FOOTNOTES

[1] Explanatory Memorandum, p.i. See also Social Security Amendment (Disposal of Assets) Bill 1999, Bills Digest No.25, 1999-2000.

[2] Submission No.2, p.3 (FaCS).

[3] Minister’s Second Reading Speech.

[4] The current provisions operate on the basis of a ‘pension year’, being the anniversary of the day the income support recipient commenced receiving payment. See Explanatory Memorandum, p.i.

[5] Committee Hansard, 21.10.99, pp.1-2 (NWRN), p.7 (COTA); p.10 (APSF). See also Submission No.1, pp.1-3 (NWRN); Submission No.4, p.1(COTA); Submission No.3, pp.2-3 (APSF).

[6] Submission No.4, p.4 (FaCS).

[7] Submission No.5, p.2 (AIR).

[8] Submission No.2, pp.4,7 (FaCS).

[9] Submission No.2, p.7 (FaCS). See also Committee Hansard, 21.10.99, pp.12-13 (FaCS).

[10] Submission No.2, p.7 (FaCS).

[11] Submission No.2, p.4 (FaCS). See also Committee Hansard, 21.10.99, p.13 (FaCS).

[12] Submission No.2, p.4 (FaCS).

[13] Submission No.2, p.5 (FaCS). See also Submission No.5, p.2 (AIR).

[14] Submission No.3, p.1 (APSF); Submission No.4, p.1 (COTA); Submission No.6, p.1 (NSA).

[15] Submission No.2, p.6 (FaCS).

[16] Submission No.2, pp.10-11(FaCS). See also Committee Hansard, 21.10.99, p.13 (FaCS).

[17] Submission No.2, p.6 (FaCS).

[18] Submission No.1, pp.3-4 (NWRN); Submission No.3, p.2 (APSF). See also Committee Hansard, 21.10.99, p.2 (NWRN).

[19] Submission No.2, p.3 (FaCS). See also Committee Hansard, 21.10.99, p.16 (FaCS).

[20] John Barber, Gillian Moon and Sharon Doolan, Targeting for Equity: Final Report of the Strategic Review of the Pensions’ Income and Assets Tests, Ageing Agendas, 1994, 8.4.

[21] Bill Digest, p. 5. Verbal advice from Clerk Assistant (Procedure), 19.11.99

[22] FaCS submission, p. 4.

[23] Minister's Second Reading Speech, House of Representatives Hansard, 30.6.99, p. 7865.

[24] Committee Hansard, p. 2.

[25] FaCS submission, p. 7.

[26] Committee Hansard, p. 1.

[27] Committee Hansard, p. 14.

[28] Parliamentary Library. Based on comparison of CPI for 1991 calendar year 1999 September quarter.

[29] Targeting for Equity, 8.4.

[30] Committee Hansard, p. 7.

[31] Sub 4, COTA, p. 1.

[32] Committee Hansard, p. 10.

[33] NWRN Sub, (1), p. 2.

[34] See Lucky Country, 4.69 -4.85.

[35] Lucky Country, 4.79.

[36] Submission no. 509, p. 3, UDIA, Lucky Country, 4.81.

[37] Lucky Country, 4.81. (p. 96).

[38] Committee Hansard, p. 15.

[39] Targeting for Equity, 8.4; and see Questions of Balance, Ageing Agendas, July 1994, 10J.

[40] Sub 3, AP & SF, p. 3.

[41] Sub 3, AP & SF, p. 1.