Senate debates

Monday, 10 September 2007

  • Climate Change (4 speeches)
    My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources. Is the minister aware that in April this year the Minister for Foreign Affairs...
  • Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (2 speeches)
    My question is to Senator Minchin, the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Will the minister advise the Senate of the outcomes of the recent APEC meeting in Sydney?
  • Workplace Relations (12 speeches)
    My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Isn’t it the case that there is a backlog of more than 100,000 workplace...
  • Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (2 speeches)
    My question is to Senator Ellison, the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. It concerns the extraordinarily successful APEC, which concluded yesterday in Sydney. Will the minister...
  • Workplace Relations (6 speeches)
    My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. I refer the minister to the recent report by Anthony Forsyth of Monash University...
  • Indigenous Communities (2 speeches)
    My question is to Senator Scullion, the Minister representing the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Will the minister update the Senate on positive progress being...
  • Uranium Exports (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Minister, when the government made the deal at APEC to sell uranium to Russia was it aware that 21 journalists have been killed in...
  • Employment (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator Abetz. Will the minister update the Senate on the latest employment figures, and is the...
  • NetAlert (13 speeches)
    My question is to Senator Coonan, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. Is the minister aware that on 24 August, just four days after the government’s $84...
  • Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (8 speeches)
    My question is to Senator Minchin. I ask: why on earth did this grim Howard government contrive to turn sunny Sydney into ‘sad city’ while the world watched on over APEC? I ask: what...
  • Housing Affordability (14 speeches)
    My question without notice today is to Senator Scullion, representing the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Is the minister aware that nearly 6,000 families in New...