Appendix 4

Appendix 4

Topic list

Infrastructure and Transport portfolio

Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Division/Agency and Topic

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Corporate Services

3–11

Building lease arrangements

3–4

Progress to meet efficiency dividend

4

Department's capability review

4–6

Major Infrastructure Projects Office

6

Staff performance management

6–7

Department's financial performance

7

Consultancies and contractors

7–8

A second airport for the Sydney region consultancy

8–9

High-speed rail consultancy

9–10

Pay scales for departmental employees

10

Submitting questions on notice to the committee late

10–11

Regional affairs element of the portfolio

11

Australian Rail Track Corporation

12–16

Inland rail

12

Double-stack containers from Melbourne to Sydney

13

Sydney metropolitan freight network

13

Moorebank Intermodal Project

13–14

Air quality tests at Islington and Mayfield

14

Rail line between Karuna and Spring Ridge, Liverpool Plains

14–15

Cox's Creek rail bridge near Boggabri

15

Company Board to manage the Moorebank Intermodal Project

16

Infrastructure Australia and Nation Building—Infrastructure Investment

16–43

National Freight Strategy

16–17, 27

Toowoomba Range crossing

17–18, 37

Warrego Highway

18

National Building 2 Program projects contained in the contingency reserve

18

Funding profile of the Parramatta to Epping rail link

19

Funding profile of the Richmond Bridge

19

Funding profile of the Princes Highway West

19

Funding profile of the Tasman Highway

19

Funding profile of the Legacy Way Northern Tunnel link

19

Funding profile of the F3 Sydney orbital

19

Update on the Maranoa Bridge over the Mitchell River

20, 21

Epping Floodplain

20–21

Update on West Connex project

21, 24, 37, 39

Mackay Ring Road

21

Scone level crossing

21–22, 33

Update on Bruce Highway

22, 27, 29

Budget savings from projects

23

Consultation with states

23

Discussions with the Tasmanian government in relation to light rail project for Hobart

23

Liveable Cities Programs

23–24

Current capacity of Port Botany

24–25, 39–40

Regional Infrastructure Fund

25

Engineering skills shortages in Australia

25–26

Roads for Recovery budget for Western Australia

26

Update on the Great Northern Highway

26

Pacific Highway upgrade

27–28, 40–41

Cooroy to Curra upgrade

29

Clarke Creek Community Reference Group

30

Blakey's Crossing Townsville

30

National Port Strategy

30–31

Gawler rail electrification

31–33

Heavy Vehicle Safety and Productivity Program

33–34

National Heavy Vehicle Regulator

34–36

National Rail Regulator

36

Update on the Midlands Highway

36–37

Infrastructure Australia's discussions with the Leader of the Opposition

38

Moorebank Intermodal Project

40

Tasmanian government's submission to Infrastructure Australia in relation to irrigation projects

42

Cairns Harbour dredging

42

Funding for the Hahn Highway

42

Gold Coast light rail project

42–43

Surface Transport Policy

43–47

Kennedy Highway update

43

Seatbelts on regional school buses

44

Export shipping service out of Bell Bay, Tasmania

45

Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme

45–46

National Sea Highway Coalition

46

Light rail in Tasmania

47

Public transport investment

47

Australian flagged vessels

47

Australian Maritime Safety Authority

47–51

Maritime training certification standards

47–50

Tinny to tanker reform process

50

Destruction of illegal entry vessels in the waters off Christmas Island

50–51

Policy and Research

51–54

Scope of collaboration on research publications

51–52

Staffing resources of the unit

52

Recent publications

52–53

Research categories

53

Flinders River irrigation project

53–54

Major Cities Unit

54–57

Walking, Riding and Access to Public Transport Draft Report

54–55

COAG Reform Council review of Capital Cities Strategy Planning Systems Report

56

National Airport Safeguarding Advisory Group (NASAG)

56

Perth Airport

56–57

Tralee

57

Office of Transport Security

57–59

Department's capability review

57–58

Maritime Security Identity Card (MSIC)

58

Maritime security zones

58

Exclusive Economic Zones and MSIC holder

58

Access to Fremantle port

59–59

Aviation and Airports

59–66

Jandakot Airport

59–60, 63–64

NASAG reforms, processes and guidelines

60–61

Tralee

61–62, 66

Formal response to the recommendations of the Sydney airport joint study

62

Moruya Airport

62

Sydney Airport environmental impact statement

63

Bankstown Airport

64–65

Governance frameworks

65–66

Airservices Australia

66–73

Perth Airport

66–69

Staff turnover, bullying and harassment  

70

Mr Greg Hood

70

Current staffing levels of air traffic controllers

70

The closure of airspace

70–71

Freedom of Information requests in relation to Mr Russel's time at Airservices Australia

71

Credit card expenditure

71

Corporate sponsorship

71

Archerfield Airport

72

Use of non-directional beacon

72

Sydney Airport Corporation

72–73

Civil Aviation Safety Authority

73–79

AusTender plant contract

73–74

Potential threat posed by new wave industrial wave turbines

75

Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements

76

Recreation Aviation Australia

76–77

United States Federal Aviation Administration audit

77

Aviation treaties

77

Maintenance regulations of small aircraft

77–78

Approved testing officers

78

Flights tests by Flight Operation Inspectors

79

Australian Transport Safety Bureau

80–82

Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements

80

Training levels of safety investigators

80–81

Benchmarking by the International Transport Safety Association

80–81

Near mid-air collision above Darwin

81–82

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