The Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee examined matters referred to it by the Senate relating to government portfolios including agriculture, fisheries, forestry, infrastructure, transport, regional development and local government.
Members of the Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport questioning Parliamentary Secretary Senator the Hon Ursula Stephens (representing the minister) and officers from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry at a supplementary budget estimates hearing, 20 October 2008. Seated facing witnesses clockwise from left: Senators Annette Hurley, Mark Furner (obscured), Steve Hutchins and Glenn Sterle [Chair], Jeanette Radcliffe [Secretary], Senators Christine Milne [Deputy Chair], Rachel Siewert, Richard Colbeck, John Williams, Judith Adams and Julian McGauran. DPS Auspic.
Committee members examining documents while Senator Julian McGauran questions officers from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry during the supplementary budget estimates hearing, 20 October 2008. DPS Auspic.
Reports
Date tabled
Title
Read report
Additional Estimates 2008-09 (presented out of session on 31 March 2009)
Parliamentary paper number 147/2009
Members of the Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport at an additional estimates hearing, 24 February 2009. L-R: Senators Mathias Cormann, Ian Macdonald, David Bushby, Cory Bernardi, Steve Hutchins, Kerry O'Brien and Glenn Sterle [Chair], and Jeanette Radcliffe [Secretary]. Senator Julian McGauran in foreground. DPS Auspic.
Committee members hearing evidence from Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, and officers from the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government during an additional estimates hearing, 24 February 2009. DPS Auspic.
Committee members Senators Mathias Cormann and Ian Macdonald examining documents, additional estimates hearing, 24 February 2009. DPS Auspic.
Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, answering questions during the hearing, 24 February 2009. The minister is flanked by Deputy Secretaries of the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Andrew Tongue and Lyn O'Connell. DPS Auspic.
Annual Reports (No. 1 of 2009)
Parliamentary paper number 46/2009
Climate change and the Australian agricultural sector (see interim report tabled on 4 September 2008 - PP 331/08)
Parliamentary paper number 552/2008
Members of the Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport with officers from the Warren Shire Council at Warren airport during a visit to the town for the committee's inquiry into climate change and the Australian agricultural sector, 12 September 2008. L-R: Councillor Rex Wilson [Mayor, Warren Shire Council], Senators Christine Milne, Glenn Sterle and Kerry O'Brien, Dr Christine Jones and Ashley Wielinga [General Manager, Warren Shire Council].
Committee members and officers from the Warren Shire Council on a site visit inspecting Scott and Jo McCalman's property, 'Jedburgh', to see the work being done there in conjunction with the Australian Soil Carbon Accreditation Scheme, using perennial groundcover to improve wheat field soil, 12 September 2008. L-R: Ann Palmer [Principal Research Officer], Scott McCalman, Ashley Wielinga [General Manager, Warren Shire Council], Senators Glenn Sterle, Christine Milne and Kerry O'Brien, Councillor Rex Wilson [Mayor, Warren Shire Council] and unknown.
Interim report - Water Amendment Bill 2008 (presented out of session on 19 November 2008) (see report tabled on 24 November 2008 - PP 560/08)
Water Amendment Bill 2008 (presented out of session on 21 November 2008) (corrigenda were tabled on 27 November 2008)
Parliamentary paper number 560/2008
Interstate Road Transport Charge Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2008 [Provisions]; Road Charges Legislation Repeal and Amendment Bill 2008 [Provisions] (presented out of session on 21 November 2008)
Parliamentary paper number 560/2008
Annual reports (No. 2 of 2008)
Parliamentary paper number 556/2008
Horse Disease Response Levy Bill 2008; Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Bill 2008; Horse Disease Response Levy (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008
Parliamentary paper number 560/2008
Interim report - Horse Disease Response Levy Bill 2008; Horse Disease Response Levy Collection Bill 2008; Horse Disease Response Levy (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008 (presented out of session on 3 October 2008) (report tabled 13.11.2008 - PP 560/08)
Interim report - Water management in the Coorong and Lower Lakes (including consideration of the Emergency Water (Murray-Darling Basin Rescue) Bill 2008) (presented out of session on 3 October 2008) (see report tabled on 13 October 2008 - PP 352/08)
