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No. 4/2008
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The Senate will meet again on 11 March 2008 . Senate committees will meet from 18 to 22 February next week to consider additional estimates.
National Apology to the Stolen Generations
The motion to take note of the apology was further debated and agreed to.
Legislation
Bills and related documents available on BillsNet www.aph.gov.au/bills/index.htm
Bills considered
The following bills were introduced
Bills restored to the Notice Paper
The Senate agreed to restore 25 private senators’ bills to the Notice Paper at the stage reached in the last Parliament.
The following bills were exempted from the cut-off order [to enable consideration in this period of sittings]
The following bills were passed
[These bills will now be assented to]
Notice of motion to introduce a bill
Committees
For scheduled public committee hearings
New inquiries
The Senate referred the Workplace Relations Amendment (Transition to Forward with Fairness) Bill 2008 to the Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee to report by 28 April 2008.
Selection of Bills Committee report
The Senate adopted report no. 1 of 2008 of the Selection of Bills Committee, and referred the Alcohol Toll Reduction Bill 2007 to the Community Affairs Committee to report by 18 June 2008.
Reports relating to inquiries of the 41st Parliament
Recommendations made to the Senate to readopt certain inquiries not disposed of at the end of the 41st parliament, were agreed to as follows:
Establishment of select committees
The Senate established the following select committees:
Membership
The Senate agreed to the appointment of members to committees [see Journals entries nos 39 and 45] , and concurred with the resolutions of the House of Representatives relating to the appointment of joint committees.
Documents
Delegated legislation
See Disallowance Alert for a complete list of notices of motion to disallow (and outcomes)
Orders for the production of documents–Orders with continuing effect
Departmental and agency contracts published on the Internet
A statement of compliance for the Australian Research Council was tabled [Letters of advice about certain contracts valued at $100 000 or more entered into by departments and agencies are required to be tabled twice a year]
Other documents tabled
Documents discussed
Government documents, committee reports, government responses and Auditor-General’s reports were discussed
Other business
Questions without notice and issues arising during question time–first question
Adjournment debate–first speaker
Motions agreed to
Motions negatived
Motion debated
Notices of motion
Notices of motion given today are available in the Senate Journals.
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