Senate debates

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

  • Defence (Question Nos 500 to 502) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 21 March 2011: For each portfolio/agency within the responsibility of the Minister/Parliamentary Secretary: (1) How many...
  • Health (Question No. 541) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 25 March 2011:   (1)   What was the involvement of the Treasurer or department in the new health proposal,...
  • Foreign Affairs (Question No. 545) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, upon notice, on 25 March 2011: (1)   How many ambassadors/high commissioners are fluent in the official language...
  • Foreign Affairs: Overseas Delegations (Question No. 547) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, upon notice, on 25 March 2011: For each calendar year, from 2005 to 2010, how many overseas delegations were sponsored by the...
  • Papua New Guinea (Question No. 556) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, upon notice, on 25 March 2011: (1)   How many cases of alleged corruption in Papua New Guinea: (a) are currently...
  • Foreign Affairs: Staffing (Question No. 616) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, upon notice, on 27 April 2011: With reference to the department and the agencies within the Minister's portfolio:...
  • Immigration Detention Centres (Question No. 674) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, upon notice, on 30 May 2011: (1) Since 1 January 2008, for each centre: (a) what incidents of violence have there...
  • Defence (Question Nos 695 to 696) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 June 2011: (1) Why was the decision made to purchase both a multi-cam design from Crye and a licence to manufacture...
  • Foreign Affairs: Websites (Question No. 725) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, upon notice, on 4 July 2011: (1)   What language is used for local websites in the various posts that Australia...
  • Defence (Question Nos 776 to 778) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, Minister representing the Minister for Defence Science and Personnel and the Minister representing the Minister for Defence Materiel,...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 962) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling, ‘Strong Growth, Low Pollution: Modelling a carbon...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 963) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling report, Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price:...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 964) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling Strong growth, low pollution: modelling a carbon price: Given...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 965) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling, Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price: Given...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 966) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury 2008 Carbon Tax modelling Australia's low pollution Future, is it correct that in the...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 967) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling, Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price: In...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 968) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price: Given...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 969) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling, Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price: Given...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 970) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling, Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price, under...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 971) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling, Strong growth, low pollution: modelling a carbon price, and...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 972) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling, Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price, and...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 973) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling, Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price: (1) Why...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 974) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury carbon tax modelling, Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price: (1)...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 975) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling, Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price: Given...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 976) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling, Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price: In...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 977) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling, Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price: Given...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 978) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling, Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price: (1) Is...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 979) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling, Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price: (1) Is...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 980) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling, Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price: (1) Is...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 981) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling, Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price, does...
  • Carbon Pricing (Question No. 982) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: With reference to the Treasury Carbon Tax modelling, Strong growth, low pollution: Modelling a carbon price: Given...
  • Australian Taxation Office (Question No. 987) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: (1) What was the total expenditure of the Australian Taxation Office for the 2010-11 financial year in relation to:...
  • Asylum Seekers (Question No. 1011) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, upon notice, on 18 August 2011: Have any detainees or former detainees at immigration detention facilities initiated...
  • Special Minister of State: Staffing (Question No. 1014) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Special Minister of State, upon notice, on 22 August 2011: In relation to the costs of travel and travel allowances paid to private staff of ministers and...
  • Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations (Question No. 1031) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister forTertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, upon notice, on 29 August 2011: Has the department engaged the services of a call centre from Excelion P/L; if so:...
  • Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations (Question No. 1033) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, upon notice, on 29 August 2011: (1) Has the department contracted a firm to provide a media plan for the Young...
  • Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (Question No. 1035) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, upon notice on 29 August 2011: Has the Department conducted or commissioned an assessment of fugitive...
  • Attorney-General (Question No. 1037) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Attorney-General, upon notice, on 29 August 2011: Has the department contracted the services of Incept Labs for the development of a list of research projects;...
  • Attorney-General (Question No. 1038) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Attorney-General, upon notice, on 29 August 2011: Has the department contracted the services of Gfk Blue Moon Research for market research; if so: (a) what is...
  • Fair Work Australia (Question No. 1042) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, upon notice, on 29 August 2011: Do any staff at Fair Work Australia receive myki cards for railway transportation;...
  • Prime Minister and Cabinet: Code of Conduct Investigations (Question Nos 1043, 1048, 1065, 1067, 1072 and 1082) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Prime Minister, upon notice, on 29 August 2011: (1) How many Code of Conduct investigations have there been within the Ministers portfolio for the financial...
  • Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, Employment Participation and Childcare, and Indigenous Employment and Economic Development: Code of Conduct Investigations (Question Nos 1045, 1057, 1070 and 1073) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, Minister representing the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, Minister representing the...
  • Innovation, Industry, Science and Research: Code of Conduct Investigations (Question No. 1058) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, upon notice, on 29 August 2011: (1) How many Code of Conduct investigations have there been within the Minister's portfolio for...
  • Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Question No. 1060) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, upon notice, on 29 August 2011: (1) How many Code of Conduct investigations have there been within the Minister's portfolio for the...
  • Human Services (Question No. 1066) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Minister for Human Services, upon notice, on 29 August 2011: (1) How many Code of Conduct investigations have there been within the Minister's portfolio for...
  • Small Business: Code of Conduct Investigations (Question No. 1075) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister for Small Business, upon notice, on 29 August 2011: (1) How many Code of Conduct investigations have there been within the Minister's portfolio for the financial years (a)...
  • Special Minister of State: Staffing (Question No. 1089) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Special Minister of State, upon notice, on 6 September 2011: With reference to the answer to question on notice no. 846 which refers to the 'structure of staff...
  • Treasury: Accommodation (Question No. 1091) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 6 September 2011: (1)   What is the actual location, including the full street address, of each premises occupied by...
  • Treasury (Question No. 1092) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 6 September 2011: (1)   What was the total expenditure of the department for the 2010-11 financial year in relation...
  • National Plan for Clean Air (Question No. 1094) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, upon notice, on 7 September 2011: (1) When will a decision be made to bring...
  • Treasury (Question Nos 1159, 1194 and 1195) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, the Assistant Treasurer and the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, upon notice, on 13 September 2011: With reference to the...
  • Infrastructure and Transport (Question No. 1167) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, upon notice, on 13 September 2011: With reference to the department and all agencies within the Minister's...
  • Human Services: Staffing (Question No. 1181) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Minister for Human Services, upon notice, on 13 September 2011: With reference to the department and all agencies within the Minister's portfolio: (1) What was...
  • Treasury (Question No. 1205) (2 speeches)
    asked the Minister representing the Treasurer, upon notice, on 15 September 2011: Can Fiscal Table 1 on page 41 of the explanatory memorandum for the Clean Energy Bill 2011 be provided on an...