Senate
11^th Parliament

6 February 1929 to 12 September 1929

6 February 1929

6,220 words

• OPENING OF THE PARLIAMENT
• NEW SENATORS- DEATH OF SENATOR ANDREW
• GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH
• HIS EXCELLENCY THE GO
• ILLNESS OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING
• MINISTERIAL CHANGES
  • New Portfolios
• SENATE ELECTION FOR VICTORIA
  • Disputed Returns: Petition to High Court
• GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH
  • Ordered -
• ILLNESS OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING
• QUESTION
  • DEATH OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE ANDREW FISHER
• DEATH OF MR. JUSTICE HIGGINS
• DEATH OF SENATOR ANDREW
• HOUR OF MEETING
• ADJOURNMENT

7 February 1929

15,741 words

• PAPERS
• ASSENT TO BILLS
• COMMITTEE OF DISPUTED RETURNS AND QUALIFICATIONS
  • Qualifications: - Senators J. Barnes, W. L. Duncan, J. F. Guthrie, A. A. Hoare, E. Needham, H. J. M. Payne and W. G. Thompson
• MINISTERIAL DEPARTMENTS
• QUESTION
  • KELLOGG PEACE PACT
• PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE
• PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• SESSIONAL COMMITTEES
  • Printing Committee
  • Libraby Committee
  • Standing Orders Committee
• DAYS AND HOURS OF MEETING
• ORDER OF BUSINESS
• FRIDAY ADJOURNMENT
• FORESTRY BUREAU BILL
• COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION BILL
• QUESTION
  • HOUSE COMMITTEE
• QUESTION
  • GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH

8 February 1929

18,824 words

• QUESTION
  • QUEENSLAND BANANAS
• FORESTRY BUREAU BILL
• AUSTR ALI AN LOANS
  • Japanese Underwriters
• QUESTION
  • SWIMMING BATHS FOR CANBERRA
• PAPERS
• GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH

13 February 1929

17,234 words

• QUESTION
  • CANBERRA SWIMMING BATHS
• DEVELOPMENT AND MIGRATION COMMISSION
• ILLNESS OF THE KING
  • London, 11th February
• TEMPORARY CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES
• CONSTITUTION ALTERATION (STATE DEBTS) BILL
• QUESTION
  • LAUNCESTON AERODROME
• QUESTION
  • SPIRIT FOR FORTIFYING WINE
• EXCISE BILL
• DESIGNS BILL
• NORTHERN TERRITORY REPRESENTATION BILL
• PAPERS
• GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH

14 February 1929

17,732 words

• QUESTION
  • BRITISH ECONOMIC MISSION
• QUESTION
  • MIGRATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT
• PAPER
• DESIGNS BILL
• QUESTION
  • PREVENTION OF COMBINES
• QUESTION
  • QUEENSLAND BANANAS
• GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SPEECH
• PRESENTATION OF ADDRESSINREPLY
• COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION BILL
• PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE
• FORESTRY BUREAU BILL
  • Second Reading
• RENUNCIATION OF WAR: TREATY
• LEAGUE OF NATIONS
  • Ninth Assembly - Report of Australian Delegation
• QUESTION
  • BEAM WIRELESS
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Cockatoo Island Dockyard - Dismissal of Foremen

15 February 1929

11,079 words

• ADDRESS-IN-REPLY
  • Mr. President and Gentlemen:
• QUESTION
  • CITIZEN FORCES
• COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION BILL
  • Second Reading
• PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• DESIGNS BILL
  • Second Reading
• QUESTION
  • RENUNCIATION OF WAR: TREATY
• QUESTION
  • LEAGUE OF NATIONS
• FORESTRY BUREAU BILL
  • Second Reading
• PAPER
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Export of British Economic Mission

20 February 1929

19,394 words

• QUESTION
  • ROTARIANS' CONFERENCE
• QUESTION
  • TUESDAY SITTINGS
• PAPERS
• CITIZEN FORCES
  • Food Supplies - Transport Charges
• QUESTION
  • SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DISABILITIES COMMISSION
• FORESTEY BUREAU BILL
• DESIGNS BILL
  • Second Reading
• COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION BILL
  • Second Reading
• RENUNCIATION OF WAR: TREATY
  • Frank B. Kellogg
  • Long Applause Greets Speakers Advocating Permanent Peace, Adequate Defence. [By Associated Press]
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Cockatoo Island Dockyard - Federal Capital Territory : Leasehold System - Private Members' Business - Primary Industries
  • Sir,
  • Land Tenture

