Question
No. |
Senator |
Date of
Question |
Subject |
Date
Reply
Received |
Hansard
Date
of Reply |
Hansard
Page No.
of Reply |
Elapsed
Time
(days) |
2
|
Nettle
|
16/11/2004
|
Environment—Sydney Harbour Foreshore Trust—Middle
Head
|
03/12/2004
|
08/12/2004
|
146
|
17
|
|
|
|
Road
|
|
|
|
|
11
|
B. Brown
|
16/11/2004
|
Environment—Woodsreef asbestos mine—Mine
tailings
|
09/12/2004
|
09/12/2004
|
127
|
23
|
20
|
Allison
|
16/11/2004
|
Defence—Sonar—Effects on the environment
|
10/02/2005
|
10/02/2005
|
150
|
86
|
25
|
Allison
|
16/11/2004
|
Environment—Environment Protection and Biodiversity
|
16/12/2004
|
08/02/2005
|
179
|
30
|
|
|
|
Conservation Act 1999—Threatened ecological
communities
|
|
|
|
|
58
|
Evans
|
17/11/2004
|
Environment—Sydney Harbour Federation
Trust—Management
|
10/02/2005
|
10/02/2005
|
153
|
85
|
|
|
|
of ex-Defence lands
|
|
|
|
|
59
|
Evans
|
17/11/2004
|
Environment—Sydney Harbour Federation
Trust—Funding
|
19/01/2005
|
08/02/2005
|
221
|
63
|
86
|
B. Brown
|
17/11/2004
|
Environment—Asian elephants—Zoo captivity
|
01/12/2004
|
02/12/2004
|
160
|
14
|
89
|
B. Brown
|
17/11/2004
|
Environment—Tasmania—Rehabilitation of mine
sites
|
08/12/2004
|
09/12/2004
|
128
|
21
|
97
|
B. Brown
|
18/11/2004
|
Environment—Freshwater ecosystems
|
06/01/2005
|
08/02/2005
|
226
|
49
|
98
|
B. Brown
|
18/11/2004
|
Environment—Tasmanian devils—Devil facial tumour
disease
|
16/03/2005
|
17/03/2005
|
142
|
118
|
99
|
B. Brown
|
18/11/2004
|
Environment—Tasmanian devils—Devil facial tumour
disease
|
16/03/2005
|
17/03/2005
|
142
|
118
|
108
|
Faulkner
|
19/11/2004
|
Administration—Advertising
campaigns—Environment/Resource
|
30/03/2005
|
10/05/2005
|
124
|
131
|
|
|
|
Management
|
|
|
|
|
109
|
Faulkner
|
19/11/2004
|
Administration—Advertising campaigns—Waste Oil
|
22/03/2005
|
10/05/2005
|
125
|
123
|
138
|
Faulkner
|
19/11/2004
|
Administration—Advertising campaigns
|
30/05/2005
|
14/06/2005
|
149
|
192
|
151
|
B. Brown
|
01/12/2004
|
Environment—Tasmania—Recherche Bay
|
17/01/2005
|
08/02/2005
|
230
|
47
|
152
|
B. Brown
|
01/12/2004
|
Environment—Tasmania—Recherche Bay
|
03/02/2005
|
09/02/2005
|
165
|
64
|
153
|
B. Brown
|
01/12/2004
|
Environment—Forest conservation
|
17/02/2005
|
07/03/2005
|
182
|
78
|
164
|
Allison
|
07/12/2004
|
Environment—Seismic testing—Approvals
|
17/02/2005
|
07/03/2005
|
183
|
72
|
201
|
O’Brien
|
20/12/2004
|
Administration—Primary Energy Limited—Funding
|
10/02/2005
|
10/02/2005
|
157
|
52
|
203
|
O’Brien
|
20/12/2004
|
Environment—Greenhouse Gas Abatement Program
|
10/02/2005
|
|
|
52
|
|
|
|
|
Amended answer
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16/02/2005
|
10/02/2005
|
157
|
|
312
|
Allison
|
17/01/2005
|
