Senate debates
Wednesday, 6 September 2006
- Archives Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to amend the Archives Act 1983, and for related purposes. Question agreed to. I move: That this bill may proceed without...
- 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....
- Migration Amendment (Employer Sanctions) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (7 speeches)
Debate resumed from 5 September, on motion by Senator Minchin: That this bill be now read a second time.
- In Committee (20 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.
- Financial Transaction Reports Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
Debate resumed from 21 June, on motion by Senator Abetz: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Matters of Public Interest (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 12.45 pm, I call on matters of public interest.
- Mr Bruce Smith (1 speech)
The term ‘freedom fighter’ conjures up images of flag-waving revolutionaries marching through the streets, or perhaps brightly coloured and costumed superheroes, the stuff of comic...
- Adult Learners Week (1 speech)
I want to speak on a very different matter today—that is, Adult Learners Week, which we celebrate around Australia this week, the first week of September, every year. Every year nearly 50...
- Queensland Government (1 speech)
The control of the taxing and spending powers of the Crown is one of the most essential foundations of our parliamentary system. The measures of control of those powers have varied across the...
- Fuel Prices (1 speech)
I rise to speak about petrol prices and Australia’s reliance on oil. What has become very clear to us over the last few years, through the very public debate on petrol prices, is the fact...
- Defence Headquarters Joint Operation Command: Bungendore (5 speeches)
I want to rise this afternoon in this debate and pass a few remarks about the proposed new joint headquarters for the Australian military in Bungendore, just outside of Canberra. I think it is...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Skilled Migration (11 speeches)
My question is to Senator Vanstone, the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. Can the minister confirm her claim yesterday that on 16 August 2006 ABC Tissues were issued with a...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is directed to the Minister for Finance and Administration, Senator Minchin. Will the minister update the Senate on today’s national accounts data from the Australian Bureau of...
- Skilled Migration (25 speeches)
Mr President, my question is to Senator Vanstone, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. Can the minister confirm reports today that a Chinese temporary worker paid at below award...
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator Coonan. Will the minister please inform the Senate about measures the government is taking to...
- Medibank Private (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Administration, Senator Minchin. Does the minister recall saying that a privatised for-profit Medicare private would put downward pressure on...
- Tasmanian Timber Industry (4 speeches)
My question is directed to Senator Abetz, the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation. Would the minister outline to senators how the Howard government is supporting and helping to grow...
- Fuel Prices (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister’s grand scheme for LPG conversion. On what basis does the government say this will lower fuel...
- Internet Safety (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice and Customs, Senator Ellison. Will the minister update the Senate on the Australian government’s efforts to combat online child sex exploitation?
- Telstra (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Minchin, the Minister for Finance and Administration. Does the minister recall telling the Senate yesterday that he was ‘not aware of any direction or instruction...
- Spotted Handfish (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Ian Campbell, the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, and relates to the endangered spotted handfish—a small, colourful fish that more commonly walks on its...
- Defence Headquarters Joint Operation Command: Bungendore (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Minchin, the Minister for Finance and Administration. Is the minister aware of comments by the member for Eden-Monaro, Mr Nairn, on ABC Radio on 23 August that the lease...
- The Arts (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Kemp. Will the minister inform the Senate of the Australian government’s measures to enhance Australia’s national...
- Drugs in Sport (7 speeches)
My question is to Senator Kemp, the Minister for the Arts and Sport. Is the minister aware that the AFL’s antidoping policy gives players two chances to test positive to illegal drugs...
- Answers to Questions on Notice (0 speeches)
- Question No. 1796 (2 speeches)
Pursuant to standing order 74(5), I ask Senator Kemp, the Minister representing the Minister for Human Services, for an explanation as to why an answer has not been provided to question on notice...
- Question Time: Ruling (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
Mr President, I would like to raise a delayed a point of order which I did not take in order not to disrupt question time. Earlier today, you rebuked Senator Evans for interjecting—I make...
- Answers to Questions on Notice (0 speeches)
- Question No. 1148 (1 speech)
I seek leave to incorporate a response to question on notice No. 1148 from Senator Allison which has been outstanding for some considerable time. It was dated 7 September 2005. Leave granted. The...
- Question Time: Rearrangement (0 speeches)
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Mr President, I rise on a point of order. I have just been notified that there is a change to the program for tomorrow which would move question time to 2.30 pm. I have not had time to find out...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Skilled Migration (14 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 Senators Ludwig and George...
- Fuel Prices (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Finance and Administration (Senator Minchin) to a question without notice asked by the Leader of the Australian Democrats...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Senator Ellison to move on the next day of sitting:(1)That the 2006-07 supplementary Budget estimates hearings by committees be scheduled as follows:Monday, 30 October and Tuesday, 31 October...
