Footnotes

Introduction

[1]       Journals of the Senate, 13 February 2008, pp 98–99.

[2]       As a matter of comity between the Houses, it is traditional that neither House inquires into the operations of the other House. For this reason, neither the annual report of, nor the proposed expenditure for, the Department of the House of Representatives is referred to a Senate committee for review.

[3]       Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee, Budget estimates 2008–09, June 2008, pp 1–4.

[4]       Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Requirements for Annual Reports: for departments, executive agencies and FMA Act bodies, June 2007, p. 3, emphasis added.

[5]       Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Requirements for Annual Reports: for departments, executive agencies and FMA Act bodies, June 2007, p. 4.

[6]       Although an updated (June 2008) version of this document is now available, the June 2007 version is used as the basis for assessment of 2006–07 annual reports as it applied at the time of their presentation to the Senate. The June 2008 PM&C Requirements may be found at: www.pmc.gov.au/guidelines/index.cfm (accessed 22 August 2008).

[7]       This legislative instrument may be found at: www.comlaw.gov.au/comlaw/management.nsf/lookupindexpagesbyid/IP200509122?OpenDocument (accessed 22 August 2008).

[8]       The committee chose to examine the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Annual Report 2006–07 in its previous report Annual reports (No. 1 of 2008) (March 2008), pp 11–15. See paragraphs 1.44 to 1.65.

[9]       The Administrative Arrangements Order may be found at: www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/legislation/administrativearrangementsorder1.nsf/sh/browse&CATEGORY=All-all (accessed 11 September 2008).

[10]      This list may be found at: www.finance.gov.au/finframework/docs/FMACACFlipchart.pdf (accessed 25 August 2008).

[11]      Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Requirements for Annual Reports: for departments, executive agencies and FMA Act bodies, June 2007, p. 1.

[12]      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), July 2008, pp 4­–5.

[13]      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), July 2008, p. 5.

[14]      Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 34C.

[15]      For further details of changes made to the format of the Portfolio Budget Statements see: Department of Finance and Deregulation, Portfolio Budget Statements Constructors Kit: Officer Instruction for Producing Portfolio Budget Statements, March 2008, www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/fapa_ctte/estimates/bud_0809/finance/tabled_documents/PBS_Constructors_28-05-08.pdf (accessed 1 September 2008).

[16]      Journals of the Senate, 11 May 2004, p. 3379.

[17]      Subsection 34C(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 states: Where an Act requires a person to furnish a periodic report to a Minister but does not specify a period within which the report is to be so furnished, that person shall furnish the report to the Minister as soon as practicable after the end of the particular period to which the report relates and, in any event, within 6 months after the end of that particular period.

[18]      Journals of the Senate, 14 February 2008, p. 154.

[19]      Section 9 of the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997 applies to Commonwealth authorities.

[20]      Australian Institute of Family Studies, Annual Report 2006–07, pp 8–9.

[21]      Australian Institute of Family Studies, Annual Report 2006–07, pp 160–161.

[22]      See for example: Finance and Public Administration Committee, Annual reports (No. 1 of 2007), pp 10–11, www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/fapa_ctte/annual/2007/report1/index.htm (accessed 27 August 2008).

[23]      Australian Institute of Family Studies, Annual Report 2006–07, pp 161 and 113.

[24]      Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Requirements for Annual Reports: for departments, executive agencies and FMA Act bodies, June 2007, p. 9.

[25]      Australian Institute of Family Studies, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 108.

[26]      Australian Institute of Family Studies, Annual Report 2006–07, pp 29–72.

[27]      Australian Institute of Family Studies, Annual Report 2006–07, pp 74–90.

[28]      Australian Institute of Family Studies, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 21.

[29]      Australian Institute of Family Studies, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 21.

[30]      Australian Institute of Family Studies, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 97.

[31]      Australian Institute of Family Studies, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 3.

[32]      Australian Institute of Family Studies, Annual Report 2006–07, pp 13–16.

[33]      Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Commonwealth Disability Strategy: Performance Reporting Template, 2007–08. See: www.facsia.gov.au/disability/cds/default.htm (accessed 28 August 2008).

[34]      Australian Institute of Family Studies, Annual Report 2006–07, pp 152–153.

[35]      For example see the section titled 'best practice reporting' in: Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee, Annual reports (No. 1 of 2008), March 2008, pp 27–29,              www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/fapa_ctte/annual/2008/report1/index.htm (accessed 28 August 2008).

[36]      Australian Institute of Family Studies, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 112.

[37]      Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 8.

[38]      Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Annual Report 2006–07, pp 8 and 19.

[39]      Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 10.

[40]      Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 10.

[41]      Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 11.

[42]      Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 11.

[43]      Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 11.

[44]      Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 12.

[45]      Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 12.

[46]      Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 12.

[47]      Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Annual Report 2006–07, pp 7–9.

[48]      Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 34.

[49]      Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Annual Report 2006–07, p. 37.

[50]      For a discussion that reviews the internal management of the Office of the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security see: Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Annual Report 2006–07, pp 75–79.