Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

To move:

That the Senate—

  (a)   notes that:

     (i)   the Fourth Review Conference to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects will be held in Geneva from 14 November to 25 November 2011,

     (ii)   Australia will be the Friend of the Chair at this conference,

     (iii)   the proposed new protocol on cluster munitions protocol will be discussed at this conference,

     (iv)   this protocol does not uphold the high standard and obligations of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM),

     (v)   the development of a weaker legal norm with this protocol sets a dangerous precedent for avoiding existing legal obligations, and

     (vi)   support for this protocol could potentially breach the obligations of a state party to the CCM; and

  (b)   calls on the Government to:

     (i)   recognise that the CCM is the reference for the prohibition of such weapons, and

     (ii)   undertake not to support this protocol or any other instrument that weakens the CCM.

Mark Bishop (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

To move:

That the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit be authorised to hold a public meeting during the sitting of the Senate on Wednesday, 2 November 2011, from noon to 1 pm.

To move:

That the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit be authorised to hold private meetings otherwise than in accordance with standing order 33(1) during the sittings of the Senate on Wednesday, 2 November 2011 followed by a private briefing, and Wednesday, 23 November 2011, from 11 am to noon, and 11 am to 1 pm, respectively.

Lisa Singh (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

To move:

That the Joint Standing Committee on Migration be authorised to hold a public meeting during the sitting of the Senate on Wednesday, 2 November 2011, from 10.30 am to noon.

Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

To move:

That the Senate—

  (a)   congratulates the Government for maintaining Australia's longstanding policy of predicating bilateral nuclear cooperation agreements on the condition of membership to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; and

  (b)   calls on the Government to identify the countries to which it will not permit the sale of uranium.