Footnotes

PREFACE

[1]        Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Requirements for Annual Reports, 8 July 2011, Part 1, subsection 3(1).

[2]        Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Requirements for Annual Reports, 8 July 2011, p. i.

[3]        Official Senate Hansard, 8 December 1987, pp 2643-2645.

[4]        Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Requirements for Annual Reports, 8 July 2011, Part 1, section 4.

[5]        Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Guidelines for the Presentation of Government Documents to the Parliament, Canberra, June 2010, p. 5.

[6]        This table also includes the reports on the operation of acts or programs which have been referred to the committee.

[7]        The committee notes, however, that these reports were tabled in the House of Representatives on 13 October 2011.

[8]        Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Requirements for Annual Reports, 8 July 2011, Part 1, Section 4.

[9]        See Appendix 1 for those bodies which tabled or presented their reports prior to
17 and 18 October 2011.

CHAPTER 1 - ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENTS

[1]        Attorney-General's Department Annual Report 2010-11, pp 2-3.

[2]        See, for example, Attorney-General's Portfolio, Portfolio Budget Statement 2008-09.

[3]        Attorney-General's Department Annual Report 2010-11, p. 77.

[4]        Department of Finance and Deregulation, Performance Information and Indicators, October 2010, p. 8.

[5]        Australian National Audit Office, Performance Audit Report No. 5 2011-12, Development and implementation of key performance indicators to support the outcomes and programs framework

[6]        Australian National Audit Office, Performance Audit Report No. 5 2011-12, Development and implementation of key performance indicators to support the outcomes and programs framework, see Recommendation No. 1, p. 28.

[7]        Australian National Audit Office, Performance Audit Report No. 5 2011-12, Development and implementation of key performance indicators to support the outcomes and programs framework, p. 53.

[8]        See Requirements for Annual Reports, July 2011, subsection 11(4).

[9]        Attorney-General's Department Annual Report 2010-11, p. 180.

[10]      Attorney-General's Department Annual Report 2010-11, pp 180-181.

[11]      The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, the Department of Human Services, the Department of Health and Ageing, and the Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy are identified as the main bodies contributing to the strategic change indicators under the Government's Framework of Indicators for Social Inclusion.

[12]      Attorney-General's Department Annual Report 2010-11, p. 163.

[13]      Attorney-General's Department Annual Report 2010-11, p. 163.

[14]      Attorney-General's Department Annual Report 2010-11, p. 163.

[15]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, p. 8.

[16]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, p. 6.

[17]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, p. 5.

[18]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, p. 12.

[19]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, pp 4-5.

[20]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, p. 317.

[21]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, pp 155 and 200.

[22]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, p. 155.

[23]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, p. 106.

[24]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, p. 122.

[25]      See Chapter 3 of this report for the committee's examination of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship's recently tabled four monthly reports on protection visa processing.

[26]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, p. 68.

[27]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, p. 48.

[28]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, p. 32.

[29]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, p. 32.

[30]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, p. 32.

[31]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, p. 33.

[32]      Department of Immigration and Citizenship Annual Report 2010-11, p. 257.

CHAPTER 2 - ANNUAL REPORTS OF STATUTORY BODIES

[1]        Family Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, p. 13.

[2]        Family Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, p. 14.

[3]        Family Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, pp 48 and 77.

[4]        Family Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, pp 45-46.

[5]        Family Court of Australia and Federal Magistrates Courts of Australia Chief Executive Officer's Report 2010-11.

[6]        Federal Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, p. 12.

[7]        Federal Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, pp 12-13.

[8]        Federal Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, pp 13-14.

[9]        Federal Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, pp 14-15.

[10]      Federal Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, pp 16 and 28.

[11]      Federal Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, p. 28.

[12]      Federal Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, p. 15.

[13]      Federal Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, p. 17.

[14]      Federal Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, p. 17.

[15]      Federal Magistrates Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, p. 1.

[16]      Federal Magistrates Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, p. 26.

[17]      Federal Magistrates Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, pp 25-26.

[18]      Federal Magistrates Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, p. 1.

[19]      Federal Magistrates Court of Australia Annual Report 2010-11, p. 1.

CHAPTER 3 - REPORTS ON THE OPERATION OF ACTS AND PROGRAMS

[1]        Under subsection 6(1), the term 'law enforcement agency' includes the Australian Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity, and specified state and territory law enforcement agencies. If any of these agencies utilise the provisions of the Act, the Ombudsman is required to inspect records relating to that use. See further, Commonwealth Ombudsman, Report to the Attorney-General on the results of inspection of records under s55 of the Surveillance Devices Act 2004, March 2011, p. 1.

[2]        Report to the Attorney-General on the results of inspections of records under s55 of the Surveillance Devices Act 2004, March 2011, p. 1.

[3]        Commonwealth Ombudsman, Report to the Attorney-General on the results of inspections of records under s 55 of the Surveillance Devices Act 2004, March 2011, p. 1.

[4]        Commonwealth Ombudsman, Report to the Attorney-General on the results of inspections of records under s 55 of the Surveillance Devices Act 2004, March 2011, p. 4.

[5]        Commonwealth Ombudsman, Report to the Attorney-General on the results of inspections of records under s 55 of the Surveillance Devices Act 2004, March 2011, p. 2.

[6]        Committee Hansard, 26 May 2011, pp 20-22.

[7]        Protection visa processing taking more than 90 days for the reporting period 1 March 2011 to 30 June 2011, Letter of transmittal, p. 2.

[8]        Migration Review Tribunal-Refugee Review Tribunal Annual Report 2010-11, pp 10-11.

[9]        Migration Review Tribunal-Refugee Review Tribunal Annual Report 2010-11, p. 41.

[10]      Migration Review Tribunal-Refugee Review Tribunal Annual Report 2010-11, p. 41.

[11]      Committee Hansard, 13 February 2012, p. 10.