Budget Estimates 2015-2016

Budget Estimates 2015-2016

View Report - (PDF 144KB)

Hearing Program 1, 2, 3 and 4 June 2015 (PDF 75KB)

Hansard Transcripts

1 June 2015 2015 Defence Portfolio (PDF & HTML)
2 June 2015 2015 Defence Portfolio (PDF & HTML)
3 June 2015 2015 Foreign Affairs and Trade Portfolio (PDF & HTML)
4 June 2015 2015 Foreign Affairs and Trade Portfolio (PDF & HTML)

Tabled Documents

Questions on notice

Answers to questions on notice are due by close of business on Friday 17 July 2015.

Indexes and answers to questions on notice will be loaded to the respective department/agency pages via links below.

Defence Portfolio

Foreign Affairs and Trade Portfolio

Corrections to Evidence

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, letter from Mr Peter Varghese, Secretary, correcting evidence given at the Senate Estimates hearing on 4 June 2015 in relation to Senator Dastyari’s questions regarding budget night drinks hosted by the Foreign Minister, dated 5 June 2015, received 5 June 2015 (PDF 1262KB).

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, letter from Dr Lachlan Strahan, First Assistant Secretary, Multilateral Policy Division, correcting evidence given at the Senate Estimates hearing on 4 June 2015 in relation to Senator Waters’ questions regarding Ambassador Woolcott’s travel, dated 11 June 2015, received 11 June 2015 (PDF 641KB).

Department of Defence, letter from Mr Geoffrey Brown OAM, Chief Audit Executive, Audit & Fraud Control Division, correcting evidence given at the Senate Estimates hearing on 2 June 2015 in relation to questions regarding fraud control and investigations, dated 17 June 2015, received 3 July 2015 (PDF 48KB).

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, letter from Mr Daniel Sloper, correcting evidence given at the Senate Estimates hearing on 4 June 2015 in relation Senator Rhiannon’s question regarding Mr Anthony Regan and SSGM, dated 2 July 2015, received 3 July 2015 (PDF 595KB).

Department of Defence, letter from Dr Ken Anderson, Chief Aerospace Division, DSTO, correcting evidence given at the Senate Estimates hearings on 1 and 2 June 2015 in relation to questions regarding US anthrax shipments to Australia, dated 15 June 2015, received 3 July 2015 (PDF 27KB).

Department of Defence, letter from Rear Admiral Sammut, Head Future Submarine Program, Royal Australian Navy, correcting evidence given at the Senate Estimates hearings on 1 June 2015 in relation to an FOI request regarding the Future Submarine Program, dated 12 August 2015, received 14 August 2015 (PDF 39KB).

Department of Defence, letter from Mr Geoffrey Brown, First Assistant Secretary Audit and Fraud Control, correcting evidence given at the Senate Estimates hearings on 1 and 2 June 2015 in relation to reported fraud figures, dated 19 October 2015, received 20 October 2015 (PDF 424KB).

 

For further information, contact:

Estimates Officer
Senate Standing Committees on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia

Phone: +61 2 6277 3535
Fax: +61 2 6277 5818
Email: fadt.sen@aph.gov.au