Senate debates

Wednesday, 9 December 2020

  • Australia (7 speeches)
    The great civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King said: I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but...
  • Welfare (1 speech)
    I rise to speak on the Northern Territory and those hundreds if not thousands of families across Australia in the trial sites for the cashless debit card. For the record, there are two trial...
  • Victoria: Forestry (1 speech)
    I rise today to speak about the ongoing logging of native forests in my state. As I said in this chamber earlier this week, our people are not from country; we are of country. I call this place's...
  • Gender Dysphoria (1 speech)
    Last week in the United Kingdom, a momentous judgement with international implications was handed down by the High Court. The court found in favour of the arguments put forward by the mother of a...
  • China: Human Rights (2 speeches)
    I rise to give my last speech of the year that's not on legislation where I get to actually determine the subject matter that I might discuss, and I promised myself earlier in the year that I...
  • Electric Vehicles (1 speech)
    I rise to speak on electric vehicles, and I do so because the government is not speaking on electric vehicles. Australia's electric vehicle policy is battery dead, and it's in need of a jump...
  • Government Procurement, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Video Games Industry, Australian Defence Force (1 speech)
    As our nation hopefully rounds the corner from coronavirus, I reiterate my call for the introduction of online transparency portals for government spending as a necessary measure to tackle...
  • Aged-Care (2 speeches)
    Today I rise to speak about aged care. I particularly want to focus my remarks today on the aged-care workforce. I say at the beginning that, as an organiser with my union, the United Workers...