Senate debates
Monday, 14 September 2009
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That consideration of government business order of the day no. 1 (Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Test Review and Other Measures) Bill 2009) be postponed till after...
- Native Title Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (7 speeches)
Debate resumed from 9 September, on motion by Senator Faulkner: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (10 speeches)
Mr President, my question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Evans. Can the minister please tell the Senate how many unlawful entrants have arrived in Australia by boat...
- Economy (14 speeches)
Mr President, my question is to the Assistant Treasurer, Senator Sherry. In light of the government’s quick and decisive response to the global financial crisis, can the Assistant Treasurer...
- Asylum Seekers (28 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Minister Evans. Does the Labor government accept any responsibility for the surges in asylum seekers attempting to enter Australia...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! I draw the attention of honourable senators to the presence in the President’s gallery of a parliamentary delegation from the Republic of Indonesia, led by Dr Laode Ida,...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Finance and Deregulation—and a crowing Collingwood supporter—Senator Conroy. Can the minister explain to the Senate how...
- Employment (32 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment Participation and the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Government Service Delivery, Senator Arbib. Can the minister confirm that, of the...
- Traveston Crossing Dam (16 speeches)
My question is to Senator Wong, Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. Has the minister received the Queensland Coordinator-General’s draft report on...
- Environment: Murray-Darling River System (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Wong. Is it still the government’s policy, as the minister has often stated, that the fastest and best way to save the...
- Workplace Relations (28 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment Participation representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator Arbib. Can the minister inform the Senate of the impact that...
- Climate Change (21 speeches)
Has the minister seen the recent UN report—
- Points of Order (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
Mr President, my question to you is in relation to the operation of the clock during points of order. During my point of order to Senator Arbib I rose to my feet with a little over 20 seconds to...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Timor Sea Oil Spill (1 speech)
On 7 September, Senator Siewert asked me a question in my capacity as Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. I have some additional further information to...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (29 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship (Senator Evans) to questions without notice asked by Senators Fierravanti-Wells and Cash...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Clerk: Petitions have been lodged for presentation as follows:
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Senator Ludwig to move on the next day of sitting: That the government business order of the day relating to the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (National Broadband Network Measures No....
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following items of business were postponed: General business notice of motion no. 527 standing in the name of Senator Xenophon for today, proposing the introduction of the Water Licence...
- (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I seek leave to amend business of the Senate notice of motion No. 1 standing in my name in the following terms: in paragraph (a), omit the words “and the Torres Strait Regional Authority...
- Reserve Bank of Australia: Contractors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Bob Brown, I move: That the Senate, following allegations in the Fairfax press about contractors used by subsidiaries of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Securency...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics References Committee; Extension of Time (1 speech)
At the request of the Chair of the Senate Economics References Committee, Senator Eggleston, I move:That the time for the presentation of the report of the Economics References Committee on the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Renewable Energy: National Feed-In Tariff (19 speeches)
The President has received a letter from Senator Siewert proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion, namely: The overwhelming benefits of a...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Sri Lanka (1 speech)
On behalf of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Smith), I table a ministerial statement on Sri Lanka.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Responses to Senate Resolutions (1 speech)
I present two responses to Senate resolutions of 25 June 2009: (a) from the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts (Mr Garrett) concerning the Great Barrier Reef...
- ASIO Headquarters Building (1 speech)
I seek leave to move a motion in relation to the response by the Chair of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, Senator McLucas, to the Senate’s resolution of 20 August 2009...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Foreign States Immunities Amendment Bill 2009 (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— As preparations for...
- Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget Measures) Bill 2009; Veterans’ Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Pension Reform) Bill 2009; International Monetary Agreements Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Messages from the Governor-General reported informing the Senate of assent to the bills.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Native Title Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
Debate resumed.
- In Committee (14 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.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That intervening business be postponed till after consideration of government business order of the day no. 4 (Automotive Transformation Scheme Bill 2009 and a related bill). Question...
- Automotive Transformation Scheme Bill 2009; Acis Administration Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (8 speeches)
Debate resumed from 7 September, on motion by Senator Wong: That these bills be now read a second time.
- In Committee (4 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Third Reading (5 speeches)
I move: That these bills be now read a third time.
- Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Test Review and Other Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
Debate resumed from 25 June, on motion by Senator Wong: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9.50 pm, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Mr Guy Campos (1 speech)
I am ashamed that the Australian government has allowed the alleged war criminal, Guy Campos, to leave the country today. I have it on very reliable authority that that is so, although we do not...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak on the pivotal role that research in North Queensland is playing in facilitating the Australian government’s adaptation to the climate change agenda. In August...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about aged care—what we are actually doing about aged care and the problems which currently face us in Australia. When I presented my maiden speech to this parliament...
- Boys’ Town Engadine (1 speech)
On Saturday, 22 August I was privileged to attend the 70th anniversary celebration of the establishment of Boys’ Town at Engadine in NSW. Engadine is in the Sutherland Shire, south of...
- 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 (Wine Equalisation Tax)...
- Departmental and Agency Contracts (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...
