Footnotes

Additional Estimates 2008–09

[1]        Journals of the Senate, 4 December 2008, p. 1446.

[2]        As a matter of comity between the Houses, it is traditional that neither House inquires into the operations of the other House. For this reason, neither the annual report of, nor the proposed expenditure for, the Department of the House of Representatives is referred to a Senate committee for review.

[3]        Prime Minister and Cabinet Portfolio, Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements 2008–09, p. 3.

[4]        Officials from the Office of National Assessments did appear briefly before the committee but no questions were put.

[5]        Appendix 3 provides an index to the Hansard transcripts.

[6]        This discussion paper largely restates the paper released by Mr Lindsay Tanner MP, then Opposition Shadow Minister for Finance, on 24 October 2005 with the same name.

[7]         Senator Andrew Murray, Review of Operation Sunlight: Overhauling Budgetary Transparency, June 2008, www.finance.gov.au/financial-framework/financial-management-policy-guidance/operation-sunlight/docs/budget-transparency-report.pdf (accessed 2.2.09); Australian Government, Commonwealth Government Response, June 2008, http://www.finance.gov.au/financial-framework/financial-management-policy-guidance/operation-sunlight/docs/official-government-response-to-murray-report.rtf (accessed 2.2.09).

[8]        Australian Government, Operation Sunlight – Enhancing Budget Transparency, December 2008, www.finance.gov.au/financial-framework/financial-management-policy-guidance/operation-sunlight/docs/operation-sunlight-enhancing-budget-transparency.rtf (accessed 10.3.09).

[9]        Mr H Evans, Clerk of the Senate, Estimates Hansard, 23.2.09, p. 4.

[10]      Mr H Evans, Clerk of the Senate, Estimates Hansard, 23.2.09, p. 5.

[11]      Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee, Transparency and accountability of Commonwealth public funding and expenditure, Recommendation 8, p. 41; Senator Andrew Murray, Review of Operation Sunlight: Overhauling Budgetary Transparency, June 2008, Recommendation 4, p. 12.

[12]      Australian Government, Operation Sunlight – Enhancing Budget Transparency, December 2008, p. 11.

[13]      Ms K Campbell, Department of Finance and Deregulation, Estimates Hansard, 24.2.09, pp 54–55.

[14]      Dr I Watt, Secretary, Department of Finance and Deregulation, Estimates Hansard, 24.2.09,  p. 55.

[15]      Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee, Transparency and accountability of Commonwealth public funding and expenditure, Recommendation 8, p. 41; Senator Andrew Murray, Review of Operation Sunlight: Overhauling Budgetary Transparency, June 2008, Recommendation 13, p. 52.

Portfolio Issues

[1]        Mr A Thompson, DPS, Estimates Hansard, 23.2.09, p. 7.

[2]        Mr M Mrdak, PM&C, Estimates Hansard, 23.2.09, p. 47.

[3]        'PM splurges on consultants', Australian Financial Review, 18.2.09.

[4]        Senator the Hon J Faulkner, Estimates Hansard, 23.2.09, p. 48.

[5]        Mr A Campbell, PM&C, Estimates Hansard, 23.2.09, p. 55.

[6]        Senator the Hon John Faulkner, Special Minister of State, Estimates Hansard, 23.2.09, p. 68.

[7]        Mr I Carnell, IGIS, Estimates Hansard, 23.2.09, pp 80–81.

[8]        Mr I Carnell, IGIS, Estimates Hansard, 23.2.09, p. 81.

[9]        Mr I McPhee, ANAO, Estimates Hansard, 23.2.09, p. 85.

[10]      Ms K Curtis, APC, Estimates Hansard, 23.2.09, p. 89.

[11]      Dr M Parkinson, DCC, Estimates Hansard, 23.2.09, p. 99.

[12]      Dr M Parkinson, DCC, Estimates Hansard, 23.2.09, p. 101.

[13]      Dr M Parkinson, DCC, Estimates Hansard, 23.2.09, p. 117.

[14]      Dr I Watt, Finance, Estimates Hansard, 24.2.09, p. 6.

[15]      Dr P Grimes, Finance, Estimates Hansard, 24.2.09, p. 9.

[16]      Dr I Watt, Finance, Estimates Hansard, 24.2.09, p. 53.

[17]      Dr I Watt, Finance, Estimates Hansard, 24.2.09, pp 52–53.

[18]      Mr P Costello, Future Fund, Estimates Hansard, 24.2.09, p. 98.

Appendix 3 - Index to Hansard Transcripts

[1]        Page numbers correspond to the proof Hansards. Sometimes there are slight variations with the final version.