Senate debates
Thursday, 7 December 2006
Committees
Reports: Government Responses
3:51 pm
Amanda Vanstone (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I present the government’s response to the President’s report of 22 June 2006 on government responses outstanding to parliamentary committee reports, and seek leave to incorporate the document in Hansard.
Leave granted.
The document read as follows—
GOVERNMENT RESPONSES TO PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE REPORTS
A CERTAIN MARITIME INCIDENT (Select)
The government response will be tabled in due course.
ADMINISTRATION OF INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS (Select)
After ATSIC – Life in the mainstream?
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
ASIO, ASIS AND DSD (Joint, Statutory)
Private review of agency security arrangements
The response was tabled in both the Senate and the House of Representatives on 7 September 2006.
Review of the listing of six terrorist organisations
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Review of the listing of four terrorist organisations
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
AUSTRALIAN CRIME COMMISSION (Joint, Statutory)
Inquiry into the trafficking of women for sexual servitude
The government response was tabled in the Senate on 9 November 2006 and the House of Representatives on 30 November 2006.
Examination of the annual report for 2003-2004 of the Australian Crime Commission
The response was tabled in both the Senate and the House of Representatives on 17 August 2006.
Supplementary report to the inquiry into the trafficking of women for sexual servitude
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Review of the Australian Crime Commission Act 2002
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
COMMUNITY AFFAIRS LEGISLATION
Tobacco advertising prohibition
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Provisions of the Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work and Other Measures) Bill 2005 and the Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work) Bill 2005
The report was responded to during the debate of the bill. No further response is required.
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial responsibility for approval of RU486) Bill 2005
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Provisions of the Family Assistance, Social Security and Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (2005 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2006
The report was responded to during the debate of the bill. No further response is required.
COMMUNITY AFFAIRS REFERENCES
Quality and equity in aged care
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Workplace exposure to toxic dust
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Beyond petrol sniffing: renewing hope for Indigenous communities
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
CORPORATIONS AND SECURITIES (Joint Statutory)
Report on aspects of the regulation of proprietary companies
The government is currently consulting on a substantial number of initiatives to simplify corporate regulation. It is expected that some of these initiatives will impact on the regulation of proprietary companies. A response to the report will therefore be provided in due course.
CORPORATIONS AND FINANCIAL SERVICES (Joint Statutory)
Report on the regulations and ASIC policy statements made under the Financial Services Reform Act 2001
The government is currently reviewing and consulting on a substantial number of initiatives to refine the regulation of financial services which take into account the recommendations made in this report. A response which takes into account the refinements will therefore be provided in due course.
Review of the Managed Investments Act 1998
The government is currently reviewing and consulting on a substantial number of initiatives to refine the regulation of financial services. It is expected that certain of these initiatives will have some bearing on the regulation of managed investments. A response to the report will therefore be provided in due course.
Inquiry into Regulation 7.1.29 in Corporations Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 3), Statutory Rules 2003 No. 85
The government is currently reviewing and consulting on a substantial number of initiatives to refine the regulation of financial services which take into account the recommendations made in this report. A response which takes into account the refinements will therefore be provided in due course.
Money matters in the bush: Inquiry into the level of banking and financial services in rural, regional and remote areas of Australia
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Report on the ATM fee structure
The response is being considered in conjunction with that for ‘Money Matters in the Bush’ (see above).
Corporations Amendment Regulations 2003 (Batch 6); Draft Regulations: Corporations Amendment Regulations 2003/04 (Batch 7); and Draft Regulations: Corporations amendment Regulations 2004 (Batch 8)
The government is currently reviewing and consulting on a substantial number of initiatives to refine the regulation of financial services which take into account the recommendations made in this report. A response which takes into account the refinements will therefore be provided in due course.
Corporations Amendment Regulations 7.1.29A, 7.1.35A and 7.1.40(h)
The government continues to respond to this report through changes to the Corporations Regulations and ongoing proposals to make further refinements to the regulation of financial services based on public comment. A final response to this report will be tabled following implementation of these changes.
Property investment – Safe as houses?
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Timeshare: The price of leisure
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Statutory oversight of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Corporate responsibility: Managing risk and creating value
A response is expected following the report of the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC) on Corporate Social Responsibility.
ECONOMICS LEGISLATION
Report on annual reports (No. 1 of 2006)
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Provisions of the Customs Amendment (Fuel Tax Reform and Other Measures) Bill 2006 and three related bills
The recommendations were addressed during the debate of the bill. No further response is required.
Provisions of the Fuel Tax Bill 2006 and the Fuel Tax (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2006
The recommendations were addressed during the debate of the bill. No further response is required.
ECONOMICS REFERENCES
Report on the operation of the Australian Taxation Office
The Australian Taxation Office has carefully considered the recommendations that relate to it, but several of the recommendations were overtaken by legislative and other developments. A report showing the current status of the recommendations is currently being prepared.
Inquiry into mass marketed tax effective schemes and investor protection – Interim report; Second report: A recommended resolution and settlement; and Final report
As previously noted, after the Committee’s final report, the then Commissioner of Taxation responded by announcing a settlement offer for participants in mass marketed investment schemes which was accepted by the vast majority of participants. The Parliament has also recently passed laws giving the Commissioner of Taxation greater powers to act against promoters of these schemes. No further response is proposed to these reports.
Consenting adults deficits and household debt – Link between Australia’s current account deficit, the demand for imported goods and household debt
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
ELECTORAL MATTERS (Joint Standing)
The 2004 federal election – Report of the inquiry into the conduct of the 2004 federal election and matters related thereto
The government response was presented out of sitting in the Senate on 31 August 2006. It was subsequently tabled in the Senate on 4 September 2006 and in the House of Representatives on 7 September 2006.
Funding and disclosure: Inquiry into disclosure of donations to political parties and candidates
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
EMPLOYMENT, WORKPLACE RELATIONS AND EDUCATION REFERENCES
Bridging the skills divide
The government response is being revised to reflect ongoing vocational and technical education reforms and is expected to be tabled shortly.
Indigenous education funding – Interim report and Final report
The response is awaiting inclusion of the outcomes of the second 2006 round for the Whole of School Intervention programme, which should be known shortly.
Student income support
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Workplace agreements
The Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005 and the Workplace Relations Regulations 2006 came into effect on 27 March 2006. The amendments to the Workplace Relations Regulations took effect from 21 September 2006. These legislative changes supersede the legislation that applied when this report was tabled on 21 October 2005. A response reflecting these legislative changes will be tabled.
ENVIRONMENT, COMMUNICATIONS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARTS REFERENCES
The value of water: Inquiry into Australia’s urban water management
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Regulating the Range, Jabiluka, Beverley and Honeymoon uranium mines
Awaiting completion of relevant overlapping inquiries. A response will be prepared shortly.
Turning back the tide – the invasive species challenge: Report on the regulation, control and management of invasive species and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Invasive Species) Bill 2002
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Lurching forward, looking back: Budgetary and environmental implications of the Government’s Energy White Paper
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
The performance of the Australian telecommunications regulatory regime
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Living with a salinity – a report on progress: The extent and economic impact of salinity in Australia
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
FINANCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFERENCES
Staff employed under the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Regional partnerships and sustainable regions programs
The government response was tabled in the Senate on 5 December 2006.
Matter relating to the Gallipoli Peninsula
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Government advertising and accountability
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE (Joint, Standing)
Australia’s free trade agreements with Singapore, Thailand and the United States: progress to date and lessons for the future
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Australia’s defence relations with the United States
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Expanding Australia’s trade and investment relations with North Africa
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Australia’s relationship with the Republic of Korea; and developments on the Korean peninsula
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Australia’s response to the Indian Ocean tsunami
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE REFERENCES
Mr Chen Yonglin’s request for political asylum
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Opportunities and challenges: Australia’s relationship with China
The government response was presented out of sitting on 2 November 2006, and tabled in the Senate on 6 November 2006.
