Senate debates
Tuesday, 11 September 2007
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Iraq (4 speeches)
My question is directed to Senator Coonan, the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer the minister to General David Petraeus’s Iraq report to the US congress...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice and Customs, Senator Johnston. Minister, with today being the anniversary of the tragic events of 11 September 2001, could you advise the Senate of the...
- Climate Change (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Minchin, the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Can the minister confirm that the Prime Minister failed in his attempt to sideline the Kyoto protocol in his APEC...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Finance and Administration, Senator Minchin. Is the minister aware of recent indications as to the strength of the Australian economy? Will the minister...
- Equine Influenza (22 speeches)
My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. I refer the minister to a letter from the Australian Racing Board to former...
- Fishing Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation, Senator Abetz. Will the minister update the Senate on the decisive actions the government has taken to secure a profitable...
- Proposed Pulp Mill (12 speeches)
My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources. Is the minister aware that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the...
- Arts Funding (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Brandis. Will the minister inform the Senate of how the Australian government is supporting the arts in Australia? Further, will the...
- Recreational Fishing (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation. I refer the minister to the recent announcement of a $200,000 grant to study ‘the concept of levies...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! I draw the attention of honourable senators to the presence in the chamber of a parliamentary delegation from Indonesia, led by Dr AM Fatwa, Deputy Speaker of the People’s...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Parental Leave (5 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women’s Issues. In light of the positive visit and address today by the Canadian Prime...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Equine Influenza (20 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation (Senator Abetz) to a question without notice asked by Senator O’Brien today...
- Proposed Pulp Mill (5 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation (Senator Abetz) to a question without notice asked by Senator Milne today relating...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Clerk: Petitions have been lodged for presentation as follows:
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (3 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 cost of living pressures on older Australians be...
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following items of business were postponed: General business notice of motion no. 877 standing in the name of Senator Stott Despoja for today, relating to Hearing Awareness Week, postponed...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move:That consideration of the business before the Senate on Wednesday, 19 September 2007 be interrupted at approximately 5 pm, but not so as to interrupt a senator speaking, to enable...
- Northern Territory National Emergency Response Amendment (Alcohol) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That: (a)the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to amend the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007, and for related purposes [Northern Territory National...
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I present the explanatory memorandum and I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speech incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speech read...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
At the request of the Chair of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee (Senator Payne), I move:That the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee be authorised to hold a public...
- Public Works Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
I move:That the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works be authorised to hold a public meeting during the sitting of the Senate on Thursday, 13 September 2007, from 9.30 am to 11.45 am,...
- Nuclear Energy and Health (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that the Medical University of South Carolina has conducted a sophisticated meta-analysis of 17 research papers covering 136 nuclear sites throughout the...
- Obesity (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes the call by the Obesity Policy Coalition for urgent government action to tackle Australia’s escalating obesity crisis, including:(i)a ban on the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Reference (1 speech)
by leave—I move the motion as amended: That the following matter be referred to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties for inquiry and report by 3 December 2007: The Australia-Russia...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That general business notice of motion No. 884 standing in my name for today, relating to the Tarkine wilderness in Tasmania, be postponed till the next day of sitting....
- Climate Change (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate—(a)notes:(i)the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders’ Sydney Declaration on Climate Change, Energy Security and Clean Development which states that...
- Iraq (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes the congressional testimony by the Commander of the United States of America’s forces in Iraq, General David Petraeus; and(b)calls on the Government to...
- Australian Heritage Buildings (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes the:(i)value and importance to the cultural landscape of Australia of its estimated 15 000 architectural heritage buildings, almost a third of which are in...
- Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I, and on behalf of Senator Stott Despoja, move the motion as amended: That the Senate—(a)notes:(i)that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting was held in...
- Parliamentary (Judicial Misbehaviour or Incapacity) Commission Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to establish the Parliamentary (Judicial Misbehaviour or Incapacity) Commission. Question agreed to. I move: That this bill may...
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I table the explanatory memorandum and I seek leave to have the second reading speech incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speech read as...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Responses to Senate Resolutions (1 speech)
I present a response from the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Downer, to a resolution of the Senate of 19 June 2007 relating to the human rights of children.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 6 of 2007-08 (1 speech)
In accordance with the provisions of the Auditor-General Act 1997, I present the following report of the Auditor-General: Report No. 6 of 2007-08—Performance Audit—Australia’s...
- Parliamentary Zone (0 speeches)
- Proposal for Works (1 speech)
In accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act 1974, I present a proposal for works within the Parliamentary Zone to redevelop the National Library of Australia forecourt to create the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Privileges Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the 131st report of the Senate Standing Committee of Privileges, entitled Possible false or misleading evidence and improper refusal to provide information to the Finance and Public...
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Offshore Petroleum Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Report of Economics Committee (1 speech)
On behalf of the Chair of the Economics Committee, Senator Ronaldson, I present the report of the committee on the provisions of the Offshore Petroleum Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move:That, on Tuesday, 11 September 2007:(a)the hours of meeting shall be 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm and 7.30 pm to adjournment;(b)the routine of business shall be:(i)questions,(ii)the items specified...
- Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Protecting Services for Rural and Regional Australia into the Future) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Third Reading (2 speeches)
Debate resumed from 10 September, on motion by Senator Coonan: That this bill be now read a third time.
- Northern Territory National Emergency Response Amendment (Alcohol) Bill 2007 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (10 speeches)
Debate resumed.
- In Committee (30 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2007 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (64 speeches)
Debate resumed from 9 August, on motion by Senator Coonan: That this bill be now read a second time. (Quorum formed)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 10.00 pm, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Corio, Corangamite, Ballarat and Bendigo Electorates (10 speeches)
I want to take a sweep through country and regional Victoria. I want, as the time allows, to talk about the seats of Corio, Corangamite, Ballarat and Bendigo, as it is interesting to look at...
- National Blood Donor Week (1 speech)
As an ex union official, I will be speaking this evening about National Blood Donor Week. This week, from 10 to 16 September, is National Blood Donor Week—and it was launched today at...
- Iraq (1 speech)
Today is the anniversary of 9-11—of course, the illogical trigger for the attack on Iraq. It is also the day that General Petraeus told congress that the goal of a self-sustaining Iraq...
- Water (1 speech)
Just over a week ago, I attended a meeting in Manjimup, together with the Liberal candidate for Forrest, Nola Marino, with about 100 farmers and landowners. Nola Marino is another one of those...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Australians who want to send a protest vote to the government over Work Choices should vote for Family First, because it is the only party standing up for workers and small business. Work Choices...
- Budget 2007-08 (3 speeches)
The federal budget, handed down by the Treasurer, the Hon. Peter Costello, on 8 May this year, provided $291.3 million over the next four years for the inclusion of two new attendance items in...
- Housing Affordability (1 speech)
I would like to speak once again in this place about the continuing and, I believe, growing crisis in housing affordability in many parts of Australia. I will focus my remarks particularly on my...
- Health: Eye Care (1 speech)
I have some words that I would like to read that many Australians—in fact, many people around the world—would be in a position to say they understand. The words read: When the sun...
- Bendigo Electorate (1 speech)
I appreciate that it is now a quarter past eleven, but I need to finish off some comments that I made about an hour and a quarter ago in relation to my political sweep through regional and rural...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (0 speeches)
The following document was tabled by the Clerk: Return to Order Indexed lists of departmental and agency files for the period 1 January to 30 June 2007—Statements of compliance—...
