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No. 22/2007
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The Senate met from 12.30pm until 10.09pm
Legislation
Bills and related documents available on BillsNet <www.aph.gov.au/bills/index.htm>
Bills considered
The following bills were introduced
- Food Safety (Trans Fats) Bill 2007 [private senator’s
bill]
- Health Insurance Amendment (Provider Number Review) Bill 2007
[passed by the House of Representatives on 22 March 2007]
The following bill was debated
- Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment
(Welfare to Work and Vocational Rehabilitation Services) Bill
2006–second reading debate commenced [first
speaker]
The following bill was passed
- Native Title Amendment Bill 2006–5 further Government
amendments and 1 Australian Democrats amendment agreed to
[The House of Representatives will now consider the
amendments made by the Senate]
Notices of motion
To introduce a bill
- Workplace Relations (Restoring Family Work Balance) Amendment
Bill 2007–notice given by the Leader of the Family First
Party (Senator Fielding) [private senator’s bill]
To exempt a bill from the cut-off order [to enable consideration
in this period of sittings]
- Migration Amendment (Border Integrity) Bill 2006–notice
given by the Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation
(Senator Abetz)
To consider bills together
The Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation (Senator
Abetz) gave a notice of motion to allow the following bills to be
considered together:
- Tax Laws Amendment (2006 Measures No. 7) Bill 2006
- Tax Laws Amendment (2007 Measures No. 1) Bill 2007
Message from the House of Representatives
- Non-Proliferation Legislation Amendment Bill 2006
[2007]–agreeing to the bill without amendment [This bill will
now be assented to]
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)
Notice of motion to disallow given
Senator Siewert gave a notice of motion to disallow an
instrument that determines the overcatch and undercatch for the
2007 fishing year in the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark
Fishery.
See Documents for details of instruments
[Clerk’s documents] tabled
Committees
For scheduled public
committee hearings
For committee
reports
Estimates
The Senate agreed to
modify the committee groupings for estimates hearings.
Reports tabled
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint
Committee–Australia’s
relationship with Malaysia
- Treaties Joint Committee–83rd
report–Treaties tabled on 20 June, 17 October,
28 November 2006 and CO 2 sequestration in sub-seabed
formations [This report was debated–
first speaker]
Documents tabled
- Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Legislation Amendment
Bill 2006–Employment, Workplace Relations and Education
Committee–Additional information
Proposed references
The Senate did not agree to refer matters relating to a
national plan for water security to the Rural and Regional
Affairs and Transport Committee. [first
speaker]
Notice of motion
A notice of motion was given to authorise the Legal and
Constitutional Affairs Committee to hold a meeting while the Senate
is sitting on Thursday, 29 March 2007 from 5.30pm to take evidence
for the committee’s inquiry into the Migration Amendment
(Maritime Crew) Bill 2007.
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 the
2 agencies were tabled [Letters of advice about certain files
created by departments and agencies are required
to be tabled twice a year]
Documents tabled
-
Clerk’s documents [legislative instruments and other
documents required by statute to be tabled]
- Visit by the President of the Senate to Cambodia and Vietnam,
14 to 23 February 2007–Report
-
3 petitions
Other business
Questions without notice and issues arising during question
time–first
question
Adjournment debate–first
speaker
Motion agreed to
Motions negatived
Statement by the President
The President made a
statement relating to the conduct of question time and
supplementary questions asked by Senators Fierravanti-Wells and
Nash on 22 March 2007.
Notices of motion
Notices of motion given today are available in the Senate
Journals.
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