Industry and Science portfolio

Budget Estimates 2015-16 (June 2015)

Industry and Science portfolio

Responses to questions taken on notice at the Budget Estimates hearings are due by COB Friday 17 July 2015.

Index to Questions on Notice - (PDF 385KB)

Answers to Questions on Notice (to be uploaded when responses become available)

QoN No.

Senator

Division/Agency

Broad topic

Hansard page & date or Written question

Date Answered

View

BI-1

Ketter

ANSTO

ANSTO Board

Pages 73-74, 3 June 2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 17KB)

BI-2

Leyonhjelm

ANSTO

Defence White Paper - Submarines

Page 75, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 21KB)

BI-3

Ludlam

ANSTO

Synroc technology

Page 77-78, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 20KB)

BI-4

Ludlam

ANSTO

Radioactive waste

Page 80, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 35KB)
Attachment 1 (1116KB)
Attachment 2 (1234KB)

BI-5

Ludlam

ANSTO

Security at ANSTO

Page 80, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 18KB)

BI-6

Ketter

CSIRO

CSIRO Board

Page 82, 3/06/2015

 24/07/2015

(PDF 20KB)

BI-7

Ketter

CSIRO

Staffing

Page 85, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 22KB)

BI-8

Whish-Wilson

CSIRO

RV Investigator

Page 90, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 20KB)

BI-9

Canavan

CSIRO

Beef roads – CSIRO’s involvement

Page 91, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 28KB)

BI-10

Canavan

CSIRO

Beef roads – CSIRO’s involvement

Page 91-92, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 18KB)

BI-11

Waters

CSIRO

Phase 2 – Fugitive Emissions Report

Page 93, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 21KB)

BI-12

Waters

CSIRO

Phase 2 – Fugitive Emissions Report

Page 95, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 14KB)

BI-13

Waters

CSIRO

Methane emissions measurements

Page 96, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 13KB)

BI-14

Waters

CSIRO

Phase 2 – Fugitive Emissions Report

Page 97, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 20KB)

BI-15

Waters

CSIRO

CSG chemicals

Page 97, 3/06/2015

 21/07/2015 

(PDF 14KB)

BI-16

Waters

AIMS

Oil and gas industry

Pages 97-98, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 32KB)

BI-17

Waters

AIMS

Funding cuts

Page 98, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 36KB)

BI-18

Waters

AIMS

Letter from Britta Schaffelke – Courier Mail article

Pages 98-99, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 58KB)

BI-19

Ketter

Resources

Correspondence to state and territory Ministers

Pages 100-101,  3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 21KB)

BI-20

Ketter

NOPSEMA

Operators under NOPSEMA jurisdiction

Pages 101-102, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 60KB)

BI-21

Ketter

NOPSEMA

Exemption from APS Workplace Bargaining Policy

Pages 104-105, 3/06/2015

17/07/2015 

(PDF 20KB)

BI-22

Ketter

Geoscience Australia

Economic benefit of competitive geoscience information

Page 107, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 14KB)

BI-23

Ketter

Geoscience Australia

Enterprise Agreement

Page 107, 3/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 17KB)

BI-24

Ketter

Corporate

Previous Energy and Resources staffing numbers

Pages 5-6, 4/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 26KB)

BI-25

Ketter

Resources

National Radioactive Waste Management Facility

Pages 7-8, 4/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 17KB)

BI-26

Ketter

Resources

National Radioactive Waste Management Facility

Page 8, 4/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 18KB)

BI-27

Ketter

Resources

National Radioactive Waste Management Facility – Advisory Panel

Page 9, 04/06/2015

17/07/2015 

(PDF 23KB)

BI-28

Whish-Wilson

Sectoral Growth Policy

Joint Commonwealth and Tasmanian Economic Council Communique

Page 14, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 15KB)

BI-29

Ludlam

Resources

National Radioactive Waste Management Facility briefing

Page 16, 04/06/2015

17/07/2015 

(PDF 25KB)

BI-30

Ludlam

Resources

National Radioactive Waste Management Facility

Page 16, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 17KB)

