| 
   Division/Agency
  and Topic 
   | 
  
   Proof
  Hansard page reference 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Finance and Business Support, Government, Information
  Services and People and Service Delivery Divisions 
   | 
  
   4–26 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Strategic
  direction statement 
   | 
  
   4, 8 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Reforming
  Australia’s biosecurity system 
   | 
  
   4 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Post-entry
  quarantine station 
   | 
  
   4 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Remediation work
  of IT 
   | 
  
   4–7, 16 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Export
  certification 
   | 
  
   7 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Exporter Supply
  Chain Assurance System (ESCAS) 
   | 
  
   8 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   National Food
  Plan 
   | 
  
   8 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Agvet chemicals
  reform 
   | 
  
   8 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Illegal logging  
   | 
  
   8 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Research and
  development review 
   | 
  
   8–10 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Efficiency
  dividend 
   | 
  
   10, 17–18, 21 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Staffing numbers 
   | 
  
   10–13, 16–17, 20 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Caring for Our
  Country 
   | 
  
   13–15 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Reef Rescue 
   | 
  
   13–15 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Voluntary
  redundancies 
   | 
  
   16 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Australian Year
  of the Farmer 
   | 
  
   16–17 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Detector dogs 
   | 
  
   18–20 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Mobile phones,
  blackberries and iPads 
   | 
  
   21–22 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Ministerial
  visits 
   | 
  
   22–23 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Training for
  department and agencies 
   | 
  
   23–24 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Legal costs 
   | 
  
   24–25 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Departmental
  reports 
   | 
  
   25 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Discussion paper
  on ecosystems 
   | 
  
   25–26 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Interim
  Inspector-General of Biosecurity 
   | 
  
   26–29 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Formal
  establishment of the Inspector-General of Biosecurity 
   | 
  
   26 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Importation of
  ornamental finfish 
   | 
  
   26 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Consignments of
  fertiliser from China 
   | 
  
   26–27 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Consignments of
  abalone exported to China and Hong Kong 
   | 
  
   26, 27, 28 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Undeclared meat products
  from the Republic of Korea 
   | 
  
   26, 27–28 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Work plan 
   | 
  
   26, 29 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Myrtle rust 
   | 
  
   27 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Self-referral of
  audits 
   | 
  
   27 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Budget
  allocations and staffing 
   | 
  
   28 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Australian Animal
  Health Laboratory facility in Geelong 
   | 
  
   29 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   CSIRO 
   | 
  
   29 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Biosecurity
  Animal Division 
   | 
  
   29–53 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Live animal
  export ban 
   | 
  
   29–31 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Freedom of
  Information documents 
   | 
  
   30–31 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Legal advice 
   | 
  
   30–31 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Claim for
  compensation 
   | 
  
   31, 49–50 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   E Canis 
   | 
  
   31–32 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Importation of
  fresh shell eggs 
   | 
  
   32–33 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   ESCAS 
   | 
  
   33–37, 39–42, 43–46, 47, 48, 51 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Boarding of the Al
  Shuwaikh 
   | 
  
   37–39, 52–53 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Competition for
  live export markets 
   | 
  
   40, 42 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Numbers for sheep
  exports 
   | 
  
   42 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Companies found
  to be non-compliant 
   | 
  
   42–46, 48–49 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Assistance
  packages 
   | 
  
   46–47 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Foot and mouth
  disease 
   | 
  
   47–48 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Proposal to
  export live cattle through Mourilyan to the Solomons 
   | 
  
   50–51 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Kangaroo meat
  export to Russia 
   | 
  
   51–52 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Biosecurity Quarantine
  Division 
   | 
  
   53–70 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Post-entry
  quarantine facility 
   | 
  
   53–54, 60–61, 66 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Reforming
  Australia's Biosecurity System—maintaining core biosecurity operations 
   | 
  
   54 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Undeclared meat
  products from the Republic of Korea 
   | 
  
