Mary Fisher (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Pursuant to standing orders 38 and 166, I present documents listed on today’s Order of Business at item 18 which were presented to the President and temporary chairs of committees since the Senate last sat. In accordance with the terms of the standing orders, the publication of the documents was authorised.

The list read as follows—

(a)    Committee reports

1.   Scrutiny of New Taxes—Select Committee—Report, together with the Hansard record of proceedings and documents presented to the committee—The mining tax: A bad tax out of a flawed process (received 29 June 2011)

2.   Joint Select Committee on the Christmas Island tragedy of 15 December 2010—Report, together with the Hansard record of proceedings and documents presented to the committee (received 29 June 2011)

3.   Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee—Report, together with the Hansard record of proceedings and documents received by the committee—Migration Amendment (Strengthening the Character Test and Other Provisions) Bill 2011 [Provisions] (received 29 June 2011)

4.   Economics References Committee—Interim report—State government insurance in Australia (received 30 June 2011)

5.   Finance and Public Administration References Committee—Report, together with the Hansard record of proceedings and documents received by the committee—Superannuation claims of former and current Australian Public Service employees (received 30 June 2011)

6.   Select Committee on the Reform of the Australian Federation—Report, together with the Hansard record of proceedings and documents received by the committee—Australia’s Federation: an agenda for reform (received 30 June 2011)

(b)    Government responses to parliamentary committee reports

1.   Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade—Report—Review of the Defence annual report 2008-09 (received 28 June 2011)

2.   Select Committee on Ministerial Discretion in Migration Matters—Report (received 30 June 2011)

3.   Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters—Report—2007 federal election: Events in the division of Lindsay – Review of penalty provisions in the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (received 1 July 2011)

(c)    Government documents

1.   Report to Parliament on barriers to generic medicines entering the market through the inappropriate use of intellectual property rights over product information (received 30 June 2011)

2.   Extended Medicare Safety Net Review of capping arrangements, together with contextual overview (received 1 July 2011)

(d)    Report of the Auditor-General

Report no. 57 of 2010-11—Performance audit—Acceptance into service of navy capability: Department of Defence; Defence Materiel Organisation (received 28 June 2011)

(e)    Return to order

Trade—New Zealand—Import protocol for apples (motion of Senator Colbeck agreed to on 23 June 2011) (received 30 June 2011)

(f)    Letter of advice relating to the Senate order on lists of departmental and agency grants

Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities portfolio (received 24 June 2011)