Senate debates
Thursday, 4 September 2025
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (4 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to consideration of the Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Bill 2025 as circulated. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- National Security (30 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to national security policy as circulated. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice standing in my name, I move: That so much of the standing orders...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I will move a motion for an inquiry into gambling advertising in Australia.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection of Bills Committee; Report (36 speeches)
I present the sixth report for 2025 of the Selection of Bills Committee. I seek leave to have the report incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The report read as follows— Selection of...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That general business notice of motion no. 179 be considered during general business today. Question agreed to.
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That Senator Wong be granted leave of absence for today on account of ministerial business. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics References Committee; Reference (1 speech)
I move: That the following matter be referred to the Economics References Committee for inquiry and report by 9 December 2025: The proposed takeover of Santos Limited by the XRG Consortium, with...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Freedom of Information (1 speech)
This government has said they would be the most transparent in Australia's history, but earlier this week we found out that they're running from transparency. When Labor came to office they made...
- Racism (1 speech)
There is no place for hate in Australia, but that's what we saw examples of on Sunday—hateful violence. We've seen the chilling footage. Dozens of men wearing black stormed Camp Sovereignty...
- 2025 Australian Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism, Sudan: Landslide (1 speech)
What's been tagged as an antisemitism conference on the Gold Coast this weekend is in fact an appalling junket that's been widely criticised as one sided and focusing on supporting Israel rather...
- Migration (1 speech)
We must have an uncomfortable conversation about immigration. I stand here as the daughter of migrants. My mother migrated here from Burma; her parents were Indian and Burmese. My father arrived...
- People with Disability (1 speech)
It was a pleasure to attend the Tasmanian Disability Awards last week on behalf of Minister Butler. The evening celebrated the achievements of people with disability and recognised organisations,...
- Australian Political Parties (1 speech)
Yesterday the Albanese government approved the Ulan thermal coalmine expansion. That's 18 million extra tonnes of coal for export, equivalent to 500 million Sydney-to-Melbourne flights. The...
- Child Safety (1 speech)
Child safety is, and should be, Australia's No. 1 priority. I know that it is the focus of the government as well as the opposition and should be for all parliamentarians in this place. As a...
- South Australia: Marine Environment (1 speech)
A couple of weekends ago, on a visit to one of our favourite beaches in South Australia, I held my children's hands as we surveyed yet another day of devastation caused by the algae bloom. From...
- Tibet Lobby Day (1 speech)
I rise to speak on human rights issues facing Tibetans. Each year, the Tibetan community visits Parliament House on Tibet Lobby Day. On Monday, I had the joy of hearing Tibetan children singing...
- Crime: Illegal Tobacco (1 speech)
The growing crisis of illegal tobacco and vaping products is engulfing Western Australia. Just last month, WA police warned of a brewing tobacco war after shootings and firebombings took place in...
- Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (1 speech)
The main job of any government is to keep its people safe. Australia remains in the midst of a family and domestic violence epidemic, which is getting worse. New data released by the ABS...
- Australian National Flag (1 speech)
I rise today in absolute disbelief and, frankly, in disgust at the blatant disregard shown by the Labor Party and the Greens towards the Australian people and the Australian flag. Over 46,000...
- Camp Sovereignty (6 speeches)
The attack on Camp Sovereignty on sacred First Nations land last weekend was a violent escalation of far-right extremism and white supremacy that has been legitimised by individuals in this...
- Indigenous Australians (1 speech)
I often speak about the war, genocide and apartheid against First Peoples. Most people understand how this happened in the past; missions and massacres are very straightforward to understand. But...
- So Brave (1 speech)
This week is Women's Health Week. Today I'm wearing this badge to recognise the first-ever National Day of Awareness for Young Women's Breast Cancer, organised by an incredible new charity called...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
I seek leave to make a statement concerning ministerial arrangements for question time. Leave granted. I advise the chamber of changes to ministerial arrangements. Senator Wong will be absent...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. Yesterday the Prime Minister told the parliament that reports ISIS brides were being repatriated to Australia were...
- Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Minister for Government Services, Senator Gallagher. The former coalition government's robodebt program illegally pursued Australians for debts that...
- National Security (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Watt. It appears that multiple federal and state government agencies are working on operations relating to the...
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Thousands of Australians have shared the Senate's outrage at the behaviour of PwC over recent years. This is a firm that used...
- Medicare (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator McAllister. In its first term, the Albanese Labor government delivered cost-of-living relief that was...