- Leave of Absence (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Carol Brown for the period 5 September to 7 September 2006, on account of personal reasons. Question agreed to.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following items of business were postponed: General business notice of motion no. 490 standing in the name of Senator Bartlett for today, relating to the importation of illegal timber and...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes:(i)that according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, August 2006 was the driest month in 106 years,(ii)the comments of the head of the Bureau of...
- Parliamentarians’ Entitlements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate requests that, in an appropriate examination or review that is undertaken of the remuneration and entitlements of members and senators, the Remuneration Tribunal take a...
- Tasmanian Forestry Industry (0 speeches)
- (7 speeches)
I seek leave to amend notice of motion No. 524 before asking that it be declared formal. Leave granted. I amend the motion by deleting paragraph (d) and inserting in its place—
- Papua New Guinea: Logging and Human Rights (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I table the document, ‘Bulldozing progress: Human rights abuses and corruption in Papua New Guinea’s large-scale logging industry’. I move:That the...
- Professor Terence Tao (0 speeches)
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I move:That the Senate—(a)congratulates Australian Professor Terence Tao for being the first Australian to be awarded the world’s most prestigious mathematics honour, the Fields...
- Women and Migration (0 speeches)
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I, and also on behalf of Senator Moore and Senator Nettle, move:That the Senate—(a)recognises that:(i)a report from the United Nations Population Fund, State of the World Population 2006: A...
- Conflict in Israel and Lebanon (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)calls on the Government to act on calls by Amnesty International, with respect to the 34 day war between Israel and the Lebanese-based Hezbollah militia,...
- Colin Thiele (0 speeches)
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I move:That the Senate—(a)notes the death of Colin Thiele, a children’s writer from South Australia;(b)recognises that Mr Thiele helped form children’s respect and love for the...
- Telstra (0 speeches)
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I move:(1)That there be laid on the table, no later than Thursday, 19 October 2006, documents held by Telstra Corporation relating to shareholder attitude surveys conducted for the corporation by...
- Ching Cheong (0 speeches)
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I move:That the Senate—(a)notes, with alarm, the 5 year prison sentence delivered by Chinese authorities to journalist Ching Cheong, the Hong Kong-based correspondent for Singapore’s...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Telstra (14 speeches)
The President has received a letter from Senator Conroy proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion, namely: The Australian Government’s...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Scrutiny of Bills Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the seventh report of 2006 of the Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills. I also lay on the table Scrutiny of Bills Committee Alert Digest No. 9 of 2006, dated 6 September...
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of Senator Troeth and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present report No. 13 of 2006, Australian Institute of Police Management Redevelopment, North Head, Manly,...
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 2 of 2006-07 (2 speeches)
In accordance with the provisions of the Auditor-General Act 1997, I present the following report of the Auditor-General: Report No. 2 of 2006-07—Performance Audit - Export certification:...
- Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Amendment (Security Plans and Other Measures) Bill 2006; National Health Amendment (Immunisation) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bills received from the House of Representatives.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speeches incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speeches read as follows— MARITIME TRANSPORT...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Spotted Handfish (1 speech)
I seek leave to make an explanation as to a mistake I made in question time. Leave granted. At question time today I was asked a question by Senator Milne in relation to a development at Ralphs...
- Schedules 1 and 3 to the Parliamentary Entitlements Amendment Regulations 2006 (No. 1) (0 speeches)
- Motion for Disallowance (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 5 September, on motion by Senator Bob Brown: That Schedules 1 and 3 to the Parliamentary Entitlements Amendment Regulations 2006 (No. 1), as contained in Select Legislative...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 6.50 pm, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of government documents. There being no consideration of government documents, we will move to the adjournment.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Australian Institute of Sport (1 speech)
Yesterday I asked a question of the Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Rod Kemp, about the immense contribution the Australian Institute of Sport has made at all levels of sport in...
- Queensland State Election (1 speech)
Next Saturday the good citizens of my state of Queensland will go to the polls where they will elect a new state government. The contest will be between a discredited Labor government of eight...
- People with Disabilities (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about people living with disabilities. In WA we have a wonderful program called the Politician Adoption Scheme, which is coordinated and run by the Developmental Disability...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (0 speeches)
The following government documents were tabled: Sydney Airport Demand Management Act 1997Quarterly report on the maximum movement limit for Sydney Airport for the period 1 April to 30 June 2006....
- 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 January to 30 June...
- Departmental and Agency Contracts (0 speeches)
The following document was tabled pursuant to the order of the Senate of 20 June 2001, as amended: Departmental and agency contracts for 2005-06—Letter of advice—Employment and...
