2010-11

THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

JOURNALS OF THE SENATE

No. 57

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Contents

 1   Meeting of Senate   1571

 2   Government Documents   1571

 3   Committees—Leave to Meet During Sitting   1571

 4   Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities) Bill 2010   1571

 5   Order of Business—Rearrangement   1574

 6   Tobacco Plain Packaging Bill 2011
Trade Marks Amendment (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Bill 2011   1574

 7   Questions   1574

 8   Questions on Notice—Answers and Explanation   1574

 9   Motions to Take Note of Answers   1575

 10   Petitions   1575

 11   Notices   1575

 12   Private Senators' Bills—Consideration   1579

 13   Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee—Leave to Meet During Sitting   1580

 14   Leave of Absence   1580

 15   Gambling Reform—Joint Select Committee—Leave to Meet During Sitting   1580

 16   Public Accounts and Audit—Joint Statutory Committee—Leave to Meet During Sitting   1580

 17   Community Affairs References Committee—Leave to Meet During Sitting   1580

 18   Postponements   1581

 19   Electoral Matters—Joint Standing Committee—Leave to Meet During Sitting   1581

 20   Community Affairs Legislation Committee—Leave to Meet During Sitting   1581

 21   Privileges—Standing Committee—Temporary Order   1581

 22   Community Affairs References Committee—Leave to Meet During Sitting   1582

 23   Health—World Mental Health Day   1582

 24   Law and Justice—Container Deposit Scheme   1583

 25   Immigration—Asylum Seeker Policy   1584

 26   Foreign Affairs—Palestine   1584

 27   Senate—Consideration of Private Senators' Bills   1585

 28   Law and Justice—Marriage Equality   1585

 29   Discussion of Matter of Public Importance—Taxation—Proposed Carbon Tax—Regional Australia   1586

 30   Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee—Report—Exposure Drafts of Australian Privacy Amendment Legislation   1586

 31   Australia's Immigration Detention Network—Joint Select Committee—Interim Report   1587

 32   Scrutiny of New Taxes—Select Committee—Interim Report—The Carbon Tax   1587

 33   Australia's Clean Energy Future Legislation—Joint Select Committee—Advisory Report on the Clean Energy Bills and the Steel Transformation Bill 2011   1587

 34   Government Documents   1587

 35   Australian National Audit Office—Report for 2010-11—Documents   1588

 36   Trade—New Zealand—Export of Apples to Australia—Order for Production of Documents—Document   1588

 37   Departmental and Agency Appointments and Vacancies—Order for Production of Documents—Documents   1588

 38   Departmental and Agency Grants—Order for Production of Documents—Documents   1589

 39   Consideration of Documents   1589

 40   Foreign Affairs—Burma—Daw Aung San Suu Kyi—Document   1589

 41   Environment—Queensland—Burdekin Falls Dam—Document   1589

 42   Communications—South Australian National Football League—Broadcast—Document   1590

 43   Scrutiny of New Taxes—Select Committee—Additional Information—Mining Tax   1590

 44   Community Affairs References Committee—Additional Information—Impacts of Rural Wind Farms   1590

 45   Documents   1590

 46   Departmental and Agency Appointments and Vacancies—Order for Production of Documents—Documents   1596

 47   Departmental and Agency Grants—Order for Production of Documents—Documents   1596

 48   Committee Membership   1596

 49   Governor-General's Messages—Assent to Laws   1596

 50   Community Affairs References Committee—Report—Supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Medicines to Remote Area Aboriginal Health Services   1597

 51   Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee—Report—Agreement Between Australia and Malaysia in Relation to Asylum Seekers   1597

 52   Government Documents—Consideration   1597

 53   Adjournment   1598

 54   Attendance   1598