Footnotes
[1] Senate Finance and Public Administration
References Committee Report, A funding
matter under the Dairy Regional Assistance Program, June 2003.
[2] See for example, Lenore Taylor, 'Nationals roll
out a barrel of porkies', Australian
Financial Review, 21 November 2004, pp 1 and 8; and Editorial, 'Handouts
must be above board', Australian
Financial Review, 1 December 2004, p. 62.
[3] The allegations are examined in Chapter 8 of this
report.
[4] Senate Finance and Public Administration
References Committee Report, A funding
matter under the Dairy Regional Assistance Program, June 2003.
[5] Finance and Public Administration References
Committee Report, A funding matter under
the Dairy Regional Assistance Program, June 2003, p. xv.
[6] Australian Government, Government Response to Finance and Public Administration References
Committee Report – A Funding Matter under the
Dairy Regional Assistance Programme, tabled
27 November 2003, p. 1.
[7] Mr Dobes, Acting First Assistant Secretary,
DOTARS, correspondence, 27 January 2005.
[8] Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 8.
[9] Mr Yuile, Deputy Secretary, DOTARS, Committee Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 3.
[10] Mr Evans, Clerk of the Senate, The Senate—Grounds for public interest
immunity claims, 19 May 2005, p. 5.
[11] Mr Yuile, Committee
Hansard, 10 February 2005, p. 11.
[12] Committee
Hansard, 10 February 2005, p. 11.
[13] Mr Evans, Clerk of the Senate, The Senate—Grounds for public interest
immunity claims, 19 May 2005, p. 5.
[14] Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 5.
[15] Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 4.
[16] See for example, Committee Hansard, 24 February 2005, pp 91-92.
[17] Ms Riggs, Executive Director, Regional Services,
DOTARS, correspondence, 8 July 2005.
[18] Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 3.
[19] Committee
Hansard, 15 July 2005, pp 67-68.
[20] Dr Dolman, DOTARS weekly email to ACC Chairs and
Executive Officers, 7 February 2005, tabled document, 10 February 2005, pp 1-3.
[21] The Committee ordered the production of documents
from the Far North East NSW SRAC, Campbelltown-Camden SRAC, Peel ACC, Orana
Development and Employment Council ACC, New England North West ACC, Melbourne
East ACC and Far North Qld ACC.
[22] Mr Hallett, correspondence 9 August 2004, in
answers to questions on notice, received 4 July 2005.
[23] Mayor Pavier, correspondence, 11 August 2005.
[24] Senate
Hansard, 7 September 2005, p. 113.
[25] Senate
Hansard, 7 September 2005, p. 114.
[26] DOTARS,
Submission 14, p. 11.
[27] Senate
Finance and Public Administration References Committee report, A funding matter under the Dairy Regional
Assistance Program, June 2003.
[28] DOTARS,
Submission 14.
[29] DOTARS,
Regional Partnerships website, www.regionalpartnerships.gov.au.
[30] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 10 February
2005, pp 45, 46.
[31] Dr
Dolman, Committee Hansard, 10
February 2005, p. 54.
[32] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment D, Regional
Partnerships Guidelines, p. 3.
[33] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment D, Regional
Partnerships Guidelines, p. 3.
[34] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment D, Regional
Partnerships Guidelines, p. 4.
[35] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment D, Regional
Partnerships Guidelines, p. 5.
[36] Mr Stanhope MLA, ACT Chief Minister, Submission 38, p. 1.
[37] For
information about the process for assessing competitive neutrality, see Ms
Riggs, correspondence, 8 July 2005, p. 2. Competitive neutrality is also
discussed in relation to the SR program in Chapter 10.
[38] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment D, Regional
Partnerships Guidelines, p. 7.
[39] DOTARS,
Regional Partnerships Guidelines,
www.regionalpartnerships.gov.au/guidelines.aspx, accessed 12 August 2005.
[40] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment H, Procedures
for Strategic Opportunities Notional Allocation (SONA), p. 1.
[41] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment H, Procedures for SONA, p. 1.
[42] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment H, Procedures for SONA, p. 1.
[43] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment H, Procedures for SONA, p. 1.
[44] DOTARS,
Senate Finance and Public Administration
References Committee requested information on Regional Partnerships projects (hereafter Revised RPP Tables), not approved projects,
received 11 May 2005, p. 4.
[45] DOTARS,
Revised RPP Tables, received 11 May 2005.
[46] DOTARS,
Revised RPP Tables, received 11 May 2005.
[47] DOTARS,
Committee Hansard, 10 February 2005,
p. 47.
[48] ANAO,
Regional Assistance Programme: Department
of Transport and Regional Services, Audit Report No. 48, 2001-02,
Performance Audit, 10 May 2002.
[49] DOTARS,
Submission 14, p. 15.
[50] DOTARS,
Committee Hansard, 10 February 2005,
p. 54.
[51] Dr
Dolman, Committee Hansard, 12 August
2005, p. 59.
[52] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 12 August
2005, p. 69.
[53] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 10 February
2005, p. 92.
[54] See Mr Hale, Chairman, Central Coast ACC, Committee Hansard, 24 February 2005, p.
67; Mr Robert, Chairman, Far North Queensland ACC, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 131; Mr Rowell, Chairman and
Ms Thomas, Executive Officer (EO), ACC Tasmania, Committee Hansard, 30 June 2005, pp 41-42; Mr Haerewa, Chair,
Kimberley ACC, Committee Hansard, 15
July 2005, p. 85; Mr Vukelic, Chairman, South West ACC, Committee Hansard, 18 July 2005, p. 53.
[55] Ms Thomson, EO, New England North West ACC, Committee Hansard, 29 June 2005, p. 72;
Mr Simpkins, EO, Pilbara ACC, Committee
Hansard, 14 July 2005, p. 104, Mr Durant, EO, Kimberley ACC, Committee Hansard, 15 July 2005, pp 85-87;
Mr Hodgson, Executive Director, South West ACC, Committee Hansard, 18 July 2005, p. 53.
[56] DOTARS,
Submission 14, p. 15.
[57] DOTARS,
Submission 14, p. 16; Committee Hansard,
12 February 2005, p. 38.
[58] DOTARS,
Submission 14, p. 38.
[59] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment D, Regional Partnerships Guidelines, p. 6.
[60] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 2 February
2005, p. 105.
[61] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 2 February
2005, p. 105.
[62] Mr Stanhope MLA, ACT Chief Minister, Submission 38, p. 2.
[63] Mr Andren MP, Submission
27, p. 4.
[64] DOTARS,
Portfolio Budget Statement 2005-06,
Table 3.2.2.
[65] DOTARS, Annual
Report 2003-04, Table 5.1, p. 103.
[66] DOTARS,
Revised RPP tables, received 11 May 2005, p. 45.
[67] DOTARS,
Committee Hansard, 2 February 2005,
p. 38.
[68] DOTARS,
Revised RPP tables, received 11 May 2005, pp 8, 44.
[69] DOTARS,
Election Commitments 2004 – Likely to use
Regional Partnerships Programme as Mechanism: prepared for Area Consultative
Committees as at 7/1/2005, tabled 10 February 2005.
[70] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 10 February
2005, p. 56.
[71] DOTARS, Election
Commitments 2004 – Likely to use Regional Partnerships Programme as Mechanism:
prepared for Area Consultative Committees as at 7/1/2005, tabled 10
February 2005.
[72] DOTARS, Election
Commitments 2004 – Likely to use Regional Partnerships Programme as Mechanism:
prepared for Area Consultative Committees as at 7/1/2005, tabled 10
February 2005.
[73] The Hon Paul Lennon MHA, Premier of Tasmania, Submission 37, pp 1-2.
[74] The Hon Paul Lennon MHA, Premier of Tasmania, Submission 37, p. 1.
[75] The Hon Paul Lennon MHA, Premier of Tasmania, Submission 37, p. 2.
[76] ACC Tasmania (formerly Tasmanian Employment
Advisory Committee), Submission 30,
p. 6.
[77] DOTARS, Equity
of Funding – Regional Partnerships programme, in answers to questions on
notice, received 11 May 2005. DOTARS noted that the analysis was based on the
electorate at the time of application and related to electorates held prior to
the 2004 election. Location of electorate was classified using the AEC's
electorate demographic rating system.
[78] Includes both 'Inner Metropolitan' and 'Outer
Metropolitan' electorates.
[79] Mr Katter MP, Committee
Hansard, 23 June 2005, pp 4, 6.
[80] Data from DOTARS, Revised RPP tables, received 11
May 2005. Data for June 2003 relate to projects approved under the Namoi Valley
Structural Adjustment package but funded from RPP appropriation.
[81] See
DOTARS, Submission 14, Attachment E,
Regional Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual, pp 58, 91-92.
[82] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual, p.
59.
[83] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual, p. 93.
[84] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual, p.
93.
[85] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual, pp
96-98.
[86] DOTARS,
Committee Hansard, 10 February 2005,
p. 10, 67.
[87] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual, p.
93.
[88] Dr
Dolman, Committee Hansard, 24
February 2005, p. 105.
[89] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment D, Regional Partnerships Guidelines, p. 9.
[90] Mr Vieira, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 100.
[91] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual, pp 23,
56.
[92] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual, p. 125.
