Senate debates

Tuesday, 14 August 2018

  • Employment (12 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Senator Cash. Following upon her success and the success of her government in creating some 400,000 jobs last year—
  • Energy (38 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. Less than a year ago the Prime Minister said, 'We have no plans to build a coal-fired power station.' Does the...
  • Taxation (8 speeches)
    My question is to Senator Cormann, the Minister representing the Treasurer. On 30 May at Senate estimates I asked the ATO whether Goldman Sachs Australia entities had filed a tax return between...
  • Energy (28 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Energy, Senator Birmingham. When asked yesterday about the Energy Security Board's modelling of the impact of the...
  • Defence Exercises (10 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne. Can the minister advise the Senate of the ADF's recent activities and close work with our allies and partners right across the Indo-Pacific?
  • Child Sexual Abuse (7 speeches)
    My question is to Minister Fifield, representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Dutton. As everyone in this chamber knows, I've been calling for a national public child sex offender register...
  • Great Barrier Reef Foundation (10 speeches)
    My question is to the minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. On Sunday, ABC Insiders program tweeted a comment critical of the government's lack of due diligence prior to...
  • Indigenous Employment, Indigenous Advancement Strategy (8 speeches)
    My question is for the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Senator Scullion. Given that it is National Science Week this week, could the minister please advise what the coalition government is doing...
  • Great Barrier Reef Foundation (35 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. Today's Daily Telegraph reveals that the Great Barrier Reef Foundation treated private sector CEOs and executives...