Senate debates
Wednesday, 29 November 2006
- Crimes Legislation Amendment (National Investigative Powers and Witness Protection) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That the following bill be introduced: a Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to the investigation of criminal activity and the protection of witnesses, and for related purposes....
- 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....
- Independent Contractors Bill 2006; Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Independent Contractors) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (29 speeches)
Debate resumed from 28 November, on motion by Senator Abetz: That these bills be now read a second time. upon which Senator Murray had moved by way of an amendment in respect of the Independent...
- Copyright Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (8 speeches)
Debate resumed from 6 November, on motion by Senator Santoro: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Matters of Public Interest (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being nearly 12.45 pm, I call on matters of public interest.
- United Nations Peacekeeping (1 speech, 1 comment)
This year the global community celebrates and acknowledges 50 years of United Nations blue helmet peacekeeping. Fifty years after the creation of the first UN peacekeeping operation at...
- Australian Citizenship (1 speech)
The government discussion paper Australian citizenship: much more than a ceremony has utterly failed to recognise the strengths of our citizenship system. At the same time, no matter how hard...
- Tasmanian Forests (5 speeches)
This week the grandest trees now targeted by the loggers in Tasmania’s Upper Florentine Valley have been dynamited by the logging industry, and with them the habitat of a great range of...
- Western Australian Government; Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Today I want to alert the Senate to the appalling state of affairs in my home state of Western Australia. My state is currently being run by what must now be described as the most poorly managed,...
- Women’s Sport (1 speech)
The Senate inquiry into women in sport in Australia was an important one. It was important not only because it found that there were still disparities in the level of participation and...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (13 speeches)
My question is to Senator Minchin, representing the Prime Minister. Is the minister aware that the recent comments by the member for O’Connor that ‘the dogs have been barking’,...
- Cervical Cancer (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Ageing, Senator Santoro, in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing. I ask the minister: would he advise the Senate of measures...
- 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 People’s Republic of China, led by Mr Zheng...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Petrol Sniffing (6 speeches)
My question is to Senator Santoro, the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing. Is the minister aware of reports that six petrol stations in Alice Springs that had agreed to...
- Centenary House (6 speeches)
My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Special Minister of State. Will the minister update the Senate on recent developments in the ongoing scandal of the Australian...
- Nuclear Energy (8 speeches)
My question is to Senator Vanstone, the Minister representing the Minister for Education, Science and Training. Is the minister aware of the Minister for Education, Science and Training’s...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is directed to Senator Minchin, the Minister for Finance and Administration. Is the minister aware of recent statements by the OECD in relation to the Australian economy, and are...
- Petrol Sniffing (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Santoro, the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing, and it is also about petrol sniffing. I understand that the advertising and public education...
- Australian Customs Service (2 speeches)
My question is to Senator Ellison in his capacity as the Minister for Justice and Customs. I think all in this chamber would congratulate the Australian Customs Service on the work they do to...
- Workplace Relations (13 speeches)
My question is to Senator Abetz, Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Is the minister aware of reports that Commonwealth Bank employees are being asked 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 delegation from the Republic of Indonesia, led by Dr Eva Sundari MP, Deputy Chief of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Visas (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Attorney-General. Is the minister aware of reports that Mr Ruhel Ahmed, a British Muslim whose story has been told in the movie Road to...
- Workplace Relations (17 speeches)
My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Can the minister confirm that last month the Office of the Employment Advocate...
- Telecommunications (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Coonan. Will the minister advise the Senate of any developments in the delivery of mobile phone...
- Job Network (8 speeches)
My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for Workforce Participation. Is the minister aware of recent criticism of the Howard government’s management of Job...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Iraq; Oil for Food Program (1 speech)
I wish to add to an answer I gave to a question asked of me by Senator Bob Brown on Monday in relation to military action in Iraq. Senator Brown asked about SAS training in advance of our...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Oil for Food Program (21 speeches)
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 Senator O’Brien today relating...
- Petrol Sniffing (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Ageing (Senator Santoro) to a question without notice asked by Senator Siewert today relating to funding for an education...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (0 speeches)
Senator Humphries to move on the next day of sitting:That the Senate—(a)notes:(i)the maturing relationship between Vietnam and Australia, the high-level contacts between Prime Ministers,...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection of Bills Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the 14th report of 2006 of the Selection of Bills Committee. Ordered that the report be adopted. I seek leave to have the report incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The report read...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following items of business were postponed: General business notice of motion no. 608 standing in the name of Senator Nettle for 30 November 2006, relating to water resources of the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)25 November was White Ribbon Day, the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women,(ii)White Ribbon Day...
- Logging in Tasmania’S Weld River Valley (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate calls for a halt to all logging destruction in Tasmania’s Weld River valley until and unless:(a)the Government completes a World Heritage evaluation of the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Scrutiny of Bills Committee; Report (4 speeches)
I present the 11th report of 2006 of the Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills. I also lay on the table Scrutiny of Bills Alert Digest No. 14 of 2006, dated 29 November 2006....
- Parliamentary Zone (0 speeches)
- Proposal for Works (1 speech)
In accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act 1974, I present a proposal to provide directional and interpretive signage in the Parliamentary Zone. I seek leave to give a notice of...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Trans-Tasman Banking Supervision) Bill 2006; Judiciary Legislation Amendment Bill 2006; Privacy Legislation Amendment (Emergencies and Disasters) Bill 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; Telecommunications Amendment (Integrated Public Number Database) Bill 2006; Customs Legislation Amendment (New Zealand Rules of Origin) 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— ANTI-MONEY...
- Crimes Amendment (Bail and Sentencing) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Consideration of House of Representatives Message (0 speeches)
Message received from the House of Representatives returning the Crimes Amendment (Bail and Sentencing) Bill 2006, informing the Senate that the House has agreed to the bill with amendments and...
- Copyright Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (9 speeches)
Debate resumed from 6 November, on motion by Senator Santoro: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 6.50 pm, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of government documents.
- Commonwealth Ombudsman Reports: Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. This is a report, as you have just said, Mr Acting Deputy President Chapman, from the Immigration Ombudsman. It is one of a number of reports...
- Veterans Review Board (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. The treatment of our veterans is an area that I do not believe gets enough attention. It is talked about from time to time but, given how much...
- Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I will not use up my time at this juncture on the report of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission but I simply want to emphasise the...
- Consideration (0 speeches)
The following government documents were considered: Indigenous Business Australia—Report for 2005-06. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Bartlett. Debate adjourned till...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 7.08 pm, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Australian Defence Force: AACAP (1 speech)
I rise tonight to acknowledge the decade of hard work and dedication that members of the Australian Defence Force have given to the Army Aboriginal Community Assistance Program or AACAP, as it is...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I rise tonight to set the record straight on a number of ill-informed comments and misinterpretations made in this chamber on 11 October 2006 by Senator Barnett, from my home state of Tasmania....
- Suicide Prevention Australia Conference; East Timor (1 speech)
I begin tonight by congratulating the organisers of the annual Suicide Prevention Australia conference that was held in early November in Adelaide, my home city—particularly, Dr Michael...
- Australian Local Government Association Conference (1 speech)
This week marks yet another gathering in Canberra of local governments from right around Australia for their local convocation at the Australian Local Government Association Conference. It is...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (0 speeches)
The following government documents were tabled: Defence Force Remuneration Tribunal—Report for 2005-06. Department of Education, Science and Training—Australian vocational and...
