Footnotes

Chapter 1 - Introduction

[1]        Journals of the Senate, No. 144, 14 May 2013, p. 3888.

[2]        Tasmanian Parliament Hansard, 20 March 2013, p. 53.

Chapter 2 - Background

[1]        Australian National Audit Office (ANAO), Submission 7, p. 3.

[2]        Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF), National Forest Policy Statement, www.daff.gov.au/forestry/policies/statement (accessed 9 April 2013).

[3]        DAFF, Regional Forest Agreement Tasmania website, www.daff.gov.au/forestry/policies/rfa/regions/tasmania/rfa (accessed 9 April 2013).

[4]        DAFF, Regional Forest Agreement Tasmania website.

[5]        ANAO, Submission 7, p. 2.

[6]        DAFF, The Tasmanian Community Forest Agreement website, www.daff.gov.au/forestry/national/info/cfa (accessed 9 April 2013).

[7]        The TCFA also contained two other programs: the Tasmanian Country Sawmills Assistance Program; and the Tasmanian Softwood Industry Development Program. Refer to DAFF, Submission 9, p. 16.

[8]        In October 2007, the then Australian Government Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation wrote to the successful applicants of the three programs under the TCFA advising that all grant recipients would receive an additional 30 per cent to assist applicants to offset the income tax liability of the original grant. The additional payments totalled $16.8 million across the three programs and were approved by the former Prime Minister and the then Minister for Finance and Administration. Refer to DAFF, Submission 9, p. 16 and ANAO, Tasmanian Forest Industry Development and Assistance Programs, Audit Report No.26 2007-08, p. 14.

[9]        Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, The Tasmanian Community Forest Agreement website, www.daff.gov.au/forestry/national/info/industry

[10]      ANAO, Tasmanian Forest Industry Development and Assistance Programs, Audit Report No.26 2007-08, p. 13.

[11]      ANAO, Submission 7, p. 2.

[12]      Tasmanian Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources, About Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement, www.forestsagreement.tas.gov.au/about (accessed 9 May 2013).

[13]      Journals of the Senate, 11 March 2008, p.179.

[14]      ANAO, Submission 7, pp 4–5.

[15]      ANAO, Submission 7, p. 5.

[16]      ANAO, Submission 7, p. 4.

[17]      ANAO, Submission 7, p. 4.

[18]      DAFF, Supplementary Submission 9.

[19]      ANAO, Submission 7, p. 6.

[20]      Tasmanian Department of Premier and Cabinet, Tasmanian Forests Statement of Principles to Lead to an Agreement, p. 1.

[21]      Tasmanian Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources, Statement of Principles, www.premier.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/134991/draft_principles.pdf (accessed 9 May 2013).

[22]      Tasmanian Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources, Statement of Principles.

[23]      Journals of the Senate, No. 28, 10 May 2011, p. 858.

[24]      Mr Bill Kelty, Tasmanian Forests Interim Report for Consideration, pp 8–9.

[25]      Mr Bill Kelty, Tasmanian Forests Interim Report for Consideration, p. 12.

[26]      Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement, p. 1.

[27]      Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement, p. 1.

[28]      The total funding contributions include $261.5 million from the Australian Government and $15.5 million from the Tasmanian Government.

[29]      Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement, pp 3, 5 and 9.

[30]      DAFF, Submission 9, p. 7; see also IGA, Clause 16.

[31]      DAFF, Submission 9, p. 7.

[32]      DAFF, Submission 9, p. 8.

[33]      DAFF, Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program Guidelines, October 2011, p. 1.

[34]      DAFF, IGACEP Grant Program Guidelines October 2011, p. 2.

[35]      DAFF, IGACEP Grant Program Guidelines October 2011, p. 2.

[36]      Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement, p.3.

[37]      DAFF, Submission 9, p. 8.

[38]      ANAO, Submission 7, p. 5.

[39]      Journals of the Senate, 25 February 2013, p. 3634.

[40]      ANAO, Submission 7, p. 5.

[41]      ANAO, Submission 7, pp 5-6.

[42]      ANAO, Submission 7, p. 6.

[43]      ANAO, Submission 7, p. 6.

[44]      ANAO, Administration of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, Audit Report No.22 2012-13, p. 26.

[45]      Mr Tom Aldred, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Committee Hansard, 15 May 2013, p. 15.

[46]      DAFF, Tasmanian Forest Contractors Exit Assistance Program website, www.daff.gov.au/forestry/national/tfceap (accessed 15 April 2013).

[47]      ANAO, Submission 7, p.3.

[48]      Tasmanian Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources, Forests website, www.dier.tas.gov.au/forests (accessed 9 May 2013).

[49]      ANAO, Submission 7, p. 3.

[50]      Tasmanian Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources, Sawmillers Exit Package website, www.forestsagreement.tas.gov.au/responding-to-change/sawmillers-exit-package (accessed 13 May 2013).

[51]      Tasmanian Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources, Sawmillers Exit Package website.

[52]      Tasmanian Parliament Hansard, 30 April 2013, p. 96.

[53]      Commonwealth and Tasmanian Governments, Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement, August 2011, p. 2.

[54]      Tasmanian Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources, Responding to change website, www.forestsagreement.tas.gov.au/responding-to-change (accessed 13 May 2013).

[55]      Refer to Appendix 6 for the funding details of each commitment, Commonwealth and Tasmanian Governments, Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement, May 2013, pp 11–13.

