Footnotes

Report on Annual Reports

[1]        As a matter of comity between the Houses, 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.

[2]        Journals of the Senate, 12 May 2010, p. 3462.

[3]        These guidelines may be found at: www.pmc.gov.au/guidelines/docs/annual_report_requirements.pdf.

[4]        These orders may be found at: www.finance.gov.au/financial-framework/cac-legislation/cac-finance-ministers-orders.html.

[5]        This list may be found at: http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/flipchart/index.html (accessed 4 November 2010).

[6]        Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1999, s. 36.

[7]        Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1999, s. 9.

[8]        Corporations Act 2001, chapter 2M.

[9]        Freedom of Information Act 1982, ss. 8(1).

[10]      Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee, Annual reports (No. 2 of 2009), September 2009, pp 9–10.

[11]      These may be found at http://www.finance.gov.au/financial-framework/cac-legislation/cac-finance-ministers-orders.html.