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Senate Journal No. 124 - 21 November 2012
- 1 MEETING OF SENATE
- 2 WATER AMENDMENT (LONG-TERM AVERAGE SUSTAINABLE DIVERSION LIMIT ADJUSTMENT) BILL 2012
- 3 HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT AMENDMENT (STREAMLINING AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2012
- 4 CRIMES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (SERIOUS DRUGS, IDENTITY CRIME AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2012
- 5 MATTERS OF PUBLIC INTEREST
- 6 QUESTIONS
- 7 PARLIAMENT—SENATOR BOB CARR—PERSONAL EXPLANATION
- 8 MOTION TO TAKE NOTE OF ANSWER
- 9 NOTICES
- 10 LEAVE OF ABSENCE
- 11 RURAL AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT REFERENCES COMMITTEE—EXTENSION OF TIME TO REPORT
- 12 COMMUNITY AFFAIRS LEGISLATION COMMITTEE—LEAVE TO MEET DURING SITTING
- 13 POSTPONEMENTS
- 14 PRIVILEGES—STANDING COMMITTEE—REFERENCE
- 15 LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS LEGISLATION COMMITTEE—REFERENCE
- 16 CULTURE AND THE ARTS—DEEPAVALI—CELEBRATIONS
- 17 WOMEN—INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
- 18 COMMUNICATION—AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION—AUDIO DESCRIPTION TRIAL
- 19 COMMUNICATIONS—AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION—TASMANIAN TELEVISION PRODUCTION UNIT
- 20 FOREIGN AFFAIRS—ISRAEL
- 21 COMMUNITY AFFAIRS REFERENCES COMMITTEE—PROPOSED REFERENCE
- 22 ENVIRONMENT—PROPOSED SEISMIC SURVEY
- 23 FOREIGN AFFAIRS—ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
- 24 ENVIRONMENT—NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP—PROPOSED SITE—PROPOSED ORDER FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENT
- 25 NOTICE OF MOTION WITHDRAWN
- 26 DISCUSSION OF MATTER OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE—ENVIRONMENT—PROTECTION OF NATIONALLY IMPORTANT WILDERNESS PLACES
- 27 SCRUTINY OF BILLS—STANDING COMMITTEE—14TH REPORT AND ALERT DIGEST NO. 14 OF 2012
- 28 DOCUMENTS
- 29 COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
- 30 MIGRATION AMENDMENT REGULATION 2012—DISALLOWANCE
- 31 CLEAN ENERGY AMENDMENT (INTERNATIONAL EMISSIONS TRADING AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2012E CLEAN ENERGY (CHARGES—EXCISE) AMENDMENT BILL 2012E CLEAN ENERGY (CHARGES—CUSTOMS) AMENDMENT BILL 2012E EXCISE TARIFF AMENDMENT (PER-TONNE CARBON PRICE EQUIVALENT) E BILL 2012E OZONE PROTECTION AND SYNTHETIC GREENHOUSE GAS (IMPORT LEVY) AMENDMENT (PER-TONNE CARBON PRICE EQUIVALENT) BILL 2012E OZONE PROTECTION AND SYNTHETIC GREENHOUSE GAS (MANUFACTURE LEVY) AMENDMENT (PER-TONNE CARBON PRICE EQUIVALENT) BILL 2012E CLEAN ENERGY (UNIT ISSUE CHARGE—AUCTIONS) AMENDMENT BILL 2012
- 32 GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS—CONSIDERATION
- 33 ADJOURNMENT
- 34 ATTENDANCE
HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT AMENDMENT (STREAMLINING AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2012Order of the day read for the adjourned debate on the motion of the Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and Workplace Relations (Senator Collins)—That this bill be now read a second time. Debate resumed. Question put and passed. Bill read a second time. The Senate resolved itself into committee for the consideration of the bill. In the committee Bill taken as a whole by leave. Explanatory memorandum: Senator Collins tabled a supplementary explanatory memorandum relating to the government amendments to be moved to the bill. Senator Collins moved the following amendments together by leave: Clause 2, page 2 (after table item 4), insert: 4A. Schedule 3AThe day this Act receives the Royal Assent. Page 23 (after line 11), after Schedule 3, insert:
Schedule 3A—Student start-up scholarship payments
Social Security Act 19910 1 Section 592H (note) Repeal the note, substitute: Note: The amount of the payment is to be indexed on 1 January 2017 and each later 1 January in line with CPI increases (see sections 1190 to 1194). 2 After subsection 1192(8) Insert: (8A) The student start-up scholarship payment amount (see item 40 of the CPI Indexation Table in subsection 1191(1)) is not to be indexed on 1 January 2013, 1 January 2014, 1 January 2015 and 1 January 2016. Debate ensued. Question—That the amendments be agreed to—put.
AYES, 30 Senators— Back Bilyk Bishop Boyce Brown (Teller) Bushby Cameron Cash Colbeck Collins Crossin Edwards Feeney Furner Gallacher Ludwig Lundy Marshall McEwen McKenzie McLucas Moore Nash Ruston Singh Smith Stephens Sterle Thorp Williams NOES, 11 Senators— Di Natale Hanson-Young Ludlam Madigan Milne Rhiannon Siewert (Teller) Waters Whish-Wilson Wright Xenophon Question agreed to. Bill, as amended, agreed to. Bill to be reported with amendments. The Acting Deputy President (Senator Boyce) resumed the chair and the Temporary Chair of Committees reported accordingly. On the motion of Senator Collins the report from the committee was adopted and the bill read a third time. | |