21 March 2012

935  MR L. D. T. FERGUSON: To ask the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship—In (a) 2009-10, and (b) 2010-11, how many rejected carer applications did the Migration Review Tribunal return to his department for reconsideration, where over the previous five years the family had already successfully obtained visa entry for other family members to care for the same Australian based resident.

936  MR L. D. T. FERGUSON: To ask the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship—In respect of Recommendation 1 of the ‘Knight Review’ (Michael Knight and the Australian Government, Strategic Review of the Student Visa Program 2011 , 30 June 2011), implemented on 5 November 2011, what number of applications from (a) Dhaka, (b) New Delhi, (c) Islamabad, (d) Colombo, (e) Amman, (f) Cairo, (g) Beirut, (h) Hong Kong, (i) Shanghai, and (j) Beijing, were received for each student visa class (i) between 5 November 2010 and 5 November 2011, and (ii) from 5 November 2011 to date, and of these, what number was accepted and rejected.

937  MRS K. L. ANDREWS: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport—In respect of his letter received by her office on 5 March 2012, that made reference to the ‘$455 million towards the $910 million Pacific Motorway Upgrade’ and ‘$210 million towards the section from Nerang to Tugun’, (a) when will works commence for further upgrades to the M1 between Mudgeeraba and Tugun on the southern Gold Coast, (b) when are these upgrades scheduled for completion, and (c) what sum has the Government allocated to upgrades between Mudgeeraba and Tugun.

938  MR HAASE: To ask the Minister for Defence—Why was the commemorative service for the seventieth anniversary of the sinking of the HMAS Sydney (II) , held on 19 November 2011, denied a request for a flypast by the Australian Airforce.