Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, upon notice, on 9 September 2011:

With reference to the answer to Question No. 7 taken on notice during the 2011-2012 Budget Estimates hearings of the Environment and Communications Legislation Committee in May 2011, in relation to Australia Post:

(1) Were the 18 cases each settled for $12,500 in total or in each case; if in total, can a breakdown be provided for the total settlement on each case.

(2) In relation to the legal costs for these cases:    (a) were they external or internal legal costs; and   (b) (i) if they were internal, how much was spent, and      (ii) if they were external, how much was spent?

Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The answer to the honourable senator's question is as follows:

(1) The $12,500 referred to in the previous answer (Senate Budget Estimates 2011-12 QoN No. 7) was for two cases, which were settled for $7,500 and $5,000 respectively.

(2) (a) and (b) The $253,765 referred to in the previous answer (Senate Budget Estimates 2011-12 QoN No. 7) was for external legal costs for seven cases.