Senate debates
Tuesday, 28 November 2006
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (4 speeches)
I will shortly seek leave to amend a motion, but I first seek leave to make a short statement. Leave granted. I am seeking to amend the motion which has at paragraph (5)(e) the list of bills...
- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- In Committee (6 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 27 November.
- Adoption of Report (1 speech)
How pleased I am to be incorrect. It is not often you can wallow in being incorrect, but today I can. I am pleased the amendment was not passed. I mean no displeasure to people on the other side....
- Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Inspector of Transport Security Bill 2006; Inspector of Transport Security (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (5 speeches)
Debate resumed from 6 November, on motion by Senator Santoro: That these bills be now read a second time.
- In Committee (10 speeches)
INSPECTOR OF TRANSPORT SECURITY BILL 2006 Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Private Jacob (Jake) Kovco (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Ian Campbell, in his capacity as the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. Can the minister confirm that the Minister for Defence received the final report of...
- Broadband (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Coonan. Will the minister inform the Senate as to how the government is expanding access to...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! I draw the attention of honourable senators to the presence in the President’s gallery of a parliamentary delegation from the United Kingdom, led by Mr Barry Sheerman MP, Chairman of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (14 speeches)
My question is directed to Senator Minchin, representing the Prime Minister. Is the minister aware that, between 1998 and 2004, there were a number of reports of unassessed intelligence...
- Drought (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Kemp, representing the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Will the minister update the Senate on...
- Oil for Food Program (7 speeches)
My question is to Senator Coonan, representing the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer. I refer the minister to the $300 million in kickbacks that AWB paid to the former Iraqi regime....
- Climate Change (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation, Senator Eric Abetz, and it relates to the current bushfire season. Minister, what threats do bushfires pose to both...
- Environment: Queensland Dams (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Ian Campbell. I refer to his upcoming decision regarding the processes to be used to assess the environmental impacts of...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! I draw the attention of honourable senators to the presence in the chamber of two parliamentary delegations. The first is from New Zealand, led by Ms Stephanie Chadwick MP, Chair of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Ian Campbell. Will the minister advise the Senate of the vital role clean coal technology will play in the battle against...
- Aged Care (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Santoro, the Minister for Ageing. Can the minister confirm reports that an approved provider of aged care has allowed a person convicted of fraud to be involved in the...
- Climate Change (22 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Ian Campbell. Does the government agree with leading scientists that we have a window of only 10 to 15 years—that is...
- Aviation Security (5 speeches)
My question is to Senator Ian Campbell, representing the Minister for Transport and Regional Services. I refer the minister to the decision by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority on 25 November...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (3 speeches)
Senator Faulkner asked me a question today about the ONA and any role it may have had in this matter. I undertook to get back to him with some further information. I refer Senator Faulkner to...
- Aged Care (2 speeches)
Yesterday during question time Senator McLucas asked me a question regarding the accreditation of Upper Jindalee Nursing Home in Canberra. I would like to add to the answer I gave to Senator...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (10 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of all answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked by opposition senators today, relating to the oil for food program. Let me state at the...
- Private Jacob (Jake) Kovco (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 Bishop today, relating...
- Answers to Questions (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for the Environment and Heritage (Senator Ian Campbell) to questions without notice asked today. There are a number of...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Mr Norman Kenneth Foster, OAM (1 speech)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death, on 19 November 2006, of Norman Kenneth Foster OAM, a member of the House of Representatives for the division of Sturt, South...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Clerk: Petitions have been lodged for presentation as follows:
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (0 speeches)
Senator Chapman to move on the next day of sitting:That the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services be authorised to hold public meetings during the sittings of the...
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances, and pursuant to notice given at the last day of sitting, I shall now withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 1...
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following items of business were postponed: General business notice of motion no. 614 standing in the names of the Leader of the Australian Greens (Senator Bob Brown) and Senators Milne,...
- Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (Kyoto Protocol Ratification) Bill 2006 [No. 2] (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to ratify the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and for related purposes. Question...
- 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 and to table the explanatory memorandum. Leave granted. The speech read as...
- Nuclear Energy (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes the draft report of the Uranium Mining, Processing and Nuclear Energy Review Taskforce appointed by the Prime Minister (Mr Howard); and(b)calls on the...
- Macquarie Island (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes:(i)Australia’s obligation under the World Heritage Convention to protect the World Heritage-listed Macquarie Island that provides nesting habitat for...
- Kyoto Protocol (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)the global carbon market is worth almost $40 billion a year,(ii)the World Bank reports that the global carbon trading market was worth approximately...
- Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That there be laid on the table by the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, no later than 3.30 pm on Wednesday, 29 November 2006, the report on the review of matters of national...
- Renewable Energy (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)in 2000, Germany introduced a solar scheme requiring electricity companies to buy back electricity generated from household panels connected to the...
- Middle East (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that the undersigned Members of the European Parliament recently returned from a fact finding mission to Israel and Palestine, shocked and appalled by what...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)Californian Republican Governor, Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger, has signed the Californian Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006,(ii)the Act aims to reduce...
- Australian Council of Social Services (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS), the peak council of the community services and welfare sector, is celebrating 50 years of...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Accounts and Audit Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
by leave—I move:That the order of the Senate of 9 October 2006, authorising the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit to hold public meetings during the sittings of the Senate, be...
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 12 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. 12 of 2006-07—Performance Audit - Management of family...
- Child Support Legislation Amendment (Reform of the Child Support Scheme — New Formula and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Amendment Bill 2005 [2006] (0 speeches)
- Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Bill 2006; Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Inspector of Transport Security Bill 2006; Inspector of Transport Security (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- In Committee (6 speeches)
Consideration resumed. INSPECTOR OF TRANSPORT SECURITY BILL 2006 (Quorum formed)
- Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills be now read a third time. Bills read a third time.
- Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (2006 Budget Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (13 speeches)
Debate resumed from 11 October, on motion by Senator Coonan: That this bill be now read a second time. (Quorum formed)
- In Committee (11 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.
- Independent Contractors Bill 2006; Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Independent Contractors) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (13 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 September, on motion by Senator Abetz: That these bills be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Australia Post (1 speech)
There are a number of elements that underpin the integrity of the electoral system in Australia: the independence and incorruptibility of the Australian Electoral Commission and the electoral...
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak on behalf of the many women who are victims of violence. Last Saturday, 25 November, was the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, also...
- Migrant Workers (1 speech)
I would like to speak tonight about the need for all of us across the political spectrum to be very diligent and watchful about the rhetoric we use, and the need to avoid encouraging prejudice...
- Workplace Relations (7 speeches)
I rise to plot the course of the Work Choices reforms and the great success story for business and working men and women of Australia and their families, specifically in Tasmania.
- Australian Law Reform Commission (1 speech)
Labor welcomes the recent report by the Australian Law Reform Commission, the ALRC, Fighting words: a review of sedition laws in Australia, and in doing so notes with concern the...
- Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs (1 speech)
I want to take the opportunity tonight to refute some comments that were made about me in my role as Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs. The community affairs committee,...
- Religious Intolerance (1 speech)
Last Sunday, 25 November, marked the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief. And...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (0 speeches)
The following government documents were tabled: Administrative Appeals Tribunal—Report for 2005-06. Aged Care Act 1997—Report for 2005-06 on the operation of the Act. Anglo-Australian...
