Footnotes

Chapter 1

[1]        Journals of the Senate, No. 29—Thursday, 15 May 2014, p. 821.

[2]        House of Representatives Hansard, Wednesday 4 June 2014, p. 1; Proof House of Representatives Votes and Proceedings No 44, Wednesday 4 June 2014, p. P533.

[3]        Explanatory Memorandum, p. 5; See also Schedule 1, Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency Repeal Bill 2014.

[4]        See www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Economics

[5]        A list of many of these is included in Senator the Hon Mathias Cormann, Minister for Finance, Delivering A Smaller, More Rational Government, Press Release 13 May 2014.

[6]        Recommendation 14, National Commission of Audit, Towards Responsible Government, The Report of the National Commission of Audit, Phase Two (March 2014), p. xxvi.

[7]        National Commission of Audit, Towards Responsible Government, The Report of the National Commission of Audit, Phase Two (March 2014), p. 88.

[8]        National Commission of Audit, Towards Responsible Government, The Report of the National Commission of Audit, Phase Two (March 2014), p. 137.

[9]        Senator the Hon Mathias Cormann, Minister for Finance, Smaller and More Rational Government 2014–15, Ministerial Paper, May 2014, p. 5.

[10]      Senator the Hon Mathias Cormann, Minister for Finance, Delivering A Smaller, More Rational Government, Press Release 13 May 2014.

[11]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 2.

[12]      Section 6, Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency Act 2008.

[13]      AWPA, 'About us' at www.awpa.gov.au/about-us/Pages/default.aspx (accessed 10 June 2014).

[14]      AWPA, 'About us' at www.awpa.gov.au/about-us/Pages/default.aspx (accessed 10 June 2014).

[15]      Leonie Doyle, Skills Australia Amendment (Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency) Bill 2012, Parliamentary Library Bills Digest no. 128, 2011–12 (8 May 2012), p. 6.

[16]      Leonie Doyle, Skills Australia Amendment (Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency) Bill 2012, Parliamentary Library Bills Digest no. 128, 2011–12 (8 May 2012), pp. 6–7.

[17]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 2.

[18]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 2.

[19]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 3.

Chapter 2

[1]        Explanatory Memorandum, p. 5; See also Schedule 1, Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency Repeal Bill 2014.

[2]        Schedule 1, Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency Repeal Bill 2014; See also Explanatory Memorandum, p. 5.

[3]        Submission 4, p. 1.

[4]        Submission 4, p. 2.

[5]        Submission 4, pp 1–2.

[6]        Submission 4, p. 2.

[7]        Submission 4, p. 2.

[8]        Submission 4, p. 2.

[9]        Submission 6, p. 2.

[10]      Submission 6, p. 2.

[11]      Submission 6, p. 2.

[12]      Submissions 8 and 9.

[13]      Submission 5, p. 2.

[14]      Submission 5, p. 2.

[15]      Submission 5, p. 1.

[16]      Submission 5, p. 1.

[17]      Submission 5, p. 2.

[18]      Submission 1, p. 1.

[19]      Submission 1, p. 2.

[20]      Submission 1, p. 2.

[21]      Submission 1, p. 2.

[22]      Submission 7, p. 1.

[23]      Submission 5, p. 3.

[24]      Submission 1, p. 1.

[25]      Submission 2, p. 1.

[26]      Submission 2, p. 1.

[27]      The Hon Ian MacFarlane, Minister for Industry, Second Reading Speech, House of Representatives Hansard, Wednesday 4 June 2014, p. 1.