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Senate Journal No. 50 - 13 September 2011
- 1 MEETING OF SENATE
- 2 GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
- 3 NOTICE OF MOTION WITHDRAWN
- 4 TELECOMMUNICATIONS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (FIBRE DEPLOYMENT) E BILL 2011
- 5 QUESTIONS
- 6 MOTIONS TO TAKE NOTE OF ANSWERS
- 7 PETITIONS
- 8 NOTICES
- 9 POSTPONEMENT
- 10 ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION (PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY) AMENDMENT BILL 2010—GENERAL BUSINESS ORDER OF THE DAY DISCHARGED
- 11 CONSTITUTIONAL CORPORATIONS (FARM GATE TO PLATE) BILL 2011
- 12 PUBLIC ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT—JOINT STATUTORY COMMITTEE—LEAVE TO MEET DURING SITTINGS
- 13 ELECTORAL MATTERS—JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE—LEAVE TO MEET DURING SITTING
- 14 LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS LEGISLATION COMMITTEE—LEAVE TO MEET DURING SITTING
- 15 NATIONAL CAPITAL AND EXTERNAL TERRITORIES—JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE—LEAVE TO MEET DURING SITTING
- 16 TREATIES—JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE—LEAVE TO MEET DURING SITTING
- 17 MIGRATION—JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE—LEAVE TO MEET DURING SITTING
- 18 NATIONAL BROADBAND NETWORK—JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE—LEAVE TO MEET DURING SITTING
- 19 COMMUNITY AFFAIRS LEGISLATION COMMITTEE—LEAVE TO MEET DURING SITTING
- 20 SPORT—TENNIS—MS SAMANTHA STOSUR
- 21 COMMUNITY AFFAIRS REFERENCES COMMITTEE—LEAVE TO MEET DURING SITTING
- 22 IMMIGRATION—MR STEFAN NYSTROM
- 23 HISTORICAL EVENTS—NATIONAL SERVICE IN AUSTRALIA—ANNIVERSARY
- 24 ENVIRONMENT—NORTH WEST SLOPE TRAWL FISHERY
- 25 ENVIRONMENT—COAL SEAM GAS APPROVALS—MORATORIUM
- 26 FOREIGN AFFAIRS—ISRAEL—BOYCOTT
- 27 DISCUSSION OF MATTER OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE—TAXATION—PROPOSED CARBON TAX
- 28 FOREIGN AFFAIRS—10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS—MINISTERIAL STATEMENT—DOCUMENT
- 29 TRANSPORT—SHIPPING INDUSTRY—MINISTERIAL STATEMENT—DOCUMENT
- 30 PUBLIC ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT—JOINT STATUTORY COMMITTEE—GOVERNMENT RESPONSE—419TH REPORT
- 31 DOCUMENTS
- 32 INDEXED LISTS OF DEPARTMENTAL AND AGENCY FILES—ORDER FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS—DOCUMENTS
- 33 TELECOMMUNICATIONS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (FIBRE DEPLOYMENT) E BILL 2011
- 34 GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS—CONSIDERATION
- 35 EXPLANATION OF SPEECHES—STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT
- 36 ADJOURNMENT
- 37 ATTENDANCE
IMMIGRATION—MR STEFAN NYSTROMSenator Hanson-Young, pursuant to notice of motion not objected to as a formal motion, moved general business notice of motion no. 395—That the Senate— (a) notes: (i) the recent decision by the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee, that found the decision by the former Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Senator Vanstone, to deport Mr Stefan Nystrom to Sweden in 2006, was in breach of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, (ii) that Mr Nystrom speaks no Swedish and had no knowledge of any relatives there, and (iii) that as a result of his treatment, Mr Nystrom is now an inmate in a psychiatric institution; and (b) calls on the Government to immediately respond to the UN decision that found Australia had acted unlawfully in deporting Mr Nystrom. Question put. The Senate divided— AYES, 9 Senators— Brown, Bob Di Natale Hanson-Young Ludlam Milne Rhiannon Siewert (Teller) Waters Wright NOES, 40 Senators— Abetz Back Bernardi Bilyk Birmingham Bishop Boswell Boyce Brown, Carol Cameron Cash Colbeck Cormann Crossin Edwards Eggleston Farrell Fawcett Fifield Gallacher Kroger Ludwig Lundy Macdonald Madigan McEwen (Teller) McKenzie McLucas Moore Nash Parry Polley Pratt Ryan Scullion Singh Stephens Thistlethwaite Urquhart Williams Question negatived. | |