• Skip to navigation
  • Skip to content

Home - Parliament of Australia logo

  • Parliament Calendar
  • Contact
  • ParlInfo
  • ParlWork
  • Log in
  • Menu
  • Home
  • Parliamentary Business
    • Bills and Legislation
    • Tabled documents
    • Chamber documents
    • Hansard
    • Senate estimates
    • Committees
    • Statistics
    • Petitions
    • Address in Reply
  • Senators and Members
    • Senators
    • Members
    • Contacting Senators and Members
  • News & Events
    • Watch, Read, Listen
    • Events Calendar
    • Senate news and events
    • About the House News
    • Joint statements by the Presiding Officers
    • My First Speech
  • About Parliament
    • Senate
    • House of Representatives
    • Work of the Parliament
    • Parliamentary Leadership Taskforce
    • Parliamentary departments
    • International Program
    • Publications and policies
    • Employment
    • Media Rules and Filming Applications
    • Education Resources
    • Parliamentary Friendship Groups (non-country)
    • Australian Parliament House Security Pass Office
    • Sitting Calendar
  • Visit Parliament
    • What's on
    • Things to Do
    • Art at Parliament
    • Dining
    • Parliament Shop
    • Venue Hire
    • Plan your Visit
    • Accessibility
Home Parliamentary Business Hansard Hansard Display

  Table of contents

  • start of business
  •   documents
    • tabling
  •   committees
    • meeting
      • PRESIDENT, The
  •   business
    • consideration of legislation
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • Patrick, Sen Rex
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • division
      • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • division
      • McCarthy, Sen Malarndirri (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
      • division
  •   bills
    • government procurement (judicial review) bill 2017
      • in committee
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Storer, Sen Timothy
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Patrick, Sen Rex
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
        • Farrell, Sen Don
        • Di Natale, Sen Richard
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
        • division
      • third reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
    • treasury laws amendment (lower taxes for small and medium businesses) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • division
        • PRESIDENT, The
      • third reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
  •   notices
    • presentation
    • withdrawal
      • Williams, Sen John
  •   committees
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • Bushby, Sen David
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Leyonhjelm, Sen David
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Cormann, Sen Mathias
  •   notices
    • postponement
      • PRESIDENT, The
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Collins, Sen Jacinta
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Cormann, Sen Mathias
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
  •   committees
    • selection of bills committee
      • report
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   business
    • rearrangement
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   bills
    • plebiscite (restricting non-european migration) bill 2018
      • first reading
        • PRESIDENT, The
        • Anning, Sen Fraser
  •   committees
    • privileges committee
      • reference
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • legal and constitutional affairs references committee
      • reference
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • norman, mr peter
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
    • national grandparents day
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
    • child sexual abuse
      • Hinch, Sen Derryn
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
  •   committees
    • joint standing committee on foreign affairs, defence and trade
      • reporting date
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   motions
    • australian women in music awards
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   committees
    • royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse
      • reporting date
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
  •   motions
    • abortion
      • Brown, Sen Carol
    • underground coal gasification
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • division
    • abortion
      • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry
    • lead
      • Hanson-Young, Sen Sarah
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • international development assistance
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
    • constitution
      • Bernardi, Sen Cory
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
    • banking and financial services
      • Hanson, Sen Pauline
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
      • Di Natale, Sen Richard
      • division
    • trade with india
      • Singh, Sen Lisa
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
      • division
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (gift cards) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • third reading
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • customs amendment (collecting tobacco duties at the border) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • third reading
        • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • veterans' affairs legislation amendment (omnibus) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • third reading
        • Ketter, Sen Christopher (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • treasury laws amendment (australian consumer law review) bill 2018
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Ruston, Sen Anne
      • third reading
        • Ketter, Sen Christopher (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
        • Ruston, Sen Anne
    • social security legislation amendment (community development program) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Dodson, Sen Patrick
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Paterson, Sen James
        • Brockman, Sen Slade
  •   questions without notice
    • australian embassy: israel (Wong, Sen Penny)
  •   ministerial arrangements
    • Cormann, Sen Mathias
  •   distinguished visitors
    • PRESIDENT, The
  •   questions without notice
    • taxation (Bushby, Sen David)
    • foreign policy (Cameron, Sen Doug)
    • khashoggi, mr jamal (Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter)
    • australian embassy: israel (Chisholm, Sen Anthony)
    • australian broadcasting corporation (Burston, Sen Brian)
    • small business (Smith, Sen Dean)
    • fuel security (Storer, Sen Timothy)
    • national party leadership (Watt, Sen Murray)
    • employment (Hume, Sen Jane)
    • coalition government (McAllister, Sen Jenny)
    • cashless debit card (McGrath, Sen James)
    • national security (O'Neill, Sen Deb)
    • infrastructure (O'Sullivan, Sen Barry)
  •   questions without notice: take note of answers
    • coalition government
      • McAllister, Sen Jenny
      • Williams, Sen John
      • O'Neill, Sen Deb
      • Gichuhi, Sen Lucy
      • Chisholm, Sen Anthony
    • khashoggi, mr jamal
      • Whish-Wilson, Sen Peter
  •   committees
    • membership
      • DEPUTY PRESIDENT, The
      • McKenzie, Sen Bridget
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • Williams, Sen John
  •   committees
    • community affairs legislation committee
      • additional information
        • Williams, Sen John
    • treaties committee
      • report
        • Williams, Sen John
    • economics references committee
      • report
        • Urquhart, Sen Anne
    • community affairs references committee
      • report
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
    • economics references committee
      • report
        • Stoker, Sen Amanda
        • Ketter, Sen Christopher
  •   questions without notice: additional answers
    • religious freedom review
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   budget
    • consideration by estimates committees
      • Fifield, Sen Mitch
  •   documents
    • community development program
      • order for the production of documents
        • Fifield, Sen Mitch
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
  •   bills
    • treasury laws amendment (black economy taskforce measures no. 2) bill 2018, excise tariff amendment (collecting tobacco duties at manufacture) bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
      • second reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
    • treasury laws amendment (2018 measures no. 5) bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
      • second reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
    • maritime legislation amendment bill 2018
      • first reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
      • second reading
        • Cash, Sen Michaelia
    • civil law and justice legislation amendment bill 2018
      • returned from the house of representatives
    • social services legislation amendment (ending the poverty trap) bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Siewert, Sen Rachel
        • Hume, Sen Jane
        • Watt, Sen Murray
  •   documents
    • south burnett regional council
      • tabling
        • Hanson, Sen Pauline
  •   bills
    • discrimination free schools bill 2018
      • second reading
        • Wong, Sen Penny
        • Faruqi, Sen Mehreen
        • Keneally, Sen Kristina
        • Hinch, Sen Derryn
        • McAllister, Sen Jenny
  •   documents
    • consideration
  •   petitions
    • schools
      • Rice, Sen Janet
  •   committees
    • consideration
  •   statements
    • infrastructure
      • Urquhart, Sen Anne
  •   adjournment
    • O'Sullivan, Sen Barry (The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT)
    • plan international: the state of the world's girls
      • Moore, Sen Claire
  •   documents
    • tabling
    • tabling

Chamber
on
Item
Questioner :
Answer :
Speaker :
Download Hansard
View XML
Download speech
View Video
Top

Senate

  • Senate
  • Work of the Senate
  • Dynamic Red
  • Senators
  • Seating plan

House of Representatives

  • House of Representatives
  • House of Representatives chamber and business documents
  • Live Minutes
  • Members
  • House of Representatives Seating Plan

Get informed

  • News & Events
  • Watch, Read, Listen
  • About Parliament
  • Education Resources
  • Parliamentary Library
  • International Program

Bills

  • Bills before Parliament
  • Assented Bills of previous Parliaments
  • Tariff Proposals
  • Legislative Instruments

Committees

  • Committees

Get involved

  • Getting involved in Parliamentary Committees
  • Petitions
  • Connect with us
  • Contact Parliament House

Visit Parliament

  • What's on
  • Things to Do
  • Art at Parliament
  • Plan your Visit
  • Media Rules and Filming Applications

Website features

  • My Parliament - Log in
  • Remote Users - Log in
  • ParlInfo Search
  • APH website survey
  • Employment
  • A - Z Index
  • Glossary
  • RSS feeds

Parliamentary Departments

  • Department of the Senate
  • Department of the House of Representatives
  • Department of Parliamentary Services
  • Parliamentary Budget Office
  • Parliamentary Library

Committees

  • Committees

We acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of country throughout Australia and acknowledge their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the elders past, present and emerging.

  • Accessibility information
  • Copyright information
  • Disclaimer
  • Feedback
  • Help
Back to top