[93] Dr
Dolman, Committee Hansard, 24
February 2005, p. 105.
[94] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 12 August
2005, p. 74.
[95] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual, p. 67.
[96] DOTARS,
Submission 14, p. 9.
[97] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual, p. 101.
[98] DOTARS,
Regional Partnerships standardised funding agreement, www.regionalpartnerships.gov.au/sfa.aspx,
accessed 15 September 2005.
[99] Ms
Riggs, correspondence, 8 July 2005, p. 3. For a detailed discussion of the A2DM
project, see Chapter 6.
[100] Regional Partnerships Funding Agreement between
DOTARS and Primary Energy Pty Ltd, tabled 12 August 2005, item 2.5, p. 33. For
a detailed discussion of the grant to Primary Energy Pty Ltd, see Chapter 7.
[101] Ms
Riggs, correspondence, 8 July 2005, p. 3; DOTARS, Submission 14, Attachment G, Operational Funding Contract, p. 14.
[102] See,
for example, Regional Partnerships
Funding Agreement between DOTARS and Primary Energy Pty Ltd, tabled 12
August 2005, clause 11.1, p. 36.
[103] See,
for example, Regional Partnerships
Funding Agreement between DOTARS and Primary Energy Pty Ltd, tabled 12
August 2005, clause 11.3, p. 36.
[104] DOTARS,
Submission 14, pp 11-13.
[105] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment J, Internal assessment of DOTARS regional programme
procedures against ANAO Better Practice Guide, audit and evaluation
recommendations, p. 8.
[106] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 12 August
2005, pp 7-8.
[107] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, pp 7-8.
[108] Mr
Durant, Committee Hansard, 15 July
2005, p. 96.
[109] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 12 August
2005, p. 10.
[110] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 12 August
2005, p. 10.
[111] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 12 August
2005, pp 7, 9.
[112] Mr
Yuile, Committee Hansard, 10 February
2005, p. 3.
[113] DOTARS,
Submission 14, p. 20.
[114] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment J, Internal assessment of DOTARS regional programme
procedures against ANAO Better Practice Guide, audit and evaluation
recommendations.
[115] DOTARS,
Submission 14, p. 22.
[116] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment
K, Summary of the impacts and
performance of a selection of DOTARS regional programs.
[117] DOTARS,
Submission 14, p. 21.
[118] DOTARS,
Committee Hansard, 12 August 2005, p.
14.
[119] DOTARS,
Committee Hansard, 12 August 2005, p.
13.
[120] DOTARS,
Submission 14, Attachment J, Internal assessment of DOTARS regional programme
procedures against ANAO Better Practice Guide, audit and evaluation
recommendations, p. 4.
[121] DOTARS,
Committee Hansard, 10 February 2005,
p. 67.
[122] ANAO, Better
Practice Guide for the Administration of Grants, May 2002, p. 9.
[123] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment J, Internal assessment of DOTARS regional programme
procedures against ANAO Better Practice Guide, audit and evaluation
recommendations, p. 3.
[124] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment J, Internal assessment of DOTARS regional programme
procedures against ANAO Better Practice Guide, audit and evaluation
recommendations, p. 3.
[125] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment F, ACC Handbook June
2004 and Attachment G, Operational Funding Contract.
[126] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment F, ACC Handbook June
2004, p. 5.
[127] Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 74.
[128] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment F, ACC Handbook June
2004, p. 5.
[129] DOTARS, Submission
14, p. 14 and Attachment F, ACC
Handbook June 2004, p. 9.
[130] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 55.
[131] Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 75.
[132] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 5.
[133] DOTARS, Submission
14, p. 14.
[134] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 75.
[135] Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 75.
[136] Committee
Hansard, 10 February 2005, p. 58.
[137] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment F, ACC Handbook June
2004, Appendix A.
[138] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment F, ACC Handbook June
2004, Appendix A, pp 40-41.
[139] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment F, ACC Handbook June
2004, p. 5.
[140] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment F, ACC Handbook June
2004, Appendix A, p. 43.
[141] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment F, ACC Handbook June
2004, p. 13.
[142] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment F, ACC Handbook June
2004, p. 6.
[143] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment F, ACC Handbook June
2004, p. 6.
[144] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment F, ACC Handbook June
2004, p. 5.
[145] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment G, Operational Funding
Contract, p. 29.
[146] DOTARS financial year contract list, 1 July 2004
to 30 June 2005, www.dotars.gov.au/dept/DOTARS_financial_year_contract_list.doc,
accessed 29 August 2005.
[147] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 16.
[148] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 16.
[149] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment G, Operational Funding
Contract, p. 22.
[150] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment F, ACC Handbook June
2004, p. 11.
[151] Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 75.
[152] Pilbara Area Consultative Committee, Answers to
questions on notice, received 3 August 2005; Mr Durant, Executive Officer and
Mr Haerewa, Chair, Kimberley Area Consultative Committee, Committee Hansard, 15 July 2005, pp 88-91.
[153] Central Queensland Area Consultative Committee, Submission 12, p. 3.
[154] DOTARS, Submission
14, p. 14.
[155] See for example, Submission 3, Submission 7, Submission 10, Submission 11, Submission
22, Submission 23, Submission 29, Submission 35.
[156] Ms Connelly, Connelly Public Relations Group, Submission 2, p. 2; Mr Allen, President,
North Burnett Regional Economic Development Council, Submission 33, p. 1.
[157] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment D, Regional
Partnerships Guidelines, pp 2-3.
[158] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment D, Regional
Partnerships Guidelines, p. 2.
[159] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment D, Regional
Partnerships Guidelines, p. 3.
[160] DOTARS, Regional
Partnerships Application Form for more than $25,000, www.regionalpartnerships.gov.au/docs/application.aspx,
accessed 19 August 2005.
[161] DOTARS, Regional
Partnerships Application Form for $25,000 and less, www.regionalpartnerships.gov.au/docs/application.aspx,
accessed 19 August 2005.
[162] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual September2004, p. 19.
[163] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual September 2004, pp 20-21.
[164] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual September 2004, pp 19-20.
[165] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual September 2004, p. 51.
[166] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual September 2004, p. 57.
[167] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 32.
[168] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 31.
[169] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual September 2004, p. 58.
[170] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 31.
[171] DOTARS, Submission
14, p. 16.
[172] See for example, ACC comment forms provided in
Far North Queensland ACC, Minutes and Recommendations, received 1 April 2005.
[173] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual September 2004, p. 58.
[174] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment D, Regional
Partnerships Guidelines, p. 2.
[175] DOTARS, Submission
14, p. 16.
[176] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual September2004, p. 50.
[177] Senate Finance and Public Administration
References Committee report, A funding
matter under the Dairy Regional Assistance Program, June 2003.
[178] Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 63.
[179] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 62.
[180] Senate Finance and Public Administration
References Committee report, A funding
matter under the Dairy Regional Assistance Program, June 2003, p. 45.
[181] Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 62.
[182] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 29.
[183] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual September 2004, p. 58.
[184] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual September 2004, pp 91-92.
[185] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 22.
[186] Area Consultative Committee Tasmania (formerly
Tasmania Employment Advisory Council), Submission
30, p. 2.
[187] Area Consultative Committee Tasmania, Submission 30, p. 4.
[188] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual September 2004, pp 63-64.
[189] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual September 2004, p. 18.
[190] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual September 2004, p. 93.
[191] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual September 2004, p. 93.
[192] See for example, Submission 8, Submission 9, Submission 18, Submission 29.
[193] Ms Masterman, Chair, Barossa Riverland MidNorth
Area Consultative Committee, Submission 8,
p. 2.
[194] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual September 2004, p. 59.
[195] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional
Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual September 2004, p. 59.
[196] Hunter Area Consultative Committee, Submission 7.
[197] Mr Warren, CEO of the Orana Development and
Employment Council, Submission 51,
pp. 3-4.
[198] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 42.
[199] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 42.
[200] Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 17.
[201] Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 17.
[202] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 17.
[203] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 18.
[204] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment G, Operational Funding
Contract, p. 38.
[205] Mr Yuryevich, Chair, Goldfields Esperance Area
Consultative Committee, Submission 54.
[206] DOTARS, Revised
RPP tables, received 11 May 2005.
[207] Mr Warren, CEO, Orana Development and Employment
Council (Orana region ACC), Submission 51,
p. 4.
[208] Ms Gwilliam, Director General, Department of
Local Government and Regional Development, Government of Western Australia, Submission 34.
[209] Mr MacDonald, Melbourne Development Board
(Melbourne Central and Southern Area ACC), Submission
4, p. 1.
[210] Mr MacDonald, Melbourne Development Board
(Melbourne Central and Southern Area ACC), Submission
4.
[211] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 74.
[212] Minister Truss, Speech to South Australia ACCs
meeting, Thursday 1 September 2005, www.ministers.dotars.gov.au/wtr/speeches/2005/WS10_2005.htm
[213] Minister Truss, Speech to South Australia ACCs
meeting, Thursday 1 September 2005, www.ministers.dotars.gov.au/wtr/speeches/2005/WS10_2005.htm
[214] Minister Truss, Speech to South Australia ACCs
meeting, Thursday 1 September 2005, www.ministers.dotars.gov.au/wtr/speeches/2005/WS10_2005.htm
[215] Mr Cawley, former President of the Beaudesert
Shire Railway Support Group, Committee
Hansard, 25 February 2005, p. 2.
