Senate debates
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Bill 2011; Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011; Product Stewardship Bill 2011
First Reading
9:37 am
Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
At the request of Senator Evans and Senator Farrell respectively, I move:
That the following bills be introduced: A Bill for an Act to regulate higher education, and for other purposes; A Bill for an Act to deal with consequential and transitional matters arising from the enactment of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011, and for other purposes; and A Bill for an Act to provide a framework for reducing the environmental and other impacts of products, and for related purposes.
Question agreed to.
I present the bills and move:
That these bills may proceed without formalities, may be taken together and be now read a first time.
Question agreed to.
Bills read a first time.