Footnotes

CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

[1]        House of Representatives, Votes and Proceedings, No. 166, 29 May 2013, p. 2303.

[2]        House of Representatives, Votes and Proceedings, No. 172, 17 June 2013, p. 2404.

[3]        Journals of the Senate, No. 149, 19 June 2013, pp 4095-96.

[4]        Journals of the Senate, No. 148, 18 June 2013, p. 4048.

[5]        The Hon Mark Dreyfus QC MP, Second Reading Speech, House of Representatives Hansard, 29 May 2013, p. 8.

[6]        The Hon Mark Dreyfus QC MP, Second Reading Speech, House of Representatives Hansard, 29 May 2013, p. 11.

[7]        Explanatory Memorandum (EM), p. 2.

[8]        EM, p. 3.

[9]        EM, p. 4.

[10]      EM, p. 5.

[11]      EM, p. 6.

[12]      EM p. 6.

CHAPTER 2 - KEY ISSUES

[1]        Submission 1, p. 1.

[2]        Submission 5, p. 4.

[3]        EM, p. 60.

[4]        EM, p. 60. Regulation 6C of the Crimes Regulations 1990 currently provides that an x-ray of the hand and wrist is a prescribed procedure for age determination.

[5]        See: Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, Crimes Amendment (Fairness for Minors) Bill 2011, April 2012, p. 12.

[6]        See: Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, Crimes Amendment (Fairness for Minors) Bill 2011, April 2012, pp 12-13; Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Submission 7 to the committee's inquiry into the Crimes Amendment (Fairness for Minors) Bill 2011, pp 1-2.

[7]        Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, Detention of Indonesian minors in Australia, October 2012, p. 36.

[8]        See: Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, Detention of Indonesian minors in Australia, October 2012, p. 36.

[9]        Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, Detention of Indonesian minors in Australia, October 2012, p. 60 (Recommendation 1).

[10]      Australian Human Rights Commission, An age of uncertainty: Inquiry into the treatment of individuals suspected of people smuggling offences who say that they are children, July 2012, pp 161-231.

[11]      Australian Human Rights Commission, An age of uncertainty: Inquiry into the treatment of individuals suspected of people smuggling offences who say that they are children, July 2012, p. 12.

[12]      Submission 5, p. 3.

[13]      Submission 5, p. 3. In relation to the advice provided by the office of the Chief Scientist, see also: Australian Government, 'Response to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee report: Detention of Indonesian minors in Australia', Submission 5, Attachment 2, p. 3.

[14]      EM, pp 61-62.

[15]      Submission 5, p. 4.

[16]      Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, Crimes Amendment (Fairness for Minors) Bill 2011, April 2012, p. 30 (Recommendation 2).

[17]      Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, Detention of Indonesian minors in Australia, October 2012, p. 63 (Recommendation 6).

[18]      EM, p. 62.

[19]      Submission 5, p. 3. See also: Australian Government, 'Response to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee report: Detention of Indonesian minors in Australia', Submission 5, Attachment 2, p. 6.

[20]      See: Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, Detention of Indonesian minors in Australia, October 2012, p. 49.

[21]      EM, pp 62-63.

[22]      Submission 5, p. 4.

[23]      Submission 5, p. 4.

[24]      Submission 6, p. 3.

[25]      Submission 4, pp 2 and 4.

[26]      Submission 4, pp 4-5.

[27]      Submission 3, p. 1.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS BY COALITION SENATORS

[1]        Submission 1, p. 1.

[2]        Submission 1, p. 1.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS BY THE AUSTRALIAN GREENS

[1]        Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, Crimes Amendment (Fairness for Minors) Bill 2011, April 2012, p. 43.