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Tabled documents, 20 November 2014

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The Hon Peter Costello AC	'World needs fossil fuels: ANU', The Australian Financial Review, 23 October 2014, p. 3	(PDF 436KB)
Senator the Hon Joseph Ludwig	'Sign up for healthy profit', Sunday Telegraph, 28 September 2014, p. 11	(PDF 246KB)

Additional information

Correspondence from Mr David Neal, Managing Director, Future Fund Management Agency, dated 21 November 2014 which corrects evidence given to the committee at the hearing on 20 November 2014

(PDF 1646KB)

Questions on notice

Index to questions on notice (PDF 855KB)

Answers to questions on notice (due 31 December 2014)

QoN No.	Agency	Outcome/ Program	Senator who asked	Broad Topic	Hansard Page, 20 November 2014 or Written	View	Date answer received
1	Finance	2/2.1	Moore	Office for Women – Boardlinks (numbers of women on Boards)	Written	(PDF 15KB)	1/12/14
2	Finance	2/2.1	Moore	Office for Women – Boardlinks (funding)	Written	(PDF 29KB)	1/12/14
3	Finance	2/2.1	Moore	Office for Women – Boardlinks (newsletter)	Written	(PDF 15KB)	1/12/14
4	Finance	1/1.1	Xenophon	Overview of public sector fraud and financial error	Written	(PDF 2202KB)	16/12/14
5	AEC	General	Rhiannon	Discrepancies over returns (Altum and others)	Written	(PDF 11KB)	24/12/14
6	AEC	General	Rhiannon	Inquiries about discrepancies	Written	(PDF 12KB)	24/12/14
7	AEC	General	Rhiannon	LNP fundraising	Written	(PDF 16KB)	9/2/15
8	AEC	General	Rhiannon	Referrals to the Australian Federal Police	Written	(PDF 26KB)	9/2/15
9	AEC	General	Rhiannon	Delays in disclosing donations	Written	(PDF 10KB)	24/12/14
10	Finance	3/3.1	Ludwig	Electorate Office Relocations	Written	(PDF 349KB)	17/2/15
11	Finance	2/2.1	Ludwig	Audit of spending capex and outcomes generated by ICT investment	Written	(PDF 16KB)	1/12/14
12	Finance	2/2.1	Ludwig	Air Warfare Destroyer Program Review (Winter Review)	Written	(PDF 28KB)	19/12/14
13	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Administrative Program Index Pause	Written	(PDF 15KB)	1/12/14
14	Finance	2/2.2	Ludwig	List of Smaller Government surplus Commonwealth properties	Written	(PDF 16KB)	1/12/14
15	Finance	General	Ludwig	Government Bodies	Written	(PDF 26KB)	1/12/14
16	Finance	2/2.1	Ludwig	Data.gov.au datasets	Written	(PDF 21KB)	1/12/14
17	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	CBMS Redevelopment Project Review	Written	(PDF 14KB)	18/12/14
18	Future Fund	1/1.2	Ludwig	Future Fund - Managing Director	Written	(PDF 14KB)	18/12/14
19	Finance	2/2.1	Ludwig	Commissioned Reports (Follow Up)	Written	(PDF 29KB)	18/12/14
20	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Communications and Public Affairs Functions – targeted savings Measures	Written	(PDF 10KB)	15/12/14
21	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Cost Recovery Guidelines	Written	(PDF 19KB)	1/12/14
22	Finance	General	Ludwig	Contestability Framework	Written	(PDF 18KB)	1/12/14
23	Finance	1/1.2	Ludwig	ComSuper / Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation merger	Written	(PDF 26KB)	2/12/14
24	Finance	3/3.1	Ludwig	Ministerial Staff Turnover	Written	(PDF 19KB)	17/2/15
25	Finance	General	Ludwig	Pre-Qualified or Multi-Use panel tenders	Written	(PDF 16KB)	17/2/15
