Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee
Scope
The References Committee examined matters referred to it by the Senate relating to government portfolios including foreign affairs, trade, defence and veterans' affairs.
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee at a public hearing of its inquiry into Australia's relations with the People's Republic of China, 1994. L-R: Senators Kim Carr, Bryant Burns and Gerry Jones, Paul Barsdell [Secretary], Senators Bob Woods [Chair] and Sandy Macdonald.
Reports
Date tabled
Title
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Crash of RAAF Nomad Aircraft A18-401 on 12 March 1990
Parliamentary paper number 18/1996
References of the 37th Parliament (readoption of Australia-China Relations and Latin America Airlinks Inquiries)
Australia China Relations
Parliamentary paper number 43/1996
Development of Australia's Air Links with Latin America
Parliamentary paper number 109/1996
Abolition of the Development Import Finance Facility
Parliamentary paper number 174/1996
Role and Future of Radio Australia and Australia Television
Parliamentary paper number 81/1997
Helping Australians Abroad: A Review of the Australian Government's Consular Services
Parliamentary paper number 92/1997
References of the 38th Parliament (readoption of the Inquiries into: Australia in Relation to APEC; Nuclear Weapon and Ballistic Missile Proliferation in South Asia; Examination of Developments in Contemporary Japan and the Implications for Australia)
The 1998 Indian and Pakistani Nuclear Tests
Parliamentary paper number 147/1999
East Timor Interim Report
Parliamentary paper number 200/1999
The Sale of ADI Limited
Parliamentary paper number 31/2000
Australia and APEC: A Review of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
Parliamentary paper number 161/2000
Japan's Economy: Implications for Australia: First Report
Parliamentary paper number 169/2000
East Timor: Final Report
Parliamentary paper number 441/2000
Disposal of Defence Property: Artillery Barracks, Fremantle (Interim Report)
Parliamentary paper number 19/2001
Japan: Politics and Society: Second Report
Parliamentary paper number 216/2001
Disposal of Defence Properties
Parliamentary paper number 222/2001
Recruitment and retention of ADF personnel
Parliamentary paper number 3/2002
Materiel acquisition and management in Defence (additional letter tabled 15 June 2004)
Parliamentary paper number 26/2003
A Pacific engaged: Australia's relationships with Papua New Guinea and the island states of the south-west Pacific (a response to specific recommendations by the Presiding Officers was tabled on 1April 2004)
Parliamentary paper number 155/2003
Voting on trade: The General Agreement on Trade in Services and an Australia-US Free Trade Agreement
Parliamentary paper number 401/2003
The (not quite) White Paper: Australia's foreign affairs and trade policy, Advancing the National Interest
Parliamentary paper number 442/2003
Taking stock: Current health preparation arrangements for the deployment of Australian Defence Forces overseas
Parliamentary paper number 205/2004
Bali 2002: Security threats to Australians in South East Asia
Parliamentary paper number 206/2004
Interim report - Effectiveness of military justice system (presented out of session on 8 September 2004) (see report tabled on 16 June 2005 - PP 134/05) (progress reports tabled on 17.8.06; 29.3.07 and 10.9.07)
References of the 40th Parliament (re-adoption of the inquiry into: The effectiveness of Australia's military justice system; non re-adoption of the inquiry into: Report by the Director of Trials of the Review of Test and Evaluation in Defence)
The effectiveness of Australia's military justice system (progress reports tabled on 17.8.06 - PP 159/06; 29.3.07- PP 62/07 and 10.9.07 - PP 170/07)
Parliamentary paper number 134/2005
Duties of Australian personnel in Iraq
Parliamentary paper number 200/2005
Mr Chen Yonglin's request for political asylum
Parliamentary paper number 203/2005
Interim report - The removal, search for and discovery of Ms Vivian Solon (see final report tabled on 8 December 2005 - PP 427/05)
Parliamentary paper number 206/2005
Opportunities and challenges: Australia's relationship with China (see China's emergence: implications for Australia tabled on 30 March 2006 - PP 59/06)
Parliamentary paper number 293/2005
Final report - The removal, search for and discovery of Ms Vivian Solon (see interim report tabled on 15 September 2005 - PP 206/05)
Parliamentary paper number 427/2005
China's emergence: implications for Australia (see Opportunities and Challenges: Australia's relationship with China tabled on 10 November 2005 - PP 293/05)
Parliamentary paper number 59/2006
![Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee at a public hearing of its inquiry into Australia's relations with the People's Republic of China, 1994. L-R: Senators Kim Carr, Bryant Burns and Gerry Jones, Paul Barsdell [Secretary], Senators Bob Woods [Chair] and Sandy Macdonald.](/assets/committees/body-images/c069/c069-foreign-affairs-defence-and-trade-standing-committee-references-hearings-1994-j1-2.jpg)