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FOI 04/2018 – SCHEDULE OF DOCUMENTS 
 
Date 
Description 
Pages 
Decision 
Letter from Chairman, Tourism 
1 
3.01.2006 
Australia (TA) to President, 
1 
Release 
Remuneration Tribunal (Tribunal) 
Letter from President, Tribunal to 
2 
21.06.2006 
4 
Release 
Chairman, TA and attachment 
Letter from President, Tribunal to 
3 
21.06.2006 
Managing Director, TA and 
6 
Release 
attachment 
Letter from Chairman, TA to 
4 
11.07.2006 
1 
Release 
President, Tribunal 
Emails between Tribunal 
Secretariat and Secretary, 
5 
1.08.2006 
10 
Exempt 
Department of Industry, Tourism 
and Resources with attachment 
Emails between Tribunal 
Exempt 
6 
1.08.2006 
3 
Secretariat and President, Tribunal 
7 
1.08.2006 
Tribunal meeting brief 
3 
Exempt 
Draft letter from President, Tribunal 
Exempt 
8 
Undated 
2 
to Chairman, TA  
Draft letter from President, Tribunal 
Exempt 
9 
Undated 
2 
to Chairman, TA  
Letter from President, Tribunal to 
Exempt 
10 
08.08.2006 
10 
Chairman, TA with attachment 
Record of meeting between Minister 
Partially exempt 
11 
08.08.2006 
for Small Business and Tourism 
1 
and Tribunal 
Letter Chairman, TA to President, 
Exempt 
12 
23.08.2006 
4 
Tribunal with attachment 
 
 
 
 
 
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Australian Government 
3 January 2006 
Mr John Conde 
President 
Remuneration Tribunal 
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Civic Square ACT 2608 
Dear John, 
This  is  to  formally  aeknowledge  your  letter  of  11311  of  Deeember, 
eonveying  information  arising  from  the  review  of  the  Principle 
Executive  Office  (PEO)  strueture.  I  have carefully noted the  Tribunal's 
decisions  and  will  convey  them  to  the  relevant  elements of  Tourism 
Australia forthwith. 
Yours sincerely, 
Chairman, Tourism Australia 
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Document 3


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
REMUNERATION TRIBUNAL 
 
Statement on 2006 Reviews of Remuneration and 
 Allowances for Holders of Public Office 
 
The Remuneration Tribunal has inquired into and determined the remuneration and 
significantly related conditions for Public Office Holders (excluding judicial and 
related offices), as required under sub-sections 7(3) and 7(4) of the Remuneration 
Tribunal Act 1973 (the Act). 
 
The statement summarises the outcome of the Tribunal's annual reviews of full-time 
and part-time public offices, Specified Statutory Officers, and the Principal Executive 
Office (PEO) structure. 
 
The Tribunal, having had regard to a range of factors, decided that an adjustment of 
4.4% is justified. In the case of full-time and part-time public offices, and Specified 
Statutory Officers, the adjustment has been effected in two steps. 
 
Background 
 
By Determinations 2006/05, 2006/06, 2006/07 and 2006/08, the Tribunal Adjusted 
the base salary, total remuneration and fees, as appropriate, of Specified Statutory 
Officers and full-time and part-time offices. For Specified Statutory Officers, having 
regard for the date of effect of the previous annual adjustment, the date of effect was 
determined as 2 May 2006. For full-time and part-time offices, the adjustment was 
determined to take effect on and from 1 July 2006. 
 
Determinations 2006/11, 2006/12 and 2006/13 
 
Determination 2006/11 reflects the outcome of the Tribunal's annual review of the 
PEO classification structure. Consistent with the reviews of other offices, band 
maxima total remuneration and superannuation salaries have been adjusted by 4.4% 
with effect from 1 July 2006. 
 
Determination 2006/11 also adjusts the base salary, total remuneration and fees, as 
appropriate, of Specified Statutory Officers by 0.4% with effect from 1 July 2006. 
This will enable future adjustments for these offices to more closely aligned with the 
annual reviews of other public offices. 
 
Determination 2006/12 adjusts the fees payable to holders of part-time public offices 
by 0.4% with effect from 1 July 2006. 
 
Determination 2006/13 adjusts the base salary, total remuneration and fees, as 
appropriate, of full-time offices by 0.4%, also with effect from 1 July 2006. 
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Review of Offices in the Senior Economic Regulatory Agencies 
 
Determination 2006/13 also incorporates the outcome of the Tribunal’s review of the 
remuneration of the public offices in the senior economic regulatory agencies - the 
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the Australian Securities and 
Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Competition and Consumer 
Commission (ACCC). 
 
The Tribunal's intention, in undertaking the review, has been to ensure that the 
remuneration of the offices concerned is appropriate, having regard to their respective 
responsibilities. The remuneration of such offices must also be sufficient to ensure 
that governments are able to appoint capable people with the skills and experience 
necessary to meet the very significant, and continually evolving, responsibilities of 
the offices concerned. 
 
APRA, ASIC and the ACCC 
 
The work of these agencies is central to the effective functioning of the Australian 
economy. 
 
The ACCC enforces and administers the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA) and, as a 
result, holds a very public profile as an economic regulator.  The ACCC has wide-
ranging responsibilities to seek to promote effective competition and informed 
markets, encourage fair trading and protect consumers, and to regulate infrastructure 
service markets in other markets where competition is restricted.  The Government 
has commenced an extensive legislative program to reform various aspects of the 
TPA. 
 
ASIC administers corporate law in relation to some 1.4 million companies. A key 
challenge for ASIC is the effective regulation of licensed exchanges and listed 
companies.  The importance of this role is underscored by the fact that more than 55% 
of Australian adults directly or indirectly own shares.  Confident participation by 
retail investors is assisted by financial services laws that maintain quality and value of 
financial advice for some 2.1 million people with a financial adviser.  ASIC's 
consumer protection functions now encompass 15.7 million people with a deposit 
account and 10.5 million people investing through superannuation or annuities. 
 
APRA plays an important, high-profile and specialised role in the financial sector.  It 
is the prudential regulator of banks, insurance companies and superannuation funds, 
credit unions, building societies and friendly societies.  APRA currently supervises 
institutions holding approximately $2.2 trillion in assets for 20 million Australian 
depositors, policyholders and superannuation fund members. 
 
Following the collapse of the insurance company HIH in March 2001, and the report 
of the HIH Royal Commission, APRA's structure and powers were reformed 
extensively.  In particular, the previous nine-member part-time board was replaced by 
a full-time executive body. 
 
The Tribunal reviewed the remuneration of the APRA offices - the Chairman, Deputy 
Chairman and Member - at that time and determined remuneration at levels consistent 
with the importance of APRA's responsibilities.  The remuneration arrangements then 
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established have continued, varied only by annual adjustments determined by the 
Tribunal. 
 
The remuneration of the ASIC offices - the Chairman, Deputy Chairman and Member 
- has not been reviewed substantively since ASIC's establishment, in 1998, as the 
successor to the Australian Securities Commission. It is apparent to the Tribunal that 
there have been significant changes in both the agency and its functions since that 
time. Consistent with the increase in its responsibilities, the resources made available 
to ASIC to perform its functions have increased significantly. 
 
The remuneration of the ACCC offices - Chairman, Deputy Chairman and 
Commissioner - has not been reviewed substantively for some time.  Legislative 
change has broadened the ACCC’s responsibilities and its budget and number of staff 
have increased commensurately. 
 
The Tribunal's Approach 
 
The Tribunal considers that, in general, offices of comparable responsibility should be 
remunerated at like levels. Changes in remuneration should have primary regard for 
changes in responsibility or, more generally, work value. 
 
