Senate debates

Wednesday, 5 December 2018

  • Energy (1 speech)
    Paris, the 'City of Light', is ablaze. Ablaze not with shimmering Christmas lights strung along the ribs of the Eiffel Tower. No, Paris is ablaze not figuratively but literally. As we speak, the...
  • Aged Care (1 speech)
    In the five years of this government we have seen its failure to deal with the aged-care reform that was handed to them by Labor. We did the heavy lifting when we were in government, with the...
  • Ridd, Professor Peter (1 speech)
    In May this year, Professor Peter Ridd was sacked by James Cook University. His crime? To calmly and consistently call for the implementation of a quality assurance process to verify and...
  • 50 Lives 50 Homes (1 speech)
    I rise tonight to talk about a very important project in Western Australia, and the threats that it faces. In Western Australia there is a project running called 50 Lives 50 Homes. It's under...
  • Climate Change (1 speech)
    I rise to address the chamber on the matter of COP24, or the Conference of the Parties, taking place in Poland this week. The COP is an annual conference, but, as we draw towards 2030, when we...