Fed: House of Representatives Business

AAP General News (Australia)
02-13-2008
Fed: House of Representatives Business

The House of Representatives conducted the following business:

February 12:

1025: Members called to chamber.

1030: House of Representatives Clerk Ian Harris read proclamation calling parliament
together. Usher of the Black Rod called members to Senate.

1055: MPs sworn in.

1117: New Speaker elected.

1151: Sitting suspended temporarily.

1430: MPs invited to presentation with Maj-Gen Jeffery in the Members' Hall.

1505: MPs called to Senate for Maj-Gen Jeffery's address.

1552: MPs returned to chamber. Prime minister announced the ministry and whips. Opposition
leader and Nationals leader announced leaders, deputy leaders and whips.

1554: Legislation:

- Amendments Incorporation Amendment Bill 2008. Introduced, adjourned.

1555: Maj-Gen Jeffery's speech presented, committee appointed to prepare address-in-reply.

1556: Prime minister and opposition leader's statements on East Timor.

1602: Sitting suspended temporarily.

1700: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speaker.

1744: Motion to suspend standing orders at the next sitting to allow prime minister
to offer apology to stolen generation.

1745: Condolence motions:

- Death of Kim Beazley Snr.

- Death of Peter Andren

- Deaths of Trooper David Pearce, Special Forces Sergeant Matthew Locke and Special
Forces Commando Luke Worsley.

- Deaths of Leonard Joseph Keogh, Dr Kenneth Lionel Fry, Helen Mayer, Robert Lindsay
Collins, Matt Price, Bernard Douglas (Bernie) Banton, Sir Charles Walter Michael Court,
Sir Edmund Hillary.

1942: Referral of matters to main committee.

1943: Government business:

- Proposed amendments to the standing orders and certain resolutions of the House. Motion passed.

February 13:

0131: MP sworn in (Member for Perth Stephen Smith)

0132: Government business:

- Proposed program of sitting for 2008. Passed.

- Proposed special provisions for nursing mothers. Motion passed.

- Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity.

Motion passed.

- Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Crime Commission. Motion passed.

- Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services. Motion passed.

- Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters. Motion passed.

- Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. Motion passed.

- Joint Standing Committee on Migration. Motion passed.

- Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories. Motion passed.

- Joint Standing Committee on the Parliamentary Library. Motion passed.

- Joint Standing Committee on Treaties. Motion passed.

Election petition. Presented.

0159: Adjournment.

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