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Territory and Municipal Services Directorate	Arboretum	Minister for Territory and Municipal Services	Planning, Environment and Territory and Municipal Services
Territory and Municipal Services Directorate	ACTION	Minister for Territory and Municipal Services	Planning, Environment and Territory and Municipal Services
Territory and Municipal Services Directorate	ACT Public Cemeteries Authority	Minister for Territory and Municipal Services	Planning, Environment and Territory and Municipal Services
Territory and Municipal Services Directorate	Animal Welfare Authority	Minister for Territory and Municipal Services	Planning, Environment and Territory and Municipal Services
University of Canberra		Minister for Higher Education	Education, Training and Youth Affairs
Victims of Crime Support Program		Attorney-General	Justice and Community Safety

As members will see from the notice paper, this is the standing referral of annual reports to the relevant standing committees of the Assembly. I commend the motion to members.

MR COE (Ginninderra) (11.03): I move:

Insert the following row into the schedule:

Annual Report (in alphabetical order)	Reporting area	Ministerial Portfolio/s	Standing Committee

Capital Metro Agency		Minister for Capital Metro	Planning, Environment and Territory and Municipal Services

I move this amendment to Mr Corbell’s motion as I believe there is an embarrassing or amateur omission from Minister Corbell’s motion, and that is the absence of capital metro in that list. Under the Annual Reports (Government Agencies) Act 2004, the director-general of an administrative unit must, for each financial year, prepare a report, a director-general’s annual report, about the operations of the administrative unit during the year.

Capital metro is an administrative unit, as per the Public Sector Management Act, and has been since 1 July 2013. As all administrative units must have a director-general, as per section 13(2) of the Public Sector Management Act, I believe the Capital Metro Agency must be preparing an annual report, and the minister should therefore be including it in the referral.

If it has not been referred, which it has not, then (1) there is no annual report, (2) there is an annual report and it is not being referred, (3) it has been embedded in another director-general’s annual report, which I would say is in contradiction to the act, because the director-general must prepare a report, or (4), which I think is likely, they simply forgot.

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