Senate debates
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
- Save Sorry Business Coalition (1 speech)
This week, campaigners for Save Sorry Business have come to the national parliament. The Save Sorry Business campaigners are a small group of people in number, but they are the voice for more... - Mobile Black Spot Program (1 speech)
Earlier this afternoon, Senator McKenzie continued to spread mistruths about supposed cuts to road safety spending. I am so tired of the Liberals' and Nationals' attempts to politicise road... - Sriranganathan, Mr Jonathan (1 speech)
Over the weekend, my friend Jonathan Sriranganathan announced he would step down as councillor for Brisbane's Gabba ward. Jono was elected in 2016 as Queensland's first Greens councillor, and the... - Gender and Sexual Orientation: Protests (1 speech)
Last week a group of brave women in Victoria gathered to protest men using their bathrooms and dominating their sports, and, as sure as night turns to day, the activist media and the leftist... - International Development Assistance (1 speech)
Australia's official development assistance program is our nation's primary source of financing for Australia's contribution to international development aid. Our ODA funding has the potential to... - Immigration (2 speeches)
Australia is in serious trouble. We have an unprecedented housing and rental crisis. We don't have enough homes for everyone in Australia. Rental vacancy rates are lower than one per cent in our... - Workplace Safety (1 speech)
This week we have had a very special guest in this building. Yavuz is the uncle of Burak Dogan, a 30-year-old food delivery rider who was tragically killed on the job on 2 April 2020. Burak is... - Oil and Gas Exploration (1 speech)
Today I want to talk about a megafracker that is currently on its way from the US to Australia. This is one of five megafrackers that Tamboran intends to use to frack the Beetaloo basin, against... - Premier of Victoria (1 speech)
Something is different in my home state of Victoria this week. There is a sense of calm and order as the Victorian people go about their everyday lives. The media are silent. They don't know what... - Hunt, Mrs Alison (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge and remember the life of another great Territorian, Alison Hunt, who was also a family member of my own. Alison, sadly, lost her life to cancer earlier this month.... - Cost of Living, Food Banks (1 speech)
As interest rates soar, families are struggling to put food on the table. Just about every person who has stopped me on the streets in Lonnie has mentioned how tough things are at the moment. One... - First Nations Australians (1 speech)
Just an hour ago I spoke about police violence. Last weekend, tragically, police violence got completely out of hand in Mareeba, where a First Nations man, Aubrey Donahue, who was just in his... - Liberal-National Coalition (1 speech)
I rise today to speak directly to the many millions of Australians who support the Liberal Party, the National Party, the LNP and the CLP right across Australia. I remind them that sometimes it... - Transport Industry (3 speeches)
I wanted to talk about something positive, but I can't let that one go, Senator Brockman. What an absolute crack-up. You got two seats back there in WA the last time I looked—two seats out...