Environment—South Australia—Olympic Dam uranium
mine
|
15/04/2005
|
10/05/2005
|
246
|
88
|
327
|
B. Brown
|
03/02/2005
|
Environment—Non-commercial growing of
bananas—Impact
|
07/03/2005
|
08/03/2005
|
216
|
32
|
|
|
|
on flying foxes
|
|
|
|
|
328
|
B. Brown
|
03/02/2005
|
Environment—Regional Forest Agreements—Protection of
river
|
08/03/2005
|
08/03/2005
|
217
|
33
|
|
|
|
red gums
|
|
|
|
|
329
|
B. Brown
|
03/02/2005
|
Environment—Tasmania—Recherche Bay
|
08/03/2005
|
08/03/2005
|
217
|
33
|
330
|
B. Brown
|
03/02/2005
|
Environment—Tasmania—Recherche Bay
|
08/03/2005
|
09/03/2005
|
146
|
33
|
332
|
B. Brown
|
03/02/2005
|
Environment—Christmas Island—Mining
|
16/03/2005
|
17/03/2005
|
145
|
41
|
336
|
B. Brown
|
08/02/2005
|
Environment—Tasmania—Global Information System
|
22/03/2005
|
10/05/2005
|
267
|
42
|
339
|
B. Brown
|
10/02/2005
|
Environment—Tasmania—Global Information System
|
22/03/2005
|
10/05/2005
|
267
|
40
|
387
|
B. Brown
|
08/03/2005
|
Environment—Mt Leyshon gold mine,
Queensland—Assessment
|
14/04/2005
|
10/05/2005
|
284
|
37
|
|
|
|
of possible leakage of sodium cyanide
|
|
|
|
|
472
|
B. Brown
|
17/03/2005
|
Environment—Proposed pulp mill at Bell Bay,
Tasmania—
|
04/05/2005
|
11/05/2005
|
211
|
48
|
|
|
|
Communication with Gunns Ltd
|
|
|
|
|
476
|
B. Brown
|
18/03/2005
|
Environment—Recherche Bay—National heritage
listing
|
04/05/2005
|
11/05/2005
|
212
|
47
|
489
|
Allison
|
06/04/2005
|
Environment—Port Phillip Bay, Victoria—Caesium 137
levels
|
12/05/2005
|
14/06/2005
|
186
|
36
|
492
|
B. Brown
|
07/04/2005
|
Environment—Recherche Bay—4WD vehicle access
|
12/05/2005
|
14/06/2005
|
188
|
35
|
535
|
O’Brien
|
12/04/2005
|
Administration—Overseas travel—Departmental
officers
|
04/05/2005
|
11/05/2005
|
216
|
22
|
559
|
B. Brown
|
22/04/2005
|
Environment—Red-tailed Black Cockatoo—Species
decline
|
17/05/2005
|
14/06/2005
|
214
|
25
|
560
|
B. Brown
|
26/04/2005
|
Environment—Minister for the Environment and
Heritage—
|
30/05/2005
|
14/06/2005
|
215
|
34
|
|
|
|
Political activity
|
|
|
|
|
579
|
Allison
|
03/05/2005
|
Environment—Alternative Fuels Conversion Program
|
19/08/2005
|
05/09/2005
|
196
|
108
|
663
|
Evans
|
04/05/2005
|
Administration—Salaries—APS level 1 to 6 officers
and
|
20/09/2005
|
04/10/2005
|
114
|
139
|
|
|
|
equivalent staff employed
|
|
|
|
|
694
|
Evans
|
04/05/2005
|
Administration—Overseas travel and air charters
|
08/09/2006
|
12/09/2006
|
116
|
492
|
726
|
Evans
|
04/05/2005
|
Administration—Overseas travel and air charters
|
07/11/2005
|
08/11/2005
|
141
|
187
|
757
|
Evans
|
04/05/2005
|
Administration—Advertising campaigns
|
11/04/2006
|
09/05/2006
|
150
|
342
|
849
|
Evans
|
04/05/2005
|
Administration—Customer service—Telephone lines
|
20/10/2005
|
03/11/2005
|
94
|
169
|
865
|
B. Brown
|
05/05/2005
|
Taxation—Tax deductibility for environment groups
|
30/05/2005
|
14/06/2005
|
249
|
25
|
884
|
Evans
|
06/05/2005
|
Administration—Travel—Private or
commercially-sponsored
|
01/11/2005
|
03/11/2005
|
103
|
179
|
|
|
|
|
Supplementary answer
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25/11/2005
|
28/11/2005
|
141
|
|
911
|
B. Brown
|
12/05/2005
|
Environment—Exemptions from the Environment Protection
and
|
20/06/2005
|
20/06/2005
|
160
|
39
|
|
|
|
Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999—Australian Defence
Force
|
|
|
|
|
920
|
O’Brien
|
31/05/2005
|
Regional Australia—Eyre Peninsula farmers—Bushfire
recovery
|
19/08/2005
|
05/09/2005
|
212
|
80
|
|
|
|
assistance
|
|
|
|
|
930
|
B. Brown
|
02/06/2005
|
Environment—Tasmanian waterways—Introduction of
salmon
|
14/07/2005
|
09/08/2005
|
165
|
42
|
932
|
B. Brown
|
02/06/2005
|
Environment—Proposed Port of Airlie Marina Development
|
01/07/2005
|
09/08/2005
|
166
|
29
|
|
|
|
Project
|
|
|
|
|
969
|
B. Brown
|
17/06/2005
|
Environment—Transport of cyanide—From Gladstone
to
|
14/07/2005
|
09/08/2005
|
172
|
27
|
|
|
|
Lake Cowal gold mine
|
|
|
|
|
998
|
O’Brien
|
24/06/2005
|
Administration—Grants or other payments to business
|
15/08/2005
|
16/08/2005
|
185
|
52
|
|
|
|
organisations and/or associations
|
|
|
|
|
1062
|
B. Brown
|
08/08/2005
|
Environment—Break O’Day Council—St
Mary’s Sewage Scheme
|
09/09/2005
|
13/09/2005
|
165
|
32
|
|
|
|
Effluent Reuse Project grant
|
|
|
|
|
1066
|
B. Brown
|
08/08/2005
|
Environment—Australian Government Envirofund for
Tasmanian
|
09/09/2005
|
12/09/2005
|
153
|
32
|
|
|
|
projects—Round 6 funding
|
|
|
|
|
1082
|
Bartlett
|
15/08/2005
|
Environment—Burrup Peninsula, Western
Australia—Heritage
|
19/09/2005
|
06/10/2005
|
162
|
35
|
|
|
|
listing
|
|
|
|
|
1104
|
Bartlett
|
19/08/2005
|
Environment—United Nations Great Ape Survival Project
|
26/09/2005
|
06/10/2005
|
165
|
38
|
1109
|
Allison
|
29/08/2005
|
Environment—Green Vehicle Guide—Scoring of the
Government
|
23/09/2005
|
06/10/2005
|
167
|
25
|
|
|
|
vehicle fleet
|
|
|
|
|
1110
|
Allison
|
29/08/2005
|
Environment—Government vehicle fleet—Use of hybrid
vehicles
|
26/09/2005
|
06/10/2005
|
167
|
28
|
1115
|
Allison
|
29/08/2005
|
Environment—Wind energy industry
|
08/11/2005
|
08/11/2005
|
144
|
71
|
1120
|
Siewert
|
30/08/2005
|
Environment—Greenhouse gas emissions
|
13/10/2005
|
13/10/2005
|
191
|
44
|
1131
|
Webber
|
05/09/2005
|
Environment—Live import list—Assessment of species
process
|
13/10/2005
|
13/10/2005
|
191
|
38
|
1141
|
Bartlett
|
06/09/2005
|
Culture and the Arts—Australian Heritage
Council—Assessment
|
20/10/2005
|
07/11/2005
|
189
|
44
|
|
|
|
of national heritage sites
|
|
|
|
|
1238
|
Siewert
|
22/09/2005
|
Environment—Swan Coastal Plain, Western
Australia—Listing of
|
20/10/2005
|
07/11/2005
|
216
|
28
|
|
|
|
threatened ecological communities
|
|
|
|
|
1263
|
Siewert
|
29/09/2005
|
Environment—Marine parks and reserves
|
29/05/2006
|
13/06/2006
|
219
|
242
|
1264
|
Siewert
|
29/09/2005
|
Environment—Fishing practices—Proposed use of sea
lion excluder
|
02/11/2005
|
07/11/2005
|
243
|
34
|
|
|
|
devices in craypots
|
|
|
|
|
1271
|
B. Brown
|
29/09/2005
|
Environment—Protection of sea lion colonies at West
Waldegrave
|
02/11/2005
|
07/11/2005
|
244
|
34
|
|
|
|
Island Conservation Park
|
|
|
|
|
1345
|
B. Brown
|
03/11/2005
|
Environment—Port Phillip Bay, Victoria—Protection of
mud
|
05/12/2005
|
06/12/2005
|
184
|
32
|
|
|
|
islands
|
|
|
|
|
1351
|
B. Brown
|
07/11/2005
|
Environment—Tasmania—Handfish recovery plan
|
06/12/2005
|
07/12/2005
|
175
|
29
|
1400
|
Milne
|
29/11/2005
|
Environment—Tasmanian Devil—Nomination for
‘vulnerable’
|
09/01/2006
|
09/02/2006
|
202
|
41
|
|
|
|
listing
|
|
|
|
|
1463
|
Milne
|
05/01/2006
|
Environment—Great Southern Plantations—Melville
Island
|
06/02/2006
|
09/02/2006
|
220
|
32
|
1464
|
Milne
|
05/01/2006
|
Environment—Phosphate Resources Ltd—Christmas
Island
|
06/02/2006
|
09/02/2006
|
220
|
32
|
1502
|
O’Brien
|
18/01/2006
|
Administration—Program and/or grant
funding—Federal
|
18/04/2006
|
09/05/2006
|
192
|
90
|
|
|
|
electorate of Bass
|
|
|
|
|
1532
|
O’Brien
|
18/01/2006
|
Administration—Funding—City View Christian Church
Inc.
|
07/04/2006
|
09/05/2006
|
197
|
79
|
1592
|
Siewert
|
16/02/2006
|
Environment—Perth Airport site—Western Swamp
Tortoise
|
07/04/2006
|
10/05/2006
|
158
|
50
|
1593
|
Siewert
|
16/02/2006
|
Environment—Perth Airport Brickworks Proposal
|
27/03/2006
|
29/03/2006
|
204
|
39
|
1594
|
Siewert
|
16/02/2006
|
Environment—Perth Airport Brickworks Proposal
|
28/04/2006
|
10/05/2006
|
159
|
71
|
1606
|
Allison
|
28/02/2006
|
Environment—Snowy River—Restoration of environmental
flow
|
29/05/2006
|
13/06/2006
|
248
|
90
|
1608
|
B. Brown
|
02/03/2006
|
Environment—Tasmania—Introduced foxes
|
28/03/2006
|
30/03/2006
|
266
|
26
|
1609
|
B. Brown
|
02/03/2006
|
Environment—Environment Protection and Biodiversity
|
31/03/2006
|
10/05/2006
|
163
|
29
|
|
|
|
Conservation Act 1999—Assessment of projects
|
|
|
|
|
1610
|
B. Brown
|
03/03/2006
|
Environment—Tasmania’s giant freshwater crayfish
|
28/03/2006
|
30/03/2006
|
266
|
25
|
1626
|
Milne
|
21/03/2006
|
Environment—Tiwi Islands—Statements in the 2002-03
annual
|
20/04/2006
|
10/05/2006
|
167
|
30
|
|
|
|
report of the Tiwi Land Council
|
|
|
|
|
1645
|
Siewert
|
24/03/2006
|
Environment—City of Rockingham—Saxon Ranger
|
28/04/2006
|
10/05/2006
|
172
|
35
|
1708
|
Allison
|
21/04/2006
|
Environment—Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development
and
|
21/07/2006
|
08/08/2006
|
203
|
91
|
|
|
|
Climate—Climate change
|
|
|
|
|
1709
|
Allison
|
21/04/2006
|
Environment—Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development
and
|
21/07/2006
|
08/08/2006
|
205
|
91
|
|
|
|
Climate—Renewable energy
|
|
|
|
|
1762
|
B. Brown
|
10/05/2006
|
Environment—Macquarie Marshes
|
19/06/2006
|
20/06/2006
|
155
|
40
|
1763
|
Milne
|
10/05/2006
|
Environment—Kakadu World Heritage Area
|
19/06/2006
|
20/06/2006
|
156
|
40
|
1787
|
Milne
|
11/05/2006
|
Environment—Regional Forest Agreement
|
03/08/2006
|
10/08/2006
|
158
|
84
|
1788
|
Milne
|
11/05/2006
|
Environment—Kuranda Ridge Highway
|
19/06/2006
|
20/06/2006
|
160
|
39
|
1789
|
Milne
|
11/05/2006
|
Environment—Wet Tropics World Heritage Management Plan
|
19/06/2006
|
20/06/2006
|
160
|
39
|
1790
|
Milne
|
11/05/2006
|
Environment—Environment Protection and Biodiversity
|
19/06/2006
|
20/06/2006
|
161
|
39
|
|
|
|
Conservation Act 1999—Assessment of projects under the
Act
|
|
|
|
|
1882
|
Milne
|
06/06/2006
|
Environment—Energy research
|
09/10/2006
|
10/10/2006
|
151
|
125
|
1915
|
Milne
|
07/06/2006
|
Environment—Feral rabbits on Macquarie Island
|
01/09/2006
|
06/09/2006
|
153
|
86
|
1957
|
O’Brien
|
08/06/2006
|
Administration—Freedom of information requests
|
03/11/2006
|
07/11/2006
|
146
|
148
|
1977
|
O’Brien
|
08/06/2006
|
Administration—Compensation for Detriment Caused by
Defective
|
29/01/2007
|
07/02/2007
|
150
|
235
|
|
|
|
Administration Scheme
|
|
|
|
|
2011
|
Milne
|
13/06/2006
|
Environment—Non-Forest Vegetation Program, Tasmania
|
07/08/2006
|
10/08/2006
|
161
|
55
|
2067
|
B. Brown
|
16/06/2006
|
Environment—Dampier rock art
|
07/08/2006
|
10/08/2006
|
166
|
52
|
2101
|
B. Brown
|
20/06/2006
|
Environment—Logan River—Proposed dam
|
21/07/2006
|
10/08/2006
|
184
|
31
|
2102
|
B. Brown
|
20/06/2006
|
Environment—Mary River—Proposed dam
|
21/07/2006
|
10/08/2006
|
184
|
31
|
2111
|
McLucas
|
23/06/2006
|
Environment—Natural resource management—Cape
York
|
03/11/2006
|
07/11/2006
|
154
|
133
|
|
|
|
Peninsula
|
|
|
|
|
2120
|
B. Brown
|
29/06/2006
|
Environment—Macquarie Marshes
|
07/08/2006
|
10/08/2006
|
187
|
39
|
2123
|
B. Brown
|
07/07/2006
|
Environment—Kangaroo population—Culling
|
16/08/2006
|
17/08/2006
|
166
|
40
|
2139
|
Siewert
|
10/07/2006
|
Administration—Department of the Environment and
Heritage—
|
16/08/2006
|
17/08/2006
|
167
|
37
|
|
|
|
Library
|
|
|
|
|
2140
|
Siewert
|
10/07/2006
|
Environment—Christmas Island—Mines
