Documents presented out of sitting after the Senate adjourned on 16 May 2024

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Documents presented out of sitting

Committee reports

1. Community Affairs References Committee—Equitable access to diagnosis and treatment for individuals with rare and less common cancers, including neuroendocrine cancer—Report, dated May 2024, documents presented to the committee, additional information and submissions. [Received 17 May 2024]
2. Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation—Standing Committee—Annual report for 2023, dated May 2024. [Received 17 May 2024]
3. Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation—Standing Committee—Delegated legislation monitor 5 of 2024, dated 17 May 2024, and ministerial correspondence. [Received 17 May 2024]

Government responses to parliamentary committee reports

1. Finance and Public Administration References Committee—Report—APS Inc: Undermining public sector capability and performance – The current capability of the Australian Public Service—Government response, dated May 2024. [Received 17 May 2024]
2. Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee—Report—Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2017 [Provisions]—Government response, dated April 2024. [Received 17 May 2024]
3. Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee—Report—Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020 [Provisions]—Government response, dated April 2024. [Received 17 May 2024]
4. Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee—Report—Nationhood, national identity and democracy—Government response, dated May 2024. [Received 17 May 2024]
5. Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee—Report—Serious allegations of abuse, self-harm and neglect of asylum seekers in relation to the Nauru Regional Processing Centre, and any like allegations in relation to the Manus Regional Processing Centre—Government response, dated April 2024. [Received 17 May 2024]
6. Migration—Joint Standing Committee—Reports—Immigration detention in Australia: A new beginning - Criteria for release from detention—Immigration detention in Australia: Community-based alternatives to detention—Immigration detention in Australia: Facilities, services and transparency—Government response, dated April 2024. [Received 17 May 2024]
7. Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee—Report—Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Bill 2023 [Provisions] and related bills—Government response, dated May 2024. [Received 17 May 2024]

Returns to order

1. Afghanistan Inquiry Implementation Oversight Panel—Orders of 28 February and 18 March 2024 (474 and 491)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy (Senator McAllister) responding to the order, and attachments. [Received 17 May 2024]
2. Bureau of Meteorology—ROBUST program—Order of 26 March 2024 (509)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy (Senator McAllister) responding to the order, and attachment. [Received 17 May 2024]
3. First Nations cultural heritage reforms—Order of 20 March 2024 (493)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy (Senator McAllister) responding to the order and raising a public interest immunity claim, and attachment. [Received 17 May 2024]
4. National competition reform—Order of 20 March 2024 (495)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Finance (Senator Gallagher), dated 16 May 2024, responding to the order, and attachment. [Received 17 May 2024]
5. OneDefence Data Program—Order of 29 February 2024 (486)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy (Senator McAllister) responding to the order, and attachments. [Received 17 May 2024]

Departmental and agency appointments and vacancies

Health and Aged Care portfolio. [Received 17 May 2024]

Departmental and agency grants

Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio—Skills and Training. [Received 17 May 2024]

Health and Aged Care portfolio. [Received 17 May 2024]

Estimates hearings—Unanswered questions on notice

Finance portfolio—Special Minister of State. [Received 17 May 2024]

Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts portfolio—Communications. [Received 17 May 2024]

Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio—National Indigenous Australians Agency, Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations, and Indigenous portfolio bodies. [Received 17 May 2024]

Former ministers—Meetings

Finance portfolio—Special Minister of State. [Received 17 May 2024]