- Closing the Gap (23 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Indigenous Australians. Minister, after the August meeting of the Standing Council of Attorneys-General, the government's little gammin SCAG—more like...
- National Security (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Watt. Has the government met with representatives from Save the Children to discuss the repatriation of ISIS...
- Migration (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Minister Watt. Australia is a modern nation that has benefited from our...
- National Security (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Senator Watt. The ISIS associates' children cannot enter Australia without the relevant documents, including birth...
- Energy (17 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Senator Ayres. Addressing climate change is a key priority of the Albanese Labor government. We have...
- National Security (22 speeches)
My question is to the Minister—
- Economy (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Gallagher. The Albanese Labor government worked hard over the first term to strengthen the economy, delivering back-to-back...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Gas Industry (1 speech)
In question time earlier in the week, on 1 September, I undertook to provide further information in response to questions about the Darwin liquefied natural gas tank methane leak asked of me by...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Gas Industry (4 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to that very issue, the Darwin LNG plant, as circulated in the chamber. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice standing in my name, I move: That...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (18 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked by Opposition senators today. What answers they were indeed today. I don't think I've ever...
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Finance (Senator Gallagher) to questions without notice I asked today relating to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Well, what a...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Report on Outstanding Orders for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. In taking note of this particular document, I note that it refers to a longstanding request that this Senate has with the minister to disclose...
- Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
I would like to speak to the letter responding to the order for the production of documents relating to the Bunbury continental shelf marine survey. In reading this document, relating to a survey...
- Royal Commission into Aged Care, Quality and Safety; Tabling (1 speech)
I table the Office of the Inspector-General of Aged Care's progress report on the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aged Care, Quality and Safety.
- Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts, Department of Industry, Science and Resources, Age Assurance Technology Trial, Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, Economics References Committee, Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, Question Time, Freedom of Information Laws; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
I table documents relating to orders for the production of documents concerning the social media minimum age; the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation; the final report of the age assurance...
- Royal Commission into Aged Care, Quality and Safety; Consideration (1 speech)
In respect of the Office of the Inspector-General of Aged Care's progress report on the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aged Care, Quality and Safety, I move:...
- Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
In respect of documents relating to the order for the production of documents concerning the social media minimum age, I move: That the Senate take note of the documents. I seek leave to continue...
- Department of Industry, Science and Resources; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
In respect of documents relating to the order for the production of documents concerning the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation, I move: That the Senate take note of the documents. I seek...
- Age Assurance Technology Trial; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
In respect of documents relating to the order for the production of documents concerning the final report of the age assurance technology trial, I move: That the Senate take note of the...
- Department of Employment and Workplace Relations; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
In respect of documents relating to the order for the production of documents concerning the review of the targeted compliance framework, I move: That the Senate take note of the documents. I...
- Economics References Committee; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
In respect of documents relating to the order for the production of documents concerning the government's response to the report of the Senate Economics References Committee on ASIC investigation...
- Department of Health, Disability and Ageing; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
In respect of documents relating to the order for the production of documents concerning questions on notice relating to aged-care service delivery, I move: That the Senate take note of the...
- Question Time; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
In respect of documents relating to the order for the production of documents concerning questions on notice relating to the Minister for Aged Care and Seniors' question time briefs, I move: That...
- Freedom of Information Laws; Order for the Production of Documents (1 speech)
In respect of documents relating to the order for the production of documents concerning the government's response to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee's report on...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Albanese Government (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) despite the Prime Minister's commitment to transparency and integrity, the Albanese Labor Government has become the most secretive government in...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Red Cross (1 speech)
The Red Cross is the world's largest humanitarian network. It boasts an incredible 16 million volunteer members worldwide. For more than 160 years the Red Cross has stood firm in the face of war,...
- Medicare (1 speech)
Labor created Medicare, Labor protects Medicare and Labor is strengthening Medicare by making medicines cheaper for every Australian. This week, the Senate passed the Albanese Labor government's...
- Vietnam: Migration (1 speech)
I rise to mark an extraordinary milestone in our national story: the 50th anniversary of Vietnamese settlement in Australia. Half a century ago, following the fall of Saigon in 1975, Australia...
- Vietnam: Migration, Syria (1 speech)
First, could I associate myself with those remarks from Senator Dean Smith on our wonderful Vietnamese Australian community. I would also, once again, in a Queensland context, note the passing...
- Tasmania Police (2 speeches)
In this sitting of parliament, I have been talking about the pretty disturbing stories about the Tasmanian police service. This is not about the majority of hardworking, dedicated police officers...
