Senate debates

Wednesday, 12 August 2009

  • Economy (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Sherry. How many hundreds of thousands of investors, many of whom are retirees, remain unable to access $25 billion of their...
  • Airlines PNG (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Defence and the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Faulkner. Can the minister inform the Senate of the latest developments relating...
  • Economy (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Sherry. Has the government undertaken any modelling to support its claim that debt will be zero by the year 2022?
  • Burma (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs. With the sentencing overnight of Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, will the government acknowledge that the...
  • Emissions Trading Scheme (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Wong. Was Yvo de Boer, the head of the UN climate change secretariat, correct when he said that it does not matter whether or...
  • MV Princess Ashika (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Defence and the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs in this place, Senator Faulkner. Can the minister provide the Senate with information...
  • Pharmaceutical Benefits Sheme (6 speeches)
    My question, of which some notice has been given, is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator Ludwig. Is the Rudd government still pushing ahead with its...
  • Emissions Trading Scheme (6 speeches)
    My question is directed to the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Wong. Given that the Prime Minister promised in his 2007 election victory speech that working families would be...
  • Automotive Industry (9 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Trade. Will the minister confirm that the Minister for Trade directed the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation to provide the...
  • Climate Change (9 speeches)
    I have a question for the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Wong. I would like to know some of the details and would like the minister to advise the Senate about the ‘think...