Inquiry into the Implementation of the Recommendations of the Lost Innocents and Forgotten
Australians Reports
Terms of Reference
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30 August 2008 was the 7th
anniversary of the tabling in the Senate of the Lost Innocents
report and the 4th anniversary of the tabling of the
Forgotten Australians report. The Community Affairs Committee agreed
that it was time to update progress with the responses to its
recommendations in these reports.
On 18 September 2008, on the motion of the Committee Chair, Senator Moore,
the Senate referred the following matter to the Community Affairs
Committee for inquiry and report by the last sitting day in March 2009:
Progress with the implementation of the recommendations in the reports by
the Community Affairs References Committee, Lost Innocents: Righting
the Record, a report on child migration tabled in August 2001, and
Forgotten Australians, a report on Australians who experienced
institutional or out-of-home care as children tabled in August 2004.
The Senate has agreed to extend the reporting date to the 25
June 2009
Written submissions are invited and should be addressed
to:
The Secretary
Senate Community Affairs
Committee
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
The Committee prefers to receive submissions electronically as an attached
document - email:
community.affairs.sen@aph.gov.au
Submissions become
Committee documents and are made public only after a decision by the
Committee. Publication of submissions includes loading them onto the
internet and their being available to other interested parties including
the media. Persons making submissions must not release them without the
approval of the Committee. Submissions are covered by parliamentary
privilege but the unauthorised release of them is not protected.
Following consideration of
submissions, the Committee will hold public hearings. The Committee will
consider all submissions and may invite individuals and organisations to
give evidence at the public hearings.
Information relating to Senate Committee inquiries,
including notes to assist in the preparation of submissions for a
Committee, can be located on the internet at
https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm
For further details
contact the Committee Secretary, Phone: (02) 6277 3515,
Fax: (02) 6277 5829. E-mail:
community.affairs.sen@aph.gov.au
For further information, contact:
Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia