Documents presented out of sitting after the Senate adjourned on 26 March 2025

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Documents presented out of sitting

Committee reports

1. Appropriations, Staffing and Security—Standing Committee— 68th report—Estimates for the Department of the Senate 2025-26, dated March 2025. [Certified 27 March 2025]
2. Community Affairs References Committee—Access to diagnosis and treatment for people in Australia with tick-borne diseases—Report, dated March 2025, additional information and submissions. [Received 27 March 2025]
3. Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee—Annual reports referred to legislation committees—Report no. 1 of 2025, dated March 2025. [Received 27 March 2025]
4. Human Rights—Joint Statutory Committee—Annual report 2024. [Received 27 March 2025]
5. Human Rights—Joint Statutory Committee—Human rights scrutiny report 3 of 2025, dated 26 March 2025. [Received 27 March 2025]
6. Northern Australia—Joint Select Committee—Cyclone reinsurance pool—Final report, dated March 2025. [Received 27 March 2025]
7. Public Accounts and Audit—Joint Statutory Committee—512th report—Inquiry into the administration of Commonwealth regulations, dated March 2025. [Received 27 March 2025]
8. Public Accounts and Audit—Joint Statutory Committee—Executive minutes and responses to the committee recommendations in reports nos 500, 503, 504, 505 and 506. [Received 27 March 2025]
9. Public Accounts and Audit—Joint Statutory Committee—Statement on the draft estimates for the Australian National Audit Office and the Parliamentary Budget Office for 2025-26—Report, dated 25 March 2025. [Received 27 March 2025]
10. Scrutiny of Bills—Standing Committee—Scrutiny digest 3 of 2025, dated 27 March 2025, and ministerial correspondence. [Received 27 March 2025]
11. Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation—Standing Committee—Annual report for 2024, dated March 2025. [Received 27 March 2025]
12. Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation—Standing Committee—Delegated legislation monitor 3 of 2025, dated 27 March 2025, and ministerial correspondence. [Received 27 March 2025]
13. Law Enforcement—Joint Statutory Committee—Examination of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission annual report 2023-24—Report, dated March 2025, and additional information. [Received 27 March 2025]
14. Law Enforcement—Joint Statutory Committee—Examination of the Australian Federal Police annual report 2023-24—Report, dated March 2025, and additional information. [Received 27 March 2025]
15. National Anti-Corruption Commission—Joint Statutory Committee—Examination of the Inspector of the National Anti-Corruption Commission annual report 2023-24—Report, dated March 2025 and, additional information. [Received 27 March 2025]
16. National Anti-Corruption Commission—Joint Statutory Committee—Examination of the National Anti-Corruption Commission annual report 2023-24—Report, dated March 2025, and additional information. [Received 27 March 2025]
17. Environment and Communications Legislation Committee—Annual reports referred to legislation committees—Report no. 1 of 2025, dated March 2025. [Received 28 March 2025]
18. Economics References Committee—Residential electrification—Report, dated March 2025, additional information and submissions. [Received 31 March 2025]
19. Procedure—Standing Committee—Standing order changes relating to the Set the standard report and motions to take note of answers—Progress report, dated 31 March 2025. [Received 31 March 2025]
20. Community Affairs Legislation Committee—Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025 [Provisions]—Report, dated April 2025, and submissions. [Received 3 April 2025]
21. Education and Employment Legislation Committee—Budget estimates 2025-26—Report, dated April 2025. [Received 14 April 2025]
22. Education and Employment Legislation Committee—Quality of governance at Australian higher education providers—Interim report, dated April 2025, additional information and submissions. [Received 14 April 2025]
23. Education and Employment Legislation Committee—Report—Early Childhood Education and Care (Three Day Guarantee) Bill 2025 [Provisions]—Additional information. [Received 14 April 2025]
24. Education and Employment Legislation Committee—Tertiary Legislation Amendment (There For Education, Not Profit) Bill 2025—Interim report, dated April 2025, additional information and submissions. [Received 14 April 2025]
25. Environment and Communications References Committee—Waste reduction and recycling policies—Progress report, dated 14 April 2025. [Received 14 April 2025]
26. Measuring Outcomes for First Nations Communities—Select Committee—Interim report, dated April 2025, additional documents and submissions. [Received 14 April 2025]
27. Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee—Budget Estimates 2025-26—Report, dated April 2025, documents presented to the committee and additional information. [Received 17 April 2025]
28. Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee—Defence honours and awards system—Progress report, dated 17 April 2025. [Received 17 April 2025]
29. Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee—Budget Estimates 2025-26—Report, dated April 2025, and documents presented to the committee. [Received 17 April 2025]
30. Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee—Australia’s preparedness to host Commonwealth, Olympic and Paralympic Games—Final report, dated April 2025, documents presented to the committee, additional information and submissions. [Received 17 April 2025]

Reports of the Auditor-General

1. No. 29 of 2024-25—Performance audit—Australian Government advertising: November 2021 to November 2024: Across entities. [Received 31 March 2025]
2. No. 30 of 2024-25—Performance Audit—Effectiveness of the Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman’s Regulatory Functions. [Received 14 April 2025]

Government documents

1. Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community Council—Report for 2023-24. [Received 3 April 2025]

Returns to order

1. Digital assets and transactions—Order of 26 November 2024 (702)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Finance (Senator Gallagher), dated 26 March 2025, responding to the order, and attachment. [Received 27 March 2025]
2. Future Fit program—Order of 27 February 2024 (469)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Indigenous Australians (Senator McCarthy), dated 26 March 2025, responding to the order, and attachments. [Received 27 March 2025]
3. Tax Laws Amendment (Incentivising Food Donation to Charitable Organisations) Bill 2024—Order of 10 February 2025 (767)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Finance (Senator Gallagher), dated 26 March 2025, responding to the order, and attachments. [Received 27 March 2025]

Departmental and agency appointments and vacancies

Education portfolio—Early Childhood Education and Youth. [Received 27 March 2025]

Treasury portfolio. [Received 27 March 2025]

Departmental and agency grants

Treasury portfolio. [Received 27 March 2025]

Estimates hearings—Unanswered questions on notice

Defence portfolio—Department of Veterans’ Affairs. [Received 3 April 2025]

Health and Aged Care portfolio—Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and National Boards. [Received 28 March 2025]

Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts portfolio. [Received 28 March 2025]

Former ministers—Meetings

Education portfolio—Early Childhood Education and Youth. [Received 27 March 2025]

Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts portfolio. [Received 28 March 2025]

Treasury portfolio. [Received 27 March 2025]

Indexed lists of departmental and agency files

Employment and Workplace Relations portfolio—Comcare and Seafarers Safety, Rehabilitation; Compensation Authority. [Received 8 April 2025]

Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts portfolio. [Received 28 March 2025]

Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio—Australian Public Service Commission. [Received 27 March 2025]