Question
No. |
Senator |
Date of
Question |
Subject |
Date
Reply
Received |
Hansard
Date
of Reply |
Hansard
Page No.
of Reply |
Elapsed
Time
(days) |
|
21
|
Minchin
|
12/02/2008
|
Administration—Media-related staff
|
11/04/2008
|
13/05/2008
|
1601
|
59
|
|
88
|
Minchin
|
12/02/2008
|
Climate change—United Nations Climate Change
Conference
|
14/05/2008
|
15/05/2008
|
2096
|
92
|
|
|
|
in Bali, Indonesia—Australian Government delegation
costs
|
|
|
|
|
|
109
|
Milne
|
12/02/2008
|
United Nations—Nuclear non-proliferation—Nuclear
weapons
|
26/08/2008
|
27/08/2008
|
3969
|
196
|
|
|
|
conventions
|
|
|
|
|
|
125
|
Minchin
|
12/02/2008
|
Administration—Provision of information to estimates
|
26/08/2008
|
28/08/2008
|
4117
|
196
|
|
|
|
committees, including appointments to government agencies,
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
authorities and advisory boards
|
|
|
|
|
|
233
|
Cormann
|
12/02/2008
|
Administration—Funding cuts—Programs and services
for
|
11/04/2008
|
13/05/2008
|
1649
|
59
|
|
|
|
Western Australia
|
|
|
|
|
|
303
|
Kemp
|
27/02/2008
|
United Nations—Expenditure and provision of grants and
|
13/06/2008
|
17/06/2008
|
2609
|
107
|
|
|
|
membership subscriptions by government departments and
|
Amended answer
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
agencies
|
20/06/2008
|
23/06/2008
|
3124
|
|
|
304
|
Kemp
|
27/02/2008
|
United Nations—Expenditure and provision of grants and
|
13/06/2008
|
18/06/2008
|
2788
|
107
|
|
|
|
membership subscriptions by government departments and
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
agencies
|
|
|
|
|
|
371
|
Allison
|
13/03/2008
|
Foreign aid—International Planned Parenthood
Federation’s Safe
|
23/04/2008
|
14/05/2008
|
1936
|
41
|
|
|
|
Abortion Action Fund
|
|
|
|
|
|
383
|
Allison
|
19/03/2008
|
Sudan—Comprehensive Peace Agreement—Pledged
support
|
23/04/2008
|
14/05/2008
|
1943
|
35
|
|
390
|
Stott Despoja
|
03/04/2008
|
Human rights—Open-ended Working Group on an Optional
|
09/05/2008
|
15/05/2008
|
2109
|
36
|
|
|
|
Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social
and
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cultural Rights
|
|
|
|
|
|
425
|
Allison
|
30/04/2008
|
AusAID funding—Millennium Development
Goals—Family
|
12/06/2008
|
17/06/2008
|
2627
|
43
|
|
|
|
planning activities
|
|
|
|
|
|
429
|
Allison
|
30/04/2008
|
United Nations International Assessment of Agricultural
|
19/06/2008
|
23/06/2008
|
3130
|
50
|
|
|
|
Knowledge,Science and Technology for Development—
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Final report—Findings and adoption
|
|
|
|
|
|
448
|
Minchin
|
30/05/2008
|
Departmental engagements—Mr Christian and Ms Tara
|
27/06/2008
|
26/08/2008
|
3784
|
28
|
|
|
|
Taubenschlag—Details
|
|
|
|
|
|
507
|
B. Brown
|
23/06/2008
|
Convention on Cluster Munitions—Obligations
|
24/07/2008
|
26/08/2008
|
3813
|
31
|
|
527
|
Milne
|
14/07/2008
|
Recycling—Printer cartridges—Policy and practice
|
26/08/2008
|
28/08/2008
|
4122
|
43
|
|
576
|
Minchin
|
25/08/2008
|
Heads of Mission in Australia—Frequency of visits with
the
|
07/11/2008
|
10/11/2008
|
6476
|
74
|
|
|
|
Minister for Foreign Affairs
|
|
|
|
|