The removal, search for and discovery of Ms Vivian Solon – Final report
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
China’s emergence: implications for Australia
The government response was presented out of sitting on 2 November 2006, and tabled in the Senate on 6 November 2006.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES (Select)
In the public interest: Monitoring Australia’s media
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL LEGISLATION
Review of the Defence Legislation Amendment (Aid to Civil Authorities) Bill 2005
The government response was tabled in the Senate on 30 November 2006.
Provisions of the Australian Citizenship Bill 2005 and the Australian Citizenship (Transitionals and Consequentials) Bill 2005
The government will respond to the report by way of moving amendments to the bills.
Provisions of the Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006
The government response to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee’s report is encapsulated in the Prime Minister’s media release from 21 June 2006. No further response is proposed as the bill was withdrawn by the Prime Minister on 14 August 2006.
LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENCES
Reconciliation: Off track
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
The road to a republic
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
They still call Australia home: Inquiry into Australian expatriates
The government response was tabled in the Senate on 7 December 2006.
The real Big Brother – Inquiry into the Privacy Act 1988
The government response was tabled in the Senate on 30 November 2006.
Administration and operation of the Migration Act 1958
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
MEDICARE (Senate Select)
Medicare – healthcare or welfare? and
Second report: Medicare Plus: the future for Medicare?
A combined response to both of these reports is currently being finalised.
MENTAL HEALTH (Select)
A national approach to mental health - from crisis to community – First report and Second reports
To contribute to Council of Australian Governments (COAG) discussion and policy development on mental health, the Senate Select Committee on Mental Health divided its report into two. The first report, a national approach to mental health–from crisis to communit –First Report, was tabled on 30 March 2006. The second report, a national approach to mental health–from crisis–Final Report was tabled on 9 May 2006. The Final Report included the recommendations contain in the First Report together with a number of additional conclusions and recommendations. Accordingly a government response is being prepared to the Final report rather than the First report.
A response to a national approach to mental health–from crisis to community–Final Report was delayed in order to take account of the COAG’s consideration and endorsement of the National Action Plan on Mental Health 2006-2011 on 14 July 2006. A government response is currently being prepared and will be tabled in due course.
MIGRATION (Joint, Standing)
Detention centre contracts: Review of Audit report No. 1 2005-06 – Management of the detention centre contracts – Part B
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
MINISTERIAL DISCRETION IN MIGRATION MATTERS (Senate Select)
Report
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
NATIONAL CAPITAL AND EXTERNAL TERRITORIES (Joint, Standing)
Norfolk Island electoral matters
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Antarctica: Australia’s pristine frontier – Report on the adequacy of funding for Australia’s Antarctic Program
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Norfolk Island financial sustainability: The challenge – sink or swim?
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Current and future governance arrangements for the Indian Ocean territories
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
NATIVE TITLE AND THE ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER LAND FUND (Joint Statutory)
Report on the operation of Native Title Representatives Bodies
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT (Joint Statutory)
Government business enterprises, December 1999 (Report No. 372)
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Review of Auditor-General’s reports 2003-04 third and fourth quarters; and first and second quarters of 2004-05 (Report No. 404)
The government response was given by way of an Executive Minute tabled in the House of Representatives on 30 October 2006 and in the Senate on 6 November 2006.
Developments in aviation security since the Committee’s June 2004 Report 400: Review of aviation security in Australia – An interim report (Report No. 406)
The Department of Transport and Regional Services provided a letter dated 16 February 2006, acknowledging the interim report. A full response will be provided when a final report is tabled.
PUBLICATIONS (Joint)
Distribution of the Parliamentary Papers Series
Responses to recommendations 7, 10, 13, 14 & 19 by the Department of Finance and Administration and responses to recommendations 8 & 16 by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet was tabled in the House of Representatives on 2 November 2006 and tabled in the Senate on 9 November 2006. Recommendation 18 will be responded to in due course.
