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 the child care industry be extended to 29 October 2009.

Senator Barnett to move on the next day of sitting:

That the time for the presentation of the report of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee on Australia’s judicial system and the role of judges be extended to 18 November 2009.

Senator Cash to move on the next day of sitting:

That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to amend the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 in relation to certificates, and for other purposes. Renewable Energy (Certificates and Other Matters) Amendment Bill 2009.

Senator Bob Brown to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that:

(i)

Brown Mountain in East Gippsland, Victoria, is a natural treasure with 600-year-old trees (carbon dated) and at least five threatened species, including the long-footed potoroo, the spot-tailed quoll, the Orbost spiny crayfish, the sooty owl and the large brown tree frog,

(ii)

the long-footed potoroo and the spot-tailed quoll are federally-listed as endangered and the forests are covered by the East Gippsland Regional Forest Agreement which commits Victoria to ‘ecologically sustainable’ forest management including biodiversity conservation, and

(iii)

Environment East Gippsland has been granted an injunction restraining VicForests from logging two forest areas at Brown Mountain;

(b)

calls on the Victorian Government to meet its ecological obligations to protect threatened wildlife by halting logging at Brown Mountain; and

(c)

calls on the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Mr Burke) and the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts (Mr Garrett) to ensure that the Victorian Government fulfils its ecological obligations and to inform the Senate, no later than 26 October 2009, of the steps they are taking to do so.

Senator Minchin to move on the next day of sitting:

That the following bill be introduced: A Bill for an Act to amend the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 in connection with emerging technologies. Geothermal and Other Renewable Energy (Emerging Technologies) Amendment Bill 2009.

Senator Colbeck to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Inclusion of ecological communities in the list of threatened ecological communities [Lowland Native Grasslands of Tasmania], made on 18 June 2009 under section 181 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, be disallowed.

Senator Bob Brown to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that:

(i)

the inclusion of expenditure not for the ordinary annual services of the government in the appropriation bill for the ordinary annual services, which is required to be separated from other appropriations by section 54 of the Constitution, was raised by the Australian National Audit Office and the Appropriations and Staffing Committee in 2005;

(ii)

the matter has been the subject of successive reports by the Appropriations and Staffing Committee and the Finance and Public Administration Committee since that time;

(iii)

the Minister for Finance and Deregulation has not yet carried out an undertaking to provide to the Appropriations and Staffing Committee proposals whereby this problem might be overcome;

(b)

calls upon the Minister for Finance and Deregulation to provide a substantive response to the Appropriations and Staffing Committee on this matter by 16 November 2009.

Senator Hanson-Young to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that:

(i)

the young people detained in the Magill Youth Training Centre in South Australia are being held in degrading conditions, and

(ii)

in the assessment of the 2009 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations (UN), Mr Chris Varney, this represents a breach of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child;

(b)

recognises that:

(i)

in 2006, the South Australian Labor Government acknowledged that the centre was in need of replacement, as it breached modern building codes and occupational health and safety requirements, and

(ii)

the South Australian Government is yet to keep its election promise to build a new facility; and

(c)

calls on the Federal Minister for Early Childhood Education, Childcare and Youth (Ms Ellis) to intervene in this urgent matter and ensure that a new centre is built, as promised by the South Australian Government.

Senator Bob Brown to move on the next day of sitting:

That the Senate calls on the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts (Mr Garrett) to make public in the week beginning 13 September 2009 the draft report on the Traveston Dam by Queensland’s Coordinator-General.

Senator Milne to move on the next day of sitting:

That there be laid on the table, no later than 4 pm on 26 October 2009, a map of Australian forest cover using the Kyoto definition of ‘forest’ for each year since 1990, at the highest available resolution, in any widely used GIS format.