BI-31

Ludlam

Resources

National Radioactive Waste Management Facility

Page 17, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 19KB)

BI-32

Waters

ARENA

Scale concentrated solar thermal plants

Page 17, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 24KB)

BI-33

Waters

ARENA

ARENA funding

Pages 17-18, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 19KB)

BI-34

Carr

Sectoral Growth Policy

Aluminium cladding

Page 24, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 19KB)

BI-35

Carr

Corporate

Attendance at political functions by departmental staff

Page 27, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 19KB)

BI-36

Carr

Corporate

Provisions contained in the Enterprise Agreement

Page 29, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 27KB)

BI-37

Carr

Corporate

Recruitment – Economic and Analytical Services

Page 31, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 21KB)

BI-38

Carr

AusIndustry – Business Services

Innovation Australia Board

Page 35, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 17KB)

BI-39

Carr

AusIndustry – Business Services

Innovation Australia Board

Page 36, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 16KB)

BI-40

Carr

Corporate

Market Research

Page 36, 04/06/2015

 21/07/2015

(PDF 25KB)

BI-41

Carr

Corporate

Advertising

Page 36, 04/06/2015

 24/07/2015

(PDF 14KB)

BI-42

Carr

Science & Commercialisation Policy

Japan research partnership

Page 42, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 19KB)

BI-43

Carr

Corporate

Cost of moving the CRC Section

Page 46, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 8KB)

BI-44

Carr

AusIndustry – Business Services

CRC Committee – date of decisions

Page 47, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 17KB)

BI-45

Carr

AusIndustry – Business Services

CRC Funding

Page 49, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 19KB)

BI-46

Carr

AusIndustry – Business Services

CRC Funding

Page 50, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 14KB)

BI-47

Carr

Corporate

growNORTH contact

Page 50, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 14KB)

BI-48

Carr

AusIndustry – Entrepreneur Development

R&D Tax Incentive Programme

Page 51, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 20KB)

BI-49

Carr

AusIndustry – Entrepreneur Development

R&D Tax Incentive Programme

Pages 51-52, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 25KB)

BI-50

Carr

AusIndustry – Entrepreneur Development

R&D Tax Incentive Programme

Pages 52-53, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 22KB)

BI-51

Carr

AusIndustry – Business Services

Innovation Board – R&D Supply Chain

Pages 54-55, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 17KB)

BI-52

Carr

AusIndustry – Entrepreneur Development

R&D Tax

Page 55, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 17KB)

BI-53

Carr

AusIndustry – Entrepreneur Development

R&D Tax

Pages 55-56, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 21KB)

BI-54

Carr

Sectoral Growth Policy

Health Industries Forum

Pages 59-60, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 20KB)

BI-55

Carr

AusIndustry – Business Services

Manufacturing Transition Programme

Page 61, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 25KB)

BI-56

Carr

AusIndustry – Business Services

Manufacturing Transition Programme

Page 63, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 17KB)

BI-57

Carr

Corporate

Grant programmes

Page 64, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 23KB)

BI-58

Carr

Anti-Dumping Commission

Guilin Group visit

Page 69, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 19KB)

BI-59

Xenophon

Anti-Dumping Commission

Investigation statistics

Page 71, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 32KB)

BI-60

Carr

Anti-Dumping Commission

Steel imports

Page 72, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 16KB)

BI-61

Carr

Sectoral Growth Policy

Electrical cabling imports

Pages 73-74, 04/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 19KB)

BI-62

Wright

NOPSEMA

Protecting matters of national environmental significance

Written Question, 11/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 20KB)

BI-63

Xenophon

Anti-Dumping Commission

Guilin Group visit (BI-60)

Written Question, 11/06/2015

 17/07/2015 

(PDF 18KB)

BI-64

Conroy

Energy

Gas Markets

Written Question, 12/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 21KB)

BI-65

Conroy

Energy

CBD Program

Written Question, 12/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 18KB)

BI-66

Conroy

Energy

Energy White Paper

Written Question, 12/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 25KB)

