Motions agreed to—2008

Number of principal motions agreed to: 119
Subject Notice given Agreed to Journals page
Administration—Excise and customs rates—Alcohol (Senator Bob Brown) 16/06/08 17/06/08 498
Administration—Cairns Yacht Club (Senators Macdonald and Joyce) 27/08/08 28/08/08 751
Administration—Queensland—Local government elections (Senator Boyce) 17/03/08 18/03/03 252
Citizenship Day (Senator Ellison) 16/09/08 17/09/08 865
Communications—ABC Radio National (Senator Bob Brown) 15/10/08 16/10/08 1038
Culture and the Arts—Australian National Academy of Music (Senators Milne and Ronaldson) 01/12/08 02/12/08 1371
Culture and the Arts—Australian National Academcy of Music (Senators Ronaldson and Milne) 11/11/08 12/11/08 1159
Culture and the Arts—Deepavali—Celbrations (Senator Ellison) 15/09/08 16/10/08 1036
Death of Major General Janaka Perera and Mrs Perera (Senator Hutchins) 13/10/08 16/10/08* 1037
Death of Mr Jack Gibson, OAM (Senators Hutchins and Forshaw) 13/05/08 14/05/08 390
Death of Mr Joern Utzon (Senator Hutchins) 01/12/08 02/12/08* 1372
Death of Mr William Alfred (Bill) Brown, OAM (Senator Bernardi) 18/03/08 19/03/08 293
Death of Ms Britt Lapthorne (Senator Fielding) 13/10/08 14/10/08 1005
Death of Private Luke Worsley (Senator Minchin) 12/02/08 13/02/08 109
Death of Professor Peter Cullen (Senator Siewert) 17/03/08 18/03/08 254
Death of Sergeant Matthew Locke (Senator Minchin) 12/02/08 13/02/08 109
Death of Signaller Sean McCarthy (Senator Minchin) 26/08/08 27/08/08 736
Death of Trooper David Pearce (Senator Minchin) 12/02/08 13/02/08 108
Death of Yvonne Butler (Senator Siewert) 27/08/08 28/08/08 749
Economics—Executive salaries (Senator Bob Brown) 24/11/08 25/11/08 1273
Economy—Wage restraint (Senator Bob Brown) 12/02/08 11/03/08 177
Education—Music education (Senators Allison and Kemp) 18/06/08 19/06/08 539
Environment—Bass Coast—Desalination plant (Senator Bob Brown) 26/08/08 27/08/08 735
Environment—Carbon sequestration (Senator Bob Brown) 19/06/08 24/06/08 589
Environment—Climate change (Senator Bob Brown) 25/06/08 26/06/08 645
Environment—Environmental and Natural Resource Management Guidelines (Senator Joyce) 23/09/08 24/09/08* 939
Environment—Global warming—Government explanation (Senator Bob Brown) 24/06/08 25/06/08 626
Environment—Green Cooling Council Greenhouse Gas Abatement Program (Senator Milne) 03/12/08 04/12/08 1421
Environment—Murray-Darling Basin system (Senator Hanson-Young) 22/09/08 23/09/08 916
Environment—Murray-Darling Basin system (Senator Siewert) 15/09/08 16/09/08 853
Environment—National Landcare Week (Senator Siewert) 03/09/08 04/09/08 808
Environment—Northern Pacific Seastar (Senator Abetz) 18/06/08 19/06/08 542
Environment—Pesticides (Senator Bob Brown) 24/11/08 25/11/08 1272
Environment—Queensland—Mary River—Proposed Dam (Senator Bob Brown) 18/09/08 23/09/08 917
Environment—South Australia—Trees for Life (Senator Hanson-Young) 01/12/08 02/12/08 1370
Environment—Sugarloaf Pipeline—Construction (Senator Bob Brown) 25/09/08 13/10/08 980
Environment—Tasmania—Tarkine forest (Senator Bob Brown) 27/11/08 01/12/08 1353
Environment—Traveston Crossing Dam—Construction (Senator Bob Brown) 13/10/08 14/10/08 1007
Environment—Traveston Crossing Dam—Construction (Senators Macdonald and Trood) 25/11/08 26/11/08 1310
Environment—United Nations Convention on Climate Change (Senator Milne) 12/02/08 14/02/08 138
Environment—Whaling in Australian waters (Senator Siewert) 13/02/08 14/02/08 142
Family and Community Services—ABC Learning—Child care (Senator Hanson-Young) 10/11/08 11/11/08 1130
Family and Community Services—ABC Learning—Child care (Senator Hanson-Young) 02/12/08 03/12/08 1402
Family and Community Services—Alcohol abuse (Senator Murray) 11/03/08 12/03/08 209
Family and Community Services—Carers Week (Senator Siewert) 15/10/08 16/10/08 1038
Family and Community Services—National Volunteer Week (Senator Siewert) 13/05/08 14/05/08* 389
Family and Community Services—Single age pension (Senator Bob Brown) 15/09/08 16/09/08 852
Family and Community Services—Single age pension (Senator Bob Brown) 15/09/08 16/09/08 853
Family and Community Services—Single age pension (Senator Siewert) 27/08/08 01/09/08* 770
Foreign Affairs—Burma (Senator Bob Brown) 14/05/08 15/05/08 418
Foreign Affairs—Burma (Senator Ludlam) 17/09/08 18/09/08* 878
Foreign Affairs—Burma—Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (Senator Stott Despoja) 19/06/08 23/06/08 568
Foreign Affairs—China (Senator Bob Brown) 11/03/08 18/03/08* 252
Foreign Affairs—China (Senator Bob Brown) 14/05/08 15/05/08 416
Foreign Affairs—China—Falun Gong (Senators Nettle and Bartlett) 23/06/08 24/06/08* 591
Foreign Affairs—China—Space walk (Senator Bob Brown) 13/10/08 14/10/08 1007
Foreign Affairs—Colombia—Ms Ingrid Betancourt (Senator Bob Brown) 14/02/08 11/03/08 177
Foreign Affairs—Cyprus (Senator Xenophon) 25/11/08 26/11/08 1311
Foreign Affairs—Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (Senator Allison) 13/05/08 14/05/08 389
Foreign Affairs—India and Nepal—Floods (Senator Bob Brown) 02/09/08 03/09/08 793
Foreign Affairs—Myanmar (Senator Stott Despoja) 12/02/08 14/02/08 142
Foreign Affairs—Papua New Guinea—Kokoda Track (Senators Barnett and McGauran) 23/06/08 24/06/08* 594
Foreign Affairs—Somalia—Human rights (Senator Bob Brown) 12/11/08 13/11/08 1196
Foreign Affairs—Tibet (Senator Bob Brown) 14/05/08 15/05/08* 413
Foreign Affairs—Tibet—Sino-Tibetan dialogue (Senator Bob Brown) 15/10/08 16/10/08* 1038
Foreign Affairs—United Nations—Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Senator Hanson-Young) 24/11/08 04/12/08 1418
Foreign Affairs—Vienna Forum to Fight Human Trafficking (Senator Ellison) 11/03/08 12/03/08 207
Foreign Affairs—Vietnam—Death penalty (Senator Bob Brown) 20/03/08 14/05/08 389
Foreign Affairs—West Africa—Child labour (Senator Hanson-Young) 02/12/08 03/12/08 1401
Foreign Affairs—Zimbabwe (Senators Ellison, Murray and Sandy Macdonald) 18/06/08 19/06/08* 542
Health—Child and maternal health (Senator Hanson-Young) 15/10/08 16/10/08 1037
Health—International Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Awareness Week (Senator Allison) 14/05/08 15/05/08 417
Health—National Skin Cancer Action Week (Senator Siewert) 11/11/08 12/11/08 1160
Health—Queensland—Townsville General Hospital (Senator Macdonald) 27/08/08 28/08/08* 751
Health—Remote area nurses (Senator Allison) 16/06/08 17/06/08 497
Health—National Cleft Awareness Week (Senator Siewert) 10/11/08 11/11/08 1131
Health—National Hearing Awareness Week (Senator Siewert) 26/08/08 27/08/08 738
Health—Research (Senator Allison) 13/03/08 17/03/08 237
Health—World AIDS Day (Senator Siewert) 27/11/08 01/12/08* 1353
Health—World Diabetes Day (Senator Siewert) 12/11/08 13/11/08 1195
Health—World Diabetes Day (Senators Wortley and Barnett) 12/11/08 13/11/08 1194
Health—World Sight Day (Senator Siewert) 13/10/08 14/10/08 1008
Historical Events—Great Irish Famine (Senators Hutchins and Joyce) 02/09/08 03/09/08 797
