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ORDER OF BUSINESS
   
   
Proceedings to be broadcast on radio
   
2008-09/105
   
MONDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 2009,
TUESDAY, 1 DECEMBER 2009 and
WEDNESDAY, 2 DECEMBER 2009
   
AT 10 am
   
   
   
   
1. Prayers
 
   
Commenced 10:00 AM

Hours of meeting

Senator Milne - motion relating to the hours of meeting

 

   
Commenced 10:01 AM
Agreed to as amended (Senate divided: Ayes 43; Noes 32)
2. Authorisation for committee to meet

Chair of the Education, Employment and Workplace Relations References Committee (Senator Humphries), by leave, to move a motion authorising the committee to meet during the sitting of the Senate today

 

   
Commenced 11:11 AM
Agreed to 
3. Selection of Bills Committee

Chair of the Selection of Bills Committee (Senator O’Brien), by leave, to present report no. 19 of 2009 and move for its adoption

 

   
Commenced 11:12 AM
Report tabled Motion to adopt the report agreed to
 
   
Commenced 11:15 AM
Agreed to 
5. Tabling of documents presented out of sitting
   

(a) Committee reports

  • Select Committee on Agricultural and Related Industries––Interim reports––Food production in Australia:
    • Second interim report relating to mining in the Liverpool Plains;
    • Third interim report relating to the Tasmanian dairy industry

(received 27 November 2009)

   
Commenced 11:12 AM
Report tabled. Motion moved to take note 

(b) Government document—Mid-year economic and fiscal outlook––2009-10––Statement by the Treasurer (Mr Swan) and the Minister for Finance and Deregulation (Mr Tanner) (received 27 November 2009)

 

   
Commenced 11:12 AM
Tabled 
Tabling of report
   
  • Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee - Interim report on import restrictions on beef
   
Commenced 11:15 AM
Report tabled 
6. Messages from the House of Representatives transmitting the following bills for concurrence:
   

Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities) Bill 2009

Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Income Support for Students) Bill 2009 [No. 2]

Statute Law Revision Bill 2009

(these bills are subject to the bills cut-off order)

 

   
Commenced 11:13 AM
Bills introduced. Debate adjourned 
7. 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]

 

– In committee: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2]

 

For previous consideration of the bill in committee of the whole, see Journals of the Senate 25 November and 26 November 2009 entry nos 71 and 73

Running sheet - revised 5

 

Govt amendments - sheet BE218

Before the committee: Nos 1 to 36

   
Commenced 11:16 AM

Suspension of sitting

 

   
Commenced 12:30 PM
Senate suspended
Government business – orders of the day continued
   

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]

 

– In committee: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2]

Running sheet - revised 5

 

Govt amendments - sheet BE218

Agreed to: Nos 1 to 36

AG amendments - sheet 5786

Negatived: Nos 5, 9, 17, 18, 21, 22, 26, 27, 31, 32, 57 and 61 (committee divided: Ayes 5; Noes 49)

Negatived: Nos 25, 33 and 54

   
Commenced 1:30 PM

Suspension of sitting

 

   
Commenced 6:30 PM
Senate suspended
Government business – orders of the day continued
   

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]

 

– In committee: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2]

 

See above for previous consideration in committee of the whole

Running sheet - revised 5

 

AG amendments - sheet 5786

Negatived: Nos 8, 35 and 36 (committee divided: Ayes 5; Noes 47)

Negatived: Nos 10, 11, 19, 20, 23, 28, 29, 34 and 62 (committee divided: Ayes 5; Noes 54)

   
Commenced 7:30 PM
Committee reported progress 
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The sitting of the Senate will be suspended at 10 pm
till 10 am, Tuesday, 1 December 2009
_________________
 
   
Commenced 10:01 PM
Senate suspended
Prayers
 
   
Commenced 10:00 AM
Tabling of documents
   
(a) By senators tabling reports from committees - Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities - Third Report - Correction
   
Commenced 10:01 AM
Document tabled 

(b) By Clerk (delegated legislation including regulations, ordinances, determinations, rules, declarations and orders - a list will be circulated in the chamber)

 

   
Commenced 10:01 AM
Documents tabled 

Leave of absence for senator

Opposition Whip, by leave, to move a motion for leave of absence for Senator Scullion

 

   
Commenced 10:01 AM
Agreed to 
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]

 

– In committee: Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2]

 

See above for previous consideration in committee of the whole

Running sheet - revised 5

 

AG amendments - sheet 5786

Negatived: Nos 12 and 52
Negatived: Nos 13 to 16 (committee divided: Ayes 6; Noes 46)

   
Commenced 10:02 AM
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The sitting of the Senate will be suspended from 12.30 pm till 1.30 pm
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Commenced 12:30 PM
Senate suspended
Government business continued
   

No. 1–Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] [homepage]

 

See above for previous consideration in committee of the whole

Running sheet - revised 5

 

AG amendments - sheet 5786

Negatived: No. 24 (committee divided: Ayes 5; Noes 49) and nos 30, 37 to 51, 53, 55, 56 and 58

Govt amendments - sheet BE242

Agreed to: Nos 6 to 24, 31, 32, 34 and 40

Nationals amendments - sheet 6030

Negatived: No. 1

Nationals amendments - sheet 6023

Negatived: No. 1

Xenophon amendments - sheet 5912

Negatived: Nos 2 to 12

Xenophon amendments - sheet 5913

Negatived: No. 1

Senators Cormann, Cash, Back, Eggleston and Adams amendments - sheet 6028 revised

Negatived: No. 1

Xenophon amendments - sheet 5916

Not proceeded with: No. 2
Negatived: No. 3

Senators Cormann, Cash, Back, Eggleston and Adams amendments - sheet 6022

Negatived: Nos 1 and 2

Govt amendments - sheet AL234

Agreed to: Nos 1 to 24

   
Commenced 1:30 PM
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The sitting of the Senate will be suspended from 6.30 pm till 7.30 pm
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Commenced 6:30 PM
Senate suspended
Government business continued
   

No. 1–Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2] [homepage]

 

See above for previous consideration in committee of the whole

Running sheet - revised 5

 

Senators Cormann, Cash, Back, Eggleston and Adams amendments - sheet 6025

Negatived: Nos 1 to 4

Govt amendments - sheet BE242

Agreed to: Nos 3 to 5, 25 to 30, 33 and 35 to 39

AG amendments - sheet 5786

Negatived: Nos 59 and 60

Nationals amendments - sheet 6023

Negatived: No. 2

   
Commenced 7:30 PM
Debate interrupted on the third reading of the bills (except for 2 bills agreed to subject to requests)

Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2] [homepage]

Running sheet

 

AG amendments - sheet 5862

Negatived: Nos 1 to 11

Not proceeded with: Nos 12 to 16

Govt amendments - sheet AL232

Agreed to: Nos 1 to 7

Govt amendments - sheet BE204

Agreed to: Nos 1 to 8

Govt amendments - sheet BE219

Agreed to: Nos 1 to 4

   

Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority Bill 2009 [No. 2] [homepage]

Govt amendments - sheet AL233

Agreed to: Nos 1 and 2

   

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]

Govt requests for amendments - sheet AL239

Agreed to: Nos 1 to 13

   

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]

Govt requests and amendments - sheet CJ229

Agreed to: Nos 1 to 45

   

Motion moved that the report of the committee be adopted:

Family First amendment to the motion - negatived

 

Senator Xenophon amendment to the motion - negatived

   

_________________

If the Senate is sitting at 10 pm, the sitting shall be suspended until 10 am, Wednesday, 2 December 2009

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Commenced 10:00 PM
Senate suspended
Prayers
 
   
Commenced 10:00 AM
Government business - It is proposed to consider the following orders of the day subject to agreement to rearrange the business on the Notice Paper
   

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) (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]

 

   
Commenced 10:01 AM
Negatived at third reading Senate divided on the third reading of the bills (Ayes 33; Noes 41)
Messages from the House of Representatives returning the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) Bill 2009 [No. 2] and Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Amendment (Household Assistance) Bill 2009 [No. 2] and informing the Senate that the House has made the amendments requested by the Senate to each bill
Minister to move the third reading of the bills
   
Commenced 11:55 AM
Negatived at third reading Senate divided on the third reading of the bills (Ayes 32; Noes 41)

Rearrangement

The question for the adjournment of the Senate shall be proposed after the Senate has considered the following government business orders of the day:

No. 2–Appropriation (Water Entitlements and Home Insulation) Bill 2009-2010 and a related bill
No. 8–Fair Work Amendment (State Referrals and Other Measures) Bill 2009

No. 3–Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Budget Measures No. 2) Bill 2009 and a related bill

   
Commenced 12:03 PM
Agreed to 
Government business continued
   

No. 2–Appropriation (Water Entitlements and Home Insulation) Bill 2009-2010 [homepage]

Appropriation (Water Entitlements) Bill 2009-2010 [homepage]

   
Commenced 12:03 PM
Bills passed without amendments 
No. 8–Fair Work Amendment (State Referrals and Other Measures) Bill 2009 [homepage]
   
Commenced 12:14 PM
Bill passed without amendments 

No. 3–Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Budget Measures No. 2) Bill 2009 [homepage]

Income Tax (TFN Withholding Tax (ESS)) Bill 2009 [homepage]

 

   
Commenced 12:24 PM
Bills passed without amendments 
Messages from the House of Representatives
   
  • notifying a change in the membership of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties
   
Commenced 12:26 PM
Message reported 
  • transmitting the following bills for concurrence:

Bankruptcy Legislation Amendment Bill 2009
Health Insurance Amendment (New Zealand Overseas Trained Doctors) Bill 2009
Trade Practices Amendment (Infrastructure Access) Bill 2009

(these bills are subject to the bills cut-off order)

   
Commenced 12:26 PM
Bills introduced. Debate adjourned 
Next meeting of Senate

Manager of Government Business (Senator Ludwig) to move a motion relating to the next meeting of the Senate

 

   
Commenced 12:27 PM
Agreed to 
Leave of absence

Manager of Government Business (Senator Ludwig) to move a motion to grant leave of absence to all senators

 

   
Commenced 12:28 PM
Agreed to 

Valedictory statement by the President

 

   
Commenced 12:28 PM

Variation to hours of meeting

Senate to continue sitting between 12.30 and 12.40 pm

 

   
Commenced 12:30 PM
Agreed to 

Valedictory statements

 

   
Commenced 12:30 PM
Adjournment
   
Commenced 12:37 PM
Senate adjourned
   
   
   
   

HARRY EVANS

Clerk of the Senate