Senate debates

Tuesday, 10 August 2021

  • The National Strategic Action Plan for Pain Management, National Pain Services Directory (1 speech)
    Tonight I'm going to speak about two important initiatives: Australia's national action plan for pain management and Painaustralia's updated National Pain Services Directory. Both were launched...
  • Tokyo Olympic Games: Transgender Athletes (1 speech)
    I rise today to reflect on the Olympic Games in Tokyo, which finished on Sunday. Like Senator Chandler, I witnessed performances which, as Senator Chandler put it, captured 'the essence of the...
  • COVID-19: Income Support Payments (1 speech)
    I rise this evening to speak about this government's relentless debt collection against people on income support. It was revealed through questions on notice through estimates that the government...
  • COVID-19: State and Territory Border Closures (1 speech)
    [by video link] This evening I raise the case of my constituents Mary-Anne and Billy Hemsley, who live in Curlewis in Geelong, the mother and stepfather of 15-year-old Tahlia Wale. Tahlia...
  • United Nations (1 speech)
    The United Nations food systems presummit last week in Rome recommended a dietary limit of 14 grams of red meat per person per day. That's one bite. As a servant to the people of Queensland and...
  • Queensland: Dams (1 speech)
    Annastacia Palaszczuk and Queensland Labor continue to fail Queensland farmers. First, they made the decision to destroy Paradise Dam, in what is Australia's greatest infrastructure fail. They...
  • Human Rights (1 speech)
    [by video link] Tonight, as I do most Tuesday nights, I want to speak about human rights, because the Australian Greens believe that universal human rights are fundamental and must be respected...
  • Climate Change (2 speeches)
    [by video link] Every person in this country should be absolutely ashamed that the so-called Prime Minister of this country—a man absolutely committed to not doing his job—today...
  • National Security (1 speech)
    I rise to speak about the prosecution in the ACT courts of barrister and former Attorney-General of the ACT Bernard Collaery. The prosecution has proved very controversial for two reasons. The...
  • Cancer (1 speech)
    [by video link] A few short weeks ago my beautiful wife, Kristin Griff, passed away after a long and distressing battle with an aggressive form of breast cancer. She was not alone. A shocking...