Senate debates
Friday, 23 March 2007
- Absence of the President (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Clerk: I advise the Senate that the President is absent today. Under standing order 13, the Deputy President will take the chair. The DEPUTY PRESIDENT (Senator Hogg) thereupon took the chair...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (0 speeches)
Senator Allison to move on the next day of sitting:That the Senate—(a)notes:(i)the report by the Pentagon dated March 2007 on the situation in Iraq in the last quarter of 2006, that advises...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (2 speeches)
The President has received a letter from a party leader seeking variations to the membership of committees.
- Private Health Insurance Bill 2006; Private Health Insurance (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2006; Private Health Insurance (Prostheses Application and Listing Fees) Bill 2006; Private Health Insurance (Collapsed Organization Levy) Amendment Bill 2006; Private Health Insurance Complaints Levy Amendment Bill 2006; Private Health Insurance (Council Administration Levy) Amendment Bill 2006; Private Health Insurance (Reinsurance Trust Fund Levy) Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- In Committee (50 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 20 March. PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE BILL 2006 Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That the Private Health Insurance Bill 2006, the Private Health Insurance (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2006, the Private Health Insurance (Prostheses...
- Native Title Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (6 speeches)
Debate resumed from 20 March, on motion by Senator Scullion: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Schools Assistance (Learning Together — Achievement Through Choice and Opportunity) Amendment Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (14 speeches)
Debate resumed from 22 March, on motion by Senator Johnston: That this bill be now read a second time. upon which Senator Carr moved by way of amendment: At the end of the motion, add:...
- Third Reading (0 speeches)
Bill passed through its remaining stages without amendment or debate.
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (17 speeches)
I seek leave to make a personal explanation. Leave granted. It has come to my attention that a number of this morning’s newspapers, in particular the Adelaide Advertiser, the Canberra Times...
- Native Title Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Consideration resumed.
- In Committee (76 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 3.31 pm, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Pura Cup (13 speeches)
Today I have great pleasure in talking about a very historic event that occurred earlier today in my home state of Tasmania, where Tasmania won the Pura Cup final, defeating New South Wales by...
- Register of Senators’ Interests (1 speech)
I want to briefly address the Senate to acknowledge that I made an honest error in failing to comply in certain respects with the reporting requirements of the Senate’s register of...
- Chaplaincy Services for Veterans (1 speech)
This week we noted the fourth anniversary of the commencement of the war in Iraq. Last month, we remembered the bombing of Darwin 65 years ago during the Second World War. Next month, on Anzac...
- Meander Dam (1 speech)
I stand today to speak to the merits of the Meander Dam development in northern Tasmania. An open day is planned this Sunday for members of the public to visit the Meander Dam, and I am sure it...