26	Finance	3/3.1	Ludwig	Ministerial Staff Vehicles	Written	(PDF 39KB)	13/2/15
27	Finance	3/3.1	Ludwig	Staffing in the Prime Minister’s office	Written	(PDF 20KB)	17/2/15
28	Finance	3/3.1	Ludwig	Ministerial Staff Code of Conduct	Written	(PDF 19KB)	17/2/15
29	All	General	Ludwig	Commissioned reports	Written	(PDF 24KB)	23/12/14
30	All	General	Ludwig	Statutory Review Provisions	Written	(PDF 31KB)	23/12/14
31	All	General	Ludwig	Self-initiated work	Written	(PDF 24KB)	23/12/14
32	All	General	Ludwig	Graduate intake	Written	(PDF 14KB)	23/12/14
33	All	General	Ludwig	G20 - expenses	Written	(PDF 14KB)	16/12/14
34	Finance	General	Ludwig	G20 - Brisbane	Written	(PDF 19KB)	18/12/14
35	All	General	Ludwig	Procedure Manuals (Ministerial)	Written	(PDF 11KB)	23/12/14
36	All	General	Ludwig	Procedure Manuals (Departmental)	Written	(PDF 38KB)	2/2/15
37	Finance	General	Ludwig	Domain Usage	Written	(PDF 10KB)	19/12/14
38	All	General	Ludwig	Reviews	Written	(PDF 52KB)	23/12/14
39	All	General	Ludwig	Wine Coolers / Fridges	Written	(PDF 34KB)	23/12/14
40	All	General	Ludwig	FOI Requests	Written	(PDF 14KB)	23/12/14
41	Finance	General	Ludwig	Ministerial Motor vehicle	Written	(PDF 29KB)	15/12/14
42	Finance	General	Ludwig	Ministerial Staff vehicles (non-MoPS)	Written	(PDF 18KB)	2/2/15
43	All	General	Ludwig	Building Lease Costs	Written	(PDF 124KB)	23/12/14
44	All	General	Ludwig	Government advertising	Written	(PDF 117KB)	23/12/14
45	All	General	Ludwig	Workplace assessments	Written	(PDF 46KB)	23/12/14
46	Finance	General	Ludwig	Ministerial Website	Written	(PDF 11KB)	2/2/15
47	All	General	Ludwig	Multiple tenders	Written	(PDF 24KB)	23/12/14
48	All	General	Ludwig	Enterprise Bargaining Agreements (EBAs)	Written	(PDF 12KB)	18/12/14
49	All	General	Ludwig	Departmental Upgrades	Written	(PDF 29KB)	23/12/14
50	All	General	Ludwig	Non-Conventional Therapies	Written	(PDF 15KB)	23/12/14
51	All	General	Ludwig	Office Plants	Written	(PDF 38KB)	23/12/14
52	All	General	Ludwig	Office recreation facilities	Written	(PDF 24KB)	23/12/14
53	All	General	Ludwig	Vending machines	Written	(PDF 35KB)	23/12/14
54	All	General	Ludwig	Legal Costs	Written	(PDF 45KB)	23/12/14
55	All	General	Ludwig	Provision of equipment - departmental	Written	(PDF 58KB)	23/12/14
56	All	General	Ludwig	Lobbyist Register Meetings	Written	(PDF 56KB)	2/2/15
57	All	General	Ludwig	Appointments	Written	(PDF 26KB)	23/12/14
58	All	General	Ludwig	Staff transfers	Written	(PDF 192KB)	23/12/14
59	All	General	Ludwig	Existing Resources Program	Written	(PDF 27KB)	23/12/14
60	All	General	Ludwig	Conditions of Government Contracts and Agreements	Written	(PDF 30KB)	23/12/14
61	All	General	Ludwig	Market Research	Written	(PDF 50KB)	23/12/14
62	All	General	Ludwig	Prequalified, Multi-use list tenders	Written	(PDF 49KB)	23/12/14
63	All	General	Ludwig	Communications staff	Written	(PDF 36KB)	23/12/14
64	All	General	Ludwig	Freedom of Information	Written	(PDF 132KB)	10/2/15
65	All	General	Ludwig	Functions	Written	(PDF 27KB)	23/12/14
66	All	General	Ludwig	Red tape reduction	Written	(PDF 32KB)	23/12/14
67	All	2/2.2	Ludwig	Land costs	Written	(PDF 43KB)	23/12/14
68	All	General	Ludwig	Boards (for Departments or agencies with boards)	Written	(PDF 95KB)	23/12/14
69	All	General	Ludwig	Shared resources following MOG changes	Written	(PDF 37KB)	23/12/14
70	All	General	Ludwig	Departmental Rebranding	Written	(PDF 26KB)	23/12/14
