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No. 90/2006
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The Senate met from 12.30pm until 10.28pm
Legislation
For full text of
bills and other associated documents
Bills considered
The following bill was introduced
- Defence Legislation Amendment Bill 2006 [passed by the House of
Representatives on 29 November 2006]
The following bill was debated
Notices of motion
To introduce a bill
- Cluster Munitions (Prohibition) Bill 2006–Notice given by
Senators Allison, Bob Brown , Bishop and Bartlett and [private
senators’ bill]
To exempt bills from the cut-off order [to enable consideration
in this period of sittings]
- Defence Legislation Amendment Bill 2006
- Royal Commissions Amendment (Records) Bill 2006
Message from the House of Representatives
- Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment (Antarctic Seals
and Other Measures) Bill 2006–Agreeing to the bill without
amendment [This bill will now be assented to]
Bills assented to
Assent to a number of laws was reported in the Senate
Delegated legislation
See Disallowance
Alert for a complete list of notices of motion to disallow (and
outcomes)
See Documents for details of instruments
[Clerk’s documents] tabled
Committees
For scheduled public
committee hearings
For committee
reports
Estimates
The Economics Committee tabled additional information relating
to supplementary hearings on the budget estimates 2006-07.
Reports tabled
- Intelligence and Security Joint Committee–Review
of security and counter terrorism legislation. This report was
debated [first
speaker]
- Migration Joint Committee– Australia -New Zealand
committee exchange program–Report
of the parliamentary delegation, 27 to 31 August 2006
- Public Accounts and Audit Joint Committee–409th
report–Developments in aviation security since the
committee’s June 2004 report no. 400
- Scrutiny of Bills Committee–
12th report of 2006– Entry, search and seizure provisions
in Commonwealth legislation
Notice of motion given
A notice of motion was given to extend the reporting deadline of
the Finance and Public Administration Committee for its inquiry
into the transparency and accountability of Commonwealth public
funding and expenditure to 8 February 2007.
Other debates and motions
The Senate did not agree to motions
about:
Notices of motion
For other
notices of motion not mentioned elsewhere
Orders for the production of documents
Document tabled
- Australian Competition and Consumer Commission–Report to
the Australian Senate on anti-competitive and other practices by
health funds and providers in relation to private health insurance
for the period 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006 [The report was tabled
in response to the order of the Senate agreed to on
25 March 1999 on the motion of Senator Harradine and amended on
18 September 2002]
Documents
The following documents were tabled:
- Australian parliamentary delegation–Inter-Parliamentary
Union–115th Assembly, Geneva, 16 to 19 October 2006 and a
visit to Portugal, 20 to 25 October 2006–Report
-
Clerk’s documents [legislative instruments and other
documents required by statute to be tabled, including
Governor-General’s Proclamations]
-
2 petitions
Also in the Senate yesterday
- Senator Evans informed the Senate that he and Senator Conroy
had been re-elected to the positions of Leader and Deputy Leader of
the Opposition in the Senate, respectively.
- Questions without notice and debate on issues arising in
Question Time [first
question]
- The President made a
statement relating to unparliamentary language and a
matter raised by Senator Bob Brown on 1 December 2006.
- Adjournment debate [first
speaker]
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