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No. 60/2007
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The Senate met from 12.30pm until 10.30pm
Senators
The President announced the resignation on 29 August 2007 of
Senator Paul Calvert.
Senator David Bushby was sworn in as a Senator for Tasmania to
fill the vacancy.
Legislation
Bills and related documents available on BillsNet <www.aph.gov.au/bills/index.htm>
Bills considered
The following bill was introduced
- Federal Magistrates Amendment (Disability and Death Benefits)
Bill 2007 [passed by the House of Representatives on 9 August
2007]
The following bill was debated
- Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Protecting Services
for Rural and Regional Australia into the Future) Bill 2007 Second
reading agreed to and bill debated in committee of the whole. Third
reading debate commenced
The following bill was passed
- Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Testing) Bill
2007
2 Government amendments agreed to [The House of
Representatives will now consider the amendments made by the
Senate]
Notices of motion
To vary the hours of meeting
A
notice was given by the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and
Conservation (Senator Abetz) to vary the hours of meeting for 11
September 2007 to allow the Government's legislative program to be
considered.
To introduce bills
- Northern Territory National Emergency Response Amendment
(Alcohol) Bill 2007 notice given by the Minister for Fisheries,
Forestry and Conservation (Senator Abetz)
- Workplace Relations (Guaranteeing Paid Maternity Leave)
Amendment Bill 2007 notice given by Senator Stott Despoja [private
senator's bill]
To exempt a bill from the cut-off order [to enable consideration
this period of sittings]
- Northern Territory National Emergency Response Amendment
(Alcohol) Bill 2007 notice given by the Minister for Fisheries,
Forestry and Conservation (Senator Abetz)
Bills assented to
Assent to a number of laws was reported in the Senate
See Committees for details of reports
relating to legislation
Delegated legislation
See Disallowance
Alert for a complete list of notices of motion to disallow (and
outcomes)
See Documents for details of instruments
[Clerk's documents] tabled
Committees
For scheduled public
committee hearings
For committee
reports
Reports tabled
Reports on legislation
- Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Democratic Plebiscites) Bill
2007 Finance and Public Administration Committee
Interim report and
report
- Defence Legislation Amendment Bill 2007 Foreign Affairs,
Defence and Trade Committee
Interim report and
report
-
Health Insurance Amendment (Medicare Dental Services) Bill 2007
Community Affairs Committee
- Higher Education Endowment Fund Bill 2007 and a related bill
Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Committee
Interim report and
report
- Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment (Cape York
Measures) Bill 2007 Employment, Workplace Relations and Education
Committee
Interim report and
report
-
National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Bill 2007 Environment,
Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Committee
- Tax Laws Amendment (2007 Measures No. 5) Bill 2007 Economics
Committee
Interim report and
report
-
Trade Practices Amendment (Small Business Protection) Bill 2007
Economics Committee
Other reports
- Economics Committee Private equity investment in Australia
Report and revised additional comments
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee Reforms to
Australia 's military justice system:
Third progress report
- Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee Unauthorised
disclosure of committee proceedings
Documents tabled
- Northern Territory National Emergency Response Bill 2007 and 4
related bills Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Additional
information
Government responses tabled
Government responses to the following reports were tabled
- Corporations and Financial Services Joint committee Timeshare:
The price of leisure
- Intelligence and Security Joint Committee Review of
administration and expenditure: Australian intelligence
organisations Number 4: Recruitment and training
Notices of motion given
To hold meetings when the Senate is sitting:
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee 13 September 2007
from 4.00pm Australia's involvement in international peacekeeping
operations
- Public Works Joint Committee 13 September 2007 from 9.30 am to
11.45 am refurbishment of staff apartments at the Australian
embassy complex in Tokyo, Japan
To refer a matter to a committee:
-
Australia-Russia Nuclear Cooperation Agreement Treaties Joint
Committee to report by 3 December 2007
Membership
The Senate agreed to
various changes to committee membership.
Documents
Orders for the production of documents Orders with
continuing effect
Indexed lists of departmental and agency files published on the
Internet
Statements of compliance for
various agencies were tabled [Letters of advice about certain
files created by departments and agencies are required
to be tabled twice a year]
Departmental and agency contracts published on the Internet
Statements of compliance for
various agencies were 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]
Unproclaimed legislation
A document was tabled showing details of unproclaimed Acts,
together with a statement of reasons for non-proclamation and a
timetable for their operation [Standing
order 139(2) requires tabling before 31 August each year]
Documents tabled
-
Clerk's documents [legislative instruments and other documents
required by statute to be tabled, including Governor-General's
Proclamations]
-
Government documents
- Response to a Senate
resolution about the report of the Legal and Constitutional
Affairs Committee entitled Unfinished business: Indigenous stolen
wages from the Premier of Western Australia (Mr Carpenter)
[resolution agreed to on 21 June 2007]
-
2 petitions
Other business
Questions without notice and issues arising during question time
first question
Adjournment debate
first speaker
Motions negatived
Notices of motion
Notices of motion given today are available in the Senate
Journals.
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Online
The Senate Daily Summary is available on the Internet
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It is issued by the Senate Table Office as a convenient summary
of each day's proceedings in the Senate. For a complete account see
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Internet at http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/pubs/index.htm
Related resources
The Order of Business (or Senate Red') and the
Dynamic Red (which updates the Order of Business
throughout the sitting day) are also available on the Internet at
www.aph.gov.au/senate
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