7 October 2020
© Commonwealth of Australia 2020
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This is the second Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee (committee) report on annual reports for 2020. Under Standing Order 25(20), the annual reports of departments and agencies within the Health Portfolio and Social Services Portfolio, including Services Australia1, are referred to the committee for examination and report.
Standing Order 25(20)(f) requires that annual reports tabled by 31 October each year are reported on by the tenth sitting day of the following year, and annual reports tabled by 30 April each year are reported on by the tenth sitting day after 30 June of that year.
However for the 2019–2020 reporting year, annual reports of the departments and agencies within the committee's allocated portfolios were tabled in time for consideration in the committee's first report on annual reports for 2020. That report was presented to the Senate on 26 February 2020.2
The committee notes the following documents were presented to the Senate and referred to the committee, between 1 November 2019 and 31 August 2020, which are not required to be examined under Standing Order 25(20):
- Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002—Report on the operation of the Act from 1 March to 31 August 2019 (tabled 17 December 2019);
- Australian Sports Foundation—Annual Report for 2018-19 (tabled 20 December 2019);
- Mid-year economic and fiscal outlook 2019-20—Statement by the Treasurer and the Minister for Finance (tabled 10 February 2020);
- Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency—Quarterly Report for the period of 1 July to 30 September 2019 (tabled 20 March 2020);
- Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency—Quarterly Report for the period 1 October to 31 December 2019 (tabled 28 May 2020);
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare—Annual Report 2018-19—addendum (tabled 7 May 2020);
- Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency—Quarterly Report for the period 1 January to 31 March 2020 (tabled 11 June 2020);
- Australian Sports Commission—Corporate Plan 2020-2024 (tabled 30 June 2020);
- Tobacco Advertising Prohibition Act 1992—Report on the operation of the Act for 2019 (tabled 23 July 2020);
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare—Australia’s Health 2020 - data insights (tabled 23 July 2020);
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare—Australia’s Health 2020 - in brief (tabled 23 July 2020);
- Australian Sports Commission—Corporate Plan 2020-2024 (tabled 13 August 2020);
- National Health and Medical Research Council—Corporate Plan 2020-21 (tabled 26 August 2020);
- National Rural Health Commissioner—Annual Report 2019 (tabled 31 August 2020);
- National Rural Health Commissioner—Final Report – June 2019 (tabled 31 August 2020);
- Ninth report on the costs of the Australian Government’s Run-Off Cover Scheme for midwife professional indemnity insurers—2018-19 (tabled 31 August 2020); and
- Fifteenth report on the costs of the Australian Government’s Run-Off Cover Scheme for medical indemnity insurers—2018-19 (tabled 31 August 2020).
Senator Wendy Askew
Committee Chair
1 Journals of the Senate, No. 42,13 February 2020, p. 1368.
2 Journals of the Senate, No. 45, 26 February 2020, p. 1492.