Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I, and also on behalf of Senators Rice and Farrell, move:

(1) That there be laid on the table by the Minister for Youth and Sport by no later than 9am on 13 February 2020:

(a) all communications between the Department of Health (the Department) and the Minister for Youth and Sport (the Minister) or the Minister's office in relation to the Community Sport Infrastructure – Female Facilities and Water Safety program (FFWSP);

(b) all communications between the Minister or the Minister's office and the Prime Minister or the office of the Prime Minister in relation to the FFWSP;

(c) all communications between the Minister and the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development in relation to the FFWSP;

(d) any incoming Ministerial brief prepared for the Minister in relation to the FFWSP;

(e) any guidelines or program arrangements applying to the FFWSP;

(f) any advice on the content of guidelines or program arrangements, or drafts of same, prepared by the Department for the Minister in relation to the FFWSP;

(g) any advice prepared by or for the Department for the Minister regarding the need for guidelines for the FFWSP;

(h) any advice prepared for the Minister regarding eligibility for the FFWSP or the process for determining the list of organisations invited to apply for funding;

(i) a list of all projects invited to seek funding under the FFWSP, and any documents pertaining to the basis on which they were selected; and

(j) a list of all projects funded under the FFWSP.

(2) In the event the Minister fails to table the documents requested in paragraph (1), the Senate requires the Minister to attend the Senate on 13 February 2020, prior to government business being called on, to provide an explanation, of no more than 10 minutes, of the Government's failure to table the documents requested in paragraph (1).

(3) Any senator may move to take note of the explanation required by paragraph (2).

(4) Any motion under paragraph (3) may be debated for no longer than

30 minutes, shall have precedence over all business until determined, and senators may speak to the motion for not more than 10 minutes each.

Question agreed to.