[216] Mr Cawley, Committee
Hansard, 25 February 2005, p. 1.
[217] Mr Gassman, former Chair, Gold Coast and Region
Area Consultative Committee, Committee
Hansard, 25 February 2005, p.28.
[218] Mr Cawley, Committee
Hansard, 25 February 2005, p. 2.
[219] Mr Gillow, Committee
Hansard, 25 February 2005, p. 79.
[220] Lee Garvey Chartered Accountants, Financial Assessment of Beaudesert Shire
Railway Support Group Association Inc. 28 March 2003, p. 3, tabled 25
February 2005.
[221] Lee Garvey Chartered Accountants, Financial Assessment of Beaudesert Shire
Railway Support Group Association Inc. 28 March 2003, p. 3, tabled 25
February 2005.
[222] Lee Garvey Chartered Accountants, Financial Assessment of Beaudesert Shire
Railway Support Group Association Inc. 28 March 2003, p. 4, tabled 25
February 2005.
[223] Minutes of the special committee meeting of
Beaudesert Rail held 30 April, 2003, p. 2, tabled 25 February 2005.
[224] Provisional
Liquidator's Report for Beaudesert Shire Railway Support Group Inc (In
Provisional Liquidation), 13 June 2003, p. 2, in Receiver's minutes of
meetings and reports to creditors, tabled 25 February 2005.
[225] See, for example, Provisional Liquidator's Report for Beaudesert Shire Railway Support
Group Inc (In Provisional Liquidation), 13 June 2003, p. 3, in Receiver's
minutes of meetings and reports to creditors, tabled 25 February 2005.
[226] The Hon John Howard MP, Prime Minister, correspondence
to the Member for Forde, Mrs Elson MP, 11 June 2003, in Receiver's
correspondence with DOTARS, tabled 25 February 2005.
[227] The Hon John Howard, Prime Minister, correspondence
to the Member for Forde, Mrs Elson MP, 11 June 2003, in Receiver's
correspondence with DOTARS, tabled 25 February 2005.
[228] Mr McIntosh, correspondence to the Hon John
Howard, Prime Minister, 15 July 2003, in Receiver's correspondence with DOTARS,
tabled 25 February 2005.
[229] Mr McIntosh, correspondence to DOTARS, 31
October 2003, in Receiver's correspondence with DOTARS, tabled 25 February
2005.
[230] See Ms Riggs, answer to question on notice, p.
2, received 16 May 2005, in which DOTARS stated that the KPMG report formed
part of the department's advice to the minister and would not be provided to
the Committee.
[231] See the email traffic between a departmental
officer and the liquidator's office, 3 and 4 November 2003, in Receiver's
correspondence with DOTARS, tabled 25 February 2005.
[232] See Ms Riggs, Committee Hansard, 25 February 2005, p. 96.
[233] The Hon John Anderson MP, Deputy Prime Minister
and Minister for Transport and Regional Services Correspondence, correspondence
to Mr McIntosh, 5 November 2003, in Receiver's correspondence with DOTARS, tabled
25 February 2005.
[234] The previous management committee had stood down
in June 2003 at the request of the provisional liquidator and a new, more
professionally oriented board was elected in September 2003. See Mr Robert, Committee Hansard, 25 February 2005, p. 4 and Mr Munn, Committee Hansard, 25 February 2005, p.
60.
[235] Mr Munn, Committee
Hansard, 25 February 2005, p. 53.
[236] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 25 February 2005, p. 90.
[237] Mr Daynes, Correspondence with the Gold Coast
and Region Area Consultative Committee, 25 April 2003, p. 3, and Committee Hansard (in camera), 25
February 2005.
[238] See, for example, Mr Robert, Committee Hansard, 25 February 2005, p.
6.
[239] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 25 February 2005, p. 91.
[240] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 25 February 2005, p. 93.
[241] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 25 February 2005, p. 93.
[242] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 25 February 2005, p. 93.
[243] Ms Riggs, correspondence to Mr McIntosh, 30
October 2003, in Receiver's correspondence with DOTARS, tabled 25 February
2005. (The various deadlines for the provision of information set by DOTARS
were determined by the dates set down for proceedings in the Queensland Supreme
Court to wind up Beaudesert Rail.)
[244] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 25 February 2005, p. 91.
[245] Committee
Hansard (in camera), 25 February 2005.
[246] Mr Daynes, correspondence to the Gold Coast and
Region Area Consultative Committee, 25 April 2003, p. 2, tabled 25 February
2005.
[247] Mr Daynes, correspondence to the Gold Coast and
Region Area Consultative Committee, 25 April 2003, p. 2, tabled 25 February
2005.
[248] Committee
Hansard (in camera), 25 February 2005.
[249] Mr Robert, Committee
Hansard, 25 February 2005, p. 3.
[250] Mr Daynes, correspondence to the Gold Coast and
Region Area Consultative Committee, 25 April 2003, p. 2, tabled 25 February
2005.
[251] Lee Garvey Chartered Accountants, Financial Assessment of Beaudesert Shire
Railway Support Group Association Inc. 28 March 2003, p. 3, tabled 25
February 2005.
[252] Lee Garvey Chartered Accountants, Financial Assessment of Beaudesert Shire
Railway Support Group Association Inc. 28 March 2003, p. 3, tabled 25
February 2005.
[253] Lee Garvey Chartered Accountants, Financial Assessment of Beaudesert Shire
Railway Support Group Association Inc. 28 March 2003, p. 12, tabled 25
February 2005.
[254] Ms Riggs, correspondence to Mr McIntosh, 30
October 2003, in Receiver's correspondence with DOTARS, tabled 25 February
2005.
[255] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 25 February 2005, p. 96.
[256] Lee Garvey Chartered Accountants, Financial Assessment of Beaudesert Shire
Railway Support Group Association Inc. 28 March 2003, p. 3, tabled 25
February 2005.
[257] See, for example, Mr Gillow, Committee Hansard, 25 February 2005, p.
89.
[258] DOTARS, Revised RPP tables, received 11 May
2005.
[259] Wyong Shire Council, Snapshot of the Tuggerah Lakes Estuary Management Study, February
2005, p. 5.
[260] Councillor Graham, Committee Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 4.
[261] Mr Cathers, Director, Engineering Services,
Wyong Shire Council, Committee Hansard,
24 February 2005, p. 12.
[262] Wyong Shire Council, Review of Environmental Factors, Maintenance Dredging at the Mouth of Tumbi Creek, Killarney Vale, December
2004, p. 1.
[263] Committee
Hansard, Thursday 24 February 2005, p. 74.
[264] Committee
Hansard, Thursday 24 February 2005, p. 74.
[265] Wyong Shire Council, Review of Environmental Factors, Maintenance Dredging at the Mouth of Tumbi Creek, Killarney Vale, December
2004, p. 2.
[266] Chronology compiled from Wyong Shire Council, Review of Environmental Factors, Maintenance Dredging at the Mouth of Tumbi
Creek, Killarney Vale, December 2004, pp 1-9.
[267] Wyong Shire Council, Review of Environmental Factors, Maintenance Dredging at the Mouth of
Tumbi Creek, Killarney Vale, September 2001.
[268] Wyong Shire Council, Review of Environmental Factors, Maintenance Dredging at the Mouth of
Tumbi Creek, Killarney Vale, December 2004, p. 8.
[269] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 6
[270] Mr Ticehurst MP, Federal Member for Dobell,
correspondence, 10 March 2004, in answers to questions on notice received 4
July 2005.
[271] Wyong Shire Council, 'Appendix 5 Wyong Shire
Council Report – June 9 2004 Dredging Options', in Review of Environmental Factors, Maintenance Dredging at the Mouth of
Tumbi Creek, Killarney Vale, December 2004.
[272] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 6.
[273] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 6.
[274] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 7.
[275] The Committee notes that, as with other RPP and
SRP projects, it experienced significant difficulty obtaining correct date
information regarding this funding application. The Committee was originally
informed by DOTARS that applications made in relation to Tumbi Creek were
submitted on 24 June 2004 and 11 July 2004 and approved on the 24 June 2004.
After questioning by Committee members, questions raised in the House of
Representatives and investigation by DOTARS, the Committee was advised that the
first application was received on 10 June 2004 and approved on 24 June 2004 and
that a further application seeking additional funds was received on 25 June
2004, formally confirmed by the Council on 1 July 2004 and approved on 11 July
2004.
[276] Mr Ticehurst MP, Media release, 8 June 2004.
[277] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 41.
[278] Mr Cathers, Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 41.
[279] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 93.
[280] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 107.
[281] Dr Dolman, Assistant Secretary, Committee Hansard, 24 February 2005, p.
93.
[282] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 93.
[283] Mr Burdekin, DOTARS Northern NSW Regional
Office, correspondence, 11 June 2005, in Central Coast ACC minutes and
recommendations.
[284] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 99.
[285] Mr Taylor, correspondence, 10 February 2005.
[286] Dr Dolman, answers to questions on notice,
received 23 September 2005, p. 4.
[287] DOTARS, Revised RPP tables, received 11 May
2005.
