Senate debates
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Cyber-Safety Committee; Membership (8 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion to enable the ballot relating to the appointment of a member to the Joint Select Committee on Cyber-Safety to be recommitted. I also seek leave to provide an...
- Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- In Committee (16 speeches)
Consideration resumed from 16 March.
- Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Income Support for Students) Bill 2009 [No. 2] (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (21 speeches)
Debate resumed from 30 November 2009, on motion by Senator Ludwig: That this bill be now read a second time.
- In Committee (24 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- National Broadband Network (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
by leave—I wish to advise the Senate that the National Broadband Network implementation study report that is the subject of a Senate order for the production of documents was received by...
- Social Security and Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Weekly Payments) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 15 March 2010, 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.
- Business (3 speeches)
I rise on a matter of public interest, and that is the disappointment felt by many at the persistence of the short-term, opportunistic thinking in the business community. Recent contributions...
- South Australia State Election (7 speeches)
This Saturday, South Australian voters will face a real choice when they go to the polls in our state election, a choice between continuing the 15 years of shallow, spinning leadership by Mike...
- Political Advertising (1 speech)
This afternoon I will be moving a motion that asks the Senate to call on the government to amend the Commonwealth Electoral Act before the next federal election to incorporate a truth in...
- South Australia State Election (1 speech)
I listened carefully to what Senator Bob Brown said and I should tell him that in South Australia we do have a mechanism to deal with misleading advertising. I find it very interesting that he...
- Emissions Trading Scheme (1 speech)
I rise to bring to the attention of the Senate the looming failure of yet another plank in the Rudd government’s climate policy. The Home Insulation Program is an ongoing debacle and a...
- Political Advertising (2 speeches)
I rise today to support the remarks of my colleague Senator Brown when he said that what we desperately need in Australia is truth-in-advertising legislation. We also need electoral reform, very...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the Senate that the representative arrangements put in place for Senator Sherry for Monday and Tuesday will continue for today and tomorrow. Senator Sherry is unwell and unable to fly to...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! I draw the attention of honourable senators to the presence in the gallery of a delegation from the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the National People’s Congress of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Building the Education Revolution Program (35 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Education, Senator Carr. Given that the New South Wales Teachers Federation has called for a public inquiry into the BER school...
- Asylum Seekers (12 speeches)
Mr President, my question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Faulkner. I ask: what is the defence minister’s response to the handing down today by the Northern Territory Coroner his...
- South Australian Election (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water, Senator Wong. Does the minister endorse the decision of her party in South Australia to preference the independent...
- Agriculture Research (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Carr. I refer to the report by the rural R&D corporations which showed there was a...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- South Australian Election (11 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water (Senator Wong) to a question without notice asked by Senator Ferguson today,...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Senator Siewert to move on the next day of sitting:That the Senate—(a)recognises that 22 March is World Water Day, an initiative of the United Nations Conference on Environment and...
- Leave of Absence (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Lundy and Senator Sherry for the period 17 March to 18 March 2010 on account of personal reasons. Question agreed to.
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following items of business were postponed: General business notice of motion no. 694 standing in the name of the Leader of the Family First Party (Senator Fielding) for today, proposing the...
- Home Insulation Program (0 speeches)
- Order (4 speeches)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Birmingham, move:That the Senate—(a)notes:(i)the persistent and continuing refusal of the Prime Minister and several other ministers to clarify when they...
- Reform of the Australian Federation (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 751 by deleting the words ‘on 13 May 2010’ and substituting ‘at the conclusion of the Senate Select Committee on the...
- Same-Sex Marriages (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Senator HANSON-YOUNG(South Australia)(3.40 pm)—I move:That the Senate—(a)notes:(i)the first same-sex marriages were celebrated in Mexico City in the week beginning 7 March 2010,...
- Political Advertising (0 speeches)
- (7 speeches)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes Labor’s advertising attacking Liberal opponents in South Australia and the Greens in Tasmania using inferences of support for criminality;...
- Japanese Whaling Industry (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate calls on the Government to investigate, through the processes of the International Whaling Commission, the recent claims by Greenpeace and the ‘Tokyo Two’...
- Ady Gil (0 speeches)
- (7 speeches)
I move:That the Senate— ; (a) 60; notes the courage of Pete Bethune, the...
- National Broadband Network Implementation Study (0 speeches)
- Order (12 speeches)
At the request of Senator Minchin, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, I move:That there be laid on the table by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, no...
- Burma: Human Rights (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 750 standing in my name today, relating to human rights and electoral conditions in Burma. Leave granted. I move the motion as amended:...
- National Human Rights Consultation Report (0 speeches)
- Order (13 speeches)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)the National Human Rights Consultation delivered its report to the Attorney-General (Mr McClelland) on 30 September 2009, more than 6 months ago,...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Cyber-Safety Committee; Membership (1 speech)
Pursuant to the order agreed to earlier today, the Senate will proceed to the ballot to appoint a senator to the position to be nominated by a minority group or independent senators. The...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Education (48 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 Rudd Labor Government’s...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee; Report: Correction (1 speech)
On behalf of the chair of the Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee, Senator Polley, I present a correction to the report of the committee on the provisions of the Governance of...
- Australian Crime Commission Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Crime Commission on the examination of the annual report for 2008-09 of the Australian Crime Commission, together with...
- Scrutiny of Bills Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the fourth report of 2009 of the Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills. I also lay on the table Scrutiny of Bills Alert Digest No. 4 of 2008, dated 17 March 2010, and...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Health Legislation Amendment (Midwives and Nurse Practitioners) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics Legislation Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Chair of the Economics Legislation Committee, Senator Hurley, I present the report of the committee on the Safe Climate (Energy Efficient Non-Residential Buildings Scheme) Bill...
- Social Security and Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Weekly Payments) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- (0 speeches)
Consideration resumed.
- In Committee (6 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Close of Rolls and Other Measures) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (3 speeches)
Debate resumed from 15 March, on motion by Senator Wong: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 6.50 pm, the Senate will proceed to the consideration of government documents.
- Regional Forest Agreements (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I rise to speak on the Regional Forest Agreement between the Commonwealth and New South Wales: Final Report on Progress with Implementation of...
- Consideration (0 speeches)
The following orders of the day relating to government documents were considered: Regional Forest Agreements between the Commonwealth of Australia and New South Wales—Final report on...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! There being no further consideration of government documents, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Adelaide Festivals; Federal-State Relations (1 speech)
While I like being in Canberra, I like even better being home in South Australia with my constituents. There is a lot happening in South Australia at the moment, particularly in Adelaide at this...
- Tasmania (1 speech)
In three days, at this very time, the people of Tasmania will have determined whether they intend to change the government of their state. As a Tasmanian I hope there will be a change 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] Australian Bureau of Statistics...
- Indexed Lists of Departmental and Agency 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 July to 31 December...
