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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, 16 October 2006. 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 schedule read as follows—

Report relating to the consideration of committee and delegation reports and private Members’ business on Monday, 16 October 2006

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, 16 October 2006. The order of precedence and the allotments of time determined by the Committee are as follows:

COMMITTEE AND DELEGATION REPORTS

Presentation and statements

1  JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE

Review of the Defence Annual Report, 2004-05

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  JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE ON THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AND EXTERNAL TERRITORIES

Report on the visit to Norfolk Island: 2 - 5 August 2006

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  PARLIAMENTARY JOINT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY

Review of the re-listing of Al-Qa’ida and Jemaah Islamiya

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]

PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS

Order of precedence

Notices

1     Mr Somlyay to move:

That the House:

(1)

commends the people of Hungary as they mark the 50^th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, which set the stage for the ultimate collapse of communism in 1989 throughout Central and Eastern Europe, including Hungary, and two years later in the Soviet Union itself;

(2)

expresses condolences to the people of Hungary for those who lost their lives fighting for the cause of Hungarian freedom and independence in 1956, as well as for those individuals executed by the Soviet and Hungarian communist authorities in the five years following the Revolution, including Prime Minister Imre Nagy;

(3)

welcomes the changes that have taken place in Hungary since 1989, believing that Hungary’s integration into NATO and the European Union, together with similar developments in the neighbouring countries, will ensure peace, stability, and understanding among the great peoples of the Carpathian Basin;

(4)

reaffirms the friendship and cooperative relations between the governments of Hungary and Australia and between the Hungarian and Australian people; and

(5)

recognises the contribution of people of Hungarian origin to this nation. (Notice given 6 September 2006.)

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 Hatton to move:

That the House:

(1)

deplores the totally inadequate nature of Australia’s current broadband communications infrastructure;

(2)

denounces the Howard Government’s piecemeal dithering with broadband over the past ten years;

(3)

declares that Australia should be a world leader in broadband communications along with the Netherlands and South Korea, rather than one of the last to take up fast broadband; and

(4)

demands a modern, 21st Century, national broadband communications infrastructure for Australia, as set out in federal Labor’s broadband plan to build a fast network for the whole of Australia. (Notice given 9 October 2006.)

Time allotted — remaining private Members’ business time prior to 1.45 pm

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 = 3 x 5 mins]

The Committee determined that consideration of this matter should continue on a future day.

3     Mr Bartlett to move:

That the House:

(1)

expresses its concern at the tragically high incidence of extreme poverty in the world;

(2)

supports the Australian Government’s commitment to the Millennium Development Goals;

(3)

recognises recent increases in Australia’s commitment to overseas aid; and

(4)

urges continues efforts towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the halving of world poverty by 2015. (Notice given 9 October 2006.)

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.

4     Mr McClelland to move:

That this House:

(1)

notes:

(a)

the Parliament’s and the Government’s abhorrence of suicide terrorism as a tool of any organisation or movement;

(b)

the global prevalence of suicide terrorism as the most lethal method of murder for many terrorist groups;

(c)

the critical roles that actors other than the perpetrators play in the process, providing incitement through:

(i)

education of youth;

(ii)

statements and encouragement by religious and political leaders; and

(iii)

inflammatory materials broadcast by media outlets and made available on Internet websites; and

(d)

the vital necessity of defining terrorism for the purpose of international criminal law, and particularly suicide terrorism; and

(e)

the benefits for international law enforcement and Australia’s national security in establishing such a multilateral enforcement framework; and

(2)

calls on the Government to:

(a)

promote initiatives for the drafting of an International Convention on Suicide Terrorism, which would:

(i)

provide a definition of suicide terrorism, including the meaning of the word ‘terrorism’; and

(ii)

create an offence of suicide terrorism; and

(b)

ensure that the content of such an offence would:

(i)

be defined as a ‘crime against humanity’, attracting universal jurisdiction and the international legal consequences associated with such status;

(ii)

include ‘direct and public incitement to commit suicide terrorism’ as a punishable offence by the same criteria as incitement under Article 3(c) of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention);

(iii)

be punishable against constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals in the same form as Article 4 of the Genocide Convention;

(iv)

include a provision requiring mandatory enactment of the offence in the domestic jurisdiction of contracting parties, in the same form as Article 5 of the Genocide Convention; and

(v)

exclude the defence of political crimes for the offence, in the same form as Article 7 of the Genocide Convention; and

(c)

commit to sponsoring a completed Convention, and actively promoting its adoption by the international community. (Notice given 7 September 2006.)

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.