[288] Parliamentary Secretary Kelly, correspondence, 2
July 2004, in answers to questions on notice received 4 July 2005.
[289] Mr Long, Manager, Open Space and Recreation,
Wyong Shire Council, correspondence
25 June 2005, in answers to questions taken on notice received 10 March 2005.
[290] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, pp 30-31.
[291] Mr Hale, Chairman, Central Coast ACC, Committee Hansard, 24 February 2005, p.
54.
[292] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 107.
[293] Wyong Shire Council, Reports to the ordinary meeting of council, February 23 2005, p.
32.
[294] Parliamentary Secretary Kelly, correspondence,
26 August 2004, in answers to questions on notice received 10 March 2005.
[295] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 38.
[296] Mr Hallett, correspondence 9 August 2004, in
answers to questions on notice, received 4 July 2005.
[297] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 23.
[298] Mr McBride MP, New South Wales Member for The
Entrance, Minister for Gaming and Racing and Minister for Central Coast, correspondence,
7 February 2005, in answers to questions on notice received 10 March 2005.
[299] Mr Knowles MP, New South Wales Minister for
Infrastructure and Planning and Natural Resources, correspondence, undated, in
answers to questions on notice received 10 March 2005.
[300] House of
Representatives Hansard, 9 February 2005, pp 47-54.
[301] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 20.
[302] Mr Cathers, PowerPoint presentation to the
Council meeting of 24 November 2004, in answers to questions on received 10
March 2005, and transcript of presentation tabled in the House of
Representatives, 9 February 2005.
[303] Mr Hallett, correspondence, 17 November 2004, in
answers to questions on notice, received 4 July 2005.
[304] Mr Petrovsky, correspondence, 15 November 2004,
in answers to questions on notice, received 4 July 2005.
[305] Dr Dolman, correspondence, 22 November 2004, in
answers to questions on notice, received 4 July 2005.
[306] Dr Dolman, correspondence, 22 November 2004, in
answers to questions on notice, received 4 July 2005.
[307] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 102.
[308] Mr Hallett, correspondence, 22 November 2004, in
answers to questions on notice, received 4 July 2005.
[309] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 36.
[310] Mr Hallett,
Statement by Graeme Hallett on Tumbi Creek and the Regional Partnerships Grant,
House of Representatives tabled document, 10 February 2005.
[311] Minister Lloyd MP, Minister for Local
Government, Territories and Roads, House
of Representatives Hansard, 10 February 2005, p. 46.
[312] See Senate Finance and Public Administration
References Committee, Staff employed
under the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984, October 2003,
particularly chapter 2.
[313] Wyong Shire Council, Regional Partnerships Application Form, 10 June 2004 in Central
Coast ACC minutes and recommendations, and Wyong Shire Council, Regional Partnerships Application Form, 25
June 2004, in answers to questions on notice, received 10 March 2005.
[314] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 11.
[315] Mr Cathers, Committee
Hansard, Thursday 24 February 2005, pp 13-14.
[316] Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation
Council (ANZECC).
[317] Mr Asquith, Chairman, Central Coast Community
Environment Network, Committee Hansard, 24
February 2005, p. 73.
[318] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, pp 70-71.
[319] Mr Cathers, Committee
Hansard, Thursday 24 February 2005, p. 14.
[320] Mr Asquith, Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 74.
[321] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 78.
[322] Mr Asquith, Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 78.
[323] Wyong Shire Council, Regional Partnerships Application Form, 10 June 2004 in Central
Coast ACC minutes and recommendations, and Wyong Shire Council, Regional Partnerships Application Form, 25
June 2004, in answers to questions on notice, received 10 March 2005.
[324] Mr Cathers, Committee
Hansard, Thursday 24 February 2005, p.12.
[325] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 27.
[326] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, pp 12-13.
[327] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 77.
[328] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 95.
[329] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment D, Regional Partnerships Guidelines, p.7
[330] DOTARS, Regional
Partnerships Guidelines, www.regionalpartnerships.gov.au/guidelines.aspx,
accessed 12 August 2005.
[331] Wyong Shire Council, Regional Partnerships Application Form, 10 June 2004, p. 11, in
Central Coast ACC minutes and recommendations.
[332] Mr Cathers, Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, pp 7-8.
[333] Wyong Shire Council, Review of Environmental Factors, Maintenance Dredging at the Mouth of
Tumbi Creek, Killarney Vale, December 2004, p. 23.
[334] Mr Cathers, Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 16.
[335] Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 65.
[336] Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 66.
[337] Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 67.
[338] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 43.
[339] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 9.
[340] Wyong Shire Council, Reports to the Ordinary Meeting of Council, 14 September 2005, p.
28.
[341] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment D, Regional Partnerships Guidelines, p. 7.
[342] Mr Knowles MP, NSW Minister for Infrastructure
and Planning and Natural Resources, Correspondence
18 February 2001, in answers to questions on notice received 10 March 2005.
[343] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment D, Regional Partnerships Guidelines, p. 4.
[344] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual,
September 2004, p. 25.
[345] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional Partnerships Internal Procedures Manual,
September 2004, p. 25.
[346] Mr Mundy, correspondence, 11 June 2004, in
Central Coast ACC minutes and recommendations.
[347] Mr Hale, Chairman, Central Coast Area Consultative
Committee, Committee Hansard, 24
February 2005, p. 54.
[348] Wyong Shire Council, Regional Partnerships Application Form, 10 June 2004, in Central
Coast ACC minutes and recommendations.
[349] Wyong Shire Council, Regional Partnerships Application Form, 25 June 2004, in answers to
questions on notice, received 10 March 2005.
[350] Regional Partnerships Application Form, in
Central Coast ACC minutes and recommendations, p. 12.
[351] Wyong Shire Council, Tumbi Creek Dredging Project Estimate for Option 1, in answers to
questions on notice, received 10 March 2005.
[352] Wyong Shire Council, Tumbi Creek Dredging Project Estimate for Option 1, in answers to
questions on notice, received 10 March 2005.
[353] Wyong Shire Council, Regional Partnerships Application Form, 10 June 2004 in Central
Coast ACC minutes and recommendations, and Wyong Shire Council, Regional Partnerships Application Form, 25
June 2004, in answers to questions on notice, received 10 March 2005.
[354] Mr Petrovsky, correspondence, 22 November 2004,
in answers to questions on notice received 4 July 2005.
[355] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 32.
[356] Wyong Shire Council, Tumbi Creek Dredging Project Estimate for Option 1, p. 1, in answers to questions on notice,
received 10 March 2005.
[357] Wyong Shire Council, Regional Partnerships
Application Form, in Central Coast ACC minutes and recommendations, p. 14.
[358] Wyong Shire Council, Regional Partnerships Application Form, 10 June 2004 in Central
Coast ACC minutes and recommendations, and Wyong Shire Council, Regional Partnerships Application Form, 25
June 2004, in answers to questions on notice, received 10 March 2005.
[359] Central Coast ACC, correspondence, 24 June 2004,
in Central Coast ACC minutes and recommendations.
[360] CCACC
project synopsis and comments sheet, p. 2, in Central Coast ACC minutes and
recommendations.
[361] Central Coast ACC minutes and recommendations.
[362] Mr Hale, Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 52.
[363] Mr Hale, Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 50.
[364] Mr Hale, Correspondence, 6 August 2004, in
Central Coast ACC minutes and recommendations.
[365] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 53.
[366] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 101.
[367] K. Tailford, C. Berry, A. Thomas and J. Campbell
(2003) 'A casein variant in cow's milk is atherogenic', Atherosclerosis 00 (2003) 1 7, p. 3; Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 71.
[368] L. Edmistone (2004) '
Doubts over benefits of new milk', The Courier-Mail, 1 July 2004, p. 10.
[369] Mr Strazzeri, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 86.
[370] L. Edmistone (2004) '
Doubts over benefits of new milk', The Courier-Mail, 1 July 2004, p. 10.
[371] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, pp 31 and 68.
[372] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, pp 34-35.
[373] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, pp 41 and 46; licence agreement between A2DM and A2
Corporation Ltd, dated 22 December 2003, in A2DM liquidator's documents,
received 8 April 2005.
[374] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 47.
[375] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 33.
[376] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 34.
[377] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, pp 71-72.
[378] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 37.
[379] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 34.
[380] L. Edmistone, ' Doubts over benefits of new milk',
The Courier-Mail, 1 July 2004, p. 10.
[381] S. Dwyer quoted in ABC Queensland, 'Court
fines dairy distributor over milk claims',
30 September 2004.
[382] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 39.
[383] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 40. For further information about A2DM's
financial status, refer to A2DM liquidator's documents, received 8 April 2005.
[384] Mr Crooke, email to Mr Saddlier, 6 May 2004, in
A2DM liquidator's documents, received 8 April 2005.
[385] Mr Stewart, correspondence to Minister Anderson,
10 May 2004, in A2DM liquidator's documents,
received 8 April 2005.
[386] Mr Stewart, correspondence to Minister Anderson,
10 May 2004, in A2DM liquidator's documents,
received 8 April 2005.
[387] Mr Crooke, email to Mr Saddlier, 6 May 2004, in
A2DM liquidator's documents, received 8 April 2005.
[388] Mr Stewart, email to Ms Tunney, 20 May 2004, in
A2DM liquidator's documents, received 8 April 2005.
