Senate debates
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Budget
Proposed Additional Expenditure; Consideration by Estimates Committees
3:57 pm
Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I table particulars of proposed expenditure and seek leave to move a motion to refer the following documents to legislative and general purpose standing committees:
Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Attorney-General
Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Climate Change (Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio)
Defence
Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Finance and Deregulation
Foreign Affairs and Trade
Human Services
Immigration and Citizenship
Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
Prime Minister and Cabinet
Resources, Energy and Tourism
Treasury
Veterans’ Affairs
Leave granted.
I move:
That:
- (a)
- the documents I have just tabled, together with the final budget outcome 2008-09 tabled on 27 October 2009 and the Issues from the advances under the annual Appropriation Acts for 2008-09 tabled on 27 October 2009, be referred to committees for examination and report; and
- (b)
- consideration of the Issues from the advances under the annual Appropriation Acts in committee of the whole be made an order of the day for the day on which committees report on their examination of the additional estimates.
Question agreed to.