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Senate Daily Summary

Information on significant events and decisions made by the Senate each sitting day. The summaries contain links to video replays of debates, as well as source documents such as the Senate Journals, Hansard transcripts, and committee reports.

12 to 14 May 2026

Daily summaries

  • Tuesday, 12 May (PDF 148KB)

Weekly summary

  • Reports tabled
    • 189th report – Department of Parliamentary Services handling of documents and communications Privileges Committee
      Watch the debate   Read the transcript
    • Human Rights Scrutiny reports 4 of 2026 and 5 of 2026 Human Rights Joint Committee
    • Reports on the examination of annual reports for 2024-25:
      • Inspector of the National Anti-Corruption Commission
      • National Anti-Corruption Commission
    • National Anti-Corruption Commission Joint Committee
    • 232nd report – Papua New Guinea – Australia Mutual Defence Treaty (the Pukpuk Treaty) Treaties Joint Committee

    Government responses

    • Response to the Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment (Quality and Integrity Bill 2024
    • Response to the Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) Bill 2025 and a related bill
    • Response to Pursuing the priorities of the Pacific: Inquiry into Australia's alignment with the priorities of Pacific Island countries
    • Response to Importance of Antarctica to Australia's national interests
    • Response to 6th report of 2021
  • Reporting dates extended
    • Triple zero service outages extended to 30 June 2026
    • Financial support for state and territory infrastructure projects extended to 14 September 2026
    • Australia's youth justice and incarceration system extended to 31 August 2026
    • Offshore processing and resettlement arrangements extended to 17 June 2026
    • Order for production of documents extended to 19 August 2026
  • Membership

    See also committee membership page

  • Tabled documents

    Government documents and documents presented by the President

    • Tuesday, 12 May [includes documents presented since the Senate last sat]

    Clerk's documents

    Legislative instruments and other documents required by statute to be tabled

    • Tuesday, 12 May

    Other

    • Senator Barbara Pocock tabled a petitioning document relating to housing affordability
  • Orders for the production of documents

    Explanation by minister

    • Pursuant to the order agreed to on 1 April 2026, the Minister representing the Minister for Housing attended the Senate to provide an explanation regarding an order for the production of documents relating to Treasury advice concerning first home buyers (agreed to on 24 July 2025), and the Senate debated the explanation
      Watch the debate   Read the transcript
  • Motion

    Agreed to

    • Kumanjayi Little Baby moved by Senator McCarthy12:01:40:08
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  • Statements
    • Senators Wong and Paterson made statements regarding Warrant Officer Class Two Lachlan Muddle
  • Condolences
    • The Honourable Peter Frederick Morris OAM, former minister and member of the House of Representatives
      Watch the condolences   Read the transcript
  • Scheduling
    • The Senate varied its hours of meeting and routine of business for 12 and 14 May 2026
  • Address-in-reply
    • The address-in -reply to the Governor-General's opening speech was debated
      Watch the debate   Read the transcript
Statistics
Bills received from the House of Representatives 0
Bills introduced in the Senate - government 0
Bills introduced in the Senate - private senators' 0
Bills passed in the Senate 0
Bills negatived or discharged 0
Bills referred to committees 0
New inquiries 0
Reports tabled 6
Orders for production of documents agreed to 0
Notices of motion given 19
Divisions 3

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