• Senators Askew (Tasmania), Ciccone (Victoria), and Spender (New South Wales) were sworn in as senators
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• Senators Askew and Spender gave their first speeches
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• Senators Scullion, Moore and Cameron gave their valedictory statements, and a series of speeches were given recognizing their contributions to Parliament
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Introduced

• Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019
• Treasury Laws Amendment (Making Sure Foreign Investors Pay Their Fair Share of Tax in Australia and Other Measures) Bill 2019
• Governor-General Amendment (Salary) Bill 2019
• Treatment Benefits (Special Access) Bill 2019
  Treatment Benefits (Special Access) (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2019
• Future Drought Fund Bill 2019
• Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2018-2019
  Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2018-2019
  Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2018-2019
• Supply Bill (No. 1) 2019-2020
  Supply Bill (No. 2) 2019-2020
  Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2019-2020
• Social Security Amendment (A Fair Go for Age Pensioners) Bill 2019 [private senator's bill]
• Aged Care Amendment (Resident Welfare and Provider Disclosure) Bill 2019 [private senator's bill]
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Amendment (Assisted Reproductive Treatment Statistics) Bill 2019 [private senator's bill]
• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Energy Assistance Payment) Bill 2019
• Treasury Laws Amendment (Medicare Levy and Medicare Levy Surcharge) Bill 2019
• Treasury Laws Amendment (North Queensland Flood Recovery) Bill 2019
• Treasury Laws Amendment (Increasing the Instant Asset Write-Off for Small Business Entities) Bill 2019
• Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Amendment Bill 2019
• Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Bill 2019
• Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019
• Treasury Laws Amendment (Design and Distribution Obligations and Product Intervention Powers) Bill 2019
• Treasury Laws Amendment (2019 Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Reforms No. 1) Bill 2019
• Customs Tariff Amendment (Craft Beer) Bill 2019
• Treasury Laws Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Bill 2019
  Excise Tariff Amendment (Supporting Craft Brewers) Bill 2019
• Australian Business Securitisation Fund Bill 2019

Passed

Without amendment

• Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2018-2019
  Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2018-2019
  Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2018-2019
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• Supply Bill (No. 1) 2019-2020
  Supply Bill (No. 2) 2019-2020
  Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2019-2020
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• Social Services Legislation Amendment (Energy Assistance Payment) Bill 2019
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• Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment (Support for Infrastructure Financing) Bill 2019
  
• Treasury Laws Amendment (Making Sure Foreign Investors Pay Their Fair Share of Tax in Australia and Other Measures) Bill 2019
  Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Amendment Bill 2018
  Income Tax Rates Amendment (Sovereign Entities) Bill 2018
• Treatment Benefits (Special Access) Bill 2019
  Treatment Benefits (Special Access) (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2019
• Treasury Laws Amendment (Design and Distribution Obligations and Product Intervention Powers) Bill 2019
• Treasury Laws Amendment (2019 Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Reforms No. 1) Bill 2019
• Customs Tariff Amendment (Craft Beer) Bill 2019
• Treasury Laws Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Bill 2019
  Excise Tariff Amendment (Supporting Craft Brewers) Bill 2019
• Australian Business Securitisation Fund Bill 2019

These bills will now be sent to the Governor-General for assent

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Mutual Reforms) Bill 2019
• Criminal Code Amendment (Sharing of Abhorrent Violent Material) Bill 2019

The House of Representatives will now consider these bills

With amendments

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Increasing the Instant Asset Write-Off for Small Business Entities) Bill 2019
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• Corporations Amendment (Strengthening Protections for Employee Entitlements) Bill 2018
• Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019

The House of Representatives will now consider the Senate's amendments

The House of Representatives made the amendments requested by the Senate to the following bills:

• Industrial Chemicals Charges (General) Bill 2017
  Industrial Chemicals Charges (Customs) Bill 2017
  Industrial Chemicals Charges (Excise) Bill 2017