71	All	General	Ludwig	Credit cards	Written	(PDF 124KB)	23/12/14
72	All	General	Ludwig	Contracts for Temporary Staff	Written	(PDF 28KB)	23/12/14
73	All	General	Ludwig	Hire cars	Written	(PDF 30KB)	23/12/14
74	All	General	Ludwig	Unallocated Equipment	Written	(PDF 26KB)	23/12/14
75	All	General	Ludwig	Advertising	Written	(PDF 38KB)	24/12/14
76	All	General	Ludwig	Departmental Staff Misconduct	Written	(PDF 78KB)	23/12/14
77	All	General	Ludwig	Cloud Services and Storage	Written	(PDF 36KB)	23/12/14
78	All	General	Ludwig	Disability Access	Written	(PDF 27KB)	23/12/14
79	All	General	Ludwig	Fee for services	Written	(PDF 26KB)	23/12/14
80	All	General	Ludwig	Documents provided to Minister	Written	(PDF 26KB)	24/12/14
81	All	General	Ludwig	Merchandise or promotional material	Written	(PDF 72KB)	23/12/14
82	All	General	Ludwig	Freedom of Information - Stats	Written	(PDF 25KB)	23/12/14
83	All	General	Ludwig	Savings and Efficiency Measures	Written	(PDF 29KB)	23/12/14
84	All	General	Ludwig	Contracts under $10,000	Written	(PDF 36KB)	23/12/14
85	All	General	Ludwig	Consultancies	Written	(PDF 53KB)	24/12/14
86	Finance	General	Ludwig	Electronic equipment provided to Ministers’ offices	Written	(PDF 14KB)	18/12/14
87	All	General	Ludwig	Media subscriptions	Written	(PDF 64KB)	23/12/14
88	All	General	Ludwig	Media monitoring	Written	(PDF 17KB)	23/12/14
89	All	General	Ludwig	Media training	Written	(PDF 17KB)	23/12/14
90	All	General	Ludwig	Report Printing	Written	(PDF 25KB)	23/12/14
91	All	General	Ludwig	Provision of equipment - Ministerial	Written	(PDF 44KB)	9/2/15
92	All	General	Ludwig	Computers	Written	(PDF 72KB)	23/12/14
93	All	General	Ludwig	Travel costs - department	Written	(PDF 1061KB)	23/12/14
94	Finance	General	Ludwig	Travel costs - Ministerial	Written	(PDF 19KB)	2/2/15
95	Finance	General	Ludwig	Senate Estimates briefing	Written	(PDF 39KB)	2/2/15
96	All	General	Ludwig	Government payments of accounts	Written	(PDF 29KB)	23/12/14
97	All	General	Ludwig	Stationery Requirements	Written	(PDF 551KB)	23/12/14
98	All	General	Ludwig	Meeting costs	Written	(PDF 30KB)	23/12/14
99	All	General	Ludwig	Hospitality and entertainment	Written	(PDF 37KB)	23/12/14
100	All	General	Ludwig	Executive coaching and leadership training	Written	(PDF 67KB)	23/12/14
101	All	General	Ludwig	Staffing profile	Written	(PDF 110KB)	23/12/14
102	All	General	Ludwig	Staffing reductions	Written	(PDF 32KB)	23/12/14
103	All	General	Ludwig	Staffing recruitment	Written	(PDF 37KB)	23/12/14
104	All	General	Ludwig	Coffee machines	Written	(PDF 28KB)	23/12/14
105	All	General	Ludwig	Printing	Written	(PDF 24KB)	23/12/14
106	All	General	Ludwig	Corporate cars	Written	(PDF 28KB)	23/12/14
107	All	General	Ludwig	Taxi costs	Written	(PDF 32KB)	23/12/14
108	All	General	Ludwig	Grants	Written	(PDF 31KB)	23/12/14
109	All	General	Ludwig	Sunset provisions	Written	(PDF 17KB)	23/12/14
110	Finance	2/2.3	Xenophon	Breakdown and numbers of compensation and related claims	Written	(PDF 25KB)	18/12/14
111	Finance	2/2.3	Xenophon	Difference between finalised and declined claims	Written	(PDF 11KB)	18/12/14
112	Finance	2/2.3	Xenophon	Time taken to resolve Act of Grace Claims	Written	(PDF 29KB)	18/12/14
113	Finance	2/2.3	Xenophon	Cost of legal fees relating to compensation claims	Written	(PDF 25KB)	18/12/14
