With reference to the department and each agency in the portfolio, what were the state and city or town location, number of employees and annual salary values of all corporate services as at 30 June 1996 and 30 June 2000, for the following functional areas: (a) human resources; (b) property and office services; (c) financial and accounting services; (d) fleet management; (e) occupational health and safety; (f) workplace and industrial relations; (g) parliamentary communications; (h) payroll; (i) personnel services; (j) printing and photocopying; (k) auditing; (l) executive services; (m) legal and fraud; and (n) any other corporate services (please specify).

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission has provided the following information:

The following should be noted in relation to the information supplied:

- Salary cost amounts are total expenditure recorded against a particular area for the entire FY.

- Staff numbers are the average paid staff employed in the particular area for the entire FY.

- Executive areas (ie. GM/AGM and their P/A's have been excluded from National Office areas.

- Continuous Improvement has been excluded from the IT area, but the Library is included.

- Personnel includes, payroll, recruitment and case management.

- Due to organisation structures existing at the requested dates it has not been possible to provide a break-up of all the functions requested. However, where an area has responsibility for more than one function it is so indicated in the table.

- Similarly, it has not been possible to separate functions in former state offices, however, depending on the operation requirements of these offices, the figures could include property and office services, financial and accounting services, payroll, personnel services, printing and photocopying, ministerial liaison, training, and/or public affairs.

- Prior to the ATSIC 2000 Restructure all corporate service functions for each state where performed in the State Office, located in each capital city.

- There have been the following pay rises since 30 June 1996:

-- 17 October 1996- 2%

-- 20 August 1998- 4%

-- 12 November 1998- 2%

-- 8 June 2000- 4%