Footnotes
Report
[1]
House
of Representatives Hansard, Wednesday 2 December 2015, p. 14 430.
[2]
Special Benefit is a payment 'if you are in severe hardship, not able to
support yourself and your dependents and are unable to receive another income
support payment from [Centrelink]'. See: https://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelink/special-benefit
.
[3]
Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills, Alert
Digest, No. 1 of 2016, p. [viii].
[4]
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Human
rights scrutiny report, Thirty-third report of the 44th
Parliament, 2 February 2016, p. 16.
[5]
Statement
of compatibility with human rights, Social Services Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous
Measures) Bill 2015 (SOC), p. 1.
[6]
Explanatory
Memorandum, Social Services Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures)
Bill 2015 (EM), p. 4.
[7]
EM, p. 4.
[8]
Submission 2, p. 4.
[9]
Submission 2, p. 3.
[10]
Submission 2, p. 3.
[11]
The Ombudsman's report cites data provided by the Department of Social
Services on 19 November 2015 that in the 2013–14 financial year 57 382
Income Maintenance Periods(IMP) were applied. In the 2014–15 financial year 54 160
IMPs were applied. Commonwealth Ombudsman, Income
Maintenance Periods and Special Benefit, A report concerning the Department of
Social Services' Policy Instructions to the Department of Human Services –
Centrelink, Report No. 02/2016, March 2016 (Ombudsman's Report), p. 3.
[12]
Ombudsman's Report, pp 3–4.
[13]
Ombudsman's Report, p. 5.
[14]
Ombudsman's Report, p. 2.
[15]
Commonwealth Ombudsman, Media Release, Ombudsman publishes report on
Income Maintenance Periods and Special Benefit, 7 March 2016.
[16]
Ombudsman's Report, p. 2.
[17]
Ombudsman's Report, p. 22.
[18]
Submission 5, p. 1.
[19]
Submission 5, p. 3.
[20]
Submission 2, p. 12.
[21]
Submission 4, p. [1].
[22]
Submission 1, p. [1].
[23]
Submission 3, p. 2.
[24]
Submission 3, pp 1–2.
[25]
Second Reading Speech, House
of Representatives Hansard, 2 December 2016, p.14 430.
[26]
Submission 2, p. [16].
[27]
Submission 2, p. [17].
[28]
Second Reading Speech, House
of Representatives Hansard, 2 December 2016, p. 14 431.
[29]
Submission 1, p. [2].
[30]
EM, pp 13.
[31]
SOC, p. 6.
[32]
SOC, p. 7.
[33]
EM, p. 12.
[34]
Second Reading Speech, House
of Representatives Hansard, 2 December 2015, p. 14 431.
Labor Senators' Dissenting Report
[1]
Submission 2 , p. 4
[2]
House of Representatives Hansard, Wednesday 2 December 2015, p.
14430.
[3]
Submission 2, p. 5.
[4]
Submission 5, p 2.
[5]
Submission 2, p 5.
[6]
Submission 2, p 8.
[7]
Submission 1, p 1.
[8]
Submission 3, p 2.
Australian Greens Senators' Dissenting Report
[1]
Submission 2, p. 4.
[2]
Submission 2, p. 4.
[3]
Commonwealth Ombudsman, Income
Maintenance Periods and Special Benefit, A report concerning the Department of
Social Services' Policy Instructions to the Department of Human Services –
Centrelink, Report No. 02/2016, March 2016 (Ombudsman's Report)
[4]
Submission 5, pp. 2-3.
[5]
Submission 4, Submission 3.
[6]
Submission 2, pp. 10-12.
[7]
Explanatory
Memorandum, Social Services Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures)
Bill 2015 (EM), p. 12.
[8]
NUS, p. 3.
[9]
EM, p. 6.