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Senate
- 1 Meeting of Senate
- 2 Documents
- 3 Committees—Leave to meet during sittings
- 4 Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023
- 5 Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Domestic Reserve) Bill 2023
- 6 Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Bill 2023 Parliamentary Workplace Support Service (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023 Members of Parliament (Staff) Amendment Bill 2023
- 7 Health Insurance Amendment (Professional Services Review Scheme) Bill 2023
- 8 Notices
- 9 Selection of Bills—Standing Committee—Report no. 11 of 2023
- 10 Order of business—Rearrangement
- 11 Postponement
- 12 Committee—Extensions of time to report—Bank closures in regional Australia—Commonwealth, Olympic and Paralympic Games preparedness
- 13 Leave of absence
- 14 Senator Van—Resignation from Liberal Party of Australia—Statement by leave
- 15 Consideration of legislation
- 16 Australian Education Amendment (Save Our Public Schools) Bill 2023
- 17 Bushfire preparedness—Order for production of documents
- 18 Australian Broadcasting Corporation—Coronation coverage—Proposed order for production of documents
- 19 Nature Repair Market Bill 2023 and related bill—Consideration
- 20 Australian Capital Territory Dangerous Drugs Bill 2023
- 21 Snowy Hydro 2.0 project—Order for production of documents
- 22 Australian Competition and Consumer Commission—Domestic airline industry—Goods and Services Tax—Revenue distribution—Attendance by minister
- 23 Cost of Living—Select Committee—Variation of appointment
- 24 National Disability Insurance Scheme Financial Sustainability Framework—Orders for production of documents—Attendance by minister
- 25 Committee membership
- 26 Statutory Declarations Amendment Bill 2023
- 27 Social Security Amendment (Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment) Bill 2023
- 28 Royal Commissions Amendment (Private Sessions) Bill 2023
- 29 Health Insurance Amendment (Professional Services Review Scheme) Bill 2023
- 30 National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Bill 2023 National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023
- 31 Senators’ statements
- 32 Questions
- 33 Motions to take note of answers
- 34 Committee reports and government responses—Tabling and consideration
- Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation—Standing Committee—Delegated legislation monitor 10 of 2023
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade—Joint Standing Committee—Report—Department of Defence annual report 2021-22
- Human Rights—Joint Statutory Committee—Report 10 of 2023
- Intelligence and Security—Joint Statutory Committee—Report—Statement—Review of the 2023 relisting of three organisations as terrorist organisations under the Criminal Code
- Public Accounts and Audit—Joint Statutory Committee—500th report
- Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee—Interim report—Commonwealth, Olympic and Paralympic Games preparedness
- Australia’s Disaster Resilience—Select Committee—Interim report
- Scrutiny of Bills—Standing Committee—Scrutiny digest 11 of 2023
- Finance and Public Administration References Committee—Government response
- Intelligence and Security—Joint Statutory Committee—Government response
- 35 Vocational education and training—Ministerial statement—Document
- 36 Fisheries industry—Ministerial meetings—Order for production of documents—Documents
- 37 Murray-Darling Basin Plan—Order for production of documents—Documents
- 38 Northern Basin Aboriginal Nations Funding Agreement—Order for production of documents—Documents
- 39 Qatar Airways—Orders for production of documents—Documents
- 40 Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 National Housing Supply and Affordability Council Bill 2023 Treasury Laws Amendment (Housing Measures No. 1) Bill 2023
- 41 Lobbying rules
- 42 Document—Consideration
- 43 Adjournment
- 44 Attendance
- 45 Documents
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Senate
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Parliamentary
Workplace Support Service Bill 2023
Parliamentary
Workplace Support Service (Consequential Amendments and
Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023
Members of
Parliament (Staff) Amendment Bill 2023
Order of the day read for the adjourned debate on the motion of the Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Transport (Senator Brown)—That these bills be now read a second time.
Debate resumed.
Explanatory memoranda : The Minister for Finance (Senator Gallagher) tabled the following documents:
Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Bill 2023—Supplementary explanatory memorandum relating to the government amendments to be moved to the bill.
Parliamentary Workplace Support Service (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023—Supplementary explanatory memorandum relating to the government amendments to be moved to the bill.
Question put and passed.
Bills read a second time.
The Senate resolved itself into committee for the consideration of the bills.
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In the committee
Bills, taken together and as a whole by leave, debated.
On the motion of Senator Gallagher the following amendments on sheet ZC244, taken together by leave, were debated and agreed to:
Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Bill 2023
(1)—Clause 5, page 5 (after line 14), after the definition of member , insert:
Minister : see section 6A.
(2)—Page 7 (after line 24), after clause 6, insert:
6A References to the Minister
Despite section 19 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 , a reference to “the Minister” in a provision of this Act or the PWSS rules at a particular time is a reference to:
(a) the Special Minister of State, if there is a Minister identified by that title at that time; or
(b) otherwise—the Minister, or any of the Ministers, administering the provision at that time.
Note: A reference to a Minister in paragraph (a) or (b) of this section may include a reference to a person acting for or on behalf of the Minister (see subsection 19(4) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 ).
(3)—Clause 22, page 21 (line 31) to page 22 (line 3), omit subclauses 22(5) and (6), substitute:
(5) Before the PWSS publishes a report under this section on its website, the PWSS must give each of the following persons (a Presiding Officer ) a copy of the report:
(a) the President of the Senate;
(b) the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(6) A Presiding Officer of a House of the Parliament must cause a copy of the report to be presented to that House as soon as practicable after the Presiding Officer receives the copy under subsection (5).
(4)—Clause 22, page 22 (line 5), omit “laid before”, substitute “presented to”.
On the motion of Senator Hume the following amendment on sheet 2115 was agreed to:
Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Bill 2023
(1)—Clause 23, page 23 (line 19), omit “Minister”, substitute “President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives”.
On the motion of Senator Gallagher the following amendments on sheet ZC219, taken together by leave, were debated and agreed to:
Parliamentary Workplace Support Service (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023
(1)—Clause 2, page 2 (at the end of the table), add:
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The day after the end of the period of 2 years beginning on the day the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Act 2023 commences. However, the provisions do not commence at all if that Act does not commence. |
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(2)—Page 9 (after line 22), at the end of the bill, add:
Schedule 3 — Repeal of review function
Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Act 2023
1 Section 4
Omit:
(f) its review function; and
2 Section 11
Omit:
(f) its review function; and
3 Paragraph 13(f)
Repeal the paragraph.
4 Section 19
Repeal the section.
5 Subsection 61(6)
After “section 19”, insert “(as in force immediately before the repeal of that section by Schedule 3 to the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2023 )”.
The Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Bill 2023 and the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023 agreed to and reported with amendments and the Members of Parliament (Staff) Amendment Bill 2023 agreed to and reported without amendment.
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On the motion of Senator Gallagher the report from the committee was adopted and the bills read a third time.