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SENATE Official Hansard COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES SENATE Official Hansard WEDNESDAY, 16 OCTOBER 1996 THIRTY-EIGHTH PARLIAMENT FIRST SESSION—FIRST PERIOD BY AUTHORITY OF THE SENATE CANBERRA CONTENTS WEDNESDAY, 16 OCTOBER Petitions— Telstra: Privatisation ................................... 4207 Radio Triple J ....................................... 4207 Australian Broadcasting Corporation ........................ 4207 Ramsar Treaty ....................................... 4207 Commonwealth Dental Health Program ...................... 4207 Notices of Motion— DIFF Scheme ........................................ 4207 Sessional Orders ...................................... 4208 DIFF Scheme ........................................ 4208 Days and Hours of Meeting .............................. 4208 Doctors ............................................ 4208 Privacy .............................................. 4209 Order of Business— First Speech ......................................... 4209 Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee .... 4209 Live Sheep Trade ..................................... 4209 Parliamentary Elections ................................. 4209 Visit by US Nuclear Warship ............................ 4209 Social Security Legislation Amendment (Further Budget and Other Measures) Bill 1996— First Reading ........................................ 4210 Second Reading ...................................... 4210 East Timor ........................................... 4211 Joshua Slocum ........................................ 4211 Committees— Scrutiny of Bills Committee ............................. 4211 Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances—Report ...... 4211 Workplace Relations and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 1996— Second Reading ...................................... 4213 East Timor ........................................... 4248 Matters of Public Interest— Northern Territory .................................... 4249 Howard Government ................................... 4252 Chiswick Research Centre ............................... 4255 Parliament House: Demonstration .......................... 4257 Regional Development: New South Wales .................... 4260 Ministerial Arrangements ................................. 4262 Questions Without Notice— ‘Wright Family’ ...................................... 4262 Budget 1996-97 ...................................... 4264 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade ................. 4265 Trade Unions ........................................ 4265 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade ................. 4266 Mobile Phone Towers .................................. 4267 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade ................. 4267 East Timor ......................................... 4267 Howard Government ................................... 4268 ATSIC: Special Auditor ................................ 4269 Howard Government ................................... 4272 East Timor ......................................... 4273 Minister for Industry, Science and Tourism ................... 4273 Lindsay By-election ................................... 4274 Howard Government ................................... 4275 Personal Explanations .................................... 4275 Questions Without Notice— Howard Government ................................... 4276 CONTENTS—continued Ministerial Statements— Defence Policy Initiatives ............................... 4282 Inhumane Weapons Convention ........................... 4288 Documents— Auditor-General’s Reports—Report No. 10 of 1996-97 ........... 4290 Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff—Annual Report . 4290 Committees— Scrutiny of Bills Committee—Report ....................... 4290 States Grants (Primary and Secondary Education Assistance) Bill 1996— First Reading ........................................ 4291 Second Reading ...................................... 4291 Social Security Legislation Amendment (Budget and Other Measures) Bill 1996— First Reading ........................................ 4293 Second Reading ...................................... 4293 Workplace Relations and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 1996— Second Reading ...................................... 4296 Ministerial Statements— Inhumane Weapons Convention ........................... 4303 Telstra (Dilution of Public Ownership) Bill 1996— Second Reading ...................................... 4303 First Speech .......................................... 4307 Telstra (Dilution of Public Ownership) Bill 1996— Second Reading ...................................... 4313 Personal Explanations .................................... 4319 Telstra (Dilution of Public Ownership) Bill 1996— Second Reading ...................................... 4319 Documents— Department of Social Security—Annual Report ................ 4328 National Health and Medical Research Council—Annual Report .... 4329 National Health and Medical Research Council Grants 1996 ....... 4329 Australian Competition and Consumer Commission—Annual Report . 4329 Australian Tobacco Marketing Advisory Committee—Annual Report . 4329 Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Australia—Annual Report 4329 Australian Institute of Marine Science—Annual Report .......... 4329 National Science and Technology Centre—Report of Activities ..... 4330 Australian Institute of Marine Science ...................... 4331 National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme . 4333 Adjournment— Legal Aid .......................................... 4334 Legal Aid .......................................... 4335 Judicial System ...................................... 4335 Electromagnetic Radiation ............................... 4336 Sir George Pearce .................................... 4337 Howard Government ................................... 4338 Sir George Pearce .................................... 4340 Documents— Tabling ............................................ 4341 Questions On Notice— Labour Market: Training Programs—(Question No. 163) ......... 4342 Ministerial Staff—(Question No. 193) ....................... 4342 Creery Wetlands—(Question No. 196) ...................... 4343 SENATE 4207 Wednesday, 16 October 1996 Australian Broadcasting Corporation To the Honourable the President and Members of the Senate in Parliament assembled. The PRESIDENT (Senator the Hon. The Petition of the undersigned draws the Margaret Reid) took the chair at 9.30 a.m., Senate’s attention to our serious concerns at the and read prayers. Government’s announced funding cuts to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and in PETITIONS particular the impact these cuts will have on the maintenance of ABC services to regional Australia. The Clerk—Petitions have been lodged for We are of the view that the loss of $65 million in presentation as follows: funds will decimate the ABC and force it to commercialise by seeking corporate sponsors. This Telstra: Privatisation in turn will destroy its independence and quality. To the Honourable the President and Senators, and We urge the Senate to reject these funding cuts to the Speaker and Members of the House of and place ‘our ABC’ on a financial footing that Representatives assembled in Parliament: will ensure its viability and continuance of existing The petition of the undersigned citizens respect- ABC services and programs. fully shows that: by Senator Reynolds (from 3,412 citizens). As members of the Australian community, considering: Ramsar Treaty the strategic important of Telstra in the To the Honourable President and Members of the national economy; Senate in Parliament assembled. the high levels of foreign ownership in the rest The petition of the undersigned citizens of of the telecommunications industry; Australia in Geelong requests that the Senate the growing importance of communications examine the proposal to set aside land currently services to the lives of all Australians; protected under the Ramsar Treaty in order to provide for a chemical storage facility at Pt Lillias. the threat that privatisation poses to the Further, we request the Senate to examine whether universal availability of both present and future the proposal to set aside an area alternate to the communications services; one now nominated by the Ramsar Treaty is in We believe that it is in the national interest for accordance with the requirement of that Treaty. Telstra to be kept in full public ownership. by Senator Cooney (from 393 citizens). We therefore call on the Federal Government to abandon its proposal to privatise Telstra, the Commonwealth Dental Health Program nation’s chief telecommunications provider, and to To the Honourable the President and Members of explore alternative means of funding its environ- the Senate in Parliament assembled. mental policy. The humble petition of Citizens of the Nillumbik And your petitioners as in duty bound will ever Shire and Surrounds draws to the attention of the pray. Senate that the closure of the Commonwealth by Senator Bourne (from 905 citizens), Dental Health Program will result in considerable pain and suffering to those people who are Health Senator Carr (from 1,059 citizens), Care Card holders and their dependents. Senator Cooney (from 935 citizens) and Your petitioners therefore pray that the Senate restore the Commonwealth Dental Health Program Senator Robert Ray (from 1,591 citizens). for Health Care Card holders and their dependents Radio Triple J in the 1996/97 budget. To the Honourable the President
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