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This document is issued as a guide to senators.
   
The business listed is subject to change.
   
ORDER OF BUSINESS
   
   
(Question time to be televised live)
   
2008-09/101
   
MONDAY, 23 NOVEMBER 2009
   
AT 12.30 pm
 
 
 
 
 
   
   
1. Prayers
 
   
Commenced 12:30 PM

Leave to meet during sitting

Standing Committee of Privileges to be authorised to hold a private meeting otherwise than in accordance with standing order 33(1) during the sitting of the Senate today and Tuesday, 24 November 2009

 

   
Commenced 12:31 PM
Agreed to 
2. Government business – orders of the day
   
No. 1–Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] [homepage]
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2] [homepage]
Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority Bill 2009 [No. 2] [homepage]
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges—Customs) Bill 2009 [No. 2] [homepage]
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges—Excise) Bill 2009 [No. 2] [homepage]
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges—General) Bill 2009 [No. 2] [homepage]
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) Bill 2009 [No. 2] [homepage]
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2] [homepage]
Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2] [homepage]
Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2] [homepage]
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Amendment (Household Assistance) Bill 2009 [No. 2] [homepage]
– Resumption of debate on second reading and amendment moved by the Leader of the Australian Greens (Senator Bob Brown)
   
Commenced 12:31 PM
Debate in progress 
No. 2–Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Re-registration of Providers and Other Measures) Bill 2009 [homepage] – Resumption of second reading debate
   
No. 3–Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Income Support for Students) Bill 2009 [homepage] – Consideration in committee of the whole of message no. 448 from the House of Representatives
   
No. 4–Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Measures No. 5) Bill 2009 [homepage] – Resumption of second reading debate
   
No. 5–Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Budget Measures No. 2) Bill 2009 [homepage]
Income Tax (TFN Withholding Tax (ESS)) Bill 2009 [homepage]
– Resumption of second reading debate
   
No. 6–Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Bill 2009 [homepage] – Resumption of second reading debate
   
Refer to Notice Paper for other orders of the day
 
   
At 2 pm
   
3. Questions
 
   
4. Motions to take note of answers
   
Time limit: 30 minutes
 
   
 
   
6. Notices of motion
   

Chairman of the Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances (Senator Wortley) to withdraw business of the Senate notice of motion no. 1 for seven sittings days after today (disallowance of the National Health Security (SSBA Standards) Amendment Determination 2009 (No. 1))

 

   
7. Placing of business
   
  • Postponement notification received prior to printing:

Senator Xenophon to postpone business of the Senate notice of motion no. 2 to 24 November 2009 (application of certain Commonwealth laws to the Church of Scientology)

   
8. Discovery of formal business
   
Business of the Senate – notice of motion –
   

No. 1 – Senator Siewert – Reference of bills and related amendments to the Community Affairs Legislation Committee (Health Legislation Amendment (Midwives and Nurse Practitioners) Bill 2009; Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Bill 2009; Midwife Professional Indemnity (Run-off Cover Support Payment) Bill 2009)

 

   
General business – notices of motion –
   
No. 595 – Senator Moore – Foreign aid support for maternal health services (notice of motion altered on 18 November 2009, pursuant to standing order 77)
   
No. 631 – Senator Xenophon, the Leader of the Australian Greens (Senator Bob Brown) and the Leader of The Nationals in the Senate (Senator Joyce) – Introduction of the Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling—Palm Oil) Bill 2009
   
No. 637 – Senator Cormann – Order for the production of documents – Legal advice on the Health Insurance Amendment (Revival of Table Items) Bill 2009
   
No. 638 – Deputy Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (Senator Mason) – Extension of time to report (financial products and services in Australia)
   
No. 639 – Senators Siewert and Macdonald – Development of an effective national threat abatement plan for Phytopthtora Cinnamomi
   
No. 641 – Chair of the Select Committee on the National Broadband Network (Senator Fisher) – Extension of time to report
   
No. 642 – Chair of the Select Committee on the National Broadband Network (Senator Fisher) – Authorising the committee to hold a private meeting otherwise than in accordance with standing order 33(1) during the sitting of the Senate today
   
No. 643 – Senator Milne – National disaster response plan
   
No. 645 – Chair of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee (Senator Trood) – Setting the reporting date for the committee’s inquiry into the security challenges facing Papua New Guinea and the island states of the southwest Pacific
 
   
9. Matter of public importance – President to announce receipt of letter from Senator Parry proposing that the following matter be submitted to the Senate for discussion:

The failure of the Rudd Labor Government’s immigration policy.

(Under standing order 75 the proposed discussion must be supported by at least four other senators)

   
Time limit: 60 minutes, or if no motions are moved
to take note of answers, 90 minutes
 
   
10. Ministerial statements
 
   
11. Tabling of documents
   
(a) By President
   
  • Documents presented on 20 November 2009:
    • Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)––Report for 2008-09
    • Health—Cataract surgery times—Data—Interim response to order for the production of documents (motion of Senator Cormann agreed to 19 November 2009)
   

(b) By ministers

 

   
(c) By senators tabling reports from committees
   
  • Chair of the Standing Committee of Privileges (Senator Brandis) to present 141st report
   
  • Chair of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works (Senator McLucas) to present the following reports:
    • 6th report of 2009 – Redevelopment of the Villawood Immigration Detention Facility
    • 7th report of 2009 – Referrals made August to October 2009
   
(d) Tabling of delegation report, by leave
   

Senator Macdonald to present report of the Australian parliamentary delegation to Tonga and Vanuatu, 22 July to 1 August 2009

   
(e) By Clerk (delegated legislation including regulations, ordinances, determinations, rules, declarations and orders – a list will be circulated in the chamber)
   
Time limit per speaker: 10 minutes
Time limit per motion: 30 minutes
Total time limit for all motions: 60 minutes
 
   
12. Committee membership, by leave
 
   
13. Messages from the House of Representatives transmitting the following bills for concurrence:
   

Appropriation (Water Entitlements and Home Insulation) Bill 2009-2010

Appropriation (Water Entitlements) Bill 2009-2010

Crimes Legislation Amendment (Serious and Organised Crime) Bill 2009

Fair Work Amendment (State Referrals and Other Measures) Bill 2009

Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Participation Requirement) Bill 2009

Higher Education Support Amendment (VET FEE-HELP and Tertiary Admission Centres) Bill 2009

Personal Property Securities (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009

Tax Laws Amendment (Resale Royalty Right for Visual Artists) Bill 2009

(these bills are not subject to the bills cut-off order)

 

   
14. Order of business – It is proposed to consider business in the following order –
   
Business of the Senate – notice of motion –
   

No. 1 – Senator Siewert – Reference of bills and related amendments to the Community Affairs Legislation Committee (Health Legislation Amendment (Midwives and Nurse Practitioners) Bill 2009; Midwife Professional Indemnity (Commonwealth Contribution) Scheme Bill 2009; Midwife Professional Indemnity (Run-off Cover Support Payment) Bill 2009)

 

   
Business of the Senate – orders of the day –
   
No. 3–Education, Employment and Workplace Relations References Committee – Report – Provision of childcare
   
No. 4–Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee – Report – Personal Property Securities (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [Provisions] (pursuant to Selection of Bills Committee report)
 
   
Government business continued (see item 2)
 
   

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The sitting of the Senate will be suspended from 6.30 pm till 7.30 pm
 

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15. Business continued (see item 14 above)
 
   
16. Adjournment proposed – 9.50 pm
 
   
17. Adjournment – not later than 10.30 pm
   
   
   
   
   

HARRY EVANS

Clerk of the Senate