• Former Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland
• Assistant Minister for Resources (since 13 May 2025)
  Assistant Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (since 29 Jul 2024)
  Assistant Minister for Regional Development (since 1 Jun 2022)
• Became a Senator on — Federal election
• Left Senate on n/a — Still in office

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Business: Rearrangement (15 Sep 2026)

“I move: That consideration of the business before the Senate on Wednesday, 16 September 2026 be interrupted at approximately 5 pm, but not so as to interrupt a senator speaking, to enable Senator Gatenby to make his first speech (of approximately 20 minutes) without any question before the chair. Question agreed to.”

Documents: Artificial Intelligence (15 Sep 2026)

“As I was saying, Senator Pocock knows the procedure that people go through in these matters. It's not that hard to do. Most of the senators in the chamber comply with it—and it's just a bit of courtesy, to be honest, about treating each other with respect in how documents are tabled. I encourage Senator Pocock to move away from the stunts that he seems prone to want to do and just treat...”

Documents: Artificial Intelligence (15 Sep 2026)

“This matter isn't urgent and Senator Pocock never put forward any coherent argument about why this matter urgently needs to be dealt with now. The fact of the matter is he knows the procedure that people go through to table documents. It's actually not that hard to do, but this is the second week in a row that Senator Pocock has ignored that because he's more interested in using this to do a...”

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• Has spoken in 82 debates in the last year — above average amongst Senators.
• People have made 0 comments on this Senator's speeches — average amongst Senators.
• 5 people are tracking whenever this Senator speaks .
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 474 times in debates — average amongst Senators. (Why is this here?)