Senate debates
Tuesday, 20 June 2006
- Unparliamentary Language (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! Yesterday the temporary chairman was asked to refer to me the expression ‘you are a disgrace’ used of a senator. This terminology when used directly of a senator is out of...
- Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Electoral Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- In Committee (48 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 19 June.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Skilled Migration (10 speeches)
My question is to Senator Vanstone, the Minister representing the Minister for Vocational and Technical Education. Is the minister aware of comments on ABC Radio by Productivity Commissioner...
- East Timor (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice and Customs, Senator Ellison. Will the minister update the Senate on the ongoing efforts of the Australian police in restoring law and order in East Timor?
- Skilled Migration (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Vanstone, the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. Is the minister aware of comments attributed to her in today’s Australian Financial Review about...
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to Senator the Hon. Eric Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Is the minister aware of any examples of how the Howard...
- Migration Legislation (22 speeches)
My question notice is to Senator Vanstone in her capacity as Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. Can the minister confirm that the Prime Minister has made comments that he is very...
- Communications: Media Reform (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Coonan. Will the minister advise the Senate of progress in the development of the...
- Stem Cell Research (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing. Why has the government commissioned a legislative consultant to prepare a report on scientific advances...
- Department of mmigration and Multicultural Affairs (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Senator Vanstone. Will the minister update the Senate on the implementation of the largest ever IT systems upgrade at the...
- Villawood Immigration Detention Centre (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Vanstone, the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. Given that it was more than a week ago that the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs...
- Asylum Seekers (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Vanstone, the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. Can the minister confirm whether the Afghan family who recently arrived by boat in the Torres Strait...
- China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Coonan, the Minister representing the Minister for Trade. Can the minister confirm that the Chinese government has signalled its intention to include greater access for...
- Australian Funds Management Industry (6 speeches)
My question is directed to Senator Minchin, the Minister for Finance and Administration. Will the minister inform the Senate of recent indications of the size and the dynamics of the funds...
- Media Ownership (5 speeches)
My question is to Senator Coonan, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. Has the minister seen comments by the chair of the coalition’s backbench...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (3 speeches)
I have some further information for Senator Nettle which may be of interest in relation to her question to me today. I do not have it in a form that I can give to her, but I seek leave to read it...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Skilled Migration (7 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (Senator Vanstone) to questions without notice asked by Opposition senators today....
- Stem Cell Research (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Ageing (Senator Santoro) to a question without notice asked by Senator Stott Despoja today relating to stem cell...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Clerk: Petitions have been lodged for presentation as follows:
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
Pursuant to notice given at the last day of sitting on behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances, I now withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 1 standing...
- Presentation (0 speeches)
Senator Allison to move on the next day of sitting:That the Senate—(a)recognises that:(i)according to a study conducted by Iraq’s Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, and...
- Leave of Absence (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Kemp for the period 19 to 23 June 2006, on account of parliamentary business overseas. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties be authorised to hold a public meeting during the sitting of the Senate today, from 8 pm, to take evidence for the...
- 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 Greens (Senator Bob Brown) for today, proposing...
- Microcredit Summit Goal (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i) 0; microcredit is a particularly effective and sustainable means of eradicating...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Uranium Enrichment Facilities (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
I move: That the Senate—(a)notes:(i)the inherent nuclear weapons proliferation risk associated with uranium enrichment,(ii)that in 2004 President Bush proposed to cap the group of enriching...
- West Papua (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I move the motion as amended: That the Senate—(a)notes:(i)the increasing conflict in West Papua and the systematic abuse of the human rights of West Papuans by elements of...
- World Refugee Day (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I move the motion as amended: That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)20 June 2006 is World Refugee Day and the day’s theme is ‘keeping the flame of hope...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
by leave—On behalf of all senators, I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I shall move:That the Senate—(a)notes that the former Deputy Clerk of the Senate, Miss Anne Lynch,...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bill received from the House of Representatives.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I table a revised explanatory memorandum relating to the bill and move: That this bill be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speech incorporated in Hansard. Leave...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Consideration by Legislation Committees; Reports (6 speeches)
Pursuant to order and at the request of the chairs of the respective committees, I present reports from all the legislation committees on the 2006-07 budget estimates, together with the Hansard...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
by leave—I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I shall move:That the proposals to alter the structure of the Senate committee system, announced by the Leader of the Government on...
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Electoral Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 11.01 pm, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Mr Daryl Williams QC (1 speech)
Last Tuesday evening, in the course of debate on the ASIO Legislation Amendment Bill 2006, Senator Faulkner made a particularly savage and nasty attack upon the former Member for Tangney, the...
- Mr David Hicks; Mr Des Colquhuon (1 speech)
I rise tonight to bring to the chamber’s attention the ongoing situation of David Hicks, who is detained in Guantanamo Bay as an enemy combatant. He has been there for more than four years...
- Burrup Peninsula Rock Art (1 speech)
Tonight I would like to say a little about the Burrup rock art: the petroglyphs on the Burrup Peninsula. The Burrup Peninsula has been described as ‘the world’s largest art...
- World Refugee Day (1 speech)
Today is World Refugee Day. Every year on 20 June the UNHCR recognises the plight of refugees through this day and highlights to the global community the tragic and often barbaric circumstances...
- Westpoint (1 speech)
Mr President, you will be aware that I have had cause to speak about the Westpoint disaster on several occasions in this chamber and to make use of the estimates committee process in an attempt...
- Community Affairs References Committee Report: Petrol Sniffing (1 speech)
I acknowledge the contribution by Senator Hurley on World Refugee Day. We do need to acknowledge such days and remember the plight of refugees in the world. I want to say a few words this evening...
- Community Development Employment Projects (1 speech)
I rise to talk about Indigenous employment. The Community Development Employment Program, which has been in existence for around 28 years now, has played an important part in many communities...
- Mental Health (1 speech)
I rise at this late hour to speak about the report recently launched by the Mental Health Council of Australia called Time for service: solving Australia’s mental health crisis. In fact, it...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (0 speeches)
The following government documents were tabled: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission—Telecommunications reports for 2004-05—Report 1: Telecommunications competitive...
