Senate debates
Wednesday, 9 August 2006
- Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment (Antarctic Seals and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to amend legislation relating to environment and heritage, and for related purposes. Question agreed to. I move: That this bill...
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I table the 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 granted....
- Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (17 speeches)
Debate resumed from 8 August, on motion by Senator Coonan: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Proposed Instruction to Committee of the Whole (11 speeches)
Pursuant to contingent notice, I, and also on behalf of Senator Bartlett and Senator Siewert, move:That it be an instruction to the committee of the whole that:(1)The Aboriginal Land Rights...
- Matters of Public Interest (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 12.45 pm, I call on matters of public interest.
- Charitable Organisations (1 speech)
Australians are a generous people. Australians are also generous in their donations and bequests to charities. I am proud to be a member of a government which has made it possible and easier for...
- Homelessness (1 speech)
I would like to speak in the matters of public interest debate today about homelessness in Australia. If there is any issue in which politics can make a big difference, surely it is homelessness....
- Parliamentary Ethics Committee (1 speech)
Today my speech in this matters of public interest debate addresses what I consider to be a matter of great public importance: the democratic relevance of our parliament in the 21st century. My...
- Fuel Prices (1 speech)
Overnight, the price of Malaysian Tapis crude oil reached $US82.07 per barrel. It is the price of Malaysian Tapis crude which determines the landed Australian price of oil and ultimately the cost...
- Citizenship Visits Program (1 speech)
I was somewhat surprised when Senator Brandis was going through politicians and oil that he did not recall Mr Downer’s statement that, on invasion of Iraq, the price of petrol would fall. I...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Wind Farms (15 speeches)
My question without notice is to Senator Campbell, Minister for the Environment and Heritage. Can the minister confirm that he will now be forced to reconsider exactly the same proposal for a...
- Media Reform (17 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. Will the minister inform the Senate how Australian consumers will benefit from the Australian...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I would like to draw the attention of honourable senators to the presence in the President’s gallery of an Australian Political Exchange Council delegation from Japan, led by Mr Fumio...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Wind Farms (30 speeches)
My question is to Senator Ian Campbell, Minister for the Environment and Heritage. Isn’t the sole basis of the minister’s defence of his Bald Hills decision a single sentence from the...
- Office of Workplace Services (8 speeches)
My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Will the minister outline to the Senate how Australian workers’ rights are...
- Wind Farms (28 speeches)
My question is to Senator Ian Campbell, the Minister for the Environment and Heritage. Can the minister confirm that his department told him that to rely on the Biosis report to block the Bald...
- Hospitals: Long Stay Older Patients (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Ageing, Senator Santoro. Will the minister outline to the Senate the steps that the federal, state and territory governments are taking together to address the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! I would like to draw the attention of honourable senators to the presence in the chamber of a parliamentary delegation from the federated states of Micronesia, led by floor leader, Senator...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Indigenous Communities (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, and relates to a matter causing serious concern to Aboriginal communities throughout Far North...
- Border Protection (3 speeches)
My question is directed to the Minister for Justice and Customs, Senator Ellison. Will the minister please update the Senate on the Australian government’s commitment to the security of our...
- Wind Farms (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Ian Campbell. Can the minister confirm that in September 2002, three months after lodging its proposal for a wind farm at...
- Asylum Seekers (5 speeches)
My question is to Senator Vanstone, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. What is the minister’s reaction to the claim that up to nine humans who sought asylum in Australia,...
- Minister for the Environment and Heritage (0 speeches)
- Censure Motion (58 speeches)
by leave—I move: That the Senate censures the Minister for the Environment and Heritage (Senator Ian Campbell) for:(a)abusing his powers under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Clerk: Petitions have been lodged for presentation as follows:
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (0 speeches)
Senator Allison to move on the next day of sitting:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)record high prices of petrol in Australia are likely to increase due to recent wars in the Middle East, a...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following item of business was postponed: General business notice of motion no. 468 standing in the name of the Leader of the Australian Greens (Senator Bob Brown) for today, relating to the...
- Football in Australia (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
At the request of the Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Kemp, and Senator Lundy, I move:That the Senate—(a)congratulates the Australian Socceroos on their historic performance at the...
- Australian Book Industry Awards (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Allison, I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)The Secret River by author Ms Kate Grenville, has been awarded the Australian Literacy Fiction Book of the Year...
- Death Penalty (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senators Humphries, Nettle and Payne, move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)11 July 2006 was the 15th anniversary of the entry into force of the United...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Reference (1 speech)
I move:That the following matter be referred to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties for inquiry and report by 15 August 2006: The proposed security treaty or pact with Indonesia, with...
- Middle East (0 speeches)
- (14 speeches)
I ask that general business notice of motion No. 478 standing in my name, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon and Israel, be taken as a formal motion.
- Asylum Seekers (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that the report by the Edmund Rice Centre into returned Afghani asylum seekers found that:(i)as many as nine men returned from Nauru may have been killed,...
- Guantanamo Bay (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate notes that:(a)on 7 August 2006, Australian David Hicks commemorated his 31st birthday, his fifth in detention at Guantanamo Bay, where he has been held for four and a half...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics Legislation Committee; Extension of Time (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Brandis, I move: That the time for the presentation of the report of the Economics Legislation Committee on the provisions of the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment...
- Japanese ‘Comfort Women’ (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate notes that 9 August 2006 marks the international day of action for the justice of the Japanese ‘Comfort Women’, who 61 years after the conclusion of World War...
- International Day of Peace (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
At the request of the Leader of the Australian Democrats, Senator Allison, I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)on 7 September 2001, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly declared...
- Australian Book Industry Awards (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)congratulates the following winners of the Australian Book Industry Awards, held in Sydney on 26 July 2006, on their literary achievement:(i)Australian Publisher...
- Human Rights in Burma (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Payne, move the motion as amended:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)8 August 2006 is the 18th anniversary of the Burmese military regime’s murderous...
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Scrutiny of Bills Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the chair of the Scrutiny of Bills Committee, I present the fifth report of 2006 of the Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills. I also present Scrutiny of Bills Alert...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I inform the Senate that the Leader of the Australian Democrats, Senator Allison, has withdrawn the urgency motion which she had indicated that she intended to move today.
- Australian Technical Colleges (Flexibility in Achieving Australia’S Skills Needs) Amendment 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 seek leave to have the second reading speech incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speech read as follows— AUSTRALIAN TECHNICAL...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Afghanistan (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Prime Minister, I table a statement on the Australian Defence Force commitment to Afghanistan.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 6.50 pm, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of government documents.
- Australian Livestock Export Corporation (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. This document is the statutory funding agreement between the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and the Australian Livestock...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! There being no further consideration of government documents, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Voluntary Student Unionism (1 speech)
I wish to bring to the attention of the Senate tonight some facts about the impact of the government’s so-called VSU legislation, legislation that prevents higher education institutions...
- Australian Defence Force (1 speech)
As Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence I am honoured to observe the very best of the work that the Australian Defence Force does. That work is difficult and some of it goes...
- Non-Government Organisations (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about a very important sector in our community, and that is the third sector, or the NGO sector, as it is often referred to. This sector is essential to the wellbeing of...
- Human Rights (1 speech)
When the Senate rose in June, I was part way through remarks—and I think that Senator Coonan was here at the same time, so she gets to hear instalment No. 2—regarding serious human...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (0 speeches)
The following government documents were tabled: Australian Meat and Livestock Industry Act 1997Report for 2004-05 in relation to compliance with the funding agreement between the Commonwealth of...
