Senate debates

Wednesday, 19 August 2009

  • (1 speech)
    Order! It being 12.45 pm, I call on matters of public interest.
  • Swimming Pool Safety (1 speech)
    I rise today to bring to the attention of the chamber the very important issue of infant mortality rates as a result of drowning in home swimming pools and the need to improve pool fencing...
  • Water (2 speeches)
    Today I want to talk about why any proposition for the Commonwealth to buy the land and water resources of Cubbie Station will be a fraud on the public purse. Section 99 of chapter IV, Finance...
  • Radioactive Waste (11 speeches)
    I rise to speak again, as I have already done a few times in the last 13 months in here, about radioactive matters of public interest. I want to point out that, until very recently, the ALP...
  • Geographic Price Discrimination (1 speech)
    I thank Senator Ludlam for being gracious enough to give up some of his time for me to speak today. I rise today to speak about the issue of geographic price discrimination. This is an issue of...
  • Victoria: Abortion Law Reform Act (1 speech)
    On 10 October 2008, the Victorian parliament passed the Abortion Law Reform Act—the freest abortion laws in the world. The new law has opened the floodgates to late-term abortions, right up...
  • Drugs (1 speech)
    I rise today to speak on a matter of public interest: the unhealthy and ever-increasing influence of different classes of drugs on our children. Alcohol and other drugs are, sadly, the largest...