

- Title
SJ No 51 - 3 December 2008
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES—ABC LEARNING—CHILD CARE
- Database
Senate Journals
- Date
03-12-2008
- Source
Senate
- Parl No.
42
- Number
51
- Page
1410
- Status
- System Id
chamber/journals/2008-12-03/0017
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Senate Journal No. 51 - 3 December 2008
- 1 MEETING OF SENATE
- 2 GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
- 3 AUDITOR-GENERAL AMENDMENT BILL 2008E CORPORATIONS AMENDMENT (NO. 1) BILL 2008E MIGRATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 2) 2008E THERAPEUTIC GOODS AMENDMENT (MEDICAL DEVICES AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2008
- 4 CONSIDERATION OF LEGISLATION
- 5 BROADCASTING LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (DIGITAL TELEVISION SWITCH-OVER) BILL 2008
- 6 INTERSTATE ROAD TRANSPORT CHARGE AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 2) 2008E ROAD CHARGES LEGISLATION REPEAL AND AMENDMENT BILL 2008
- 7 MATTERS OF PUBLIC INTEREST
- 8 QUESTIONS
- 9 IMMIGRATION—MR MARAT AMINOV—STATEMENT BY LEAVE
- 10 MOTIONS TO TAKE NOTE OF ANSWERS
- 11 DEATH OF FORMER MEMBER THE HONOURABLE FRANCIS DANIEL CREAN
- 12 NOTICES
- 13 POSTPONEMENTS
- 14 FOREIGN AFFAIRS—WEST AFRICA—CHILD LABOUR
- 15 WATER AMENDMENT (SAVING THE GOULBURN AND MURRAY RIVERS) BILL 2008
- 16 WATER ACT 2007—CRITICAL HUMAN WATER NEEDS—DEFINITIONS AND CRITERIA—ORDER FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENT
- 17 FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES—ABC LEARNING—CHILD CARE
- 18 ECONOMICS—ECONOMIC STRATEGY
- 19 ENVIRONMENT—NATIVE FORESTS AND WOODLANDS
- 20 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY
- 21 ADJOURNMENT DEBATE ON TUESDAY—DIVISIONS ON THURSDAY—SUBSTITUTE MEMBERS OF COMMITTEES—TEMPORARY ORDERS
- 22 SCRUTINY OF BILLS—STANDING COMMITTEE—ALERT DIGEST NO. 14 OF 2008
- 23 SENATORS' INTERESTS—STANDING COMMITTEE—DOCUMENTS
- 24 PARLIAMENT—COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL AMENDMENT (POLITICAL DONATIONS AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2008—MINISTERIAL STATEMENT—DOCUMENTS
- 25 TRADE—TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP—MINISTERIAL STATEMENT—CONSIDERATION
- 26 DEPARTMENT OF THE SENATE—REGISTER OF SENATE SENIOR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS' INTERESTS—DOCUMENT
- 27 INDEPENDENT AUDIT—AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE—DOCUMENT
- 28 DOCUMENTS
- 29 FAMILIES, HOUSING, COMMUNITY SERVICES AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (FURTHER 2008 BUDGET AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2008
- 30 NATION-BUILDING FUNDS BILL 2008E NATION-BUILDING FUNDS (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) BILL 2008E COAG REFORM FUND BILL 2008
- 31 SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE BILL 2008
- 32 GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S MESSAGE—ASSENT TO LAWS
- 33 ECONOMICS—STANDING COMMITTEE—REPORT—DEFINITION OF UNCONSCIONABLE CONDUCT FOR THE PURPOSES OF PART IVA OF THE TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974
- 34 ECONOMICS—STANDING COMMITTEE—REPORT—MATTERS RELATING TO THE GAS EXPLOSION AT VARANUS ISLAND, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
- 35 VALEDICTORY STATEMENTS
- 36 NOTICE
- 37 ADJOURNMENT
- 38 ATTENDANCE
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES—ABC LEARNING—CHILD CARESenator Hanson-Young, pursuant to notice of motion not objected to as a formal motion, moved general business notice of motion no. 320—That the Senate— (a) notes: (i) the recent announcement by receiver McGrathNicol that 386 of the ABC Learning's 1 042 centres are `subject to further operational review', with no guarantee that they would remain open in 2009, and (ii) ABC Learning accounts for more than 100 000 long day-care places; (b) recognises that there are less than 30 days remaining until the Government's $22 million `prop-up' of ABC Learning expires; and (c) calls on the Minister for Education (Ms Gillard) to immediately table the Government's contingency plan for beyond 31 December 2008. Question put and passed. | |