Senate debates
Monday, 1 September 2025
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
If there is no objection, the meetings are authorised.
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: (1) That the business before the Senate at 1 pm today be interrupted to enable a motion to be moved by Senator Faruqi regarding social cohesion. (2) That the motion moved...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Australia: Racism (62 speeches)
I move: That the Senate: 1. Condemns the racist, white supremacist, and anti-immigrant rallies held over the weekend and condemns the support of and attendance at the rallies by MPs; 2. Notes: a....
- Questions to the President (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Standards (2 speeches)
President, I realise this was not part of the debate, but, during divisions, interjections were made across the chamber which I believe were highly disorderly. They were direct reflections on all...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (22 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator McAllister. As at 31 March 2025, 87,597 older Australians were waiting for the home care they'd been...
- Cost of Living: Health Care (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator McAllister. Addressing cost-of-living pressures is a key priority for the Albanese Labor government. How...
- Aged Care (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator McAllister. Margaret and her husband, Tony, applied for home-care support in January last year. They...
- Gas Industry (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing both the Minister for Climate Change and Energy and the Minister for Resources, Minister Ayres. Methane is a potent heat-trapping gas which is...
- Indigenous Australians (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator McCarthy. The Albanese Labor government is committed to building a stronger future for First Nations Australians, including...
- Immigration (25 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Watt. Your government has passed some of the most extreme far-right-wing anti-immigration legislation, including...
- Renewable Energy (27 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Hundreds of Victorian farmers, community members and volunteer firefighters travelled to Ballarat in their utes,...
- Hamilton Island: Mrh-90 Taipan Crash (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Attorney-General, Senator Farrell. We remember Captain Daniel Lyon, Lieutenant Maxwell Nugent, Warrant Officer Class Two Joseph Phillip Laycock and...
- Migration (20 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Minister Watt. Minister, in a media interview yesterday you said: 'We absolutely condemn the March for...
- Housing Australia Future Fund (19 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong, and it goes to how many houses have actually been built, not bought or acquired, by the Housing Australia Future...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Gas Industry (1 speech)
I want to correct the record in terms of my answer to Senator Waters's question. The expert panel that I referred to is in Minister Bowen's portfolio, not Minister King's portfolio.
- 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 Opposition senators today. I'm going to begin with the questions from Senator Ruston to...
- Immigration (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of answers given by the Minister for the Environment and Water (Senator Watt) to questions without notice I asked today relating to immigration. That was a...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I shall move: Senator Gallagher to move on the next day of sitting: That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (8) of standing order 111 not apply to...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That private senators' bills be considered this week as follows: (a) Members of Parliament (Staff) Amendment (Providing Certainty and Improving Integrity) Bill 2025, on Wednesday, 3...
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to the following senators: (a) Senator Nampijinpa Price for 1 September 2025, for parliamentary reasons; (b) Senator Paterson for 1...
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
by leave—I withdraw notice of motions 62 and 63, on good advice.
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That a leave of absence be granted for me for the period 25 to 28 August 2025 for personal reasons. Question agreed to.
- Party Office Holders (0 speeches)
- Independent (1 speech)
by leave—I advise the Senate that I should be designated as a whip for the purposes of standing order 24A, relating to the Selection of Bills Committee.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: (1) That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent this resolution having effect. (2) That the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Amendment (Consideration of UNDRIP)...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Gas Industry (9 speeches)
Senator McKim has submitted a proposal, under standing order 75, today, shown at item 12 on today's Order of Business: The need for the Government to urgently ensure Santos fixes the 19 year leak...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (12 speeches)
Senator Hume has submitted a proposal, shown at item 12 of today's Order of Business: Australians were promised relief, but instead they've been hit with another spike in the cost of living....
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. Today, I rise to take note of the 2024 independent review of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Act 2016. When it comes to unlocking...
- Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I speak on document 1 at item 13, the marine survey of the Bunbury continental shelf, on behalf of the Western Australians who...
- National Disability Insurance Agency; Order for the Production of Documents (3 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I'm going to reserve this document so as to probably make some further remarks on it, but I just want to give some initial reflections to the...
- Department of the Treasury, Department of Industry, Science and Resources, Department of Finance, National Reconstruction Fund, Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union, Future Fund, Comcare; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
I table documents relating to the orders for the production of documents concerning the Housing Australia Future Fund; unfair trading practices; the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation; the...
- Comcare; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the documents. This batch of documents is from a Comcare investigation into the Whitsundays Taipan helicopter crash that killed Captain Danniel Lyon,...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics References Committee; Reference (37 speeches)
I move: That the following matter be referred to the Economics References Committee for inquiry and report by 1 May 2026: The impact of high immigration levels on the Australian economy, with...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Health Care: Women's Health (1 speech)
I rise today, during Women's Health Week, to speak on a matter that touches every family in every community in every corner of our nation: the health and wellbeing of Australian women. Women's...
- Tibet Lobby Day (1 speech)
I rise to mark Tibet Lobby Day, which is happening in the Australian parliament today and tomorrow. This is a day when members of the Tibetan community who have carried both the pain of exile and...
- Fuel Security (1 speech)
I rise to talk about blood oil. Twenty years ago Australians were horrified to learn that the diamond in their engagement ring could be a blood diamond. Blood diamonds, also known as conflict...
- Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (1 speech)
I want to begin by acknowledging that it is Women's Health Week. What a week to acknowledge the meaningful change our government has made towards protecting victims of financial abuse....
- Universities: Artificial Intelligence (1 speech)
As someone who worked in university administration for more than two decades, I've seen higher education from the inside. What I see now is a system in decline, and artificial intelligence is...
- Stewart, Mr Anthony John (1 speech)
I recently met His Excellency Jose Ramos-Horta, the President of East Timor. We talked of Tony Stewart, the youngest of the Balibo Five, and his murder in the small crossroads town of Balibo,...