RURAL AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT LEGISLATION
An appropriate level of protection? The importation of salmon products: A case study of the administration of Australian quarantine and the impact of international trade arrangements
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Biosecurity Australia’s import risk analysis for pig meat
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Administration of Biosecurity Australia – Revised draft import risk analysis for bananas from the Philippines
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Administration of Biosecurity Australia – Revised draft import risk analysis for apples from New Zealand
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Regulatory framework under the Maritime Transport Security Amendment Act 2005
The Government does not propose to respond to the report. The recommendations of the Committee were taken into account when finalising the Maritime Transport and Offshore Security Amendment Regulations 2005 (1) and (3), which were tabled in the Senate on 6 September 2005 and 11 October 2005 respectively.
The privacy concerns have been addressed and guidelines are in place to assist assessments of security checks.
The administration by the Department of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry of the citrus canker outbreak
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
RURAL AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT REFERENCES
Rural water use
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Australian forest plantations: A review of Plantations for Australia: The 2020 vision
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
Iraqi wheat debt – repayments for wheat growers
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
SCRUTINY OF BILLS (Senate Standing)
Third report of 2004: The quality of explanatory memoranda accompanying bills
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
TREATIES (Joint, Standing)
Treaties tabled on 7 December 2004 (3) and 8 February 2005 (65th Report)
The government response was tabled in both the Senate and the House of Representatives on 10 August 2006.
Treaties tabled on 7 December 2004 (4), 15 March and 11 May 2005 (66th report)
The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.
John Hogg (Queensland, Deputy-President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
In accordance with the usual practice, I table a report of parliamentary committee reports to which the government has not responded within the prescribed period. The report has been circulated to honourable senators. With the concurrence of the Senate, the report will be incorporated in Hansard.
Leave granted.
The document read as follows—
PRESIDENT’S REPORT TO THE SENATE ON GOVERNMENT RESPONSES OUTSTANDING TO PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE REPORTS AS AT 7 DECEMBER 2006
PREFACE
This document continues the practice of presenting to the Senate twice each year a list of government responses to Senate and joint committee reports as well as responses which remain outstanding.
The practice of presenting this list to the Senate is in accordance with the resolution of the Senate of 14 March 1973 and the undertaking by successive governments to respond to parliamentary committee reports in timely fashion. On 26 May 1978 the then Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers) informed the Senate that within six months of the tabling of a committee report, the responsible minister would make a statement in the Parliament outlining the action the government proposed to take in relation to the report. The period for responses was reduced from six months to three months in 1983 by the then incoming government. The then Leader of the Government in the Senate announced this change on 24 August 1983. The method of response continued to be by way of statement. Subsequently, on 16 October 1991[tabled 5 Nov 1991] the then government advised that responses to committee reports would be made by letter to a committee chair, with the letter being tabled in the Senate at the earliest opportunity. The current government in June 1996 affirmed its commitment to respond to relevant parliamentary committee reports within three months of their presentation.
This list does not usually include reports of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works or the following Senate Standing Committees: Appropriations and Staffing, Selection of Bills, Privileges, Procedure, Publications, Regulations and Ordinances, Senators’ Interests and Scrutiny of Bills. However, such reports will be included if they require a response. Government responses to reports of the Public Works Committee are normally reflected in motions in the House of Representatives for the approval of works after the relevant report has been presented and considered.
Reports of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (JCPAA) primarily make administrative recommendations but may make policy recommendations. A government response is required in respect of such policy recommendations made by the committee. However, responses to administrative recommendations are made in the form of an executive minute provided to, and subsequently tabled by, the committee. Agencies responding to administrative recommendations are required to provide an executive minute within 6 months of the tabling of a report. The committee monitors the provision of such responses.
An entry on this list for a report of the JCPAA containing only administrative recommendations is annotated to indicate that the response is to be provided in the form of an executive minute. Consequently, any other government response is not required. However, any reports containing policy recommendations are included in this report as requiring a government response.
Committees report on bills and the provisions of bills. Only those reports in this category that make recommendations which cannot readily be addressed during the consideration of the bill, and therefore require a response, are listed. The list also does not include reports by committees on estimates or scrutiny of annual reports, unless recommendations are made that require a response.
