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SENATE Official Hansard COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES SENATE Official Hansard TUESDAY, 26 AUGUST 1997 THIRTY-EIGHTH PARLIAMENT FIRST SESSION—FIFTH PERIOD BY AUTHORITY OF THE SENATE CANBERRA CONTENTS TUESDAY, 26 AUGUST Ministerial Arrangements ................................. 5659 Shadow Ministry ....................................... 5659 Questions Without Notice— Vocational Education and Training ......................... 5661 Taxation Reform ..................................... 5662 Distinguished Visitors ................................... 5663 Questions Without Notice— Employment Placement Schemes .......................... 5663 Alice Springs to Darwin Railway .......................... 5664 Employment Placement Schemes .......................... 5665 Greenhouse Gas Emissions .............................. 5666 Working Holiday Maker Program .......................... 5666 Natural Heritage Trust Fund ............................. 5667 Australian National Training Authority ...................... 5668 Small Business ....................................... 5669 Vocational Education and Training ......................... 5670 ACT Heroin Trial ..................................... 5671 Abstudy ........................................... 5671 Heroin-related Deaths .................................. 5672 Unemployment ....................................... 5673 Tertiary Education Ranking .............................. 5674 Question Time ......................................... 5675 Answers to Questions Without Notice— X-rated Videos ....................................... 5676 Ministerial Code of Conduct ............................. 5676 Jabiluka Uranium Mine ................................. 5676 ACT Heroin Trial ..................................... 5676 Employment Placement Schemes .......................... 5677 Condolences— Mr John FitzPatrick ................................... 5683 Petitions— Food Labelling ....................................... 5684 Repatriation Benefits .................................. 5684 Food Labelling ....................................... 5684 Superannuation ...................................... 5684 Native Title ......................................... 5684 Nursing Homes ...................................... 5685 Forest Protection ..................................... 5685 Native Title ......................................... 5685 Timed Local Calls .................................... 5686 Cooked Chicken Meat .................................. 5686 Notices of Motion— Textiles, Clothing and Footwear Industries ................... 5686 Higher Education: Undergraduate Fees and Abstudy ............. 5686 Superannuation Committee .............................. 5686 Tobacco Advertising ................................... 5686 Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee ........ 5687 Australian Broadcasting Corporation ........................ 5687 Higher Education: Fees and Charges ........................ 5687 High Court Judges .................................... 5687 Order of Business— Australian Workplace Agreements ......................... 5688 Days and Hours of Meeting .............................. 5688 Orca Whales .......................................... 5688 Committees— Public Accounts Committee—Meeting ...................... 5688 Gifts to The Senate ..................................... 5688 Matters of Urgency— CONTENTS—continued Education and Employment .............................. 5689 President: Visit to Japan .................................. 5703 Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Trust ...................... 5703 Constitutional Convention (Election) Bill 1997— Consideration of House of Representatives Message ............. 5703 Taxation Laws Amendment Bill (No. 3) 1997, Income Tax Rates Amendment Bill (No. 1) 1997— In Committee ........................................ 5703 Third Reading ....................................... 5703 Higher Education Funding Amendment Bill (No. 1) 1997— Second Reading ...................................... 5703 Documents— Tabling ............................................ 5708 Tabling ............................................ 5709 Beecroft Peninsula—(Question No. 590) ..................... 5710 Private Prisons—(Question No. 594) ....................... 5715 National Rural Women’s Forum—(Question No. 623) ........... 5716 Lucas Heights Nuclear Reactor—(Question No. 633) ............ 5718 Bifenthrin Pesticide—(Question No. 636) .................... 5721 Registered Clubs: Taxation Exemption—(Question No. 637) ....... 5722 Ningaloo Marine Park—(Question No. 638) .................. 5722 Minister for Finance ................................... 5723 Federal Financial Assistance Grants: Funding Cuts—(Question No. 652)5724 Passenger Motor Vehicle Inquiry—(Question No. 656) ........... 