Senate debates
Monday, 23 November 2009
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Privileges Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the Standing Committee of Privileges be authorised to hold a private meeting otherwise than in accordance with standing order 33(1) during the sitting of the Senate...
- Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Customs) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Excise) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — General) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Amendment (Household Assistance) Bill 2009 [No. 2] (0 speeches)
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Debate resumed from 19 November, on motion by Senator Stephens: That these bills be now read a second time. upon which Senator Bob Brown moved by way of amendment: At the end of the motion, add:...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Asylum Seekers (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Evans. I refer the minister to the minister’s admission this morning that the riot at Christmas Island over the...
- Climate Change (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Wong. Can the minister advise the Senate on progress on climate change science and give us some idea about how long scientists...
- Asylum Seekers (20 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Evans. I refer to comments made by the Minister’s caucus colleague and Labor MP, Julia Irwin, that she is ashamed of...
- Economy (15 speeches)
My question is to Senator Sherry, Assistant Treasurer. Can the Assistant Treasurer detail to the Senate the latest forecast for the Australian economy from the Organisation for Economic...
- Asylum Seekers (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Evans. I refer to the government’s persistent and now farcical assertion that no special deal was offered to the 78...
- Dialysis Services in Central Australia (15 speeches)
My question is to Senator Ludwig, the Minister representing the Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Service Delivery. My question concerns the recent...
- Natural Disaster Management (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Attorney-General, Senator Wong. I refer to a statement by the Attorney-General in which he outlined the government’s preparations for the...
- Employment (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment Participation, Senator Arbib. Can the minister please inform the Senate of what the Rudd government is doing to prepare the labour market for the...
- Climate Change (34 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Wong. Is the minister aware of reports in today’s Australian, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal and other leading...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Natural Disaster Management (14 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Climate Change and Water (Senator Wong) to a question without notice asked by Senator Williams today relating to...
- Dialysis Services in Central Australia (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Special Minister of State (Senator Ludwig) to a question without notice asked by Senator Siewert today relating to a transportable...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
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The Clerk: Petitions have been lodged for presentation as follows:
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (0 speeches)
Senator Forshaw to move on the next day of sitting:That the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade be authorised to hold a public meeting during the sitting of the Senate...
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
Pursuant to notice given on the last day of sitting, I now withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 1 standing in my name for seven sitting days after today.
- Presentation (0 speeches)
Senator Ludwig to move on the next day of sitting: That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to ( 8) of standing order 111 not apply to the following bills, allowing them to be considered during this...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following item of business was postponed: Business of the Senate notice of motion no. 2 standing in the name of Senator Xenophon for today, proposing a reference to the Community Affairs...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Health Insurance Amendment (Revival of Table Items) Legislation (0 speeches)
- Order (2 speeches)
I move: That the Senate:(a)Notes that:1) the Minister for Health and Ageing told the House of Representatives on 29 October 2009, that the Government had legal advice that...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Foreign Aid Support for Maternal Health Services (0 speeches)
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I move:(a)notes the Government’s increase of total health funding in the foreign aid budget and its support for maternal, newborn and child health and acknowledges that this is much needed...
- National Disaster Response Plan (0 speeches)
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I move: That the Senate:(a)notes that:(i)Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientists have warned that Australia will experience more high fire danger days as a result...
- Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling — Palm Oil) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
I, and on behalf of Senators Brown and Joyce, move: That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to provide for the accurate labelling of palm oil in food, and for related purposes....
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
I present the explanatory memorandum and move: That this bill be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speeches incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The incorporated...
- Threat Abatement Plan for Phytophthora Cinnamomi (0 speeches)
- (7 speeches)
I, and on behalf of Senator Macdonald, move: That the Senate:(a)notes the significant disease threat posed by the introduced species Phytophthora cinnamomi to ecological communities across...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Immigration Policy (15 speeches)
The President has received a letter from Senator Parry proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion, namely: The failure of the Rudd Labor...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (15 speeches)
by leave—Pursuant to contingent notice and at the request of the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Minchin, I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would...
- Rearrangement (4 speeches)
At the request of Senator Minchin, I move: That the Health Insurance Amendment (Compliance) Bill 2009 be moved on immediately and have precedence over all other government business today until...
- Health Insurance Amendment (Compliance) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (6 speeches)
Debate resumed from 17 November, on motion by Senator McEwen: That this bill be now read a second time.
- In Committee (69 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (2 speeches)
Pursuant to standing order 166, I present documents listed below which were presented to the President and a temporary chair of committees on 20 November 2009. In accordance with the terms of the...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (0 speeches)
Senator Williams to move on the next day of sitting:That the following matter be referred to the Economics References Committee for inquiry and report by 31 August 2010:The role of liquidators...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Privileges Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Committee of Privileges, I present the 141st report of the committee, entitled Possible interference with, or imposition of a penalty on, a witness before the Legal and...
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the sixth report of 2009, Redevelopment of the Villawood Immigration Detention Facility, and the seventh report of...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (1 speech)
The Clerk: Documents are tabled in accordance with the list circulated to senators. Details of the documents appear at the end of today’s Hansard.
- Appropriation (Water Entitlements and Home Insulation) Bill 2009-2010; Appropriation (Water Entitlements) Bill 2009-2010; Crimes Legislation Amendment (Serious and Organised Crime) Bill 2009; Fair Work Amendment (State Referrals and Other Measures) Bill 2009; Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Participation Requirement) Bill 2009; Higher Education Support Amendment (Vet Fee-Help and Tertiary Admission Centres) Bill 2009; Personal Property Securities (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009; Tax Laws Amendment (Resale Royalty Right for Visual Artists) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bills received from the House of Representatives.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I table revised explanatory memoranda relating to the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Serious and Organised Crime) Bill 2009 and the Fair Work Amendment (State Referrals and Other Measures) Bill...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Customs) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Excise) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — General) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Amendment (Household Assistance) Bill 2009 [No. 2] (0 speeches)
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Debate resumed.
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 9.50 pm, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Professor Jim Hagan (1 speech)
Tonight I rise to note the passing of a truly significant figure in academia, in the study and teaching of the history of Australia, in the Labor Party and in the union movement. I wish to note...
- Darling Downs: Coalmining (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about an area in the Darling Downs called Felton. The Darling Downs is one of the jewels in the crown of Australia. Its famous fertile black soil and reliable climate have...
- Scouts Australia (1 speech)
I would like to take some time tonight to discuss modern day scouting. After events revealed last week, parents will want to be assured that Scouts Australia have appropriate protocols to ensure...
- 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] Airspace Act—Airspace...
