Feb 8, 2011 | Speeches
Senator RYAN (Victoria) (7:24 PM) —I stand to speak tonight in support of the motion moved by Senator Conroy and to endorse the comments of my colleagues in this place. Two years ago in my first month in this place the parliament and nation came together to...
Nov 23, 2010 | Speeches
Senator RYAN (Victoria) (5:19 PM) —It is with pleasure that I follow my colleague Senator Bernardi’s fine contribution on the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2010. That is an Orwellian title if ever there was one,...
Nov 22, 2010 | Speeches
Senator RYAN (Victoria) (3:24 PM) —In the previous contribution on the motion to take note of answers given at question time, Senator Hutchins tried to talk about the government having a big picture. The only big picture this government has is the big picture of the...
Nov 17, 2010 | Speeches
Senator RYAN (Victoria) (7:00 PM) —Tonight I rise to speak about a conference I attended in Canada last week. I attended the second conference of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism. The second conference was held in Ottawa last week after the...
Nov 16, 2010 | Speeches
Senator RYAN (Victoria) (3:17 PM) —I almost feel sorry for the Manager of Government Business, Senator Ludwig, when he has to come here and defend this government’s management of the legislative program—that is, until he starts talking about the opposition. I think it...
Oct 26, 2010 | Speeches
Senator RYAN (Victoria) (4:13 PM) —I rise to support the matter of public importance on the government’s mismanagement of the budget. What a performance. I note in the list of all the programs that Senator Furner mentioned then there was one that went missing—in fact,...
