Senator Bob Brown to move on 3 September 2008:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes the finding by the United Nations and Afghanistan Government that the military of the United States of America (US) killed at least 90 civilians, including 60 children, in the Afghan village of Nawabad on 21 August and 22 August 2008;

(b)

regrets the deaths of these innocent civilians; and

(c)

calls on the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Smith) to urge the US to acknowledge the civilian death toll of its military operation in Nawabad and to support the Afghanistan Government’s call for a full-scale review of US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization military operations in the wake of the country’s mounting civilian death toll.

Senator Faulkner to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that on Wednesday, 27 August 2008 as part of Privacy Awareness Week 2008, the inaugural Australian Privacy Awards and the Australian Privacy Medal were awarded; and

(b)

congratulates:

(i)

Justice Michael Kirby as the first recipient of the Australian Privacy Medal, for his work over more than two decades on privacy laws and principles not only in Australia but, through his work with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, on the development of the privacy principles that underpin privacy laws throughout the developed world,

(ii)

Medicare Australia for winning the Grand Award for its dedicated implementation of privacy practices throughout the organisation, as well as its commitment to privacy training,

(iii)

the other category winners, including Telstra Corporation (Large Business Award), Australian Dental Association NSW Branch (Community & NGO Award), Child Support Agency (Symantec Government Award), and Data Solutions Australia (Microsoft Small-Medium Business Award), and

(iv)

the Privacy Commissioner, Karen Curtis, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, for their work initiating these awards, the first of their kind in the world.

Senator Moore to move on 15 September 2008:

That the following matter be referred to the Community Affairs Committee for inquiry and report by the last sitting day in March 2009:

Progress with the implementation of the recommendations in the reports by the Community Affairs References Committee, Lost Innocents: Righting the Record, a report on child migration tabled in August 2001, and Forgotten Australians, a report on Australians who experienced institutional or out-of-home care as children tabled in August 2004.

Senator Troeth to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Laws Bill 2008 [No. 2] be referred to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee for inquiry and report by 17 September 2008.

Senator Hanson-Young to move on 4 September 2008:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes it has been more than 60 years since the conclusion of World War II, and the Japanese comfort women have yet to receive an apology or any official acknowledgment of the grave human rights abuses that were suffered at the hands of the Japanese military; and

(b)

calls on the Australian Government to urge the Japanese Government to:

(i)

accept responsibility for the unequivocal sexual exploitation and enslavement suffered by more than 200 000 women during World War II,

(ii)

provide fair compensation to these victims, and

(iii)

accurately teach the history of comfort women in schools.