Senator Polley to move on the next day of sitting:

That the time for the presentation of the report of the Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee on the Parliamentary Superannuation Amendment (Removal of Excessive Super) Bill 2009 be extended to 17 September 2009.

Senator Lundy to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit be authorised to hold public meetings during the sitting of the Senate, from 11.15 am to 1.30 pm:

(a)

on Wednesday, 9 September 2009, to take evidence for the committee’s inquiry into the role of the Auditor-General in monitoring compliance with the ‘Guidelines on Campaign Advertising’; and

(b)

on Wednesday, 16 September 2009, to take evidence for the committee’s inquiry into the review of the Auditor-General Act 1997.

Senator Bernardi to move on the next day of sitting:

That the time for the presentation of the report of the Finance and Public Administration References Committee on the relationship between the Central Land Council and Centrecorp Aboriginal Investment Corporation Pty Ltd be extended to 26 November 2009.

Senator Hanson-Young to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that:

(i)

8 September is United Nations International Literacy Day,

(ii)

literacy is integral to individual empowerment, civic and social development and global peace and harmony, and

(iii)

in the international literacy decade, much work is still needed to realise the goal of increasing global literacy rates by 50 per cent by 2015;

(b)

recognises that:

(i)

one in five adults worldwide are not literate and two-thirds of these are women,

(ii)

75 million children are not enrolled in school, and

(iii)

in Australia, there is an enormous gap in the English literacy rates of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people; and

(c)

calls on the Government to continue to work with the United Nations in pursuit of its goal to increase literacy across the globe and in Indigenous communities throughout Australia.

Senator Hanson-Young to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that:

(i)

1 September 2009 marked Equal Pay Day, almost 40 years after women formally achieved the right to equal pay, and

(ii)

women have to work more than 2 months more to earn the same as men in an ordinary year;

(b)

recognises that:

(i)

women working full-time in Australia continue to earn, on average, approximately 17 per cent less than men, and

(ii)

not only do women earn less than men on average, they can expect on average half the superannuation of men in retirement; and

(c)

calls on the Rudd Government to work towards the abolition of unequal pay, through a genuine commitment to the true valuing of women’s work and creating real choices and opportunities for women in the workplace.

Senator Siewert to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that Monday, 7 September 2009 is National Threatened Species Day;

(b)

acknowledges the significance of the date which is the anniversary of the death of the last known thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) in captivity in 1936 at Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo;

(c)

expresses:

(i)

concern at the continuing decline of Australia’s biodiversity and the increasing levels of threat and endangerment faced by Australia’s endemic species, with 125 endemic species now listed as critically endangered, and

(ii)

alarm at accelerating levels of species threat in northern Australia, as noted by a meeting of wildlife experts in Darwin in February 2009 that reported on a ‘new and potentially catastrophic wave of mammalian extinctions’;

(d)

notes that Australia leads the world in mammalian extinctions, with 40 species lost over the past 200 years; and

(e)

calls on the Government to increase funding for the listing and protection of threatened species, habitats and communities and the preparation and implementation of management plans.

Senator Bob Brown to move on the next day of sitting:

(1)

That the following matter be referred to the Economics References Committee for inquiry and report by 16 September 2009:

The economic stimulus initiatives announced by the Government since October 2008.

(2)

That the Senate directs the:

(a)

Secretary of the Treasury, accompanied by any other officials he considers appropriate, to appear before the committee for the purpose of giving evidence on the matter; and

(b)

committee to hold a public meeting to take evidence from those witnesses on Friday, 11 September 2009, in the form of a full update on the economic stimulus initiatives, which addresses:

(i)

the efficacy of the spending measures to date,

(ii)

the anticipated costs and benefits of continuing the spending measures.

(iii)

consequent change in the stimulus ‘roll out’ that ought to be entertained given the changed economic circumstances,

(iv)

an evaluation of the environmental impacts of the spending to date, and

(v)

other related matters.