No. 59/2005
The Senate met from 12.30pm until 11.20pm
Legislation
The following bills were introduced in the
Senate
- Workplace Relations Amendment (Better Bargaining) Bill
2005
The following bills were considered
- Telstra (Transition to Full Private Ownership) Bill 2005 and
Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer
Issues) Bill 2005–second reading debate continued [A Green
amendment to postpone consideration of the bills until 4 October
2005 to be detirmined]
The following message from the House of Representatives
was reported
- Postal Industry Ombudsman Bill 2005–The message reported
that the House of Representatives agreed to the bill with
an amendment [The Senate will now consider the message on a
future sitting day]
The following bills were exempted from the cut-off
order [to enable consideration this period of
sittings]
- Appropriation (Regional Telecommunications Services) Bill
2005-2006
- Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Charges) Amendment
(Industry Plans and Consumer Codes) Bill 2005
- Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Future Proofing and
Other Measures) Bill 2005
Bill assented to
Assent to a law was reported in the Senate
See Committees for details of reports
relating to legislation
Delegated legislation
For a complete list of notices
of motion to disallow (and outcomes)
Notice of intention given to withdraw
notices
A notice of intention was given by the Chair of the Standing
Committee on Regulations and Ordinances to withdraw notices to
disallow the following delegated legislation:
- Export Control (Meat and Meat Products) Amendment Orders 2005
(No. 1), made under regulation 3 of the Export Control (Order)
Regulations 1982
- Modification Declaration No.1, made under section 177 of the
Retirement Savings Account Act 1997
- Veterans’ Entitlements (Veterans’ Children
Education Scheme–Scholarships, Statistics, MRCA) Instrument
2004–Instrument No. R11/2004, made under subsection 117(1) of
the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986
See Documents for details of instruments
[Clerk’s documents] tabled
Committees
For scheduled public
committee hearings
For committee
reports
Reports tabled
- Australia’s human rights dialogue process–Foreign
Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee
- Intelligence Services Legislation Amendment Bill
2005–ASIO, ASIS and DSD Joint Committee
- Mr Chen Yonglin’s request for political
asylum–Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References
Committee
- Reform of the United Nations Commission on Human
Rights–Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint
Committee
- Telstra (Transition to Full Private Ownership) Bill 2005 and
related bills–Environment, Communications, Information
Technology and the Arts Legislation Committee
- Treaties Joint Committee–67th
report–Treaties tabled on 21 June
Membership
- The Senate agreed to the appointment of Senator Carol Brown to
the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties
Notices of motion given
To determine a reporting deadline
- Australia’s relationship with China–Foreign
Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee–to report by
10 November 2005
To hold a public meeting while the Senate is
sitting
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References
Committee–13 September 2005 from 4pm–Australia’s
relationship with China
Motion debated
The Senate debated
a motion moved by
Senator McLucas about private health insurance in Australia
Notices of motion
For other
notices of motion not mentioned elsewhere
Orders for the production of documents
Documents tabled
The Acting Deputy President
tabled project progress reports, financial statements, business
plans and annual project plans from various agencies that receive
funding for pregnancy counselling and/or family planning activities
from the Department of Health and Ageing [The documents were tabled
in response to the order of the Senate agreed to on
15 June 2005 on the motion of Senator Allison]
Orders with continuing effect
Departmental and agency contracts published on the
internet
A statement of compliance for the Education, Science and
Training portfolio agencies were tabled [Letters of advice about
certain contracts valued at $100 000 or more entered into by
departments and agencies required to be tabled twice yearly;
Senate order agreed to]
Documents
The following documents were tabled:
-
Clerk’s documents [disallowable instruments and other
documents required by statute to be tabled]
- Industrial relations–Letter forwarding text of a
resolution–from the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of
the Northern Territory
- 3
petitions were received
No government documents were tabled
Also in the Senate yesterday
- Questions without notice and debate on issues arising in
Question Time [link to
first question]
- The President informed the Senate of the death, on 4 September
2005, of Dame Nancy Eileen Buttfield, DBE, a senator for South
Australia from 1955 to 1965 and 1968 to 1974. The Senate agreed to
a
condolence motion moved by the Leader of the Government in the
Senate.
- Adjournment debate [link to
first speaker]
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