Senate debates

Wednesday, 14 September 2016

  • Foreign Investment (1 speech)
    In five weeks time, on 23 October, a group of us will meet at Denham, near Shark Bay, in Western Australia to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the first known European landing on Australian...
  • Dementia (4 speeches)
    I rise to speak about the Turnbull government's continued failure to put dementia at the forefront of the government's thinking and to treat it as a national health priority. Our calls over the...
  • Oil Exploration (1 speech)
    I rise today to speak about a very special and precious place in my home state of South Australia. Last week, I was lucky enough to spend two days on the west coast in my home state, from Ceduna...
  • Middle East (1 speech)
    I am grateful for the opportunity today to make a contribution on a subject that is important to me but I think also important to the friends of freedom and democracy in this Senate chamber, in...
  • Indigenous Affairs (1 speech)
    Recently, I had the privilege of visiting two of the 11 community partners in a program called the National Empowerment Project. I visited the Queensland communities of Cherbourg and Kuranda. I...
  • Aged Care Funding Instrument (1 speech)
    Firstly, I would like to state that this is absolutely not my first speech. However, I am certain that what I rise to speak on today will very much feature in that first speech in the coming...
  • Curtain, Sir Michael, KBE, Jones, Mr Ewen (1 speech)
    There is not often, in this place, a lot of opportunity available to senators to place on record, in a timely fashion, the tributes that I want to make to two men who, apart from both being from...
  • Government Procurement (2 speeches)
    Earlier this year the New South Wales Liberal government faced a choice. It needed to purchase new trains, a contract that would be worth billions of dollars and hundreds of jobs. The Baird...