Historical Events—HMAS Sydney II (Senator Minchin) 17/03/08 18/03/08 251
Historical Events—South Vietnam—Battles of Fire Support Bases Coral and Balmoral (Senator Minchin) 13/05/08 14/05/08 390
Immigration—Moeller family (Senator Bernardi) 10/11/08 11/11/08 1130
Immigration—Temporary Retirement Visas (Senator Ellison) 23/06/08 24/06/08 592
Indigenous Australians—Health—Trachoma (Senator Allison) 13/02/08 11/03/08* 176
Industrial Relations—Australia's skills challenge (Senator Allison) 16/06/08 18/06/08 525
Industry—Commercial Ready program (Senator Abetz) 24/06/08 25/06/08 626
Industry—Fishing—Moreton Bay (Senator Macdonald) 26/11/08 27/11/08* 1327
International Transgender Day of Remembrance (Senator Hanson-Young) 12/11/08 13/11/08* 1198
Law and Justice—Australian Privacy Awards (Senator Faulkner) 01/09/08 02/09/08 782
Law and Justice—Freedom of information (Senator Milne) 24/09/08 25/09/08 951
Law and Justice—Recreational fishermen—Criminal convictions (Senator Fielding) 26/08/08 27/08/08* 734
Law and Justice—Japan—Whaling program (Senator Siewert) 25/06/08 26/06/08 646
Law and Justice—Japan—Whaling program (Senator Siewert) 24/11/08 25/11/08* 1275
Law and Justice—Whaling in Australian waters (Senator Siewert) 16/06/08 17/06/08* 497
National Apology to the Stolen Generations (Senator Evans) 12/02/08 13/02/08 93
National Apology to the Stolen Generations (Senator Ludwig) 12/02/08 14/02/08 158
Parliamentary Zone—Capital works proposal—Approval—Construction of a childcare centre (Senator Conroy) 23/06/08 26/06/08 651
Parliamentary Zone—Capital works proposal—Approval—Construction of a new cooling plant enclosure at Old Parliament House (Senator Ludwig) 25/11/08 27/11/08 1326
Parliamentary Zone—Capital works proposal—Approval—Design of the Pavement Artwork at Reconciliation Place (Senator Conroy) 28/08/08 03/09/08 793
Parliamentary Zone—Capital works proposal—Approval—National Portrait Gallery forecourt sculpture (Senator Ludwig) 22/09/08 13/10/08 973
Primary Industries—Agricultural research (Senator Payne) 25/11/08 26/11/08 1310
Regional Australia—Regional Partnerships Program—Peel Health Campus (Senator Cormann) 13/10/08 15/10/08 1026
Science and Technology—Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation—Victoria—Wool scour closure (Senator Milne) 14/05/08 15/05/08* 415
Science and Technology—Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation—Chief Executive Officer (Senator Abetz) 15/09/08 16/09/08 852
Senate—Documents—Internet accessibility (Senator Bernardi) 16/09/08 17/09/08 865
Sport—Australian Paralympic team (Senator Bernardi) 18/09/08 22/09/08 894
Transport—1999 Montreal Convention (Senator Xenophon) 13/10/08 15/10/08 1028
Transport—Aviation—Air traffic controllers (Senator Bob Brown) 03/12/08 04/12/08 1421
United Nations—Human rights (Senators Stott Despoja and Bartlett) 17/06/08 23/06/08* 567
Women—Health—Acute inpatient facilities (Senator Allison) 14/05/08 15/05/08 416
Women—International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Senators Ludlam and Hanson-Young) 24/11/08 25/11/08* 1275
Women—Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Senators Allison and Stott Despoja) 11/03/08 12/03/08 210
Women—'Reclaim the Night'—Violence against women (Senator Hanson-Young) 13/10/08 15/10/08 1027
World Day Against the Death Penalty (Senator Hanson-Young) 25/09/08 13/10/08 980
World Youth Day 2008 (Senator Stephens) 25/06/08 26/06/08 642

* Moved or agreed to in an amended form
# Motion moved by leave