Attorney-General's Portfolio

Budget Estimates 2010-2011 (May 2010)

Attorney-General's Portfolio

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Senator Barnett

Correspondence from the Law Society of Tasmania to Senator Barnett, 21 May 2010, regarding national legal profession reform

(PDF 789KB)

2

Senator Barnett

Correspondence from the President of the Judicial Conference of Australia to Senator Barnett, 31 March 2010, with attached reports concerning the issue of procedures for determining complaints against judicial officers

(PDF 10792KB)

3

Attorney-General's Department

Secretary's opening statement

(PDF 2351KB)

4

Attorney-General's Department

Report of the Review of Commonwealth Legal Services Procurement

(PDF 521KB)

5

Attorney-General's Department

Joint Media Release – Attorney-General and Minister for Defence, 24 May 2010, entitled Establishment of the Military Court of Australia

(PDF 868KB)

6

Family Court of Australia

Family Law Workload Trend

(PDF 315KB)

7

Senator Crossin

Advice from the Clerk of the Senate – Estimates Hearings – Questions about Provisions of Bills

(PDF 215KB)

8

Senator Humphries

Media Release - Australian Customs and Border Protection Service, 19 May 2010, entitled Vessel Intercepted by Border Protection Command

(PDF 262KB)

9

Attorney-General's Department

Finance Circular No. 2009-09 – Discretionary Compensation and Waiver of Debt Mechanisms 

(PDF 707KB)

10

Senator Parry

Correspondence from the Minister for Home Affairs to Senator Parry, 23 November 2009 and correspondence to the Attorney-General from Senator Parry, 10 September 2009 concerning a government funded and managed television program targeting specific crime and missing persons cases

(PDF 1226KB)

Letters of clarification

Questions on notice

Questions on notice index (PDF 119KB)

Answers to questions on notice were due 9 July 2010.

Q. No.

Hansard Ref/Written

Agency/
Program

Senator

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17-18

AAT

Barnett

Executive summary of the 2010 report conducted by Bendelta Pty Ltd on the functions and workload of the AAT

(PDF 2KB)
Attachment
(PDF 111KB)

2

13

PCD

Barnett

Outstanding questions on notice from additional estimates 2009-10

(PDF 3KB)

3

14

AGO

Barnett

Gender balance across portfolios for board appointments

(PDF 4KB)

4

15

AJD

Barnett

Government response to the committee's report on Australia's judicial system and the role of Judges

(PDF 3KB)

5

17

AAT

Barnett

Matters referred to the AAT by members and conference registrars for alternative dispute resolution

(PDF 53KB)

6

17

AAT

Barnett

User satisfaction survey cost

(PDF 51KB)

7

22

AHRC

Barnett

Australia's Human Rights Framework – costs of building public awareness

(PDF 96KB)

8

34

ALRC

Ludlam

Inquiry into secrecy and open government in Australia

(PDF 3KB)

9

35

ALRC

Ludlam

Inquiry into secrecy and open government in Australia

(PDF 4KB)

10

48-9

AUSTRAC

Trood

AUSTRAC work in Africa

(PDF 2KB)

11

52

Classification Board

Barnett

Unclassified magazines and materials that have been called-in

(PDF 3KB)

12

53

Classification Board

Barnett

Serial declaration periodicals audited this fiscal year – number that have failed

(PDF 2KB)

13

53-4

Classification Board

Barnett

Distributors failing to respond to call-in notices

(PDF 3KB)

14

55

CLD (CCPB)

Barnett

Response to the letter the Committee wrote to the Minister for Home Affairs expressing concern about call-in notices

(PDF 3KB)
Attachment
(PDF 367KB)

15

57

CLD (COB)

Barnett

Minutes from the most recent meeting of the classification enforcement contacts forum

(PDF 3KB)

16

58

CLD (CCPB)

Barnett

Letter from the Minister for Home Affairs to the States and Territories about the letter described in Question on Notice 16 from the February Additional Estimates

