Senate debates

Tuesday, 28 March 2023

  • Gas Industry (30 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. Does Australia need to increase gas production to meet export and domestic demand while lowering gas prices?
  • Climate Change (7 speeches)
    My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Senator Gallagher. Can the minister update the Senate on the progress that the Albanese government has made...
  • Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Bill 2022 (20 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell.
  • Forestry Industry: Endangered Species (15 speeches)
    My question is to Senator Watt, the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Firstly, I seek leave to table a photo of a Tasmanian devil that was burnt to death in a post-logging fire....
  • Budget (18 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Gallagher. Yesterday the minister outlined how the former government's tricky approach to budgeting has put several government programs and...
  • Budget: Australian National Audit Office (14 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. In recent years we've seen scandals across the Public Service—robodebt, mismanagement of procurement in Home Affairs,...
  • Taxation (11 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. The February 2023 Tax Expenditures and Insights Statement reveals $67 billion of franking credits was distributed...
  • Vocational Education and Training (9 speeches)
    My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Skills and Training. TAFE teachers in Tasmania are paid $60,000 a year, at the moment, but the tradies who should be teaching these...
  • Foreign Investment (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Trade and Tourism, Senator Farrell. The 2023 Why Australia report, launched today, reinforces why there is no better place in the world to do business than...
  • Ukraine (14 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Farrell. Minister, have all of the 90 Bushmasters promised by Australia to Ukraine on 8 April and 27 October 2022 been...
  • Biosecurity (13 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Watt. Minister, we know that low wages was a deliberate design feature of the previous Liberal government's...