114	Finance	2/2.3	Xenophon	Total cost of legal fees relating to compensation claims	Written	(PDF 9KB)	19/12/14
115	ASC	General	Wong	Forecast of interim target	Pages 4-5	(PDF 9KB)	15/12/14
116	ASC	General	Wong, Ludwig	Resignation of former ASC Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer	Page 5	(PDF 15KB)	16/12/14
117	ASC	General	Wong	Cost of construction of submarines	Pages 7-9	(PDF 42KB)	23/12/14
118	ASC	General	Wong	Australian companies involved in the construction and sustainment of the Collins	Page 14	(PDF 78KB)	18/12/14
119	ASC	General	Wong	Japanese delegation to ASC - attendees	Page 15	(PDF 11KB)	18/12/14
120	ASC	General	Wong	Japanese delegation to ASC – ministerial staff attendees	Pages 15-16	(PDF 9KB)	15/12/14
121	ASC	General	Wong	Japanese delegation to ASC – correspondence	Page 16	(PDF 261KB)	16/12/14
122	ASC	General	Wong	Japanese delegation to ASC – questions asked	Page 17	(PDF 11KB)	16/12/14
123	ASC	General	Wong	Japanese delegation to ASC – Minister’s knowledge	Page 19	(PDF 9KB)	15/12/14
124	ASC	General	Wong	Japanese delegation to ASC – departmental attendance	Page 20	(PDF 14KB)	18/12/14
125	Finance	1/1.3	Lundy	Draw down description of Future Fund in Budget Papers	Page 34	(PDF 14KB)	16/12/14
126	FFMA	1/1.3	Waters	Methodology used by investment managers to inform decisions	Pages 38-39	(PDF 28KB)	15/12/14
127	Finance	2/2.1	Faulkner	Open Government Partnership - resourcing	Page 47	(PDF 20KB)	15/12/14
128	Finance	2/2.1	Faulkner	Open Government Partnership – participation in OGP forums	Page 47	(PDF 9KB)	15/12/14
129	Finance	2/2.1	Faulkner	Open Government Partnership – other Government representations	Pages 48-49	(PDF 12KB)	15/12/14
130	Finance	General	Ludwig	Secretary’s title	Pages 50-51	(PDF 9KB)	15/12/14
131	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Amendments to the Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2014	Page 54	(PDF 13KB)	15/12/14
132	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Funding profiles for various schemes	Pages 54-55	(PDF 15KB)	15/12/14
133	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Average duration of a higher education loan	Page 56	(PDF 14KB)	16/12/14
134	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Spending on Defence programs	Page 64	(PDF 20KB)	16/12/14
135	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Spending on illegal maritime arrivals	Page 65	(PDF 25KB)	18/12/14
136	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Spending on pharmaceuticals	Page 65	(PDF 11KB)	16/12/14
137	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Spending on school education payment	Page 65	(PDF 14KB)	18/12/14
138	Finance	1/1.2	Ludlam	Closing of the defined benefits scheme – Defence stakeholder correspondence	Page 67	(PDF 21KB)	16/12/14
139	Medibank	General	Ludwig	Preregistrations of interest in Medibank shares	Page 68	(PDF 11KB)	15/12/14
140	Medibank	General	Ludwig	Calculation and forecast of share prices	Page 71	(PDF 10KB)	15/12/14
141	Medibank	General	Ludwig	Breakdown of retained earnings	Page 73	(PDF 10KB)	15/12/14
142	Medibank	General	Ludwig	Accounting for special dividend in the Budget	Page 73	(PDF 9KB)	15/12/14
143	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Variances between financial estimates of various schemes	Page 74	(PDF 14KB)	16/12/14