(PDF 3KB)
Attachment
(PDF 2115KB)

17

70

High Court

Barnett

View of the High Court on the Judicial Conference of Australia's position regarding the complaints mechanism

(PDF 2KB)

18

71-2

High Court

Barnett

Current valuation of the High Court building

(PDF 2KB)

19

73

AJD

Brandis

Restructure of the federal courts

(PDF 4KB)

20

81

AJD

Brandis

Decision on the new Military Court

(PDF 4KB)

21

90

PCD

Abetz

Date draft answers to questions on notice from the Federal Court on the advertisement of the Hobart District Registrar position were provided to the Attorney-General’s office

(PDF 3KB)

22

91

Federal Court

Abetz

Advertisement of the Hobart District Registrar position

(PDF 568KB)

23

91

Federal Court

Abetz

Hobart District Registrar remuneration

(PDF 4KB)

24

95

SID

Barnett / Crossin

Preparation of the submission for the Senate Committee inquiry into the Queensland Wild Rivers Act

(PDF 3KB)

25

106

ASIO

Barnett

Staffing costs

(PDF 2KB)

26

113

ASIO

Parry

ASIC-MSIC checks

(PDF 3KB)

27

114

NSLPD

Parry

Number of appeals from applicants deemed ineligible for ASICs and MSICs

(PDF 3KB)

28

119

ASIO

Ludlam

Reasons ASIO does not refer cases of individual asylum seekers back to sending/host countries

(PDF 3KB)

29

9  

ACLEI

Investigations referred to ACLEI this financial year that do not concern ACC and AFP

(PDF 3KB)

30

9-10

ACLEI

Barnett

Deloitte consultancy on ACLEI’s governance arrangements

(PDF 4KB)

31

24-5

ACBPS

Barnett

Components of the $146.3 million over four years in the forward estimates period

(PDF 5KB)

32

28

ACBPS

Humphries

Instances where unauthorised vessels have made direct calls, either by them or through a contact overseas to ACBPS or AMSA

(PDF 4KB)

33

29

ACBPS

Humphries

Cards issued to passengers when a boat is intercepted and ACBPS personnel board a vessel

(PDF 2KB)

Attachment
(PDF 2387KB)

34

32

ACBPS

Hanson-Young

How often does ACBPS get information that a boat has left Indonesia which has not come up in its surveillance?

(PDF 4KB)

35

36

OIL

Hanson-Young

Potential impact of the WTO antidumping treaty on the kinds of criteria that can be used to establish injury

(PDF 5KB)

36

42

ACBPS

Xenophon

Total number of vessels arriving in Australia each year and percentage greeted

(PDF 3KB)

37

42

ACBPS

Parry

What is the breakdown of manned and unmanned ports in Australia?

(PDF 3KB)

38

45

ACBPS

Parry

Staff locations

(PDF 4KB)

39

46

ACBPS

Humphries

Map distinguishing the Southern Ocean area patrolled by ACBPS from the area where Japanese whaling vessels hunt

(PDF 5KB)

Attachment
(PDF 206KB)

40

47-48

ACBPS

Humphries

Analysis by ACBPS on the potential for increased illegal importation of tobacco

(PDF 3KB)

41

50

ACBPS

Humphries

Hotline contacts ACBPS has received from the Gulf of Carpentaria

(PDF 2KB)

42

54

ACBPS

McLucas

Letter to the Department of Finance and Deregulation requesting that its Minister consider waiving Catalyst Chemical Pty Ltd’s debt

(PDF 3KB)
Attachment A
(PDF 85KB)
Attachment B
(PDF 65KB)
Attachment C
(PDF 63KB)
Attachment D
(PDF 35KB)

43

58

ACBPS

Brandis

Detections of pornography

(PDF 2KB)

44

59

ACBPS

Barnett

Prosecutions for child pornography ACBPS has detected

(PDF 3KB)

45

60

ACBPS

Parry

Case priority model for objectionable material

(PDF 2KB)

