[1]        Journals of the Senate, No. 2, 13 November 2013, pp. 88–89.

[2]        For example, many Acts that establish statutory authorities have separate reporting requirements under those Acts. For example, Centrelink reports under section 41 of the Commonwealth Services Delivery Agency Act 1997 and the Australian Electoral Commission reports under section 17 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.

[3]        Senate Hansard, 8 December 1987, pp. 2632–45.

[4]        Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Requirements for Annual Reports for Departments, Executive Agencies and Other Non-Corporate Commonwealth Entities (Requirements for Annual Reports), dated 25 June 2015, p. 3.

[5]        The Finance submission to the JCPAA, and JCPAA report 457: Development of the commonwealth Performance Framework – Second Report, May 2016, at page 11, confirms it remains government policy to table reports in the Parliament by 31 October each year and before the Supplementary Estimates hearings as best practice.

[6]        Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Guidelines for the Presentation of Documents to Parliament (including government documents, government responses to committee reports, ministerial statements, annual reports and other instruments), dated 12 August 2016, p. 4.

[7]        Infrastructure Australia, Annual Report 2015–16, p. 58.

Chapter 2 - Annual reports of agencies

[1]        Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. 2–5.

[2]        Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. 31–33.

[3]        Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. 89–92.

[4]        Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. 3, 63 and 74.

[5]        Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. 15–99.

[6]        Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Annual Report 2015–16, p. 35.

[7]        Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. 110–113.

[8]        Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Annual Report 2015–16, p. 113.

[9]        Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Annual Report 2015–2016, p. 240.

[10]      Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. ix–xi.

[11]      Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, Annual Report 2015–16, p. 8.

[12]      Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. 26–27.

[13]      Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. 26–27.

[14]      Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, Annual Report 2015–16, p. 41.

[15]      Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. 4 and 52–53.

[16]      Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. 5–6.

[17]      Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, Annual Report 2015–16, p. 7.

[18]      Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, Annual Report 2015–16, p. 8.

[19]      Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. 22–67.

[20]      Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, Annual Report 2015–16, p. 58.

[21]      Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, Annual Report 2015–16, p. 40.

[22]      Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, Annual Report 2015–16, p. 38.

[23]      Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. 12–13.

[24]      Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Annual Report 2015–16, p. 2.

[25]      Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Annual Report 2015–16, p. 2.

[26]      Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Annual Report 2015–16, p. 46.    

[27]      Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. 26–27.

[28]      Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Annual Report 2015–16, p. 25.

[29]      Airservices Australia, Annual Report 2015–16, p. ix

[30]      Airservices Australia, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. 98, 100 and 107.   

[31]      Airservices Australia, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. vii–ix, 19, 28-29, 34, and 40.

[32]      Airservices Australia, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. vi–ix.

[33]      Airservices Australia, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. viii–ix, 34–35.

[34]      Airservices Australia, Annual Report 2015–16, p. 34.

[35]      'Airservices to cut 50 IT jobs, itnews, 31 October 2016, http://www.itnews.com.au/news
/airservices-to-cut-50-it-jobs-440455 (accessed 3 November 2016).

[36]      Address by Jason Harfield, CEO, Airservices Australia, RAAA, 21 October 2016, 'The new Airservices – supporting regional aviation', p. 7.

[37]      Mitchell Bingemann, 'Airservices Australia to slash staff by 20 per cent', The Australian, 26 August 2016.

[38]      Airservices Australia, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. 19 and 53.

[39]      Henry Belot, 'Staff at Airservices Australia fight for 600 voluntary redundancies in major restructure, Canberra Times, 4 July 2016.

[40]      Airservices Australia, 2015-16 Annual Report 2015–16, pp. ix, 49 and 54.

[41]      Airservices, Annual Report 2015–16, pp. vii and 19.

[42]      Mr Jason Harfield, Airservices Australia, Estimates Hansard, 17 October 2016, p. 89.

Appendix 1 - Annual reports referred during the period 1 May to 31 October 2016

[1]        Also forwarded to the Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee.