Senate debates
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
- Senators Sworn (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
His Excellency Major General Michael Jeffery, Companion in the Order of Australia, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Military Cross, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia,...
- President (0 speeches)
- Election (24 speeches)
Mr Clerk, I remind the Senate that the time has come when it is necessary for the Senate to choose one of its members to be President. I propose to the Senate for its President Senator Hogg, and...
- Commission to Administer the Oath or Affirmation of Allegiance (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I have to report that, accompanied by honourable senators this afternoon, I presented myself to the Governor-General as the choice of the Senate as President. The Governor-General congratulated...
- Deputy President and Chairman of Committees (0 speeches)
- Election (20 speeches)
Mr President, I remind the Senate that it should now choose one of its members to be Deputy President and Chair of Committees.
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I advise the Senate that Senator Sherry will be absent from question time today. He is in the United States of America, where he has just signed a landmark agreement with the United States on the...
- Australian Greens (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Inflation (16 speeches)
Mr President, I formally congratulate you on your appointment, and I also congratulate Senator Ferguson. I think we are very well served by senators of the calibre that we have elected today. I...
- Beijing Olympic Games (2 speeches)
Mr President, I too congratulate you. My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Evans. Can the minister update the Senate on the outstanding achievements of the...
- Budget (37 speeches)
Mr President, my question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Conroy. Minister, what is the forecast size of the budget surplus over the forward estimates?
- Murray-Darling River System (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Wong. I ask the minister: given the dire situation facing local communities dependent on the Lower Lakes and the Coorong in...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (16 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Wong. I draw her attention to the report in today’s Financial Review that the minister for resources, Senator...
- Budget (2 speeches)
May I truly extend my congratulations to you, Mr President, on your election to the presidency today and to Senator Ferguson as the Deputy President. My question is to Senator Conroy, the...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (6 speeches, 2 comments)
I congratulate you, Mr President, upon your election and I congratulate the Deputy President upon his election. My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Wong. Is the...
- Budget (2 speeches)
Congratulations, Mr President, on your election and Deputy President Ferguson’s election. My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Evans. At this time of...
- Employment: Manufacturing Industry (5 speeches)
Mr President, I congratulate you on your election and also Mr Deputy President Ferguson on his election. My question is to Senator Carr, the Minister for Industry, Innovation, Science and...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Kurdistan (1 speech)
Mr President, I have some further information in relation to a question that was asked of me by former Senator Lightfoot at the end of the last sitting period, and I seek leave to incorporate...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Budget; Inflation (20 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (Senator Conroy) to questions without notice asked by Senators Coonan,...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (1 speech)
I congratulate you, Mr Deputy President, on your election. I move: That the Senate take note of an answer given by the Minister for Climate Change and Water (Senator Wong) to a question without...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Signaller Sean Patrick McCarthy (3 speeches, 1 comment)
by leave—I move: That the Senate records its deep regret at the death of Signaller Sean Patrick McCarthy on 8 July 2008 while on combat operations in Afghanistan and places on record its...
- Mr Donald Michael Devitt (6 speeches, 1 comment)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death, on 10 July 2008, of Donald Michael Devitt, a senator for the state of Tasmania from 1965 to 1978.
- Hon. Peter Drew Durack QC (14 speeches)
It is with deep regret that I inform the Senate of the death, on 13 July 2008, of Hon. Peter Drew Durack, a former minister and senator for the state of Western Australia from 1971 to 1993.
- Petitions (0 speeches)
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The Clerk: Petitions have been lodged for presentation as follows:
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
Pursuant to notice given on the last day of sitting on behalf of the Regulations and Ordinances Committee, I now withdraw business of the Senate notices of motion Nos 2, 3, 4 and 5 standing in my...
- Presentation (3 speeches)
Senator Polley to move on the next day of sitting:That the time for the presentation of the report of the Finance and Public Administration Committee on the lobbying code of conduct be extended...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the Senate shall adjourn at 6 pm today without any question being put. Question agreed to.
- Leave of Absence (0 speeches)
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by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Sherry today, on account of ministerial business overseas. Question agreed to.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following items of business were postponed: Business of the Senate notice of motion no. 2 standing in the name of Senator O’Brien for today, proposing a reference to the Rural and...
