<< Return to previous
page | Senate Daily Summary
No. 78/2009
Download this document (PDF 392KB)
The Senate met from 9.30am until 7.28 pm
Legislation
Bills and related documents available on BillsNet <www.aph.gov.au/bills/index.htm>
Bills considered
Motions moved by Senator Cormann to suspend standing orders
[first
speaker] and to enable consideration of a private
senators’ bill and a disallowance motion to have precedence
over government business [first
speaker] were debated and agreed to.
The Health Insurance Amendment (Revival of Table Items) Bill
2009 was then introduced, debated [first
speaker] and passed. [The House of Representatives will now
consider this bill]
Proposed exemption of bill from an order of the Senate
The Senate debated a
motion to exempt the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment
(Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009 from the order of
the Senate agreed to on
13 May 2009 [first
speaker]. The debate will continue on a future sitting day.
The following bills were introduced
-
Poker Machine (Reduced Losses—Interim Measures) Bill 2009
[private senator’s bill]
-
Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Income Support
for Students) Bill 2009 [passed by the House of Representatives on
27 October 2009]
The following bill was debated
Notices of motion given
To introduce a private senator’s bill
To vary the hours of meeting
A
notice was given by the Special Minister of State (Senator
Ludwig) to vary the hours of meeting for 16 November 2009 to
enable the Government’s legislative program to be
considered.
See Committees for details of reports
relating to legislation
Committees
For scheduled public
committee hearings
For committee
reports
Estimates
A
motion moved by Senator Fisher relating to estimates hearings
of the Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation
Committee and Fair Work Australia was agreed to.
Reports tabled
Report on legislation
Other reports
-
Intelligence and Security Joint Committee–
[a
motion to take note of the reports was agreed to]
-
Scrutiny of Bills Committee–Alert
Digest No. 13 of 2009 and
12th report of 2009 [contain assessments of bills on civil
liberties and related grounds] [a
motion to take note of the report was agreed to]
Notices of motion given
To extend reporting deadlines
-
Education, Employment and Workplace Relations References
Committee–
-
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References
Committee–Economic and security challenges facing Papua New
Guinea and the island states of the southwest Pacific–to
report by 19 November 2009
-
Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation
Committee–Crimes Amendment (Working With
Children—Criminal History) Bill 2009–to report by
17 November 2009
-
Legal and Constitutional Affairs References
Committee–Access to justice–to report by 19 November
2009
To refer matters to a committee
Documents
Delegated legislation
See Disallowance
Alert for a complete list of notices of motion to disallow (and
outcomes)
Disallowance
The Senate agreed to a motion to disallow items 42698, 42701,
42702 and 42718 in Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the Health Insurance
(General Medical Services Table) Regulations 2009, as contained in
Select Legislative Instrument 2009 No. 272 [first
speaker].
See also Bills considered, above, for details
of debate on related matters.
Approval of determination
The Senate agreed to a
motion to approve the Health Insurance (Extended Medicare
Safety Net) Determination 2009, made under section 10B(1) of the
Health Insurance Act 1973 [homepage].
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, Heritage and the Arts (Senator Wong)
to table the report of the marine survey of the environmental
impacts of the Montara oil spill and related documents by no later
than 16 November 2009.
Documents tabled
Other business
Questions without notice and issues arising during question
time–first
question
Matters of public interest debate–first
speaker
Adjournment debate–first
speaker
Motion agreed to
Motions negatived
Matter of public importance discussed
Notices of motion
Notices of motion given today are available in the Senate
Journals.
* * * * * * * * * * * *
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