Senate debates

Tuesday, 28 March 2017

  • Cyclone Debbie, Australian Defence Force (10 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne.
  • Disability Services (10 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services, Senator Ryan. Australians were horrified by the evidence of appalling violence and abuse towards people with...
  • Great Barrier Reef (23 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Energy, Senator Birmingham. The world is horrified at recent press reports of the totally unexpected and...
  • Northern Territory: Indigenous Land Reform (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Indigenous affairs, Senator Scullion. Can the minister advise the Senate on the government's Indigenous land reform agenda, including progress on negotiating...
  • Workplace Relations (11 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. Yesterday, the minister failed to tell the Senate what work the government has undertaken on the overall economic...
  • Welfare Reform (14 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Employment, Senator Cash. Can the minister update the Senate on what the Turnbull government is doing to support young Australians into the workplace?
  • Child Sexual Abuse (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Attorney-General. What is the Attorney-General doing to address the overwhelming evidence that abused children are being returned to their abusers while protective parents...
  • Defence Procurement (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne. In April last year the Prime Minister held a doorstop and said 'the submarine project alone will see Australian workers building...
  • Vocational Education and Training (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Education and Training, Senator Birmingham. Will the minister inform the Senate how the government's changes to VET student loans are helping new and continuing...
  • Attorney-General (17 speeches)
    Mr President, my question this afternoon is to the Attorney-General, Senator Brandis. In evidence to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, the Attorney-General has...
  • Kokoda Track (9 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Senator Fierravanti-Wells. Can the minister inform the Senate how the coalition government is using its overseas...