Footnotes

Chapter 1 - Introduction

[1]        Journals of the Senate, 3 December 2014, p. 1966.

[2]        Journals of the Senate, 4 December 2014, p. 1986; Selection of Bills Committee, Report No. 16 of 2014, 4 December 2014.

[3]        This followed a recommendation made in Mr James Burchett QC, Report of an Inquiry into Military Justice in the ADF, July 2001, Recommendation 55.

[4]        Defence Legislation Amendment Act (No. 2) 2005, Schedule 2.

[5]        Senate Hansard, 3 December 2014, p. 10062.

Chapter 2 - Overview of bill

[1]        Explanatory memorandum (EM), p. 5.

[2]        EM, p. 5.

[3]        Minor typographical errors in the explanatory memorandum in relation to this part have been corrected. Journals of the Senate, 9 February 2015, p. 2058.

[4]        EM, p. 6.

[5]        Minor typographical errors in the explanatory memorandum in relation to this part have been corrected. Journals of the Senate, 9 February 2015, p. 2058.

Chapter 3 - Issues and committee view

[1]        Department of Defence, Submission 17, p. 7, Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee inquiry Processes to support victims of abuse, October 2014.

[2]        Submission 8, p. 2.

[3]        Submission 6, p. 2.

[4]        Submission 6, p. 1 [emphasis in original].

[5]        Submission 6, p. 2 [emphasis in original].

[6]        Submission 6, p. 2.

[7]        For example, Mr Michael Wunderlich, Submission 4, p. 1; Colonel Michael Goodyer, Submission 5, p. 2.  

[8]        Submission 3, p. 1.

[9]        Department of Defence, 'Military justice system', available at http://www.defence.gov.au/mjs/mjs.htm (accessed 16 February 2015).

[10]      Submission 7, p. 2.

[11]      Regulations 61, 78, Defence (Inquiry) Regulations 1985.

[12]      Colonel Michael Goodyer, Submission 5, p. 2.

[13]      Senate Hansard, 3 December 2014, p. 10062.

[14]      Submission 6, p. 1.

[15]      Submission 8, p. 2.

[16]      Submission 2, p. 2.

[17]      Submission 2, p. 2.

[18]      Senate Hansard, 3 December 2014, p. 10062.

[19]      Submission 2, p. 2. Also see Chief of the Defence Force, Submission 8, p. 2.

[20]      Section 110R, Defence Act 1903.

[21]      Explanatory memorandum, Defence Legislation Amendment Act (No. 2) 2005, p 19.

[22]      Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Reforms to Australia's military justice system, Fourth progress report, September 2008, p. 78.

[23]      Submission 7, p. 3.

[24]      Submission 4, p. 1.

[25]      Submission 4, p. 1.

[26]      Subsection 124(2A), Defence Act 1903.

[27]      Submission 8, p. 2.

[28]      Submission 7, p. 3.

[29]      Submission 7, p. 2.

[30]      Submission 7, p. 3.

[31]      EM, p.2.

[32]      Senate Scrutiny of Bills Committee, Alert Digest No. 1 of 2015, 11 February 2015, p. 6.

[33]      Senate Scrutiny of Bills Committee, Alert Digest No. 1 of 2015, 11 February 2015, p. 7.         

[34]      For example, Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee, The effectiveness of Australia's military justice system, June 2005.  

[35]      For example, Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Reforms to Australia's military justice system, Fourth progress report, September 2008, pp 43-46; Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee, The effectiveness of Australia's military justice system, June 2005, pp 198-211.

[36]      Journals of the Senate, 9 February 2015, p. 2058.