Matters inquired into by Senate Committees
1994-2005

Community Affairs References Committee

• Validation of CAM and SAM Funding of Nursing Homes
• Inquiry into Matters Pertaining to the Marketing of the Disability Reform Package
• Psychotherapeutic Medication in Australia
• The Tobacco Industry and the Costs of Tobacco-Related Illness
• Funding of Aged Care Institutions
• Access to Medical Records
• CJD Settlement Offer
• Housing Assistance
• Public Dental Services
• Child Care Funding
• The Lucky Country Goes Begging: GST and a New Tax System
• Proposals for Changes to the Welfare System
• Rocking the Cradle: A Report into Childbirth Procedures
• Public Hospital Funding: Second Report - Healing our Hospitals
• Lost Innocents: Righting the Record - Report on Child Migration
• Nursing: The patient profession
• Participation requirements and penalties in the social security system [Family and Community Services Legislation Amendment (Australians Working Together and other 2001 Budget Measures) Bill 2002 and related issues
• A hand up not a hand out: Renewing the fight against poverty - Report on poverty and financial hardship
• Hepatitis C and the blood supply in Australia
• Forgotten Australians: A report on Australians who experienced institutional or out-of-home care as children
• Protecting vulnerable children: A national challenge - Inquiry into children in institutional or out-of-home care
• The cancer journey: Informing choice - The delivery of services and treatment options for persons with cancer
• Quality and equity in aged care
• Response to the petition on gynaecological health issues

Economics References Committee

• CSIRO: The Case for Revitalisation-Administration and Funding of Rural Research
• Telecommunications Developments to the Year 2000 and Beyond (Issues Paper)
• Issues of Small Business Taxation: An Issues Paper on Improving the Tax Treatment of Small Business
• A Question of Balance: The Tax Treatment of Small Business
• Taxation of Financial Arrangements
• Connecting You Now...Telecommunications Developments Towards the Year 2000
• Eastlink: The Interconnection of NSW and Queensland Electricity Grids with a High Voltage Powerline
• Workplace Relations and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 1996
• Outworkers in the Garment Industry
• Unauthorised Disclosure of Committee Report
• Review of the Inquiry into Outworkers in the Garment Industry
• Opportunities: Promoting Australian Industry
• A New Reactor at Lucas Heights
• Operation of the Australian Taxation Office
• Mass marketed tax effective schemes and investor protection
• Framework for the market supervision of Australia's stock exchanges
• A review of public liability and professional indemnity insurance
• The effectiveness of the Trade Practices Act 1974 in protecting small business
• The structure and distributive effects of the Australian taxation system
• Consenting adults deficits and household debt: Links between Australia's current account deficit, the demand for imported goods and household debt

Employment, Education and Training References Committee

• Development of Open Learning in Australia
• Accountability in Commonwealth-State Funding Arrangements in Education
• AUSTUDY
• Inquiry into Long Term Unemployment
• Inquiry into the Sale of Bond University
• Inquiry into the Australian National Training Authority
• Education and Training in Correctional Facilities
• Childhood Matters - Report on the Inquiry into Early Childhood Education
• Beyond Cinderella: Towards a Learning Society
• Not a Level Playground: Private and Commercial Funding of Government Schools
• A Class Act: Inquiry into the Status of the Teaching Profession

Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education References Committee

• GST and a New Tax System
• Jobs for the Regions: Inquiry into Regional Employment and Unemployment
• Katu Kalpa: The Effectiveness of Education and Training Programs for Indigenous Australians
• Aspiring to Excellence: Quality of Vocational Education and Training in Australia
• Universities in Crisis - Report into the Capacity of Public Universities to meet Australia's Higher Education Needs
• The education of gifted children

Employment, Workplace Relations and Education References Committee

• Education of students with disabilities
• Small business employment
• Order for production of documents on university finances
• Bridging the skills divide
• Hacking Australia’s Future: Threats to institutional autonomy, academic freedom and student choice in Australian higher education
• Beyond Cole: The future of the construction industry: Confrontation or co-operation?
• Office of the Chief Scientist
• Commonwealth funding for schools
• Unfair dismissal and small business employment [includes the Workplace Relations Amendment (Fair Dismissal Reform) Bill 2004]
• Indigenous education funding
• Student income support
• Workplace Agreements

Environment, Recreation, Communications and the Arts References Committee

• Arts Education
• Soccer
• Marine and Coastal Pollution
• Access to Heritage: User Charges in Museums, Art Galleries and National Parks

Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts References Committee

• The GST and a New Tax System
• Commonwealth Environment Powers
• Jabiluka: The Undermining of Process - Inquiry into the Jabiluka Uranium Mine Project
• The Hinchinbrook Channel Inquiry
• Inquiry into Gulf St Vincent
• The Heat is On: Australia's Greenhouse Future - Report on Global Warming and the Convention on Climate Change (Implementation) Bill 2000
• ABC On-line
• Electromagnetic Radiation
• Above Board? Methods of appointment to the ABC Board
• The value of water: Inquiry into Australia's management of urban water
• Regulating the Ranger, Jabiluka, Beverley and Honeymoon uranium mines
• Libraries in the online environment
• Australian telecommunications network
• Competition in broadband services
• Turning back the tide - the invasive species challenge: Report on the regulation, control and management of invasive species and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Invasive Species) Bill 2002
• A lost opportunity? Inquiry into the provisions of the Australian Communications and Media Authority Bill 2004 and related bills and matters
• Lurching forward, looking back: Budgetary and environmental implications of the Government's Energy White Paper
• The performance of the Australian telecommunications regulatory regime