|
587
|
Minchin
|
25/08/2008
|
Carbon offsets—Departmental air
travel—Guidelines
|
16/10/2008
|
16/10/2008
|
6302
|
52
|
|
623
|
Minchin
|
25/08/2008
|
Ministers/Parliamentary Secretaries office—Departmental
staff—
|
30/04/2009
|
12/05/2009
|
2495
|
248
|
|
|
|
Secondment
|
|
|
|
|
|
659
|
Minchin
|
25/08/2008
|
Overseas travel—Beijing Olympic Games—Expenses
|
23/03/2009
|
12/05/2009
|
2496
|
210
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
695
|
Minchin
|
25/08/2008
|
Overseas travel—Ministers/Parliamentary Secretaries,
family and
|
17/03/2009
|
17/03/2009
|
1833
|
204
|
|
|
|
departmental staff—Between July and August 2008
|
|
|
|
|
|
751
|
Ronaldson
|
25/09/2008
|
Overseas travel—Since 3 December 2007—Breakdown of
costs
|
17/03/2009
|
17/03/2009
|
1838
|
173
|
|
753
|
B. Brown
|
30/09/2008
|
Gag Island, Indonesia—Mining
proposals—Australian
|
24/10/2008
|
10/11/2008
|
6491
|
24
|
|
|
|
representations
|
|
|
|
|
|
786
|
B. Brown
|
12/11/2008
|
United Nations—Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
|
09/12/2008
|
03/02/2009
|
172
|
27
|
|
|
|
Cambodia—Australia’s monetary contribution
|
|
|
|
|
|
787
|
B. Brown
|
12/11/2008
|
Clearance of unexploded ordnance—Funding allocation
|
02/12/2008
|
02/12/2008
|
7940
|
20
|
|
885
|
Ronaldson
|
24/11/2008
|
Administration—Program overspends and
underspends—Top 5
|
16/03/2009
|
16/03/2009
|
1664
|
112
|
|
903
|
Ronaldson
|
24/11/2008
|
Administration—Media monitoring—Amount spent during
the
|
16/03/2009
|
16/03/2009
|
1665
|
112
|
|
|
|
2008 calendar year
|
|
|
|
|
|
926
|
Ronaldson
|
24/11/2008
|
Administration—Tender contracts—Details
|
16/03/2009
|
16/03/2009
|
1666
|
112
|
|
949
|
Ronaldson
|
24/11/2008
|
Administration—Reviews, inquiries and
committees—Staffing
|
14/04/2009
|
12/05/2009
|
2520
|
141
|
|
|
|
and costs
|
|
|
|
|
|
978
|
Ronaldson
|
25/11/2008
|
Commonwealth credit cards—Ministers, Parliamentary
Secretaries
|
16/03/2009
|
16/03/2009
|
1671
|
111
|
|
|
|
and ministerial, departmental and agency staff
|
|
|
|
|
|
1012
|
Ronaldson
|
25/11/2008
|
Overseas travel since 25 November 2007—Ministers,
|
25/05/2009
|
15/06/2009
|
3255
|
181
|
|
|
|
Parliamentary Secretaries and staff—Details
|
|
|
|
|
|
1060
|
Abetz
|
03/12/2008
|
Portfolio programs—Overspends and
underspends—Details
|
16/03/2009
|
16/03/2009
|
1677
|
103
|
|
1096
|
Abetz
|
03/12/2008
|
Departments and agencies—Funding
|
02/02/2009
|
05/02/2009
|
535
|
61
|
|
1124
|
Ronaldson
|
03/12/2008
|
Ambassadorial posts—Nominations and appointments
|
05/02/2009
|
09/02/2009
|
573
|
64
|
|
1161
|
Cormann
|
03/12/2008
|
United Nations General Assembly—Draft
resolutions—Australia’s
|
16/01/2009
|
03/02/2009
|
213
|
44
|
|
|
|
change in voting
|
|
|
|
|
|
1168
|
B. Brown
|
15/12/2008
|
Mr Nicolaides—Arrest in Thailand—Charge of
lese-majeste
|
16/01/2009
|
03/02/2009
|
214
|
32
|
|
1169
|
B. Brown
|
16/12/2008
|
Zimbabwe and the Congo—United Nations intervention
|
16/01/2009
|
03/02/2009
|
215
|
31
|
|
1198
|
Cormann
|
18/12/2008
|
Western Australian Sandalwood industry—Exports to
India—
|
02/02/2009
|
05/02/2009
|
542
|
46
|
|
|
|
Discussions with officials
|
|
|
|
|
|
1217
|
B. Brown
|
15/01/2009
|
