Senate debates

Thursday, 10 February 2022

  • Budget (1 speech)
    GALLAGHER (—) (): I'd just like to make a few comments about the government's latest desperate attempt to launch a lame new scare campaign. We saw it yesterday, with the finance minister...
  • Australian Labor Party (1 speech)
    Last night I spoke in the chamber about the significant risk that a Labor-Greens alliance poses to Australian jobs and the national economy if ever Labor were to be elected. The Greens' proposed...
  • Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
    As I said in my first speech, we've been tackling the issue of violence against women all wrong. We have to stop thinking of this as a women's-only issue; it's a societal issue that...
  • Boothby Electorate (1 speech)
    The message I'm hearing really strongly across South Australia is clear: people want real climate action, they want more jobs and they want cheaper power. This is especially true in the seat of...
  • Covid-19 (8 speeches)
    [by video link] I have to speak about the millions of Australians that feel that they are being discriminated against with regard to COVID. At present, we have thousands of Australians that are...
  • Tasmania Zoo (1 speech)
    Hidden in the hills behind Launceston, not far from the Tamar River, is the Tasmania Zoo. This family owned business has one of the largest collections of primates in any Australian private zoo....
  • Environment (1 speech)
    The government will soon release the new State of the environment report, an independent five-yearly assessment of our environment. Unfortunately, this report will very much make for grim...
  • McGregor, Mr Craig Rob Roy (1 speech)
    I rise to offer my condolences to the family of Craig McGregor and to speak about his remarkable contribution to journalism and to Australian writing. Craig started his career at the Herald, but...
  • Western Victoria Transmission Network Project (1 speech)
    I rise to speak on the Victorian government and AusNet's contentious Western Victoria Transmission Network Project. This project seeks to construct an electricity transmission network through 190...
  • Aged Care (1 speech)
    There's been a lot of talk about the aged-care minister choosing to spend three days at the cricket while the aged-care sector was, and does remain, in crisis. He did this instead of turning up...
  • Higher Education (2 speeches)
    Providing quality education is the core business of our universities. I've met with university representatives and locals about the proposed move of the Hobart campus of the University of...
  • Widjabul Wiyabal People (1 speech)
    Thank you, Acting Deputy—black—President. Aboriginal land and our people were stolen, and we want our land back. Not joint management—joint management is not our land back; it's...
  • Northern Australia Reinsurance Pool (1 speech)
    Labor's critics of the reinsurance pool don't live in the north, and they don't reflect the lived experience of thousands of people in the north. In the north we pay more for electricity,...
  • Prime Minister (1 speech)
    It was another own goal by the Prime Minister of this country when he failed to attend the National Press Club luncheon yesterday to hear the addresses by Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins....