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- BUSINESS
- EUTHANASIA
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- NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST OF AUSTRALIA BILL 1996
- DEVELOPMENT ALLOWANCE AUTHORITY AMENDMENT BILL 1996
- CUSTOMS TARIFF AMENDMENT BILL (No. 1) 1996
- TAXATION LAWS AMENDMENT BILL (No. 1) 1996
- NATURAL HERITAGE TRUST OF AUSTRALIA BILL 1996
- ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION AMENDMENT BILL 1996 [No. 2]
- ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER LEGISLATION
- SPECIAL ADJOURNMENT
- LEAVE OF ABSENCE
- BUSINESS
- ADJOURNMENT
- PRIVILEGE
- ADJOURNMENT
- BUSINESS
- MINISTER FOR ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER AFFAIRS
- ADJOURNMENT
- DEVELOPMENT ALLOWANCE AUTHORITY AMENDMENT BILL 1996
- COMMITTEES
- CUSTOMS TARIFF AMENDMENT BILL (No. 1) 1996
- Adjournment
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QUESTIONS ON NOTICE
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Tax Loophole Closure
(Mr Filing, Mr Costello) -
Emergency Financing Mechanism
(Mr Rocher, Mr Costello) -
Commonwealth Borrowings: Total Sums
(Mr Rocher, Mr Costello) -
Forgone Revenue: Research and Development Tax Concessions
(Mr Rocher, Mr Costello) -
Annual Budget Statements: Treasury's Review
(Mr Latham, Mr Costello) -
Local Government
(Mr Latham, Mr Warwick Smith) -
Department of Social Security: Welfare Payments
(Mr Eoin Cameron, Mr Ruddock) -
Government and Non-Government School Funding: Victoria
(Mr Broadbent, Dr Kemp) -
Australian Broadcasting Authority: Licence Issue
(Mr Anthony, Mr Warwick Smith) -
International Year for the Eradication of World Poverty
(Mr Langmore, Mr Ruddock) -
Jabiluka Uranium Mine: Employment
(Dr Lawrence, Mr Anderson) -
Ausmusic: Commonwealth Funding
(Dr Lawrence, Mr Warwick Smith) -
Australian Prisoners of War: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
(Mr Cobb, Mr Bruce Scott) -
Aboriginal Legal Aid: Expenditure
(Mr Cobb, Dr Wooldridge) -
Employer Organisations and Individual Companies: Commonwealth Financial Grants
(Mr Martin Ferguson, Mr Moore) -
Pensioners' Investments: Deeming
(Mr Anthony, Mr Ruddock) -
War Widows Receiving Age Pension
(Mr Pyne, Mr Ruddock) -
Charities: Commonwealth Funding
(Miss Jackie Kelly , Mr Ruddock) -
Department Liaison Officers: Prime Minister's Office
(Mr Laurie Ferguson, Mr Howard) -
Departmental Liaison Officers: Minister for Primary Industries and Energy
(Mr Laurie Ferguson, Mr Anderson) -
Departmental Liaison Officers: Minister for Social Security Office Staff
(Mr Laurie Ferguson, Mr Ruddock) -
Departmental Liaison Officers: Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs Office Staff
(Mr Laurie Ferguson, Dr Kemp) -
Departmental Liaison Officers: Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs Office Staff
(Mr Laurie Ferguson, Mr Ruddock) -
Departmental Liaison Officers: Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Office Staff
(Mr Laurie Ferguson, Dr Wooldridge) -
Departmental Liaison Officers: Minister for Resources and Energy
(Mr Laurie Ferguson , Mr Anderson) -
Departmental Liaison Officers: Minister for Administrative Services
(Mr Laurie Ferguson, Mr Jull) -
Departmental Liaison Officers: Minister for Schools, Vocational Education and Training Office Staff
(Mr Laurie Ferguson, Dr Kemp) -
Sydney-based Cabinet Meetings
(Mr Laurie Ferguson, Mr Howard) -
Manufacturing Industry: Employment
(Mr Crean, Mr Moore) -
Imperial Honours
(Mr Latham, Mr Howard) -
Monthly Electoral Roll Updates
(Mr Sawford, Mr Jull) -
Cabinet Meetings
(Mrs Crosio, Mr Howard) -
Family Allowance Supplement Recipients: Electoral Division of Deakin
(Mr Barresi, Mr Ruddock) -
Disability Support Pension Recipients: Electoral Division of Deakin
(Mr Barresi, Mr Ruddock) -
Sole Parent Pension Recipients: Electoral Division of Deakin
(Mr Barresi, Mr Ruddock) -
Age Pensioners: Electoral Division of Deakin
(Mr Barresi, Mr Ruddock) -
Job Search Allowance Recipients: Electoral Division of Deakin
(Mr Barresi, Mr Ruddock) -
Newstart Allowance Recipients: Electoral Division of Deakin
(Mr Barresi, Mr Ruddock)
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Tax Loophole Closure
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Mr Laurie Ferguson
asked all Ministers, upon notice, on 17 June 1996:
(1) How many Sydney-based Cabinet meetings have the Minister's departmental staff, ministerial staff and departmental liaison officers attended.
(2) What was the total number of attendances by the staff referred to in part (1).
(3) What was the total cost in airfares and travelling allowance incurred by the staff's attendance.
Mr Howard
—I provide the following answer, on behalf of all Ministers, to the honourable member's question:
(1)-(2) The only persons to attend the two meetings of the Cabinet held in Sydney since 2 March 1996 besides Ministers and the Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet) were the Secretary of my Department, the Secretary to Cabinet and notetakers from my Department. In addition, three staff from the Cabinet Secretariat provided support services for both meetings.
(3) Travel and related costs for the eight persons so present for the first meeting were in the order of $3,100. For the ten persons so present for the second meeting, those costs were in the order of $3,900.