   54–60, 69–70 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Cost recovery
  process and guidelines 
   | 
  
   55–57 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   AQIS Inspectors
  in abattoirs  
   | 
  
             61–63 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   International
  flights checked for biosecurity risks and contamination 
   | 
  
   63–66 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Transportation to
  the post-entry quarantine facility 
   | 
  
   66 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Snail
  infestation, threat assessments of grain 
   | 
  
   66–67 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Broomrape 
   | 
  
   67 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Inspection of
  containers portside 
   | 
  
   67–69 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Possibility of an
  importer supply chain assurance scheme 
   | 
  
   69 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Biosecurity Plant Division 
   | 
  
   70–96 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Incident of a
  fruit fly found in New Zealand 
   | 
  
   70 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Fresh ginger from
  Fiji, import risk analysis 
   | 
  
   70–78, 96 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Myrtle rust 
   | 
  
   76–77 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Removal of
  dimethoate as a treatment for tomatoes 
   | 
  
   78–81 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Eminent
  Scientists Group, apple and pear producers 
   | 
  
   81–83 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Export fees and
  charges for nurseries 
   | 
  
   83–84 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Biosecurity
  issues as a result of flooding 
   | 
  
   84 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Horticulture
  Ministerial Task Force 
   | 
  
   85–87, 89–90 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Meat Ministerial
  Task Force 
   | 
  
   87 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Paper based
  systems 
   | 
  
   87–88 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Food standards of
  imported food 
   | 
  
   90–91 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Imported Food
  Inspection Scheme 
   | 
  
   91–92 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Applications for
  the importation of bananas 
   | 
  
   92 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Export of duck
  and chicken meat to New Zealand 
   | 
  
   92–94 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Export of stone
  fruit into Thailand 
   | 
  
   94 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Chinese apples 
   | 
  
   94–95 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Asian Honey Bees 
   | 
  
   95–96 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Proposal to
  import pineapples from Malaysia 
   | 
  
   96 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Biosecurity Policy 
   | 
  
   96–106 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Core functions of
  division 
   | 
  
   96 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Business audit process
  of export approved premises 
   | 
  
   96–99 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Certification
  schemes 
   | 
  
   99 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Trade access and
  the Malaysia free trade agreement 
   | 
  
   99–102 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   External
  inspection for containers 
   | 
  
   102 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Aquatic Animal
  Health Training Scheme 
   | 
  
   102–102 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Postgraduate
  curriculum in plant biodiversity 
   | 
  
   103–104 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Threat Abatement
  Plan for dieback 
   | 
  
   105–106 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Centre of
  Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis 
   | 
  
   106 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Australian
  Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences 
   | 
  
   107–117 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Wine grape
  growers survey, wine industry and phylloxera 
   | 
  
   107–109, 116–117 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   FarmReady 
   | 
  
   108, 109 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   ESCAS 
   | 
  
   109–110 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Tasmanian Forest
  Intergovernmental Agreement 
   | 
  
   110–112 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Managed
  Investment Scheme Plantations 
   | 
  
   111–112 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Potential storage
  of carbon 
   | 
  
   111–113 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Short-run effects
  of carbon pricing on agriculture 
   | 
  
   113–115 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Socioeconomic
  implications of commercial and charter fishing on the proposed South-West
  Marine Bioregional Plan 
   | 
  
   115 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Factors
  contributing to employment changes in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in
  2010-11 to 2009-10 
   | 
  
   115–116 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Foreign
  investment in agricultural land 
   | 
  
   116 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Division/Agency
  and Topic 
   | 
  
   Proof
  Hansard page reference 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Australian
  Fisheries Management Authority 
   | 
  
   4–26 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Fees and charges 
   | 
  
   4–9, 10 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Number of
  fisheries 
   | 
  
   4–9, 10 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Disallowance
  motion 
   | 
  
   9, 10–11, 22–23 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Cost recovery budget 
   | 
  
   10–11, 12–13, 15–16, 17–18 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Staffing 
   | 
  
