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No. 26/2009
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The Senate met from 12.30pm until 8.02pm
Budget 2009-10
Budget Papers, Portfolio Budget Statements and related sites
<www.budget.gov.au>
The Minister representing the Minister for Finance and
Deregulation (Senator Sherry) tabled the
Budget statement for the year 2009-10 and associated budget
papers and ministerial statements.
Portfolio budget statements for
parliamentary and
executive departments were also tabled.
The Senate
referred budget documents to committees to enable them to
consider estimates. Estimates hearings will take place from 25 May
to 5 June 2009.
The Opposition and other parties will make their responses to
the Budget statement on Thursday, 14 May 2009.
Legislation
Bills and related documents available on BillsNet <www.aph.gov.au/bills/index.htm>
Bills considered
The following bills were introduced and exempted from the
cut-off [to enable consideration in this period of sittings]
- Excise Tariff Validation Bill 2009
Customs Tariff Validation Bill 2009
[passed by the House of Representatives on 12 May 2009]
The following bills were debated
- Australian Business Investment Partnership Bill 2009 and a
related bill second reading debate commenced [first
speaker]
Notice of motion to introduce a private senator's
bill
- Fair Work Amendment (Paid Parental Leave) Bill 2009 notice
given by Senator Hanson-Young
Bills assented to
Assent to a number of laws was reported in the Senate
See Committees for details of reports
relating to legislation
Committees
For scheduled public
committee hearings
For committee
reports
Estimates
The Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee tabled a
report on the 2008-09
additional estimates.
Reports tabled
Reports on legislation
-
Australian Business Investment Partnership Bill 2009 and a
related bill Economics Committee
- Evidence Amendment (Journalists' Privilege) Bill 2009 Legal and
Constitutional Affairs Committee
Interim report and
final report
- Exposure draft of the legislation to implement the Carbon
Pollution Reduction Scheme Economics Committee
Interim report and
final report
-
Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential
Amendments) Bill 2009 Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Committee
-
Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (2008 Budget
and Other Measures) Bill 2009 Community Affairs Committee
-
Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Enhancing Supervision
and Enforcement) Bill 2009 Economics Committee
- Law and Justice (Cross Border and Other Amendments) Bill 2009
Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee
Interim report and
final report
-
National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment Bill 2009
Finance and Public Administration Committee
- Native Title Amendment Bill 2009 Legal and Constitutional
Affairs Committee
Interim report
-
Social Security Legislation Amendment (Improved Support for
Carers) Bill 2009 Community Affairs Committee
-
Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Measures No. 2) Bill 2009 Economics
Committee
-
Uranium Royalty (Northern Territory) Bill 2008 Economics
Committee
-
Water Amendment (Saving the Goulburn and Murray Rivers) Bill
2008 Environment, Communications and the Arts Committee [a
motion was moved to take note of the report]
Other reports
- Environment, Communications and the Arts Committee Operation of
the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
1999
Interim report and
second (final) report [a motion was moved to take note of the
final report]
- Finance and Public Administration Committee
Residential and community aged care in Australia [a motion was
moved to take note of the report]
- Fuel and Energy Select Committee The CPRS: Economic cost
without environmental benefit
Interim report
- National Broadband Network Select Committee Another fork in the
road to national broadband
Second interim report [a motion to take note of the report was
debated
first speaker]
- Procedure Committee
Second report of 2009 The Senate committee system a
notice of motion was given to amend standing
order 25
Documents tabled
- Finance and Public Administration Committee Residential and
community aged care in Australia Additional information and
correction
- Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee Climate
change and the Australian agricultural sector Additional
information
- Standing Order 37(3) Access to committee documents Report to
the Senate
Government response tabled
- Employment, Workplace Relations and Education References
Committee Bridging the skills divide
New inquiry
Reporting dates extended
The Senate extended reporting dates for the following
inquiries:
- Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Native Title
Amendment Bill 2009 to report by 13 May 2009
- Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee Matters
specified in part (2) of the inquiry into the management of the
Murray-Darling Basin system to report by 22 May 2009
- Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee Natural
resource management and conservation challenges to report by
18 June 2009
Notices of motion given
To extend reporting deadlines
- Climate Policy Select Committee to report by 15 June 2009
- Community Affairs Committee Compliance audits on Medicare
benefits to report by 10 June 2009
- Economics Committee Foreign investment in Australia to report
by 17 July 2009
To hold meetings when the Senate is sitting
- Treaties Joint Committee 14 May 2009 from 9.30am
To refer matters to a committee
-
Tendering process by the Department of Education, Employment
and Workplace Relations to award employment services contracts
Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee to report
by 25 June 2009
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]
Notice of motion withdrawn
A
notice of motion to disallow the
Other Grants Guidelines (Research) 2008, made under section
238-10 of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 was
withdrawn.
