Senate debates

Thursday, 17 June 2010

  • Asylum Seekers (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Evans. I refer to the minister’s failure to answer the question directed to him yesterday by the Leader of the...
  • Budget (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Assistant Treasurer, Senator Sherry. Can the Assistant Treasurer detail to the Senate how the government’s tax reform package will secure a stronger economy for all...
  • Hospitals (9 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Evans. The ink is barely dry on Mr Rudd’s COAG agreement and the government has dropped a major plank of the grand...
  • Climate Change (11 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Sherry. Minister, given that at last year’s G20 leaders meeting in Pittsburgh the Prime Minister committed to phase out...
  • Budget (18 speeches)
    My question is to Senator Wong representing the Minister for Resources and Energy. Is the minister aware of the admission by former mining company executive, former general secretary of the Labor...
  • Employment (10 speeches)
    My question today is to the Minister for Employment Participation, Senator Arbib. Can the minister advise the Senate on recent unemployment data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics?...
  • Building the Education Revolution Program (27 speeches)
    My question is to Senator Arbib, Minister representing the Minister for Education. Does the minister agree with education department officials who claimed during estimates hearings that school...
  • Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Resources and Energy, Senator Wong. Given the similarity in possible causes of the current disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico...
  • Home Insulation Program (21 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery, Senator Arbib. How many homes have an electrified roof from foil insulation installed under the Home...