2010-11

THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

JOURNALS OF THE SENATE

No. 28

Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Contents

 1   Meeting of Senate   839

 2   Government Documents   839

 3   Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee—Leave to Meet During Sitting   839

 4   Hours of Meeting and Routine of Business—Variation   840

 5   Order of Business—Rearrangement   840

 6   Tax Laws Amendment (2011 Measures No. 1) Bill 2011   841

 7   Personal Property Securities (Corporations and Other Amendments)
 Bill 2011   841

 8   Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Regulatory Levies Legislation Amendment (2011 Measures No. 1) Bill 2011
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Regulatory Levies (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011   841

 9   Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2010   841

 10   Human Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2011   843

 11   Autonomous Sanctions Bill 2010   843

 12   Electronic Transactions Amendment Bill 2011   844

 13   Questions   844

 14   Motion to Take Note of Answers   844

 15   Death of World War I Veteran Mr Claude Choules   845

 16   Death of Former Member David Bruce Cowan   845

 17   Petitions   845

 18   Notices   845

 19   Leave of Absence   849

 20   Community Affairs Legislation Committee—Community Affairs References Committee—Leave to Meet During Sitting   849

 21   Rural Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee—Extension of Time to Report   849

 22   Electoral Matters—Joint Standing Committee—Leave to Meet During Sitting   850

 23   Gambling Reform—Joint Select Committee—Leave to Meet During Sitting   850

 24   Postponement   850

 25   Environment—Western Australia—Kimberley Coast Development—Humpback Whales   850

 26   Assisting Victims of Overseas Terrorism Bill 2010—General Business Order of the Day Discharged   851

 27   Discussion of Matter of Public Importance—Immigration—Border Security   851

 28   Economics—Natural Disasters—Ministerial Statement—Document   851

 29   Defence—Afghanistan—Ministerial Statement—Document   851

 30   Foreign Affairs—Middle East—Ministerial Statement—Document   851

 31   Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee—Report—Criminal Code Amendment (Cluster Munitions Prohibition) Bill 2010   851

 32   Environment and Communications Legislation Committee—Report—Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Prohibition of Support for Whaling) Bill 2010   852

 33   Education, Employment and Workplace Relations References Committee—Report—Primary Schools for the 21st Century Program   852

 34   Economics Legislation Committee—Report—Schedule 2 of the Tax Laws Amendment (2010 Measures No. 5) Bill 2010   852

 35   Environment and Communications Legislation Committee—Document—Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Dividend and Other Measures) Bill 2011   852

 36   Senators' Interests—Standing Committee—Annual Report   852

 37   Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee—Reports—Australian Law Reform Commission   853

 38   Economics References Committee—Reports—Augmented Tax Assessments   853

 39   Rural Affairs and Transport References Committee—Interim Report—Asian Honey Bee   853

 40   Environment and Communications References Committee—Report—Adequacy of Protections for the Privacy of Australians Online   853

 41   Environment and Communications Legislation Committee—Reports—Product Stewardship Bill 2011   854

 42   Community Affairs References Committee—Interim Report—Impacts of Rural Wind Farms   854

 43   Community Affairs References Committee—Interim Report—Planning Options and Services for People Ageing with a Disability   854

 44   Rural Affairs and Transport References Committee—Reports—Sale of Timber Assets by the South Australian Government   854

 45   Economics References Committee—Interim Reports—Impacts of Supermarket Price Decisions on the Dairy Industry   855

 46   Economics References Committee—Reports—Competition within the Australian Banking Sector   855

 47   Economics References Committee—Interim Report—Tax Laws Amendment (Temporary Flood and Cyclone Reconstruction Levy) Bill 2011 and Income Tax Rates Amendment (Temporary Flood and Cyclone Reconstruction Levy) Bill 2011   855

 48   Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee—Interim Report—Requests for Tender for Aviation Contracts   856

 49   Rural Affairs and Transport References Committee—Interim Report—Pilot Safety—Transport Safety Investigation Amendment (Incident Reports) Bill 2010   856

 50   Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee—Report—Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Amendment (Disallowance and Amendment Power of the Commonwealth) Bill 2010   856

 51   Gambling Reform—Joint Select Committee—Report—Design and Implementation of a Mandatory Pre-Commitment System for Electronic Gaming Machines   857

 52   Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities—Select Committee—Government Responses—Second and Third Reports   857

 53   Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee—Government Response—Economic and Security Challenges Facing Papua New Guinea and the Island States of the Southwest Pacific   857

 54   Rural Affairs and Transport References Committee—Government Response—Australian Horse Industry and an Emergency Animal Disease Response Agreement   857

 55   Government Documents   857

 56   Auditor-General—Audit Reports Nos 35 to 39 of 2010-11—Documents   858

 57   Environment—Tasmanian Forestry Negotiations—Interim Report—Order for Production of Document—Document   858

 58   Indexed Lists of Departmental and Agency Files—Order for Production of Documents—Documents   859

 59   Departmental and Agency Contracts—Order for Production of Documents—Documents   859

 60   Departmental and Agency Appointments and Vacancies—Order for Production of Documents—Document   859

 61   Departmental and Agency Grants—Order for Production of Documents—Document   859

 62   Consideration of Documents   859

 63   Environment—South Australia—Narrung—Bund—Document   860

 64   Foreign Affairs—Uganda—Human Rights—Document   860

 65   Environment—Dampier Archipelago—Rock Art Site—Document   860

 66   Foreign Affairs—New Zealand—Earthquake—Document   860

 67   Indigenous Australians—Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Report—20th Anniversary—Document   860

 68   Auditor-General—Audit Report No. 34 of 2010-11—Document   860

 69   National Schools Constitutional Convention 2011—Document   860

 70   Electronic Transactions Amendment Bill 2011—Explanatory Memorandum—Addendum   861

 71   Publications—Standing Committee—5th Report   861

 72   Committees—Additional Information—Estimates   861

 73   Documents   862

 74   Committee Membership   873

 75   National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Bill 2010 [2011]
National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011
National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2010 [2011]   874

 76   National Broadband Network Companies Bill 2010
Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (National Broadband Network Measures—Access Arrangements) Bill 2011   874

 77   Committee Membership   874

 78   Governor-General's Messages—Assent to Laws   874

 79   Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee—Report—Wild Rivers (Environmental Management) Bill 2011   875

 80   Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee—Report—Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment (Fair Indexation) Bill 2010   876

 81   Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Committee—Report—Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Bill 2011 and Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011   876

 82   Australian Research Council Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2010   876

 83   Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Digital Dividend and Other Measures) Bill 2011   876

 84   Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Provisional Voting) Bill 2011   877

 85   Budget Statement and Documents 2011-12   877

 86   Particulars of Proposed and Certain Expenditure for 2011-12—Documents—Reference of Estimates to Committees   878

 87   Estimates of Proposed Expenditure for 2011-12—Portfolio Budget Statements—Parliamentary Departments—Documents   878

 88   Estimates of Proposed Expenditure for 2011-12—Portfolio Budget Statements—Portfolios and Executive Departments—Documents   879

 89   Adjournment   879

 90   Attendance   879