No. 51/2005
The Senate met from 9.30am until 5.00pm
Legislation
For full text of
bills and other associated documents
The following bill was introduced in the
Senate
- Defence Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2005
The following bill was considered
- Human Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2005–second
reading debate continued
The following bills were passed
Without amendments
- Customs Amendment (Extension of Import Cut-over Time) Bill 2005
[The House of Representatives will now consider this bill]
- Skilling Australia’s Workforce Bill 2005 [The bill will
now be assented to]
- Skilling Australia’s Workforce (Repeal and Transitional
Provisions) Bill 2005 [The bill will now be assented to]
The following bills were exempted from the cut-off
order [to enable consideration this period of
sittings]
- Australian Workplace Safety Standards Bill 2005
- National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (Repeal,
Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2005
See Committees for details of reports
relating to legislation
Delegated legislation
For a complete list of notices
of motion to disallow (and outcomes)
Notices of motion given
Notices were given by the Chair of the Standing Committee on
Regulations and Ordinances to disallow the following delegated
legislation [The delegated legislation will be deemed to be
disallowed if the notices are not agreed to or withdrawn within 15
sitting days after 17 August 2005–ie. by 12 October
2005]:
- Export Control (Meat and Meat Products) Amendment Orders 2005
(No. 1), made under regulation 3 of Export Control (Orders)
Regulations 1982
- Income Tax Assessment Amendment Regulations 2005 (No. 2), as
contained in Select Legislative Instrument 2005 No. 75 and made
under the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
- 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
Committees
For scheduled public
committee hearings
For committee
reports
Report tabled
- Selection of Bills Committee–Report
No. 8 of 2005 [report adopted] [contains recommendations to
refer bills to legislation committees]
Membership
The Senate agreed to the following change to committee
membership:
- Finance and Public Administration References
Committee–Senator Carr to be discharged as a substitute
member for the committee’s inquiry into the Regional
Partnerships program
Public meetings
The Senate agreed that the following public meetings may be held
while the Senate is sitting:
- Community Affairs Legislation Committee–18 August 2005
from 3.30pm–Health Insurance Amendment (Medicare Safety-nets)
Bill 2005
- Public Accounts and Audit Joint Committee–18 August 2005
from 10.45am to 11.45am–Aviation security in Australia
Reporting dates extended
- Chen Yonglin and Vivian Solon cases and any related
matters–Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References
Committee–to report by 15 September 2005
- Gallipoli Peninsula–Finance and Public Administration
References Committee–to report by 15 September 2005
Notice of motion given
To extend a reporting deadline
- Mental Health Select Committee–to report by the Thursday
of the second sitting week in March 2006
Motions agreed to
The Senate agreed to motions about:
Motion defeated
The Senate did not agree to
a motion moved by Senator Milne about Australian Heritage
sites
Notices of motion
For other
notices of motion not mentioned elsewhere
Orders for the production of documents
Motions defeated
The Senate did not agree to motions to
require the tabling of the following documents:
- a copy of the report from the review of the Better Outcomes in
Mental Health Initiative–no later than 4.30pm on 5 September
2005–moved by
Senator Allison
- a copy of the report provided by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as
part of their consultancy to assist in the development of a
strategy to implement the recommendations made by the Australian
National Audit Office in Audit Report no. 18 of 2004-05–no
later than 4.30pm on 5 September 2005–moved by
Senator Allison
- a copy of the Australian Defence Force report of the presence
of depleted uranium in the Australian area of operations in Al
Muthanna province in southern Iraq–no later than 4.30pm on 18
August 2005–moved by
Senator Allison
- any legal advice which the Government has received from the
Australian Government Solicitor or other source on the Commonwealth
Government’s authority to unilaterally approve uranium mines
in the Northern Territory–no later than 3.30pm on 18 August
2005–moved by
Senator Siewert
Documents
The following documents were tabled:
No Clerk’s documents were tabled
Also in the Senate yesterday
- Matters of public interest debate [link to
first speaker]
- Questions without notice and debate on issues arising in
Question Time [link to
first question]
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