Tabling Speech – Preventing the Misuse of Government Advertising Bill 2010

Jun 21, 2010 | Speeches

As Deputy Chair of the Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee, Senator Ryan participated in the Committee’s inquiry into the Preventing the Misuse of Government Advertising Bill 2010. Further information about the inquiry, including the...

Adjournment – Asylum Seekers

Jun 21, 2010 | Speeches

Senator RYAN (Victoria) (4:27 PM) —It is during debates like this that I am tempted to put in a request for one of those ticker screens to go up on the wall of the Senate chamber next to the clock so that when we hear phrases like ‘playing politics’ and ‘fear...

Adjournment – Israel

Jun 15, 2010 | Speeches

Senator RYAN (Victoria) (7:53 PM) —Several weeks ago we were informed that Israel had allegedly outrageously intervened to stop a so-called peace flotilla, with commandos launching themselves at a peaceful armada seeking nothing more than to take humanitarian aid to...

Labor’s National Emergency

May 31, 2010 | Newsletters

Did you know that Kevin Rudd has declared a national emergency? Well, maybe not a national one, but a political one – for the Labor Party. Tony Abbott hit the nail on the head this afternoon when he described it as “just a political emergency for our Prime...

Election Battleground – Resources Super Tax

May 27, 2010 | Newsletters

Just a few weeks ago, Kevin Rudd was channelling the ghosts of Rex Connor and Pauline Hanson in his drive to impose a great big new tax on mining. He said: ”BHP is 40 per cent foreign owned, Rio Tinto is more than 70 per cent foreign owned. That means these...