Senate debates
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (3 speeches)
I move: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 period of sittings:Education Services for...
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Estimates Committees; Meeting (1 speech)
I seek leave to amend government business notice of motion No. 2 standing in my name. Leave granted. This is my mistake. I amend the notice by omitting paragraph (4)(a), and...
- Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (21 speeches)
Debate resumed from 23 November, on motion by Senator Feeney: That this bill be now read a second time.
- In Committee (16 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Matters of Public Interest (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being 12.45 pm, I call on matters of public interest.
- Euthanasia (1 speech)
I rise to speak today on my fundamental reasons for why I cannot support euthanasia. Today in the South Australian parliament there is legislation being presented and in my home state if Tasmania...
- Big Government (3 speeches)
During this year’s Australian Grand Prix Mark Webber said this about Australia: It’s a great country but we’ve got to be responsible for our actions and it’s certainly a...
- Tasmania: Forestry (3 speeches)
I rise today to discuss the current state of the agreement that has been reached between the environmental groups and the forest industry groups in Tasmania on a set of principles designed to...
- Building the Education Revolution (3 speeches)
I rise today to commend the Labor government’s Building the Education Revolution and to highlight the profound impact its 24,000 projects are having on our nation’s schools. As a...
- Community Sector Employees (13 speeches)
I am rather bemused by Senator Furner’s glowing comments on the state of the economy in Australia and how well placed we are. The last time I checked, the state of the economy was the...
- Montara Commission of Inquiry (1 speech)
I understand it is just under two minutes before we commence question time. We would welcome, following on from Senator Cash’s speech, a question from the senator or others from the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Labor Government (8 speeches)
My question is to Senator Evans, representing the Prime Minister. I refer to the election of the Labor government three years ago on promises to deliver conservative economic management, cheaper...
- Korean Peninsula (6 speeches)
My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Evans. Can the minister advise the Senate on yesterday’s attack by North Korea on the Republic of Korea?
- Broadband (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy. Can the minister categorically rule out that the draft Greenhill Caliburn report questions...
- Kimberley Liquefied Natural Gas Precinct (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Given that the Kimberley gas hub strategic assessment joint agreement...
- Broadband (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy. With respect to the rollout of the National Broadband Network, what is the benefit of fibre...
- Economy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Senator Wong. Can the minister inform the Senate about how the government has been assisting Australian workers and families with the...
- Manufacturing (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Carr. Can the minister advise the Senate why he has announced the formation of a strategy group for the...
- Australian Defence Force: Medical Officers (6 speeches, 4 comments)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, Senator Evans. Is the government aware of the report by the ABC on Friday, 12 November that the Australian Defence Force...
- Youth Allowance (17 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, Senator Evans. I refer to the minister’s letter of 16 November to the President of the Senate...
- Innovation (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Carr. I refer to the 2010 world science report of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural...
- Broadband (35 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy. The minister’s response tabled in the Senate yesterday fails to comply with the Senate...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Labor Government (33 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Evans) to questions without notice asked by Senator Abetz today, relating to the...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (0 speeches)
Senator Chris Evans to move on the next day of sitting:That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to establish the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator, and for...
- Postponement (0 speeches)
The following items of business were postponed: Business of the Senate notice of motion no. 1 standing in the names of Senators Fisher and Ludlam for today, proposing a reference to the...
- Emeritus Professor Frank Fenner (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I, and on behalf of Senators Mason, Milne and Siewert, move:That the Senate—(a)notes the passing of scientist and scientific historian, advocate and philanthropist Professor Frank Fenner,...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Future for Tasmania’S Forests (0 speeches)
- (7 speeches)
I move:That the Senate supports the agreement reached by logging industry representatives and non-government organisations on the future for Tasmania’s forests.
- Violence Against Women (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)recognises that Thursday, 25 November 2010 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and that the symbol for this day is the white...
- Home Insulation Safety Program; Foil Insulation Safety Program (0 speeches)
- Order (1 speech)
I move:That there be laid on the table, no later than noon on Thursday, 25 November 2010:(a)the full rate of defects discovered under both the Home Insulation Safety Program and the Foil...
