Estimates: #BustTheBudget
Senator Wright will ask questions on a range of topics during Budget Estimates, May-June 2014.
We will upload the transcripts and related footage on this page as it becomes available.
Environment and Communications
Transparency and consultation for 'offshore projects' under NOPSEMA
Cutting the Grants to Voluntary Environment, Sustainability, Heritage Organisations program
Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act
Hands off our Racial Discrimination Act!
Questioning the Freedom Commissioner, Tim Wilson
The impact of cuts to the Family and Circuit Courts
Investigating the impact of debtors' petition fees
Cuts to the national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services
Impact of amalgamating tribunals
The government's decision to completely defund the Environmental Defender's Office
Australian Law Reform Commission
Community Legal Centres Program
Abolishing the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor
Economics
Streamlining of offshore petroleum regulations - what are the impacts?
Community Affairs
National Mental Health Commission
Mental Health Nurse Incentive Program
The Hidden Toll report and a suicide reduction target
Education and Employment
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
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Previous Estimates work
Senator Wright asked questions on a range of topics during Additional Estimates in February, 2014.
Please follow the links below to read transcripts and view the related footage.
Education and Employment
DGR status for government schools
Independent public schools and school funding
Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Environmental Defenders Offices
High Court of Australia efficiency dividends
Cuts to legal assistance sector
Economics
CSIRO workplace bullying allegations investigation
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
Retrospective Medical Discharge
Indigenous representation at ANZAC Centenary Commemorations
DGR status for the Peacekeeping Memorial Project
Community Affairs
The National Mental Health Commission's review of mental health services
Support for adult survivors of childhood trauma