[389] Ms Tunney, email to Mr Stewart, 20 May 2004, in
A2DM liquidator's documents, received 8 April 2005.
[390] Mr Stewart, correspondence to Mr McDade, 26 May
2004, in A2DM liquidator's documents, received 8 April 2005.
[391] Mr McDade, answer to question on notice,
received 14 April 2005.
[392] Mr McDade, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 150.
[393] Mr McDade, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 151.
[394] Mr McDade, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 151.
[395] Ms Tunney, email to Mr Stewart, 11 June 2004, in
A2DM liquidator's documents, received 8 April 2005.
[396] Ms Tunney, email to Mr Stewart, 11 June 2004, in
A2DM liquidator's documents, received 8 April 2005.
[397] A2DM expression of interest for SRP funding,
undated, in A2DM liquidator's documents, received 8 April 2005.
[398] Mr McDade, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 150.
[399] Mr McDade, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, pp 150-151.
[400] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 52.
[401] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 55.
[402] Mr Vieira, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, pp 98, 112-113.
[403] Mr Vieira, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 98.
[404] Mr Blanckensee and Mr Vieira, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 99.
[405] Mr Stewart, correspondence to Mr Vieira, 22 June
2004, in A2DM liquidator's documents, received 8 April 2005; A2DM incomplete
RPP application, undated, in A2DM liquidator's
documents, received 8 April 2005.
[406] Mr Vieira, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 98.
[407] Mr Vieira, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 115.
[408] Mr Yuile, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 76.
[409] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 78.
[410] Mr Strazzeri, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 83.
[411] Mr Strazzeri, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 90.
[412] Mr Vieira, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 100.
[413] Mr Vieira, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 127.
[414] Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 128.
[415] L. Taylor, 'Nats'
milk plan turns sour', Australian
Financial Review, 1 December 2004, pp 1, 7.
[416] Ms Riggs, correspondence, received 12 July 2005,
p. 3.
[417] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, pp 78-79.
[418] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 76.
[419] Mrs O'Connor, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, pp 2, 4.
[420] Mrs O'Connor, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 3.
[421] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, pp 78-79.
[422] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment E, Regional Partnerships Programme Internal Procedures
Manual September 2004, p. 58.
[423] Mr Blanckensee, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 120.
[424] Mr Vieira, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 104.
[425] Mr Blanckensee, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 102.
[426] Mr Blanckensee, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 126.
[427] Mr Blanckensee, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 126.
[428] Mr Vieira, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 112.
[429] FNQACC Minutes 6 August 2004, p. 5, in FNQACC
minutes and recommendations, received 1 April 2005.
[430] Mr Blanckensee, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 105.
[431] Mr Blanckensee, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 129.
[432] Mr Blanckensee, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 130.
[433] FNQACC TRAX comments on A2 Milk Processing
project, 26 August 2004, in FNQACC minutes and recommendations, received 1
April 2005.
[434] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 90.
[435] Mrs O'Connor,
Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p.
3.
[436] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 58.
[437] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 38.
[438] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, pp 77-78.
[439] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 44.
[440] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 43.
[441] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 78.
[442] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 39.
[443] FNQACC TRAX comments on A2 Milk Processing
project, 26 August 2004, in FNQACC minutes and recommendations, received 1
April 2005.
[444] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p 80-81.
[445] Mr Yuile, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, pp 76-77.
[446] Mrs O'Connor, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 12.
[447] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, pp 59 and 60.
[448] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 60.
[449] DOTARS became aware of the legal action against
A2DM on 26 August 2004 – see Ms Riggs, correspondence, 22 June 2005.
[450] Parliamentary Secretary Kelly, correspondence to
Mr Stewart, 2 September 2004, in A2DM liquidator's
documents, received 8 April 2005.
[451] Parliamentary Secretary Kelly, correspondence to
Mr Stewart, 2 September 2004, in A2DM liquidator's
documents, received 8 April 2005.
[452] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 82.
[453] Senator O'Brien, Committee Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 83.
[454] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment D, Regional Partnerships Guidelines, p. 6.
[455] Mrs O'Connor,
Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p.
10.
[456] Mrs O'Connor, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, pp 10-11.
[457] Mrs O'Connor, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 11.
[458] Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Guidance on caretaker conventions, July
2004, p. 4.
[459] DOTARS, Revised
RPP tables, received 11 May 2005, p. 24.
[460] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 48.
[461] Asia Pacific Corporation, Proposal for A2 Corporation – Government and media relations strategy,
18 February 2004, in A2DM liquidator's documents, received 8 April 2005.
[462] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 49.
[463] Mr Stewart, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 58.
[464] House of
Representatives Hansard, 2 December 2004, pp 75-87.
[465] The Hon John Howard MP, Prime Minister, House of Representatives Hansard, 9
December 2004, pp 80-81.
[466] Mrs O'Connor,
Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, pp
15-16.
[467] Mr Bell, Submission
41, p. 1.
[468] Mrs O'Connor, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 6.
[469] Mrs O'Connor, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 6.
[470] Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, pp 87-88.
[471] Mr Bell, Submission
41, p. 3.
[472] Mrs O'Connor, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 3.
[473] M. Roarty and R. Webb, "Fuel Ethanol –
Background and Policy Issues", Parliamentary
Library Current Issues Brief No. 12 2002-03, 10 February 2003, pp 1‑2.
[474] NENWACC, Namoi
Valley Structural Adjustment Package Application Form, p. 9, in answers to
questions on notice, received 15 July 2005.
[475] NENWACC, Namoi
Valley Structural Adjustment Package Application Form, p. 6, in answers to
questions on notice, received 15 July 2005.
[476] Mr Humphries, Chairman, NENWACC, Committee Hansard, 29 June 2005, p. 62.
[477] Mr Humphries, Committee Hansard, 29 June 2005, p. 63.
[478] NENWACC, Namoi
Valley Structural Adjustment Package Expression of Interest, p. 9, in
answers to questions on notice, received 15 July 2005; see also Mr Humphries,
Chairman, NENWACC, Committee Hansard,
29 June 2005, p. 79.
[479] Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 48.
[480] NENWACC, Namoi
Valley Structural Adjustment Package Expression of Interest, p. 9, in
answers to questions on notice, received 15 July 2005.
[481] Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 20; see also Ms Riggs, DOTARS, Committee Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 22;
and Correspondence from Mr Kevin Humphries to the Hon Wilson Tuckey MP, dated
26 June 2003, in additional information provided by NENWACC, Minutes and recommendations - Namoi Valley
Structural Adjustment package material relating to Primary Energy Pty Ltd,
received 26 June 2003.
[482] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 22.
[483] Mr Carmody, Committee
Hansard, 15 September 2005, p. 3.
[484] Mr Carmody, Committee
Hansard, 15 September 2005, p. 3.
[485] NENWACC, Namoi
Valley Structural Adjustment Package Application Form, p. 11, in answers to
questions on notice, received 15 July 2005.
[486] Mrs Margaret Thomas, Chair, Central Ranges
Natural Gas and Telecommunications Association Inc and Mr David Adams, Managing
Director, Central Ranges Natural Gas Pipeline Pty Ltd, Committee Hansard, 11 August 2005, pp 30-33.
[487] Mr Kelley, in
camera answers to matters taken on notice, 2 October 2005.
[488] NENWACC, Namoi
Valley Structural Adjustment Package Application Form, pp 17-18, in answers
to questions on notice, received 15 July 2005.
[489] Mr Kelley, Committee
Hansard, 15 September 2005, p. 16.
[490] Mr Humphries, Committee Hansard, 29 June 2005, p. 79. See also Mr Carmody, Committee Hansard, 15 September 2005, p.
3.
[491] Committee
Hansard, 29 June 2005, p. 85; see also additional information provided by NENWACC,
Minutes and recommendations - Namoi
Valley Structural Adjustment package material relating to Primary Energy Pty
Ltd, received 26 June 2003.
[492] NENWACC, Minutes
and recommendations - Namoi Valley Structural Adjustment package material
relating to Primary Energy Pty Ltd, additional information received 26 June
2003; see also Mr Humphries, Committee
Hansard, 29 June 2005, p. 63.
[493] Mr Humphries was also chair of NENWACC.
[494] Correspondence from Mr Kevin Humphries to the
Hon Wilson Tuckey MP, dated 26 June 2003, in additional information provided by
NENWACC, Minutes and recommendations -
Namoi Valley Structural Adjustment package material relating to Primary Energy
Pty Ltd, received 26 June 2003; see also Committee Hansard, 29 June 2005, p. 85.
[495] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 20.
[496] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 20.
[497] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 20.
[498] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 20.
[499] DOTARS, Submission
14, p. 11.
[500] Mr Carmody, Committee
Hansard, 15 September 2005, p. 17.
[501] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 49.
[502] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 50.
[503] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 9.
[504] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 9.
[505] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 20.
[506] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 18.
[507] Committee Hansard,
17 August 2005, pp 11, 15-16; see also Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 55.
[508] Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 3.
[509] Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 4.
[510] Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 3.
[511] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 16.
[512] Ms Briggs, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 4.
[513] Ms Briggs, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 4.
[514] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 9.
[515] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 9.
[516] Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 9.
[517] Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 57.
[518] Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 24.
