Appendix 5 - Topic Index Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government Portfolio

Appendix 5 - Topic Index Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government Portfolio

Wednesday 28 May 2008

Division/Agency and Topic

Hansard page references

Corporate Services

3-23

Opening statement

3-6

Answers to questions on notice

8-9

Press clippings service

9-11

Efficiency dividend

11-12

Staffing

12-14

Frequent flyer points

14

Ministerial travel

14-15

FOI requests

15

Approval of grants

15-17, 19-22

Air travel policy and expenditure

17-19

Charter letter for the minister

22-23

Inspector of Transport Security

23-31

Inquiry into intrastate passenger ferries

23, 25-26, 28-30, 31

Work of the Inspector

24, 26-28

International rail security

24-25

Budget and staffing

30-31

Office of Transport Security

31-42

Funding for airport security

31-34

Laser beams directed at aircraft

34-35

Regional maritime security funding

36-40

CCTV trials

40-42

Civil Aviation Safety Authority

42-71

Opening statement

42-44

Provision of incorrect information to Australian pilot, who has been detained in Singapore

44-54

Mr Shane Carmody's response to allegations that he misled the Senate

54-55, 58-59

CASA's response to criticisms made in the Queensland coroner's report into the Lockhart River tragedy

55-65

Drug and alcohol testing program

65-66

Civil Aviation Order 48, relating to flight deck duty time

66-71

Australian Transport Safety Bureau

71-73

Efficiency dividend

71

Website

72

Movement of various programs to other divisions

71-73

Airservices Australia

73-91

Shortage of air traffic controllers and measures to address this

73-75, 78-79

International assistance programs

76-77

Fees and charges

77-78

Sick leave

79-85, 89-91

Australian Noise Exposure Forecast for expansion of Canberra International Airport

85-89

E-Change program

89

Aviation and Airports

91-97

Noise insulation of Fort Street High School

92-96, 97

Jandakot Airport additional runway

96-97

Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics

97-100

Answers to questions on notice

97

Funding

97-98

Frequent flyer points

98

Regional research projects

98-99

Work on regional public transport

99-100

Survey on regional grocery prices

100

Australian Rail Track Corporation

127-140

Melbourne-Brisbane freight line feasibility study

127-130

Modernising the staff and ticket safety mechanism

130-131

Sleeper replacement program

132

Radio systems for train operators

132-135

Cost-effectiveness of, and value-adding to, rail

135-138

Revenue

138

Work in Western Australia (WA)

138-139

Grain rail lines

139

Infrastructure Investment

100-127, 140-143

Building Australia Fund

100-101

COAG infrastructure reports, and infrastructure working group

101-102

Operation of Infrastructure Australia and its board

102-110

Answers to questions on notice

110-111

Bridgewater Bridge project

111-113, 115, 117-118, 144-145

Tasmanian road projects

113-117, 145

Infrastructure in northern Australia

118-121

Pacific Highway bypass projects

121-122

Grain rail taskforce

122-125, 140

Work on urban congestion in New South Wales

125-126

M5 corridor

126

M4 upgrade projects

126-127

Pinjarra bypass project

140-141

Major WA road projects

141-142

Black Spot program

142-143

Investment in public transport

143

 

Thursday 29 May 2008

Division/Agency and Topic

Hansard page references

Infrastructure Investment

3-39

Public transport in Melbourne

10

Grain rail taskforce

11

Concrete sleepers

11-12

Esperance Coast Road project

12-13

Various Queensland road projects

13-15

Kingston bypass

16

AusLink 2 projects

16-20

Consideration given to the environmental impact of election commitments

21-22, 28

Infrastructure Australia and state responsibilities

23, 33-34

Board of Infrastructure Australia

23-24, 32-33

Staffing and funding of Infrastructure Australia

26-28

Banora point upgrade

28-29

Answers to questions on notice

29-30

Victorian road projects

34-39

National Transport Strategy

40-50

Role of NTS

40-41

Urban congestion

41-44

Inconsistency across jurisdictions of the accreditation of road pilots

44-46

Bass Strait Passenger Vehicle Equalisation Scheme

46-47

Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme

47-48

Keys2drive

48-50

Novice Driver program

50

Australian Maritime Safety Authority

50-59

Inspection of regional ports

51

Efficiency dividend

51

Funding of NMSC

51-52

Reform and development of maritime standards

52-55

Changes in aftermath of the Malu Sara incident

55-57

Inspection of ships in WA

57-58

Local Government and Regional Development

59-136

Information requested on 494 Regional Partnership project applications which had been submitted but not assessed

59-64

ACC executive officers group

64-66

Reconsideration of 86 Regional Partnerships projects

66-69, 71-72, 85-86, 109-117

Turtle interpretive centre at Bundaberg

69-70

Barcaldine Tree of Knowledge

70-71, 76-82, 95-96, 106-108

Ethanol plant in Gunnedah

73-76

Rural Medical Infrastructure Fund

82-83

Funding for Regional Partnerships programs

83

Major Cities Unit

84-85

Indigo Cheese company

86-88

Regional Partnerships applications made in good faith

88-94, 95-100, 117-119

Alternative funding options for Regional Partnerships applications which were not assessed before the program closed

98-103

Funding and operation of Better Regions program

100-101, 119-122

Chairs of ACC's

108-109

Board and responsibilities of Regional Development Australia

109, 124-125

Regional and rural research and development grant

123-124

Office of Northern Australia

126-131

Funding for local government

132-133

Council of Australian Local Governments

133-134

Staffing

135-136

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