Answers to questions on
notice were due 11 December 2009.
|
Q. No. |
Hansard Ref/
Written |
Senator |
Agency/Sub Program |
Question |
View |
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1 |
6-7 |
Barnett |
SP&CG
(PI&TD) |
Staffing - new positions, temporary positions |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
2 |
6 |
Barnett |
SP&CG
(PI&TD) |
Staffing - contract employees, impact of efficiency
dividend, staff reductions |
(PDF 8KB) |
|
3 |
7 |
Barnett |
SP&CG
(PI&TD) |
Current staff numbers compared to 12 months ago |
(PDF 2KB) |
|
4 |
7 |
Barnett |
SP&CG
(PI&TD) |
Programs terminated |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
5 |
8-9 |
Barnett |
1.2.4 |
Funding of the China and Japan free trade agreements |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
6 |
11 |
Barnett |
AHRC |
Charter of human rights. |
(PDF 2KB) |
|
7 |
13 |
Barnett |
AHRC |
Anti-terrorism laws |
(PDF 43KB) |
|
8 |
19 |
Barnett |
AHRC |
Cost for officers attending the Durban Review Conference |
(PDF 2KB) |
|
9 |
20-21 |
Barnett |
AHRC |
AMF contracts with Monash University and RMIT University |
(PDF 5KB) |
|
10 |
22 |
Barnett |
AHRC |
Participation in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
11 |
26-27 |
Barnett |
ALRC |
Government’s response to the recommendations arising from
the Commission's Privacy Report |
(PDF 16KB) |
|
12 |
29-30 |
Fisher |
AUSTRAC |
Industry awareness sessions |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
13 |
30-31 |
Fisher |
AUSTRAC |
Supervision strategy of 2009-10 |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
14 |
30-31 |
Fisher |
AUSTRAC |
Reporting entities of the gambling and bullion sector and
the money services business |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
15 |
35-36 |
Brandis |
1.1.1 |
Proposal to abolish the Federal Magistrates Court, in
light of the decision in Lane v Morrison |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
16 |
36-37 |
Brandis |
Family Court |
Federal Magistrates Court - costed particulars in relation
to the payment of staff, payment of Federal Magistrates, operating
costs in relation to family reports and registrar services |
(PDF 9KB) |
|
17 |
40-41 |
Brandis |
FMC |
Morale issues of a number of Federal Magistrates |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
18 |
44-45 |
Brandis |
Family Court |
Family Court and Federal Magistrates Court judges
consulted prior to the protocol being agreed to |
(PDF 7KB) |
|
19 |
45-46 |
Brandis |
Family Court |
How can the protocol agreed between the Chief Justice of the Family
Court and Chief Federal Magistrate not fetter individual judicial
discretion in contested transfer matters? |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
20 |
48 |
Barnett |
Family Court |
Report on the review of family consultants and registrars
in the Family Courts |
(PDF 3KB)
Attachment
(PDF 2043KB) |
|
21 |
48 |
Barnett |
Family Court |
Judicial complaints |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
22 |
49 |
Barnett |
Family Court |
Particulars for judicial and non-judicial complaints made
in 2008 and 2009 |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
23 |
49 |
Barnett |
Family Court |
Current longest waiting period for a case to be heard in the Court |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
24 |
50 |
Barnett |
Family Court |
Average waiting time from the conclusion of a trial to the
handing down of a judgement |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
25 |
51 |
Barnett |
FMC |
Particulars for judicial and non-judicial complaints made
in 2008 and 2009 |
(PDF 5KB) |
|
26 |
51 |
Barnett |
FMC |
Current longest waiting period for a case to be heard |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
27 |
51 |
Barnett |
FMC |
Average waiting time from the conclusion of a trial to the
handing down of a judgement |
(PDF 5KB) |
|
28 |
52 |
Abetz |
Federal Court |
Extent the Hobart registry and Mr Soden had in providing
input in to drafting the letter from the Chief Justice to the
President of the Senate, dated 19 August 2009 |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
29 |
55-56 |
Abetz |
1.1.1 |
Dialogue between the Attorney-General and the Administrative Appeals
Tribunal concerning the funding of the work undertaken by Mr Parrott |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
30 |
58 |
Barnett |
Federal Court |
