Senate debates
Monday, 4 December 2006
- Medibank Private Sale Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (7 speeches)
Debate resumed from 30 November, on motion by Senator Santoro: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Australian Labor Party (0 speeches)
- Leadership and Office Holders (10 speeches)
by leave—I inform the Senate that Senator Conroy and I were re-elected this morning to our respective positions by the Labor caucus.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Iraq (4 speeches)
My question is directed to Senator Minchin, representing the Prime Minister. Can the minister confirm reports that former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld called for a change of strategy in...
- Illegal Fishing (2 speeches)
My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation. Will the minister update the Senate on the current status of the fight against illegal foreign fishing in...
- Aged Care (7 speeches)
My question is to Senator Santoro, the Minister for Health and Ageing. Can the minister confirm that 217 aged care facilities have still not complied with the Commonwealth’s fire safety...
- 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 Assembly of the Republic of Portugal, led by Dr Jose...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Environment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Campbell. Will the minister inform the Senate how the Howard government’s environment policies and programs are...
- Aged Care (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Santoro, the Minister for Ageing. Is the minister aware that a review ordered of Greenmount Gardens Nursing Centre, in my home state of Western Australia, last month...
- Mining Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, Senator Minchin. Will the minister advise the Senate of the importance of the mining industry to the...
- Nuclear Waste (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. On 6 July the Prime Minister told ABC radio: I am not going to have this country used as some kind of repository for other...
- Broadband (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Coonan. Will the minister inform the Senate how this government is expanding access to broadband?...
- Australian Communications and Media Authority (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Coonan, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. I refer the minister to the investigation by the Australian Communications and Media Authority...
- Illegal Immigration: Detention (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Senator Vanstone. Given the news today that Sweden has had to step in and rescue the Iraqi refugee Mohammed Sagar, whom...
- Defence: Joint Strike Fighter (5 speeches)
My question is to Senator Ian Campbell, representing the Minister for Defence in this place. While the government has reconfirmed its intent to purchase the Joint Strike Fighter, it is yet to...
- Aged Care Services (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Ageing, Senator Santoro. Given the well-known problems surrounding the ageing of the Australian population, particularly the expected increase in the number of...
- Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircraft Project (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, Senator Ian Campbell. Can the minister confirm that the project to acquire six airborne early warning and control aircraft is...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (1 speech)
I would like to add to the response that I provided to Senator Webber’s question in relation to Greenmount Gardens in Western Australia. The agency found that there was no serious risk to...
- Parliamentary Language (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
On Friday, at the time for the adjournment debate, Senator Moore, in the chair, undertook to refer to me a point of order taken by Senator Bob Brown to the effect that certain words uttered by...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Ageing (Senator Santoro) to questions without notice asked by Senators McLucas and Webber today relating to aged care. I...
- Nuclear Waste (1 speech)
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 Allison today relating to...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Clerk: Petitions have been lodged for presentation as follows:
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Senator Fifield to move on the next day of sitting:That the time for the presentation of the report of the Finance and Public Administration Committee on the transparency and accountability of...
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following item of business was postponed: General business notice of motion no. 608 standing in the name of Senator Nettle for today, relating to water resources of the Murray-Darling Basin,...
- Oil for Food Program (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate—(a)noting the Cole Commission of Inquiry’s whitewash of the Government’s failure to exercise care and diligence over the Australian Wheat...
- MR David Hicks (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I move the motion as amended:That the Senate calls on the Government to immediately bring Mr David Hicks home from Guantanamo Bay. Question put.
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Accounts and Audit Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, I present the 409th report of the committee, Developments in aviation security since the committee’s June 2004 report no. 400...
- Intelligence and Security Committee; Report (4 speeches)
On behalf of Senator Ferguson and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, I present the report of the committee, Review of security and counter terrorism legislation. I...
- Scrutiny of Bills Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of Senator Ray, I present the 12th report of 2006 of the Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills, Entry, search and seizure provisions in Commonwealth legislation, together with...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Defence Legislation Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bill received from the House of Representatives.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I table a revised 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...
- Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment (Antarctic Seals and Other Measures) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Bill 2006; Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2006; Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Amendment Bill 2006; Maritime Legislation Amendment (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Bill 2006; National Cattle Disease Eradication Account Amendment Bill 2006; Housing Loans Insurance Corporation (Transfer of Assets and Abolition) Repeal Bill 2006; 1998 Budget Measures Legislation Amendment (Social Security and Veterans’ Entitlements) Bill 1998 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Message from His Excellency the Governor-General was reported informing the Senate that he had assented to the bills.
- Medibank Private Sale Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9.50 pm, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Greater Western Sydney (1 speech)
On that happy note, following the debate on the Medibank Private Sale Bill 2006, this is probably a good opportunity for me to mark for the record that I am very pleased to have the chance,...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Tonight I would like to speak about young people and work—and it is good to see that Senator Abetz is in here to listen—in particular the effect of the government’s workplace...
- Cluster Bombs (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about the problem of cluster bombs. These are munitions that disperse small bombs known as bomblets or submunitions over a very wide area, up to one kilometre away from the...
- National Savings (1 speech)
A financial crisis has been developing in our nation for the past 40 years. I am referring to the decline in the personal savings rate in this country and the decline in personal financial...
- 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...
- Return to Order (0 speeches)
The following document was tabled pursuant to the order of the Senate of 25 March 1999, as amended on 18 September 2002: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission—Report to the...