Irrigation projects—Allocation of funding
|
16/02/2009
|
10/03/2009
|
1225
|
32
|
|
1272
|
B. Brown
|
04/02/2009
|
China—‘Strike hard’ crackdown in
Tibet—Details and
|
06/03/2009
|
11/03/2009
|
1379
|
30
|
|
|
|
government action
|
|
|
|
|
|
1304
|
Ludlam
|
25/02/2009
|
Australian Secret Intelligence Service—Deputy
|
25/03/2009
|
14/05/2009
|
2953
|
28
|
|
|
|
Director-General—Public identification
|
|
|
|
|
|
1399
|
Ronaldson
|
12/03/2009
|
External speechwriting services—Details of
tender—2008
|
14/04/2009
|
14/05/2009
|
2985
|
33
|
|
|
|
calendar year
|
|
|
|
|
|
1440
|
Johnston
|
18/03/2009
|
Australia’s aid program for
Africa—Governor-General’s visit—
|
13/10/2009
|
26/10/2009
|
7172
|
209
|
|
|
|
Temporary seat on the United Nations Security Council
|
|
|
|
|
|
1441
|
Johnston
|
18/03/2009
|
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society—Australian Federal
Police
|
14/04/2009
|
14/05/2009
|
2998
|
27
|
|
|
|
raid
|
|
|
|
|
|
1488
|
Ludlam
|
16/04/2009
|
Prosecution cases—Expenditure
|
25/05/2009
|
16/06/2009
|
3472
|
39
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1517
|
Minchin
|
18/05/2009
|
Legislation—Statutory reviews—Timelines
|
16/07/2009
|
11/08/2009
|
4618
|
59
|
|
1618
|
Abetz
|
29/05/2009
|
Administration—Infrastructure and capital works
projects
|
14/08/2009
|
20/08/2009
|
5653
|
77
|
|
1656
|
Minchin
|
03/06/2009
|
Government websites—Advertising on search engines
|
10/08/2009
|
17/08/2009
|
5155
|
68
|
|
1698
|
Minchin
|
10/06/2009
|
Legislation—Redundant and potentially redundant
legislation—
|
29/07/2009
|
13/08/2009
|
4952
|
49
|
|
|
|
‘Clean-up’ coordinated by the Department of Finance
and
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deregulation
|
|
|
|
|
|
1735
|
Ronaldson
|
10/06/2009
|
Administration—Contracts awarded to the Boston
Consulting
|
16/07/2009
|
13/08/2009
|
4957
|
36
|
|
|
|
Group and the Allen Consulting Group
|
|
|
|
|
|
1792
|
Abetz
|
16/06/2009
|
Administration—Hospitality—Spending since 24
November 2007
|
25/08/2009
|
07/09/2009
|
5849
|
70
|
|
1881
|
Barnett
|
02/07/2009
|
Consultancies—Details of completed and ongoing since
|
18/09/2009
|
27/10/2009
|
7330
|
78
|
|
|
|
November 2007—Planned or budgeted for 2009 and 2010
|
|
|
|
|
|
1918
|
Barnett
|
02/07/2009
|
Administration—Staff, hospitality, plants, water
coolers,
|
13/10/2009
|
27/10/2009
|
7343
|
103
|
|
|
|
television subscriptions and government credit cards
|
|
|
|
|
|
1965
|
Abetz
|
21/07/2009
|
Portable water supplies—Amount spent in the 2008-09
financial
|
02/09/2009
|
09/09/2009
|
6198
|
43
|
|
|
|
year
|
|
|
|
|
|
2002
|
Abetz
|
21/07/2009
|
Administration—Media training undertaken since 24
November
|
04/09/2009
|
09/09/2009
|
6199
|
45
|
|
|
|
2007
|
|
|
|
|
|
2123
|
Abetz
|
08/09/2009
|
Administration—Special Envoy, Mr Richard Woolcott
|
04/11/2009
|
17/11/2009
|
8091
|
57
|
|
2124
|
Hanson-Young
|
08/09/2009
|
Eleventh Panchen Lama of Tibet, Gedun Choekyi Nyima—
|
06/10/2009
|
29/10/2009
|
7732
|
28
|
|
|
|
Welfare and location
|
|
|
|
|
|
2136
|
Ronaldson
|
10/09/2009
|
Administration—Ministerial letterhead and
postage—Costs to
|
20/11/2009
|
23/11/2009
|
8657
|
71
|
|
|
|
the department
|
|
|
|
|
|
2173
|
