2015-12-14
Laws Passed
Increasing the threshold for unfair contract terms for small business 9/14/15 | Introducing a register of foreign ownership of water licenses 11/23/15 | Introducing transparency requirements for large private companies and strengening multinational tax avoidance measures 12/3/15 |
Questions without Notice
Trade - TPP 3/5/15 | Trade - TPP 3/18/15 | Trade - TPP 6/18/15 | Trade - TPP 6/25/15 | Competition Policy - Effects Test 8/20/15 | Trade - ChAFTA 9/10/15 | Trade - ChAFTA 9/17/15 | Trade - ISDS10/15/15 | Trade - TPP11/11/15 | Whaling11/30/15 |
Successful Motions
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement 3/26/15 | Protection of cetaceans 5/14/15 | Tasmanian Aboriginal Legal Service—Funding 6/18/15 | Grass-fed cattle levies 8/19/15 | Food labelling standards—Seafood (with Senators Xenophon, Sterle, Madigan, Lambie, Lazarus and Wang) 8/19/15 | Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (with Senators Xenophon, Lazarus, and Muir) 10/13/15 | Japan–Whaling activity (with Senator Wang) 12/2/15 |
Adjournment Speeches
Centenary of Anzac 3/25/15 | Lapoinya 8/19/15 | Marine Environment 9/8/15 | Shark Culling 8/18/15 | Tasmania: Fish Farming 3/2/15 | Tasmania: Gunns Ltd 3/16/15 | Defence Procurement 11/26/15 | Small Business (including penalty rates) 11/11/15 |
Inquiries
Food Standards Amendment (Fish Labelling) Bill 2015 | The Commonwealth's treaty-making process | Regulation of the fin-fish aquaculture industry in Tasmania ChAFTA | Credit card interest rates | Scrutiny of financial advice | Forestry managed investment schemes | Foreign Investment Review framework | Australian grape and wine industry | Mental health of ADF serving personnel | Corporate tax avoidance | Cooperative, mutual and member-owned firms | Marine Plastics | Supertrawlers | Joint Strike Fighter | Regional capitals | Infrastructure | White-collar crime |
Media Highlights
Japan–Whaling activity (with Senator Wang) 12/2/15 | The mercury - Hunt on for rogue fishers in Australian Antarctic waters as Interpol, Sea Shepherd join search 1/16/15 | Fairfax - Weapons companies use Australian War Memorial in Canberra for celebrations 2/26/15 | Lateline - TPP Debate: Alan Oxley and Peter Whish-Wilson 3/31/15 | ABC - Senate inquiry to look at defence mental health in wake of Williamtown suicides 4/2/15 | AFR - John Fraser, Dennis Richardson play dead bats on politics (senate estimates) 6/3/15 | Fairfax - Greens push for royal commission into finance scandals 6/24/15 | News Ltd - ATM fees: Senate to put banks’ dodgiest fee under microscope 6/24/15 | Fairfax - Meet the new Greens economics team preparing to shake up Australian politics 6/26/15 | Saturday Paper - WikiLeaks Exclusive: Secret core text from Trade in Services Agreement negotiations 7/1/15 | The Mercury - Editorial: Fish focus a welcome development (salmon farming inquiry) 7/20/15 | ABC - Misconduct alleged at Senate inquiry into forestry investment schemes (MIS inquiry) 8/6/15 | AFR - Saul Eslake says Abbott government could borrow $50b to boost jobs (infrastructure inquiry) 8/14/15 | Fairfax - Greens are fighting for the small business without a voice (effets test) 9/4/15 | The Guardian - Australia's treaty-making process is broken: The China free trade deal is a case in point 9/11/15 | The New Daily - Turnbull must get the economic numbers right (Whish-Wilson triggers the demis of Abbott, apparently, but don't believe everything you read on the internet!) 9/15/15 | The Examiner - University presents case for city campus (regional capitals inquiry) 9/25/15 | The Australian - Seafood labelling petition handed to govt 10/15/15 | ABC PM - Government and Greens strike deal on foreign investment rules 11/23/15 | Fairfax - CBA's $80 million compensation claim should come with penalties (white-collar crime inquiry) 11/26/15 | Fairfax - Push for inquiry into Australia's $24 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter purchase 11/27/15 | SBS - Australia criticises Japan's whaling resumption 11/28/15 |