Senate debates
Monday, 2 March 2026
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Meeting (1 speech)
If there is no objection, the meetings are authorised.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (16 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to the recent military strikes on the Islamic Republic of Iran and the death of its brutal dictator, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as circulated. Leave not...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Middle East (61 speeches)
I move: That the Senate: (a) congratulates the United States of America and the State of Israel for their sustained efforts to prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran from obtaining a nuclear...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That, following the presentation of the Closing the Gap statement and related documents, any motion to take note of the documents may be considered as government business...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Closing the Gap (46 speeches)
I table the annual report on Closing the Gap together with accompanying ministerial statements and documents. I move: That the Senate take note of the documents. I stand today to affirm the Prime...
- Statements by Senators (0 speeches)
- Child Care (1 speech)
From birth to age 3, a child's brain develops at an extraordinary pace. In those early years, more than a million neural connections form every second. The bonds formed between baby, mother and...
- Calabria, Mr Antonio (1 speech)
I rise to pay my respects to Antonio Calabria, a man well known to many of us in this building, who welcomed us every single day at the family-run cafe Aussies here at Parliament House. Tony...
- Ramadan (1 speech)
Ramadan Mubarak and Ramadan Kareem to all my Muslim sisters and brothers around the world. For us, the holy month of fasting is about focusing on our hearts, our minds, our bodies and our souls....
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Across Australia, families are standing in supermarket aisles, crunching numbers, putting items back on the shelves, swapping brands, cutting meals and asking themselves a question that they...
- Workplace Relations: Manufacturing Industry (1 speech)
As you know, Acting Deputy President Polley, before I came to this place I represented, proudly, manufacturing workers. My dad was a manufacturing worker, and I have his union ticket in my office...
- Migration, Defence Procurement: Submarines (1 speech)
One Nation has long maintained that the immigration invasion is about politics, not economics. South Australian Premier Malinauskas waded into that debate last month, when he said: My message to...
- National Security, Australian Assyrian Community (1 speech)
Last Friday, I joined the Leader of the Opposition, Angus Taylor; the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Senator Hume; and my colleague Senator Sharma for a meeting with the Assyrian community in...
- Regional Economies (1 speech)
Today I want to highlight some of the practical outcomes the Albanese Labor government is delivering across the electorate of O'Connor in the south-west of WA—outcomes that strengthen our...
- Iran (1 speech)
They say the first casualty in war is truth. Well, we've heard from Mr Albanese, our Prime Minister, as we have from the US president and from the Israelis, that their illegal strike on Iran was...
- Crime (1 speech)
Several weeks ago the United States Department of Justice released millions of documents under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a massive trove shedding light on the network of the late...
- Kennedy, Ms Alyssia (1 speech)
Today I rise to acknowledge an outstanding young Tasmanian, Alyssia Kennedy, the 2026 Young Australian of the Year for Tasmania, who I had the pleasure of meeting just last month. Alyssia is the...
- Middle East (1 speech)
The conflict in Iran could impact Australians in a matter of days. That's because 27 per cent of the world's oil comes from that region in the Middle East. About 20 per cent of the world's total...
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (1 speech)
This government's commitment to human rights, especially the rights of First Peoples, is a sham. A few weeks ago, in his Closing the Gap speech, the Prime Minister said that First Peoples have an...
- Calabria, Mr Antonio (1 speech)
I too rise today to pay tribute to a man who was quite simply an institution at Parliament House, Mr Tony Calabria, who has, as we know, recently and sadly passed away. Tony was, of course, for...
- Shadow Ministry (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
by leave—I advise the Senate that, following Mr Taylor being elected by the Liberal Party room as Leader of the Opposition, an updated shadow ministry list was published 17 February 2026. I...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Wong. Under section 9 of the Australian Passports Act, emergency or single-issue travel documents can be issued only in circumstances...
- Middle East (38 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Wong. Minister, over the weekend we saw Israel and the United States take military action against the Islamic Republic of Iran...
- Medicare (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator McAllister. Strengthening public health care to deliver real cost-of-living relief is a key priority for...
- Middle East (45 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister Wong. Minister, we know that Pine Gap is a critical part of US global war-making, including its attacks on Iranian schools and...
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Minister, when did the government first learn that a close personal friend, political fundraiser and campaigner on...
- Housing (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Housing, Senator Ayres. Does Labor accept that immigration levels have a significant impact on house prices and rental prices?
- Fuel Security (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Senator Ayres. The Australian government has held four inquiries into our fuel reserves in the last seven...
- National Security (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. It's been widely reported that an ISIS bride cohort of 34 people is currently seeking to travel to Australia. How...
- Energy (19 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry and Innovation, Senator Ayres. The Albanese Labor government is focused on delivering affordable and reliable electricity and gas for Australian...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That a motion relating to the conduct of a senator may be moved immediately and determined without amendment and that the question be put after 30 minutes of debate,...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Hanson, Senator Pauline Lee; Censure (44 speeches)
I move: That the Senate— (a) affirms that Australia has been built by the hard work, sacrifice and aspiration of people of every race and faith; (b) assures all Australians they are valued,...
- Racism: Islamophobia (11 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to racism and Islamophobia, as circulated. Leave not granted. Pursuant to contingent notice standing in the name of Senator Waters, I move: That so much of...
- 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 today. There were a number of questions from the coalition to the government in relation to...
- Middle East (3 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the government's responses to Greens questions today in relation to the latest bloody and illegal war in the Middle East. Many Australians are aghast and...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
I wish to withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 1 for today, at the request of Senator McKenzie, and also general business motion of motion No. 360 for today, at the request of...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
I ask that general business notice of motion No. 337 be withdrawn.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Budget; Order for the Production of Documents (6 speeches)
I move general business notice of motion No. 338: That there be laid on the table by the Minister for Finance and for the Public Service, by no later than midday on Tuesday, 31 March 2026, copies...
- Board of Peace; Order for the Production of Documents (4 speeches)
I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Prime Minister, by no later than 5 pm on Friday, 20 March 2026, copies of all ministerial submissions, records of...
- Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion; Order for the Production of Documents (4 speeches)
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 5 pm on Friday, 27 March 2026, all documents dated...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Cash, I withdraw general business notice of motion No. 342.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Housing Australia; Order for the Production of Documents (4 speeches)
At the request of Senator Bragg, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) order for the production of documents no. 259 agreed to by the Senate on 25 November 2025 and requesting that...
- Corporate Governance; Order for the Production of Documents (4 speeches)
At the request of Senator Bragg, I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Housing, by no later than midday on Wednesday, 4 March 2026, any documents...
- Housing Australia; Order for the Production of Documents (12 speeches)
At the request of Senator Bragg, I move: That the Senate— (a) notes that: (i) order for the production of documents no. 198 agreed to by the Senate on 28 October 2025 and requesting that...
- Minister for Communications: Senate Additional Estimates 2025-26; Order for the Production of Documents (4 speeches)
At the request of Dean Smith, I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Communications, by no later than 5 pm on Wednesday, 4 March 2026, all final...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Closing the Gap (9 speeches)
I have stood so many times in this chamber to speak on Closing the Gap, and it's always the same. I could almost copy and paste my previous speeches because we have seen no real progress at all....
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Joint Policing Cybercrime Coordination Centre (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the Joint Policing Cybercrime Coordination Centre, or the JPC3, led by the Australian police and based in Sydney. The importance of JPC3's mission cannot be overstated. In a...
