Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that:

(i)

the inclusion of expenditure not for the ordinary annual services of the government in the appropriation bill for the ordinary annual services, which is required to be separated from other appropriations by section 54 of the Constitution, was raised by the Australian National Audit Office and the Appropriations and Staffing Committee in 2005;

(ii)

the matter has been the subject of successive reports by the Appropriations and Staffing Committee and the Finance and Public Administration Committee since that time;

(iii)

the Minister for Finance and Deregulation has not yet carried out an undertaking to provide to the Appropriations and Staffing Committee proposals whereby this problem might be overcome;

(b)

calls upon the Minister for Finance and Deregulation to provide a substantive response to the Appropriations and Staffing Committee on this matter by 16 November 2009.

Question agreed to.