[56]      Commonwealth and Tasmanian Governments, Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement, August 2011, p. 11.

[57]      Estimates Hansard, 28 May 2013, pp 72–73.

Chapter 3 - Issues

[1]        Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement: Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, Grant Program Guidelines, October 2011, p. 2.

[2]        Mr Tom Aldred, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p, 39.

[3]        Tasmanian Forest Agreement, Heads of Agreement, 24 July 2011, www.environment.gov.au/land/forests/pubs/heads-of-agreement.pdf, (accessed 30 May 2013). This may have been a draft document.

[4]        Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement: Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, Grant Program Guidelines, October 2011, p. 1.

[5]        Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Submission 9, p. 7.

[6]        Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement: Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, Grant Program Guidelines, October 2011, p. 3, emphasis added.

[7]        Mrs Marion Wiggins, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 17.

[8]        Mr Darryl and Ms Penny Scott, Submission 6, p. 1.

[9]        Mrs Marion Wiggins, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 17.

[10]      Mr Kenneth Padgett, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013.

[11]      DAFF, answer to question on notice, received 27 May 2013, emphasis in original.

[12]      Mr Gordon, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 12.

[13]      Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 27.

[14]      DAFF, Submission 9, p. 8.

[15]      Dr Tucker, Committee Hansard, 15 May 2013, p. 6.

[16]      Mr Aldred, Committee Hansard, 15 May 2013, p. 7.

[17]      The Guidelines, p. 3.

[18]      Note: Contractors working for Forestry Tasmania work almost exclusively in public native forests. (See Mr Gordon, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 14.)

[19]      Mr Padgett, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 28.

[20]      ANAO, Administration of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, Audit Report No.22 2012-13, p. 20.

[21]      Rod Watson Heavy Haulage, Submission 4, p. 1.

[22]      Commonwealth and Tasmanian Governments, Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement, August 2011, p. 4.

[23]      The Guidelines, p. 2.

[24]      Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement: Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, Grant Program Guidelines, October 2011, p. 1, emphasis in original.

[25]      ANAO, Administration of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, Audit Report No.22 2012-13, p. 20.

[26]      ANAO, Administration of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, Audit Report No.22 2012-13, p. 20.

[27]      Mrs Wiggins, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 17.

[28]      Mr Talbot, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 43.

[29]      DAFF, answer to question on notice, received 20 May 2013.

[30]      There were no allegations of fraud in relation to the TFIDA programs. See Dr Cloney, Committee Transcript, 15 May 2013, p. 15.

[31]      DAFF, Submission 9, p. 12.

[32]      Ms Freeman, Committee Hansard, 15 May 2013, p. 5.

[33]      A Deed of Undertaking, a form of Statutory Declaration, provides a means for the Commonwealth to pursue the directors or owners to repay grant funding if they breach the funding deed, even in the cases where the original business has been deregistered. See ANAO, Administration of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, Audit Report No.22 2012-13, p. 14.

[34]      ANAO, Administration of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, Audit Report No.22 2012-13, p. 14.

[35]      Dr Tucker, Committee Hansard, 15 May 2013, p. 4.

[36]      Ms Freeman, Committee Hansard, 15 May 2013, p. 5.

[37]      Mr McPhee, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 2.

[38]      Mr Simpson, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 7. The committee notes that the draft funding deed provided to grantees stated amongst other things that the grantee must 'facilitate such visits by representatives of the Commonwealth as the Commonwealth reasonably requests for the purpose of assessing the Project'.

[39]      DAFF, Submission 9, p. 12.

[40]      DAFF, Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, www.daff.gov.au/about/media-centre/tasmanian-forests-intergovernmental-contractors-voluntary-exit-grants-program, p. 2, accessed 3 June 2013.

[41]      ANAO, Administration of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, Audit Report No.22 2012-13, p. 23.

[42]      DAFF, Submission 9, pp 11–12.

[43]      Forestry Tasmania, Submission 2, p. 2.

[44]      Mr Gordon, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 8.

[45]      Mr McPhee, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 5.

[46]      Forestry Tasmania, Submission 2, p. 3.

[47]      Mr Gordon, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 10.

[48]      Mr Bennetto, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 24.

[49]      Mr Iles, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p, 24.

[50]      Mr Aldred, Committee Hansard, 15 May 2013, p. 13.

[51]      ANAO, Administration of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, Audit Report No.22 2012-13, p. 21.

[52]      Mr Talbot, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 41.

[53]      Mr Talbot, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 38.

[54]      Mr Talbot, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 38.

[55]      ANAO, Administration of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, Audit Report No.22 2012-13, p. 22.

[56]      ANAO, Administration of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, Audit Report No.22 2012-13, p. 22.

[57]      ANAO, Administration of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, Audit Report No.22 2012-13, p. 79.

[58]      See, for example, Mr Iles, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 24.

[59]      DM & SJ Iles, Pty Ltd, Submission 8, p. [2].

[60]      Mr Aldred, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 51.

[61]      Mr Talbot, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 50.

[62]      Mr McPhee, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 3.

[63]      Mr McPhee, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 7.

[64]      Mr McPhee, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 2.

[65]      ANAO, Administration of the Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement Contractors Voluntary Exit Grants Program, Audit Report No.22 2012-13, p. 26.

[66]      Mr McPhee, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p. 2.

Australian Greens' Additional Comments

[1]        Mr Iles, Committee Hansard, 7 May 2013, p, 24.