These bills will now be sent to the Governor-General for assent

Messages

The House of Representatives agreed to the following bills without amendment:

• Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill 2018
• Treasury Laws Amendment (Enhancing Whistleblower Protections) Bill 2018
• Wine Australia Amendment (Trade with United Kingdom) Bill 2019

These bills have been assented to by the Governor-General

The House of Representatives agreed to the Senate's amendments to the following bills:

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2018
• Industrial Chemicals Bill 2017
  Industrial Chemicals (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2017
• Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Measures No. 5) Bill 2018
• Treasury Laws Amendment (Protecting Your Superannuation Package) Bill 2018
• Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Corporate and Financial Sector Penalties) Bill 2018

These bills have been assented to by the Governor-General

Reports tabled

• 174th report - Parliamentary Privilege and the use of search warrants Privileges Committee
• 175th report - Possible improper interference with a Senator in the free performance of his duties Privileges Committee
• 176th report - Person referred to in the Senate Mr Ben Davies Privileges Committee
• Additional estimates 2018-19 Community Affairs, Economics, Education and Employment, Environment and Communications, Finance and Public Administration, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committees
• Report Joint Select Committee on Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
• Temporary skilled visa system Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee
• Examination of annual reports Education and Employment Legislation Committee
• 1st report of 2019 Public Works Joint Committee
• Statutory Oversight of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Takeovers Panel and the Corporations Legislation Corporations and Financial Services Joint Committee
• Examination of the 2017-18 annual reports of bodies established under the ASIC Act Corporations and Financial Services Joint Committee
• Austrade's role in attracting investment in Australia Trade and Investment Growth Joint Committee
• Lower Tax Bill 2018 Economics Legislation Committee
• 477th report, 478th report and 479th report Public Account and Audit Joint Committee
• Statement on the draft budget estimates for the Australian National Audit Office and the Parliamentary Budget Office for 2018-19 Public Accounts and Audit Joint Committee
• 1st report of 2019 Procedure Committee
• Delegated legislation monitor 2 of 2019 Regulations and Ordinances Committee
• Effectiveness of the Aged Care Quality Assessment and accreditation framework for protecting residents from abuse and poor practices, and ensuring proper clinical and medical care standards are maintained and practiced Community Affairs References Committee
• Annual reports (No. 1 of 2019) Economics, Legal and Constitutional Affairs, and Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committees
• Australia's faunal extinction crisis – Interim report Environment and Communications References Committee
• Examination of the annual report of the Integrity Commissioner for 2016‑17 Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity Joint Committee
• Freedom of religion or belief, the Australian experience – Second interim report Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee
• Inquiry into transition from the Australian Defence Force (ADF) Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee
• Inquiry into Australia’s aid program in the Indo-Pacific – First report Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee
• 2nd report of 2019 Human Rights Joint Committee
• Counter-Terrorism (Temporary Exclusion Orders) Bill 2019 – Advisory report Intelligence and Security Joint Committee
• Review of the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018 Intelligence and Security Joint Committee
• 61st report – Estimates for the Department of the Senate 2019-20 Appropriations and Staffing Committee
• Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australia Fund Bill 2018 Economics Legislation Committee

Government responses

• Response to ASIO’s questioning and detention powers: Review of the operation, effectiveness and implications of Division 3 of Part III of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 Intelligence and Security Joint Committee
• Response to Review of the re-listing of Hizballah’s External Security Organisation as a terrorist organisation under the Criminal Code Intelligence and Security Joint Committee
• Response to Etched in stone? Inquiry into the administration of the National Memorials Ordinance 1928 National Capital and External Territories Joint Committee
• Response to Report 467: Cybersecurity Compliance Public Accounts and Audit Joint Committee
• Response to Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Legislation Amendment (Streamlining Regulation) Bill 2018 Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee

Reporting dates extended

• Australia's faunal extinction crisis extended to 13 November 2019
• Continuing effectiveness, role and future direction of the Regulations and Ordinances Committee to 3 June 2019