BI-67

Conroy

Energy

AER

Written Question, 12/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 16KB)

BI-68

Waters

Science & Commercialisation Policy

Minister meeting with Australian Academy of Science

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 32KB)

BI-69

Waters

CSIRO

Flawed methane equipment

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 18KB)

BI-70

Waters

CSIRO

Groundwater and geogenics work

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 21/07/2015

(PDF 23KB

BI-71

Carr

Corporate

Information on Programme costings

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 28KB)
Attachment (PDF 56KB)

BI-72

Carr

AusIndustry – Entrepreneur Development

R&D Tax Incentive

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 31KB)

BI-73

Carr

Science & Commercialisation Policy

Government’s Response to the Boosting Commercial Returns from Research discussion paper

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 103KB)

BI-74

Carr

Sectoral Growth Policy

Disability (Access to Premises) Standards 2010

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 17KB)

BI-75

Carr

Anti-Dumping Commission

Steel imports

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 19KB)

BI-76

Carr

Anti-Dumping Commission

Anti-Dumping system

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 17KB)

BI-77

Carr

Sectoral Growth Policy

Building products, ABCB and Building Minister’s forum

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 19KB)

BI-78

Carr

Sectoral Growth Policy

Australian Industry Participation

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 17KB)

BI-79

Carr

AusIndustry – Entrepreneur Development

Entrepreneurs’ Infrastructure Programme

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 17KB)

BI-80

Carr

Sectoral Growth Policy

Growth Centres

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 17KB)

BI-81

Carr

IP Australia

Advisory Council on Intellectual Property

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 13KB)

BI-82

Carr

Sectoral Growth Policy

Clinical Trial Reforms

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 13KB)

BI-83

Carr

Sectoral Growth Policy

Growth Fund

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 45KB)

BI-84

Carr

Sectoral Growth Policy

Clothing and Household Textile (Building Innovative Capability) Scheme

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 13KB)

BI-85

Ludwig

Corporate

Non-Australian Citizens Employed by the Department/Agency

Written Question, 17/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 19KB)

BI-86

Ludwig

Corporate

Departmental Dispute Resolution

Written Question, 17/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 19KB)

BI-87

Carr

CSIRO

Samples from US Military Labs

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 32KB)

BI-88

Carr

CSIRO

Northern Australia CRC Bid Team

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 17KB)

BI-89

Carr

CSIRO

Australian Animal Health Laboratory

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 14KB)

BI-90

Carr

CSIRO

CSIRO Staffing

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 87KB)

BI-91

Carr

Science and Commercialisation Policy

International Science Engagement Strategy

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 23KB)

BI-92

Carr

AusIndustry -Business Services

CRC Program status

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 14KB)

BI-93

Carr

AusIndustry -Business Services

CRC Review

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 15KB)

BI-94

Carr

AusIndustry -Business Services

CRC Schedule

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 17KB)

BI-95

Carr

AusIndustry -Business Services

Industry Research Partnerships

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 14KB)

BI-96

Carr

AusIndustry -Business Services

Recommendation 18 from the Miles Review

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 74KB)

BI-97

Carr

Science and Commercialisation Policy

Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 92KB)

BI-98

Carr

Science and Commercialisation Policy

Square Kilometre Array

Written Question, 15/06/2015

 17/07/2015

(PDF 14KB)

BI-99

Ketter

Resources

National Low Emissions Coal Initiative

Page 10, 4/06/2015

Answered during proceedings– Hansard, page.19.

n/a

BI-100

Whish-Wilson

Sectoral Growth Policy

TMPAA projects

Page 13, 4/06/2015

Answered during proceedings & Tabled Document No.12.

n/a

BI-101

Whish-Wilson

Sectoral Growth Policy

TMPAA projects

Page 13, 4/06/2015

Answered during proceedings & Tabled Document No.12.

n/a

BI-102

Whish-Wilson

Sectoral Growth Policy

Undersea cable

Pages 13-14, 4/06/2015

Answered during proceedings & Tabled Document No.12.

n/a

 

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