Senate debates

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

  • Renewable Energy (1 speech)
    This year I have spoken on numerous occasions in this chamber about how the coalition is increasingly relying on the tactics perfected by the Tea Party movement in the United States. The Tea...
  • Committee Reports: Government Responses (1 speech)
    I rise this evening to express disappointment in this Labor government. It is a long sad litany. If we rose all the time to give illustrations of this, we would do little else. On this occasion I...
  • Whistleblowers (1 speech)
    I rise tonight to make some remarks about whistleblowers, their importance to democracy and how their treatment reflects on the state of democracy in Australia and in other democracies around the...
  • Rogers, Mr Gregory (1 speech)
    Last month in Brisbane, my friend Greg Rogers died. A couple of days later, many of his friends—unfortunately I could not be there because, naturally, we were sitting—gathered...