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No. 67/2008
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The Senate met from 9.30am until 7.15pm
The
Senate will meet again on 10 November
2008. Senate committees will meet from 20 to 23 October
2008 to consider supplementary
budget estimates.
Legislation
Bills and related documents available on BillsNet <www.aph.gov.au/bills/index.htm>
Bills considered
The following bills were introduced
- Dairy Adjustment Levy Termination Bill 2008
- Financial System Legislation Amendment (Financial Claims Scheme
and Other Measures) Bill 2008 and 2 related bills
- Trade Practices Amendment (Clarity in Pricing) Bill 2008
[passed by the House of Representatives on 15 October 2008]
The following bills were exempted from the cut-off order [to
enable consideration in this period of sittings]
- Archives Amendment Bill 2008
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Radio) Bill
2008
- Financial System Legislation Amendment (Financial Claims Scheme
and Other Measures) Bill 2008 and 2 related bills
- International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2008
The following bills were debated
- Offshore Petroleum Amendment (Greenhouse Gas Storage) Bill 2008
and 3 related bills–second reading continued [first
speaker]
The following bill was agreed to with requests
- Family Law Amendment (De Facto Financial Matters and Other
Measures) Bill 2008–34 Government amendments and 20
Government requests for amendments agreed to [The House of
Representatives will now consider whether to make the
amendments requested by the Senate]
The following bills were passed
- Archives Amendment Bill 2008 [The House of Representatives will
now consider this bill]
- Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Radio) Bill 2008
[The House of Representatives will now consider this bill]
- Financial System Legislation Amendment (Financial Claims Scheme
and Other Measures) Bill 2008 and 2 related bills [These bills will
now be assented to]
- International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2008 [This
bill will now be assented to]
- Tax Laws Amendment (Medicare Levy Surcharge Thresholds) Bill
(No. 2) 2008–6 Australian Greens/Senator Xenophon
amendments and 1 Australian Greens amendment agreed to [The House
of Representatives will now consider the amendments made by the
Senate–see Journals entries nos
21 and
25]
Committees
For scheduled public
committee hearings
For committee
reports
Estimates
The following additional information arising from the 2008-09
budget estimates hearings was tabled:
- Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee
- Environment, Communications and the Arts Committee
- Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee
Reports tabled
- Community Affairs Committee–Building
trust: Supporting families through disability trusts
- Publications Committee–6th
Report [report adopted]
- Treaties Joint Committee–95th
Report–Treaties tabled on 4, 17 and 25 June and 26 August
2008
Documents tabled
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
Committee–Australia’s involvement in peacekeeping
operations–Addendum
New inquiry
Selection of Bills Committee report
The Senate adopted
report no. 14 of the Selection of Bills Committee, and made the
following references:
- Aged Care Amendment (2008 Measures No. 2) Bill
2008–Community Affairs Committee–to report by 20
November 2008
Reporting date extended
The Senate agreed to extend the reporting date for the inquiry
of the Agricultural and Related Industries Select Committee into
pricing and supply arrangements in the Australian and global
fertiliser market to 2 December 2008.
Membership
The Senate agreed to
various changes to committee membership.
Documents
Delegated legislation
See Disallowance
Alert for a complete list of notices of motion to disallow (and
outcomes)
-
Clerk’s documents were tabled [legislative instruments
and other documents required by statute to be tabled]
Orders for the production of documents–Orders
with continuing effect
Departmental and agency appointments
A statement of compliance for the Environment, Heritage and the
Arts portfolio was tabled [Lists of appointments made and existing
vacancies are
required to be tabled 7 days before the commencement of budget,
supplementary budget and additional estimates hearings]
Departmental and agency grants
Statements of compliance for the Health and Ageing portfolio and
the Heritage and the Arts portfolio were tabled [Lists of all
grants approved are
required to be tabled 7 days before the commencement of budget,
supplementary budget and additional estimates hearings]
Documents tabled
- Auditor-General–Audit
report no. 7 of 2008-09
- Australian National Audit Office–Report for 2007-08
- Department of Parliamentary Services–Report for
2007-08
- Department of the Senate–Report for 2007-08
- Parliamentary Service Commissioner–Report for
2007-08
- A
petition and a petitioning document
Documents discussed
Government documents, committee reports, government responses
and Auditor-General’s reports were discussed
Ministerial statement tabled
The Minister for Human Services (Senator Ludwig) tabled a
ministerial statement about the Australian Youth Forum.
Other business
Questions without notice and issues arising during question
time–first
question
Adjournment debate–first
speaker
Motions agreed to
Statement by President
The President made a
statement relating to the formal accreditation of Parliament
House as a breastfeeding friendly workplace by the Australian
Breastfeeding Association.
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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Online
The Senate Daily Summary is available on
the Internet at www.aph.gov.au/senate
It is issued by the Senate Table Office as a
convenient summary of each day's proceedings in the Senate. For a
complete account see the official record, the Journals of the
Senate, on the Internet at http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/pubs/index.htm
Related resources
The Order of Business (or ‘Senate
Red') and the Dynamic Red (which updates the Order of
Business throughout the sitting day) are also available on the
Internet at www.aph.gov.au/senate
Contact details
Inquiries, comments and suggestions:
phone 6277 3021
e-mail: sds@aph.gov.au