Senate debates

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Documents

Tabling

The following documents were tabled by the Clerk:

[Legislative instruments are identified by a Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI) number. An explanatory statement is tabled with an instrument unless otherwise indicated by an asterisk.]

Civil Aviation Act—

Civil Aviation Regulations—Instruments Nos CASA—

EX24/11—Exemption – recent experience requirements [F2011L00318].

EX29/11—Exemption – Christopher Thomas Keating [F2011L00320].

EX30/11—Exemption – operations by paragliders in the Ozone Corryong Open and Australian Nationals Paragliding Championships 2011 [F2011L00310].

Civil Aviation Safety Regulations—Instrument No. CASA EX27/11—Exemption – drug and alcohol management plan information; Exemption – use of pre-hiring drug and alcohol tests [F2011L00319].

Commissioner of Taxation—Public Rulings—Taxation Determinations—Addenda—TD 93/47 and TD 93/97.

Competition and Consumer Act—Price Notification for Australia Post’s Reserved Letter Services, dated 23 February 2011 [F2011L00309].

National Health Act—Instruments Nos PB—

16 of 2011—National Health (Highly specialised drugs program for hospitals) Special Arrangement Amendment Instrument 2011 (No. 2) [F2011L00316].

17 of 2011—National Health (Chemotherapy Pharmaceuticals Access Program) Special Arrangement Amendment Instrument 2011 (No. 2) [F2011L00321].

Norfolk Island Act—Commonwealth Finance Minister’s (Norfolk Island) Orders 2011 [F2011L00317].

Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act—Australian Communications and Media Authority (Advice about Universal Service Subsidies) Direction (No. 1) 2011 [F2011L00311].

The following documents were tabled:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner—Reports for 2010—

Native title.

Social justice.

Advisory Panel on the Marketing in Australia of Infant Formula—Report for 2009-10.

Anindilyakwa Land Council—Reports for—

2008-09.

2009-10.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)—Equity and diversity—Report for the period 1 September 2009 to 31 August 2010.

Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency—Quarterly report for the period 1 October to 31 December 2010.

Broadcasting Services Act 1992Review of local content requirements for regional commercial radio—Final report, dated March 2011.

Crimes Act 1914Authorisations for the acquisition and use of assumed identities—Australian Customs and Border Protection Service—Report for 2009-10.

Defence—HMAS Success Commission of Inquiry—Allegations of unacceptable behaviour and the management thereof—Part One: The Asian deployment and immediate aftermath—Report of the Commissioner, the Honourable Roger Gyles, AO, QC, dated January 2011 [Redacted version].

Health Insurance Act 1973Five yearly review of the Medicare provider number legislation—Report, dated December 2010.

National Environment Protection Council (NEPC)—Report for 2009-10.

Treaties—

Bilateral

Amendments to Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement, done at Singapore on 27 July 2009—Text, together with national interest analysis and annexures.

Treaty between Australia and the People’s Republic of China concerning the Transfer of Sentenced Persons, done at Sydney on 6 September 2007—Text, together with national interest analysis.

Multilateral

Accession by Australia to the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest, 23 November 2001)—Text, together with national interest analysis.

Explanatory statement No. 1 of 2011—Proposed Amendment to the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund on the Reform of the Executive Board, adopted by the IMF Board of Governors on 15 December 2010.