Senate debates
Tuesday, 5 September 2006
- Migration Amendment (Employer Sanctions) Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (10 speeches)
Debate resumed from 4 September, on motion by Senator Minchin: That this bill be now read a second time.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Telstra (8 speeches)
My question is to Senator Minchin, the Minister for Finance and Administration. Does the minister recall saying on the Sunday program that the government was ‘contemplating some form of...
- Aged Care: Indigenous Australians (2 speeches)
My question is to Senator Santoro, the Minister representing the Minister for Ageing. Will the minister outline to the Senate what the Howard government is doing to help the elderly Indigenous in...
- Telstra (4 speeches)
My question is to Senator Minchin, the Minister for Finance and Administration. Does the minister recall saying yesterday that Telstra’s ‘dividend policy is entirely a matter for the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! I draw the attention of honourable senators to the presence in the President’s gallery of a parliamentary delegation from the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- People Trafficking (2 speeches)
My question is to Senator Ellison, the Minister for Justice and Customs. Will the minister please update the Senate on the Howard government’s efforts to combat the abhorrent crime of...
- Telstra (7 speeches)
My question is to Senator Minchin, the Minister for Finance and Administration. Does the minister recall the Prime Minister saying in November 2002, when the government was considering the full...
- Child Obesity (2 speeches)
My question is to Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan. Will the minister inform the Senate about the positive steps the government has taken to...
- Environment: Burrup Peninsula (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Ian Campbell. I refer to the minister’s deliberation on how to protect the heritage values of the Burrup Peninsula....
- Australian Institute of Sport (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Kemp. As the minister is aware, the Australian Institute of Sport celebrated its 25th birthday recently. Will the minister update...
- Skilled Migration (9 speeches)
My question is to Senator Vanstone, the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs: can the minister confirm that ABC Tissues has been found to be in breach of immigration, industrial,...
- Health and Safety (15 speeches)
My question is to Senator Santoro, the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing. Minister, Australia has massively reduced road deaths through black spot roadworks and ongoing...
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (25 speeches)
My question is to Senator Campbell, the Minister for the Environment and Heritage. Is the minister aware that the Queensland shadow minister for the environment has called for the abolition of...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Pregnancy Support (1 speech)
Yesterday, Senator Stott Despoja asked me, in my capacity as the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing, a number of questions relating to pregnancy counselling services. I...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Answersto Questions (21 speeches)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked today. Once again we have seen today the government’s off-handed, arrogant treatment...
- Environment: Burrup Peninsula (1 speech)
I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for the Environment and Heritage (Senator Ian Campbell) to a question without notice asked by Senator Siewert today relating...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Clerk: Petitions have been lodged for presentation as follows:
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (0 speeches)
Senator Robert Ray to move on the next day of sitting:(1)That there be laid on the table, no later than Thursday, 19 October 2006, documents held by Telstra Corporation relating to shareholder...
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
Mr Deputy President, I withdraw notice of motion No. 3 for today, standing in the names of Senator Murray and the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Evans.
- Cluster Bombs (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate deplores the manufacture, sale and use of cluster bombs like those now deployed in Lebanon. Question put.
- Global Warming (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move:That the Senate—(a)notes with alarm that:(i)the 0.6°C of global warming that has already occurred is impacting Australia with worsening droughts and changing seasons,(ii)the...
- Gunns LTD (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I move:That the Senate—(a)deplores that green groups continue to harass customers of Gunns Limited in Japan, and their customers, over Tasmanian forestry issues;(b)condemns the...
- Matters of Urgency (0 speeches)
- Multiculturalism (11 speeches)
I inform the Senate that the President has received the following letter, dated 5 September 2006, from Senator Nettle: Dear Mr President, Pursuant to standing order 75, I give notice that today I...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment Bill 2006 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bill received from the House of Representatives.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speech incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The speech read as follows— INDIGENOUS EDUCATION...
- Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Public Office and Members of Parliament (0 speeches)
- Motion for Disapproval (13 speeches)
I move:That clause 2.2 of Determination 2006/11: Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Public Office and Members of Parliament, made pursuant to subsections 5(2A), 7(1), 7(3), 7(3D) and 7(4)...
- Schedules 1 and 3 to the Parliamentary Entitlements Amendment Regulations 2006 (No. 1) (0 speeches)
- Motion for Disallowance (4 speeches)
I move:That Schedules 1 and 3 to the Parliamentary Entitlements Amendment Regulations 2006 (No. 1), as contained in Select Legislative Instrument 2006 No. 211 and made under the Parliamentary...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (0 speeches)
Senator Marshall to move on the next day of sitting:That the following matter be referred to the Employment, Workplace Relations and Education References Committee for inquiry and report by the...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! There being no further consideration of documents, I propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Childhood Obesity (1 speech)
Tonight I wish to advise the Senate that I had the pleasure of speaking about the issue of obesity, including in a debate at the 10th International Congress on Obesity in Sydney. The congress was...
- Tasmanian Forestry Industry (1 speech)
I would like to address the Senate tonight to correct the record regarding the Labor Party’s support for the Tasmanian forestry industry and, in particular, the Tasmanian Community Forest...
- Multiculturalism (1 speech)
I want to speak about an issue that has been debated today and last night in this chamber and in the wider community—that is, commentary by senior members of this government, and by others...
- John Cummins (1 speech)
Tonight I rise to pay tribute to an inspirational leader of working men and women. ‘Dare to struggle. Dare to win. If you don’t fight, you lose’ was the often-used catchcry by...
- Gunns Ltd (1 speech)
Gunns Ltd is the largest hardwood chip operator in the world. In fact, it is Tasmania’s largest private landowner and a major employer in Tasmania, employing over 1,200 people. As the...
- Defence (1 speech)
This evening I rise to raise concerns about how the government is doctoring the facts when it comes to some embarrassing truths from the Department of Defence. The government’s sultans of...
- United Nations International Day of Support for Victims of Torture (1 speech)
This evening I want to talk about an event that was held in Brisbane on 25 June for Amnesty International—an organisation which many people in this chamber know and respect. The event was...
- Queensland Election (1 speech)
Tonight I want to talk about the Queensland election, but not in the way of talking about who is going to win, which party is best or which party has the best policies. Tonight I want to spare a...
- Domestic Violence (1 speech)
Earlier today I received an invitation, as did everyone in this place, to attend the Canberra launch of White Ribbon Day. The Canberra launch will be a preview of the advertising materials and...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (0 speeches)
The following government documents were tabled: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission—Competition in the corporate customer segment of the telecommunications industry—Report...
- Indexed Lists of Files (0 speeches)
The following documents were tabled pursuant to the order of the Senate of 30 May 1996, as amended: Indexed lists of departmental and agency files for the period 1 January to 30 June...
