Senate debates
Tuesday, 17 October 2006
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (2 speeches)
I move:That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (8) of standing order 111 not apply to the following bills, allowing them to be considered during this period of sittings: Long Service Leave...
- Privacy Legislation Amendment (Emergencies and Disasters) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 September, on motion by Senator Minchin: That this bill be now read a second time.
- In Committee (24 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.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Nuclear Power (12 speeches)
My question is to Senator Minchin, the Minister representing the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources. Is the minister aware of the comments by the industry minister, Ian Macfarlane, at...
- Border Protection (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Senator Vanstone. Will the minister advise the Senate of the importance of measures within her portfolio which help...
- Skilled Migration (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. Can the minister confirm that her department is investigating allegations that Filipino welders on 457 visas in Brisbane...
- Poverty (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Administration and Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Minchin. Will the minister inform the Senate of the important role that good...
- Immigration (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Vanstone, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. I refer the minister to reports about the case of an Iranian woman and her daughter who were at Curtin...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Kemp. Will the minister outline to the Senate the measures the Howard government has implemented to improve the economic wellbeing...
- Farms (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. It relates to the Prime Minister’s comments that ‘we would lose something of our identification as Australians if we...
- Illegal Fishing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation, Senator Abetz. Will the minister update the Senate on the status of the fight against illegal fishing in our northern...
- Australian Federal Police (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice and Customs and relates to the minister’s continual claims over the past two months that ‘the AFP has had no trouble in recruiting...
- Centrelink (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator Abetz. I refer to the number of Australian workers who are paid below the federal minimum...
- Australian Federal Police (6 speeches)
My question is to Senator Ellison, Minister for Justice and Customs. Can the minister confirm evidence given last night by Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty, that there is $275...
- National Carers Week (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Ageing, Senator Santoro. Given that this is Carers Week in Australia, will the minister inform the Senate about steps the government is taking in Australia to...
- Questions without Notice and Unparliamentary Language (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
On 12 October I undertook to report to the Senate on a point of order raised by Senator Troeth. Her point of order was that a question by Senator Fielding about stem cell research violated...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Immigration (1 speech)
I seek to clarify an answer that I gave earlier today in question time. During question time Senator Kirk asked me about the Rau compensation claim. The answer I gave her confused the Rau and...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Immigration (8 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...
- Australian Federal Police (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Justice and Customs (Senator Ellison) to questions without notice asked by Senators Ludwig and George Campbell today...
- Immigration (3 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...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Clerk: A petition has been lodged for presentation as follows:
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (0 speeches)
Senator Mason to move on the next day of sitting:That the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties be authorised to hold private meetings otherwise than in accordance with standing order 33(1) during...
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following item of business was postponed: General business notice of motion no. 589 standing in the names of Senators Murray and Heffernan for today, relating to child protection, postponed...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Brandis, I move: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, to take...
- Tibet (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes reports that Chinese guards shot a 17-year-old Buddhist nun Kelsong Namlsa and a 13-year-old boy in the Himalayas on 30 September 2006, and that up to 30...
- Anti-Poverty Week (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Bartlett, move:That the Senate—(a)notes that 15 October to 21 October 2006 is Anti-Poverty Week;(b)acknowledges that the main aims of Anti-Poverty Week are...
- Middle East (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I move the motion, as amended: That the Senate—(a)notes:(i)the call last week by 135 respected global leaders, including former presidents, prime ministers, foreign and...
- Climate Change (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Bartlett, move:That the Senate—(a)recognises the devastating impact of the continued drought on Australian communities;(b)acknowledges the scientific...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Poverty (13 speeches)
I have received a letter from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Chris Evans, and Senators Bartlett and Siewert proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted...
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 7 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: Report No. 7 of 2006-07—Performance Audit—Visa...
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) 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— LONG SERVICE LEAVE...
- Parliamentary Superannuation Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bill received from the House of Representatives.
- Second Reading (7 speeches)
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— PARLIAMENTARY...
- Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2006 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 16 October, on motion by Senator Sandy Macdonald: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Senator Wong had moved by way of an amendment: At the end of the motion,...
- In Committee (21 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.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 6.50 pm, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of government documents.
- Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I rise to take note of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission report, the detailed title of which is Breach of Ms CD’s human...
- Aboriginals Benefit Account (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. Firstly, I want to note that the Aboriginals Benefit Account has had a range of different administrative oversight arrangements in recent times,...
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I seek leave to continue my remarks later. Leave granted.
- Treaties--ATNIA 40 (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I am sure that the Minister for the Environment and Heritage would be devastated if I did not move to take note of this document, which is...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! There being no further consideration of government documents, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- 39th Battalion (1 speech)
I rise to bring to the attention of the Senate an event held on 8 August this year that took place at the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance. It was a ceremony to reinstate the 39th Battalion to...
- SIEVX Memorial (1 speech)
I, too, rise to speak about a memorial. On Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, a simple stone cairn on a point near the Administrator’s official residence bears this inscription: SIEV X...
- Millennium Development Goals (1 speech)
Family First is pleased to speak this evening about the Millennium Development Goals. Family First was also pleased to attend the Stand Up Against Poverty event earlier this week sponsored by the...
- Women in Parliament: Media (1 speech)
This evening in this place I want to make a few comments about the feelings that some of us had last Thursday when we saw the newspaper report celebrating the success of Liberal women in...
- Integrated Humanitarian Settlement Strategy (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak on the government’s discussion paper released today called ‘Measures to improve settlement outcomes for humanitarian entrants’. This paper is the result...
- Women in Politics (2 speeches)
Like Senator Moore, I rise to make a brief contribution about the role of women in Australian politics. Yesterday I received an email that was actually about a proposed Australian head of state...
- Environment: Indigenous Australians (1 speech)
I want to address a few matters in my contribution in the adjournment debate tonight. The first is to respond to some statements raised in an article in the Weekend Australian by an author named...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (0 speeches)
The following government documents were tabled: Aboriginals Benefit Account—Report for 2005-06. Attorney-General’s Department—Report for 2005-06. Australian Communications and...