A guide to the legend used in the ‘Date response presented/made to the Senate’ column
- * See document tabled in the Senate on 7 December 2006, entitled Government Responses to Parliamentary Committee Reports–Response to the schedule tabled by the President of the Senate on 22 June 2006, for Government interim/final response.
- ** Report contains administrative recommendations – any response to those recommendations is to be provided direct to the JCPAA committee in the form of an executive minute.
Committee and title of report | Date report tabled | Date response presented/made to the Senate | Response made within specified period (3 months) |
Report on a Certain Maritime Incident | 23.10.02 | *(interim) | No |
Administration of Indigenous Affairs (Senate Select) | |||
After ATSIC Life in the mainstream? | 8.3.05 | *(interim) | No |
Private review of agency security arrangements | 13.10.03 | 7.9.06 | No |
Review of the listing of six terrorist organisations | 7.3.05 | *(interim) | No |
Review of the listing of four terrorist organisations | 5.9.05 | *(interim) | No |
Australian Crime Commission (Joint Statutory) | |||
Inquiry into the trafficking of women for sexual servitude | 24.6.04 | 9.11.06 | No |
Examination of the annual report for 2003-04 of the Australian Crime Commission | 23.6.05 | 17.8.06 | No |
Supplementary report to the inquiry into the trafficking of women for sexual servitude | 11.8.05 | *(interim) | No |
Review of the Australian Crime Commission Act 2002 | 10.11.05 | *(interim) | No |
Examination of the annual report for 2004-05 of the Australian Crime Commission | 19.10.06 | - | Time not expired |
Community Affairs Legislation | |||
Tobacco advertising prohibition | 16.11.04 (presented 30.9.04) | *(interim) | No |
Provisions of the Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work and Other Measures) Bill 2005 and the Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare to Work) Bill 2005 | 28.11.05 | *(final) | No |
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial responsibility for approval of RU486) Bill 2005 | 8.2.06 | *(interim) | No |
Provisions of the Family Assistance, Social Security and Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (2005 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2006 | 27.3.06 (presented 24.3.06) | *(final) | No |
Community Affairs References | |||
Quality and equity in aged care | 23.6.05 | *(interim) | No |
Workplace exposure to toxic dust | 13.6.06 (presented 31.5.06) | *(interim) | No |
Beyond petrol sniffing: renewing hope for Indigenous communities | 20.6.06 | *(interim) | No |
Community Affairs Standing | |||
Breaking the silence: a national voice for gynaecological cancers | 19.10.06 | - | Time not expired |
Legislative responses to recommendations of the Lockhart Review | 6.11.06 | Not required | - |
Corporations and Securities (Joint Statutory) | |||
Report on aspects of the regulation of proprietary companies | 8.3.01 | *(interim) | No |
Corporations and Financial Services (Joint Statutory) | |||
Report on the regulations and ASIC policy statements made under the Financial Services Reform Act 2001 | 23.10.02 | *(interim) | No |
Review of the Managed Investments Act 1998 | 12.12.02 | *(interim) | No |
Inquiry into Regulation 7.1.29 in Corporations Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 3), Statutory Rules 2003 No. 85 | 26.6.03 | *(interim) | No |
Money matters in the bush: Inquiry into the level of banking and financial services in rural, regional and remote areas of Australia | 10.2.04 (presented 15.1.04) | *(interim) | No |
Report on the ATM fee structure | 10.2.04 (presented 15.1.04) | *(interim) | No |
Corporations Amendment Regulations 2003 (Batch 6); Draft Regulations: Corporations Amendment Regulations 2003/04 (Batch 7); and Draft Regulations: Corporations Amendment Regulations 2004 (Batch 8) | 24.3.04 | *(interim) | No |
Corporations Amendment Regulations 7.1.29A, 7.1.35A and 7.1.40(h) | 15.6.04 | *(interim) | No |
Property investment – Safe as houses? | 23.6.05 | *(interim) | No |
Timeshare: The price of leisure | 5.9.05 | *(interim) | No |
