Footnotes

CHAPTER 1 - Introduction

[1]        House of Representatives Votes and Proceedings, No. 137, 10 October 2012, p. 1854.

[2]        Journals of the Senate, No. 117, 11 October 2012, pp 3117-3118.

[3]        House of Representatives Votes and Proceedings, No. 140, 30 October 2012, p. 1915.

[4]        Journals of the Senate, No. 119, 30 October 2012, pp 3191-3192.

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

[6]        The Hon. Nicola Roxon MP, Attorney-General, House of Representatives Hansard, 10 October 2012, p 11767.

[7]        Proposed new paragraph 45A(1)(b); (item 3 of Schedule 1 of the Bill).

[8]        EM, p. 1.

[9]        EM, p. 2.

[10]      EM, p. 2.

[11]      EM, p. 6.

[12]      EM, p. 6.

[13]      EM, p. 8.

[14]      The Hon. Nicola Roxon MP, Attorney-General, House of Representatives Hansard, 10 October 2012, p. 11767.

CHAPTER 2 - Key issues

[1]        EM, p. 2. Further background on the PBO and the FOI Act is contained in a recent Parliamentary Library Bills Digest: see Mary Anne Neilsen, Freedom of Information Amendment (Parliamentary Budget Office) Bill 2012, Bills Digest No. 39, 2012–13, Parliamentary Library, 31 October 2012.

[2]        Parliamentary Budget Office, Submission 1, p. 1.

[3]        Parliamentary Budget Office, Submission 1, p. 1.

[4]        The Treasury and the Department of Finance and Deregulation, Submission 2, p. 2.

[5]        Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Submission 3, p. 1.

[6]        Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Submission 3, p. 1, referring to subsections 7(2A)-(2C) of the FOI Act.

[7]        Attorney-General's Department, Submission 4, pp 1–2.

[8]        See: Mary Anne Neilsen, Freedom of Information Amendment (Parliamentary Budget Office) Bill 2012, Bills Digest No. 39, 2012–13, Parliamentary Library, 31 October 2012, p. 10.

[9]       The Hon. Nicola Roxon MP, Attorney-General, House of Representatives Hansard, 10 October 2012, p. 11767.

[10]      Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Submission 3, pp 1–2.

[11]      Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Submission 3, p. 2.

[12]      Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Submission 3, p. 2, and the Hon. Nicola Roxon MP, Attorney-General and Minister for Emergency Management, Review of the FOI Act, media release, 31 October 2012, http://www.attorneygeneral.gov.au/Media-releases/Pages/2012/Fourth%20Quarter/31October2012ReviewoftheFOIAct.aspx (accessed 8 November 2012).

[13]      Attorney-General's Department, Submission 4, p. 2.