[519] See Senate Finance and Public Administration
References Committee, Staff employed
under the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984, October 2003,
particularly chapter 2.
[520] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 50.
[521] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 50.
[522] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 50.
[523] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 58.
[524] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, pp. 8-9.
[525] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 10.
[526] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 9.
[527] Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, pp 20-21.
[528] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment D, Regional
Partnerships Guidelines, p. 6.
[529] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 60.
[530] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment D, Regional
Partnerships Guidelines, p. 7.
[531] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 59.
[532] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment H, Procedures for SONA,
p. 1.
[533] Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 58.
[534] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, pp 60-61.
[535] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, pp 60-61.
[536] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 61.
[537] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 60.
[538] DOTARS, Regional
Partnerships Funding Agreement between DOTARS and Primary Energy Pty Ltd, tabled
12 August 2005.
[539] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 9.
[540] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 61; see also DOTARS, Regional Partnerships Funding Agreement between DOTARS and Primary
Energy Pty Ltd, tabled 12 August 2005.
[541] Mr Kelley, Committee
Hansard, 15 September 2005, p. 14.
[542] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, pp 22-23.
[543] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 17 August 2005, p. 22.
[544] Mr Kelley, Committee
Hansard, 15 September 2005, p. 2.
[545] Mr Carmody, Committee Hansard, 15 September 2005, p. 9.
[546] Mr
Windsor MP, House of Representatives
Hansard, 17 November 2004, pp 151-153.
[547] Mr
Windsor MP, Submission 15, pp 2-3.
[548] See,
for example, Tamworth Regional Council, Submission
16, pp 1-5.
[549] Tamworth
Regional Council, Submission 16, p. 3
and Mr Botfield, Committee Hansard,
29 June 2005, p. 42.
[550] Tamworth
Regional Council, Submission 16, p. 3.
[551] Tamworth
City Council, 2002/2003 Federal Budget
Submission, 24 January 2002, in answers to questions on notice, received 29
June 2005.
[552] Mr
Inglis, Committee Hansard, 29 June
2005, p. 5.
[553] See
Department of Industry, Science and Resources, correspondence to Mr Paul
Anderson, Tamworth City Council, 10 November 2001, in Mr Botfield, answers to
questions on notice, received 6 July 2005.
[554] Mr
Windsor MP, Committee Hansard, 3
February 2005, p. 48.
[555] Mr
Botfield, Submission 32, p. 6.
[556] 'Equine
Centre Talks', The Northern Daily Leader,
22 February 2002.
[557] 'Equine
Centre Talks', The Northern Daily Leader,
22 February 2002.
[558] Mr
Anderson MP, Media Release A69/2002, pp 1, 4.
[559] Mr
Anderson MP, Media Release A69/2002, p. 1.
[560] Tamworth
Regional Council, Submission 16, p.
4.
[561] Tamworth
Regional Council, Submission 16. p.
2.
[562] Mr
Windsor MP, Submission 15, p. 3.
[563] Councillor
Treloar, Committee Hansard, 29 June
2005, p. 22.
[564] Tamworth
Regional Council, Submission 16, Attachments 1 and 2.
[565] Mr
Maguire, Committee Hansard, 10 March
2005, p. 3.
[566] Mr
Botfield, Committee Hansard, 29 June
2005, p. 43.
[567] Mr
Botfield, Committee Hansard, 29 June 2005,
p. 42.
[568] See,
for example, Mr Maguire, Press Release of 23 November 2004, p. 2, attached to Mr
Maguire, Submission 43.
[569] Mr
Windsor MP, Committee Hansard, 3
February, p. 34.
[570] Mr
Windsor MP, Submission 15, p.4.
[571] Mr
Windsor MP, House of Representatives
Hansard, 17 November 2004, p. 152.
[572] Ms
Tickle, Submission 5, p. 2.
[573] Ms
Tickle, Committee Hansard, 3 February
2005, p. 67.
[574] Mr
Hall, Committee Hansard, 3 February
2005, p. 91.
[575] Mr
Hall, Submission 15, p. 2.
[576] Mayor
Treloar, Committee Hansard, 29 June
2005, p. 19.
[577] Ms
Thomson, Committee Hansard, 29 June
2005, p. 68.
[578] Mr
Windsor MP, Committee Hansard, 3
February 2005, p. 52.
[579] Mr
Windsor MP, Submission 15, p. 4.
[580] Mr
Maguire, Committee Hansard, 10 March
2005, p. 2.
[581] Mr
Maguire, Committee Hansard, 10 March,
pp 2-3.
[582] Mr
Tony Windsor MP, Submission 15, p. 5.
[583] Mr
Tony Windsor MP, House of Representatives
Hansard, 17 November 2004, p.152.
[584] Mr
Anderson MP, House of Representatives
Hansard, 17 November 2004, p. 158.
[585] Senator
Macdonald, correspondence, 7 March 2005, p. 1.
[586] See,
for example, Mr Maguire, Press release dated 23 November 2004 and Committee Hansard, 10 March 2005, p. 16.
[587] Australian
Federal Police Media Statement, 22 November 2004.
[588] Australian
Federal Police Media Statement, 22 November 2004.
[589] Mr
Windsor MP, House of Representatives
Hansard, 29 November 2004, p. 85.
[590] Mr
Windsor MP, House of Representatives
Hansard, 29 November 2004, p. 85.
[591] See,
for example, Mr Maguire, Submission 43,
pp 3-4.
[592] See,
for example, Mr Windsor MP, Committee
Hansard, 3 February 2005, p. 32.
[593] Committee Hansard, 3 February 2005, p.
72.
[594] Mr
Hall, Committee Hansard, 3 February
2005, p. 91.
[595] Committee Hansard, 3 February 2005, pp
98-99.
[596] Mr
Hall, Submission 13, pp 3-6.
[597] Mr
Hall, Committee Hansard, pp 82, 95.
[598] Mr
Hall, Submission 13, pp 3-6.
[599] Mr
Hall, Submission 13, p. 3.
[600] Mr
Hall, Submission 13, p. 4.
[601] Mr
Hall, Submission 13, p. 4.
[602] Mr
Hall, Submission 13, p. 5.
[603] Mr
Hall, Submission 13, p. 5.
[604] Mr
Hall, Submission 13, p. 6.
[605] Mr
Maguire, Committee Hansard, 10 March
2005, p. 7.
[606] Mr
Maguire, Committee Hansard, 10 March
2005, p. 8.
[607] Mr
Maguire, Committee Hansard, 10 March
2005, p. 24.
[608] Mr
Hall, Committee Hansard, 3 February
2005, p. 95.
[609] Mr
Hall, Committee Hansard, 3 February
2005, p. 94; Mr Maguire, Committee
Hansard, 10 March 2005, p. 25.
[610] Mr
Hall, Submission 13, p. 5.
[611] Mr
Windsor MP, Committee Hansard, 3
February 2005, p. 115.
[612] Mr
Maguire, Committee Hansard, 10 March
2005, pp 34-35.
[613] Mr
Maguire, Submission 43, p. 4.
[614] Mr
Maguire, Committee Hansard, 10 March
2005, p. 4.
[615] Mr
Hall, Committee Hansard, 3 February
2005, p. 84.
[616] Australian
Federal Police Media Statement, 22 November 2004.
[617] Mr
Windsor MP, Committee Hansard, 3
February 2005, pp 56-57.
[618] Mr
Maguire, Committee Hansard, 10 March
2005, p. 4.
[619] See,
for example, Mr Hall, Committee Hansard,
3 February 2005, p. 90.
[620] Mr
Maguire, Committee Hansard, 10 March
2005, p. 49.
[621] Committee Hansard, 10 March 2005, pp 45-49.
[622] DOTARS,
Revised RPP Tables, received 11 May 2005, p. 8.
[623] The
University of New England, Faculty of Education, Health and Professional
Studies, The National Centre of Science, Information and Communication
Technology, and Mathematics Education for Rural and Regional Australia (SiMERR):
background, Executive Summary, p. 1.
[624] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 2 February
2005, p. 59.
[625] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 2 February
2005, p. 60.
[626] Professor
Pegg, Committee Hansard, 28 June
2005, p. 17.
[627] Professor
Pegg, Committee Hansard, 28 June
2005, p. 3.
[628] Professor
Pegg, Committee Hansard, 28 June
2005, p. 3.
[629] Professor
Pegg, answer to question on notice, 25 July 2005, p. 1.
[630] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 2 February
2005, p. 59.
[631] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 2 February
2005, p. 91.
[632] Senator
O'Brien and Professor Minichiello, Committee
Hansard, 28 June 2005, pp 10-11.
[633] Professor
Pegg, Committee Hansard, 28 June
2005, p. 16.
[634] Professor
Pegg, Committee Hansard, 28 June
2005, p. 3.
[635] Ms
Thomson, Committee Hansard, 29 June
2005, p. 75.
[636] Ms
Thomson, Committee Hansard, 29 June
2005, p. 75.
[637] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 2 February
2005, p. 59.
[638] Mr
Humphries, Committee Hansard, 29 June
2005, p. 76.
[639] Mr
Humphries, Committee Hansard, 29 June
2005, p. 70.
[640] Mr
Humphries, Committee Hansard, 29 June
2005, pp 70-71.