5725 Royal Adelaide Hospital: Research—(Question No. 662) ......... 5733 Australian National—(Question No. 664) .................... 5734 Hazardous Waste—(Question No. 668) ...................... 5734 Proposed Port Facilities; Vadhavan, India—(Question No. 671) ..... 5735 Second Sydney Airport—(Question No. 676) .................. 5735 World War I: Tasmanian Aboriginal Service—(Question No. 679) . 5736 Imported Food—(Question No. 681) ........................ 5736 Importation of Cooked Chicken Meat—(Question No. 682) ........ 5737 Waterfront—(Question No. 684) .......................... 5738 Quarantine: Pig Meat—(Question No. 691) ................... 5741 Housing—(Question No. 694) ............................ 5743 Taxation ........................................... 5743 Common Youth Allowance .............................. 5744 SENATE 5659 Tuesday, 26 August 1997 the reshuffle that was announced by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Beazley, earlier today. The PRESIDENT (Senator the Hon. I would particularly like to draw the Margaret Reid) took the chair at 2.00 p.m., Senate’s attention to the resignation of Sena- and read prayers. tor Bob Collins from the shadow frontbench. MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS Obviously, we will greatly miss his outstand- Senator HILL (South Australia—Leader of ing contribution. I would also like to draw to the Government in the Senate)—by leave— the Senate’s attention the appointment of Senator Herron will be absent from question Senator Kate Lundy and Senator Sue Mackay time today as a result of personal matters. to the frontbench. Senator Lundy has been During his absence, Senator Newman will appointed parliamentary secretary to the take questions relating to health and I will shadow minister for sport and tourism, and take questions relating to Aboriginal and assistant to the shadow ministers for science Torres Strait Islander affairs. and information technology, youth affairs and the arts. Senator Mackay has been appointed SHADOW MINISTRY as parliamentary secretary to the shadow Senator FAULKNER (New South Wales— ministers for employment and training and Leader of the Opposition in the Senate)—by industrial relations. I seek leave to incorporate leave—I propose to seek leave to incorporate the new list in Hansard. in Hansard a new list of shadow ministry Leave granted. representation and parliamentary secretaries for the opposition in both chambers following The list read as follows— SHADOW MINISTRY Shadow Minister Title Representative in other Chamber Hon Kim C Beazley MP Senator John Faulkner Leader of the Opposition Hon Gareth Evans QC MP Senator Nick Sherry Deputy Leader of the Opposition Shadow Treasurer Senator the Hon John Faulkner Hon Kim Beazley Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Shadow Minister for Public Administration, Hon Bob McMullan Government Services and Territories Senator the Hon Nick Sherry Hon Gareth Evans Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Shadow Minister for Finance, Superannuation and Busi- ness Regulation Hon Arch Bevis MP Senator Chris Schacht Shadow Minister for Defence Senator the Hon Nick Bolkus Daryl Melham Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister for Justice 5660 SENATE Tuesday, 26 August 1997 Hon Laurie Brereton MP Senator Peter Cook Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Senator the Hon Peter Cook Hon Laurie Brereton Shadow Minister for Trade Hon Simon Crean MP Senator Peter Cook Shadow Minister for Industry and Regional Development Manager of Opposition Business Martyn Evans MP Senator Kate Lundy Shadow Minister for Science and Information Technology Laurie Ferguson MP Senator Belinda Neal Shadow Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Shadow Minister for Defence Science and Personnel Senator Chris Schacht Martin Ferguson MP Senator Nick Bolkus Shadow Minister for Employment,Training, Population and Immigration Assistant to the Leader on Multicultural Affairs Hon Duncan Kerr MP Senator John Faulkner Shadow Minister for the Environment Mark Latham MP Senator Kim Carr Shadow Minister for Education and Youth Affairs Hon Michael Lee MP Senator Michael Forshaw Shadow Minister for Health Jenny Macklin MP Senator Belinda Neal Shadow Minister for Social Security and the Aged Assistant to the Leader of the Opposition on the Status of Women Hon Bob McMullan MP Senator Sue Mackay Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations and the Arts Senator Kate Lundy Hon Stephen Martin MP Senator Peter Cook Shadow Minister for Small Business and Customs Shadow Minister for Sport and Tourism Senator Kate Lundy Daryl Melham MP Senator Nick Bolkus Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Assistant to the Shadow Foreign Minister on Arms Control Senator Belinda Neal Laurie Ferguson Shadow Min for Consumer Affairs,
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