Senate debates
Monday, 10 September 2007
- Representation of Tasmania (0 speeches)
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I inform the Senate that Senator Calvert resigned his place as a senator for the state of Tasmania on 29 August 2007. Pursuant to the provisions of section 21 of the Constitution, the...
- Senator Sworn (0 speeches)
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Senator David Christopher Bushby made and subscribed the oath of allegiance.
- Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Testing) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
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Consideration resumed from 13 August.
- In Committee (30 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources. Is the minister aware that in April this year the Minister for Foreign Affairs...
- Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (2 speeches)
My question is to Senator Minchin, the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Will the minister advise the Senate of the outcomes of the recent APEC meeting in Sydney?
- Workplace Relations (12 speeches)
My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Isn’t it the case that there is a backlog of more than 100,000 workplace...
- Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (2 speeches)
My question is to Senator Ellison, the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. It concerns the extraordinarily successful APEC, which concluded yesterday in Sydney. Will the minister...
- Workplace Relations (6 speeches)
My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. I refer the minister to the recent report by Anthony Forsyth of Monash University...
- Indigenous Communities (2 speeches)
My question is to Senator Scullion, the Minister representing the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Will the minister update the Senate on positive progress being...
- Uranium Exports (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Minister, when the government made the deal at APEC to sell uranium to Russia was it aware that 21 journalists have been killed in...
- Employment (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator Abetz. Will the minister update the Senate on the latest employment figures, and is the...
- NetAlert (13 speeches)
My question is to Senator Coonan, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. Is the minister aware that on 24 August, just four days after the government’s $84...
- Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (8 speeches)
My question is to Senator Minchin. I ask: why on earth did this grim Howard government contrive to turn sunny Sydney into ‘sad city’ while the world watched on over APEC? I ask: what...
- Housing Affordability (14 speeches)
My question without notice today is to Senator Scullion, representing the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Is the minister aware that nearly 6,000 families in New...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answers to Questions (13 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked by Opposition senators today. I particularly want to focus on the non-answers provided by Senator...
- Uranium Exports (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 the...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
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The Clerk: Petitions have been lodged for presentation as follows:
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (3 speeches)
Senator Payne to move on the next day of sitting: That the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee be authorised to hold a public meeting during the sitting of the Senate on Thursday,...
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following items of business were postponed: Business of the Senate notice of motion no. 1 standing in the name of Senator Faulkner for today, proposing the reference of a matter to the...
- Proposed Pulp Mill (0 speeches)
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I move:That the Senate—(a)calls on the Government to ensure that, in the spirit of the open market, no subsidies, payments or escape of taxes or payments be given to the Gunns...
- Climate Change (0 speeches)
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by leave—I move the motion as amended:(1)That the Senate notes that:(a)it is well established that both ozone depleting gases and a number of replacement synthetic gases introduced in...
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing orders 38 and 166, I present documents as listed below which were presented to the President, the Deputy President and temporary chairs of committees since the Senate last...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics Committee; Report (1 speech)
by leave—I table revised additional comments relating to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Economics entitled Private equity investment in Australia.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Responses to Senate Resolutions (5 speeches)
I present a response from the Premier of Western Australia, Mr Carpenter, to a resolution of the Senate of 21 June 2007 relating to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the third progress report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade on reforms to Australia’s military justice system. Ordered that the report be...
- Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee; Additional Information (1 speech)
On behalf of the Chair of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Senator Barnett, I present additional information received by the committee in its inquiry into the Northern Territory...
- Membership (2 speeches)
Order! The President has received a letter from a party leader seeking to vary the membership of committees.
- Federal Magistrates Amendment (Disability and Death Benefits) Bill 2007 (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...
- Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 1) 2007-2008; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 2) 2007-2008; Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Northern Territory National Emergency Response and Other Measures) Bill 2007; Northern Territory National Emergency Response Amendment (Alcohol) Bill 2007; Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Payment Reform) Bill 2007; Aviation Legislation Amendment (2007 Measures No. 1) Bill 2007; Corporations Amendment (Insolvency) Bill 2007; Customs Tariff Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2007; Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Amendment (Cosmetics) Bill 2007; National Health Amendment (National HPV Vaccination Program Register) Bill 2007; International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2007; Water Bill 2007; Water (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2007; Apec Public Holiday Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Messages from His Excellency the Governor-General were reported, informing the Senate that he had assented to the bills.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Standing Committees; Reports (1 speech)
Pursuant to order and at the request of the chairs of the respective committees, I present reports from the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee and the Employment, Workplace Relations...
- Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Testing) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- In Committee (11 speeches)
Consideration resumed.
- Third Reading (2 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time.
- Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Protecting Services for Rural and Regional Australia into the Future) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (27 speeches)
Debate resumed from 13 August, on motion by Senator Mason: That this bill be now read a second time.
- In Committee (163 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Third Reading (8 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
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The Acting Deputy President: Order! It being 9.50 pm, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Ms Samantha McIntosh; Aged Care (1 speech)
I do not often speak on the adjournment, but I am moved to speak on the adjournment tonight. I had the opportunity to go to the Ballarat electorate in conjunction with Samantha McIntosh, who...
- Myall Creek Massacre: Book Launch (1 speech)
A few years ago a very good friend of mine, Peter Stewart, gave me a manuscript to read. Peter is an old school friend and, I should note for the record, the nephew of two great former Labor...
- Citizenship Test (1 speech)
I would like to start by concurring with the comments in Senator Forshaw’s speech. They flow on to some of the points I want to make in my contribution tonight. We have spent today in the...
- Federal Election (1 speech)
I rise at this late hour to warn Australians of the scenarios facing their representation in the Senate after the coming election. Put simply, there will be either a coalition majority or minor...
- Harold Gibson Weir; Address by the Canadian Prime Minister (1 speech)
It is with regret that I inform the Senate of the death in late August of Mr Harold Gibson Weir, Parliamentary Librarian from 1978 to 1982. Mr Weir first joined the Library in 1968 as one of the...
- 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] A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax)...
- Indexed lists files (0 speeches)
The following documents were tabled pursuant to the order of the Senate of 30 May 1996, as amended: Indexed lists of departmental and agency files for the period 1 January to 30 June...
- Departmental and Agency Contracts (0 speeches)
The following documents were tabled pursuant to the order of the Senate of 20 June 2001, as amended: Departmental and agency contracts for— 2006—Letter of advice—Treasury...