Consultation with the Law Society and legal fraternity concerning the
possibility of the absence of a full time registrar positioned in
Hobart |
(PDF 8KB) |
|
31 |
58 |
Barnett |
Federal Court |
Capital upgrade of the Federal Court in Hobart |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
32 |
59 |
Abetz |
Federal Court |
Staff budget for 2007-08 and 2008-09 |
(PDF 5KB) |
|
33 |
59 |
Brandis |
Federal Court |
Number of current Federal Court judges on leave or on
secondment to another court |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
34 |
60-61 |
Brandis |
Federal Court |
Judicial workload in the offices of Brisbane, Sydney,
Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth |
(PDF 94KB) |
|
35 |
61-62 |
Brandis |
1.1.1 |
Number of Federal Court judges at the Brisbane registry |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
36 |
63 |
Barnett |
1.1.1 |
Number of candidates provided to the Attorney-General
in relation to current five vacancies of five Federal Court judges |
(PDF 2KB) |
|
37 |
63-64 |
Barnett |
1.1.1 |
Recent High Court judge vacancy |
(PDF 6KB) |
|
38 |
64 |
Barnett |
Federal Court |
STRATSEC report |
(PDF 5KB)
Attachment
(PDF 1046KB) |
|
39 |
66 |
Barnett |
1.1.2 |
Report tabled at the Native Title Ministers meeting in
August 2009 |
(PDF 19KB) |
|
40 |
71 |
Barnett |
1.2.2 |
Responses to correspondence to law enforcement agencies
from the former Minister for Home Affairs concerning the enforcement
of classification laws |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
41 |
71 |
Barnett |
1.2.2 |
Meetings of the Commonwealth State and Territory
Compliance and Enforcement Working Party |
(PDF 5KB) |
|
42 |
74 |
Barnett |
SP&CG
(PCD) |
Annual reports |
(PDF 14KB) |
|
43 |
77 |
Barnett |
1.1.2 |
National Human Rights Consultation - Breakdown of $2.97
million spent |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
44 |
77 |
Barnett |
1.1.2 |
National Human Rights Consultation - Submissions |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
45 |
77 |
Barnett |
1.1.2 |
National Human Rights Consultation - Discussions between
the Consultation Committee and/or the Department on the report and
recommendations |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
46 |
81 |
Brandis |
1.1.2 |
National Human Rights Consultation - Charter of rights
recommendation |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
47 |
82 |
Brandis |
1.1.2 |
National Human Rights Consultation - Father Brennan’s
emolument |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
48 |
82 |
Barnett |
2.1.1 |
New privacy principles |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
49 |
86 |
Abetz |
1.2.4 |
Comment on Mr Bret Walker SC’s opinion that the
sovereignty of Australia over the islands was basic, fundamental and
critical for Australia’s ECS case at the CLCS concerning the Lorde
Howe Rise region and that the CLCS recommendations do not establish
that sovereignty |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
50 |
89, 98 |
Barnett |
1.1.1 |
Family Court’s Violence Review conducted by Mr Richard
Chisholm |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
51 |
94-95 |
Barnett |
1.1.2 |
Legal aid provided to the five Sydney terrorists arrested
in November 2005 and subsequently found guilty of terrorism offences |
(PDF 3KB)
Revised answers
(PDF 340KB) |
|
52 |
95 |
Barnett |
1.1.2 |
Fees payable to lawyers before a court in proceedings such
as the case of the five Sydney terrorists who were arrested in
November 2005 and subsequently found guilty of terrorism offences |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
53 |
95 |
Barnett |
1.1.2 |
Is the case of the five Sydney terrorists who were
arrested in November 2005 and have since been found guilty of
terrorism offences, the longest running and most expensive trial in
Australian history? |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
54 |
97-98 |
Barnett |
1.1.1 |
Family Court’s Violence Review conducted by Mr Richard
Chisholm |
(PDF 19KB) |
|
55 |
102, 103 |
Barnett |
2.1.1 |
Report provided to the Prime Minister following the cyber
attack on the Prime Minister’s website |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
56 |
103 |
Barnett |
2.1.1 |
Other Australian Government websites
affected by cyber attacks |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
57 |
109 |
Xenophon |
ACC |
Criminality Assessment reports |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
