Senate debates
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee be authorised to hold a private meeting otherwise than in accordance with standing order 33(1) during the sitting of the...
- Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Assessments and Advertising) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (7 speeches)
Debate resumed from 14 May, on motion by Senator Carr: That this bill be now read a second time.
- In Committee (5 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.
- Judiciary Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bill received from the House of Representatives.
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
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 as follows— Thisbill responds to the...
- Third Reading (2 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time.
- Crimes Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bill received from the House of Representatives.
- Second Reading (10 speeches)
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 as follows— CRIMES LEGISLATION...
- Third Reading (0 speeches)
Bill passed through its remaining stages without amendment or debate.
- Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 1) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
Debate resumed from 11 March, on motion by Senator Faulkner: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Member for Robertson (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Attorney-General, Senator Ludwig. I refer the minister to his answer to my question on Monday last week, when I raised the issue of the possible...
- Climate Change (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Wong. Can the minister outline to the Senate Australia’s most recent greenhouse emissions results and what they mean for...
- Commercial Ready Program (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Carr. Has the government’s decision to axe the vital Commercial Ready program resulted in numerous job...
- Budget (4 speeches)
Mr President, my question is to Senator Evans, the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Can the minister please inform the Senate how the government’s budget will help working...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! I draw the attention of honourable senators to the presence in the President’s gallery of former distinguished President of the Senate, the Hon. Paul Calvert. Welcome back. I also...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Commercial Ready Program (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Carr, and it relates to the Commercial Ready program that the minister has been discussing. I note that the...
- Zimbabwe (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Faulkner, representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Minister, do you accept that the Zimbabwe government is no longer a legitimate government because it has...
- Budget (17 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Carr. I refer to the minister’s previous answers and the Rudd government’s decision to axe the...
- Economy (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, Senator Sherry, the Minister representing the Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Can the minister update the Senate on the...
- Commercial Ready Program (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Carr. I refer to the minister’s previous answers today and his dogged refusal to acknowledge the...
- Murray-Darling River System (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Senator Wong. Now that the Coorong has reached crisis point and is critically threatened, as...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Commercial Ready Program (9 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (Senator Carr) to questions without notice asked today relating to the...
- Zimbabwe (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Special Minister of State (Senator Faulkner) to a question without notice asked by Senator Murray today relating to Zimbabwe. Mr...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Clerk: A petition has been lodged for presentation as follows:
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
by leave—Before withdrawing a disallowance notice, I would like to make a short statement on that matter. In making my decision to withdraw this notice of motion in relation to the class...
- Presentation (1 speech)
Senator Mark Bishop 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,...
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
Pursuant to notice given at the last day of sitting, I withdraw business of the Senate notices of motion Nos 2, 3, 8 and 9 standing in my name for 12 sitting days after today.
- Presentation (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances, I give notice that, 15 sitting days from today, I shall move:That the Film Certification Advisory Board Rules 2008, made under...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That—(a)the sitting of the Senate be suspended from 6.30 pm to 7.30 pm today; and(b)the Senate meet on Wednesday, 25 June 2008 at 9.30 am. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following items of business were postponed: General business notice of motion no. 103 standing in the name of the Leader of the Australian Democrats (Senator Allison) for today, relating to...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Save Our Solar (Solar Rebate Protection) Bill 2008 [No. 2] (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to make provisions for the better operation of the solar rebate scheme. Question agreed to. I present the bill and move: That this...
- 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. Leave granted. The speech read as follows— Mr President, the Save...
- Carbon Sequestration (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate requests the Government to report by 1 September 2008 on:(a)the total amount of carbon sequestered in Australia’s:(i)native forests and woodlands,(ii)plantations,...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Government Appointments (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Minchin, I move:That—(1)There be laid on the table, by each minister in the Senate, in respect of each department or agency administered by that minister, or by a...
- Commonwealth Grants (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Minchin, I move:That—(1)There be laid on the table, by each minister in the Senate, in respect of each department or agency administered by that minister, or by a...