   11 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Cost of observers 
   | 
  
   13–15, 23–24 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Drivers for
  overspends in fisheries 
   | 
  
   16–17 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Fisheries
  independent surveys 
   | 
  
   17 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Fishery closures,
  sea lion mortalities 
   | 
  
   18–19 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Marine
  bioregional planning process and marine protected areas                                                                        
   | 
  
   19–22 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   200-metre isobar
  from the Western Australian government 
   | 
  
   24–26 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Seismic testing
  in Bass Strait 
   | 
  
   26 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Sustainable
  Resource Management 
   | 
  
   26–54 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Caring for Our
  Country 
   | 
  
   26–32, 33, 34, 36–37, 40–41, 42, 43–45 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Landcare 
   | 
  
   27–28, 31, 32, 39, 42 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Reef Rescue 
   | 
  
   28, 30, 44–46 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Community action
  grants 
   | 
  
   28, 40–41 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Natural Resource
  Management 
   | 
  
   32–36, 40, 42–44 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Environmental
  stewardship program 
   | 
  
   33 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   National Action
  Plan for Salinity and Water Quality 
   | 
  
   33–35 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Monitoring and
  evaluation 
   | 
  
   35–36 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Feral camel management
  project 
   | 
  
   37–38 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Dingo wild dog
  populations 
   | 
  
   37–38 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Border Rivers
  Gwydir Catchment Management Authority 
   | 
  
   38–39 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   National Weeds
  and Productivity Research program 
   | 
  
   41–42 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Indian Ocean Tuna
  Commission 
   | 
  
   46 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Western and
  Central Pacific Fisheries 
   | 
  
   46 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Commission for
  the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna 
   | 
  
   46–47, 53, 75 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Assistance with
  capacity building for other countries 
   | 
  
   47–48 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Illegal fishing
  near Heard, McDonald and Macquarie Island 
   | 
  
   48 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Budget
  initiatives specifically supporting the fishing sector 
   | 
  
   48–49 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Bycatch
  Initiative 
   | 
  
   49–51 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Harbour Policy 
   | 
  
   49–51 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Work done  by the
  Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) and ABARES 
   | 
  
   51 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Seabird and shark
  abatement plans 
   | 
  
   51–52 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Departmental
  contribution for the FRDC  
   | 
  
   52 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Reporting of
  catch rates 
   | 
  
   53 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Recreational
  industry development strategy 
   | 
  
   53 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Climate Change
  Division 
   | 
  
   54–75 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Carbon Farming
  Initiative 
   | 
  
   54–61, 66–67 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   ABARES report on
  the impact of alternative carbon prices on the likely area of land that would
  be put into forestation for carbon plantings 
   | 
  
   55–56 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Domestic Offsets
  Integrity Committee 
   | 
  
   57–58 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Soil Carbon
  Research Program 
   | 
  
   59, 61 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Intergovernmental
  Agreement 
   | 
  
   61–63, 66, 74 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Regional Forestry
  Agreements 
   | 
  
   63, 64–66, 71, 74–75 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Five yearly
  reviews 
   | 
  
   63 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Changes to the
  Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 
   | 
  
   63–64 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   The Hawke review 
   | 
  
   65 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Natural Resource
  Management 
   | 
  
   67 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Income recovery
  subsidy for the live cattle suspension 
   | 
  
   68–70 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Compensation for
  live exports suspension 
   | 
  
   70–71 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Voluntary exit
  grants 
   | 
  
   71–74 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Agricultural
  Productivity Division 
   | 
  
   75–91 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Sale of dairy
  heifers 
   | 
  
   75–76 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Livestock
  industry's agricultural and veterinary chemicals 
   | 
  
   76–77 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   FarmReady 
   | 
  
   77–81 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Cassava industry
  in North Queensland 
   | 
  
   81 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   National Food
  Plan 
   | 
  
   81–83, 88 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   National
  Strategic Rural R&D Investment Plan 
   | 
  