The Tribunal does not consider that the remuneration for public offices should be 
driven solely by market considerations.  The Tribunal considers that the honour of 
appointment to a high public office entails acceptance, on the part of appointees, of 
less remuneration than the appointee would receive in the private sector.  Nonetheless, 
it would be to the detriment of the federal public sector were it to lose touch with 
broader developments in remuneration. 
 
The Tribunal's Conclusions 
 
The Tribunal considers that developments in the roles and responsibilities of ASIC 
and ACCC justify the remuneration of the public offices in those agencies being 
brought into broader alignment with the remuneration of the public offices in APRA. 
 
In particular, the Tribunal considers that the remuneration of the offices of Chairman 
of ASIC and Chairman of the ACCC should continue to be closely aligned, having 
regard to the remuneration of the office of Chairman of APRA. 
 
The Chairman is responsible for the effective operation of the agency which he leads. 
In the case of each agency, the Deputy Chairman and Member/Commissioner have 
less responsibility than the Chairman, although, based on discussions with the 
agencies, the relativities are different in each case. In the case of ACCC, the role of 
Deputy Chairman is closer in nature to the role of Member/Commissioner, whereas in 
the cases of ASIC and APRA the role of Deputy Chairman is more clearly related to 
that of the Chairman. The Tribunal considers that these factors should be reflected in 
the remuneration determined for these offices. 
 
 The Tribunal is satisfied that the remuneration levels in APRA are appropriate and 
therefore intends for the time being to maintain these at their existing levels – subject 
to the Tribunal’s standard annual review.  
 
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In all three agencies, the Tribunal has given careful consideration to the roles and 
responsibilities of the offices of Deputy Chairman and Member/Commissioner. In the 
Tribunal's view, it is important that each agency should have the capacity to call on an 
experienced office-holder, with relatively broad exposure across the range of the 
agency's functions, to undertake the role of Chairman in the absence of the 
substantive Chairman.  However, given differences in the responsibilities of the three 
agencies and in the ways in which they are organised and operate, the roles of Deputy 
Chairman and Member/Commissioner are not, in the Tribunal's assessment, uniformly 
determinable.  
 
These considerations are reflected in the remuneration determined by the Tribunal for 
the public offices concerned which will come into effect on 1 July 2006. 
 
The Tribunal will give further consideration to the remuneration of these public 
offices as part of its 2007 review.  
 
 
Remuneration Tribunal 
June 2006 
 
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Document 11
MEETING WITH THE HON FRAN BAILEY MP 
MINISTER FOR SMALL BUSINESS AND TOURISM 
 
Date:   
 
7 August 2006 
Time:   
 
5.30pm 
Location: 
 
Minister's Office, MF51, Parliament House, Canberra 
ATTENDEES: 
The Hon Fran Bailey MP, Minister for Small Business and Tourism 
Mr Daniel Tehan, Chief of Staff to the Minister for Small Business and Tourism 
 
Remuneration Tribunal 
•  John Conde AO (President) 
•  Janet Grieve (Member) 
[Note: Mr Allen participated in the Tribunal meeting on 7 August via teleconference and, not being in Canberra, was 
therefore unable to attend the meeting with Minister Bailey] 
 
Remuneration Tribunal Secretariat 
•  Derren Gillespie (Secretary) 
 
BACKGROUND 
 
The meeting was arranged on the Tribunal's initiative to discuss recent developments involving Tourism 
Australia. 
 
KEY POINTS OF DISCUSSION  
 
The Tribunal and the Minister canvassed their respective perspectives on matters related to the departure of the 
Managing Director of Tourism Australia prior to the expiration of the term of his appointment. 
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The Tribunal noted its intention to write to the Chairman of Tourism Australia about the matter and indicated that 
it would provide the Minister with a copy of its letter. 
 
Derren Gillespie 
Secretary to the Remuneration Tribunal 
8 August 2006 
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August 2006.doc 

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