- Climate Change (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that on 11 June and 12 June 2008 citizens and scientists came together in Canberra for the 2008 Manning Clark House Conference ‘Imagining the Real Life...
- Falun Gong (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 127 standing in my name by adding Senator Bartlett’s name to the motion and to ensure that the end of the motion reads...
- Temporary Retirement Visas (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)currently persons who reside in Australia on a temporary Retirement Visa (subclass 410) are unable to apply for permanent residency, and(ii)this is...
- Tibet (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
I move: That the Senate—(a)notes the statement in Lhasa on 21 June 2008 by Tibet’s Communist Party Secretary General Zhang Qing Li, that ‘we will certainly be able to totally...
- Middle East (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
I ask that general business notice of motion No. 128 standing in my name for today, relating to tensions between the US, Israel and Iran, be taken as a formal motion.
- Kokoda Track Campaign and Recognition of the Koiari People (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 130 standing in my name and the name of Senator McGauran. Leave granted. I move the motion as amended: That the...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 43 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. 43 of 2007-08: Performance audit - third tranche sale of...
- Military Memorials of National Significance Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bill received from the House of Representatives.
- 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. Leave granted. The speech read as follows— MILITARY MEMORIALS OF...
- Governor-General Amendment (Salary and Superannuation) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bill received from the House of Representatives.
- 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. Leave granted. The speech read as follows— This bill will set the...
- Dental Benefits Bill 2008; Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 2) Bill 2008; Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Consideration by Legislation Committees; Reports (1 speech)
Pursuant to order and at the request of the chairs of the respective committees, I present reports from all standing committees, except the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee, on...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Community Affairs Committee; Report (7 speeches)
I present the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs Ready-to-drink alcohol beverages, together with the Hansard record of proceedings and documents presented to the...
- Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (2008 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Report of Finance and Public Administration (1 speech)
On behalf of the Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration, Senator Polley, I present the report of the committee on the Families, Housing, Community Services...
- Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Report of Legal and Constitutional Affairs (1 speech)
On behalf of the Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Senator Crossin, I present the report of the committee on the Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill...
- Tax Laws Amendment (Budget Measures) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Report of Economics (1 speech)
On behalf of the Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Economics, Senator Hurley, I present the report of the committee on the Tax Laws Amendment (Budget Measures) Bill 2008 together with the...
- Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 1) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Valedictory (0 speeches)
- (11 speeches)
I want to commence my valedictory, nearly my last speech here, with a phrase I have often used: I thank the Senate. I thank the Senate for allowing my valedictory tonight. I set this date some...
- Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 1) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (2008 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (12 speeches)
Debate resumed from 16 June, on motion by Senator Faulkner: That this bill be now read a second time.
- In Committee (41 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 11 pm, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Mr Dally Messenger (3 speeches)
I rise tonight to speak of the case of a constituent in my home state of Victoria, Mr Dally Messenger, who has had a most unfortunate experience with the ACCC. Mr Messenger is a funeral...
- Abortion (1 speech)
Most Australians agree that we have too many abortions and most would be surprised to learn that in 2005 some 47 babies out of 309, or 15 per cent of the post-20-week abortions in Victoria, were...
- Funeral Celebrants (1 speech)
I rise simply to comment on my colleague Senator Troeth’s contribution to the adjournment debate this evening. Senator Troeth admirably represented the views of her constituent, a pensioner...
- Ready-to-Drink Alcohol Beverages Report (1 speech)
I thank the Senate for its indulgence in allowing me to finalise my comments on the Ready-to-drink alcohol beverages report that was handed down today by the Senate Standing Committee on...
- Swan Electorate: Medicare Office (2 speeches)
I seek leave to incorporate Senator Bishop’s adjournment speech. Leave granted.
- Human Rights (1 speech)
I seek leave to incorporate my adjournment speech. Leave granted. The incorporated speech read as follows— I rise tonight to raise the issue of human rights abuses in Colombia and shed some...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (0 speeches)
The following government documents were tabled: AusLink—Report for 2006-07. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare—Report—Australia’s health 2008—Eleventh...
