Senate debates
Thursday, 5 August 2021
- Minister for Industry, Science and Technology (1 speech)
Yesterday, Scott Morrison sent women and survivors of sexual assault in Australia a damning message. He sent them a message that he simply doesn't care. Yesterday the Prime Minister appointed... - Great Barrier Reef (1 speech)
I rise to speak briefly on the fantastic and wonderful Great Barrier Reef. I'm one of only a few senators in this place who lives near or in the Great Barrier Reef catchment area—I think... - Homelessness (1 speech)
[by video link] It's Homelessness Week this week and Australia is in an affordable housing crisis. In a wealthy nation like ours, no-one should be without a roof over their heads. In Queensland... - Queensland: Aged Care (1 speech)
[by video link] Tara is a small town in the Darling Downs in Queensland, with a population of around 2,000 people. It has a school, a hospital and a library, and it has one aged-care facility,... - Indigenous Australians (1 speech)
[by video link] Despite every effort to close the gap between First Nations descendants and Australians of all colours and creeds, we continue to entrench their victim status with endless cash... - Tasmania: COVID-19 (1 speech)
Down in Tasmania, we normally like to take a team approach—'Team Tasmania', as many colleagues call it. Just yesterday some great news came out of Tasmania, and that was that 50 per cent of... - Homelessness (1 speech)
[by video link] This week is National Homelessness Week, the theme being 'everybody needs a home'. I think most of us would agree that, during this pandemic, our homes have never felt more... - Australian Army Reserve: Sydney University Regiment (1 speech)
I want all the parents out there who have kids who are going through officer training to pull them out immediately. I'm not mucking around. Get them out of there. They are dangerous to your... - COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
[by video link] From the team who brought you the pink batts scandal and $900 cheques to people who'd passed away, now we have Labor's 'cash for jabs'. We shouldn't be surprised to learn, though,... - Covid-19 (1 speech)
Deaths, loss of jobs, businesses closing, $300 billion plus of public expenditure, border closures, lockdowns: COVID has had the biggest effect on Australian life since World War II. It has also... - Workplace Relations (1 speech)
[by video link] Yesterday the High Court ruled and delivered a judgement in the WorkPac v Rossato case. Let's make no mistake: it is a victory for labour hire companies and the Morrison... - Closing the Gap (1 speech)
[by video link] Today the do-nothing, 'I don't hold a hose, mate' Prime Minister stood up in the other place to again highlight the failures of the government he leads with regard to First... - Aged Care (1 speech)
The care a community provides for its elders is a mark of that community, and I rise to give due respect and hearty congratulations to volunteers and staff at aged-care facilities, particularly... - Prime Minister (1 speech)
We've all come across that person—the bloke who wants the title, the big contract, the money or the glory but doesn't really want to do the job that goes with it; the middle manager from... - Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
Recently workers at McCain Foods in Smithton, through their union, the AMWU, notified the company, in accordance with the law, that they'd be taking industrial action in support of claims for...
