Senate debates
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Documents
Tabling
The following government documents were tabled:
Aboriginal Land Commissioner—Report and recommendations to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and to the Administrator of the Northern Territory—No. 70—Crown Hill (Irrinjirrinjirri) land claim no. 106.
Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997Live-stock mortalities during exports by sea—Report for the period 1 January to 30 June 2008.
Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002Report pursuant to section 47C.
Treaties—
BilateralAgreement between Australia and the Republic of Finland on Social Security done at Helsinki, 10 September 2008—Text, together with national interest analysis.
MultilateralText, together with national interest analysis and annexures—
Agreement between the Government of Australia and the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization [WIPO] in relation to the functioning of the Australian Patent Office as an International Searching Authority and International Preliminary Examining Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, to be done at Geneva during December 2008.
Partial Revision of the 2004 Radio Regulations, as incorporated in the International Telecommunication Union Final Acts of the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-07), done at Geneva on 16 November 2007.
The following documents were tabled by the Clerk:
Census and Statistics Act—Statement No. 2 of 2008—List of businesses for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
Sydney Airport Curfew Act—Dispensation Report 10/08.