inform the Senate that the President has received the following letter, dated 19 November, from Senator McKim: Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today the Australian Greens...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Chair of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee, Senator Sterle, I present the report of the committee on the provisions of the Sydney Airport Demand...
- Human Rights Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present the human rights Scrutiny report No. 9of 2024.
- Public Accounts and Audit Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, I present the 505th and 506th reports of the committee as well as a statement concerning the appointment of the Parliamentary Budget...
- Public Works Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the committee's seventh report of 2024.
- Treaties Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the 222nd report of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties.
- Environment and Communications References Committee; Additional Information (2 speeches)
I present additional information received by the Environment and Communications References Committee on its inquiry into the Optus network outage. I just need to table that. There you go.
- Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee; Government Response to Report (1 speech)
I present two government responses to committee reports as listed on today's Order of Business. In accordance with the usual practice, I seek leave to incorporate the documents in Hansard. Leave...
- Perth Mint and Commonwealth Regulatory Compliance Select Committee; Additional Information (1 speech)
I present additional information received by the Select Committee on the Perth Mint and Commonwealth Regulatory Compliance.
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee; Additional Information (1 speech)
On behalf of Senator Chandler, I present additional information received by the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee on its inquiry into Australian support for Ukraine.
- Cost of Living Select Committee; Report (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the report. I rise today to speak on this final report of the cost-of-living committee, of which I've been a member. It shines a light on an issue that is now...
- Corporations and Financial Services Joint Committee; Report (7 speeches)
by leave—I rise to speak to the Corporations and Financial Services Joint Statutory Committee report: Ethics and Professional Accountability: Structural Challenges in the Audit, Assurance...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Australian Parliamentary Delegation to Vietnam (1 speech)
by leave—I present the report of the Australian Parliamentary Delegation to Vietnam which took place from 25 to 30 August 2024, and I seek leave to move a motion to take note of the...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Medicare (1 speech)
When the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Mark Butler, and the Albanese Labor government committed to tripling the bulk-billing incentives so more GPs would bulk-bill their patients, I knew...
- United States of America (1 speech)
Despite all of the complaining, the whinging and the fearmongering from the media in the United States, Donald Trump soared to victory in the recent presidential election, and the levels of...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Communities in Western Australia are being smashed right now. From the Kimberley to Perth to Esperance, the effects are being felt by all of us. The rising cost of living is hitting our...
- Higher Education (1 speech)
I am really pleased tonight to rise in the Senate and to speak about our government's policy to make fee-free TAFE permanent. Last week Matt Smith, candidate for Leichhardt, and I visited the...
- Small Business (1 speech)
Last week I visited one of Melbourne's most iconic destinations, the Queen Victoria Market, with our Liberal candidate for Melbourne, Stephanie Hunt. The market is known as much for its history...
- Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme Select Committee (1 speech)
Now the public hearings have wrapped up and before the committee reports, I want to share some insights from the Senate Select Committee on the Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme or TFES, for...
- Superannuation (1 speech)
This government is so arrogant in its willingness to break clear election promises that it probably shouldn't come as a surprise to us anymore when, once again, these broken promises are...
- Raise Our Voices Australia (1 speech)
I am grateful to take this opportunity to deliver a few speeches written by two incredible young Western Australians as part of the Raise Our Voices Australia program. The first speech is by...
- Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024 (1 speech)
I rise today to address an issue of profound importance to the integrity of our democracy. That is, of course, Labor's Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and...
- Education (1 speech)
We live in an age when mainstream education is often packed tight with irrelevant social engineering and is taught impersonally. External forces, including the teachers' political opinions,...
- Queensland State Election, Thomson, Dr Warren (1 speech)
I rise to make some comments on the recent Queensland state election. I congratulate Premier David Crisafulli and his team for their success. It was well earned. We desperately hope that...
- Westbrook, Eden Jayde (1 speech)
In July this year I gave a speech in the chamber about the tragic death of 15-year-old Eden Westbrook in St Helens, Tasmania, on 18 February 2015. The police, who conducted a deeply flawed...
- Gerrard Rennick People First (5 speeches)
I rise tonight to talk about People First holding the establishment to account with its policies. There is what I would like to call a motorboat of policies that I'm about to discuss tonight, and...