Statutory oversight of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission | 7.2.06 (presented 19.12.05) | *(interim) | No |
Corporate responsibility: Managing risk and creating value | 21.6.06 | *(interim) | |
Statutory oversight of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission | 16.8.06 | - | No |
Economics Legislation | |||
Annual reports (No. 1 of 2006) | 30.3.06 | *(interim) | No |
Provisions of the Customs Amendment (Fuel Tax Reform and Other Measures) Bill 2006 and three related bills | 15.6.06 (presented 14.6.06) | *(final) | No |
Provisions of the Fuel Tax Bill 2006 and the Fuel Tax (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2006 | 15.6.06 (presented 14.6.06) | *(final) | No |
Provisions of the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bill 2006 | 17.8.06 | - | No |
Economics References | |||
Report on the operation of the Australian Taxation Office | 9.3.00 | *(interim) | No |
Inquiry into mass marketed tax effective schemes and investor protection —Interim report | 25.6.01 | *(final) | No |
Inquiry into mass marketed tax effective schemes and investor protection —Second report: A recommended resolution and settlement | 27.9.01 | *(final) | No |
Inquiry into mass marketed tax effective schemes and investor protection —Final report | 12.2.02 (presented 11.2.02) | *(final) | No |
Consenting adults deficits and household debt—Links between Australia’s current account deficit, the demand for imported goods and household debt | 13.10.05 | *(interim) | No |
Economics Standing | |||
Inquiry into petrol prices in Australia—Interim report | 9.10.06 | Not required | - |
Petrol prices in Australia | 7.12.06 | - | Time not expired |
The 2004 federal election - Report of the inquiry into the conduct of the 2004 federal election and matters related thereto | 10.10.05 | 4.9.06 (presented 31.8.06) | No |
Funding and disclosure: Inquiry into disclosure of donations to political parties and candidates | 9.5.06 (presented 31.3.06) | *(interim) | No |
Employment, Workplace Relations and Education References | |||
Bridging the skills divide | 24.11.03 (presented 6.11.03) | *(interim) | No |
Indigenous education funding – Final report | 22.6.05 | *(interim) | No |
Student income support | 23.6.05 | *(interim) | No |
Workplace agreements | 7.11.05 (presented 31.10.05) | *(interim) | No |
Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Standing | |||
Perspectives on the future of the harvest labour force | 19.10.06 | - | Time not expired |
Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts References | |||
The value of water: Inquiry into Australia’s urban water management | 5.12.02 | *(interim) | No |
Regulating the Ranger, Jabiluka, Beverley and Honeymoon uranium mines | 14.10.03 | *(interim) | No |
Turning back the tide – the invasive species challenge: Report on the regulation, control and management of invasive species and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Invasive Species) Bill 2002 | 8.12.04 | *(interim) | No |
Lurching forward, looking back: Budgetary and environmental implications of the Government’s Energy White Paper | 14.6.05 (presented 16.5.05) | *(interim) | No |
The performance of the Australian telecommunications regulatory regime | 10.8.05 | *(interim) | No |
Living with a salinity – a report on progress: The extent and economic impact of salinity in Australia | 28.3.06 | *(interim) | No |
About time! Women in sport and recreation in Australia | 6.9.06 | - | No |
Finance and Public Administration References | |||
Staff employed under Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 | 16.10.03 | *(interim) | No |
Regional partnerships and sustainable regions programs | 6.10.05 | 5.12.06 | No |
Matters relating to the Gallipoli Peninsula | 13.10.05 | *(interim) | No |
Government advertising and accountability | 6.12.05 | *(interim) | No |
Australia’s free trade agreements with Singapore, Thailand and the United States: progress to date and lessons for the future | 7.11.05 | *(interim) | No |
Australia’s defence relations with the United States | 13.6.06 | *(interim) | No |
Expanding Australia’s trade and investment relations with North Africa | 13.6.06 | *(interim) | No |
