Footnotes
Report
[1]
Journals of the Senate, No. 102 – 25 June 2015, pp 2828-2829.
[2]
Journals of the Senate, No. 111 – 7 September 2015, p. 3039.
[3]
Journals of the Senate, No. 101 – 24 June 2015, p. 2808.
[4]
Explanatory Memorandum (EM), p. 2.
[5]
Senate Hansard, 24 June 2015, pp 4464-4465. Leave was granted for
Senator Xenophon to have the second reading speech incorporated into Hansard
when the EM to the bill was tabled.
[6]
Australian Government, Office for Women, Women on Australian
Government Boards Report 2009-2010, p. 3.
[7]
Australian Government, Office for Women, Women on Australian
Government Boards Report 2009-2010, p. 3.
[8]
Available at: www.dpmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/publications/gender_balance_aust_govt_boards_report_14-15.pdf
(accessed 15 October 2015). The Gender Balance on Australian Government
Boards Report 2014-15 (2014-15 Report) was released after
submissions for this inquiry had closed, but prior to the committee holding its
public hearing. For this reason, submissions referred to data in the Gender
Balance on Australian Government Boards Report 2013-14 (2013-14 Report),
while the discussion at the public hearing focussed predominantly on the
results in the 2014-15 Report.
[9]
Australian Government, 2014-15 Report, p. 2. The Appendix to the
2014-15 Report notes that Guidelines for the Report establish the parameters
for the boards and appointments included in the report. Boards that are within
the scope of the 2014-15 Report are as follows: bodies covered by the Public
Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013; ministerial advisory
committees; review committees where the appointments are made by a minister or
Cabinet; and Commonwealth statutory authorities. Within this subset of boards,
only appointments having some level of input or sign-off from particular representatives
of the Government are included, that is: the Prime Minister; one or more
Australian Government ministers; the Governor-General in Council; and Cabinet. The
2014-15 Report excludes appointments that are: ex-officio; to a Commonwealth
Court or Tribunal, or to a quasi-judicial body; formally elected with no formal
Government approval; nominated by a third party with no formal Government
approval; appointed by an organisation without Government involvement; nominated
by a State or Territory Government without Commonwealth Government approval; or
nominated by a government of another country without Commonwealth Government
approval.
[10]
Australian Government, 2014-15 Report, p. 2.
[11]
See Boardlinks website, About Boardlinks, available at: www.boardlinks.gov.au/boardlinks.html
(accessed 17 August 2015).
[12]
Minister for Women, Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash, Government and
business unite to promote women in leadership, Media Release, 8 October
2015, available at http://minister.women.gov.au/media/2015-10-08/government-and-business-unite-promote-women-leadership
(accessed 14 October 2015). The new Boardlinks Champions are:
Diane Smith-Gander; Jennifer Westacott; Anne Fulwood; Ann Sherry; and Paris
Aristotle.
[13]
Australian Government, Gender Balance on Australian Government Boards
Report
2013-14, December 2014, p. 4.
[14]
Minister for Women, Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash, Government and
business unite to promote women in leadership, Media Release, 8 October
2015.
[15]
Senate Hansard, 24 June 2015, p. 4465.
[16]
See subclause 7(2) of the bill.
[17]
The committee understands that Boardlinks is the preferred avenue for
identifying potential candidates for Australian Government boards.
[18]
EM, p. 4.
[19]
EM, p. 2.
[20]
Submission 5, p. 2.
[21]
Submission 12, pp 1-2.
[22]
Submission 6, p. 1.
[23]
Submission 13, p. 2.
[24]
Submission 4, p. 3.
[25]
Submission 4, p. 3.
[26]
Submission 3, pp 1-2.
[27]
Australian Government, Gender Balance on Australian Government Boards
Report
2013-14, p. 3.
[28]
Australian Government, Gender Balance on Australian Government Boards
Report
2013-14, p. 3.
[29]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, pp 8-9.
