Footnotes

Chapter 1 - Budget Estimates 2014–15

[1]        As a matter of comity between the Houses 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.

[2]        Portfolio Supplementary Additional Estimates Statements 2013-14 – Prime Minister and Cabinet Portfolio, p. 1.

[3]        As the former Independent National Security Legislation Monitor's term of appointment expired on 20 April 2014 and a new monitor has not been appointed, Dr Margo McCarthy, Associate Secretary National Security and International Policy, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, attended the hearing to answer questions in the absence of a monitor.

[4]        Proof Committee Hansard, 26 May 2014, pp 22-29 and 51-54.

[5]        Proof Committee Hansard, 26 May 2014, p. 28. Item (e) of the CCTV Code of Practice Statement of Purpose specifies that the CCTV system may be used to 'Provide evidence upon which to take criminal and civil proceedings'.

[6]        Tabled document, Correspondence from the Clerk of the Senate to Senator the Hon John Faulkner, dated 26 May 2014.

[7]        Journals of the Senate, No. 32, 18 June 2014, pp 903-904.

[8]        Proof Committee Hansard, 27 May 2014, p. 4.

[9]        Proof Committee Hansard, 27 May 2014, p. 4.