The following government documents tabled earlier today were considered:

Criminal Code Act 1995Control orders and preventative detention orders—Reports for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004Non-disclosure and witness exclusion certificates—Report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Airservices Australia—Corporate plan 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2015. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Australian Electoral Commission (AEC)—Report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Murray-Darling Basin Authority—Report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Nash. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Nash in continuation.

Wheat Exports Australia—Report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Nash. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Nash in continuation.

Royal Australian Air Force Veterans’ Residences Trust Fund—Report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Treaty—MultilateralNational interests analysis for treaty previously tabled—Resolution MEPC.186(59) Adopted on 17 July 2009—Amendments to the Annex of the Protocol of 1978 relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Audio-Visual Copyright Society Limited (Screenrights)—Report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)—Report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Migration Act 1958Section 486O—Assessment of detention arrangements—Personal identifiers 611/10 to 619/10—Commonwealth Ombudsman’s reports. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Migration Act 1958Section 486O—Assessment of detention arrangements—Personal identifiers 611/10 to 619/10—Government response to Ombudsman’s reports. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Commonwealth Ombudsman—Report for 2009-10 on the Ombudsman’s activities under Part V of the Australian Federal Police Act 1979. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Broadcasting Services Act 1992Digital television transmission and reception—Report, dated December 2010. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Treaty—BilateralAgreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of New Zealand on Trans-Tasman Court Proceedings and Regulatory Enforcement, done at Christchurch on 24 July 2008—Text, together with national interest analysis. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Treaty—BilateralAgreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the Republic of South Africa concerning the Co-Production of Films, done at Pretoria on 18 June 2010—Text, together with national interest analysis and annexure. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Treaty—BilateralAgreement between Australia and the Slovak Republic on Social Security, done at New York on 21 September 2010—Text, together with national interest analysis. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Treaty—MultilateralThird Protocol Amending the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, done at Hanoi on 23 July 2010—Text, together with national interest analysis. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Treaty—MultilateralAmendments to the Convention Establishing the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency to Modernise the Mandate of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, done at Seoul on 11 October 1985—Amendment to the International Finance Corporation Articles of Agreement, done at Washington DC on 20 July 1956—Text, together with national interest analysis. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

National Residue Survey—Report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)—Report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Sugar Research and Development Corporation—Report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Gene Technology Regulator—Quarterly report for the period—1 April to 30 June 2010. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Gene Technology Regulator—Quarterly report for the period—1 July to 30 September 2010. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy—Investigation into access to electronic media for the hearing and vision-impaired—Media access review final report, dated December 2010. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)—Communications report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave Funding) Corporation—Report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Department of Finance and Deregulation—Consolidated financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2010. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Australian Landcare Council—Report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Native Title Act 1993Native title representative bodies—Northern Land Council—Report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Broadcasting Services Act 1992Sport on television: A review of the anti-siphoning scheme in the contemporary digital environment—Review report, dated November 2010. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Freedom of Information Act 1982Report for 2009-10 on the operation of the Act. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA)—Report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)—NHMRC Licensing Committee—Report on the operation of the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 for the period 1 March to 31 August 2010. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

National Rural Advisory Council (NRAC)—Report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Australian Centre for Renewable Energy Board—Report for the period 28 October 2009 to 30 June 2010. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)—Report for the period 1 March 2009 to 30 June 2010. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Commonwealth Electoral Act 19182010 Redistribution into electoral divisions—Victoria—Report, together with composite maps [2] and compact disc of supporting information. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Interactive Gambling Act 2001Report on the operation of the prohibition on interactive gambling service advertisements—Reports for 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Department of Finance and Deregulation—Certificate of compliance—Report for 2009-10. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Australia and the International Financial Institutions—Reports for 2008-09. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Centrelink and the Data-Matching Agency—Data-matching program—Report on progress—2007-08. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Centrelink and the Data-Matching Agency—Data-matching program—Report on progress—2008-09. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Tax expenditures statement 2010, dated January 2011. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Private Health Insurance Administration Council—Report for 2009-10 on the operations of the registered health benefits organisations. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Privacy Act 1988Privacy reforms: Credit reporting—Companion guide, dated January 2011. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.

Privacy Act 1988Privacy reforms: Credit reporting—Exposure draft. Motion to take note of document moved by Senator Adams. Debate was adjourned till Thursday at general business, Senator Adams in continuation.