- Human Trafficking and Slavery (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes:(i)an estimated 27 million people around the world are currently victims of human trafficking and slavery, despite the efforts of William Wilberforce and a...
- Volunteers and Volunteer Organisations (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Fifield, move:That the Senate—(a)notes:(i)the outstanding contribution volunteers make to Australian society, estimated to be worth more than $42 billion...
- Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 133 standing in my name and the name of Senator Bernardi by amending paragraph (c) to omit all words after ‘due process’....
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Palliative Care (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)the provision of modern quality palliative care means no person with a terminal illness should die in pain, and(ii)the provision of modern quality...
- Massacre in Maguindanao Province (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes:(i)that 23 November 2010 marks one year since the murder of 58 people, 32 of them journalists and media workers, in the southern Philippines,(ii)the...
- Post-Election Brief for a Returned Labor Government (0 speeches)
- Order (1 speech)
I move:That there be laid on the table, no later than 10 December 2010, a copy of the post-election brief for a returned Labor Government (the so-called ‘Red Book’) for the...
- Broadband (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Cormann, move:That there be presented to the President under standing order 166, no later than noon on Thursday, 25 November 2010 the final report of the...
- Global Carbon Budget (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes that:(i)the global carbon budget to give us a 75 per cent chance of constraining global warming to less than 2oC has been identified as in the order of...
- Foreign Acquisitions Amendment (Agricultural Land) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senator Milne, move: That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to amend the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 to control acquisitions of...
- 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 later....
- Patent Amendment (Human Genes and Biological Materials) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
I, and also on behalf of Senators Coonan, Xenophon and Siewert, move: That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to amend the Patents Act 1990 to prevent the patenting of human...
- 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 later....
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Mental Health (12 speeches)
The President has received a letter from Senator Fifield proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion, namely: The Gillard Government’s...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Scrutiny of Bills Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the 10th report of 2010 of the Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills. I also lay on the table Scrutiny of Bills Alert Digest No.10 of 2010, dated 24 November 2010. Ordered...
- Finance and Public Administration References Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of Senator Fifield, I present the report of the Finance and Public Administration References Committee on matters referred to the committee during the previous parliament, together with...
- Community Affairs References Committee; Report (3 speeches)
I present the report of the Community Affairs References Committee on consumer access to pharmaceutical benefits, together with a submission received by the committee. Ordered that the report be...
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present report No. 4 of 2010, Referrals made in October 2010. I move: That the Senate take note of the report. This is...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Bill 2010; Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2010; National Broadcasting Legislation Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bills received from the House of Representatives.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speeches incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speeches read as follows— Human Rights...
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care Budget Measures) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- (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— Today I am reintroducing...
- Family Law Amendment (Validation of Certain Parenting Orders and Other Measures) Bill 2010; Health Insurance Amendment (Pathology Requests) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bills received from the House of Representatives.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I table a revised explanatory memorandum relating to the Health Insurance Amendment (Pathology Requests) Bill 2010 and move: That these bills be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the...
- National Measurement Amendment Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) Bill 2010 (0 speeches)
- Assent (0 speeches)
Message from the Governor-General reported informing the Senate of assent to the bill.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (42 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion to vary the hours of meeting and routine of business for today. Leave not granted. I move pursuant to contingent notice of motion No. 2, on behalf of Senator Evans:...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! It being after 7.20 pm, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Broadband (1 speech)
It gave me great pleasure to recently officially open the Broadband for Seniors kiosk in Huonville in southern Tasmania. The small town of Huonville is the gateway to the Huon Valley and the far...
- Gingin Gravity Precinct; Square Kilometre Array (1 speech)
I rise this evening to share with the Senate two very exciting projects: one under way in Western Australia now, the other one to be developed should we be successful. I am speak of the Square...
- Water Safety (1 speech)
I rise tonight to make a short contribution about the need for greater awareness about water safety in Australia, particularly the prevention of child drowning. As summer fast approaches and we...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (0 speeches)
The following government documents were tabled: Aged Care Act 1997Report for 2009-10 on the operation of the Act. Anglo-Australian Telescope Board—Anglo-Australian Observatory...
