Senator Mason to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Finance and Public Administration Committee be authorised to hold public meetings during the sittings of the Senate as follows:

(a)

on Wednesday, 11 October 2006, from 4 pm to 6 pm, to take evidence for the committee’s inquiry into the operation of the Senate order for the production of lists of departmental and agency contracts; and

(b)

on Thursday, 12 October 2006, from 3.30 pm to 7 pm, to take evidence for the committee’s inquiry into the transparency and accountability of Commonwealth public funding and expenditure.

Senator Johnston to move on the next day of sitting:

That the time for the presentation of the report of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee on the provisions of the Defence Legislation Amendment Bill 2006 be extended to 12 October 2006.

Senator Bartlett to move on Thursday, 12 October 2006:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that:

(i)

Australia was occupied by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who had settled on the continent for many thousands of years before British colonisation, and

(ii)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders suffered major dispossession and dispersal upon acquisition of their traditional lands by the colonisers;

(b)

urges the Government to affirm:

(i)

the importance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and heritage, and

(ii)

the entitlement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to self-determination subject to the Constitution and the laws of the Commonwealth of Australia; and

(c)

calls on the Government:

(i)

to support the adoption of the draft United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and

(ii)

to ratify the Declaration upon its adoption as a way of ensuring that Indigenous peoples have minimum standards for the protection of their fundamental human rights.

Senator Ellison to move on the next day of sitting:

That, on Tuesday, 10 October 2006:

(a)

the hours of meeting shall be 12.30 pm to 6.30 pm and 7.30 pm to 11.40 pm;

(b)

the routine of business from 7.30 pm shall be the government business order relating to the Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Television) Bill 2006 and the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2006—second reading speeches only; and

(c)

the question for the adjournment of the Senate shall be proposed at 11 pm.

Senator Allison to move on the next day of sitting:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Transport and Regional Services, no later than 4.30 pm on Monday, 16 October 2006, a copy of the file L98/278 folios 99, 101 and 102 held by the Department of Transport and Regional Services which contain the submissions made to the department by the Transurban Group, owners and operators of Melbourne City Link and other roads, in support of its claim for taxation deductions under the Infrastructure Borrowings Tax Offset Scheme.

Senator Allison to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate—

(a)

recognises that 10 October 2006 is the fourth annual World Day Against the Death Penalty;

(b)

notes that World Day Against the Death Penalty was established in 2003 by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty;

(c)

reiterates its opposition to the death penalty; and

(d)

calls on the Government to continue its efforts to encourage states to abolish the death penalty and to halt all executions of those sentenced to death.

Senators Bartlett and McLucas to move on the next day of sitting:

(1)

That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent this resolution having effect.

(2)

That the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Protecting the Great Barrier Reef from Oil Drilling and Exploration) Amendment Bill 2003 be restored to the Notice Paper and that consideration of the bill be resumed at the stage reached in the 40th Parliament.

Senator Siewert to move on the next day of sitting:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Attorney-General, no later than 3.30 pm on 12 October 2006, the review of the Community Partners Program, as commissioned by the Office of the Employment Advocate and conducted by Deloitte Touche Tomatsu.

Senator Milne to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate—

(a)

condemns North Korea’s nuclear weapons test;

(b)

notes:

(i)

the increasing threat of nuclear conflict globally,

(ii)

that International Atomic Energy Agency statistics reveal that there have been 300 seizures of smuggled radioactive material capable of making a ‘dirty’ bomb since 2002 and that the rate of seizures has doubled since this time,

(iii)

the call from Al Qaeda’s chief in Iraq for nuclear scientists and explosives experts to join his Jihad against the West, and his comment that American bases in Iraq are good places to test unconventional weapons, and

(iv)

that the Prime Minister (Mr Howard) has undermined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty by expressing a willingness to consider the sale of uranium to India, which is not a signatory to the Treaty and which, together with Pakistan, staged the last nuclear break-out in 1998; and

(c)

calls on the Government to:

(i)

dismantle the Prime Minister’s Nuclear Taskforce,

(ii)

reject any proposition by the United States of America about Australia becoming a nuclear fuel supply centre under President Bush’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, and

(iii)

abandon its support for the sale of uranium to India.

Senator Nettle to move on Thursday, 12 October 2006:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes:

(i)

the recent death of West Papuan politician Willem Zonggonau while visiting Australia,

(ii)

that Mr Zonggonau was a member of the Papuan legislature and Indonesian upper house in the 1960s, and

(iii)

that while living in exile in Papua New Guinea Mr Zonggonau worked tirelessly for freedom and peace in West Papua; and

(b)

expresses its condolences to Mr Zonggonau’s family and friends, and the people of West Papua for their loss.