Orders for the production of documents
Documents tabled
The following documents were tabled in response to orders of the
Senate:
-
documents relating to taxation on certain alcoholic drinks
[tabled in response to the order of the Senate agreed to on
4 February 2009 on the motion of Senator Cormann]
-
documents relating to private health insurance reforms [tabled
in response to the order of the Senate agreed to on
11 March 2009 on the motion of Senator Cormann]
Notice of motion given
The Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Minchin)
gave a
notice of motion to require the Minister for Broadband,
Communications and the Digital Economy (Senator Conroy) to table
documents relating to the National Broadband Network no later than
6.50pm on 13 May 2009.
Orders with continuing effect
Departmental and agency appointments
A
motion moved by Senator Cormann to amend the order was agreed
to.
Departmental and agency contracts published on the
Internet
Statements of compliance for
various agencies were tabled [Letters of advice about certain
contracts valued at $100 000 or more entered into by departments
and agencies are required
to be tabled twice a year]
Indexed lists of departmental and agency files published on
the Internet
A statement of compliance for the Australian Agency for
International Development (AusAID) was tabled [Letters of advice
about certain files created by departments and agencies are
required to be tabled twice a year]
Documents tabled
- Auditor-General
Audit reports nos 27 to 31 of 2008-09
- Government documents [see Journals entries nos
2 and
36]
- National Schools Constitutional Convention 2009, Old Parliament
House, 17 to 19 March 2009 Communiqué
- Responses to Senate resolutions about:
- bushfires in Victoria from the Premier of Victoria (Mr Brumby)
[resolution agreed to
9 February 2009]
- International Women's Day from the Acting Prime Minister (Ms
Gillard) [resolution agreed to
11 March 2009]
-
5 petitions
Ministerial statement tabled
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and
Ageing (Senator McLucas) tabled a ministerial statement about the
humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka.
Other business
Questions without notice and issues arising during question time
first question
Motion debated
The Senate discussed
issues relating to people smuggling, raised by Senator
Fierravanti-Wells as a matter of public importance. [first
speaker]
Death of Sergeant Brett Till
The Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Evans)
moved that the Senate records its deep regret at the death, on
19 March 2009, of Sergeant Brett Till, while on combat operations
in Afghanistan. The motion was supported.
Death of former senator and former members
The President informed the Senate of the deaths of a former
senator and former members:
- on 13 April 2009, John Lindsay Armitage, OAM, a member of the
House of Representatives for the divisions of Mitchell from 1961 to
1963, and Chifley from 1969 to 1983;
- on 16 March 2009, William George Burns, a member of the House
of Representatives for the division of Isaacs from 1977 to 1980;
and
- on 1 May 2009, George Conrad Hannan, a senator for the state of
Victoria from 1956 to 1965 and 1970 to 1974
motion moved by the Leader of the Government in the Senate
(Senator Evans) and supported.
Notices of motion
Notices of motion given today are available in the Senate
Journals.
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