Number of government responses to committee reports:
| Tabled or presented in 2002: |
39 |
| Presented in 2001, tabled in 2002: |
5 |
Australian Security Intelligence
Organisation—Joint Statutory Committee
A watching brief: The nature, scope and appropriateness of
ASIO's public reporting activities—Report tabled 4 September
2000
Response presented 5 October 2001, tabled 12 February 2002
Community Affairs References
Committee
Child Migration—Lost innocents: Righting the record—Report
tabled 30 August 2001
Response presented 13 May 2002, tabled 14 May 2002
Public hospital funding: Second report—Healing our
hospitals: Report on public hospital funding—Report tabled 7
December 2000
Response presented 28 September 2001, tabled 12 February 2002
Corporations and Securities—Joint
Statutory Committee
Fees on electronic and telephone banking—Report tabled 8
February 2001
Response tabled 20 June 2002
Economics References
Committee
Provisions of the Fair Prices and Better Access for All
(Petroleum) Bill 1999 and the practice of multi-site franchising by
oil companies—Report tabled 8 March 2001
Response presented 17 December 2002
Electoral Matters—Joint Standing
Committee
User friendly, not abuser friendly: Report into the integrity of
the electoral roll—Report tabled 18 June 2001
Response presented 4 October 2001, tabled 12 February 2002
Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and
Education References Committee
Education of gifted children—Report presented 2 October
2001, tabled 12 February 2002
Report presented 6 August 2002, tabled 19 August 2002
Universities in crisis: Report into the capacity of public
universities to meet Australia's higher education needs—Report
tabled 27 September 2001
Report presented 24 October 2002, tabled 11 November 2002
Environment, Communications, Information Technology and
the Arts References Committee
ABC On-line—Final Report—Report tabled 28 March
2001
Response presented 5 October 2001, tabled 12 February 2002
Above board? Methods of appointment to the ABC
Board—Report tabled 25 September 2001
Response tabled 29 August 2002
Finance and Public Administration
References Committee
Mechanism for providing accountability to the Senate in relation
to government contractsFinal reportCommonwealth contracts: A new
framework for accountability—Report tabled 26 September
2001
Response presented 5 June 2002, tabled 18 June 2002
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade—Joint
Standing Committee
Australia's relations with the Middle East—Report tabled 19
September 2001
Response presented 19 September 2002
Conviction with compassion: Freedom of religion and
belief—Report tabled 27 November 2000
Response tabled 14 November 2002
Rough Justice? An investigation into allegations of brutality in
the Army's parachute battalion—Report presented 10 April 2001,
tabled 22 May 2001
Response presented 22 March 2002, tabled 14 May 2002
The link between aid and human rights—Report tabled 19
September 2001
Response tabled 20 June 2002
Visits to immigration detention centres—Report tabled 18
June 2001
Response presented 6 December 2002, tabled 9 December 2002
Foreign Affairs, Defence and
Trade References Committee
Disposal of Defence properties—Report tabled 27 September
2001
Response tabled 20 June 2002
Information
Technologies—Select Committee
Privacy in the information society—Report tabled 9
November 2000
Response tabled 16 May 2002
Legal and Constitutional
References Committee
Humanity diminished: The crime of
genocide—Inquiry into the Anti-Genocide Bill
1999—Report tabled 29 June 2000
Response tabled 26 September 2002
Human Rights (Mandatory Sentencing of Juvenile Offenders) Bill
1999—Report tabled 13 March 2000
Response tabled 22 August 2002
Order in the law: Management arrangements and adequacy of
funding of the Australian Federal Police and the National Crime
Authority—Report tabled 28 August 2001
Response tabled 19 September 2002
Outsourcing of the Australian Customs Services information
technology—Report tabled 16 May 2002
Response tabled 11 November 2002
Third report—Australian Legal Aid
System—Report tabled 25 June 1998
Response tabled 16 May 2002
Lucas Heights, Inquiry into the contract for a new
reactor at—Select Committee
A new research reactor?—Report tabled 23 May 2001
Response presented 27 March 2002, tabled 14 May 2002
Migration—Joint
Standing Committee
2001 Review of Migration Regulation 4.31B—Report tabled 18
June 2001
Response presented 6 December 2002, tabled 9 December 2002
New faces, new places: Review of State-specific migration
mechanisms—Report tabled 19 September 2001
Response tabled 20 June 2002
Native Title and the Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund—Joint Statutory
Committee
16th Report—CERD and the Native Title Amendment Act
1998—Report tabled 28 June 2000
Response presented 8 October 2001, tabled 12 February 2002
Parliamentary committee
reports
Schedule of parliamentary committee reports—Tabled by the
President of the Senate on 7 December 2000
Response tabled 13 February 2002
Schedule of government responses outstanding to parliamentary
committee reports—Tabled by the President of the Senate on 15
February 2002
Response tabled 26 June 2002
Schedule of government responses outstanding to parliamentary
committee reports—Tabled by the President of the Senate on 27
June 2002
Response tabled 11 December 2002
Public Accounts and Audit—Joint Statutory
Committee
379th report—Contract management in the
Australian Public Service—Report tabled 2 November 2000
Response presented 22 April 2002, tabled 14 May 2002
384th report—Review of Coastwatch—Report
tabled 23 August 2001
Response tabled 19 September 2002
386th report—Review of the Auditor-General
Act 1997—Report tabled 26 September 2001
Response tabled 19 September 2002
Rural and Regional Affairs and
Transport Legislation Committee
Administration by the Department of Transport and Regional
Services of Australian motor vehicle standards under the Motor
Vehicle Standards Act 1989 and regulations—Report tabled 18
June 2002
Response presented 6 December 2002, tabled 9 December
2002
Administration of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority: Matters
relating to ARCAS Airways—Report tabled 11 October 2000
Response tabled 16 May 2002
Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References
Committee
Air safety and cabin air quality in the BAe 146
aircraft—Report tabled 12 October 2000
Response presented 28 June 2002, tabled 19 August 2002
Brisbane Airport Corporations Master Plan—Report tabled 29
June 2000
Response tabled 16 May 2002
Superannuation and Financial
Services—Select Committee
A 'reasonable and secure' retirement?—The benefit design
of Commonwealth public sector and defence force unfunded
superannuation funds and schemes—Report tabled 5 April
2001
Response presented 13 December 2002
Enforcement of the Superannuation Guarantee Charge—Report
presented 27 April 2001, tabled 22 May 2001
Response tabled 20 June 2002
First report—Prudential supervision and consumer
protection for superannuation, banking and financial
services—Report tabled 20 August 2001
Response presented 24 October 2002, tabled 11 November 2002
Opportunities and constraints for Australia to become a centre
for the provision of global financial services—Report
presented 22 March 2001, tabled 26 March 2001
Response tabled 14 November 2002
Second report—Prudential supervision and consumer
protection for superannuation, banking and financial
services—Report tabled 30 August 2001
Response presented 24 October 2002, tabled 11 November 2002
Treaties—Joint
Standing Committee
39th report—Privileges and immunities of the
International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea; and the treaties
tabled on 27 February and 6 March 2002—Report presented 18
April 2001, tabled 22 May 2001
Response tabled 19 September 2002
42nd report—Who's afraid of the WTO? Australia and
the World Trade Organisation—Report tabled 24 September
2001
Response tabled 29 August 2002