Senate debates

Monday, 1 September 2025

  • Health Care: Women's Health (1 speech)
    I rise today, during Women's Health Week, to speak on a matter that touches every family in every community in every corner of our nation: the health and wellbeing of Australian women. Women's...
  • Tibet Lobby Day (1 speech)
    I rise to mark Tibet Lobby Day, which is happening in the Australian parliament today and tomorrow. This is a day when members of the Tibetan community who have carried both the pain of exile and...
  • Fuel Security (1 speech)
    I rise to talk about blood oil. Twenty years ago Australians were horrified to learn that the diamond in their engagement ring could be a blood diamond. Blood diamonds, also known as conflict...
  • Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (1 speech)
    I want to begin by acknowledging that it is Women's Health Week. What a week to acknowledge the meaningful change our government has made towards protecting victims of financial abuse....
  • Universities: Artificial Intelligence (1 speech)
    As someone who worked in university administration for more than two decades, I've seen higher education from the inside. What I see now is a system in decline, and artificial intelligence is...
  • Stewart, Mr Anthony John (1 speech)
    I recently met His Excellency Jose Ramos-Horta, the President of East Timor. We talked of Tony Stewart, the youngest of the Balibo Five, and his murder in the small crossroads town of Balibo,...