   82–83 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Australian Year
  of the Farmer 
   | 
  
   83–85 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Regional Food
  Producers program 
   | 
  
   85–87 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   New Industries
  Development Program 
   | 
  
   87–88 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Food Processing
  Industry Strategy Group; Prime Minister's Taskforce on Manufacturing 
   | 
  
   88 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Training of Meat
  and Livestock staff 
   | 
  
   88–89 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Sow stalls 
   | 
  
   89 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Matched funding
  for research and development 
   | 
  
   89 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Aussie Apple
  Accord package 
   | 
  
   90 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Horticulture
  Australia Ltd research and development extension plan for the apple industry 
   | 
  
   90–91 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Forest and
  Wood products Australia 
   | 
  
   91–94 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Expenditure for
  research and development  on climate variability and climate change 
   | 
  
   91 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   R&D
  Investment plan 
   | 
  
   91 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Strategies and
  priorities 
   | 
  
   91–93 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Process to
  appoint board members 
   | 
  
   93 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Fund agreement 
   | 
  
   93 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Life cycle
  assessments 
   | 
  
   94 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Green Building
  Council of Australia 
   | 
  
   94 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Australian
  Pork Limited 
   | 
  
   94–97 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Move to ban sow
  stalls by 2015 
   | 
  
   94–95 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Labelling laws 
   | 
  
   95 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Free-range pig
  farming 
   | 
  
   95–96 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Increase in the
  pig slaughter levy 
   | 
  
   96 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Importation of
  sow stall produced pork 
   | 
  
   96–97 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Australian Egg
  Corporation 
   | 
  
   97–100 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Importation of
  fresh shell eggs 
   | 
  
   97–98 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Definition of 'free-range' 
   | 
  
   97–100 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Proportion of
  R&D funding invested in animal welfare 
   | 
  
   100 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Meat and
  Livestock Australia 
   | 
  
   100–104 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Training of
  workers in approved abattoirs 
   | 
  
   100–101 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Purchasing of web
  domain names 
   | 
  
   101–102 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   R&D program 
   | 
  
   102–103 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   How members of
  the board deal with potential conflicts of interest  
   | 
  
   103–104 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Australian
  Livestock Export Corporation Limited 
   | 
  
   104–107 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Strategic plan
  and annual operating plan 
   | 
  
   104–105 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Animal welfare
  provisions 
   | 
  
   104–105 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Management
  structure 
   | 
  
   105 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Board membership 
   | 
  
   106 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Funding allocated
  to animal welfare 
   | 
  
   106 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Countries that
  receive Australian live exports 
   | 
  
   106–107 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Trade and
  Market Access 
   | 
  
   107–116 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Export market for
  goats 
   | 
  
   107 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Relationship with
  Austrade 
   | 
  
   107–108 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Table grapes into
  China 
   | 
  
   108 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Work with Wine Australia 
   | 
  
   108–109 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Wine exported to
  Malaysia 
   | 
  
   109–110, 111 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Free Trade
  Agreements 
   | 
  
   110–111 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Malaysian Free
  Trade Agreement 
   | 
  
   111–113 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Tropical fruit
  exported to Malaysia 
   | 
  
   112 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   United Nations
  Food and Agriculture Organisation 
   | 
  
   113–114 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Access through
  Indonesian ports 
   | 
  
   114–115 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Cattle numbers to
  Indonesia 
   | 
  
   115 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Price pressures
  in the Indonesian market 
   | 
  
   115–116 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Australian
  Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority 
   | 
  
   116–126 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Cost recovery
  discussion paper 
   | 
  
   116–117 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   New legislation 
   | 
  
   117–118 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   International
  Federation for Animal Health survey 
   | 
  
   118 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Agricultural
  chemicals and spray drift 
   | 
  
   118–119 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   The use of
  dimethoate on tomatoes 
   | 
  
   119–126 
   | 
 
 
  | 
   Maximum residue
  limits 
   | 
  
   123–125 
   |