Footnotes

Chapter 1 - Introduction

[1]        Senate Journal No. 26, 23 March 2011, pp 739–740.

[2]        House of Representatives, Votes and Proceedings (HVP) No. 34, 24 March 2011, pp 457–459.

[3]        https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Education_Employment_and_Workplace_Relations/Completed%20inquiries/2010-13/nvetrbills2011/report/index (accessed 23 March 2012).

[4]        Communiqué for the Council of Australia Governments' Meeting, 7 December 2009, p. 1,
http://www.coag.gov.au/coag_meeting_outcomes/archive.cfm.

[5]        For more information on the phased introduction of fees and charges, see ASQA's Schedule of Fees and Charges available at http://www.asqa.gov.au/about-asqa/fees-and-charges.html.

[6]        Australian Skills Quality Authority, Cost Recovery Impact Statement, 1 July 2011–30 June 2014, p. 4.

[7]        Australian Skills Quality Authority, Cost Recovery Impact Statement, 1 July 2011–30 June 2014, p. 5. The guidelines are available on the Department of Finance and Deregulation's website: http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/finance-circulars/2005/09.html#FMG_4.

[8]        DIISRTE & ASQA, Submission 7, p. 13.

[9]        Australian Skills Quality Authority, Cost Recovery Impact Statement, 1 July 2011–30 June 2014, p. 4.

[10]      DIISRTE & ASQA, Submission 7, p. 6.

[11]      DIISRTE & ASQA, Submission 7, p. 3.

[12]      DIISRTE & ASQA, Submission 7, p. 11.

[13]      DIISRTE & ASQA, Submission 7, p. 11.

[14]      Ms Bird, MP, House of Representatives Hansard, 22 March 2012, p. 3957.

[15]      DIISRTE & ASQA, Submission 7, p. 3.

Chapter 2 - Issues raised by submitters

[1]        Queensland Government Department of Education and Training, Submission 1, p. 1. See also MINTRAC, Submission 4, p. 1.

[2]        DIISRTE & ASQA, Submission 7, p. 11.

[3]        MINTRAC, Submission 4, p. 2. Similar arguments were made by Skills Tasmania, Submission 6, p. 1.

[4]        ACCI, Submission 3, p. 2.

[5]        MINTRAC, Submission 4, p. 2.

[6]        Tasmanian Government Education and Training International, Submission 2, p. 2.

[7]        ACPET, Submission 5, p. 1.

[8]        ACPET, Submission 5, p. 2.

[9]        MINTRAC, Submission 4, p. 2; ACPET, Submission 5, p. 2; Tasmanian Government Education and Training International, Submission 2, pp 1 & 2.

[10]      DIISRTE & ASQA, Submission 7, p. 8.

[11]      DIISRTE & ASQA, Submission 7, p. 14.

[12]      Tasmanian Government Education and Training International, Submission 2, p. 2.

[13]      Skills Tasmania, Submission 6, p. 1.

[14]      ISBA, Submission 8, pp 1–2.

[15]      ACPET, Submission 5, p. 2.

[16]      ACPET, Submission 5, p. 2. On this, see also NMIT, Submission 9, p. 1.

[17]      ISBA, Submission 8, p. 2.

[18]      NMIT, Submission 9, p. 1.

[19]      Australian Skills Quality Authority, Cost Recovery Impact Statement, 1 July 2011–30 June 2014, pp 3–4.

[20]      Queensland Government Department of Education and Training, Submission 1, p. 1.

[21]      Queensland Government Department of Education and Training, Submission 1, p. 1.

Coalition Senators' Dissenting Report

[1]        Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education and the Australian Skills Quality Authority, Submission 6, attachment, p. 10.