Footnotes
Chapter 1 - Introduction
[1]
Journals
of the Senate, 18 March 2010, p.3399.
[2]
Article 9, Bill of Rights 1689, "...proceedings in Parliament ought
not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of
Parliament".
[3]
Explanatory Memorandum, p.3.
[4]
Economics
Legislation Committee, Report, Tax Laws Amendment (Confidentiality of
Taxpayer Information) Bill 2009 [Provisions], March 2010.
[5]
Scrutiny of Bills
Committee, Alert Digest No 15 of 2009, 25 November, p.23.
[6]
Scrutiny of Bills
Committee, Report No.1, p 32.
[7]
Economics
Legislation Committee, Report, Tax Laws Amendment (Confidentiality of
Taxpayer Information) Bill 2009 [Provisions], March 2010.
Chapter 2 - Statutory Secrecy Provisions and Parliamentary Privilege
[1]
Dr R. Laing, Evidence, pp 1&2.
[2]
Privileges Committee, 36th Report, Possible Improper
Interference with a Witness and Possible Misleading Evidence before the
National Crime Authority, June 1992.
[3]
Dr R. Laing, Clerk of the Senate, Submission 1, pp 1-4.
[4] Quoted in Evans, Harry (ed), Odgers'
Australian Senate Practice, 12th Edition, 2008, p.51.
[5] Australian Constitution, s.49.
[6] Quick & Garran, The Annotated
Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth, p.506.
[7] Odgers' Australian Senate Practice,
12th Edition, p.51.
[8] McGee, Parliamentary Practice in New
Zealand, 3rdEdition, p.436.
[9]
Lovelock and Evans, New
South Wales Legislative Council Practice, p.81.
[10]
Lovelock and Evans, New
South Wales Legislative Council Practice, p.515.
[11]
Privileges Committee, 36th Report, Possible Improper
Interference with a Witness and Possible Misleading Evidence before the
National Crime Authority, June 1992.
[12]
Australian Law Reform Commission, Secrecy Laws and Open Government in
Australia, Report no.112 (2009).
[13]
ALRC, Submission 7,
p.2.
[14]
Auditor-General Act
1997, ss37 (3).
[15]
Clerk of the Senate, Submission 1, pp1-2.
Chapter 3 - The Provisions of Concern to the Committee
[1]
Tax Laws Amendment (Confidentiality of Taxpayers Information) Bill 2009,
s.355-10.
[2]
Acting Commonwealth Ombudsman, Submission 8, p.1.
[3]
Clerk of the Senate, Submission 1, p.7.
[4]
Dr Anne Twomey, Submission 2, p.1.
[5]
Mr P. McCullough, Evidence, p.5.
[6]
See below, paragraph 3.37 et seq.
[7]
Evidence, p.2.
[8]
Standing Orders and other orders of the Senate, June 2009,
Privileges Resolutions, p.110.
[9]
Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987, s.12.
[10]
Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987, s.12.
[11]
The Treasury, Submission 6, p.3 & Dr R Laing, Clerk of the
Senate, Submission 1, p.2.
[12]
Senator Brandis, Evidence, p.7.
[13]
Acting Commonwealth Ombudsman, Submission 9, p.1.
[14]
ALRC, Submission 7, p.2.
[15]
Clerk of the Senate, Submission
1, p.13.
[16]
Evidence, p.2.
[17] Evidence, p. 6.
[18]
Evidence, p.11.
[19]
Economics Legislation Committee, Inquiry into the Tax Laws Amendment (Confidentiality of
Information) Bill 2009 – Provisions, Evidence, 25 February 2010, p.3.
[20]
Rule of Law
Association of Australia, Submission 4, p.2.
[21]
Acting Commonwealth Ombudsman, Submission 9, p.1.
[22]
Evidence, p.5.
[23]
Evidence, p.13.
[24]
Privileges Committee, 36th, 42nd, 46th,
64th, 73rd, 89th, 119th Reports.
Also see report of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee,
Report on Parliamentary Privilege - Possible interference in the work of the
committee: Inquiry into matters relating to events on HMAS Success, March
2010.
[25]
Evidence, p.2.
[26]
Clerk of the Senate, Submission 1, p.12.
[27]
Dr Twomey, Submission 2, p.3.
[28]
Evidence, p 7.
[29]
Clerk of the Senate, Submission 1, p.11.
[30]
Clerk of the Senate, Submission 1, p.12. See also paragraph 2.16
above in relation to ss 37(3) of the Auditor-General Act 1997.
[31]
Evidence, p.3.
[32]
Evidence, p.2.
[33]
Dr Twomey, Submission 2, p.4.
[34]
Evidence, p.3.
[35]
Rule of Law Association, Submission 4, p.2.
[36]
Rule of Law Association, Submission 4, p.2.
[37]
Evidence, pp.5,6,7.
[38]
Dr Twomey, Evidence, p. 3
[39]
Evidence, p.2.
[40]
Privileges Committee, 49th Report, Parliamentary Privileges
Amendment (Enforcement of Lawful Orders) Bill 1994, September 1994.
[41]
Privileges Committee, 49th Report, Parliamentary Privileges
Amendment (Enforcement of Lawful Orders) Bill 1994, September 1994.
[42]
Privileges Committee, 49th Report, Parliamentary Privileges
Amendment (Enforcement of Lawful Orders) Bill 1994, September 1994.
[43]
Senator Brandis, Evidence, p.14.
Chapter 4 - Conclusions and recommendations
[1]
Clerk of the Senate, Submission 1, p.13, see also paragraphs
3.33-3.35 & 3.61 above.
[2]
Senator Brandis, Evidence, p.11.