Administrative Review Council

Thirtieth Annual Report

2005-06

The Administrative Review Council had a constructive year in 2005-06, completing work on an important project on the scope of judicial review, establishing an advisory group on automated assistance in administrative decision making, making considerable progress with a project on coercive information-gathering powers, and beginning to plan a new project in the regulatory area. The Council also maintained the level of advice it provides on administrative law aspects of Australian Government legislation.

• 30th Annual Report [Word 377 KB]
• 30th Annual Report [PDF 269KB]

Supplement to 2005-06 Annual Report

The supplement contains the full text of seven letters of advice issued by the Council that were listed in Appendix C of the annual report. Six of the letters were issued in 2005-06.The remaining letter was issued in 2003-04 but was not published in the 2003-04 Annual Report in view of its proximity to the deliberations of government.

The full set of seven letters is available:

• Full supplement to the 2005-06 Annual Report [Word 251KB]
• Full supplement to the 2005-06 Annual Report [PDF 640KB]

Letters can also be accessed individually below.

Letter 1

• Submission to the Review of Australia's Extradition Law and Practice [Word 116KB]
• Submission to the Review of Australia's Extradition Law and Practice [PDF 320KB]

Letter 2

• Submission on proposed amendments to the Legal Services/Model Litigant Policy [Word 56KB]
• Submission on proposed amendments to the Legal Services/Model Litigant Policy [PDF 99KB]

Letter 3

• Submission to Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee inquiry into provisions of Anti-Terrorism Bill (No.2) 2005 [Word 91KB]
• Submission to Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee inquiry into provisions of Anti-Terrorism Bill (No.2) 2005 [PDF 294KB]

Letter 4

• Submission to Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Committee inquiry into Radioactive Waste Management Bill 2005 [Word 80KB]
• Submission to Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Committee inquiry into Radioactive Waste Management Bill 2005 [PDF 190KB]

Letter 5

• Comments on Ministerial Council on Energy's Standing Committee of Officials discussion paper on review of decision-making in the gas and electricity regulatory frameworks [Word 92KB]
• Comments on Ministerial Council on Energy's Standing Committee of Officials discussion paper on review of decision-making in the gas and electricity regulatory frameworks [PDF 213KB]

Letter 6

• Comments to Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs on training materials [Word 75KB] (Note that the covering letter only is included on the website, not the material referred to in that letter as an attachment. The attachment was a document providing comments on specific pages of DIMA's training materials relating to issues such as principles of administrative law, the separation of administrative law and migration law rules and principles and privative clauses.)
• Comments to Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs on training materials [PDF 182KB]

Letter 7

• Comments on the Postal Industry Ombudsman Bill 2004 [Word 76KB]
• Comments on the Postal Industry Ombudsman Bill 2004 [PDF 214KB]