Australia’s relationship with the Republic of Korea; and developments on the Korean Peninsula | 22.6.06 | *(interim) | No |
Australia’s response to the Indian Ocean tsunami | 22.6.06 | *(interim) | No |
Review of the Defence annual report 2004-05 | 18.10.06 | - | Time not expired |
Review of Australia-New Zealand trade and investment relations | 7.12.06 | - | Time not expired |
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation | |||
Reforms to Australia’s military justice system – First progress report | 17.8.06 | - | No |
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Amendment Bill 2006 | 7.9.06 | - | No |
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References | |||
Mr Chen Yonglin’s request for political asylum | 12.9.05 | *(interim) | No |
Opportunities and challenges: Australia’s relationship with China | 10.11.05 | 6.11.06 (presented 2.11.06) | No |
The removal, search for and discovery of Ms Vivian Solon—Final report | 8.12.05 | *(interim) | No |
China’s emergence: implications for Australia | 30.3.06 | 6.11.06 (presented 2.11.06) | No |
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Standing | |||
Blue water ships: consolidating past achievements | 7.12.06 | - | Time not expired |
Information Technologies (Select) | |||
In the public interest: Monitoring Australia’s media | 13.4.00 | *(interim) | No |
Intelligence and Security (Joint) | |||
Review of administration and expenditure: Australian Intelligence Organisations—Number 4 – Recruitment and training | 14.8.06 | - | No |
Annual report of committee activities 2005-06 | 11.9.06 | Not required | - |
Review of the re-listing of Al-Qa’ida and Jemaah Islamiyah as terrorist organisations | 16.10.06 | - | Time not expired |
Review of security and counter terrorism legislation | 4.12.06 | - | Time not expired |
Legal and Constitutional Affairs Standing | |||
Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Bill 2005 [Provisions], Corporations Amendment (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations) Bill 2006 [Provisions] and Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Consequential, Transitional and Other Measures Bill 2006 [Provisions] | 9.10.06 | - | Time not expired |
Unfinished business: Indigenous stolen wages | 7.12.06 | - | Time not expired |
Legal and Constitutional Legislation | |||
Defence Legislation Amendment (Aid to Civilian Authorities) Bill 2005 | 7.2.06 | 30.11.06 | No |
Provisions of the Australian Citizenship Bill 2005 and the Australian Citizenship (Transitionals and Consequentials) Bill 2005 | 27.2.06 | *(final) | No |
Provisions of the Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006 | 13.6.06 | *(final) | No |
Legal and Constitutional References | |||
Reconciliation: Off track | 9.10.03 | *(interim) | No |
The road to a republic | 16.11.04 (presented 31.8.04) | *(interim) | No |
They still call Australia home: Inquiry into Australian expatriates | 8.3.05 | 7.12.06 | No |
The real Big Brother—Inquiry into the Privacy Act 1988 | 23.6.05 | 30.11.06 | No |
Administration and operation of the Migration Act 1958 | 2.3.06 | *(interim) | No |
Medicare (Select) | |||
Medicare – healthcare or welfare? | 30.10.03 | *(interim) | No |
Second report: Medicare Plus: the future for Medicare? | 11.2.04 | *(interim) | No |
Mental Health (Select) | |||
A national approach to mental health – from crisis to community – First report | 30.3.06 | *(final) | No |
A national approach to mental health – from crisis to community – Final report | 9.5.06 (presented 28.4.06) | *(interim) | No |
Migration (Joint Standing) | |||
Detention centre contracts: Review of Audit report No.1 2005-06 – Management of the detention centre contracts – Part B | 6.12.05 | *(interim) | No |
Negotiating the maze – Review of arrangements for overseas skills recognition, upgrading and licensing | 11.9.06 | - | Time not expired |
Report of the Parliamentary Delegation to New Zealand: Australia-New Zealand Committee Exchange Program – 27-31 August 2006 | 4.12.06 | Not required | - |
Ministerial Discretion in Migration Matters (Select) | |||
Report | 31.3.04 | *(interim) | No |
National Capital and External Territories (Joint Statutory) |