Senate debates

Thursday, 14 November 2019

  • Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (6 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians, Senator Colbeck. In releasing the interim report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the commissioner's...
  • Emergency Services (8 speeches)
    My question is to Leader of the Government in the Senate, Minister Cormann, representing the Prime Minister. Two years ago the combined emergency services put in a business case to the federal...
  • Steel Industry (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, and concerns the government's support for steel manufacturing in Whyalla. Is it not the case that,...
  • National Disability Insurance Scheme (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Senator Ruston. Can the minister update the Senate on the rollout of the NDIS and how the...
  • Aged Care (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians, Senator Colbeck. The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety's interim report identified that the home care...
  • National Broadband Network (8 speeches)
    Thank you very much, Mr President—no relation to the other Senator Smith. My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts, my friend...
  • Aged Care (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians, Senator Colbeck. In evidence given at the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, held in Mudgee just last week,...
  • Forestry (8 speeches)
    I'm very pleased to ask a question of the Minister for Agriculture, a fellow Victorian, Senator McKenzie. Can the minister outline how the Victoria Labor government's ban on native forestry will...
  • Community Sport Infrastructure Grants Program (7 speeches)
    My question, unsurprisingly, is to the Minister for Sport, Senator Colbeck. This week, in response to my questions in the Senate regarding the Community Sport Infrastructure Grants Program, the...