Senate debates

Monday, 22 November 2021

  • Workplace Relations: Amazon (1 speech)
    [by video link] Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was the first person in history to build a personal fortune worth more than US$200 billion. Despite his wealth going up by $13 million an hour 2020, Amazon...
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1 speech)
    As someone who worked for the ABC as a journalist and presenter for nine years, I'm a great supporter of our national broadcaster and the important role it plays in our democracy. However, I want...
  • Western Australia: Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Bill 2021 (1 speech)
    I'd like to read from the Wati Council's statement on the West Australian Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Bill 2021 which was handed to Premier McGowan in Port Hedland. 'We, the law holders of the...
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1 speech)
    We live in a world not only where misinformation runs rife but where spreading it has become part of a business model. In the midst of a global pandemic, the spreading of misinformation is not...
  • COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
    [by video link] Fake Christians are the Judas goats of the 21st century. We have a fake Christian prime minister and, in New South Wales, a fake Christian premier. Both are forcing the faithful...
  • Croatian Film Festival (1 speech)
    On Friday evening last week I was thrilled to be at the opening night of the third annual Croatian Film Festival. A huge congratulations to Croatia House Committee for not only keeping this event...
  • COVID-19: Morrison Government, COVID-19: Western Australia (1 speech)
    or LINES (—) (): How timely that is! I'm speaking today on the criticisms from the Morrison government against Western Australia's hard border, and we just heard Senator Hughes have a go at...
  • National Cervical Cancer Awareness Week (1 speech)
    Earlier this month we marked National Cervical Cancer Awareness Week. It was a timely reminder about the impact this terrible cancer has on women in Australia and around the world. Cervical...
  • Parliamentary Representation (1 speech)
    With the stroke of a pen from a foreign nation whole groups of people can be disqualified from standing for parliament. That's what our Constitution says. According to our Constitution, a person...
  • Premier of Victoria (1 speech)
    I rise today not to have an argument with the Victorian Premier but to say that the Premier wilfully misrepresented the facts in a media conference last week when he said that the PM 'forgot to...
  • Customs Amendment (Banning Goods Produced By Forced Labour) Legislation (1 speech)
    This morning in the other place, my colleague from South Australia the member for Mayo, Rebekha Sharkie, introduced a Customs Amendment (Banning Goods Produced By Forced Labour) Bill 2021. Now,...
  • South Australia: Oyster Industry (1 speech)
    I rise today to offer my deepest sympathies to the hardworking South Australian men and women in the state's oyster-growing industry who've had their jobs and their industry threatened by an...
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1 speech)
    I rise to call out today the government's full-blown attack on the Australian broadcaster, the ABC. Just around the corner is an election and, like clockwork, we already see this government going...
  • Queensland: Health Services, Queensland: Economy (1 speech)
    The Queensland Labor government continues to fail in administering the state, particularly regional Queensland: it's an 'E' by any measure. I rise with deep concern about the scandal-ridden...
  • Northern Territory: COVID-19 (2 speeches)
    [by video link] The Northern Territory is experiencing its worst COVID outbreak since the pandemic began. It's incredibly serious for us up here in the Northern Territory and in particular around...