Footnotes

133rd Report

[1]        Journals of the Senate, 18 September 2007, p.4415.

[2]          Journals of the Senate, 17 September 2007, p.4377.

[3]        Senate Debates, 17 September 2007, p.1.

[4]        Journals of the Senate, 11 September 2007, p.4329.

[5]        Senate Debates, 18 September 2007, p.47.

[6]        Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, Additional estimates, 15 February 2005, pp.8 and 12.

[7]        Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, Budget estimates, 24 May 2004, pp.16 and 17.

[8]        Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, Additional estimates, 14 February 2005, p.8. Further evidence on the same issue is at pp. 9-14 and 18-19 of the committee Hansard.

[9]        Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, Additional estimates, 15 February 2005, pp.31-32.

[10]      Letter from the Chair of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee to the Privileges Committee, dated 11 October 2007. See Appendix 1.

[11]      ibid.

[12]      Senator Nettle was a participating member of the committee in the 41^st Parliament.

[13]      ibid.

[14]      Journals of the Senate, 11 September 2007, p.4329. See Appendix 1.

[15]      Letter to the Privileges Committee, dated 26 October 2007, footnote 1 on page 2.

[16]      The question was asked by Senator Ludwig, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Budget estimates, 23 May 2007, p.67. The transcript shows that the question was a reiteration of a question asked in 2005 that had not been satisfactorily answered.

[17]      Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Budget Estimates Report, June 2007, p. xi.

[18]      Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Additional estimates, 18 February 2008, p.34; copy subsequently provided to the committee as an answer to question no. 79.

[19]      Letter to the Privileges Committee, dated 26 October 2007. See Appendix 1.

[20]      Letter to the Privileges Committee, dated 11 October 2007. See Appendix 1.

[21]      For analysis of the first 15 of these reports, see 125^th Report, PP3/2006. The sixteenth case was the subject of the committee's 131^st Report, PP 171/2007.

[22]      The previous five cases were the subjects of the following reports: 15^th Report, PP 461/1989; 26^th Report, PP 438/1990; 46^th Report, PP 43/1994; 64^th Report, PP 40/1997; 119^th Report, PP 177/2004.

[23]      Resolution originally adopted on 21 October 1993, on the recommendation of the committee in its 42^nd Report, PP 85/1993; reaffirmed on 1 December 1998 on the recommendation of the committee in its 73^rd Report, PP 118/1998; the responses were contained in the committee's 89^th Report, PP 79/2000. See also 119^th Report, PP 177/2004, recommendation relating to senior officers of Telstra, adopted 5 August 2004.

[24]      119^th Report, PP 177/2004, p.7-8.