Senate debates
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
- National Security Legislation Monitor Bill 2009 [2010] (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (1 speech)
Debate resumed from 2 February, on motion by Senator Wong: That this bill be now read a second time.
- In Committee (32 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.
- Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Re-Registration of Providers and Other Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (12 speeches)
Debate resumed from 26 October 2009, on motion by Senator Wong: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Matters of Public Interest (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 12.45 pm, I call on matters of public interest.
- Ovarian Cancer (1 speech)
I want to talk today about the alarm I felt when I was reading startling statistics associated with ovarian cancer after receiving information from a peak awareness body. The resources Ovarian...
- Veterans Affairs (1 speech, 12 comments)
Today I would like to address an important issue for the coalition, the opposition. It is particularly important for me and my opposition colleagues engaged in defence portfolios. I pause to...
- Green Loans Program (1 speech)
I rise today as a passionate supporter of energy efficiency and renewable energy to say how absolutely appalled I am at the maladministration of the Green Loans Program by the federal government....
- Health (1 speech)
Today I rise to speak about a key issue of public interest—that is, the need to plan for and invest in Australia’s health system. Despite the global recession and falling government...
- Assyrian Community (1 speech)
I rise to speak on an important issue relating to the continued persecution of the Assyrian community in the Middle East and in particular Iraq. The systematic dismantling of human rights...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
Are there any questions without notice? I call Senator Evans before we go to questions.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (24 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Chris Evans. Will the minister advise the Senate exactly how many Australian families will be worse off under the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! I draw to the attention of honourable senators the presence in the chamber of a parliamentary delegation from the Czech Republic led by His Excellency Mr Premysi Sobotka, President of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (14 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer, and recently reformed smoker, Senator Sherry. Assistant Treasurer: today being the anniversary of the Rudd government’s decisive action in...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Evans. Will compensation paid to households under the government’s proposed ETS compensation arrangements be paid to...
- Green Loans Program (12 speeches)
My question is to the minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Senator Wong. Can the minister confirm that the government promised to limit the number of...
- Asylum Seekers (10 speeches)
My question is to Senator Evans as the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. Yesterday the minister told the Senate that the government has ‘invested more in border protection than any...
- Economy (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Government Service Delivery, Senator Arbib. Can the minister inform the Senate of the details of the Commonwealth...
- Indigenous People (15 speeches)
My question is to Senator Evans, the Minister representing the Prime Minister. In making his apology to Indigenous people at the beginning of parliament two years ago, the Prime Minister said:...
- Grocery Prices (10 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer representing the Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs, Mr Emerson. Last week retail giants Coles and Woolworths both announced moves to...
- Workplace Relations (18 speeches)
Mr President, my question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Senator Arbib. I refer the minister to the forced outcome between Total Marine...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (11 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Employment Participation and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Government Service Delivery (Senator Arbib) to...
- Green Loans Program (1 speech)
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 Milne today, relating to the Green...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (0 speeches)
Senator Hanson-Young to move on the next day of sitting:That the Senate—(a)notes, with sadness, the recent passing of West Papuan activist Mr Viktor Kaisiepo in his hometown of Amersfoort,...
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following items of business were postponed: Business of the Senate notice of motion no. 1 standing in the name of the Leader of The Nationals in the Senate (Senator Joyce) for today,...
- Australian Solomons Gold LTD (0 speeches)
- Order (2 speeches)
I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Trade, no later than 22 February 2010, the information referred to in the answer to question on notice no....
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics References Committee; Reference (1 speech)
I move:That the following matter be referred to the Economics References Committee for inquiry and report by 30 June 2010: The access of small businesses to finance, including:(a)the costs, terms...
- Death Penalty and Death Sentences in China (0 speeches)
- (7 speeches)
I move:That the Senate, noting the similar resolution of the European Parliament on 25 November 2009:(a)reiterates its longstanding opposition to the death penalty in all cases and under all...
- Tamil Asylum Seekers (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)more than 240 Tamil asylum seekers remain on their boat in the Indonesian port of Merak, in increasingly squalid conditions after more than 3 months,...
- Boobook Declaration and Biodiversity Protection (0 speeches)
- (10 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Siewert, move:That the Senate—(a)recognises 2010 as the United Nations’ International Year of Biodiversity;(b)supports the Boobook Declaration, which...
- Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Management (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Siewert, move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)Tuesday, 2 February 2010 was World Wetlands Day,(ii)the day marks the anniversary of the signing of the...
- Australia's Future Tax System Review Panel (0 speeches)
- Order (2 speeches)
At the request of Senator Joyce, I move:That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Treasurer, no later than 9.30 am on Thursday, 4 February 2010, the final report...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Renewable Energy and Target (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)achieving deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the medium term requires the rapid expansion of renewable energy,(ii)the price of Renewable Energy...
- Home Sustainability Assessors and the Green Loans Program (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes, with grave concern that:(i)several thousand Home Sustainability Assessors under the Government’s Green Loan Program (the program) have been denied any...
- Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Management (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
Mr Deputy President, I seek leave to make a short statement.
- Criminal Code Amendment (Misrepresentation of Age to a Minor) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
I move: That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to amend the Criminal Code Act 1995 to protect minors by introducing offences about misrepresentation of age online. Question...
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I table an explanatory memorandum and seek leave to have the second reading speech incorporated in Hansard and to continue my remarks. Leave...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (19 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 government’s refusal to...
- Afghanistan (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—Yesterday in my speech on Senator Bob Brown’s suspension motion on Afghanistan I indicated that in the United States an act of congress is needed before troops can be...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Scrutiny of Bills Committee; Report (1 speech)
At the request of Senator Coonan, I present a report and Alert Digest of the Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills. Ordered that the report be printed. I seek leave to have the tabling...
- Economics Legislation Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Chair of the Economics Legislation Committee, Senator Hurley, I present the report of the committee on its examination of annual reports tabled by 31 October 2009. Ordered that...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Nation Building and Jobs Plan (3 speeches)
I table a ministerial statement on the anniversary of the Nation Building and Jobs Plan and seek leave to move a motion. Leave granted. I move: That the Senate take note of the document.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Work of Committees (1 speech)
I present Work of Committees for the period 1 July to 31 December 2009. Ordered that the document be printed.
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 20 of 2009-10 (9 speeches)
In accordance with the provisions of the Auditor-General Act 1997, I present the following report of the Auditor-General: Report No. 20 of 2009-10: Performance audit—The national broadband...
- Responses to Senate Resolutions (2 speeches)
I present responses from the Minister for Health and Ageing, Ms Roxon, and the South Australian Minister for Health, Mr Hill, to a resolution of the Senate of 17 November 2009 concerning renal...
- Asylum Seekers (0 speeches)
- Return To Order (1 speech)
I table a statement and documents relating to the order for the production of documents concerning the Oceanic Viking. President of the Senate Senator John Hogg Parliament House Canberra 2600 ACT...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That senators be discharged from and appointed to committees as follows: Privileges—Standing Committee— Discharged—Senator Johnston...
- Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Re-Registration of Providers and Other Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 6.50 pm, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of government documents.
- Consideration (0 speeches)
The following government document tabled earlier today was considered: Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998Intergenerational report 2010. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Parry....
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! There being no further consideration of government documents, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Economy (1 speech)
The Rudd government’s economic stimulus package has been an overwhelming success, helping to keep our nation out of recession and contributing to keeping more than 100,000 workers off the...
- Health (3 speeches)
There is a new day dawning in this country. It is quite exciting watching the sun come up over the far horizon, because with the dawning of that new day we are seeing a realisation among many...
- Burma (1 speech)
I would like to speak briefly on a very different matter and make a couple of remarks this evening about a trip that a colleague, Felicity Hill, and I took very early this year to the Thai-Burma...
- Mr Peter Wood (1 speech)
Last week in Toowoomba people gathered to farewell Peter Wood at his very specific request to share in an informal and joyous celebration of his life. In her beautiful eulogy to her father,...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (0 speeches)
The following government documents were tabled: Audio-Visual Copyright Society Limited (Screenrights)—Report for 2008-09. Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998Intergenerational report 2010....
- Departmental and Agency Appointments and Vacancies (0 speeches)
Departmental and Agency Appointments and Vacancies—Order for Production of Documents—Documents The following documents were tabled pursuant to the order of the Senate of 24 June 2008,...
- Departmental and Agency Grants (0 speeches)
Departmental and Agency Grants—Order for Production of Documents—Document The following document was tabled pursuant to the order of the Senate of 24 June 2008: Departmental and...