Ronaldson
|
14/09/2009
|
Administration—2008-09 financial year—Resources
provided
|
26/05/2010
|
15/06/2010
|
3375
|
254
|
|
|
|
by the home department
|
|
|
|
|
|
2224
|
Abetz
|
16/09/2009
|
Administration—Ministers/Parliamentary
Secretaries—Websites
|
17/03/2010
|
18/03/2010
|
2338
|
182
|
|
2263
|
Johnston
|
17/09/2009
|
United Nations Security Council—Australia’s bid for
a temporary
|
12/10/2009
|
17/11/2009
|
8121
|
25
|
|
|
|
seat—Support and costs
|
|
|
|
|
|
2264
|
Johnston
|
17/09/2009
|
Non-Aligned Movement Summit—Egypt, 15 July and
|
16/11/2009
|
18/11/2009
|
8299
|
60
|
|
|
|
16 July 2009
|
|
|
|
|
|
2265
|
Johnston
|
17/09/2009
|
Heads of Mission in Australia—Frequency of visits with
the
|
12/10/2009
|
17/11/2009
|
8121
|
25
|
|
|
|
Minister for Foreign Affairs
|
|
|
|
|
|
2266
|
Johnston
|
17/09/2009
|
Asia-Europe Meeting—Objective for joining and costs
|
12/10/2009
|
17/11/2009
|
8122
|
25
|
|
2267
|
Johnston
|
17/09/2009
|
Israeli settlement construction activity—West Bank and
|
28/10/2009
|
17/11/2009
|
8123
|
41
|
|
|
|
East Jerusalem
|
|
|
|
|
|
2268
|
Johnston
|
17/09/2009
|
European Union-style community in the Asia
Pacific—Support
|
13/10/2009
|
17/11/2009
|
8123
|
26
|
|
|
|
and costs
|
|
|
|
|
|
2269
|
Johnston
|
17/09/2009
|
Japan’s whaling program—Legal action—Advice
received and
|
21/10/2009
|
17/11/2009
|
8124
|
34
|
|
|
|
action
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2271
|
Johnston
|
17/09/2009
|
Foreign Investment Review Board—China Nonferrous Metal
|
21/10/2009
|
17/11/2009
|
8124
|
34
|
|
|
|
Mining (Group) Co. Ltd—Lynas Corporation Ltd
|
|
|
|
|
|
2273
|
Johnston
|
17/09/2009
|
Prime Minister and Cabinet—Function at the Hyatt
Regency
|
21/10/2009
|
17/11/2009
|
8125
|
34
|
|
|
|
Perth—September 2009
|
|
|
|
|
|
2329
|
Barnett
|
17/09/2009
|
Legal advice—2008-09 financial year
|
07/12/2009
|
03/02/2010
|
358
|
81
|
|
2358
|
Johnston
|
17/09/2009
|
Ambassador for People Smuggling Issues—Cost
|
08/10/2009
|
18/11/2009
|
8312
|
21
|
|
2371
|
B. Brown
|
16/10/2009
|
Overseas aid—Sri Lanka—De-mining operations
|
09/11/2009
|
18/11/2009
|
8316
|
24
|
|
2372
|
B. Brown
|
21/10/2009
|
Mongolia—Mining and taxation of
mining—Representations
|
07/12/2009
|
03/02/2010
|
368
|
47
|
|
2373
|
B. Brown
|
21/10/2009
|
Mongolia—Mining—Financial, diplomatic or other
assistance
|
07/12/2009
|
03/02/2010
|
369
|
47
|
|
2374
|
B. Brown
|
21/10/2009
|
Ambassador Alan Oxley—Government appointments and use
of
|
18/11/2009
|
19/11/2009
|
8506
|
28
|
|
|
|
the ambassador title
|
|
|
|
|
|
2412
|
Abetz
|
16/11/2009
|
Australian Pacific Community—Special Envoy, Mr Richard
|
22/12/2009
|
04/02/2010
|
594
|
36
|
|
|
|
Woolcott—Documents provided to the Prime Minister
|
|
|
|
|
|
2435
|
Ronaldson
|
23/11/2009
|
Administration—Program overspends and
underspends—Top 5
|
19/02/2010
|
24/02/2010
|
1127
|
88
|
|
2474
|
Johnston
|
25/11/2009
|
Counter-terrorism initiatives in Indonesia—Budget
allocation
|
15/03/2010
|
16/03/2010
|
2015
|
110
|
|
2475
|
Johnston
|
25/11/2009
|
Mr James Elder—Expulsion from Sri
Lanka—Representations
|
11/01/2010
|
23/02/2010
|
787
|
47
|
|
|
|
with the Sri Lankan Government and High Commissioner