Finance and Public Administration References Committee

• Disclosure Provisions for Prime Ministers and Leaders of the Opposition
• Property Management in the Australian Public Service
• The Proposed Sale of ANL Ltd
• Service Delivery
• Contracting out of Government Services
• Sale of 57 Commonwealth Properties
• Review of the Operation of the Order for the Production of Indexed Lists of Departmental Files
• Business Taxation Reform
• Australian Public Service Employment Matters: Australian Workplace Agreements
• Government's Information Technology Outsourcing Initiative
• Mechanism for providing accountability to the Senate in relation to government contracts
• Departmental and agency contracts: Report on the first year of operation of the Senate order for the production of lists of departmental and agency contracts
• A funding matter under the Dairy Regional Assistance Program
• Recruitment and training in the Australian Public Service
• Staff employed under the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984
• Administrative review of veteran and military compensation and income support
• Regional Partnerships and Sustainable Regions programs
• Matters relating to the Gallipoli Peninsula
• Government advertising and accountability

Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee

• Crash of RAAF Nomad Aircraft A18-401 on 12 March 1990
• Australia China Relations
• Development of Australia's Air Links with Latin America
• Abolition of the Development Import Finance Facility
• Role and Future of Radio Australia and Australia Television
• Helping Australians Abroad: A Review of the Australian Government's Consular Services
• The 1998 Indian and Pakistani Nuclear Tests
• The Sale of ADI Limited
• Australia and APEC: A Review of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
• East Timor
• Japan: Politics and Society
• Disposal of Defence Properties
• Recruitment and retention of ADF personnel
• Materiel acquisition and management in Defence
• A Pacific engaged: Australia's relationships with Papua New Guinea and the island states of the south-west Pacific
• Voting on trade: The General Agreement on Trade in Services and an Australia-US Free Trade Agreement
• The (not quite) White Paper: Australia's foreign affairs and trade policy, Advancing the National Interest
• Taking stock: Current health preparation arrangements for the deployment of Australian Defence Forces overseas
• Bali 2002: Security threats to Australians in South East Asia
• The effectiveness of Australia's military justice system
• Duties of Australian personnel in Iraq
• Mr Chen Yonglin's request for political asylum
• Opportunities and challenges: Australia's relationship with China
• The removal, search for and discovery of Ms Vivian Solon
• China's emergence: implications for Australia

Legal and Constitutional References Committee

• Treaties and the External Affairs Power (Discussion Paper)
• Cashing in on the Sydney Olympics: Protecting the Sydney Olympic Games from Ambush Marketing
• A System of National Citizenship Indicators (Discussion Paper)
• Investigatory Powers of the Australian Securities Commission
• Trick or Treaty? Commonwealth Power to Make and Implement Treatie
s
• National Well-being: A System of National Citizenship Indicators and Benchmarks
• Inquiry into the Commonwealth's Actions in Relation to Ryker (Faulkner) v The Commonwealth and Flint
• Payment of a Minister's Legal Costs
• Australian Legal Aid System
• Sexuality Discrimination
• Australian Legal Aid System
• Privacy and the Private Sector: Inquiry into Privacy Issues, including the Privacy Amendment Bill 1998
• A Sanctuary under Review: An Examination of Australia's Refugee and Humanitarian Determination Processes
• Healing: A Legacy of Generations - Report of the inquiry into the Federal Government's Implementation of Recommendations made by the Human Rights Opportunity Commission in Bringing Them Home
• Order in the Law: Management Arrangements and Adequacy of Funding of the Australian Federal Police and the National Crime Authority
• Inquiry into s. 46 and s. 50 of the Trade Practices Act 1974
• Outsourcing of the Australian Customs Service's information technology
• Reconciliation: Off track
• Legal aid and access to justice
• The road to a republic
• They still call Australia home: Inquiry into Australian expatriates
• The real Big Brother: Inquiry into the Privacy Act 1988
• Administration and operation of the Migration Act 1958

Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee

• Rural Adjustment, Rural Debt and Rural Reconstruction
• Impact of Assets Tests on Farming Families' Access to Social Security and AUSTUDY
• Purchase of the Precision Aerial Delivery System (PADS) by Airservices Australia
• The Brew Report and the Continuing Role of the Commonwealth in the Australian Rail Industry
• Value-adding in Agricultural Production
• Commercial Utilisation of Australian Native Wildlife
• Landcare Policies and Programs
• The Effect of Pricing and Slot Management Arrangements at Kingsford Smith Airport on Regional Airlines and Communities
• Australian Dairy Industry
• Development of the Brisbane Airport Corporation Master Plan
• Air Safety and Cabin Air Quality in the BAe 146 Aircraft
• Airspace 2000 and Related Issues
• The Incidence of Ovine Johnes Disease in the Australian Sheep Flock
• Rural water resource usage
• Australian forest plantations: A review of Plantations for Australia: The 2020 Vision
• Iraqi wheat debt - repayments for wheat growers

Select Committees

• A Certain Maritime Incident (children overboard)
• ABC Management and Operations
• Administration of Indigenous Affairs
• Aircraft Noise in Sydney
• Foreign Ownership Decisions in Relation to the Print Media
• Certain Land Fund Matters
• Community Standards and Electronic Technologies
• Dangers of Radioactive Waste
• Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the United States of America
• Information Technologies
• Contract for a New Reactor at Lucas Heights
• Land Fund Bill
• Lindeberg Grievance
• Medicare
• Mental Health
• Ministerial Discretion in Migration Matters
• New Tax System
• Public Interest Whistleblowing
• Scrafton Evidence (children overboard)
• Socio-Economic Consequences of the National Competition Policy
• Superannuation
• Superannuation and Financial Services
• Unresolved Whistleblower Cases
• Uranium Mining and Milling
• Victorian Casino