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Thursday, 15 May 1997
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(Question No. 1574)


Mr Bevis asked the Minister for Defence Industry, Science and Personnel, upon notice, on 25 March 1997:

What is the (a) number of and (b) job title of full time and part-time civilian and uniform staff positions at the Australian Defence Industries facilities located at (i) Garden Island, NSW, (ii) Bendigo, Vic. (heavy engineering), (iii) Benalla, Vic. (munitions manufacturing), (iv) Mulwala, NSW, (v) Lithgow, NSW, (vi) Albury, NSW, (vii) North Ryde, NSW, (viii) Technology Park, WA, (ix) Osborne Park, WA, (x) Sydney Service Centre, NSW, (xi) Melbourne Service Centre, Vic., (xii) Newcastle, NSW, (xiii) Silverwater, NSW, (xiv) Woomera-Nurrungar, SA, (xv) technical calibration centres in each state and (xvi) environmental clean- up operations in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic.


Mrs Bishop —The answer to the honourable member's question is as follows:

ADI Limited is a company established under the Corporations Law. Although Government owned, ADI is a separate legal entity from the Commonwealth and its employees are not public servants. ADI does not employ any uniformed staff. The numbers of personnel and their classifications, by facility, is commercial-in-confidence to the company.

ADI Limited's 1996 Annual Report contains information about the total number of people employed by the Company in Australia and overseas. At pages 13, 15 and 17 of the report the employees in each of the Company's major business groups, Operations, Systems and Technology are stated to be 2013, 239 and 887 respectively. ADI subsequently acquired the business assets of Stanilite Electronics and some 400 additional personnel joined Systems Group.