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No. 44/2009
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The Senate met from 9.30am until 5.36pm
Legislation
Bills and related documents available on BillsNet <www.aph.gov.au/bills/index.htm>
Bills considered
The following bill was debated
The following bills were introduced, debated and passed
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Guarantee of State and Territory Borrowing Appropriation Bill
2009–1 Opposition amendment agreed to [The House of
Representatives will now consider the
amendment made by the Senate]
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Private Health Insurance (National Joint Replacement Register
Levy) Bill 2009 [This bill will now be assented to]
The following bills were passed
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Defence Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2009
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Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (2008 Budget
and Other Measures) Bill 2009 and a related bill
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Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Child Care) Bill
2009
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Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Australian
Apprentices) Bill 2009
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Social Security Legislation Amendment (Digital Television
Switch-over) Bill 2009
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Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Measures No. 3) Bill 2009
[These bills will now be assented to]
The following bill was defeated by a majority vote
Notice of motion to introduce a private senator’s
bill
Bill assented to
Assent to a law was reported in the Senate
See Committees for details of reports
relating to legislation
Committees
For scheduled public
committee hearings
For committee
reports
Reports tabled
Report on legislation
Other report
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Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee–Exposure draft
of the Personal Property Securities Bill 2008
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Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport
Committee–Implementation, operation and administration of the
legislation underpinning carbon sink forests [a motion take note of
response was debated and agreed to –
first speaker]
New inquiries
Selection of Bills Committee report
The Senate adopted
report no. 9 of the Selection of Bills Committee, and made the
following references:
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Building and Construction Industry Improvement Amendment
(Transition to Fair Work) Bill 2009–Education, Employment and
Workplace Relations Legislation Committee–to report by
10 September 2009
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Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment Bill 2009 and a related
bill–Economics Legislation Committee–to report by 12
August 2009
Meetings during the sitting of the Senate
The Senate authorised the following meetings to be held while
the Senate is sitting:
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Economics References Committee–22 and 23 June 2009 from
7.30pm–Foreign investment in Australia
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Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee–18
June 2009 from 3.45pm––Major economic and security
challenges facing Papua New Guinea and the island states of the
southwest Pacific–In camera hearing
Reporting dates extended
The Senate extended reporting dates for the following
inquiries:
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Community Affairs Legislation Committee–National
registration and accreditation scheme for doctors and other health
workers–to report by 6 August 2009
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Economics References Committee–Foreign investment in
Australia–to report by 17 September 2009
-
Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References
Committee–Natural resource management and conservation
challenges–to report by 11 August 2009
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)
Notice of motion to disallow given
The Chair of the Standing Committee on Regulations and
Ordinances gave a notice of motion to disallow the
Aviation Transport Security Amendment Regulations 2009 (No.
1).
Orders for the production of documents
Motion agreed to
The Senate
ordered the Minister for Employment Participation (Senator
Arbib) to table documents relating to the Employment Services
Contract 2009-12 by no later than 5.00pm on 22 June 2009.
Document tabled
Documents discussed
Government documents, committee reports, government responses
and Auditor-General’s reports were discussed.
Other business
Questions without notice and issues arising during question
time–first
question
Adjournment debate–first
speaker
Motions agreed to
Ruling by the President
The Leader of the Australian Greens (Senator Bob Brown) objected
to a
ruling by the President that a child of a senator be removed
from the chamber [see Journals entry
no. 38].
Notices of motion
Notices of motion given today are available in the Senate
Journals.
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
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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
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