Senate debates

Tuesday, 11 September 2007

Documents

Tabling

The following document was tabled by the Clerk:

Return to Order

Indexed lists of departmental and agency files for the period 1 January to 30 June 2007—Statements of compliance—

Australian Research Council.

Australian Taxation Office.

The following documents were tabled by the Clerk:

Product Rulings—

Notices of Withdrawal—PR 2007/47 and PR 2007/61.

PR 2007/76 and PR 2007/77.

The following government documents were tabled:

Aboriginal Land Commissioner—Report and recommendation to the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and to the Administrator of the Northern Territory—No. 69—The Alcoota land claim no. 146.

ASC Pty Ltd—Statement of corporate intent 2007-10.

Australian Communications and Media Authority—National relay service provider performance—Report for 2005-06.

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission—Report—No. 37—Report of an inquiry into Dr Julie Copeman’s complaint that Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service terminated her employment on the basis of her trade union activity.

International Labour Organisation—Submission report on ILO instrument—Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (No. 186 – MLC 2006).

Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984Report for 2006-07 on consultants engaged.

Northern Territory Fisheries Joint Authority—Report for 2005-06.

Treaties—

Bilateral

Attachment to explanatory statement no. 4 of 2007—Amendment to Annex 2-B (United States Tariff Schedule) of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) of 18 May 2004.

Text, together with national interest analysis and annexures—Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga relating to Air Services, done at Neiafu, Tonga on 23 August 2003.

Multilateral

Attachments to explanatory statements—

No. 1 of 2007—Amendment, adopted at Christchurch in November 2006, to Annex 1 of the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) of 19 June 2001.

No. 3 of 2007—Amendment, adopted at Paris on 7 February 2007, to Annex 1 of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) International Convention Against Doping in Sport of 19 October 2005.

Text, together with national interest analysis and annexures—

Constitutional amendments to the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization and other WIPO administered treaties adopted by the WIPO General Assemblies in September 1999 and October 2003: Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization; Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property; Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of Registration of Marks; Patent Cooperation Treaty; Strasbourg Agreement concerning the International Patent Classification; Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure; Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, 1971.

Withdrawal of Australia’s exemption for the use of mirex under Article 4 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, done at Stockholm on 22 May 2001.

Witness Protection Act 1994Report for 2006-07 on the operation of the National Witness Protection Program.