Senate debates
Wednesday, 18 October 2006
Matters of Public Interest
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Order! It being 12.45 pm, I call on matters of public interest. - Private Health Insurance (1 speech)
I rise to speak today about private health insurance and an insidious practice that could be costing nearly nine million Australians up to $800 million every year. I refer to fraud and... - Independent Contracting: Owner-Drivers (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to speak about independent contractors in the road transport industry, usually known as owner-drivers. Many senators may be aware that over the last few weeks the... - Water (1 speech)
I would like to talk today about water and coming to terms with our drying environment. We need to come to terms with the fact that we live in the driest inhabited continent on earth, that we are... - Sedition Laws (1 speech)
On 13 September, the report of the Australian Law Reform Commission on its review of sedition laws was tabled. The report, No. 104, is called Fighting words: a review of sedition laws in... - Child Abuse (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to talk about the matter of child abuse and to share with the Senate some of the latest findings on the extent of the problem on a global scale and, importantly, what we can...
