Footnotes

Public Service Amendment (Payments in Special Circumstances) Bill 2011

[1]        Senate Selection of Bills Committee, Report No 9, 7 July 2011, Appendix 4.

[2]        Commonwealth Ombudsman, Comcare and Department of Finance and Deregulation: Discretionary Payments for Compensation, Report No 04/2010, March 2010. http://www.ombudsman.gov.au/files/comcare_dofd_discretionary_compensation_payments.pdf

[3]        Commonwealth Ombudsman, Comcare and Department of Finance and Deregulation: Discretionary Payments for Compensation, Report No 04/2010, March 2010, p. 1.

[4]        Commonwealth Ombudsman, Submission 3, p. 2.

[5]        Department of Finance and Deregulation, Submission 1, p. 7.

[6]        Commonwealth Ombudsman, Comcare and Department of Finance and Deregulation: Discretionary Payments for Compensation, Report No 04/2010, March 2010, p. 4; see also Department of Finance and Deregulation, Submission 1, p. 5.

[7]        Commonwealth Ombudsman, Comcare and Department of Finance and Deregulation: Discretionary Payments for Compensation, Report No 04/2010, March 2010, p. 4.

[8]        Commonwealth Ombudsman, Comcare and Department of Finance and Deregulation: Discretionary Payments for Compensation, Report No 04/2010, March 2010, pp 6–7.

[9]        Commonwealth Ombudsman, Submission 3, p. 3.

[10]      Commonwealth Ombudsman, Comcare and Department of Finance and Deregulation: Discretionary Payments for Compensation, Report No 04/2010, March 2010, pp 6–7.

[11]      Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, Review of Commonwealth Compensation Payments, December 2010.

[12]      Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, Review of Commonwealth Compensation Payments, December 2010, p. 53.

[13]      Community and Public Sector Union, Submission 2, p. 1.

[14]      Mr Barry Crush, Submission 6, p. 14.

[15]      Australian Public Service Commission, Submission 5, p. 2.

[16]      Australian Public Service Commission, Submission 5, p. 2.

[17]      Australian Public Service Commission, Submission 5, p. 3.

[18]      Australian Public Service Commission, Submission 5, p. 4.

[19]      Comcare, Submission 4, p. 6.

[20]      Comcare, Submission 4, pp 6–7.

[21]      Department of Finance and Deregulation, Submission 1, p. 8.

[22]      Commonwealth Ombudsman, Submission 3, p. 5.

[23]      Mr Barry Crush, Submission 6, p. 5.

[24]      Mr Barry Crush, Submission 6, p. 6.

[25]      Comcare, Submission 4, p. 6.

[26]      Comcare, Submission 4, p. 4.

[27]      Department of Finance and Deregulation, Submission 1, Attachment 1, p. 1.

[28]      Department of Finance and Deregulation, Submission 1, p. 9.

[29]      Department of Finance and Deregulation, Submission 1, p. 5.

Minority Report by Nick Xenophon, Independent Senator for South Australia

[1]        Mr Barry Crush, submission 6, pg 2

[2]        Ibid

[3]        Ibid, pg 3

[4]        Ibid, pg 4

[5]        Mr Barry Leahy, Letter to Barry Crush, 12 November 2003, pg 1-2

[6]        Senator Nick Xenophon, Public Service Amendment (Payments in Special Circumstances) Bill 2011, Second Reading Speech, 12 May 2011

[7]        Commonwealth Ombudsman, Comcare and Department of Finance and Deregulation: Discretionary payments of compensation, Report 4, March 2011, pg 4

[8]        Department of Finance and Deregulation, The Scheme for Compensation for Detriment caused by Defective Administration (the CDDA Scheme), http://www.finance.gov.au/financial-framework/discretionary-compensation/cdda-scheme.html, accessed 16 August 2011

[9]        Commonwealth Ombudsman, Comcare and Department of Finance and Deregulation: Discretionary payments of compensation, Report 4, March 2011, pg 1

[10]      Ibid, pg 7