Senator Allison to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes:

(i)

that on Tuesday, 17 April 2007, the Mayor of Nagasaki, Iccho Itoh, was murdered in a senseless crime,

(ii)

that Mayor Itoh was born just 2 weeks before the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and throughout his life worked tirelessly for the eradication of nuclear weapons,

(iii)

that Mayor Itoh was vice president of Mayors for Peace and a leader of their global campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons by the year 2020, and

(iv)

his significant role in the three Nagasaki Global Citizens’ Assemblies held while he was mayor;

(b)

recalls his opening address to the Assembly in 2006 where he began by asking ‘What can people possibly be thinking?’ 61 years ago ‘a single atomic bomb destroyed our city, instantly claiming the lives of 74,000 people … and yet, [today] some 30,000 nuclear weapons stand ready nonetheless to annihilate humanity’;

(c)

considers that the world has lost a great peace leader in Mayor Itoh; and

(d)

conveys its condolences to the family of Mayor Itoh, the Mayors for Peace and the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Senator Watson to move 15 sitting days after today:

That the Australian Federal Police Amendment Regulations 2006 (No. 1), as contained in Select Legislative Instrument 2006 No. 326 and made under the Australian Federal Police Act 1979, be disallowed.

(to be resolved on 15 August 2007)

Senator Watson to move 15 sitting days after today:

That Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 – Instrument 2006 No. R33, made under subsection 18(2) of the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006, be disallowed.

(to be resolved on 15 August 2007)

Senator Watson to move 15 sitting days after today:

That Treatment Principles (Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests) 2006 – Instrument 2006 No. R30, made under subsection 16(2) of the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006, be disallowed.

(to be resolved on 15 August 2007)

Senator Siewert to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate notes that:

(a)

26 May 2007 is the 10th anniversary of the tabling in the Senate of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission report, Bringing them Home: National inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families;

(b)

as recommended in the report, the Senate recognises that 26 May is National Sorry Day, a day of remembrance each year to commemorate the history of forcible removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and its effects on individuals, families and communities; and

(c)

of the 54 recommendations in the report, very few have been fully implemented in the decade since its release.