[641] Professor
Pegg, Committee Hansard, 28 June
2005, p. 3
[642] The
Nationals, 'Anderson calls for Better Maths and Science Training', media
release, 12 October 2003.
[643] Ms
Riggs, Committee Hansard, 2 February
2005, p. 60.
[644] Committee Hansard, 28 June 2005, pp 18-22.
[645] The Northern Daily Leader, 24 July 2005,
pp 32-33.
[646] Mr
Windsor MP, Committee Hansard, 3
February 2005, p.11.
[647] Mr
Windsor MP, Submission 15, p.3.
[648] Professors
Pegg and Minichiello, Submission 52, p. 1.
[649] Professor
Minichiello, Committee Hansard, 28
June 2005, pp 4-5.
[650] Professor
Minichiello, Committee Hansard, 28
June 2005, p. 29.
[651] Mr
Khan, Submission 42, p.6.
[652] Senator
Macdonald, correspondence, 7 March 2005, p. 3.
[653] Mr
Windsor MP, Committee Hansard, 3 February
2005, p.13.
[654] Committee Hansard, 28 June 2005, p. 5
(in camera, excerpt agreed for citation).
[655] Mr
Windsor MP, Submission 15, Attachment C, p. 1.
[656] Mr
Windsor MP, Committee Hansard, 3
February 2005, p. 53.
[657] Senator
Macdonald, correspondence, 7 March 2005.
[658] Mr
Robert Fulcher, Statutory
Declaration dated 15 December2004, p. 2, included in Mr Windsor MP, Submission 15, Attachment C.
[659] Councillor
Filmer, Mayor of the Uralla Shire, media release, 30 November 2004, included in
Mr Windsor MP, Submission 15, Attachment C.
[660] Senator
Macdonald, correspondence, 7 March 2005, p. 2.
[661] Senator
Macdonald, correspondence, 7 March 2005, p. 2.
[662] DOTARS, Stronger
Regions, A Stronger Australia, August 2001; DOTARS, Submission 14, p. 4.
[663] DOTARS, Submission
14.
[664] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au.
[665] DOTARS, Submission
14, p. 4.
[666] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines, p. 5.
[667] DOTARS, Annual
Report 2003-04 pp 103, 110.
[668] DOTARS, Submission
14, p. 5.
[669] DOTARS, Submission
14, p. 4.
[670] See, for example, DOTARS, Sustainable Regions
website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/qld/ath/profile.aspx.
[671] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 49.
[672] Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, pp 49-51; Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, pp 27-28.
[673] For a detailed explanation of the role of
DOTARS, see DOTARS, Submission 14, Attachment
C, Sustainable Regions Programme
Internal Procedures Manual.
[674] Sustainable Regions website, http://www.sustainableregions.gov.au/index.aspx,
accessed 23 August 2005.
[675] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines, p. 5.
[676] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, p. 29.
[677] In the course of this inquiry, the Sustainable
Regions Programme Internal Procedures Manual also became public as Attachment C
to DOTARS' Submission 14.
[678] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines.
[679] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment B, Guidelines – General Assessment Criteria.
[680] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment B, Guidelines – General Assessment Criteria.
[681] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines, p. 5.
[682] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Internal Procedures Manual, pp 8-9.
[683] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Internal Procedures Manual, p. 12.
[684] Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, pp 104-107.
[685] Mr Yuile, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, pp 104-107.
[686] DOTARS, Submission
14, p. 21.
[687] For a discussion of the Committee's
request for SRAC minutes and recommendations, see Chapter 1.
[688] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines, p. 5.
[689] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines, p. 5.
[690] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines, p. 5.
[691] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines, p. 5.
[692] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines, p. 5.
[693] Ms Riggs and Ms Gosling, Committee Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 35.
[694] Mr McDade, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 140.
[695] Mr Jaensch, Committee
Hansard, 30 June 2005, p. 65.
[696] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines, p. 5.
[697] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines, p. 5.
[698] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines, p. 4.
[699] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/nsw/fne/projects.aspx,
accessed 23 August 2005.
[700] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/nsw/fne/priorities.aspx,
accessed 23 August 2005.
[701] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/nsw/fne/priorities.aspx,
accessed 23 August 2005.
[702] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable Regions
Programme Guidelines, p. 4.
[703] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/nsw/cam/committee.aspx,
accessed 23 August 2005.
[704] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/nsw/cam/priorities.aspx,
accessed 23 August 2005.
[705] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/vic/gip/projects.aspx,
accessed 31 August 2005.
[706] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/vic/gip/priorities.aspx,
accessed 31 August 2005.
[707] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/vic/gip/committee.aspx,
accessed 31 August 2005.
[708] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/qld/wbb/projects.aspx,
accessed 22 August 2005.
[709] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines, p. 4.
[710] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/qld/wbb/committee.aspx,
accessed 22 August 2005.
[711] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/qld/wbb/priorities.aspx,
accessed 22 August 2005.
[712] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines, p. 4.
[713] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/wa/kim/projects.aspx,
accessed 23 August 2005.
[714] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/wa/kim/committee.aspx,
accessed 22 August 2005.
[715] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/wa/kim/priorities.aspx,
accessed 22 August 2005.
[716] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/sa/pla/projects.aspx,
accessed 22 August 2005.
[717] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/sa/pla/committee.aspx,
accessed 22 August 2005.
[718] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/sa/pla/priorities.aspx,
accessed 22 August 2005.
[719] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines, p. 4.
[720] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/tas/nwwc/projects.aspx,
accessed 23 August 2005.
[721] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/tas/nwwc/priorities.aspx,
accessed 23 August 2005.
[722] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/tas/nwwc/committee.aspx,
accessed 23 August 2005.
[723] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines, p. 4.
[724] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/qld/ath/committee.aspx,
accessed 30 August 2005.
[725] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/qld/ath/projects.aspx,
accessed 30 August 2005.
[726] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 27.
[727] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/DMW/projects.aspx,
accessed 30 August 2005.
[728] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/DMW/committee.aspx,
accessed 30 August 2005.
[729] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/DMW/priorities.aspx,
accessed 30 August 2005.
[730] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/nsw/nrnc/index.aspx,
accessed 30 August 2005.
[731] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/nsw/nrnc/priorities.aspx,
accessed 30 August 2005.
[732] Ms Riggs, Committee
Hansard, 12 August 2005, p. 27.
[733] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/nsw/nrnc/committee.aspx,
accessed 30 August 2005.
[734] See Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, 14 April 2005, 23 June 2005, 11 August 2005; and Submissions 1 and 1a, 17, 21, 40, 44, 46, 48
and 48a, 49, 50, 55 and 55a.
[735] Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, pp 63-65.
[736] Dr Stocker, Submission
21, p. 4.
[737] Ms Riggs, quoted in Committee Hansard, 23 June 2005, p. 50.
[738] Mr McDade, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 140.
[739] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment A, Sustainable
Regions Programme Guidelines, p. 5.
[740] Mr McDade, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 139.
[741] Mr Blanckensee, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 136; Mayor Byrnes, Committee Hansard, 11 August 2005, p. 3.
[742] Mayor Chapman, Committee Hansard, 11 August 2005, p. 4.
[743] Mr McDade, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 140.
[744] Mr Nasser, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 37.
[745] Dr Stocker, Submission
21, p. 3.
[746] Mr Blanckensee, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, pp 133-134.
[747] Ms Cameron, Submission
60, p. 2.
[748] Mrs Allwood, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 2; Mr Blanckensee, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, pp 135, 137; Dr Stocker, Committee Hansard, 14 April 2005, p.
112.
[749] Mr Jaensch, Committee
Hansard, 30 June 2005, p. 58.
[750] Mr Jaensch, Committee
Hansard, 30 June 2005, p. 58.
[751] Mayor Chalk, Committee
Hansard, 30 June 2005, p. 60.
[752] Mr Jaensch, Committee
Hansard, 30 June 2005, p. 59.
[753] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/qld/ath/pubs.aspx,
accessed 1 August 2005.
[754] ATSRAC, The Atherton Tablelands Strategic Framework
and Prospectus for Regional Development 2002-05, January 2003; ATSRAC, Atherton Tablelands Sustainable
Region Advisory Committee Action Plan 2002-05, July 2002.
[755] ATSRAC, Atherton
Tablelands Sustainable Region Advisory Committee Action Plan 2002-05, July
2002, p. 7.
[756] Mr McDade, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 141.
[757] Mr McDade, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 142.
[758] Dr Stocker, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 114.
[759] Ms Cameron, Submission
60, p. 2.
[760] Ms Fabris, Director of Nursing, Dimbulah Health
Clinic, correspondence to Mr Briggs, Chief Executive Officer, Mareeba Shire
Council, 7 April 2005, in Ms Taylor, answers to questions on notice, received
14 April 2005.
[761] Ms Taylor, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, pp 51-52.
[762] Ms Taylor, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 50.
[763] Mr McKinley, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 53.
[764] Mr McKinley, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 56.
[765] DOTARS, Submission
14, p. 5.
[766] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/nsw/fne/priorities.aspx,
accessed 23 August 2005.
[767] DOTARS, Sustainable Regions website, www.sustainableregions.gov.au/vic/gip/priorities.aspx,
accessed 31 August 2005.
