Senate debates
Tuesday, 5 December 2006
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That government business notice of motion No. 1, proposing the exemption of bills from the cut-off order, be postponed till a later hour of the day. Question agreed to.
- Medibank Private Sale Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- In Committee (2 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 4 December.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question put.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
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: Defence Legislation...
- Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Legislation Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (10 speeches)
Debate resumed from 30 November, on motion by Senator Ian Campbell: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Military Justice (6 speeches)
My question is to Senator Ian Campbell, the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. Can the minister confirm that yesterday’s audit report into the ADF’s military police...
- Wheat Exports (6 speeches)
My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. Will the minister inform the Senate how the Howard government is acting to remove...
- Burrup Peninsula (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Campbell. Will the minister update the Senate on the heritage nomination of the Burrup Peninsula and actions the...
- Petrol Sniffing (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Santoro, Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing. I refer the minister to the tragic deaths of two teenagers—and another is on life support in...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! I draw the attention of honourable senators to the presence in the President’s gallery of the Hon. Falah Bakir, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Kurdistan Regional Government,...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Family Payments (2 speeches)
My question is to Senator Kemp, the Minister representing the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. What response has the government received to its proposals to...
- Bushfires (6 speeches)
My question is to Senator Ellison, the Minister representing the Attorney-General, and it is also about the security of Australian families. I ask the minister: in relation to the excellent...
- Budget Surplus (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Administration, Senator Minchin. Will the minister inform the Senate of the importance of running strong budget surpluses in the current economic...
- Iraq (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Minchin, the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Is the minister aware that the leaked memo by former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggested that the US...
- Indigenous Land Leases (14 speeches)
My question is to Senator Kemp, the Minister representing the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. As the minister would know, the government recently changed the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! I draw the attention of honourable senators to the presence in the President’s gallery of members of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Safety and Security from the Republic of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Ageing, Senator Santoro. Can the minister confirm that, after having been accredited for a full three years earlier this year, the Viewhills Manor nursing home...
- Passports (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Senator Vanstone. Will the minister advise of any changes to passport arrangements which may effect holders of Greek...
- Seasprite Helicopters (12 speeches)
My question is to Senator Campbell, Minister representing the Minister for Defence. I refer the minister to a Defence media release from 13 November 2006 about joint Australia-New Zealand Navy...
- Aged Care (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Ageing, Senator Santoro. Would the minister provide some examples of how the Howard government is working cooperatively with the state and territory Labor...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Bushfires (3 speeches)
Senator Bob Brown asked me a question about bushfires and related research. I can say that I released a report in 2001 dealing with a model bushfire criminal offence and a report in 2004 by the...
- Answers to Questions on Notice (0 speeches)
- Question No. 2505 (4 speeches)
Pursuant to standing order 74(5) I ask Minister Ellison, the Minister representing the Attorney-General, for an explanation as to why an answer has not been provided to my question on notice No....
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Petrol Sniffing; Military Justice (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked today. Before I get to that I want to pay my deepest and most sincere regrets to the...
- Burrup Peninsula (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 Eggleston today...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Clerk: Petitions have been lodged for presentation as follows:
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (0 speeches)
Senator Humphries to move on the next day of sitting:That the time for the presentation of the report of the Community Affairs Committee on the funding and operation of the...
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following item of business was postponed: Business of the Senate notice of motion no. 1 standing in the name of Senator Siewert for today, proposing the disallowance of the 2006/07 SBT...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Cluster Munitions (Prohibition) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Bob Brown and Senators Bishop and Bartlett, move: That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to prohibit the use, possession and manufacture of...
- 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 an explanatory memorandum relating to the bill. Leave...
- World Heritage Convention (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate supports the World Heritage Convention, including its requirement that sites of potential World Heritage value should be protected until a full evaluation has been made....
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Mental Health Services Committee; Establishment (1 speech)
I move:(1)That a select committee, to be known as the Select Committee on Mental Health Services, be appointed to inquire into, monitor and report by 30 June 2008 on ongoing efforts towards...
- Petrol Sniffing (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Moore, move:That the Senate—(a)notes:(i)the important role that the non-sniffable fuel Opal plays in addressing the scourge of petrol sniffing in remote...
- David Hicks (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that Australian citizen, Mr David Hicks has been detained for 1,822 days; and(b)calls on the Australian government to ensure the release of Mr Hicks from...
- Old Growth Forests (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)in regard to the promise by the Prime Minister (Mr Howard) in the 2004 election to protect 18,700 hectares of old-growth forest in the Styx and...
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 13 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. 13 of 2006-07—Performance Audit: Management of an IT...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Independent Contractors Bill 2006; Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Independent Contractors) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Legislation Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That intervening business be postponed till after consideration of the government business order of the day relating to the Defence Legislation Amendment Bill 2006. Question agreed to.
- Defence Legislation Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (6 speeches)
Debate resumed from 4 December, on motion by Senator Sandy Macdonald: That this bill be now read a second time.
- 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 intervening business be postponed until after consideration of government business order of the day no. 5, the Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2006....
- Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2006 (0 speeches)
- In Committee (92 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 1 December.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 10.00 pm, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Tasmanian Legislative Jurisdiction (1 speech)
The Nature Conservation Amendment (Threatened Native Vegetation Communities) Bill 2006 recently passed both houses of the Tasmanian parliament. The bill seeks, by regulation of the state, to...
- Multiculturalism (1 speech)
, has tiptoed around the edges but he is yet to state unequivocally whether or not the word ‘multiculturalism’ will be dropped. Last week the Labor Party made its position clear by...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
The Australian Democrats are pleased the issue of climate change has finally hit the mainstream consciousness. The Democrats have been actively involved in highlighting matters of climate change...
- Regionalism (1 speech)
A hundred years after Federation, Australia has an increasingly centralised system of government. The recent High Court decision in the Work Choices case was further confirmation of this reality,...
- Work and Family (1 speech)
Australian families are being damaged because we put too much emphasis on ourselves as individuals and not enough on our families. Never before has materialism and self-interest been cultivated...
- Australian Political Parties for Democracy (1 speech)
Tonight I want to take the opportunity to speak yet again about the Australian Labor Party’s participation in the Australian Political Parties for Democracy, or APPD, program. I do so...
- Mental Health Services Committee: Establishment (2 speeches)
This afternoon in this place Senator Allison, on behalf of the Australian Democrats, with the support of the Labor Party and the Australian Greens, moved a motion recommending the creation of a...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (0 speeches)
The following government documents were tabled: Australian Crime Commission—Report for 2005-06. Australian Public Service Commission—State of the service—Report for 2005-06....
