

- Title
SJ No 102 - 16 August 2012
HISTORICAL EVENTS—VIETNAM WAR
- Database
Senate Journals
- Date
16-08-2012
- Source
Senate
- Parl No.
43
- Number
102
- Page
0
- Status
- System Id
chamber/journals/20120816_SJ102/0008
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Senate Journal No. 102 - 16 August 2012
- 1 MEETING OF SENATE
- 2 MIGRATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (REGIONAL PROCESSING AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2012
- 3 NOTICES
- 4 SELECTION OF BILLS—STANDING COMMITTEE—REPORT NO. 9 OF 2012
- 5 PRIVATE SENATORS' BILLS—CONSIDERATION
- 6 LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS LEGISLATION COMMITTEE—LEAVE TO MEET DURING SITTING
- 7 COMMUNITY AFFAIRS REFERENCES COMMITTEE—LEAVE TO MEET DURING SITTING
- 8 HISTORICAL EVENTS—VIETNAM WAR
- 9 FOREIGN AFFAIRS—RUSSIA—MR ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
- 10 ENVIRONMENT—CORAL SEA
- 11 FOREIGN AFFAIRS—TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
- 12 FAIR WORK AMENDMENT (SMALL BUSINESS—PENALTY RATES EXEMPTION) E BILL 2012
- 13 ENVIRONMENT—GREAT BARRIER REEF MARINE PARK—SEA DUMPING—PROPOSED ORDER FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS
- 14 PRIMARY INDUSTRIES—AUSTRALIAN SMALL PELAGIC FISHERY
- 15 HEALTH—FAMILY PLANNING
- 16 AUSTRALIA'S FOOD PROCESSING SECTOR—SELECT COMMITTEE—REPORT
- 17 MIGRATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (REGIONAL PROCESSING AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2012
- 18 QUESTIONS
- 19 MOTIONS TO TAKE NOTE OF ANSWERS
- 20 LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS LEGISLATION COMMITTEE—GOVERNMENT RESPONSE—COMBATING THE FINANCING OF PEOPLE SMUGGLING AND OTHER MEASURES BILL 2011
- 21 LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS REFERENCES COMMITTEE—GOVERNMENT RESPONSE—AUSTRALIAN FILM AND LITERATURE CLASSIFICATION SCHEME
- 22 PUBLIC ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT—JOINT STATUTORY COMMITTEE—GOVERNMENT RESPONSE—427TH REPORT
- 23 DEPARTMENT OF THE SENATE—SENATORS' AND MEMBERS' TRAVELLING ALLOWANCE—DOCUMENT
- 24 DEPARTMENT OF THE SENATE—TRAVEL EXPENDITURE—DOCUMENT
- 25 TREATIES—JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE—127TH AND 128TH REPORTS
- 26 ELECTORAL MATTERS—JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE—REPORT—ELECTORAL AND REFERENDUM AMENDMENT (IMPROVING ELECTORAL PROCEDURE) E BILL 2012
- 27 PRIMARY INDUSTRIES—FISHING TRAWLER FV MARGIRIS—DOCUMENT
- 28 DOCUMENTS
- 29 CUSTOMS AMENDMENT (ANTI-DUMPING IMPROVEMENTS) BILL (NO. 3) 2012E CUSTOMS TARIFF AMENDMENT (2012 MEASURES NO. 1) BILL 2012E MARITIME LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL 2012E TRANSPORT SAFETY INVESTIGATION AMENDMENT BILL 2012
- 30 MIGRATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (REGIONAL PROCESSING AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2012
- 31 ADJOURNMENT
- 32 ATTENDANCE
HISTORICAL EVENTS—VIETNAM WARSenator Kroger, at the request of Senators Ronaldson and Johnston and pursuant to notice of motion not objected to as a formal motion, moved general business notice of motion no. 849—That the Senate— (a) commemorates the 50th anniversary, in 2012, of the arrival of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam in South Vietnam, beginning Australia's decade-long commitment to the Vietnam War; (b) commemorates the 46th anniversary, on 18 August 2012, of the Battle of Long Tan, in which 18 Australian soldiers were killed and 24 were wounded in action; (c) pays tribute to the 521 Australians killed in action in the Vietnam War and the thousands of veterans who returned home to the care of their families; (d) acknowledges that many Vietnam War service personnel were very poorly treated by certain sections of the Australian community on their return, and that this treatment was unjust and, in many cases, affected their ability to resume life after wartime service; and (e) welcomes the arrival in Australia of the Long Tan Cross, which will be displayed at the Australian War Memorial until April 2013. Question put and passed. | |