Glenn Lazarus (Queensland, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That there be laid on the table by each Government minister, no later than 4 pm on Thursday, 12 May 2016, any documents relevant to the outsourcing of work by their government departments and associated agencies (including any commissions, bureaus and corporations), to foreign businesses (including wholly-owned foreign businesses, companies registered in Australia with a foreign parent company/companies and foreign companies with a majority shareholding held outside of Australia), specifically:

(a)   the name and location of each government department and agency that is party to a procurement contract with a foreign business (contract);

(b)   the number of contracts that currently exist between each government department and their agencies and foreign business;

(c)   for each foreign company/business engaged by government departments and their agencies pursuant to contract, the foreign company/business name and the country in which their office is located and/or is operating;

(d)   the date each contract commenced, and the date that contract is due to be finalised or reviewed for the purpose of further negotiations;

(e)   the nature and scope of works required to be performed pursuant to each contract, including:

(i)   where the works are managed and performed,

(ii)   the composition of the workforce, including whether Australian workers are required to be engaged by the contract,

(iii)   the number of Australian workers engaged by the contract, and

(iv)   the monetary value of each contract; and

(f)   prior to the commencement of each contract, information as to:

(i)   whether the requirement for goods and/or services previously existed,

(ii)   whether the provision those goods and/or services were performed by the Government, or

(iii)   whether the provisions of those goods and/or services was managed and performed on the Government's behalf, and, if so, the name and location of the business responsible for the provision of those goods and/or services.

Stephen Parry (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the motion moved by Senator Lazarus be agreed to.