David Feeney (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I present the government’s response to the President’s report of 24 June 2010 on government responses outstanding to parliamentary committee reports, and seek leave to have the document incorporated in Hansard.

The document read as follows—

GOVENRMENT RESPONSES TO PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE REPORTS

RESPONSES TO THE SCHEDULE TABLED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE ON 24 JUNE 2010

Circulated by the Leader of the Government in the Senate

Senator the Hon Chris Evans

24 November 2010

A CERTAIN MARITIME INCIDENT (Senate Select)

Report on a Certain Maritime Incident

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

AGRICULTURAL AND RELATED INDUSTRIES (Senate Select)

Pricing and supply arrangements in the Australian and global fertiliser market—Final report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

AUSTRALIAN COMMISSION FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT INTEGRITY (Joint Statutory)

Operation of the Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006—Interim report

The government response was tabled on the 13 October 2010

CLIMATE POLICY (Senate Select)

Report

The Government responded to the proposals embodied in the Committee's recommendations during consideration of the CPRS legislation in Parliament from May to December 2009. The Government has now convened the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee to consider a carbon price more broadly. The issues raised in the Report can be considered in that context.

COMMUNITY AFFAIRS LEGISLATION

National registration and accreditation scheme for doctors and other health workers

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform and Reinstatement of Racial Discrimination Act) Bill 2009 [Provisions], Families. Housing. Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (2009 Measures) Bill 2009 [Provisions] and the Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Restoration of Racial Discrimination Act) Bill 2009

Recommendations in this report were dealt with during the debate of the bills. No formal response required.

Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010 'Provisions] and the Healthcare Identifiers !Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010 [Provisions]

Recommendations in this report were dealt with during the debate of the bills. No formal response required.

Health Practitioner Regulation (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010 [Provisions]

Recommendations in this report were dealt with during the debate of the bill. No formal response required.

COMMUNITY AFFAIRS REFERENCES

Hear us: Inquiry into hearing health in Australia

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

COMMUNITY AFFAIRS STANDING

Funding and operation of the Commonwealth State/Territory Disability Agreement

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Towards recovery: Mental health services in Australia

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

CORPORATIONS AND FINANCIAL SERVICES (Joint Statutory)

Review of the Managed Investments Act 1998

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Inquiry into Regulation 7.1.29 in Corporations Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 3), Statutory Rules 2003 No. 85

The government is currently in discussion with the Committee.

Corporations Amendment Regulations 7.1.29A. 7.1.35A and 7.1.40(h)

The government is currently in discussion with the Committee.

Corporate responsibility: Managing risk and creating value

The government is currently in discussion with the Committee.

The structure and operation of the superannuation industry

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Better shareholders — better company — Shareholder engagement and participation in Australia

The government is currently in discussion with the Committee.

Inquiry into aspects of agribusiness managed investment schemes

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Inquiry into financial products and services in Australia

The government response was given in the form of a Ministerial Statement titled Future of Financial Advice by the Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law in the House on the 23 June 2010 and then tabled in the Senate on the 24 June 2010.

Statutory oversight of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission

The government is currently in discussion with the Committee.

ECONOMICS LEGISLATION

Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling Laws) Bill 2009

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Tax Laws Amendment (2010 Measures No. 1) Bill 2010 [Provisions]

Recommendations in this report were dealt with during the debate of the bill. No formal response required

Safe Climate (Energy Efficient Non-Residential Buildings Scheme) Bill 2009

Recommendations in this report will be dealt with during the debate of the bill. No formal response required

Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Bill (No. 2) 2010 [Provisions]

Recommendations in this report were dealt with during the debate of the bill. No formal response required

Tax Laws Amendment (Research and Development) Bill 2010 [Provisions] and Income Tax Rates Amendment (Research and Development) Bill 2010 [Provisions'

Recommendations in this report will be dealt with during the debate of the bill. No formal response required

ECONOMICS REFERENCES

Consenting adults deficits and household debt – links between Australia's current account deficit, the demand for imported goods and household debt

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Employee share schemes

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Foreign investment by state-owned entities

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Government measures to address confidence concerns in the financial sector – The Financial Claims Scheme and the Guarantee Scheme for Large Deposits and Wholesale Funding

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Report on bank mergers

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

GROCERY choice website

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Milking it for all it's worth—competition and pricing in the Australian dairy industry

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

ECONOMICS STANDING

Exposure draft of the legislation to implement the Carbon Pollution Scheme

The Government responded to the proposals embodied in the Committee's recommendations during consideration of the CPRS legislation in Parliament from May to December 2009. The Government has now convened the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee to consider a carbon price more broadly and the CPRS legislation is not being progressed.

EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND WORKPLACE RELATIONS REFERENCES

Provisions of childcare

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Welfare of international students

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

ELECTORAL MATTERS (Joint Standing)

Civics and electoral education

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Implications of the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment (Automatic Enrolment) Act 2009 (NSW) for the conduct of Commonwealth elections

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Report on the 2007 federal election—Events in the division of Lindsay—Review of penalty provisions in the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

ENVIRONMENT, COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS LEGISLATION

Do Not Call Register Legislation Amendment Bill 2009

Recommendations in this report were dealt with during the debate of the bill. No further response required.

Building Energy Efficiency Disclosure Bill 2010 [Provisions]

Recommendations in this report were dealt with during the debate of the bills. No further response required.

Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Fibre Deployment) Bill 2010 [Provisions]

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment Bill 2010 [Provisions]; Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Charge) Amendment Bill 2010 [Provisions]: Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Small-scale Technology Shortfall Charge) Bill 2010 [Provisions]

Recommendations in this report were dealt with during the debate of the bills. No further response required.

ENVIRONMENT, COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS REFERENCES

Forestry and mining operations on the Tiwi Islands

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

The impacts of milling in the Murray-Darling Basin

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

ENVIRONMENT, COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS STANDING

The operation of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 — First report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

The operation of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 — Second and final report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

The reporting of sports news and the emergence of digital media

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

ENVIRONMENT, COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS REFERENCES

Living with a salinity — a report on progress: the extent and economic impact of salinity in Australia

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

About time! Women in sport and recreation in Australia

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

ENVIRONMENT, COMMUNICATIONS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARTS STANDING

Conserving Australia—Australia's national parks, conservation reserves and marine protected areas

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

FINANCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION LEGISLATION

Plebiscite for an Australian Republic Bill 2008

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Annual reports (No.2 of 2009)

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill 2009 [Provisions! and Information Commissioner Bill 2009 [Provisions].

Recommendations in this report were dealt with during the debate of the bills. No further response required.

FINANCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFERENCES

Staff employed under Members of Parliament (Stall) Act 1984

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Government advertising and accountability

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Native vegetation laws, greenhouse gas abatement and climate chance measures

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

FINANCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION STANDING

Annual reports (No. I of 2008)

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Annual reports (No. 2 of 2008)

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Annual report (No. 1 of 2009)

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Residential and community aged care in Australia

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course:

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE (Joint Standing)

Australia's relationship with India as an emerging world power

The government response is not required.

Review of the Defence annual report 2007-2008

The government response was presented out of sitting m the Senate on 16 July 2010, and tabled on 29 September 2010 in the House.

Human rights in the Asia-Pacific: Challenges and opportunities

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE REFERENCES

Economic challenges facing Papua New Guinea and the island states of the southwest Pacific—Volume 1

The government response is being prepared to the recommendations in Volume 1 and 2. The consolidated response will be tabled in due course.

Security challenges facing Papua New Guinea and the island states of the southwest Pacific—Volume II

The government response is being prepared to the recommendations in Volume 1 and 2 The consolidated response will be tabled in due course.

Report on Parliamentary Privilege—possible interference in the work of the committee—Inquiry into matters relating to events on HMAS Success

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

FUEL AND ENERGY (Senate Select)

The CPRS: Economic cost without environmental benefit—Interim report

The Government responded to the proposals embodied in the Committee's recommendations during consideration of the CPRS legislation in Parliament from May to December 2009. The Government has now convened the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee to consider a carbon price more broadly. The issues raised in the Interim Report can be considered in that context.

INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY (JOINT)

Annual report of committee activities 2008-2009

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Review of administration and expenditure: No. 8—Australian intelligence agencies

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS LEGISLATION

Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2009

The Committee recommended the Bill not be passed.

National Radioactive Waste Management Bill 2010 (Provisions]

The Governments' response will he provided by the Bill which will be re-introduced in the current sittings of Parliament.