Membership

Monday, 1 January

• Variations were agreed to

See also committee membership page

Tabled documents

Government documents and documents presented by the President

• Tuesday, 2 April (includes documents presented since the Senate last sat)
• Wednesday, 3 April

Clerk's documents

• Tuesday, 2 April [legislative instruments and other documents required by statute to be tabled]
• Wednesday, 3 April

To view individual instruments visit www.legislation.gov.au and search using the Federal Register of Legislation (FRL) number

Order for the production of documents

Agreed to

• Documents relating to an arson investigation regarding the premises of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority in Armidale to be tabled by the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, by no later than noon on 3 April 2019
• Documents relating to cost modelling of the Universal Service Obligation (USO) reform options and advice provided by NBNCo to be tabled by the Minister for Communications and the Arts by midday on 5 April 2019

Petitions

• Senator Ketter presented a petition relating to the national Broadband Network Corporation

Other

• Senator Faruqi tabled a petitioning document regarding Senator Anning
• Senator Siewert tabled a petitioning document regarding ParentsNext

Delegation reports

• Australian parliamentary delegation to Romania and the 139th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly held at Geneva, Switzerland
• Australian parliamentary delegation to Vietnam, Thailand and Brunei

Motions

Agreed to

• National child sex offender register moved by Senator Hinch
• Inheritance tax moved by Senator O'Sullivan
• National Day of Bhutan moved by Senator Dean Smith
• World Tuberculosis Day 2019 moved by Senator Singh
• North Queensland floods moved by Senators Faruqi and Waters
• Operation Sovereign Borders moved by Senator McGrath
• Chinchilla Melon Festival moved by Senator McGrath
• Australian cotton farmers and the cotton industry moved by Senator Williams
• Tasmanian bushfires moved by Senators Colbeck, Duniam and Abetz
• Closing the Gap moved by Senators Siewert and Dodson
• Australian seafarers and the Australian shipping industry moved by Senator Urquhart
• National Autism Strategy moved by Senators Griff and Brown
• Silicosis moved by Senators Di Natale and Faruqi
• Anniversary of the Fall of Singapore moved by Senator McGrath
• Economic inequality and women's financial security moved by Senator Waters
• Censure of Senator Anning moved by Senators Cormann and Wong
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• Gun control moved by Senators Cormann and Wong
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• Senators' qualifications moved by Senator Cormann
• Electoral preferences moved by Senator Wong
• Budget estimates hearings – Attendance by minister moved by Senators Watt and Cameron
• Conduct of a senator – part (a) moved by Senator Di Natale
• AFL Women's competition moved by Senators Patrick, Wong, Farrell, Birmingham and Griff
• Murray Darling Royal Commission moved by Senator Patrick

Negatived

• Adani Charmichael mine moved by Senator Waters
• Persecution of the Kurdish people in Turkey moved by Senator Di Natale
• The Moss Review moved by Senator Faruqi
• Publically-funded accommodation moved by Senator Anning
• Parliamentary Transparency Charter moved by Senator Storer
• Conduct of a senator – part (b) moved by Senator Di Natale

Denied formality

• Venezuelan interim President moved by Senator McGrath
• Climate change moved by Senator Rice

Disallowance motions

Notices of motion to disallow

• Civil Aviation (Community Service Flights ― Conditions on Flight Crew Licences) Instrument 2019 [F2019L00134] notice given by Senator Patrick
• Migration (Fast Track Applicant Class – Temporary Protection and Safe Haven Enterprise Visas) Instrument 2019 [F2019L00506] notice given by Senator McKim

Agreed to

• Item 4 of the Parliamentary Business Resources Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 [F2019L00177] notice given by Senator Farrell

Condolences

• Christchurch tragedy
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• The Honorable Dr John Herron, AO, a former senator for Queensland
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• Gordon McIntosh, a former senator for Western Australia
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Statement

• The President made a statement relating to the Senate's powers, privileges and immunities

Statistics