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LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 13/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS : Program 1--Migration Framework : Subprogram 1.4--Health and character : [Senate Estimates]

Senator COONEY --Your 1996-97 annual report says that the objective of the health and character item is to maintain and further enhance a visa framework that supports public health and safety standards. Does that go both for the health and character elements of that subprogram? Mr Killesteyn --Yes, it covers both elements. Senator

Date: 13/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971113a_slc.out/0046 - Source: SENATE

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FINANCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 12/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET : Program 3--Corporate Services : [Senate Estimates]

Senator FAULKNER --Can I take you to page 71 of the annual report in relation to leases. It says: Both leases were agreed and signed within the required timeframe. Can I have the dollar amount square metre rate of rent there, please? You might need to take that on notice. Senator Hill

Date: 12/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971112a_sfp.out/0019 - Source: SENATE

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FINANCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 12/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET : Program 1--Departmental policy coordination : Subprogram 1.1--Economic and industry policy : [Senate Estimates]

Senator FAULKNER --Under subprogram 1.1.2, what analysis was undertaken by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to assess the Alice Springs to Darwin railway project? Mr Henderson --The department, in consultation with some other departments, did provide advice to the Prime Minister on that proposal including considering material provided by the Northern

Date: 12/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971112a_sfp.out/0022 - Source: SENATE

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FINANCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 12/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET : Program 1--Departmental policy coordination : Subprogram 1.2.3--Indigenous Affairs : [Senate Estimates]

Senator BOB COLLINS --In the Senate yesterday the minister said that he had asked OIA during September to inquire informally of members of the current reconciliation council which of them would be willing to continue or be interested in continuing to serve during its third and, I would add, final term. He went on

Date: 12/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971112a_sfp.out/0026 - Source: SENATE

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FINANCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 12/11/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET : Program 7--Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs : [Senate Estimates]

ACTING CHAIR --I welcome representatives from ATSIC. Senator BOB COLLINS --Once again, I appear to be the only senator asking questions. Acting Chair, the minister is aware, as are the ATSIC officers because I gave prior notice--it is not something I always do--that I want to canvass tonight both the Daffen and Fingleton

Date: 12/11/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd971112a_sfp.out/0028 - Source: SENATE

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RURAL AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 16/06/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT : Program 1--Aviation : Subprogram 1.7--Airservices Australia : [Senate Estimates]

CHAIR --Welcome, Minister. Do you have an opening statement or any comments you would like to make? Senator Alston --No, Mr Chairman. CHAIR --I understand that Senator O'Brien is going to lead off. Senator O'BRIEN --Initially, Mr Pollard, I want to go back to some comments which you made to the additional

Date: 16/06/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd970616a_srr.out/0006 - Source: SENATE

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RURAL AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 12/06/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT : Program 3--Maritime : Subprogram 3.2--Australian Maritime Safety Authority : [Senate Estimates]

Senator BOB COLLINS --I do not imagine this will take very long and I apologise for my late arrival but I kept on running into locked doors around the building. Apparently it is part of the new savings of the government. I felt like a rat caught in a maze. I could not

Date: 12/06/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd970612a_srr.out/0008 - Source: SENATE

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RURAL AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 12/06/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT : Program 4--Regional development : Subprogram 4.1--Regional development : [Senate Estimates]

Senator O'BRIEN --I understand that at the last hearing Senators Conroy and West were attempting to ascertain the criteria for the selection of successful programs, in particular the flood mitigation program funded after the minister announced in July 1996 that the program and most of the department were to be abolished. The department sent

Date: 12/06/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd970612a_srr.out/0011 - Source: SENATE

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RURAL AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 12/06/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT : Program 5--Corporate direction and support : Subprogram 5.2--Management support and advice : [Senate Estimates]

Senator O'BRIEN --Senator Collins asked questions regarding consultancies on 6 May 1997 in previous estimates. Could you provide the same information for the whole of the 1996-97 financial year, including those that ran over from 1995-96 and also those that will run over into 1997-98? Could I ask the department to coordinate similar information

Date: 12/06/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd970612a_srr.out/0016 - Source: SENATE

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RURAL AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 12/06/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES AND ENERGY : Program 1--Sustainable development of primary and energy industries : Subprogram 1.11--Portfolio management and policy : [Senate Estimates]

CHAIR --I welcome the officers for program 1, subprogram 1.11. Senator BOB COLLINS --I thank the officers, first of all, for their courtesy in coming back today. I was not sure where you fitted into the new structure; that is the reason that that happened. Could you advise the committee, briefly and in

Date: 12/06/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd970612a_srr.out/0022 - Source: SENATE

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RURAL AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 12/06/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES AND ENERGY : Program 1--Sustainable development of primary and energy industries : Subprogram 1.6--Quarantine and inspection : [Senate Estimates]

CHAIR --I welcome back the officers from AQIS. Mr Hickey would like to make a statement. Mr Hickey --Senator Collins asked some questions last night about the human health risk assessments related to cooked pig meat and we undertook to gather some information on that. If you are agreeable I will provide the committee

Date: 12/06/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd970612a_srr.out/0024 - Source: SENATE

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ENVIRONMENT, RECREATION, COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 11/06/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS : Subprogram 3.3--Australian Broadcasting Corporation : [Senate Estimates]

Senator SCHACHT --Minister, at the opening of the estimates hearings this morning, not surprisingly I raised some questions about the extraordinary performance of questions being prepared by the Prime Minister's press secretary and, apparently, your office, concerning particular programming matters for the ABC, which were reported in today's Australian . I raised those questions

Date: 11/06/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd970611a_ser.out/0011 - Source: SENATE

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RURAL AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 11/06/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES AND ENERGY : Program 1--Industries development : [Senate Estimates]

Senator O'BRIEN --I want to ask about the structure and objectives--the overview aspects. The portfolio program structure has been altered `after an extensive review'. The program and subprogram objectives have also been altered to `bring them into line with the corporate plan'. I would like to ascertain details of the review and changes. At

Date: 11/06/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd970611a_srr.out/0005 - Source: SENATE

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RURAL AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 11/06/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES AND ENERGY : Program 1--Industries development : Subprogram 1.1--Livestock and pastoral : [Senate Estimates]

Senator BOB COLLINS --Talking about vision statements, the vision statement for the livestock and pastoral division is: maintenance and improvement of Australia's access to markets and uptake of Australian produce; improving industry efficiency and competitiveness, including the operation of statutory marketing arrangements, and promoting equity and sustainable development; promoting innovation in production and processing techniques, value

Date: 11/06/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd970611a_srr.out/0007 - Source: SENATE

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RURAL AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS AND TRANSPORT LEGISLATION COMMITTEE : 11/06/1997 : DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES AND ENERGY : Program 1--Industries development : Subprogram 1.2--Crops : [Senate Estimates]

Senator BOB COLLINS --I wanted to ask some questions about peanuts and cadmium. In answer to questions that were asked during the last Senate estimates, the department provided some data on cadmium levels in imported peanuts for the 1993-94 financial year. I just wanted to ask if that was the most up-to-date information on

Date: 11/06/1997 - Collection: Committees - ID: committees/estimate/ecomd970611a_srr.out/0009 - Source: SENATE

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