58 |
113 |
Ludlam |
ACC |
Commission’s report on serious and organised crime and
pandemics. |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
59 |
114 |
Barnett |
Customs |
Protocol followed during incidents such as that that
occurred on Sunday 18 October 2009, where two boats carrying asylum
seekers in Malaysian and Indonesian waters conveyed a distress signal
to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority |
(PDF 5KB) |
|
60 |
114 |
Barnett |
Customs |
Protocols Customs follows when there is an instance of a
boarding |
(PDF 6KB) |
|
61 |
117 |
Xenophon |
Customs |
Customs’ investigation process for breaches of section 70
of the Crimes Act 1914 |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
62 |
120 |
Fierravanti-Wells |
Customs |
Current campaign on people smuggling in Sri Lanka |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
63 |
130-131 |
Xenophon |
AFP |
Recommendations from the Wheeler Report |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
64 |
131 |
Xenophon |
AFP |
Allan Kessing investigation |
(PDF 6KB)
Attachment A (PDF 192KB)
Flag 5 (PDF 99KB)
Flag 6 (PDF 381KB)
Flag 7 (PDF 26KB)
Flag 8 (PDF 495KB)
Flag 9
(PDF 96KB)
Flag 10
(PDF 61KB) |
|
65 |
131-132 |
Fierravanti-Wells |
AFP |
AFP assistance to Sri Lanka |
(PDF 7KB) |
|
66 |
Written |
Siewert |
1.1.1 |
How are the principles of the new national child protection framework
being implemented in family law reforms? |
(PDF 8KB) |
|
67 |
Written |
Barnett |
1.1.2 |
Budget increase to build a more effective native title
system |
(PDF 16KB) |
|
68 |
Written |
Abetz |
1.2.4 |
Australia’s claim to an extended EEZ |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
69 |
Written |
Abetz |
1.2.4 |
Whether the status of Elizabeth and Middleton Islands were
‘important for locating the boundary between the EEZ and the ECS’ |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
70 |
Written |
Abetz |
1.2.4 |
Explain the reference: ‘It is states that assert
sovereignty and not organisations such as Ure-Chan?’ |
(PDF 6KB) |
|
71 |
Written |
Barnett |
2.1.4 |
Plans to change anti-terrorism laws to give police powers
to enter premises without warrants |
(PDF 6KB) |
|
72 |
Written |
Barnett |
2.2.1 |
Final report on the Review of Customary Law |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
73 |
|
Heffernan |
3.1 |
Former Quarantine Station on West Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands and
the Crown Land Management Plan |
(PDF 12KB) |
|
74 |
Written |
Xenophon |
ACC |
Uploads to the ACC's Criminal Intelligence Database in 2008/09,
related to aviation security |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
75 |
Written |
Barnett |
Customs |
Recent spike in asylum seekers entering or attempting to
enter Australian waters |
(PDF 8KB) |
|
76 |
Written |
Barnett |
Customs |
Report in The Australian IT 04/08/09 that counterfeit
iPhones were entering the Australian market from China. Sellers of the
phones had reported they were purchased from employees of the
Australian Customs and Boarder Protection Service. |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
77 |
Written |
Xenophon |
Customs |
Allan Kessing case |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
78 |
Written |
Xenophon |
Customs |
Allan Kessing case |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
79 |
Written |
Fierravanti-Wells |
Customs |
SIEV 36 investigation |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
80 |
Written |
Barnett/ Heffernan |
AFP |
Air Security Officer Program |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
81 |
Written |
Barnett |
AFP |
Recent spike in asylum seekers entering or attempting to
enter Australian waters |
(PDF 10KB) |
|
82 |
Written |
Barnett |
AFP |
Recruitment |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
83 |
Written |
Barnett |
AFP |
AFP investigation into the 1975 killings of five
Australian journalists in Balibo |
(PDF 5KB) |
|
84 |
Written |
Barnett |
AFP |
Proposal for the Australian Government to fund detention
centres and training in Indonesia, as well as intelligence sharing
between Australia and Indonesia |
(PDF 13KB) |
|
85 |
Written |
Barnett |
AFP |
Search and rescue of Victorian Water Minister Tim Holding
from Mt Feathertop |
(PDF 6KB) |
|
86 |
Written |
Xenophon |
AFP |
Allan Kessing case |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
87 |
Written |
Xenophon |
