Senate debates
Monday, 27 March 2006
- Representation of South Australia (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I inform the Senate that Senator Hill resigned his place as a senator for the state of South Australia on 15 March 2005. Pursuant to the provisions of section 21 of the Constitution, the Governor...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Minchin, Leader of the Government in the Senate. Does the minister recall his remarks to the HR Nicholls Society in which he begged forgiveness that the Howard...
- Cyclone Larry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Administration, representing the Prime Minister, and it relates to Cyclone Larry, which devastated the coast of part of my home state of Queensland...
- Migrant Workers (29 speeches)
My question is to Senator Vanstone, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. Is the minister aware that some unscrupulous Australian employers are rorting the Howard government’s...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! I would like to welcome a distinguished former senator for Queensland, Len Harris, back to the chamber. As you can see, nothing has changed since you left!
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to Senator Abetz, Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. How is the Howard government moving to create even more jobs and even higher wages for...
- Internet Safety (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Coonan, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. Can the minister confirm that the Australian Communications and Media Authority, ACMA, has...
- Commonwealth Games (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Kemp. Will the minister inform the Senate about the achievements and benefits of the Commonwealth Games that concluded in Melbourne...
- Mr David Hicks (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Is the minister aware that the British government has had all of its alleged prisoners of war repatriated from...
- Aged Care (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Ageing, Senator Santoro. Will the minister inform the Senate of the outcomes of the recent meeting of the minister’s Aged Care Advisory Committee, which...
- The Jian Seng (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Ellison, Minister for Justice and Customs. How does the minister explain the sudden appearance near our northern shores of the 80-metre ghost ship Jian Seng? How is it...
- Tarkine Wilderness (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage. I draw the minister’s attention to the astonishing vandalism of this nation’s ancient art heritage on the Tarkine...
- Oil for Food Program (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice and Customs, Senator Ellison, and follows on from his earlier answers to questions concerning AUSTRAC and its knowledge of the AWB kickback scandal....
- Media (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Coonan. Will the minister update the Senate on the options being considered by the government to...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Finance and Administration (Senator Minchin) and the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (Senator...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Clerk: Petitions have been lodged for presentation as follows:
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances and pursuant to notice given on the last day of sitting, I now withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 1 standing in...
- Presentation (1 speech)
Senator Heffernan to move on the next day of sitting:That the time for the presentation of the report of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee on annual reports...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following items of business were postponed: Business of the Senate notice of motion no. 1 standing in the name of the Leader of the Australian Democrats (Senator Allison)for today, proposing...
- Tasmanian Forests (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that the Tasmanian Labor Government and Forestry Tasmania, in allowing major control of plantation softwood to be held by one operator, have been negligent...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing orders 38 and 166, I present documents listed on today’s Order of Business at item 11 which were presented to the President, the Deputy President and temporary chairs...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
by leave—I give notice that on the next day of sitting I will move:That the Senate—(a)condemns the most recent vandalism of ancient Aboriginal rock art on Tasmania’s Tarkine...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (1 speech)
I present a message for Commonwealth Day 2006 from Her Majesty the Queen, Head of the Commonwealth.
- Responses to Senate Resolutions (1 speech)
I present responses from the Northern Territory Minister for Family and Community Services, Ms Delia Lawrie, and the Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services to a resolution of the...
- Tabling (1 speech)
On 27 February 2006, the Acting Deputy President presented a letter from the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory, Ms Aagaard, forwarding a resolution of the assembly...
- Address by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Message received from the House of Representatives forwarding a further resolution relating to an address by the Right Honourable Tony Blair MP, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- Bankruptcy Legislation Amendment (Anti-Avoidance) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bill received from the House of Representatives.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I table a revised explanatory memorandum relating to the bill and seek leave to have the second reading speech incorporated in Hansard. Leave...
- Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bill received from the House of Representatives.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I table a revised explanatory memorandum relating to the bill and seek leave to have the second reading speech incorporated in Hansard. Leave...
- Anglo-Australian Telescope Agreement Amendment Bill 2006; Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2006; Defence Legislation Amendment (Aid to Civilian Authorities) Bill 2006; Defence (Road Transport Legislation Exemption) Bill 2006; Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2006; Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Bill 2006; Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Messages from His Excellency the Governor-General were reported informing the Senate that he had assented to the bills.
- Aged Care (Bond Security) Bill 2005; Aged Care (Bond Security) Levy Bill 2005; Aged Care Amendment (2005 Measures No. 1) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Report of Community Affairs Legislation Committee (1 speech)
On behalf of the Chair of the Community Affairs Legislation Committee, Senator Humphries, I present the report of the committee on the provisions of the Aged Care (Bond Security) Bill 2005, the...
- Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Schools Assistance (Learning Together — Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (29 speeches)
Debate resumed from 2 March, on motion by Senator Coonan: That this bill be now read a second time.
- In Committee (3 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That intervening business be postponed till after consideration of government business order of the day no. 3 (Aged Care (Bond Security) Bill 2005 and two related bills). Question agreed to.
- AGED CARE (BOND SECURITY) BILL 2005; AGED CARE (BOND SECURITY) LEVY BILL 2005; AGED CARE AMENDMENT (2005 MEASURES; No. 1) Bill 2005 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 9 February, on motion by Senator Ellison: That these bills be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9.50 pm, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Tooheys (1 speech)
I want to speak tonight about the plight of a number of lorry owner-drivers and employees involved with the Tooheys brewery contract in Sydney. In February this year Tooheys advised its prime...
- United Kingdom Pensions; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (1 speech)
This evening I would like to address two separate matters. Firstly, given that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is in the country and has been for the last couple of days, I think it is...
- Cyclone Larry (1 speech)
Last Monday, one of the most destructive cyclones ever seen in Australia crossed the Far North Queensland coast with 300 kilometre an hour winds that lashed an area that extended from south of...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (0 speeches)
The following documents were tabled by the Clerk: [Legislative instruments are identified by a Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI) number] A New Tax System (Wine Equalisation Tax)...
- Indexed Lists of Files (0 speeches)
The following documents were tabled pursuant to the order of the Senate of 30 May 1996, as amended: Indexed lists of departmental and agency files for the period 1 July to 31 December...
