Download PDF Previous Fragment Next Fragment
-
Senate Journal No. 7 - 28 October 2010
- 1 MEETING OF SENATE
- 2 NOTICES
- 3 ORDER OF BUSINESS—REARRANGEMENT
- 4 RURAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT REFERENCES COMMITTEE—PROPOSED REFERENCE
- 5 ENVIRONMENT—COAL SEAM GAS PROJECTS
- 6 RURAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT REFERENCES COMMITTEE—REFERENCE
- 7 INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS—FORCED ADOPTIONS POLICIES
- 8 PARLIAMENTARY ZONE—CAPITAL WORKS PROPOSALS—APPROVAL
- 9 MIGRATION AMENDMENT (DETENTION OF MINORS) BILL 2010
- 10 GAMBLING REFORM—JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE—REFERENCE
- 11 SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENT (INCOME SUPPORT FOR REGIONAL STUDENTS) BILL 2010
- 12 ECONOMICS REFERENCES COMMITTEE—REFERENCE
- 13 PUBLICATIONS—STANDING COMMITTEE—1ST REPORT
- 14 REGULATIONS AND ORDINANCES—STANDING COMMITTEE—DOCUMENT
- 15 COMMITTEES—ADDITIONAL INFORMATION—ESTIMATES
- 16 AUTONOMOUS SANCTIONS BILL 2010E VETERANS' AFFAIRS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (WEEKLY PAYMENTS) BILL 2010
- 17 PROCEDURE—STANDING COMMITTEE—THIRD REPORT OF 2010—CONSIDERATION
- 18 NATIVE TITLE AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 1) 2010
- 19 LAW AND JUSTICE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (IDENTITY CRIMES AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2010
- 20 OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES) BILL 2010E OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE (SAFETY LEVIES) AMENDMENT BILL 2010
- 21 PRIMARY INDUSTRIES (EXCISE) LEVIES AMENDMENT BILL 2010
- 22 VETERANS' AFFAIRS AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES) BILL 2010
- 23 FOOD STANDARDS AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND AMENDMENT BILL 2010
- 24 CARER RECOGNITION BILL 2010
- 25 TRADEX SCHEME AMENDMENT BILL 2010
- 26 OZONE PROTECTION AND SYNTHETIC GREENHOUSE GAS MANAGEMENT AMENDMENT BILL 2010
- 27 LAW AND JUSTICE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (IDENTITY CRIMES AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2010
- 28 QUESTIONS
- 29 MOTION TO TAKE NOTE OF ANSWERS
- 30 COMMUNITY AFFAIRS REFERENCES COMMITTEE—REFERENCE WITHDRAWN—GAMBLING REFORM—JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE—REFERENCE
- 31 FINANCE—FINANCIAL MARKET REGULATION—MINISTERIAL STATEMENT—DOCUMENT
- 32 AUDITOR-GENERAL—AUDIT REPORTS NOS 13 AND 14 OF 2010-11—DOCUMENTS
- 33 TAXATION—MINING TAX—REVENUE ESTIMATES—GOVERNMENT ESTIMATES—ORDERS FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS—DOCUMENTS
- 34 SELECTION OF BILLS—STANDING COMMITTEE—REPORT NO. 13 OF 2010
- 35 DOCUMENTS
- 36 SEX AND AGE DISCRIMINATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL 2010
- 37 CRITERIA FOR INDEPENDENT YOUTH ALLOWANCE
- 38 EVIDENCE AMENDMENT (JOURNALISTS' PRIVILEGE) BILL 2010
- 39 RESTORING TERRITORY RIGHTS (VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA LEGISLATION) E BILL 2010
- 40 GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS—ORDERS OF THE DAY—CONSIDERATION
- 41 COMMITTEE REPORTS AND GOVERNMENT RESPONSES—ORDERS OF THE DAY—CONSIDERATION
- 42 AUDITOR-GENERAL'S REPORTS—ORDERS OF THE DAY—CONSIDERATION
- 43 ADJOURNMENT
- 44 ATTENDANCE
RURAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT REFERENCES COMMITTEE—PROPOSED REFERENCESenator Heffernan, pursuant to notice of motion not objected to as a formal motion, moved business of the Senate notice of motion no. 1—That the following matter be referred to the Rural Affairs and Transport References Committee for inquiry and report by 30 November 2011: The management of the Murray-Darling Basin, and the development and implementation of the Basin Plan, with particular reference to: (a) the implications for agriculture and food production and the environment; (b) the social and economic impacts of changes proposed in the Basin; (c) the impact on sustainable productivity and on the viability of the Basin; (d) the opportunities for a national reconfiguration of rural and regional Australia and its agricultural resources against the background of the Basin Plan and the science of the future; (e) the extent to which options for more efficient water use can be found and the implications of more efficient water use, mining and gas extraction on the aquifer and its contribution to run off and water flow; (f) the opportunities for producing more food by using less water with smarter farming and plant technology;
(i) corporate and sovereign takeover of agriculture land and water, and (ii) water speculators; (h) means to achieve sustainable diversion limits in a way that recognises production efficiency; (i) options for all water savings including use of alternative basins; and (j) any other related matters. The Leader of The Nationals in the Senate (Senator Joyce), by leave, moved the following amendment: After paragraph (i), insert: (j) investigate any ambiguity in the Water Act 2007 which may prevent the delivery of a triple bottom line of economic, social and environmental outcomes; and Statements by leave: Senators Joyce and Hanson-Young, by leave, made statements relating to the motion. Question—That the amendment be agreed to—put. The Senate divided— AYES, 33 Senators— Abetz Adams Back Barnett Birmingham Boswell Boyce Brandis Bushby Cash Colbeck Coonan Cormann Fielding Fierravanti-Wells Fifield Fisher Heffernan Humphries Johnston Joyce Kroger Macdonald McGauran Nash Parry (Teller) Payne Ronaldson Ryan Scullion Troeth Trood Williams NOES, 32 Senators— Arbib Bilyk Bishop Brown, Bob Brown, Carol Cameron Carr Collins Conroy Crossin Farrell Faulkner Feeney Forshaw Furner Hanson-Young Hogg Hurley Hutchins Ludwig Marshall McEwen (Teller) McLucas Milne Moore Pratt Sherry Siewert Stephens Sterle Wortley Xenophon Question agreed to. Statements by leave: The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Senator Ludwig) and Senator Joyce, by leave, made statements relating to the vote on the amendment to the motion. Senator Ludwig, by leave, moved—That further consideration of the matter be adjourned till a later hour. Question put and passed.
| |