Senate debates
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
- Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (1 speech)
I would like to bring to the attention of the Senate tonight recent reports in The Australian of anti-Semitic incidents at university O weeks around Australia, including at the Australian... - Fred Hollows Foundation (1 speech)
The Fred Hollows Foundation envisages a world where no-one is needlessly blind. I have spoken on numerous occasions in this chamber about the great work of the Fred Hollows Foundation in the... - Bachelor of Agricultural Business Management Course (1 speech)
I am delighted this evening to stand in this place and record that the Bachelor of Agricultural Business Management course conducted by Charles Sturt University here in New South Wales is now... - Brain Cancer (1 speech)
I was pleased last night to attend a briefing in Parliament House on a recently completed 12-month study into less common and rare cancers. In this report it was stated that rare and less common... - Fulton, Ms Roseanne (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak in support of Roseanne Fulton. Specifically, I speak in support of the release of Roseanne Fulton from prison in Western Australia. She is in prison without conviction.... - Manufacturing (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak about perception and reality. If we believe the newspaper headlines, the perception is that we are in a state of crisis. In my home state of Victoria, newspapers have... - Arts (1 speech)
I rise to address the chamber on the state of the arts in Australia and the extraordinary actions of this government in placing freedom of speech in jeopardy. Last week the arts came under... - Diabetes (1 speech)
Last Saturday morning I jumped out of a plane. I began a speech exactly 12 months ago with that exact same statement—Senator Birmingham, I think you may have been in the chamber then; I am... - Government and Politics (1 speech)
Having been absent from this place during my secondment to the United Nations, and as I draw closer to the end of my term, I thought I would put on the record some of my observations about the... - Youth Connections (1 speech)
This evening I rise to put on the record some remarks regarding an amazing program, established by the Labor government, that I know has been operating across Australia in the last several years:... - Western Australia: Shark Cull (1 speech)
Today I participated in Science meets Parliament, which is a wonderful event that enhances and strengthens our ties with the scientific community. I met and heard some inspiring people both at... - Australian Greens (3 speeches)
I rise tonight as a witness—the only witness, if you believe the reports in The Canberra Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Vine and The Guardianto the hypocrisy, duplicity, pretence and...
