Senate debates
Tuesday, 5 December 2006
Notices
Presentation
Senator Humphries to move on the next day of sitting:
- That the time for the presentation of the report of the Community Affairs Committee on the funding and operation of the Commonwealth-State/Territory Disability Agreement be extended to 8 February 2007.
Senator Ellison to move on the next day of sitting:
- That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to amend the Bankruptcy Act 1966, and for other purposes. Bankruptcy Legislation Amendment (Superannuation Contributions) Bill 2006.
Senator Coonan to move on the next day of sitting:
- That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to amend laws about non-proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons, and for related purposes. Non-Proliferation Legislation Amendment Bill 2006.
Senator Ellison to move on the next day of sitting:
- That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to make various amendments of the statute law of the Commonwealth, to repeal certain obsolete Acts, and for related purposes. Statute Law Revision Bill (No. 2) 2006.
Senator Ellison to move on the next day of sitting:
- That—
- (a)
- the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to amend the Wheat Marketing Act 1989, and for related purposes [Wheat Marketing Amendment Bill 2006]; and
- (b)
- the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (8) of standing order 111 not apply to the bill, allowing it to be considered during this period of sittings.
Senator Bob Brown to move on the next day of sitting:
- That the Senate calls on the Government to link the promotion of the 2008 Beijing Olympics with the promotion of democracy in China.
Senator Milne to move on the next day of sitting:
- That the Senate—
- (a)
- notes that:
- (i)
- the tenth conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2004 declared that reflection on the ethical dimensions of climate change was urgent because, unless the ethical dimensions are considered, the international community may choose responses that are ethically unsupportable or unjust, and
- (ii)
- Australia’s faith communities have declared climate change to be a moral and ethical issue; and
- (b)
- calls on the Government to:
- (i)
- acknowledge that climate change is a moral and ethical issue, and
- (ii)
- act accordingly.
Senator Nettle to move on the next day of sitting:
- That the Senate—
- (a)
- notes that Mr David Hicks has spent nearly 5 years in detention in Guantanamo Bay; and
- (b)
- calls on the Government to take immediate action to ensure that Mr Hicks receives either a fair trial or is returned to Australia.
Senator Bob Brown to move on the next day of sitting:
- That the Senate supports a new debate in this Parliament on the right of terminally ill Australians to die with dignity according to their own wishes.