Senator Humphries to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Community Affairs Legislation Committee be authorised to hold a public meeting during the sitting of the Senate on Thursday, 22 June 2006, from 3.30 pm, to take evidence for the committee’s inquiry into the Transparent Advertising and Notification of Pregnancy Counselling Services Bill 2005.

Senator Moore to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Community Affairs References Committee be authorised to hold a public meeting during the sitting of the Senate on Friday, 23 June 2006, from 9 am, to take evidence for the committee’s inquiry into gynaecological cancer in Australia.

Senator Nettle to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that:

(i)

20 June 2006 is World Refugee Day and the day’s theme is ‘keeping the flame of hope alive’,

(ii)

there are more than 19 million refugees and 5.5 million internally displaced people in the world looking for protection,

(iii)

many countries assist hundreds of thousands of refugees who have no choice but to flee persecution,

(iv)

the Government has changed its policy, breaching the Refugee Convention, in response to the arrival of 43 refugees, and

(v)

the Government’s new policy will mean many asylum seekers who arrive by boat are exiled to Nauru or Manus Island; and

(b)

calls on the Government to:

(i)

drop its policy of appeasing Indonesia and ensure Australia’s refugee laws conform fully with the Refugee Convention, and

(ii)

increase Australia’s intake of refugees and offer asylum seekers real hope.

Senator Bartlett to move on Wednesday, 21 June 2006:

That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to amend the Migration Regulations 1994 to remove the category of Temporary Protection Visas, and for related purposes. Migration Legislation Amendment (Temporary Protection Visas Repeal) Bill 2006.

Senator Milne to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes:

(i)

the inherent nuclear weapons proliferation risk associated with uranium enrichment,

(ii)

that in 2004 President Bush proposed to cap the group of enriching states and that the United Nations’ Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change called for the creation of incentives for states to forgo the development of uranium enrichment and reprocessing capacity,

(iii)

that in 2005 the International Atomic Energy Agency Director, Dr Mohamed ElBaradei proposed a 5-year moratorium on constructing uranium enrichment and nuclear reprocessing facilities, and

(iv)

that a domestic enrichment plant would provide Australia with the capacity to produce fissile material in the form of highly-enriched uranium, a development that may destabilise the Asia Pacific region; and

(b)

therefore opposes the development of any uranium enrichment facilities on Australian soil.