Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I shall move:

I also table statements of reasons justifying the need for these bills to be considered during these sittings and seek leave to have the statements incorporated in Hansard.

Leave granted.

The statements read as follows—

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:

Coordinator-General for Remote Indigenous Services Bill 2009

Migration Amendment (Abolishing Detention Debt) Bill 2009

National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment Bill 2009

Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2009.

Senator Milne to move on the next day of sitting:

That there be laid on the table by 4 pm on 11 August 2009:

(a)

any documents or advice prepared by or for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) or the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) since the Government came to power, relating to legal and policy issues surrounding illegal timber imports and options for addressing such imports;

(b)

all material provided to the Centre for International Economics relating to the development of the Regulatory Impact Statement for illegal timber legislation options; and

(c)

any correspondence from or to DAFF or DFAT, relating to illegal timber imports since the Government came to power, including but not limited to correspondence from other departments.

Senator Ian Macdonald and Senator Boswell to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate calls on the Government to fix by Proclamation, a day, not later than 31 July 2009, on which the provisions inserted into the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 which treat as spent, certain convictions relating to offences against former section 38C of that Act which were passed through the Senate on 11 November 2008 and adopted unanimously by the House of Representatives on 12 November 2008, commence.

Senator Milne to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate calls on the Government to implement its policy to insert a greenhouse trigger into the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.