Senate debates
Thursday, 17 July 2014
- Corporations Amendment (Simple Corporate Bonds and Other Measures) Bill 2014, Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014, Meteorology Amendment (Online Advertising) Bill 2014, National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2014, Social Security Legislation Amendment (Stronger Penalties for Serious Failures) Bill 2014; First Reading (1 speech)
I indicate to the Senate that these bills are being introduced together. After the debate on the motion for the second reading has been adjourned, I will be moving a motion to have the bills... - Asset Recycling Fund Bill 2014, Asset Recycling Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2014; In Committee (32 speeches)
The committee is considering the Asset Recycling Fund Bill 2014 and a related bill as amended. The question now is that subclause 13(2) and subclauses 34(4) to (6) stand as printed. - Asset Recycling Fund Bill 2014, Asset Recycling Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2014; Third Reading (1 speech)
I move: That these bills be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bills read a third time. - Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2013 [No. 2] (39 speeches)
It was then Prime Minister Rudd who, in one of his more erudite moments, made the statement, 'No government should ever make a backward step in pursuit of the national interest.' It is in that...
