Senate debates

Monday, 16 October 2017

  • Trade with Japan, INPEX Ichthys LNG Project (1 speech)
    The relationship between Australia and Japan is our closest and most mature in Asia, so it's fundamentally important for our shared strategic and economic interests that we continue to strengthen...
  • Pacific Women's Parliamentary Partnerships Forum (1 speech)
    This evening I rise to speak on the recent Pacific Women's Parliamentary Partnerships Forum, held in Honiara on the Solomon Islands. Sixty women from 17 Pacific parliaments came together for the...
  • Myanmar (1 speech)
    Recently in Sydney I met members of the Rohingya community. Their sadness was immense. One man told me that he had just heard that both his brother and his father had been killed. Others were...
  • Schools (1 speech)
    Tonight I rise to speak about the important role chaplains play in young Australian lives in schools, particularly in my home state of Western Australia. All too often in this place, as we have...