[30]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p. 23.
[31]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p. 22.
[32]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p. 26. See also Australian
Government, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Cabinet Handbook,
8th Edition, 2015, p. 22.
[33]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p. 22.
[34]
Answer to question on notice, received 22 October 2015, p. 1.
[35]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p. 25.
[36]
Submission 12, pp 2-3. In a supplementary submission the
Australian Institute of Company Directors indicated that they would support the
bill with amendments which focussed on targets, accountability and disclosure, Supplementary
Submission 12, p. 1.
[37]
Submission 12, p. 3.
[38]
Supplementary Submission 12, p. 1.
[39]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p. 12.
[40]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p. 13.
[41]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, pp 1-2.
[42]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p. 9.
[43]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p. 21.
[44]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p. 21.
[45]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p. 22.
[46]
Australian Government, Gender Balance on Australian Government Boards
Report
2013-14, p. 4.
[47]
Australian Government, Gender Balance on Australian Government Boards
Report
2013-14, p. 4.
Dissenting Report by Senators Xenophon, Lambie, Lazarus, Waters, Gallagher and Moore.
[1]
Chair’s Report, Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation
Committee, Australian Government Boards (Gender Balanced Representation) Bill
2015, p. 12, 1.44
[2]
Senate Hansard, 24 June 2015, pp 4465-4465. Leave was granted for
Senator Xenophon to have the second reading speech incorporated into Hansard
when the EM to the bill was tabled.
[3]
‘The CS Gender 3000: Women in Senior Management’, Credit Suisse,
September 2014
[4]
‘Gender diversity and corporate performance’, Credit Suisse, August
2012, pp. 12-19. https://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/index.cfm?fileid=88EC32A9-83E8-EB92-9D5A40FF69E66808.
[5]
‘Building a Business Case for Gender Diversity’, Professor Robert
Wood, Centre for Ethical Leadership, The University of Melbourne, July 2014.
https://cel.edu.au/our-research/building-a-business-case-for-gender-diversity
[6]
Chair’s Report, Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation
Committee, Australian Government Boards (Gender Balanced Representation) Bill
2015, p. 6, 1.20
[7]
Submission 5, p. 2.
[8]
Submission 12, pp 1-2.
[9]
Submission 6, p. 1.
[10]
Submission 13, p. 2.
[11]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p 10
[12]
Submission 6, p. 1.
[13]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p 10
[14]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p 10
[15]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p 2
[16]
Submission 13, p. 2.
[17]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p 10
[18]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p 2
[19]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p 10
[20]
Directors argue for more women on boards, but against quotas, The
Australian, 6th August 2015
[21]
Chair’s Report, Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation
Committee, Australian Government Boards (Gender Balanced Representation) Bill
2015, p. 12, 1.46 & 1.47
[22] Chair’s
Report, Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee,
Australian Government Boards (Gender Balanced Representation) Bill 2015, p. 12,
1.46
[23]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p 25
[24]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p 9
[25]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p 4
[26]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p 26
[27]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p 25
[28]
Chair’s Report, Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation
Committee, Australian Government Boards (Gender Balanced Representation) Bill
2015, p. 12, 1.48
[29]
Explanatory Memorandum, p. 2.
[30]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p 26
[31]
Questions on Notice – Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,
Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee, Australian Government
Boards (Gender Balanced Representation) Bill 2015
[32]
Explanatory Memorandum, p. 4.
[33]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p 3
[34]
Committee Hansard, 12 October 2015, p 5
[35]
Appointment and Remuneration Guidelines, Department of
Premier and Cabinet, State Government of Victoria, October 2015. http://www.dpc.vic.gov.au/index.php/policies/governance/appointment-and-remuneration-guidelines
[36]
Recruitment and Appointment Toolkit, Victorian Public Sector Commission,
March 2015. http://vpsc.vic.gov.au/resources/recruitment-and-appointment-to-the-board-toolkit/