Senator Evans to move on the next day of sitting:

That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to amend the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011, and for related purposes. National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Amendment Bill 2011.

  Senator Rhiannon to move on 25 August 2011:

That the Senate—

(a)   notes that:

(i)   the operator of the Eden woodchip mill in south east New South Wales, South East Fibre Exports Pty Ltd (SEFE) which is owned by Nippon Paper Industries, plans to build a 5MW biomass fired power station in Eden,

(ii)   the biomass power plant would accelerate the damage done to the New South Wales south east forests by the Eden woodchip mill operations, inevitably using woodchips that have been produced from native forests with heavy subsidies by the New South Wales Government,

(iii)   both SEFE and the local federal Member for Eden Monaro, Dr Kelly, have been promoting the burning of native timber as an important measure in fighting climate change, falsely claiming that forestry biomass is economic, sustainable and a low carbon energy source, and

(iv)   biomass electricity generation from native forest feed-stocks is no longer eligible for Renewable Energy Certificates, which will threaten the commercial viability of the Eden biomass power plant; and

(b)   calls on the Member for Eden Monaro and the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Senator Ludwig) to guarantee that no federal funding will be allocated to subsidise the operations of the proposed Eden biomass power plant.

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

That the Migration Amendment Regulations 2011 (No. 4), as contained in Select Legislative Instrument 2011 No. 122 and made under the Migration Act 1958, be disallowed.

Fifteen sitting days remain, including today, to resolve the motion or the instrument will be deemed to have been disallowed.

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

That—

(a)   the Senate requests Mr Alan Belford Jones AO apologise to the police and wider public for his false claim that thousands of people and hundreds of trucks, on their way to the ‘Convoy of No Confidence’ rally outside Parliament House on Monday, 22 August 2011, had been stopped at the border of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory;

(b)   the President report to the Senate on:

  (i)   Mr Jones’ claim that ‘the people who have come here [Parliament House] can’t actually get into the precinct to be heard’, and

  (ii)   whether people attending the rally were prevented in any way different to any other Australian coming to protest at Parliament House or whether this claim by Mr Jones is also false; and

(c)   Mr Jones be invited to respond to this motion, should it pass.

  Senator Fisher to move on the next day of sitting:

That the time for the presentation of the report of the Environment and Communications References Committee on the status, health and sustainability of the koala population be extended to 20 September 2011.