Senate debates

Thursday, 30 September 2010

Transport Safety Investigation Amendment (Incident Reports) Bill 2010; Water (Crisis Powers and Floodwater Diversion) Bill 2010; Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling — Palm Oil) Bill 2010

First Reading

9:36 am

Photo of Nick XenophonNick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | | Hansard source

I move:

That the following bills be introduced: A Bill for an Act to amend the Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003 to prevent interference with incident reports, and for related purposes, A Bill for an Act to enable the Murray-Darling Basin Authority to manage the water resources of the Basin as a single system during periods of extreme crisis, and for related purposes, and A Bill for an Act to provide for the accurate labelling of palm oil in food, 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.