• Australian Greens Senator for SA
• Became a Senator on 1 July 2008
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Questions without Notice: Child Care (4 Dec 2008)

“I hope that Minister Carr will answer my questions with such enthusiasm. My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Education, Senator Carr. On 22 October, during estimates, the minister’s department assured us that the government had a contingency plan for dealing with the potential collapse of ABC Learning. We now know that we are facing a childcare crisis, with the...”

Questions without Notice: Child Care (4 Dec 2008)

“Mr President, I thank the minister for his answer and I ask a supplementary question. Today is the last day of parliament—the last day that the minister has an opportunity to level with Australian mums and dads, to tell the Parliament, as requested time and time again over the last few weeks, what the minister’s contingency plan is. If I wanted the details on what the receiver was...”

Questions without Notice: Child Care (4 Dec 2008)

“Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that the Senate passed a motion on 10 November calling on the minister to hold an emergency summit of stakeholders and yet we have had no response, and given that the Senate called on the minister yesterday to table her plan for 2009 to ensure that parents had some certainty for the care of their children when they return from...”

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• Has spoken in 43 debates in the last year — average amongst Senators.
• People have made 0 comments on this Senator's speeches — well above average amongst Senators.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 31 times in debates — well below average amongst Senators. (Why is this here?)