Senate debates
Tuesday, 12 September 2006
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (2 speeches)
I have received letters from party leaders seeking variations to the membership of committees
- Petroleum Retail Legislation Repeal Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- In Committee (37 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 11 September.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Medibank Private (6 speeches)
My question is directed to the Minister for Finance and Administration, Senator Minchin. I refer him to press reports that he has just announced the deferral of the sale of Medibank Private. Can...
- Digital Television (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Coonan. Would the minister please inform the Senate how the government is encouraging the take-up...
- Housing Affordability (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to Senator Minchin, the Minister representing the Treasurer. Is the minister aware that the Victorian Supreme Court figures on mortgage repossessions show a massive 58...
- Skilled Migration (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Senator Vanstone. Will the minister outline to the Senate the important contribution being made by skilled migrants to...
- Housing Affordability (12 speeches)
My question is to Senator Minchin, the Minister representing the Treasurer. Does the minister recall telling the Senate in November 2005 that: Certainly, there is still reasonably healthy growth...
- Children in Sport (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Kemp. Will the minister update the Senate on the progress of coalition government programs encouraging Australian school children to...
- Nuclear Energy (4 speeches)
Mr President, my question is to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage. I refer to the Prime Minister’s announcement that nuclear power might be an answer to reducing greenhouse gas...
- Illegal Fishing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation, Senator Eric Abetz. Will the minister update the Senate on progress in the fight against illegal foreign fishers in our...
- Workplace Relations (7 speeches)
My question is to Senator Coonan, the Minister representing the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer. Is the minister aware that the Cowra Abattoir, which attempted to sack and then...
- Marine Environment (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage. I refer to the Department of the Environment and Heritage decision not to accept major seismic work being proposed by Woodside at...
- Horticultural Code of Conduct (11 speeches)
My question is to Senator Abetz, the minister representing the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Again I refer the minister to the government’s broken promise to deliver a...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Yesterday in answering a question from Senator McLucas I undertook to supply further information. I seek leave to incorporate the answer in Hansard. Leave granted. The answer read as...
- Answers to Questions on Notice (0 speeches)
- Question Nos 2005 and 2006 (3 speeches)
Pursuant to standing order 74(5) I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing for an explanation as to why an answer has not been provided to two questions on notice, Nos...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Housing Affordability (8 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Finance and Administration (Senator Minchin) to questions without notice asked by Senators Carr and Webber today...
- Nuclear Energy (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for the Environment and Heritage (Senator Ian Campbell) to a question without notice asked by Senator Allison today relating...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
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The Clerk: Petitions have been lodged for presentation as follows:
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (0 speeches)
Senator Troeth to move on the next day of sitting:That the time for the presentation of the report of the Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Committee on the provisions of the Higher...
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
Pursuant to notice given on the last day of sitting, I shall now withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 1 standing in my name for two sitting days after today and business of the...
- Presentation (0 speeches)
Senator Nettle to move on the next day of sitting:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)it has been 19 months since Ms Cornelia Rau was found imprisoned unlawfully in the Baxter detention...
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following items of business were postponed: General business notice of motion no. 535 standing in the name of Senator Bartlett for today, relating to Australian Foster Care Week, postponed...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
I move:That the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works be authorised to hold a public meeting during the sitting of the Senate on Thursday, 14 September 2006, from 3.30 pm, to take...
- Oil Depletion Protocol (0 speeches)
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I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)various global oil depletion protocols have recently been proposed, and that the basic principle underpinning each is that oil importing nations...
- Death Penalty (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I move the motion as amended: That the Senate—(a)notes that the death penalty was removed from the Australian statute books in 1973; and(b)calls on the Government to ensure...
- Detention of Palestinian Parliamentarians (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)supports the right of parliamentarians to freely pursue their duties;(b)notes the opposition of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the European Parliament and the New...
- Iraq (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)a report of the United States of America Republican-led Senate Select Committee on Intelligence found that there is no evidence of any relationship...
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Child Protection (10 speeches)
I inform the Senate that I have received the following letter, dated 12 September 2006, from Senator Bartlett: Dear Mr President, Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today I propose...
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 4 of 2006-07 (1 speech)
In accordance with the provisions of the Auditor-General Act 1997, I present the following report of the Auditor-General: Audit report No. 4 of 2006-07: Performance audit: Tax agent and business...
- Civil Aviation Legislation Amendment (Mutual Recognition with New Zealand) Bill 2005 [2006] (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Petroleum Retail Legislation Repeal Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! There being no further consideration of government documents, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- United Nations Population Fund (1 speech)
The UNFPA last week launched its report State of world population 2006, a matter of some interest to a number of us in the chamber—in particular, Senator Moore. The report is entitled A...
- Mr Robert Kelvin MacDonald; Learn @ Work Day (1 speech)
Today we buried a very good man in Crookwell. His name was Robert Kelvin MacDonald. I think that, if you were to google him, you would not find a single entry. He certainly was not famous or...
- Sir Robert Sparkes (1 speech)
Tonight I want to pay tribute to Sir Robert Sparkes, born May 1929, died 6 August 2006—a significant day for me and the Nationals. Sir Robert Sparkes was once described as ‘the most...
- Australian Defence Force (1 speech)
Recently we have heard an announcement by the federal government that they plan to significantly increase the total number of people serving in the Australian armed forces. I, personally, am not...
- Mr Colin Thiele (1 speech)
I rise to speak tonight about a great South Australian, a man who gave so much, who opened our eyes and led so many of us as children on journeys we may have missed had we not turned that first...
- Parliament and Civics Education Rebate (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about the Parliament and Civics Education Rebate. I do so not merely to praise this important program—which affords the opportunity to Australian students to visit...
- Queensland State Election (1 speech)
I want to make some comments about the Queensland election. I do not want to comment on the result—we have had enough statements about that—although I do want to congratulate the...
- Burrup Peninsula Rock Art (1 speech)
On 8 August 2006 the leader of the Australian Greens, Senator Bob Brown, addressed the Senate about the need to protect the rock art located on the Burrup Peninsula in my home state of Western...
- The Great Gynae Day Out (1 speech)
Those of us in this place get invited to attend a weird and wonderful array of events. Indeed I got to attend one which was more wonderful than weird on Sunday. I attended the National...
- Reserve Bank of Australia: Annual Report (1 speech)
Today in the Senate the Reserve Bank of Australia’s annual report was handed down. It is worth while noting that this report is the last report of the governor, Mr Ian Macfarlane, who is to...
- Government Appointments to Public Boards (1 speech)
Of all the ways in which the Howard government has betrayed the better interests of this country, few are nastier than the corrupting nepotism with which it has manipulated senior appointments to...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (0 speeches)
The following government documents were tabled: Australian Rail Track Corporation Limited (ARTC)—Statement of corporate intent 2006-07. Civil Aviation Safety Authority—Corporate plan...
