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No. 52/2009
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The Senate met from 9.30am until 7.13pm
Legislation
Bills and related documents available on BillsNet <www.aph.gov.au/bills/index.htm>
Bills considered
The following bills were debated
- Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 and 10 related
bills–second reading debate continued [first
speaker]
See Committees for details of reports
relating to legislation
Committees
For scheduled public
committee hearings
For committee
reports
Reports tabled
Report on legislation
-
Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment Bill 2009 and a
related bill–Economics Legislation Committee
Other reports
- Scrutiny of Bills Committee–PDF
347KB of 2009 and
PDF 344KB of 2009 [contain assessments of bills on civil
liberties and related grounds]
New inquiries
Selection of Bills Committee report
The Senate adopted
report no. 11 of the Selection of Bills Committee, and made the
following references:
- Banking Amendment (Keeping Banks Accountable) Bill
2009–Economics Legislation Committee–to report by 24
November 2009
- Trade Practices Amendment (Guaranteed Lowest
Prices—Blacktown Amendment) Bill 2009–Economics
Legislation Committee–to report by 24 November 2009
Other references
- Economics References Committee–Matters
relating to the GROCERYchoice website–to report by 26 October
2009
- Environment, Communications and the Arts References
Committee–Potential
impacts of mining operations in the Murray-Darling
Basin–to report by 26 October 2009
- Privileges Committee–Matters
relating to the hearing of the Economics Legislation Committee on
19 June 2009 on the OzCar program [first
speaker]
Proposed reference
The Senate did not agree to refer
matters relating to evidence given before the Economics
Committee on 22 October 2008 to the Privileges Committee. [first
speaker]
Public meetings
The Senate authorised the following public meetings to be held
while the Senate is sitting:
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee–13
August 2009 from 10.00am to 11.30am–Human rights mechanisms
and the Asia-Pacific
- National Capital and External Territories Joint
Committee–19 August, 9 September and 16 September 2009
from 12.30pm to 2.00pm–Changing economic environment in the
Indian Ocean Territories
Notices of motion to extend reporting deadlines
- Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee–
- Migration Amendment (Immigration Detention Reform) Bill
2009–to report by 20 August 2009
- Personal Property Securities Bill 2009–to report by 20
August 2009
- Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee–
- Access to justice–to report by 30 October 2009
- Australia’s judicial system and the role of
judges–to report by 17 September 2009
Documents
Delegated legislation
See Disallowance
Alert for a complete list of notices of motion to disallow (and
outcomes)
-
Clerk’s documents were tabled [legislative instruments
and other documents required by statute to be tabled]
Orders for the production of documents–Notice of motion
given
Senator Siewert gave a
notice of motion to require the Minister representing the
Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts (Senator Wong)
to table documents relating to the Australian Terrestrial
Biodiversity Assessment 2008 by no later than 20 August 2009.
Documents tabled
Ministerial statements
The Special Minister of State (Senator Ludwig) tabled
ministerial statements about:
- Reforms to national security legislation
- The scientific imperative for action on climate change [a
statement by leave was made]
The Minister for Defence (Senator Faulkner) made statements
about:
Other business
Questions without notice and issues arising during question
time–first
question
Matters of public interest debate–first
speaker
Adjournment debate–first
speaker
Motions agreed to
-
9th anniversary of the United Nations International Youth
Day–moved by Senator Hanson-Young
-
60th anniversary of the Geneva conventions–moved by the
Minister for Defence (Senator Faulkner) [a
statement by leave was made–a
motion to take note of the statement was debated and agreed
to]
-
Federal Court of Australia registry services in
Tasmania–moved by Senator Abetz and the Leader of the
Australian Greens (Senator Bob Brown)
-
Unrest in Xinjiang province in China–moved by the Leader
of the Australian Greens (Senator Bob Brown)
Death of former member
The Deputy President informed the Senate of the death, on 8
August 2009, of Peter Milton, a member of the House of
Representatives for the division of La Trobe, from 1980 to
1990.
Notices of motion
Notices of motion given today are available in the Senate
Journals.
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