Senate debates

Monday, 2 December 2019

  • Trade Unions (3 speeches)
    I rise today to speak of hope. Earlier today, a journalist asked the Prime Minister a question. The question was: 'Prime Minister, on ensuring integrity, do you share the view of your colleagues...
  • Superannuation (1 speech)
    I rise in support of fairness in our superannuation system—fairness for workers and fairness for women especially. Today in my office here in Parliament House I met with members of my...
  • Violence Against Women (1 speech)
    I rise tonight to speak on a topic that many might find difficult to discuss: the sexual assault of older women in their homes and in aged-care facilities. Last week, I hosted a roundtable on...
  • Murray-Darling Basin (1 speech)
    Today hundreds if not thousands of irrigators, irrigation farmers, community members, business people from our regional communities in the Murray-Darling Basin—particularly the southern...