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No. 4/2007
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The Senate met from 9.30am until 7.37pm
The
Senate will meet again on 26 February 2007.
Additional estimates 2006-07
The Senate referred additional estimates 2006-07 to standing
committees for examination and report and relevant documents were
tabled. [For Budget Papers, Portfolio Additional Estimates
Statements and related papers, click here]
The Senate also agreed to
modify the committee groupings and portfolio allocations for
estimates hearings.
A program
for the estimates hearings on 12 to 16 February 2007 has been
published.
Legislation
For full text of
bills and other associated documents
Bills considered
The following bills were introduced
- Australian Territories Rights of the Terminally Ill Bill 2007
[private senator’s bill]
- Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games)
Amendment Bill 2006 [passed by the House of Representatives on 7
February 2007]
- Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Statements of
Principles and Other Measures) Bill 2006 [passed by the House of
Representatives on 7 February 2007]
The following bills were passed
- Australian Securities and Investments Commission Amendment
(Audit Inspection) Bill 2006 [This bill will now be assented
to]
- Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Bill 2006
[This bill will now be assented to]
- Law and Justice Legislation Amendment (Marking of Plastic
Explosives) Bill 2006 [This bill will now be assented to]
- Statute Law Revision Bill (No. 2) 2006 [2007] [The House of
Representatives will now consider this bill]
- Tax Laws Amendment (2006 Measures No. 6) Bill 2006 [This bill
will now be assented to]
See Committees for details of reports
relating to legislation
Delegated legislation
See Disallowance
Alert for a complete list of notices of motion to disallow (and
outcomes)
Motion to disallow defeated
The Senate did not agree to a motion
proposed by Senator Siewert which would have disallowed an
instrument that determines the Australian national catch
allocation for southern bluefin tuna for the 2006/2007 season.
[first
speaker]
Notices of motion withdrawn
The Chairman of the Standing Committee on Regulations and
Ordinances withdrew notices of motion to disallow the following
instruments:
-
regulations to amend the A New Tax System (Commonwealth-State
Financial Arrangements) Regulations 2003 by extending the years for
transitional GST assistance to 30 June 2009
-
determination providing guidelines for the exercise of the
power to give public interest certificates for the purposes of
paragraph 208(1)(a) of the Social Security (Administration) Act
1999 by the Secretary of the Department of Employment and Workplace
Relations
See Documents for details of instruments
[Clerk’s documents] tabled
Committees
For scheduled public
committee hearings
For committee
reports
Estimates
Additional information arising from estimates hearings was
tabled
- Community Affairs Committee–budget estimates 2006-07
- Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the
Arts Committee–supplementary budget estimates 2006-07
- Finance and Public Administration Committee–budget and
supplementary budget estimates 2006-07
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
Committee–supplementary budget estimates 2006-07
- Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport
Committee–supplementary budget estimates 2006-07
Reports tabled
Reports on legislation were tabled as follows:
-
Bankruptcy Legislation Amendment (Superannuation Contributions)
Bill 2006–Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee
-
Customs Legislation Amendment (Augmenting Offshore Powers and
Other Measures) Bill 2006–Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Committee
-
Non-Proliferation Legislation Amendment Bill 2006–Foreign
Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee
- Other reports were tabled as follows:
- Community Affairs Committee–Funding
and operation of the Commonwealth-State/Territory Disability
Agreement
Documents tabled
- Administration of Indigenous Affairs–Former Select
Committee–Additional information
- Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land
Fund Account–Former Joint Committee–Additional
information
- Regulations and Ordinances Standing Committee –Delegated
legislation monitor–Disallowable legislative instruments
tabled in the Senate in 2006
Establishment of committee
The Senate agreed to
establish the Joint Committee on the Australian Commission for
Law Enforcement Integrity.
New inquiries
Selection of Bills Committee reports
The Senate adopted reports
1 and
2 of 2007 of the Selection of Bills Committee, and referred the
following:
- Aged Care Amendment (Security and Protection) Bill
2007–Community Affairs Committee–to report by 14 March
2007
- AusCheck Bill 2006–Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Committee–to report by 14 March 2007
- Human Services (Enhanced Service Delivery) Bill
2007–Finance and Public Administration Committee–to
report by 15 March 2007
- Tax Laws Amendment (2006 Measures No. 7) Bill
2006–Economics Committee–to report by 27 February
2007
Other references
The Senate referred
matters relating to the current level of academic standards of
school education to the Employment, Workplace Relations and
Education Committee for report by 15 August 2007.
Proposed reference
The Senate did not agree to refer
matters relating to the impact of the proposed dam on the Mary
River at Traveston Crossing in Queensland to the Rural and Regional
Affairs and Transport Committee. [First
speaker]:
Meetings during Senate sittings
The Senate authorised various committees to meet while the
Senate is sitting. [see Journals entries nos
18 and
19]
Membership
The Senate agreed to
various changes to committee membership.
Other debates and motions
The Senate did not agree to motions
about:
The Senate debated a motion about human activity and climate
change which was moved by Senator Wong. [first
speaker]
Notices of motion
For other
notices of motion not mentioned elsewhere
Orders for the production of documents
Notice of motion given
Senator Siewert gave a
notice of motion to require the Minister representing the
Minister for the Environment and Water Resources to table any
briefing packages produced by the Department of Environment and
Heritage relating to the Hope Downs Iron Ore Project.
Documents
The following documents were tabled:
Also in the Senate yesterday
- Questions without notice and debate on issues arising in
Question Time [first
question]
- Government documents, committee reports, government responses
and Auditor-General’s reports were discussed
- Adjournment debate [first
speaker]
Statistics
Statistics on the work of the Senate this week will be available
in the Statistical
Summary, which forms part of StatsNet–the
Department of the Senate’s online statistical collection.
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