No. 43/2005
The Senate met from 9.30am until 7.53pm
Legislation
No bills were introduced in the Senate
The following bill was considered
- Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Choice of Superannuation
Funds) Bill 2005–second reading debate continued
The following bill was passed
With amendments
- Crimes Legislation Amendment (Telecommunications Interception
and Other Measures) Bill 2005–[The House of Representatives
will now consider this bill as
amended]
The following message from the House of Representatives
was reported
- Criminal Code Amendment (Trafficking in Persons Offences) Bill
2005–The message reported that the House of Representatives
had agreed to the bill without amendment [The bill will now be
assented to]
Notices of motion given
To introduce bills
The Minister for Justice and Customs gave notices of motion to
introduce the following bills:
- Acts Interpretation Amendment (Legislative Instruments) Bill
2005
- Arts Legislation Amendment (Maritime Museum and Film,
Television and Radio School) Bill 2005
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2005
- Civil Aviation Legislation Amendment (Mutual Recognition with
New Zealand) Bill 2005
- Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2005 Measures No. 3)
Bill 2005
- Maritime Legislation Amendment Bill 2005
- Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Amendment
(Maritime Security Guards and Other Measures) Bill 2005
To exempt a bill from the cut-off order [to enable
consideration this period of sittings]
- Migration Amendment (Detention Arrangements) Bill 2005
See Committees for details of reports
relating to legislation
Delegated legislation
Motion to disallow regulations defeated
The Senate agreed not to
disallow the Guidelines in relation to the exercise
of Compliance Powers in the Building and Construction Industry,
made under section 88AGA of the Workplace Relations Act
1996
See Documents for details of instruments
[Clerk’s documents] tabled
Committees
Reports tabled
- Indigenous education funding–Final
report–Employment, Workplace Relations and Education
References Committee
- Inspections of Baxter Immigration Detention Facility and Port
Augusta Residential Housing Project–Migration Joint
Committee
- Public Accounts and Audit Joint
Committee–403rd report–Access of Indigenous
Australians to law and justice services
- Public Works Joint Committee–Several
reports
- Scrutiny of Bills Committee–Alert
Digest No. 7 of 2005 and
6th report of 2005 [contain assessments of bills on civil
liberties and related grounds]
- Selection of Bills Committee–Report
No. 6 of 2005 [report amended and adopted] [contains
recommendations to refer bills to legislation committees]
- Tax Laws Amendment (Improvements to Self Assessment) Bill (No.
1) 2005 and a related bill–Economics Legislation
Committee
Document tabled
- Senators’ Interests Committee–Register of
senators’ interests, lodged between 7 December 2004 and 20
June 2005
New inquiry
- Health impacts of workplace exposure to toxic dust, and
related matters–Community Affairs References
Committee–to report by the first sitting day of December
2005
See Reports tabled (Selection of Bills
Committee Report) for details of bills referred to
committees
Membership
The Senate agreed to various changes to committee membership
[see Journals entries
4,
35 and
41]
Reporting dates extended
- Regional Partnerships program–Finance and Public
Administration References Committee–to report by 6 October
2005
- Student income support–Employment, Workplace Relations
and Education References Committee–to report by 23 June
2005
Motion defeated
The Senate did not agree to
a motion moved by Senator Bartlett to refer the Migration
Amendment (Detention Arrangements) Bill 2005 to the Legal and
Constitutional Legislation Committee
Notices of motion given
To refer matters to committees
- Industrial agreement-making systems, and
related matters–Employment, Workplace Relations and
Education References Committee–to report by 31 October
2005
-
Proposed agreement between Australia and the United States of
America concerning the surrender of US nationals–Foreign
Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee–to report by
30 October 2005
- Proposed amendments to
standing orders–Procedure Committee
Motions agreed to
The Senate agreed to motions about:
Motions defeated
The Senate did not agree to motions
moved by Senator Brown about:
Questions on notice–failure to provide
answers
Senator Allison asked the Leader of the Government in the Senate
(Senator Hill) for an explanation of an answer not being provided
to questions on notice no. 29.
Senator Hill did not provide an explanation.
The Senate agreed to take note of the minister’s failure
to provide either an answer or an explanation.
Notices of motion
Orders for the production of documents
Notice of motion given
Senator Nettle gave a notice of motion to require the Minister
for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs to table a
copy of the final report, including findings and recommendations,
by Mr Mick Palmer into the Ms Cornelia Rau matter–no later
than 3 calendar days after the Minister receives the report and if
the Senate is not sitting at that time, the report to be presented
to the President in accordance with standing order 166
Documents
The following documents were tabled:
- Auditor-General–Audit report no. 54 of
2004-05–Performance audit–Administration of health care
cards: Health Insurance Commission, Department of Health and
Ageing, Centrelink, Department of Family and Community
Services
-
Clerk’s documents [disallowable instruments and other
documents required by statute to be tabled]
- Department of the Senate–Register of Senate senior
executive officers’ interests, lodged between 7 December 2004
and 20 June 2005
- A
petition was received
No government documents were tabled
Also in the Senate yesterday
- Questions without notice
- Valedictory statements were made relating to the retirement of
certain senators [link
to first speaker]
- The Special Minister of State made a personal
explanation concerning the Tasmanian State Equalisation Scheme
and tabled a document
- Adjournment debate [link
to first speaker]
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