Water management in the Coorong and Lower Lakes (including consideration of the Emergency Water (Murray-Darling Basin Rescue) Bill 2008) (presented out of session on 10 October 2008)
Parliamentary paper number 352/2008
Implementation, operation and administration of the legislation underpinning Carbon Sink Forests
Parliamentary paper number 337/2008
Administration of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and related matters
Parliamentary paper number 335/2008
Interim report - Climate change and the Australian agricultural sector (see report tabled on 4 December 2008 - PP 552/08)
Parliamentary paper number 331/2008
Interim report - Meat marketing
Parliamentary paper number 332/2008
Interim report––Administration of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and related matters (presented out of session on 9 July 2008) (see report tabled on 18 September 2008 - PP 335/08)
Interim report––Implementation, operation and administration of the legislation underpinning Carbon Sink Forests (presented out of session on 22 August 2008) (see report tabled on 23 September 2008 - PP 337/08)
Budget estimates 2008-09
Parliamentary paper number 309/2008
Interim report - Exposure drafts of the Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 and the Wheat Export Marketing (Repeal and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008 (presented out of session on 24 April 2008) (see report tabled on 13 May 2008 - PP 258/08)
Exposure drafts of the Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008 and the Wheat Export Marketing (Repeal and Consequential Amendments) Bill 2008 (presented out of session on 30 April 2008)
Parliamentary paper number 258/2008
Annual reports (No. 1 of 2008)
Parliamentary paper number 231/2008
Additional estimates 2007-08
Parliamentary paper number 230/2008
References of the 41st Parliament (re-adoption of the inquiry into: Climate change and the Australian agricultural sector)
Annual reports (No. 2 of 2007)
Parliamentary paper number 206/2007
Unauthorised disclosure of committee proceedings (presented out of session on 22 August 2007) (See Options for additional water supplies for South East Queensland tabled on 16 August 2007- PP 140/07)
Parliamentary paper number 205/2007
Options for additional water supplies for South East Queensland (See Unauthorised disclosure of committee proceedings tabled on 10 September 2007 - PP 205/07)
Parliamentary paper number 140/2007
Aviation Legislation Amendment (2007 Measures No. 1) Bill 2007 (presented out of session on 30 July 2007)
Parliamentary paper number 209/2007
Administration of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Biosecurity Australia and Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service in relation to the final import risk analysis report for apples from New Zealand
Parliamentary paper number 110/2007
Budget estimates (2007-08)
Parliamentary paper number 129/2007
Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill 2007 [Provisions]; Fisheries Levy Amendment Bill 2007 [Provisions]
Parliamentary paper number 107/2007
Forestry Marketing and Research and Development Services Bill 2007 [Provisions]; Forestry Marketing and Research and Development Services (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2007 [Provisions]
Parliamentary paper number 107/2007
Annual reports (No. 1 of 2007)
Parliamentary paper number 63/2007
Additional estimates 2006-07
Parliamentary paper number 64/2007
Murray-Darling Basin Amendment Bill 2006 [Provisions]
Parliamentary paper number 107/2007
Airspace Bill 2006 [Provisions]; Airspace (Consequentials and Other Measures) Bill 2006 [Provisions]
Parliamentary paper number 107/2007
Airports Amendment Bill 2006 [Provisions]
Parliamentary paper number 107/2007
Final report: Australia’s future oil supply and alternative transport fuels (see interim report: Australia's future oil supply tabled by Rural and Regional Affairs References Committee on 7 September 2006 - PP 173/06)
Parliamentary paper number 34/2007
Final report: Water policy initiatives (see interim report: Water policy initiatives tabled by Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee on 7 September 2006 - PP 174/06) (additional information and erratum tabled on 7 February 2007)
Parliamentary paper number 410/2006
![Members of the Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport questioning Parliamentary Secretary Senator the Hon Ursula Stephens (representing the minister) and officers from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry at a supplementary budget estimates hearing, 20 October 2008. Seated facing witnesses clockwise from left: Senators Annette Hurley, Mark Furner (obscured), Steve Hutchins and Glenn Sterle [Chair], Jeanette Radcliffe [Secretary], Senators Christine Milne [Deputy Chair], Rachel Siewert, Richard Colbeck, John Williams, Judith Adams and Julian McGauran. DPS Auspic.](/assets/committees/body-images/c084/c084-080788-004-rural-regional-affairs.jpg)
