Senate debates
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
- Prime Minister (1 speech)
[by video link] What we just saw was more apologies from the National Party for the utter failures of this Prime Minister. In regional New South Wales, the vaccine rollout, despite what the Prime... - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1 speech)
I rise today to speak again on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest release, just last month. I want to talk about TS17, where they say there is a 'near linear relationship... - Media (1 speech)
Like many Australians, I watched the Four Corners series 'Fox and the big lie' over the last two Mondays. While it wasn't surprising viewing for those of us who closely monitor far-Right media... - COVID-19: Employment (1 speech)
I rise today to join with the Maritime Union of Australia, the Maritime Industry Australia Limited and Ports Australia in calling for greater recognition of maritime workers as essential workers... - Covid-19 (1 speech)
[by video link] I want to comment about the state and federal governments' lack of a plan. It's costing people enormously, sometimes costing people's livelihoods and lives. I checked with the... - Afghanistan (1 speech)
I rise to add my voice to those of Senate colleagues on what continues to unfold in Afghanistan. The country's collapse to the Taliban was a tragedy in itself, but to have been so quickly... - Cybersecurity (1 speech)
[by video link] Yesterday Bloomberg confirmed what many of us already knew: China was responsible for hacking the parliamentary email system last year, and that was part of a much broader attack... - Early Childhood Educators Day (1 speech)
Happy Early Childhood Educators Day. It's a day when we thank our incredible early learning educators and acknowledge, celebrate and recognise their work and the amazing contribution they make to... - Gas Industry (1 speech)
[by video link] We are in a climate crisis, yet the major parties are continuing to approve fossil fuel projects to support the corporations who donate to them instead of taking the action that... - Social Housing (1 speech)
[by video link] Social housing was once viewed by Australian governments as an important safety net for low-income families. But over the last 30 years this has changed, and Australia is now... - Human Immunodeficiency Virus (1 speech)
There are nearly 29,000 people in Australia living with HIV. Thanks to treatment advances, it is now a treatable chronic illness, but there are still people in Australia going without treatment... - Environment (1 speech)
[by video link] The takayna/Tarkine contains unique and precious Aboriginal heritage, spectacular wilderness and Australia's largest tract of temperate rainforest. It is deeply saddening that... - Australian Agriculture Visa (1 speech)
[by video link] I rise today to talk about our recently announced Agriculture Visa. This has been a long-held initiative of the Country Liberal Party and the National Party, and I am very glad it... - Prime Minister (1 speech)
[by video link] We all know Mr Morrison is shameless when it comes to spin, but his most shameless spin yet is that he is the one who offers Australia a pathway to reopening, when he is the one... - Queensland: COVID-19 (2 speeches)
[by video link] Queensland markets itself as the Sunshine State, but, for people holed up in quarantine hotels, 'sunshine' is just the light source they can see from behind their locked doors....