National Security Legislation Amendment Bill 2010 [Provisions] and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement Bill 2010 [Provisions]

Recommendations in this report will be dealt with in debate of the Bill

Personal Property Securities (Corporations and Other Amendments) Bill 2010

The government response was presented out of sitting in the Senate on the 19 July 2010, and tabled on the 28 September 2010

LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS REFERENCES

The road to a republic

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Australia's judicial system and the role of judges

The government response was presented out of sitting in the Senate on the 19 October 2010, and tabled on 25 October 2010

Access to justice

The government response was presented out of sitting in the Senate on 19 July 2010, and tabled on 28 September 2010

MEN'S HEALTH (Senate Select)

Report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

MIGRATION (Joint Standing)

Negotiating the maze – Review of arrangements for overseas skills recognition, upgrading and licensing

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Immigration detention in Australia –A new beginning – Criteria for release from detention – First report of the inquiry into immigration detention

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Immigration detention in Australia – Community-based alternatives to detention – Second report of the inquiry into immigration detention

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Immigration detention in Australia – Facilities, services and transparency – third report of the inquiry into immigration detention

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Enabling Australia—Inquiry into the migration treatment of disability

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

MINISTERIAL DISCRETION IN MIGRATION MATTERS (Senate Select)

Report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

NATIONAL BROADBAND NETWORK (Senate Select)

Another fork in the road to national broadband – Second interim report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Third report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Fourth interim report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Final report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

NATIONAL CAPITAL AND EXTERNAL TERRITORIES (Joint Standing)

Inquiry into the changing economic environment in the Indian Ocean Territories

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

An advisory report on the Territories Law Reform Bill 2010 [Provisions'

Recommendations in this report are expected to be dealt with during the debate of the bill. No formal response required.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT (Joint Statutory)

Report 412-Audit reports reviewed during the 41st Parliament

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Report 414 — Review of the Auditor-General's reports tabled between August 2007 and August 2008

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Report 415 — Review of Auditor-General's report tabled between September 2008 and January 2009

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Report 416 — Review of the major projects report 2007-2008

The Minister for Defence Materiel and Science responded directly to the Chair of the Committee on 23 June 2010. No further response required.

Report 417— Review of Auditor-General's reports tabled between February 2009 and September 2009

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

PUBLIC WORKS (Joint Standing)

Report 5/2009-Referral made May to June 2009-Fitout and external works, ANZAC Park West, Parks, ACT-Fitout of Tuggeranong Office Park. Greenway, ACT

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Report 6/2009—Redevelopment of the Villawood Immigration Detention Facility

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Report 7/2009-Referrals made August to October 2009-Construction of housing at Gordon Olive Estate, Brisbane, QLD—construction and renovation of housing at Larrakeyah Barracks, Darwin. NT—Enhanced Land Force Stage 2, various locations-Midlife engineering services refurbishment of the Australian Embassy. Paris, France— Tropical marine research facilities. Cape Ferguson and Townsville, OLD- Redevelopment of Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

REGIONAL AND REMOTE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES (Senate Select)

Third report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Fourth report 2010

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

RURAL AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT REFERENCES

Iraqi wheat debt — repayments for wheat growers

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Implications for the long-term sustainable management of the Murray-Darling Basin system-Final report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Import risk analysis (IRA) for the importation of Cavendish bananas from the Philippines– Final report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Meat marketing – Final report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Investment of Commonwealth and State funds in public passenger transport infrastructure and services

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Management of the removal of the rebate for AOIS export certification functions

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Rural and regional access to secondary and tertiary education opportunities

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Natural resource management and conservation challenges

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

The possible impacts and consequences for public health, trade and agriculture of the Government's decision to relax import restrictions on beef -First report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

The possible impacts and consequences for public health, trade and agriculture of the Government's decision to relax import restrictions on beef -Final report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

RURAL AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT STANDING

Australia's future oil supply and alternative transport fuels – Final report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Meat marketing – Interim report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Climate change and the Australian agricultural sector – Final report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

STATE GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT (Senate Select)

Report

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

TREATIES (Joint Standing)

Report 95 — Treaties tabled on 4 June, 17 June, 25 June and 26 August 2008

The government response was tabled on 4 February 2010. The Committee requires no further response to the outstanding recommendations.

Report 99 — Treaties tabled on 3 December 2008 and 3 February 2009

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Report 100 — Treaties tabled on 25 June 2008 (2)

The government response is being considered and will be tabled m due course.

Report 102 — Treaties tabled on 12 and 16 March 2009

The response was provided directly to the Chair of the Committee. No further response required.

Report 107 — Treaties tabled on 20 August (2) and 15 September 2009

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.

Report 110-Treaties tabled on 18, 25 (2) and 26 November 2009 and 2 (2) February 2010

The government response 'is being considered and will be tabled in due course.'

Report 111-Treaties tabled on 25 November 2009 (3), 4 and 24 February 2010

The government response is being considered and will be tabled in due course.