Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committees

Information relating to additional estimates 2001-2002

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Transport and Regional Services - Portfolio

• Regional Development Group

  Ques 1: Staffing numbers in Regional Policy Division
  Ques 2: Area Consultative Committees – administration costs
  Ques 3: Wide Bay-Burnett Structural Adjustment Programme – Neptune’s Reefworld
  Ques 4: Rural Transaction Centres -funding details for recurrent costs
  Ques 5: Wide Bay-Burnett Structural Adjustment Programme – financial commitments
  Att New measures contained in PAES 2001-2002
  Ques 6: Types of Regional Solutions Programme projects funded
  Ques 7: Regional Solutions Programme (RAP) – Funding
  Ques 8: Levels of RAP branch staff transferred from DEWRSB
  Ques 9a: Regional Assistance Programme – Gympie animal shelter
  Ques 9b: RAP and Sustainable Regions – grant funding
  Ques 10: Asylum Seekers – consultation with Christmas Island
  Ques 11: Asylum seekers – Christmas Island processing centre site
  Ques 12: Christmas Island community consultation – meetings – key discussion points
  Att Copy of file notes detailing key discussion points
  Ques 13: Christmas Island processing centre site – decision
  Ques 14: Cocos Island – Asylum seeker additional funding
  Ques 15: Cocos Island – processing centre – community consultation
  Att Copy of bulletin by Deputy Administrator dated 20 September 2001
  Ques 16: Christmas Island – employment
  Ques 17: Asylum seekers – communications re: children thrown in sea
  Ques 18: Christmas Island Casino – worker entitlements
  Ques 19: Funding for building intermodal facilities
  Ques 20: National Capital Authority – various
  Att A. Chronology of draft amendment 39
  Att B. Authority contact/communication with interested parties 1 Jan to 14 Feb 2002
  Att C. Information on draft amendment 39 for statutory public consult
  Att D. Letter to residents re: media speculation
  Att E. Parliamentary zone review background paper
  Att F. Extract from Parliamentary Zone Review Outcomes Report