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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
FOREIGN AFFAIRS—RUSSIA—MR ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYNSenator Kroger, at the request of Senator Mason and pursuant to notice of motion not objected to as a formal motion, moved general business notice of motion no. 852—That the Senate— (a) notes the 4th anniversary of the death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the most influential Russian writer and dissident of the 20th century, who: (i) was imprisoned, denied medical treatment and finally exiled from the Soviet Union for daring to expose the truth about the horrors of communism, (ii) struggling against great obstacles managed to write and eventually publish The Gulag Archipelago, a classic of anti-totalitarian literature that drew the world's attention to the atrocities committed by the Soviet Union against its own people, (iii) after his deportation from the Soviet Union in 1974, continued to remind the world about the importance of rights and liberties enjoyed in the West but denied to the citizens of the Soviet Union and other communist states, and
(b) conveys its remembrances to the people of Russia. Question put and passed. | |