Senate debates

Wednesday, 18 October 2006

  • (1 speech)
    Order! It being 7.20 pm, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
  • Iraq (1 speech)
    The role of a democratically elected government is to govern efficiently and effectively and to make decisions based on accurate and relevant information and not necessarily popularity. If...
  • (1 speech)
    Too often for privileged people like us, the horrors of poverty seem to be a natural, inevitable part of the geopolitical landscape. But poverty is not inevitable. We have the knowledge and the...
  • Sir John Monash (1 speech)
    Just over 75 years ago, on 8 October 1931, Labor Prime Minister James Scullin rose in the House of Representatives and announced the death of Sir John Monash, Australia’s great wartime...