Senator FIFIELD (Victoria) (Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) (1:37 PM) —I rise to speak on the Tax Laws Amendment (2010 GST Administration Measures No. 1) Bill 2010. The coalition will be supporting this bill, which seeks to implement some of the recommendations made by the Board...
Senator FIFIELD (Victoria) (4:49 PM) —Madam Acting Deputy President, you and I and everyone else in this chamber take for granted the right to exercise a free, independent and secret ballot, but that is not a right that blind and vision impaired Australians have been able to exercise at will in this...
Senator FIFIELD (Victoria) (7.01 pm)—Last Wednesday I had the real delight and honour to be at the launch in Melbourne of Extreme Rolling. Madam Acting Deputy President Brown, you might wonder what Extreme Rolling is. If you are anything like me, when you first heard of it it brought to mind that 19...
Senator FIFIELD (Victoria) (7.39 pm)—At the outset, I would like to share a story with you, Madam Acting Deputy President Moore. I was talking to a primary school teacher a little while back. She told me about a homework project that she had set her students.
The project was for students to go home...
Emissions Trading Scheme
Senator FIFIELD (2.14 pm)—My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Evans. Minister, will the impact of the government’s
ETS on prices be a one-off event or will it vary with changes to the carbon price?
Senator CHRIS EVANS—I thank the senator...
Senator FIFIELD (Victoria) (5.21 pm)—by leave
In this place, I think you have to be grateful for small mercies. You have to take them when you can get them. I feel for those poor souls in the other place who had to endure 20 or 30 minutes of self-congratulation or self-approbation by the Prime Mini...
Senator FIFIELD (Victoria) (6.26 pm)—If the government persists with this flawed ETS legislation next week—the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Bill 2009 and related bills—it will provide the Australian people with an occasion to see a fundamental difference between this side of politics and the Au...
Economy
Senator FIFIELD (2.25 pm)—My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Conroy. Can I say how pleasing it is to see Senator Conroy back at the crease representing the Treasurer. Minister, in light of yesterday’s CPI figures, the recent interest rate rise and the expecte...
Senator FIFIELD (Victoria) (1.03 pm)—I rise to speak on the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Amendment Bill 2009, which the opposition supports. This legislation primarily focuses on the governance of ASADA and the bill builds on the foundations which the former coalition government put in pl...
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE: TAKE NOTE OF ANSWERS
Economy
Senator FIFIELD (Victoria) (3.01 pm)—I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (Senator Conroy) to questions without notice asked by Senator Fifield and the Lea...