AFP |
Allan Kessing case |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
88 |
Written |
Fierravanti-Wells |
Customs |
Public relations campaign designed to deter asylum seekers currently
being used in Sri Lanka - extension to other countries |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
89 |
Written |
Ludlam |
AFP |
Involvement in Colombia |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
90 |
Written |
Ludlam |
AFP |
Serious and organised crime |
(PDF 9KB) |
|
91 |
Written |
Ludlam |
AFP |
Cyber crime |
(PDF 17KB) |
|
92 |
Written |
Fisher |
ALRC |
Consultants to assist |
(PDF 13KB) |
|
93 |
Written |
Fisher |
ALRC |
Officers undertaking overseas travel in the last year |
(PDF 25KB) |
|
94 |
Written |
Barnett |
ASIO |
Details of the Director General of Security on the
electoral roll |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
95 |
Written |
Barnett |
ASIO |
ASIO's new headquarters |
(PDF 9KB) |
|
96 |
Written |
Ludlam |
ASIO |
ASIO’s new headquarters |
(PDF 10KB) |
|
97 |
Written |
Ludlam |
ASIO |
Recruitment |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
98 |
Written |
Ludlam |
ASIO |
Budget allocated to the history of the organisation
commissioned by ASIO being written by ANU Professor David Horner |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
99 |
Written |
Fisher |
AUSTRAC |
Consultants |
(PDF 9KB) |
|
100 |
Written |
Fisher |
AUSTRAC |
Overseas travel by officers of AusTrac |
(PDF 42KB) |
|
101 |
Written |
Fisher |
CDPP |
Annual report |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
102 |
Written |
Fisher |
CDPP |
Celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the Office |
(PDF 6KB) |
|
103 |
Written |
Fisher |
CDPP |
Cases the Office is currently pursuing |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
104 |
Written |
Fisher |
CDPP |
Staffing |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
105 |
Written |
Fisher |
CDPP |
Pending refurbishment of the Adelaide office |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
106 |
Written |
Fisher |
CDPP |
Number of car parks provided under car parking contracts
in Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
107 |
Written |
Fisher |
CDPP |
Engagement of consultants |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
108 |
Written |
Fisher |
CDPP |
Overseas travel undertaken by officers of the CDPP |
(PDF 21KB) |
|
109 |
Written |
Fisher |
CrimTrac |
Annual report |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
110 |
Written |
Fisher |
CrimTrac |
Overseas travel undertaken by officers of CrimTrac |
(PDF 34KB) |
|
111 |
Written |
Fisher |
Crimtrac |
Staffing |
(PDF 5KB) |
|
112 |
Written |
Fisher |
CrimTrac |
National Criminal Investigation DNA Database |
(PDF 5KB) |
|
113 |
Written |
Fisher |
CrimTrac |
Status of the tender released earlier this year to establish new data
centres to support CrimTrac’s IT infrastructure |
(PDF 5KB) |
|
114 |
Written |
Fisher |
CrimTrac |
Status of the funding review referenced
in OnTrac volume 2, issue 1 |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
115 |
Written |
Fisher |
CrimTrac |
Consultants |
(PDF 31KB) |
|
116 |
Written |
Barnett |
High Court |
High Court being open to the public and performing a duty
of providing public education and appreciation of the rule of law in
Australia |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
117 |
Written |
Barnett |
High Court |
Status report on the building maintenance issue and
details of costs to repair recent rain damage, maintenance and
construction work in the forecourt |
(PDF 4KB) |
|
118 |
Written |
Barnett |
ITSA/CLD |
Latest figures for company insolvency, individual
bankruptcy, and debt management |
(PDF 9KB) |
|
119 |
Written |
Barnett |
CLD |
Has ITSA prepared a report on the recently announced reforms? Likely
impact on bankruptcy, insolvency and debt management numbers on the
future details |
(PDF 5KB) |
|
120 |
Written |
Fierravanti-Wells |
AFP |
Number of boats and people have been intercepted on their
way to Australia by Indonesian officials |
(PDF 3KB) |
|
121 |
Written |
Fierravanti-Wells |
Customs |
Procedures and protocols to be followed by Australian
authorities and relevant agencies in the event of a location of an
unauthorised vessel either in international waters or in Australian
waters |
(PDF 9KB) |
|
122 |
Written |
Fierravanti-Wells |
AFP |
People smugglers arrested |
(PDF 3KB) |