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I present the report of the Selection Committee relating to the consideration of committee and delegation reports and private members’ business on Monday, 13 August 2007. The report will be printed in today’s Hansard and the items accorded priority for debate will be published in the Notice Paper for the next sitting.

The report reads as follows—

Report relating to the consideration of committee and delegation reports and private Members’ business on Monday, 13 August 2007

Pursuant to standing order 222, the Selection Committee has determined the order of precedence and times to be allotted for consideration of committee and delegation reports and private Members’ business on Monday, 13 August 2007.  The order of precedence and the allotments of time determined by the Committee are as follows:

COMMITTEE AND DELEGATION REPORTS

Presentation and statements

1 DELEGATION TO CAMBODIA AND TO THE 116TH ASSEMBLY OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION (BALI)

Report of the Australian Parliamentary Delegation to Cambodia (21 – 26 April 2007) and to the 116th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (Bali) (27 April – 4 May 2007)

The Committee determined that statements on the report may be made—all statements to conclude by 12:40pm

Speech time limits—

Each Member—5 minutes.

[Minimum number of proposed Members speaking = 2 x 5 mins]

2 STANDING COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND INNOVATION

Between a rock and a hard place: the science of geosequestration

The Committee determined that statements on the report may be made—all statements to conclude by 12:50pm

Speech time limits—

Each Member—5 minutes.

[Minimum number of proposed Members speaking = 2 x 5 mins]

3 STANDING COMMITTEE ON ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER AFFAIRS

Indigenous Australians at work: Successful initiatives in Indigenous employment

The Committee determined that statements on the report may be made—all statements to conclude by 1:00pm

Speech time limits—

Each Member—5 minutes.

[Minimum number of proposed Members speaking = 2 x 5 mins]

4 PARLIAMENTARY JOINT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY

Review of Administration and Expenditure No.5, Australian Intelligence Organisations

The Committee determined that statements on the report may be made—all statements to conclude by 1:10pm

Speech time limits—

Each Member—5 minutes.

[Minimum number of proposed Members speaking = 2 x 5 mins]

5 PARLIAMENTARY JOINT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY

Annual Report of Committee Activities 2006-07

The Committee determined that statements on the report may be made—all statements to conclude by 1:20pm

Speech time limits—

Each Member—5 minutes.

[Minimum number of proposed Members speaking = 2 x 5 mins]

6 STANDING COMMITTEE ON ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Australian manufacturing: today and tomorrow—Inquiry into the state of Australia’s manufactured export and import competing base now and beyond the resources boom

The Committee determined that statements on the report may be made—all statements to conclude by 1:30pm

Speech time limits—

Each Member—5 minutes.

[Minimum number of proposed Members speaking = 2 x 5 mins]

7 STANDING COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL SERVICES

The great freight task: Is Australia’s transport network up to the challenge?

The Committee determined that statements on the report may be made—all statements to conclude in the time remaining prior to 1:45pm

Speech time limits—

Each Member—5 minutes.

[Minimum number of proposed Members speaking = 2 x 5 mins]

PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS

Order of precedence

Notices

1 MR FAWCETT: To move—That the House:

(1)

notes that:

(a)

over 242,000 British pensioners living in Australia have their pensions frozen in value and thus not increased when the pensions in the United Kingdom (UK) receive annual increases; and

(b)

this practice of freezing these pensions is wholly unfair and discriminatory: many UK pensioners living overseas do have their pensions increased annually, as expected, given their lifelong mandatory payments into the national UK scheme and in contrast, Australia fully indexes the pensions of its expatriate pensioners living in the UK;

(2)

calls on the Australian Government to take this issue to the Commonwealth Heads of Government in Kampala in October 2007 and to urge the UK Government to end the unfairness in the current indexation of overseas UK pensions. (Notice given 7 August 2007.)

Time allotted—30 minutes.

Speech time limits—

Mover of motion—5 minutes.

First Opposition Member speaking—5 minutes.

Other Members—5 minutes each.

[Minimum number of proposed Members speaking = 6 x 5 mins]

The Committee determined that consideration

of this matter should continue on a future day.

2 MR RUDD: To move—That the House:

(1)

affirms its recognition of the sacrifices made by Australia’s veterans;

(2)

accepts its obligation to ensure that veterans’ sacrifices are acknowledged and that benefits earned by veterans are paid to them on a just and fair basis;

(3)

acknowledges in particular the plight of our most severely disabled veterans;

(4)

acknowledges that the value of the Special Rate Disability Pension (TPI and TTI), Intermediate Rate and Extreme Disablement Adjustment Pensions have eroded under the Howard Government; and

(5)

supports Labor’s policy to index the remaining portions of the above general rate disability pensions to movements in male total average weekly earnings, in recognition of the more severe work and lifestyle effects suffered by the recipients of these entitlements. (Notice given 7 August 2007.)

Time allotted—remaining private Members’ business time.

Speech time limits—

Mover of motion—5 minutes.

First Government Member speaking—5 minutes.

Other Members—5 minutes each.

[Minimum number of proposed Members speaking = 6 x 5 mins]

The Committee determined that consideration

of this matter should continue on a future day.

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