46

65-66

AFP

Parry

$23.5 million in savings identified in the budget papers

(PDF 4KB)

47

69

AFP

Brandis

Uniformed police, protective service officers and sworn police officers at airports

(PDF 3KB)

48

71

AFP

Brandis

Information/data recorded in the computer system in relation to the fulfilment of protective service tasks

(PDF 2KB)

49

72-3, 82

AFP

Brandis

Prime Minister's attendance at a private dinner at the Nobu restaurant

(PDF 4KB)

50

78

AFP

Brandis

Minutes of committee group meeting regarding whaling matters

Transferred to DFAT

51

78

AFP

Brown

Investigations over the past two years into allegations of bribery occurring overseas

(PDF 5KB)

52

82

AFP

Brown

Increase of officers in Afghanistan

(PDF 2KB)

53

82

AFP

Parry

Cost of the additional six officers in Afghanistan

(PDF 3KB)

54

83

AFP

Parry

Cost of training a new sworn officer

(PDF 2KB)

55

83

AFP

Brandis

Redundancies

(PDF 2KB)

56

83

AFP

Brandis

Redundancies

(PDF 2KB)

57

84

CrJD

Brandis

Confiscation of assets account

(PDF 10KB)
Attachment
(PDF 7KB)

58

85

SID

Barnett, Brandis

Melbourne terrorism trials

(PDF 4KB)

59

86

AFP

Barnett

AFP officers deployed to Christmas Island

(PDF 3KB)

60

87

AFP

Brandis

People smuggling crew members arrested by AFP

(PDF 3KB)

61

87

AFP

Brandis

Disturbances at the Christmas Island detention centre

(PDF 2KB)

62

99

AFP

Brandis

Assistance to the Colombian government in anti-terror operations

(PDF 3KB)

63

102-3

AIC/CRC

Ludlam

Sexual exploitation or grooming of children through the internet

(PDF 150KB)

64

103-4

AIC/CRC

Barnett

Extent the sex workers survey conducted through the Scarlet Alliance is part of the current study on human trafficking

(PDF 5KB)

65

115

SID

Barnett

Formula and criteria used for the distribution to states and territories of Commonwealth funding for legal aid services

(PDF 17KB)

66

117

SID

Barnett

Breakdown of services to be provided in 2010-11 for Closing the Gap

(PDF 4KB)

67

119-20

CDPP / TD

Ludlam

Commonwealth responsibility pertaining to the extended detention of the 12 Sri Lankan men prosecuted with crimes that occurred late last year on Christmas Island

(PDF 4KB)

68

120

AJD

Ludlam

Funding for family relationship centres

(PDF 38KB)

69

120

AJD

Barnett

Funding marriage counselling agencies

(PDF 4KB)

70

121

AJD

Barnett

Correspondence between the Australian Law Council and the government concerning the ARC

(PDF 1079KB)

71

122-3

AJD

Barnett

15 principles agreed at the November 2009 SCAG meeting to regulate surrogacy

(PDF 94KB)

Final response
(PDF 512KB)

72

123

AJD

Barnett

Government’s position regarding shared parenting

(PDF 4KB)

73

123

AJD

Barnett

Shared parenting reports

(PDF 10KB)

74

written

AJD

Barnett

Number of clients accessing various services at family relationships centres

(PDF 84KB)

75

 written

AJD

Barnett

Impact of reduction in free family dispute resolution at family relationship centres

(PDF 6KB)

76

 written

AJD

Siewert

Number of clients with an income over $50 000 accessing family dispute resolution at family relationship centres

(PDF 7KB)

77

 written

AJD

Siewert

How will the $50 000 per annum in income be assessed for clients accessing family dispute resolution at family relationship centres

(PDF 7KB)

78

 written

AJD

Siewert

Family dispute resolution – distribution of funding cuts

(PDF 4KB)

79

 written

AJD

Siewert

Rationale behind the introduction of measure E (client fee income)

(PDF 5KB)

80

 written

AJD

Siewert

Breakdown of expenditure on research and development/sector development/conferences

(PDF 94KB)

81

 written

AJD

Siewert

For measure B, what does ‘early completion’ relate to?

