Mayaness, the report is only a Committee recommendation. Basically the bills were referred to the Committee for them to conduct an inquiry. So, they called for submissions, took evidence and wrote their report based on those things. You will note that included with the report there were two dissenting reports - which basically mean that some members of the Committee didn't agree with what was "agreed" on by the Committee. The dissenting Senators were the Coalition Senators, Judith Adams and Sue Boyce and, Green's Senator, Rachel Siewert. The bills are still currently with the House of Representatives and will be debated in the Senate after they are finished with them. I think they are on the third reading. The House of Reps and the Senate do not sit again until Monday (7 September). They both produce an agenda, the Senate Daily Summary and the Daily Program. Both of these will show you what is going to be debated in each House and can be downloaded from Parliament of Australia: Home

Nothings over until the fat lady sings (lol - quite apt in some of our cases). We still have hope that the coalition and greens and independents band together to block the bill from passing without amendment.

Sorry, it's hard to explain the process....