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No. 57/2010
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
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Legislation
For bills and
related documents
Bills introduced
- Corporations Amendment (No. 1) Bill 2010 [passed by the House
of Representatives on 26 October 2010]
- Defence Legislation Amendment (Security of Defence Premises)
Bill 2010 [passed by the House of Representatives on
26 October 2010]
- Education Services for Overseas Students Legislation Amendment
Bill 2010 [Senate bill]
- Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2010 [passed by
the House of Representatives on 26 October 2010]
- National Health and Hospitals Network Bill 2010 [passed by the
House of Representatives on 27 October 2010]
Notice of motion to introduce a private senator’s
bill
- Social Security Amendment (Income Support for Regional
Students) Bill 2010–notice given by Senator Nash
Committees
For scheduled public
committee hearings
For committee
reports
Reports tabled
- Appropriations and Staffing Committee–Annual
report for 2009-10
- Environment and Communications References
Committee–Green
Loans Program [a motion to take note of the report was debated
and agreed to–first
speaker]
- Procedure Committee–Third
report of 2010 – Question time – temporary order;
Correction of divisions after misadventure; Procedure for
consideration of private senators’ bills
- Scrutiny of Bills Committee–PDF
271KB of 2010 and
PDF 1293KB of 2010 [contain assessments of bills on civil
liberties and related grounds] [a
motion to take note of the report was agreed to]
New inquiries
Selection of Bills Committee report
The Senate adopted
report no. 12 of the Selection of Bills Committee, and referred
the Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling—Palm Oil)
Bill 2010 to the Community Affairs Legislation Committee for report
by the fourth sitting day in 2011.
Other reference
The Senate referred
matters relating to the impacts of rural wind farms to the
Community Affairs References Committee to report by 30 April
2011.
Private meetings
The Senate authorised the following private meetings to be held
while the Senate is sitting otherwise than in accordance with
standing order 33(1):
- Economics Legislation Committee–28 October 2010 from 3.00
pm
- Gambling Reform Joint Select Committee–27 October 2010
from 4.30 pm
Notices of motion to refer matters to
committees
- Competition within the Australian banking
sector–Economics References Committee–to report by 31
March 2011–notice given by Senators Xenophon and Bushby
- Matters relating to forced adoptions–Community Affairs
References Committee–to report by 30 April 2011–notice
given by Senator Siewert
- Poker Machine Harm Reduction Tax (Administration) Bill 2008
[2010] and the Poker Machine (Reduced Losses—Interim
Measures) Bill 2010–Gambling Reform Joint Select
Committee–notice given by Senator Fifield
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]
Approval of determinations
The Senate approved the following determinations made under section
10B(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973:
- Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net) Amendment
Determination 2010 (No. 2) [homepage]
- Health Insurance (Extended Medicare Safety Net –
Midwives) Amendment Determination 2010 [homepage]
Orders for the production of documents
Document tabled
An audit report by PricewaterhouseCoopers into the Green Loans
Program was tabled in response to the order of the Senate agreed to
on
26 October 2010.
Orders with continuing effect
Indexed lists of departmental and agency files published on the
Internet
Statements of compliance for
various agencies were tabled [Letters of advice about certain
files created by departments and agencies are required
to be tabled twice a year]
Documents tabled
Ministerial statements
The Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water
(Senator Farrell) tabled a ministerial statement about better
superannuation for Australia.
The motion to take note of the
ministerial statement tabled on 25 October
2010–Afghanistan: No safe haven was further debated and
agreed to [first
speaker].
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 negatived
The Senate did not agree to a motion moved by Senators Senator
Siewert and Xenophon about
food labelling standards.
Matter of public importance discussed
Notices of motion
Notices of motion given today are available in the Senate
Journals.
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