Senate debates
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
- Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Legislation Amendment Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bill received from the House of Representatives.
- Second Reading (1 speech)
I table a revised explanatory memorandum relating to the bill and move: That this bill be now read a second time. I seek leave to have the second reading speech incorporated in Hansard. Leave...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: That the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Safety Levies) Amendment Bill 2009 and the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Legislation Amendment Bill 2009 be taken...
- Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Test Review and Other Measures) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- Second Reading (4 speeches)
Debate resumed from 14 September, on motion by Senator Wong: That this bill be now read a second time.
- In Committee (21 speeches)
Bill—by leave—taken as a whole.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Telstra (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. Given the minister’s statement as recently as May and the previous statements of the Minister for...
- Economy (16 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer, Senator Sherry. Can the Assistant Treasurer inform the Senate about the latest international efforts to fight the global recession, especially in the...
- National Security (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Faulkner. Have the security upgrades announced last Friday been implemented at all Defence bases?
- Water (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Wong. Can the minister advise the Senate on the progress of the Rudd government’s Water for the Future plan, given that...
- Traveston Crossing Dam (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Senator Wong. Has Mr Garrett been present at the meetings, widely reported in today’s...
- Green Loans Program (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Senator Wong. It refers to the Green Loans Program, which was supposed to begin in January and...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Order! I draw the attention of honourable senators to the presence in the chamber of a parliamentary delegation led by Her Excellency Professor Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic, Speaker of the National...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Centrelink (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Human Services, Senator Ludwig. Will the minister inform the Senate how many people were detected breaching their obligation to look...
- Telecommunications (13 speeches)
My question is the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy. Can the minister inform the Senate about the government’s reforms to telecommunications...
- Second Sydney Airport (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Senator Conroy. I refer the minister to the decision of the...
- Liquefied Natural Gas Exports (39 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Carr. Can the minister please inform the Senate as to the Gorgon liquefied natural gas project which is to...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Breast Cancer Screening (1 speech)
I have additional information in respect of a question asked by Senator Adams on 8 September 2009. I table the response and seek leave to have it incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The...
- Traveston Crossing Dam (1 speech)
I have some further information in relation to a question asked by Senator Bob Brown yesterday. I table the response and seek leave to have it incorporated into Hansard. Leave granted. The...
- Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers (0 speeches)
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Clerk: A petition has been lodged for presentation as follows:
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Senator Humphries to move on the next day of sitting:That the time for the presentation of the report of the Education, Employment and Workplace Relations References Committee on the oversight of...
- Leave of Absence (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
I move: That leave of absence be granted to Senator Wong from 15 to 18 September 2009. Question agreed to. I rise on a point of order. Deputy President, it would be very helpful to the Senate if,...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Fuel and Energy Committee; Meeting (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the Select Committee on Fuel and Energy be authorised to hold a private meeting otherwise than in accordance with standing order 33(1) during the sitting of the Senate...
- Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (0 speeches)
- (7 speeches)
I move: That the Senate calls on the Government to:(a)release the protocols for the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority’s reporting information and publication of...
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
I withdraw general business notice of motion No. 549 standing in my name for today.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Withdrawal (1 speech)
I move: That the government business order of the day relating to the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (National Broadband Network Measures No. 1) Bill 2009 be discharged from the Notice...
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (8) of standing order 111 not apply to the following bills, allowing them to be considered during this period of sittings:Asian Development Bank...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Millennium Development Goals (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 554 standing in my name and the name of Senator Payne. Leave granted. I move the motion as amended: That the Senate—(a)welcomes...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Border Security (9 speeches)
I have received a letter from Senator Parry proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion, namely: The Rudd Government’s inability to...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Auditor-General’S Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 4 of 2009-10 (1 speech)
In accordance with the provisions of the Auditor-General Act 1997, I present the following report of the Auditor-General: Report No. 4 of 2009-10: Performance audit: The management and processing...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Corporations and Financial Services Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of Senator Mason, I present the report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, Statutory oversight of the Australian Securities and Investments...
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the 5th report of 2009 of the committee, Fit-out and external works, Anzac Park West, Parkes, and fit-out of...
- Treaties Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties and Senator McGauran, the deputy chair, I present report No. 105 of the committee, Treaties tabled on 13 May, 25 June and 20 August...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
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- Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (National Broadband Network Measures — Network Information) Bill 2009 (0 speeches)
- First Reading (1 speech)
Bill received from the House of Representatives.
- Second Reading (2 speeches)
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— Access to high-speed...
- Military Justice (Interim Measures) Bill (No. 1) 2009; Military Justice (Interim Measures) Bill (No. 2) 2009 (0 speeches)
- Export Control (Fees) Amendment Orders 2009 (No. 1); Australian Meat and Live-Stock Industry (Export Licensing) Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 1); Export Inspection (Establishment Registration Charges) Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 1); Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 1) (0 speeches)
- Motion for Disallowance (51 speeches)
Pursuant to the notice of intention I gave earlier today, I now withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion No. 2 standing in my name for today for the disallowance—
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Consideration (0 speeches)
The following documents were tabled: Aboriginal Land Commissioner—Report and recommendations to the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and to the...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Order! As no-one sought the call during consideration of government documents, I now propose the question: That the Senate do now adjourn.
- Dr June Canavan (1 speech)
Last month on the Sunshine Coast over a thousand people gathered at the University of the Sunshine Coast Sports Stadium to mourn the passing of and to celebrate and talk about the life of an...
- Victorian Bushfires (1 speech)
I rise to speak tonight on the woefully inadequate response to the Victorian Black Saturday bushfires in February this year by the Brumby government. That day was a national tragedy, one that was...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
This evening I rise to welcome the Rudd government’s approach to immigration detention. What we have seen introduced is an approach which better reflects the compassion and tolerance of the...
- Abbotsford Public School (1 speech)
Tonight I stand to speak about the Abbottsford Public School in Sydney, which I visited last Friday, and the revelations I have received since the visit to the school in the form of a letter that...
- Iraq (6 speeches)
I want to talk tonight about the current situation in Iraq, which seems to have dropped off our—
- Abbotsford Public School (1 speech)
With the indulgence of the Senate I seek leave to table a letter that I referred to in my speech. The letter is from the Abbotsford Public School and is dated 14 September 2009, with an attached...
- Japanese Comfort Women (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the issue of the official Japanese government and military policy in World War II of sexual slavery of women known as comfort women. Up to 200,000 women and girls from the...
- Papua New Guinea (1 speech)
Tomorrow, 16 September, our closest neighbours across the Torres Strait will celebrate their independence. It will be 34 years since Papua New Guinea gained full independence from the...
- National Broadband Network (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak on the National Broadband Network, or the NBN, and particularly what it means for my home state of Tasmania. I am pleased that the Rudd government will deliver...
- Child Care (1 speech)
On 29 October we shall be digesting the recommendations of the Senate inquiry into provision of child care, looking at the ABC Learning collapse and related matters. The focus of the inquiry is...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Tabling (0 speeches)
The following documents were tabled by the Clerk: [Legislative instruments are identified by a Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI) number] Australian Film, Television and Radio...