144	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Reconciliation of Defence operations	Page 77	(PDF 30KB)	16/12/14
145	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Trade Union Royal Commission - reasons for underspend	Page 78	Withdrawn
146	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	ANAO audit of Safer Streets Program - grants	Page 80	(PDF 11KB)	16/12/14
147	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Summary and list of approved and unapproved grants	Page 81	(PDF 66KB)	18/12/14
148	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Costing of VET sector reform proposals	Page 83	(PDF 35KB)	16/12/14
149	Finance	General	Ludwig	CBMS Redevelopment Taskforce - inception	Pages 84-85	(PDF 14KB)	16/12/14
150	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	CBMS Redevelopment Taskforce - budget	Page 86	(PDF 11KB)	18/12/14
151	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Calculating the Defence budget	Pages 90- 91	(PDF 14KB)	18/12/14
152	Finance	2/2.2	Ludwig	Cost of ATO office in Gosford	Page 93	(PDF 14KB)	15/12/14
153	Finance	2/2.1	Ludwig	Phases of the audit of spending capex and outcomes generated by ICT investment	Page 94	(PDF 13KB)	16/12/14
154	Finance	2/2.1	Ludwig	Actions in the Cloud policy	Page 95	(PDF 38KB)	16/12/14
155	Finance	1/1.1	Ludwig	Government advertising – media platforms on Austender	Pages 96-97	(PDF 31KB)	2/2/15
156	AEC	General	Rhiannon	AFP investigation into enrolment in seat of Indi	Page 100	(PDF 32KB)	9/2/15
157	AEC	General	Rhiannon	Penalties and enforcement of disclosure	Page 102	(PDF 33KB)	9/2/15
158	AEC	General	Rhiannon	Rate of prosecutions	Page 103	(PDF 20KB)	24/12/14
159	Finance	General	Ludwig	Position of AEC Commissioner – date of report	Page 104	(PDF 10KB)	24/12/14
160	Finance	General	Ludwig	Position of non-judicial appointee of the AEC	Page 106	(PDF 9KB)	24/12/14
161	AEC	General	Ludwig	AEC positions - Acting Statistician; Western Australian, Queensland and Northern Territory Electoral Officers; and Chief Financial Officer	Page 107-109	(PDF 14KB)	24/12/14
162	AEC	General	Rhiannon	ICAC investigations	Page 112-113	(PDF 35KB)	9/2/15
163	AEC	General	Ludwig	Numbers of investigations and referral to law enforcement agencies	Page 113-114	(PDF 33KB)	9/2/15
164	Finance	3/3.1	Moore	Ministerial office staffing – Offices of Ministers in the Social Services portfolio	Written	(PDF 32KB)	9/2/15
165	Finance	3/3.1	Jacinta Collins	MOP(S) Act staffing including: home and work bases; advice on entitlements, EA negotiations	Written	(PDF 165KB)	17/2/15
166	Finance	3/3.1	Jacinta Collins	Coalition Advisory Service	Written	(PDF 14KB)	24/12/14
167	AEC	General	Jacinta Collins	Electoral Integrity Unit	Written	(PDF 35KB)	24/12/14
168	AEC	General	Ludwig	Timing of former Electoral Commissioner’s departure	Page 106	(PDF 33KB)	9/2/15
169	Finance	2/2.1	Faulkner	Date to join the Open Government Partnership	Written	(PDF 19KB)	15/12/14
170	Finance	2/2.1	Faulkner	Australia’s representation at Open Government Partnership events	Written	(PDF 13KB)	15/12/14
171	Finance	2/2.1	Faulkner	Indonesian Government’s response to Open Government Partnership meeting – May 2014	Written	(PDF 19KB)	15/12/14
172	Finance	2/2.1	Faulkner	Open Government Partnership National Action Plan	Written	(PDF 1504KB)	15/12/14

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