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No. 665 – Senator Cormann and Barnett – Order for the production of documents – Government response to all recommendations in the report of the National Preventative Health Taskforce
    
Commenced 10:00 AM
Agreed to Senate divided: Ayes 37; Noes 35
No. 667 – Senator Siewert – Order for the production of documents – Transcripts of consultation meetings held under the Northern Territory Emergency Response Redesign Consultation process
    
Commenced 10:48 AM
Negatived 
No. 673 – Senator Milne – Order for the production of documents – Research paper, The brave new world of carbon trading
    
Commenced 10:44 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 moved to take note 
No. 2–Select Committee on the National Broadband Network – Third report
 
    
Commenced 11:59 AM
Report tabled. Motion moved to take note Senate divided on the motion to adopt the recommendation contained in the report (Ayes 36; Noes 34)
12. Ministerial statements
  • Minister to table a statement relating to White Ribbon Day (tabled in the House of Representatives on 25 November 2009)
    
Commenced 3:33 PM
Document tabled 

Documents tabled in relation to orders for the production of documents

 

    
Commenced 3:41 PM
Documents tabled 
13. Government responses to parliamentary committee reports
    
  • Minister to present the Government’s response to the President’s report of 25 June 2009 on government responses outstanding to parliamentary committee reports
    
Commenced 3:54 PM
Response tabled 
  • Minister to present the government’s response to the report of the Community Affairs References Committee – Lost innocents and forgotten Australians revisited: Report on the progress with the implementation of the recommendations of the lost innocents and forgotten Australians reports
    
Commenced 3:54 PM
Response tabled 
14. Tabling of documents
    
  • Report to the Senate on government responses outstanding to parliamentary committee reports
    
Commenced 3:56 PM
Document tabled 
  • Register of Senate senior executive officers’ interests, incorporating notifications of alterations of interests of Senate senior executive officers lodged between 23 June and 23 November 2009
    
Commenced 3:56 PM
Document tabled 
  • Reports of the Auditor-General:
    • No. 14 of 2009-10 – Performance audit – Agencies’ contract management: Australian Federal Police, Austrade and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (tabled in the House of Representatives on 25 November 2009)
    • No. 15 of 2009-10 – Performance audit – AusAID’s management of the expanding Australian aid program
    
Commenced 3:57 PM
Tabled 
  • Particulars of proposed additional expenditure—Minister, by leave, to move motion to refer particulars of proposed additional expenditure to committees
    
Commenced 3:57 PM
Documents tabled Motion to refer the particulars to committees agreed to
  • Portfolio additional estimates statements for portfolio and executive departments
    
Commenced 3:58 PM
Documents tabled 
  • Statements relating to orders for production of documents
    • Carbon dioxide storage
    • Health Legislation Amendment (Midwives and Nurse Practitioners) Bill 2009 and related bills
    
Commenced 3:58 PM
Documents tabled 
  • Documents relating to travel:
    • Parliamentarians’ travel paid by the Department of Finance and Deregulation for the period 1 January to 30 June 2009
    • Former parliamentarians’ travel paid by the Department of Finance and Deregulation for the period 1 January to 30 June 2009
    • Parliamentarians’ overseas study travel reports for the period 1 January to 30 June 2009
    • Schedule of special purpose flights paid by the Department of Defence for the period 1 January to 30 June 2009, and errata to the schedule of special purpose flights from 1 January to 30 June 2008
    
Commenced 3:58 PM
Documents tabled 
  • Chair of the Selection of Bills Committee (Senator O’Brien), by leave, to present report no. 18 of 2009 and move for its adoption
    
Commenced 3:59 PM
Report tabled Motion to adopt the report agreed to
  • Chair of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee (Senator Barnett) to present an interim report relating to the following inquiries:
    • Access to justice
    • Australia’s judicial system and the role of judges
    
Commenced 3:59 PM
Report tabled Motion to adopt the recommendations extending the reporting dates agreed to
  • Select Committee on Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities – Third report
    
Commenced 4:02 PM
Report tabled. Motion moved to take note 
  • Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee – Report – Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2009 (pursuant to Selection of Bills Committee report)
    
Commenced 4:01 PM
Report tabled 
  • Finance and Public Administration References Committee – Report – The relationship between the Central Land Council and Centrecorp Aboriginal Investment Corporation Pty Ltd
    
Commenced 4:03 PM
Report tabled. Motion moved to take note 
  • Economics Legislation Committee – Report – Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling Laws) Bill 2009 (pursuant to Selection of Bills Committee report)
    
Commenced 4:02 PM
Report tabled 

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

    
Commenced 4:01 PM
Documents tabled