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  • Chair of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee (Senator Barnett), by leave, to move a motion to postpone the presentation of reports to a later hour (access to justice; Australia’s judicial system and the role of judges)
    
Commenced 9:50 AM
Agreed to 
No. 1 – Senator Xenophon – Reference to the Community Affairs References Committee (application of certain Commonwealth laws to the Church of Scientology)
    
Commenced 9:51 AM
Postponed to next day of sitting 
No. 2 – Senator Johnston – Reference to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee (equity and diversity health checks in the Royal Australian Navy)
New subparagraph inserted "that the committee not conduct any hearings until after 1 February 2010"
 
    
Commenced 9:51 AM
Agreed to as amended
No. 666 – Chair of the Select Committee on Agricultural and Related Industries (Senator Heffernan) – Extensions of time to report on references (food production in Australia; and incidence and severity of bushfires across Australia)
    
Commenced 10:09 AM
Agreed to Senate divided: Ayes 36; Noes 33
No. 670 – Chair of the Environment, Communications and the Arts References Committee (Senator Birmingham) – Extension of time to report (impact of mining operations on the Murray-Darling Basin)
    
Commenced 10:53 AM
Agreed to 
6. Tabling and consideration of committee reports – pursuant to standing order 62(4)
    
  • Chair of the Standing Committee on Appropriations and Staffing (President) to present 48th report – Appointment of the Clerk of the Senate
    
Commenced 10:56 AM
Report tabled 
  • Chair of the Standing Committee on Publications (Senator Carol Brown) to present 15th report
    
Commenced 10:56 AM
Report tabled Motion to adopt the report agreed to
  • Chair of the Education, Employment and Workplace Relations References Committee (Senator Humphries) to present errata to the report of the committee on the provision of childcare
    
Commenced 10:58 AM
Document tabled 
  • Government Whip (Senator O’Brien) to present additional information received by legislation committees relating to estimates hearings:
    • Community Affairs – 2009-10 budget estimates
    • Economics – 2009-10 supplementary budget estimates
    • Finance and Public Administration – 2009-10 budget and supplementary budget estimates
    • Legal and Constitutional Affairs – 2009-10 supplementary budget estimates
    
Commenced 10:59 AM
Documents tabled 
No. 1–Education, Employment and Workplace Relations References Committee – Report – Welfare of international students
    
Commenced 11:41 AM
Report tabled Motion to take note of the report in progress
No. 2–Select Committee on the National Broadband Network – Third report
    
No. 3–Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities – Third report
    
No. 4–Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee – Report – Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2009 (pursuant to Selection of Bills Committee report)
    
No. 5–Finance and Public Administration References Committee – Report – The relationship between the Central Land Council and Centrecorp Aboriginal Investment Corporation Pty Ltd
    
No. 6–Economics Legislation Committee – Report – Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling Laws) Bill 2009 (pursuant to Selection of Bills Committee report)
 
    
  • Chair of the Selection of Bills Committee (Senator O’Brien), by leave, to present report no. 18 of 2009 and move for its adoption
    
  • Chair of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee (Senator Barnett) to present reports relating to the following inquiries:
    • Access to justice
    • Australia’s judicial system and the role of judges