Senate debates
Monday, 16 October 2006
- Aged Care Amendment (Residential Care) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (7 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 September, on motion by Senator Minchin: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the Senate that Senator Ian Campbell, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, will be absent from question time today through to Thursday, 19 October. Senator Campbell is in China to...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Iraq (4 speeches)
My question is directed to Senator Coonan in her capacity as the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Is the minister aware of reported comments from former Chief of the...
- Government Policy (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Finance and Administration, Senator Minchin. Will the minister inform the Senate how the government’s policies are benefiting ordinary...
- Communications: Broadband (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Coonan, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. I refer the minister to the recently released OECD broadband statistics to June 2006. Can...
- Drought (14 speeches)
I ask Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, a question. Senator Minchin referred to our conference, where we talked about and debated...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Coonan, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. Has the minister seen reports that the ABC board will release new editorial guidelines to...
- Aged Care (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Ageing, Senator Santoro. Is the minister aware of reports in today’s media regarding the availability of aged-care beds in the community? Would the...
- Mr David Hicks (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Coonan. I ask: what response has the minister to my letter requesting a visit to David Hicks at Guantanamo...
- Southern Bluefin Tuna (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation, Senator Abetz. Will the minister update the Senate on the outcomes of the 13th annual meeting of the Commission for the...
- Wind Farms (4 speeches)
My question is also to Senator Abetz, Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Heritage. I refer the minister to Senator Minchin’s advice that Senator Ian Campbell will be...
- Water (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. The minister will recall the Senate inquiries—initiated and chaired, I might say, by the Democrats—on urban water...
- Civil Aviation Safety Authority (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for Transport and Regional Services. Can the minister confirm that the Civil Aviation Safety Authority is set to adopt the...
- Law Enforcement Agencies (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice and Customs, Senator Ellison. Will the minister update the Senate on the range of ties that exist between law enforcement agencies in Australia and the...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (12 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked by Opposition senators today. I want to start my contribution by referring to Senator...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Senator Brandis to move on the next day of sitting:That the Economics Committee be authorised to hold a public meeting during the sitting of the Senate on Thursday, 19 October 2006, from 3.30 pm,...
- Leave of Absence (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Ian Campbell for the period 16 October to 19 October 2006, on account of government business overseas. Question agreed to.
- Indigenous Governance Awards (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)congratulates:(i)the Cairns-based WuChopperen Health Services for winning the 2006 Indigenous Governance Award for an organisation established longer than 10...
- Reports of Incidents in the Himalayas (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
I ask that notice of motion 585 relating to the reported shooting by Chinese guards of a Buddhist nun and a boy trying to escape from Tibet across the border be taken as formal.
- Carers Week (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I, and on behalf of Senators Humphries, McLucas and Bartlett, move:That the Senate—(a)notes that 15 October to 21 October 2006 is Carers Week;(b)notes that the theme of Carers Week 2006 is...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Intelligence and Security Committee; Report (3 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, I present the report of the committee on its review of the relisting of al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiah as terrorist...
- Child Support Legislation Amendment (Reform of the Child Support Scheme — New Formula and Other Measures) 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— CHILD SUPPORT...
- Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Amendment Bill 2006; Tax Laws Amendment (2006 Measures No. 4) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bills received from the House of Representatives.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I table a revised explanatory memorandum relating to the Tax Laws Amendment (2006 Measures No. 4) Bill 2006 and move: That these bills be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second...
- Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Bill 2006; Corporations Amendment (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations) Bill 2006; Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Consequential, Transitional and Other Measures Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bills received from the House of Representatives.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I table a revised explanatory memorandum relating to the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Bill 2006 and move: That these bills be now read a second time. I seek leave to have...
- Trade Marks Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Members of Parliament Entitlements (0 speeches)
- (22 speeches)
I move:That clauses 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3 of Determination 2006/18: Members of Parliament—Entitlements, made pursuant to subsections 7(1), 7(2) and 7(4) of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973,...
- Crimes Amendment (Bail and Sentencing) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Report of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee (1 speech)
On behalf of the Chair of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Senator Payne, I present the report of the committee on the provisions of the Crimes Amendment (Bail and Sentencing) Bill...
- Leave of Absence (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Sandy Macdonald for 16 October 2006 for family reasons. Question agreed to.
- Aged Care Amendment (Residential Care) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (14 speeches)
Debate resumed.
- In Committee (51 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.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That government business order of the day No. 2, Privacy Legislation Amendment (Emergencies and Disasters) Bill 2006, be postponed to the next day of sitting. Question agreed to.
- Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2006 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (13 speeches)
Debate resumed from 10 October, on motion by Senator Sandy Macdonald: That this bill 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.
- World Rural Women’s Day (1 speech)
Yesterday, 15 October, was World Rural Women’s Day, a day that aims to both increase the recognition of country women and to support the multiple roles they undertake around the world....
- Independent Contracting: Owner-Drivers (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the issue of independent contracting in Australia. More specifically, I would like to address the circumstances of tens of thousands of owner-drivers and their families....
- Child Abuse (3 speeches)
Good evening, Mr President.
- Vietnam and Singapore Study Tour; Millennium Development Goals (1 speech)
I seek leave to table my Vietnam and Singapore study tour report: Australia’s overseas aid, the work of World Vision and tackling the obesity epidemic. Leave granted. I rise tonight to...
- 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] Civil Aviation Act—Civil Aviation...