|
16/08/2006
|
17/08/2006
|
167
|
37
|
2170
|
O’Brien
|
14/07/2006
|
Administration—Training—Senate estimates
hearings
|
20/09/2006
|
09/10/2006
|
162
|
68
|
2220
|
O’Brien
|
14/07/2006
|
Administration—Discretionary grants programs
|
04/12/2006
|
04/12/2006
|
134
|
143
|
2239
|
B. Brown
|
20/07/2006
|
Environment—Macquarie Island—Heritage Buildings
|
16/08/2006
|
17/08/2006
|
181
|
27
|
2240
|
B. Brown
|
20/07/2006
|
Environment—Macquarie Island—Rabbit Control
|
16/08/2006
|
17/08/2006
|
182
|
27
|
2266
|
Allison
|
28/07/2006
|
Environment—Kakadu National Park—Fifth management
plan
|
30/08/2006
|
06/09/2006
|
172
|
33
|
2267
|
B. Brown
|
31/07/2006
|
Environment—Kosciuszko National Park—Aerial
baiting
|
30/08/2006
|
06/09/2006
|
172
|
30
|
2300
|
Milne
|
04/08/2006
|
Environment—Tasmanian Devil—Devil facial tumour
disease
|
01/09/2006
|
06/09/2006
|
174
|
28
|
2301
|
Milne
|
04/08/2006
|
Environment—Pesticides—Phosdrin
|
18/09/2006
|
10/10/2006
|
185
|
45
|
2303
|
Milne
|
04/08/2006
|
Environment—2005-06 Natural Resource Management budget
|
05/12/2006
|
06/12/2006
|
151
|
123
|
2319
|
B. Brown
|
08/08/2006
|
Environment—Mary River cod—Impact of proposed
dam
|
06/09/2006
|
06/09/2006
|
176
|
29
|
2320
|
B. Brown
|
08/08/2006
|
Environment—Mary River turtle, Elseya
albagula—Impact of
|
06/09/2006
|
06/09/2006
|
177
|
29
|
|
|
|
proposed dam
|
|
|
|
|
2367
|
O’Brien
|
11/08/2006
|
Administration—Discretionary grants programs
|
27/10/2006
|
08/11/2006
|
158
|
77
|
2377
|
O’Brien
|
15/08/2006
|
Transport—Fuel consumption labelling
|
26/09/2006
|
10/10/2006
|
192
|
42
|
2412
|
B. Brown
|
17/08/2006
|
Administration—Meetings—Wilderness Society
|
09/10/2006
|
11/10/2006
|
143
|
53
|
2456
|
Evans
|
28/08/2006
|
Environment—Orange-bellied parrot
|
21/09/2006
|
11/10/2006
|
164
|
24
|
2457
|
Evans
|
28/08/2006
|
Environment—Environment Protection and Biodiversity
|
21/09/2006
|
11/10/2006
|
165
|
24
|
|
|
|
Conversation Act 1999—Referrals lodged
|
|
|
|
|
2470
|
Evans
|
05/09/2006
|
Environment—Orange-bellied parrot
|
09/01/2007
|
06/02/2007
|
170
|
126
|
2492
|
Siewert
|
14/09/2006
|
Environment—Alcoa—Wagerup, Western Australia
|
16/10/2006
|
16/10/2006
|
145
|
32
|
2546
|
B. Brown
|
09/10/2006
|
Environment—Tasmanian Devil—Breeding programs
|
21/11/2006
|
27/11/2006
|
150
|
43
|
2558
|
B. Brown
|
12/10/2006
|
Environment—Threatened species—Environmental
impact
|
29/11/2006
|
30/11/2006
|
200
|
48
|
|
|
|
statement
|
|
|
|
|
2592
|
Milne
|
24/10/2006
|
Environment—Tasmanian Giant Freshwater Crayfish
Recovery
|
09/01/2007
|
06/02/2007
|
183
|
77
|
|
|
|
Plan 2005-09
|
|
|
|
|
2593
|
Milne
|
24/10/2006
|
Environment—Arthur River road upgrade
|
13/12/2006
|
06/02/2007
|
183
|
50
|