(PDF 118KB)

82

 written

AJD

Siewert

Impact on the delivery of post-separation services

(PDF 4KB)

83

 written

AJD

Siewert

Funding for research and development/ sector development/ conferences in 2010-11

(PDF 94KB)

84

 written

AJD

Siewert

Budget cuts for the Family Relationships Services Program

(PDF 5KB)

85

 written

AJD

Xenophon

Modelling on the impact of applying a means test on access to counselling and the rate of take-up of services

(PDF 12KB)

86

 written

AJD

Xenophon

Consultation to evaluate impact of budget cuts to the Family Relationships Services Program

(PDF 4KB)

87

 written

AJD

Xenophon

Amendment to the Family Law Act to encourage separating couples to go to Family Relationship Centres

(PDF 5KB)

88

 written

PITD

Xenophon

Staffing – recruitment

(PDF 44KB)

89

 written

PITD

Barnett

Staffing – efficiency dividend/budget cuts

(PDF 2KB)

90

 written

PITD

Barnett

Staffing – efficiency dividend/budget cuts

(PDF 4KB)

91

 written

PCD

Barnett

Communications programs

(PDF 102KB)

92

 written

PCD

Barnett

Hospitality

(PDF 8KB)

93

 written

PCD

Barnett

Gender ratio on each board and across the portfolio

(PDF 27KB)

94

 written

FPD

Barnett

Interim requirements relating to the publication of discretionary grants

(PDF 3KB)

95

 written

PCD

Barnett

FOI requests

(PDF 3KB)

96

 written

PCD

Barnett

Ministers’ travel and expenses for the Community Cabinet meetings

(PDF 21KB)

97

 written

PCD

Barnett

Government payment of accounts

(PDF 4KB)
Attachment
(PDF 71KB)

98

 written

FPD

Barnett

Consultancies

(PDF 7KB)Attachment 1(PDF 38KB)

Attachment 2(PDF 13KB)

Attachment 3(PDF 25KB)

99

 written

PCD

Barnett

Reviews

(PDF 25KB)

100

 written

OIL

Abetz 

Impact on Australia's international obligations with the introduction of plain packaging on cigarettes

(PDF 111KB)

101

 written

OIL

Birningham

Whaling court action

(PDF 13KB)

102

 written

FPD

Birmingham

Buildings’ efficiency

(PDF 8KB)

103

 written

ACBPS

Bob Brown

Toilet paper imported from China

(PDF 106KB)

104

 written

NCA

Bob Brown

Parking in the Parliamentary triangle

(PDF 894KB)

Attachment
(PDF 51KB)

105

 written

ACBPS

Humphries

Savings as a result of a decline in illegal foreign fishing

(PDF 4KB)

106

 written

ACBPS

Colbeck

Southern Oceans Patrol

(PDF 8KB)

107

 written

AFP

Colbeck

Development of performance indicators by the University of Queensland to measure the impact of the IDG’s contribution to improved international rule of law

(PDF 5KB)

108

 written

NSLPD

Trood

Programs to reduce violent extremism in Australia

(PDF 9KB)

109

 written

AFP

Trood

AFP 'People Program'

(PDF 5KB)

110

 written

AFP

Trood

AFP’s contribution to the counter-terrorism program in South-East Asia

(PDF 114KB)

111

 written

AFP

Trood

Staff engaged in counter-terrorism

(PDF 8KB)

112

 written

AFP

Trood

Program to train Iraqi police officers

(PDF 6KB)

113

 written

AFP

Trood

Investigation into the Balibo Five

(PDF 3KB)

114

 written

AFP

Trood

Investigation into the death of Britt Lapthorne

(PDF 6KB)

For further information, contact:

Estimates Officer
Senate Standing Committees on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia

Phone: +61 2 6277 3560
Fax: +61 2 6277 5794
Email: legcon.sen@aph.gov.au