Senate debates

Thursday, 9 February 2006

  • (1 speech)
    Order! There being no further consideration of committee reports, government responses and Auditor-General’s reports, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
  • Mental Health (1 speech)
    I rise tonight to speak about mental health, an issue that has received a lot of attention over the last month and certainly over the last year as well. As deputy chairman of the Senate inquiry...
  • Truck Registration and Fuel Excise (1 speech)
    I rise to make comment on an issue that the Prime Minister and premiers may endorse at the COAG meeting tomorrow—an economic reform program that will include increased truck registration...
  • Australian Defence Force (1 speech)
    I would like to take the opportunity tonight to speak about a couple of Army veterans I met a week or two ago, one of them in Hervey Bay in my home state of Queensland—another beautiful...
  • Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial responsibility for approval of RU486) Legislation (6 speeches)
    I wish to speak about the process that occurred in the Senate in relation to the Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial responsibility for approval of RU486) Bill 2005the bill that...