Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I present additional information received by various committees relating to estimates as follows:

Community Affairs Committee—2006-07 budget estimates

Economics Committee—1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2005-06 and 2006-07 budget, supplementary budget and additional estimates

Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Committee—2006-07 budget estimates

Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Committee—2006-07 budget estimates

Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee—2006-07 budget estimates

Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee—2005-06 and 2006-07 additional and budget estimates

Ursula Stephens (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Science and Water) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I wish to make a statement in relation to the additional information that we have been provided with. It is extraordinary that we are receiving information from the 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-01 and 2005-06 budget, supplementary budget and additional estimates in the Senate Standing Committee on Economics. It is extraordinary that information that has been sought through the economics committee has taken so long to come here. We would expect that information to have been much more readily available since 1998. This outstanding information would have served us all well in this place.