21 February 1929

24,911 words

• PAPER
• QUESTION
  • MIGRATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT
• QUESTION
  • GERMANY AND AUSTRALIAN APPLES
• QUESTION
  • CHILD ENDOWMENT COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE CONSTITUTION
• QUESTION
  • PORT AUGUSTA TO RED HILL RAILWAY
• QUESTION
  • OIL OP PEPPERMINT
• DESIGNS BILL
• QUESTION
  • PUBLIC SERVICE ARBITRATOR'S DETERMINATIONS NOS. 33 TO 36 OF 1928
• COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL BILL
• PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
  • Proposed Inquiry
• BEAM WIRELESS

22 February 1929

12,810 words

• GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
  • Senate Adjournment
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIAN BARLEY
• QUESTION
  • CANBERRA RECREATION GROUNDS
• COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION BILL
• QUESTION
  • FIRST SCHEDULE
• THE LATE MR. JUSTICE HIGGINS
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT

6 March 1929

8,009 words

• BEAM WIRELESS CHARGES
  • Select Committee
• QUESTION
  • CANBERRA RECREATION GROUNDS
• PAPERS
• COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL BILL
• TRANSPORT WORKERS BILL
  • Second Reading

7 March 1929

29,287 words

• QUESTION
  • SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DISABILITIES COMMISSION
• PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE
• TRANSPORT WORKERS BILL: PAPER
• QUESTION
  • WAR PENSIONS
• QUESTION
  • CANBERRA
• QUESTION
  • EVAPORATED APPLES
• QUESTION
  • OVERSEAS SHIPPING FREIGHTS
• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH HOUSING SCHEME
• QUESTION
  • PEARLING INDUSTRY
• TRANSPORT WORKERS BILL
  • Second Reading
• ADJOURNMENT

8 March 1929

19,161 words

• PAPER
• QUESTION
  • GRAPE-GROWING INDUSTRY
• FEDERAL CAPITAL COMMISSION
  • Fourth Annual Report : Inclusion of Photographs
• QUESTION
  • COTTON INDUSTRY
• QUESTION
  • POST-LETTER TELEGRAMS
• QUESTION
  • MIGRATION
• QUESTION
  • DERBY TO WYNDHAM AERIAL SERVICE
• NORTHERN TERRITORY
  • Medical Service
• QUESTION
  • GRAPE-GROWING INDUSTRY
• TRANSPORT WORKERS BILL
  • Second Reading
• FINANCIAL AGREEMENT VALIDATION BILL

13 March 1929

27,119 words

• QUESTION
  • COMMONWEALTH HOUSING SCHEME
• QUESTION
  • GRAPE-GROWING INDUSTRY
• QUESTION
  • FLAX INDUSTRY
• PAPERS
• WINE OVERSEAS MARKETING BILL
• TRANSPORT WORKERS BILL
  • Second Reading

14 March 1929

27,766 words

• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • WIRELESS
• QUESTION
  • COTTON INDUSTRY
• QUESTION
  • POSTAL DEPARTMENT
• QUESTION
  • NAVIGATION ACT
• QUESTION
  • WHEAT BOUNTY
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN'S UNION
• TARIFF BOARD BILL
• FINANCIAL AGREEMENT VALIDATION BILL
• QUESTION
  • PRIMARY INDUSTRIES
• FINANCIAL AGREEMENT VALIDATION BILL
  • Second Reading
  • Third Reading
• ADJOURNMENT