[768] Mareeba Shire Council, General Meeting Minutes,
5 April 2005, tabled 14 April 2005.
[769] Mr Lawrence, ATSRAC Executive Officer, email to Mr Briggs, 5 April 2005, in Ms Taylor,
answers to questions on notice, received 14 April 2005.
[770] Cradle Coast SRAC, Cradle Coast Sustainable Regions Investment Plan, October 2002, tabled document, 30 June
2005.
[771] Mr Jaensch, Committee
Hansard, 30 June 2005, p. 59.
[772] Mr Jaensch, Committee
Hansard, 30 June 2005, p. 59.
[773] Mr Jaensch, Committee
Hansard, 30 June 2005, pp 61-62.
[774] Mr and Mrs Allwood, Committee Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 2.
[775] Mr McKinley, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 62.
[776] Mr and Mrs Allwood, Committee Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 7.
[777] Mr and Mrs Allwood, Committee Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 10.
[778] Ms Campbell, Submission
55, p. 2.
[779] Mr McDade, cited in Committee Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 13.
[780] Ms Riggs, correspondence, received 12 July 2005,
p. 2.
[781] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment B, Guidelines – General Assessment Criteria.
[782] Ms Riggs, correspondence, received 12 July 2005,
p. 2.
[783] Mr McDade, Committee
Hansard, 23 June 2005, p. 26.
[784] Mr McDade, Committee
Hansard, 23 June 2004, p. 30.
[785] ATSRAC commissioned an independent competitive
neutrality review on one occasion in relation to the Rose Gums project—see Committee Hansard, 23 June 2005, pp
24-25.
[786] Dr Stocker, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 109.
[787] Dr Stocker, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 118.
[788] Ms Campbell, Submission
55, p. 2.
[789] Mr Simpkins, Executive Officer, Pilbara ACC, Committee Hansard, 14 July 2005, p. 124.
[790] DOTARS, Revised
SRP tables, received 11 May 2005, p. 8.
[791] Mr and Mrs Allwood, Submission 1 and 1a; Mr and Mrs Allwood, Committee Hansard, 14 April 2005.
[792] Mr and Mrs Allwood, Submission 1, p. 2.
[793] Mr McDade, Committee
Hansard, 23 June 2005, p. 42-43.
[794] Mr and Mrs Allwood, Committee Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 2.
[795] Ms Riggs, correspondence,
received 12 July 2005, p. 5.
[796] Mr and Mrs Allwood, Committee Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 13.
[797] Ms Riggs, correspondence, received 12 July 2005,
p. 5.
[798] Mr Allwood, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 12.
[799] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment B, Guidelines - General Assessment Criteria.
[800] DOTARS, Revised
SRP tables, answer to question on notice, received 11 May 2005, p.7.
[801] Mr Nasser, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 18.
[802] Mr Nasser, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 18.
[803] Ms Riggs, correspondence, received 12 July 2005,
p. 3.
[804] Mr Curtis, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 20.
[805] Mr Nasser, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 25.
[806] Mr Nasser, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 27.
[807] Ms Riggs, correspondence, 12 July 2005, p. 4.
[808] Ms Riggs, correspondence, 12 July 2005, p. 4;
DOTARS, Revised SRP tables, answer to
question on notice, received 11 May 2005, p.7.
[809] Ms Taylor, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 54.
[810] Ms Tunney, email to Mr Coyle, 14 December 2004,
in Ms Taylor, answers to questions on notice, received 14 April 2005.
[811] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment B, Guidelines - General Assessment Criteria.
[812] Ms Riggs, correspondence, 12 July 2005, p. 4.
[813] Mr McDade, Committee
Hansard, 13 April 2005, pp 154-155.
[814] Mr McDade, Committee
Hansard, 23 June 2005, p. 39.
[815] Ms Riggs, correspondence, 12 July 2005, p. 4.
[816] Mayor Chapman, Committee Hansard, 11 August 2005, p. 13.
[817] Mr Curtis, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, pp 28-29; Mayor Chapman, Committee Hansard, 11 August 2005, p. 13.
[818] Mr Tenni, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, p. 68.
[819] Committee
Hansard 13 April 2005, p. 134; Committee
Hansard, 11 August 2005, pp 8-9.
[820] ATSRAC, answer
to question on notice, received 10 June 2005.
[821] Mr Jaensch, Committee
Hansard, 30 June 2005, p. 66.
[822] Mr Jaensch, Committee
Hansard, 30 June 2005, pp 62-63.
[823] Mr Jaensch, Committee
Hansard, 30 June 2005, pp 62-63.
[824] For a discussion of the of the council's
establishment of this project and in-kind and cash commitment, see Committee Hansard, 11 August 2005, pp
9-11.
[825] DOTARS, Revised
SRP tables, received 11 May 2005, p. 7.
[826] Ms Kerri-Ann Stout, 'Funds
probe may widen', Cairns Post,
13 September 2005.
[827] K. Stout, 'Auditors
probe three councils', Cairns Post,
12 September 2005.
[828] Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, pp 29-32.
[829] Advice from the Queensland Audit Office to the
Senate Finance and Public Administration References Committee Secretariat, 23
September 2005.
[830] Crime and Misconduct Commission Queensland, 'CMC
releases public sector fraud and corruption guidelines',
media release, 15 March 2005.
[831] ANAO, Administration
of Grants Better Practice Guide, May 2002, p. 20.
[832] ANAO, Administration
of Grants Better Practice Guide, May 2002, pp 22-23.
[833] ANAO, Administration
of Grants Better Practice Guide, May 2002, p. 47.
[834] ANAO, Administration
of Grants Better Practice Guide, May 2002, p. 23.
[835] DOTARS, answers to questions on notice, received
11 May 2005, p. 3.
[836] ANAO, Administration
of Grants Better Practice Guide, May 2002, p. 22.
[837] DOTARS, answers to questions on notice, received
11 May 2005, p. 4.
[838] ANAO, Administration
of Grants Better Practice Guide, May 2002, p. 48.
[839] DOTARS, Equity
of Funding – Regional Partnerships programme, answer to question on notice,
received 11 May 2005.
[840] Mr Michael Ferguson MP, Member for Bass, Submission 28, pp 3-4.
[841] Committee
Hansard, 2 February 2005, pp 48-49.
[842] Ms Riggs, answers to questions on notice,
received 16 May 2005, p. 3.
[843] DOTARS, Submission
14, p. 3.
[844] DOTARS, Submission
14, p. 3.
[845] DOTARS, Submission
14. Also see DOTARS Internal
Procedures Manual for Regional Partnerships and Sustainable Regions Internal Procedures Manual.
[846] Mr Vukelic, Committee
Hansard, 18 July 2005, pp 58-59.
[847] DOTARS, Submission
14, pp 20-22.
[848] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment J, Responses to Audit and Evaluation Findings DOTARS
Regional Programs 2001-2004.
[849] Mr Cameron Simpkins, Executive Officer, Pilbara
ACC, Committee Hansard, 14 July 2005,
p. 97.
[850] DOTARS, Submission
14, Attachment G, ACC Operational Funding Contract, p. 21.
[851] DOTARS, Submission
14, p. 4.
[852] DOTARS, Submission
14, p. 5.
[853] Mr Strazzeri, Committee Hansard, 13 April 2005, p. 9.
[854] Dr Dolman, Committee
Hansard, 14 April 2005, pp 78-79.
[855] The Hon Kim Beazley MP, Leader of the
Opposition, House of Representatives
Hansard, 9 February 2005, p. 52
[856] Committee
Hansard, 24 February 2005, p. 18.
[857] The Hon Kim Beazley MP, Leader of the
Opposition, House of Representatives
Hansard, 9 February 2005, p. 52
[858] Wyong Shire Council, Media release Tumbi Creek dredging licence offer, 20
September 2005.
[859] Mayor Pavier, correspondence, 11 August 2005.
[860] Mayor Pavier, correspondence, 11 August 2005.
[861] Mr Carmody, Committee
Hansard, 15 September 2005, p. 4.
[862] Mr
Anderson MP, House of Representatives
Hansard, 17 November 2004, p. 158.
[863] Australian Federal Police, Media Statement AFP concludes electoral bribery
investigation, 22 November 2004.
[864] Unless otherwise noted, information about these
projects is sourced from DOTARS, Revised RPP tables and Revised SRP tables, received 11 May 2005.
[865] South East Development ACC, Minutes and
recommendations, received 4 April 2005.
[866] The Pilbara ACC, Submission 35, p. 4.
[867] Ms Fran Haintz, Manager, Wangka Maya Aboriginal
Language Centre, Committee Hansard,
14 July 2005, p. 84.
[868] Mrs Geraldine Webster, Secretary and Volunteer,
In Town Centre Inc., Committee Hansard, 18
July 2005, pp. 37-38.
[869] Mrs Webster, Committee
Hansard, 18 July 2005, p. 38.
[870] Mr Greg Ramsay, Director, Links Golf Tasmania
Pty Ltd, Committee Hansard, 30 June
2005, p. 13.
[871] Committee
Hansard, 30 June 2005, pp. 13-14.
[872] Tasmanian Orford/Triabunna Region Chamber of
Commerce, Submission 31, p. 2.
[873] DOTARS website, Regional Partnerships Approved
Projects, www.dynamic.dotars.gov.au/regional/approved_grants/grants_regpart.cfm,
accessed 20 September 2005.