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Consideration by Estimates Committees (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Moore, I move: That the Senate endorse the recommendation contained in paragraph 1.10 of the Community Affairs Committee report on the 2008-09 Budget estimates...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- World Trade Organisation (1 speech)
I table a ministerial statement on the World Trade Organisation—the July ministerial talks.
- 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)
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
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3692 Report No. 2 of 2008-09Report No. 2 of 2008-09
- Save Our Solar (Solar Rebate Protection) Bill 2008 [No. 2] (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 4) Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Report of Economics Committee (1 speech)
Pursuant to order and at the request of the Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Economics, Senator Hurley, I present the report of the committee on the Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No....
- Trade Practices (Creeping Acquisitions) Amendment Bill 2007 [2008] (0 speeches)
- Report of Economics Committee (2 speeches)
Pursuant to order and at the request of the Chair of the Standing Committee on Economics, Senator Hurley, I present the report of the committee on the Trade Practices (Creeping Acquisitions)...
- Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill 2008 (0 speeches)
- Report of Economics Committee (1 speech)
Pursuant to order and at the request of the Chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Economics, Senator Hurley, I present the report of the committee on the Trade Practices Legislation Amendment...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (2 speeches)
The President has received letters from party leaders seeking variations to the membership of committees.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 5) 2007-2008; Appropriation Bill (No. 6) 2007-2008; Fisheries Legislation Amendment (New Governance Arrangements for the Australian Fisheries Management Authority and Other Matters) Bill 2008; Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco Content) Bill 2008; Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 2) Bill 2008; Farm Household Support Amendment (Additional Drought Assistance Measures) Bill 2008; Law Officers Legislation Amendment Bill 2008; Dental Benefits Bill 2008; Dental Benefits (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008; Higher Education Support Amendment (2008 Budget Measures) Bill 2008; First Home Saver Accounts Bill 2008; First Home Saver Accounts (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008; Income Tax (First Home Saver Accounts Misuse Tax) Bill 2008; Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment (2008 Budget Measures) Bill 2008; Veterans’ Entitlements Legislation Amendment (2007 Election Commitments) Bill 2008; National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) Bill 2008; Tax Laws Amendment (Medicare Levy and Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2008; Health Insurance Amendment (90 Day Pay Doctor Cheque Scheme) Bill 2008; Health Care (Appropriation) Amendment Bill 2008; Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2008; Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2008; Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2008-2009; Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2008-2009; Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2008-2009; Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2008; Tax Laws Amendment (Budget Measures) Bill 2008; Australian Energy Market Amendment (Minor Amendments) Bill 2008; Governance Review Implementation (Aasb and Auasb) Bill 2008; Governor-General Amendment (Salary and Superannuation) Bill 2008; Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (2008 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2008; Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Employment Entry Payment) Bill 2008; Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008; Wheat Export Marketing (Repeal and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008; Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill 2008; Quarantine Amendment (National Health Security) Bill 2008; Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Assessments and Advertising) Bill 2008; Crimes Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Bill 2008; Judiciary Amendment Bill 2008; Communications Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2008; Statute Law Revision Bill 2008; Customs Amendment (Strengthening Border Controls) Bill 2008; Customs Legislation Amendment (Modernising) Bill 2008; Protection of the Sea (Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage) Bill 2008; Protection of the Sea (Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008; Commonwealth Securities and Investment Legislation Amendment Bill 2008; Civil Aviation Legislation Amendment (1999 Montreal Convention and Other Measures) Bill 2008; Military Memorials of National Significance Bill 2008; Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (International Agreements and Other Measures) Bill 2008; Lands Acquisition Legislation Amendment Bill 2008; Sydney Airport Demand Management Amendment Bill 2008 (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)
- Community Affairs Committee; Reference (2 speeches)
I move: That the following matters be referred to the Community Affairs Committee for inquiry and report by 26 November 2008:(a)exemptions for the Exclusive Brethren and its members from...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (0 speeches)
The following government documents were tabled: Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000Report for 2007 on the operation of the Act. Treaties— Bilateral Agreement between the Government of...
- 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 2008—Letters of advice—...
- Indexed Lists of 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...
- Unproclaimed Legislation (0 speeches)
The following document was tabled pursuant to standing order 139(2): Unproclaimed legislation—Document providing details of all provisions of Acts which come into effect on proclamation and...