15 March 1929

18,461 words

• DEPUTY LEADER OF OPPOSITION
• QUESTION
  • AVIATION GROUNDS
• QUESTION
  • CEMENT SUPPLIES
• QUESTION
  • FINANCIAL POSITION OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
• QUESTION
  • NEW GUINEA
• QUESTION
  • SEARCH FOR OIL
• QUESTION
  • WIRELESS ADVERTISEMENTS
• QUESTION
  • COAL BOUNTY
• QUESTION
  • REPATRIATION COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • SYDNEY TO BRISBANE TRAIN SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • GOLD-MINING INDUSTRY
• BUSINESS OF THE SENATE
• WINE OVERSEAS MARKETING BILL
  • Second Reading
• TARIFF BOARD BILL
  • Second Reading
• PAPER
• QUESTION
  • RETIRING SENATORS
• EXTRA SITTING DAY

19 March 1929

31,665 words

• BEAM WIRELESS CHARGES
  • Select Committee
• QUESTION
  • GOLD-MINING INDUSTRY
• PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• PRINTING COMMITTEE'S REPORT
• PAPERS
• COTTON INDUSTRY
• QUESTION
  • STOCK ROUTES
• AVIATION GROUNDS - CANBERRA
• ASSENT TO BILLS
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 1) 1929-30
  • First Reading
• WINE GRAPES CHARGES BILL
• WINE OVERSEAS MARKETING BILL
  • Second Reading
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 1) 1929-30
  • First Reading

20 March 1929

26,299 words

• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • SEARCH FOR OIL
• QUESTION
  • PREFERENTIAL TARIFF
• WINE OVERSEAS MARKETING BILL
• WINE GRAPES CHARGES BILL
  • Second Reading
• ECONOMIC RESEARCH BILL
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 1) 1929-30
  • Second Reading
• ECONOMIC RESEARCH BILL
  • Second Reading
• GOLD-MINING INDUSTRY
• SEAT OF GOVERNMENT ACCEPTANCE BILL
• INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT BILL 1929
  • Second Reading
• DRIED FRUITS EXPORT CHARGES BILL
• ADJOURNMENT

21 March 1929

7,465 words

• QUESTION
  • SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DISABILITIES COMMISSION
• QUESTION
  • COTTON INDUSTRY
• STOCK ROUTES
  • North Australia - Queensland
• QUESTION
  • OIL AND PRECIOUS METALS
• PAPER
• WAR SERVICE HOMES BILL
  • Second Reading
• DRIED FRUITS EXPORT CHARGES BILL
  • Second Reading
• RENUNCIATION OF WAR: TREATY
• LEAGUE OF NATIONS
  • Ninth Assembly - Report of Australian Delegation
• WAR SERVICE HOMES BILL
  • Second Reading
• ADJOURNMENT

22 March 1929

14,684 words

• QUESTION
  • NEW GUINEA
• AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN'S UNION
• PAPERS
• GOVERNMENT OFFICES, CANBERRA
• QUESTION
  • INDUSTRIAL UNREST
• QUESTION
  • EVAPORATED APPLES
• QUESTION
  • CEMENT PURCHASES
• QUESTION
  • WHEAT AND BREAD PRICES
• COTTON INDUSTRY
• AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS' REPATRIATION BILL
• NATIONAL DEBT SINKING FUND BILL
  • Second Reading
• DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT CHARGES BILL (No. 2)
  • Second Reading
• CANNED FRUITS EXPORT CHARGES BILL (No. 2)
  • Second Reading
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Recess - Anticipated Prorogation - Tasmanian Evaporatedapples - Cotton Industry: Artificial Cotton

14 August 1929

3,773 words

• SWEARING IN OF SENATORS
  • New South Wales. - James Patrick Digger Dunn, Arthur Rae
  • Queensland. - Thomas William Crawford, Hattil Spencer Foil, Matthew Reid
  • South Australia. - Albert Alfred Hoare
  • Tasmania. - James Ernest Ogden, John Blyth Hayes, Herbert Hays
  • Victoria. - John Barnes, Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson, Robert Charles Dunlop Elliott
  • Western Australia. - Sir Hal Pateshal! Colebatch, Edward Bertram Johnston, Walter Kingsmill
• ELECTION OF PRESIDENT
• PAPERS
• BEAM WIRELESS
• CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES
• LEADER AND DEPUTY-LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION- WHIP
• ASSENT TO BILLS
• SENATE ELECTION FOR VICTORIA
  • Disputed Returns: Petition to High Court
• THE LATE RIGHT HONORABLE ANDREW FISHER
• PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT

21 August 1929

685 words

• ADJOURNMENT

22 August 1929

10,425 words

• PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
  • Mail-Handling Appliances, General Post Office, Sydney
• PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE
• PAPERS
• TEMPORARY CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES
• COMMITTEE OF DISPUTED RETURNS AND QUALIFICATIONS
• QUESTION
  • MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE LEGISLATION
• QUESTION
  • FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO SOUTH AUSTRALIA
• QUESTION
  • AUSTRALIA'S INDEBTEDNESS
• LIFE INSURANCE BILL
  • Second Reading
• ESTIMATES AND BUDGET PAPERS, 1929-30
  • Consolidated Revenue Fund
  • Revenue, 1928-29
  • Expenditure, 1928-29
  • Estimated Revenue, 1929-30
  • Loan Expenditure
  • Public Debt
  • Commonwealth Bank
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT

28 August 1929

16,069 words

• PAPERS
• PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
  • Automatic Telephone Exchange, Caulfield East, Victoria
• OATH OR AFFIRMATION OF ALLEGIANCE
• QUESTION
  • FOOTBALL AT DUNTROON MILITARY COLLEGE
• QUESTION
  • NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL
• QUESTION
  • VICTORIA BARRACKS, PADDINGTON, NEW SOUTH WALES
• QUESTION
  • H.M.A.S. ALBATROSS
• QUESTION
  • BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, ETC
• QUESTION
  • BOUNTIES
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE
• PRINTING COMMITTEE
• HOUSE COMMITTEE
• LIBRARY COMMITTEE
• LIFE INSURANCE BILL
  • Second Reading
• ADJOURNMENT

29 August 1929

1,118 words

• PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• QUESTION
  • COCKATOO ISLAND
• QUESTION
  • SUGAR SUPPLIESFOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA
• QUESTION
  • NORTH-WEST AIR SERVICE
• QUESTION
  • MIGRATION
• ADJOURNMENT

30 August 1929

10,626 words

• PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
  • Edgecliff, New South Wales
• LIFE INSURANCE BILL
• QUESTION
  • MANDATED TERRITORIES
• QUESTION
  • PERTH TO WYNDHAM AIR SERVICE
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• BANKRUPTCY BILL
• ARBITRATION (PUBLIC SERVICE) BILL
  • Second Reading
• TESTS FOR ADVANCEMENT
• FUNCTIONS OF OFFICERS
  • Linemen,
  • Mechanics,
• ADJOURNMENT

4 September 1929

31,161 words

• ARBITRATION (PUBLIC SERVICE) BILL
• PAPERS
• QUESTION
  • TREATY OF VERSAILLES
• ARBITRATION (PUBLIC SERVICE) BILL
  • Second Reading

5 September 1929

7,006 words

• PRINTING COMMITTEE
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE
• QUESTION
  • COCKATOO ISLAND DOCKYARD
• ARBITRATION (PUBLIC SERVICE) BILL
• QUESTION
  • AMUSEMENT TAX
• QUESTION
  • WIRELESS AND CABLE MERGER
• ARBITRATION (PUBLIC SERVICE) BILL
• QUESTION
  • BUSINESS OF THE SENATE
• BEAM WIRELESS
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• ADJOURNMENT
  • Order of Business

11 September 1929

127 words

• ADJOURNMENT

12 September 1929

3,838 words

• PAPERS
• PUBLICWORKS COMMITTEE
• QUESTION
  • EVAPORATED APPLES
• QUESTION
  • DISSOLUTION
• QUESTION
  • SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
• QUESTION
  • GEODETIC AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY
• QUESTION
  • NAVIGATION ACT
• COMMONWEALTH HOUSING SCHEME.
  • Queensland's Attitude
• SUSPENSION OF SITTING
• SUPPLY BILL (No. 2) 1929-30
  • Second Reading
• INVALID AND OLD-AGE PENSIONS APPROPRIATION BILL
  • Second Reading
• WAR PENSIONS APPROPRIATION BILL
  • Second Reading
• CUSTOMS TARIFF VALIDATION BILL
  • Second Reading
• EXCISE TARIFF VALIDATION BILL
  • Second Reading
• SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
• LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO SENATORS