Chapter 1 - Introduction

[1]        House of Representatives, Votes and Proceedings, No. 46—30 March 2017, p. 696.

[2]        Journals of the Senate, No. 41—11 May 2017, p. 1347.

[3]        The Hon Mr Angus Taylor MP, Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation, House of Representatives Hansard, 30 March 2017, p. 3809.

Chapter 2 - Key issues and committee view

[1]        Senate Selection of Bills Committee, Report No. 5 of 2017, 11 May 2017, Appendix 9.

[2]        Explanatory Memorandum (EM), p. 2.

[3]        Submission 1, p. 1.

[4]        Submission 3, p. 1.

[5]        EM, p. 2.

[6]        Submission 1, p. 1.

[7]        Submission 1, p. 2.

[8]        Submission 1, p. 2.

[9]        Submission 1, p. 2.

[10]      Submission 1, p. 2.

[11]      Submission 1, p. 2.

[12]      Submission 1, p. 2.

[13]      Submission 3, p. 1.

[14]      Answers to question on notice from PM&C, received 7 June 2017.

[15]      EM, p. 2; Submission 1, p. 2.

[16]      EM, p. 12.

[17]      EM, pp 7-8.

[18]      Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee, Annual reports (No. 1 of 2017), 22 March 2017, pp 8–9.

[19]      ANAO, Submission 2, p. 2. See also EM, p. 12.

[20]      Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Guidelines for the Presentation of Documents to the Parliament (including Government Documents, Government Responses to Committee Reports, Ministerial Statements, Annual Reports and other Instruments), August 2016, pp 4-5.

[21]      Annual reports (No. 1 of 2014), p. 19. Since that time the ANAO has tabled its annual report as follows: 2013–14 on 24 September in both Houses; 2014–15 on 17 September 2015 in House of Representatives (12 October 2015 in Senate); and 2015–16 on 14 September 2016 in both Houses.

[22]      EM, p. 4.

[23]      EM, p. 14; Submission 1, p. 3.

[24]      Submission 4, p. 2.

[25]      EM, p. 15; Submission 1, p. 3.

[26]      Submission 1, p. 3.

[27]      Submission 1, p. 3.

[28]      Submission 4, p. 3.

[29]      Submission 1, pp 3-4.

[30]      Submission 4, p. 3.

[31]      Schedule 5, item 11, subsection 3(6C).

[32]      Schedule 5, items 19–25 and 28.

[33]      Schedule 5, items 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 16.

[34]      Senate Scrutiny of Bills Committee News, 11 May 2017, drawing on material in the committee's Scrutiny Digest No. 5 of 2017.

[35]      EM, p. 5.

[36]      Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Human rights scrutiny report, report 4 of 2017, 9 May 2017, p. 29.

[37]      Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Human rights scrutiny report, report 4 of 2017, 9 May 2017, p. 30.

[38]      Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Human rights scrutiny report, report 4 of 2017, 9 May 2017, p. 31.

[39]      EM, p. 5.

[40]      Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Human rights scrutiny report, report 4 of 2017, 9 May 2017, p. 32.

[41]      Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Human rights scrutiny report, report 4 of 2017, 9 May 2017, p. 29

[42]      Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Human rights scrutiny report, report 4 of 2017, 9 May 2017, p. 30. See also EM, p. 5.

[43]      Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Human rights scrutiny report, report 4 of 2017, 9 May 2017, p. 34.