Footnotes

Chapter 1 - Overview

[1]        Journals of the Senate, No. 2, 29 September 2010, pp 88–89.

[2]        Standing Order 25(20), Standing Orders and other orders of the Senate, June 2009, p. 28.

[3]        They are required to comply with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet's Requirements for Annual Reports for Departments, Executive Agencies and FMA Act Bodies, approved by the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit on 18 June 2008. See http://www.dpmc.gov.au/guidelines/docs/annual_report_requirements.pdf. Section 3(1) of the Requirements states that they also 'apply to prescribed agencies under section 5 of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997'. The financial statements must be produced in accordance with the Financial Management and Accountability Orders (Financial Statements for reporting periods ending on or after 1 July 2007).

[4]        Reports of Commonwealth authorities subject to the CAC Act must be produced in accordance with the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies (Report of Operations) Orders 2008 and the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Orders (Financial Statements for reporting periods ending on or after 1 July 2007). Annual reports of Commonwealth companies are required to be based on the reporting requirements under the Corporations Act 2001.

[5]        http://www.finance.gov.au/financial-framework/fma-legislation/fma-agencies.html; and http://www.finance.gov.au/financial-framework/cac-legislation/cac-bodies.html.

[6]        The various requirements are set out in the Committee's report Annual reports (No. 1 of 2009), March 2009, p. 4.

[7]        Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Requirements for Annual Reports for Departments, Executive Agencies and FMA Act Bodies, 23 June 2010, p. 2; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Guidelines for the Presentation of Government Documents to the Parliament (Including Government Responses to Committee Reports, Ministerial Statements, Annual Reports and Other Instruments), June 2010, paragraph 4.10.

[8]        Senate Economics Legislation Committee, Annual Reports (No. 1 of 2010), February 2010, p. 5

[9]        The report can be viewed at http://www.chiefscientist.gov.au/about/publications/ 

[10]      Requirements for Annual Reports for Departments, Executive Agencies and FMA Act Bodies. Clause 11 of Schedule 1 of the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies (Report of Operations) Orders 2008 states that the same requirements apply to Commonwealth authorities that present their annual reports in accordance with the provisions of section 9 of the CAC Act.

Chapter 2 - Individual Reports

[1]        Commonwealth Grants Commission, Annual Report 2009-10, p. 12.

Appendix 5 - Portfolio structure and outcomes for the Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Portfolio for 2009-10[1]

[1]        Portfolio Budget Statements 2009-10, Innovation, Industry, Science and Research portfolio, p. 5.

Appendix 6 - Portfolio structure and outcomes for the Resources, Energy and Tourism Portfolio for 2009-10[1]

[1]        Portfolio Budget Statements 2009-10, Resources, Energy and Tourism portfolio, p. 5.

Appendix 7 - Portfolio structure and outcomes for the Treasury portfolio for 2009-10[1]

[1]        Portfolio Budget Statements 2009-10, Treasury portfolio, pp 6-7.