Senate debates

Wednesday, 20 October 2021

  • Climate Change, Energy (1 speech)
    A net zero transition provides Australia with abundant opportunity, but because of the fallacy that net zero equals zero emissions, the common debate around emissions reduction has been tarnished...
  • Homelessness (1 speech)
    In the last six weeks, four women have died on the streets of Perth. In 2020, 56 homeless people died in Perth. Forty-four people have died on the streets since August last year. One-third of...
  • Queensland: Community Events (1 speech)
    It is a privilege, Senator Cox, to follow you in this chamber. It's the second time I've done that this week, in your first week. I think you made some extremely important points there, and one...
  • Morrison Government (1 speech)
    It's been said that the Morrison government has a women problem, but I think it's more accurate to say that the women of Australia have a Morrison government problem. As we near the end of 2021...
  • Private Health Insurance (1 speech)
    [by video link] Over the next few weeks, health insurers around the country will be busy finalising their applications to hike up insurance premiums. Of course, it's exactly the same thing every...
  • Freedom of Speech, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1 speech)
    On the front page of today's Courier Mail is a very alarming story that should concern every Queenslander as it is a bloody attack on democracy and free speech in Queensland. It's an attack that...
  • Workplace Relations (1 speech)
    I rise to speak about a virus that has destroyed the lives and livelihoods of decent, hardworking Australians. That virus is, of course, Alan Joyce, the CEO of Qantas, and his executive...
  • Morrison Government (1 speech)
    We're now into hour 70,100 of the longest-running soap opera in Australian politics, and that is the soap opera of the Liberal and National parties trying to work out where they stand on climate...