Appendix 4

Appendix 4

Topic list

Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government portfolio

Tuesday 9 February 2010

Division/Agency and Topic

Proof Hansard page reference

Corporate Services

3–14

Parliamentary Secretary for states

6

Advertising and marketing since November 2007

9

Green vehicle guide

9

Public notice advertising

9

Marketing figures 2008-09

10

Discretionary grants

10

Pot plants in the Minister's office

10

Cut backs due to efficiency dividend

11

Freedom of Information requests

11

Reviews

12

Aviation White Paper

12

Review of the aviation capacity for Sydney region

12

Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce report

13

Infrastructure Australia

14–31

Barraba water supply

14

Building Australia Fund

15

National urban policies

16

Major Cities Unit

16–18, 24–26

Regional Development Australia

24–25

Major road corridor in Cairns

26–27

Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce

28

Outback Highway Development Council

27-28

Horn Island Airport project

28–29

National freight network

29–30

Australian Rail Track Corporation Ltd

31–38

Melbourne to South Australia border line upgrade

31–32

Concrete sleepering

31

Increase in axle load

31

Queensland border to Acacia Ridge

32–33

Hunter Valley Coal Network Capacity Improvement program

33

Southern Sydney Freight Line

34–36

Inland rail, Melbourne – Brisbane plan

37

Nation Building – Infrastructure Investment

38–63

'Nation Building for the future' document

38

National city planning framework

39

Pacific Motorway upgrades

39

Ingham and Cardwell Range

40

Application of funding for the Jubilee Bridge

41

Darwin Port Expansion Project

42

Alternative Southern access route to Cairns

42

Indigenous employment targets in construction programs

42

Upgrading the Bruce Highway

43

Princes Highway east from Traralgon to Sale

44–45

Election commitments detailed on websites

46–50

New Nation Building program

49

Two Wells Road and Penfield Road structures

52

Invitations to opening ceremonies

51–54

Hancock and Waratah coalmining projects

54–57

Northern Economic Triangle project

56

Wanneroo project in Western Australia

57–58

Perth urban upgrade transport and freight corridor

58

Pacific Highway

58–61

Heavy vehicle driver fatigue

60–61

Midland Highway duplication

61–62

Tasmanian Government submissions for infrastructure funding

63

Infrastructure and Surface Transport Policy

63–73

Cost of conflicting transport regulations

63

Heavy vehicle driver fatigue reforms

63–64

State implementation of the National Transport Commission (Model Legislation – Heavy Vehicle Driver Fatigue) Regulations

64

Cross border issues

63–65

Volume load regulation problems between Queensland and New South Wales

66

Heavy vehicle charging regime

66–67

National partnership agreements for single national heavy vehicle and maritime regulators

67

Time processing issues involved in applications through Centrelink

67–72

Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme

69

King Island and Flinders Island claims

72

Australian Maritime Safety Authority

73–79

Pacific Adventurer oil spill

73–75

Increase of limit for shipowners' liability

73

Compensation payments

74

Montara spill recovery process

75–77

Tender process for the under keel clearance management system

78

Local Government and Regional Development

79–89

Better Regions Program and associated projects

79–81, 85

Regional Development Australia offices

80–89

Division of funding between states

82

Number of offices

82

Examples of day to day work for Regional Development Australia

83

Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program (RLCIP)

84

Politically neutral appointments of the RDA

86-87

Federal and state partnerships in the RDA

89

Office of Northern Australia

90–116

Early release of the Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce report

90–93

Dam proposals in the Taskforce's report

91–93, 103

Irrigation in Northern Australia

94

Membership of the Taskforce

96

Wild Rivers legislation

97–99

Invitations to the opening of the Karumba airport

99–100

Northern Australia Water Futures Assessment

103

Cost of the Taskforce since January 2008

105

Time frames or deadlines for recommendations in Taskforce's report

106–107

Consultation with Indigenous elders for Taskforce's report

107–108

Economic potential for Northern Australia

108

Northern Australia Land and Water Science Review 2009

108–109

Responsibilities of the Parliamentary Secretary for Western and Northern Australia

110–113, 115

Allocation of funds through the national partnership

112–113

Possibility of World Heritage listing for the Cape York peninsula

113

Upgrade of the Tanami Road from Halls Creek to Alice Springs

114

Roads to Recovery Program

114

Possibility of upgrades of the Kununurra airport and the port of Wyndham

115–116

Office of Transport Security

116–131

Compliance activities at ports

116

Staff numbers between 2008-09

116

Risk assessments done to determine the inspection of ports

117

GHD report into Australia's maritime security industry card scheme

117–118

Consultation with industry in regards to the GHD report

118–119

Recommendations from the Wheeler review

119–20

Detection dogs at airports

120–121

National Security Committee of Cabinet

121–122

Number of additional AFP dog handlers required to supervise the additional dogs

121

National Security Adviser

122

Minister's responsibility for the aviation security regulatory regime

123

Northwest 253 attempted plane bombing in Detroit

120–123

Full body scanners

123–127

Privacy issues regarding full body scanners

124–125, 127

Price of full body scanners

125–126

Possible health issues resulting from use of body scanners

126–127

Security contractors at airports

127–129

Rates of pay for security contractors

128–129

Screening facilities in country airports

130

Upgrading of airports

130

Aviation and Airports

131–133

Steering committee for formal review into Brisbane Airport

131

Consideration of curfew at Brisbane airport

132

Question of productivity in curfew enforced areas

132

Airservices Australia

133–135

Details of noise complaints received

133–134

Flights over Stoneville in Perth Hills, WA

134

Acceptable noise decibel readings

134

Possibility of insulation program for Perth areas

134

Requests for dispensations

134–135

Trial of the Unicom system

135

Civil Aviation Safety Authority

135–144

Non-scheduled flights by foreign air carriers

136–137

Foreign air operator certificates

136–137

Medivac flights

136–137, 140

Procedures involved in granting unscheduled operations

136–137

Trans Air PNG

136–138

Enforcing rules of landings without foreign air operator's certificates

138

Possibility of spot audits in Airservices Australia

139

Lockhardt River crash

140

After-hours number to seek unscheduled landings

140

Unicom System trial

141–142

Jurisdictional issues overseas

142–143

Outsourcing of maintenance

143

Australian Transport Safety Bureau

144–146

Specifics of a redirected flight from Los Angeles to Brisbane

144

Report from United Airlines regarding the engineering problems of the redirected flight

144

Number of reports and number of incidents

144–145

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