|
|
|
|
|
|
2476
|
Johnston
|
25/11/2009
|
Nuclear proliferation—Venezuelan Ambassador
|
11/01/2010
|
22/02/2010
|
788
|
47
|
|
2477
|
Johnston
|
25/11/2009
|
Afghanistan—Legitimacy of first election—Members of
the
|
22/01/2010
|
22/02/2010
|
788
|
58
|
|
|
|
International Security Assistance Force
|
|
|
|
|
|
2480
|
Johnston
|
25/11/2009
|
Afghanistan laws denying women their basic
rights—Government
|
15/03/2010
|
16/03/2010
|
2015
|
110
|
|
|
|
representations
|
|
|
|
|
|
2481
|
Johnston
|
25/11/2009
|
Pakistan—Battle against extremists—Meetings to
discuss
|
15/01/2010
|
22/02/2010
|
789
|
51
|
|
|
|
Government support
|
|
|
|
|
|
2483
|
Johnston
|
25/11/2009
|
North Atlantic Treaty Organization and/or European
Union—
|
11/01/2010
|
22/02/2010
|
793
|
47
|
|
|
|
Recommendations for the position of Ambassador
|
|
|
|
|
|
2493
|
Ludlam
|
11/12/2009
|
Australian financial sanctions list—Burmese company,
Myanmar
|
04/05/2010
|
13/05/2010
|
3181
|
144
|
|
|
|
Oil and Gas Enterprise—Reason for exclusion from the
list
|
|
|
|
|
|
2607
|
Cormann
|
08/02/2010
|
Hawker Britton—Meetings with representatives
|
11/05/2010
|
13/05/2010
|
3181
|
92
|
|
2642
|
B. Brown
|
25/02/2010
|
Administration—Australian Political Parties for
Democracy
|
11/05/2010
|
13/05/2010
|
3182
|
75
|
|
|
|
Program—Application forms for funding and reports on
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
expenditure
|
|
|
|
|
|
2643
|
B. Brown
|
25/02/2010
|
Administration—Australian Political Parties for
Democracy
|
11/05/2010
|
13/05/2010
|
3182
|
75
|
|
|
|
Program—Application forms for funding and reports on
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
expenditure
|
|
|
|
|
|
2655
|
Humphries
|
25/02/2010
|
Administration—Redundancies
|
05/05/2010
|
13/05/2010
|
3183
|
69
|
|
2705
|
Humphries
|
10/03/2010
|
Administration—Involuntary redundancies
|
05/05/2010
|
13/05/2010
|
3186
|
56
|
|
2757
|
Siewert
|
18/03/2010
|
Sanitation, water and hygiene initiatives—Funding
allocation
|
23/04/2010
|
11/05/2010
|
2544
|
36
|
|
|
|
and Washington, DC meeting
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2783
|
B. Brown
|
13/04/2010
|
Convention on Cluster Munitions—November 2010
meeting—
|
14/05/2010
|
15/06/2010
|
3409
|
31
|
|
|
|
Government participation and treaty ratification
|
|
|
|
|
|
2789
|
Milne
|
20/04/2010
|
Forest conversion—Kalimantan Forests and Climate
|
|
|
|
90
|
|
|
|
Partnership—Consultation, assessment and contingency
planning
|
|
|
|
|
|
2790
|
Milne
|
20/04/2010
|
Forest conversion—Kalimantan Forests and Climate
|
|
|
|
90
|
|
|
|
Partnership—Consultation, assessment and contingency
planning
|
|
|
|
|
|
2801
|
Cash
|
03/05/2010
|
Zimbabwe—Hardship and potential famine—Support
from
|
04/06/2010
|
16/06/2010
|
3568
|
32
|
|
|
|
Australia
|
|
|
|
|
|
2829
|
B. Brown
|
26/05/2010
|
Australian Political Parties for Democracy
Program—Application
|
|
|
|
54
|
|
|
|
forms for funding
|
|
|
|
|
|
2867
|
Humphries
|
17/06/2010
|
Administration—Departmental and agency
accommodation—
|
|
|
|
32
|
|
|
|
Estimation of future requirements
|
|
|
|
|
|
2905
|
B. Brown
|
23/06/2010
|
Foreign Affairs—China—Detainment of Australian
citizens
|
|
|
|
26
|