McMillanJohn‘Future Directions — The Ombudsman’ Address to the AIAL National Administrative Law Forum, Canberra, July 2005 available at <www.comb.gov.au> at 10 November 2007, noting the idea originates from Justice Spigelman — see note 1.
3.
Transcript before Public Accounts and Estimates Committee Inquiry into a Legislative Framework for Victorian Statutory Officers of Parliament, 8 February 2006.
4.
Commonwealth Ombudsman, Report on Referred Immigration Cases: Mental Health and Incapacity No 07|2006, available at www.ombudsman.gov.au at 10 November 2007.
5.
Commonwealth Ombudsman, Report on Referred Immigration Cases: Children in detention, Report No 08|2006, available at www.ombudsman.gov.au at 10 November 2007.
6.
Ibid.
7.
The graph uses the measure of: • Counting the individual pages of each Annual Report which mention/discuss/ identify: ‘systemic issues’, improvements/ changes in practice and procedure, own motion investigations, recommendations for change in legislation and where investigations found there was ‘defective administration’. It excludes 2 pages (pp7–8) from the 1988–1989 Annual Reports which refers to systemic impact as ‘normative’ change. • These individual pages were then calculated against the page totals of the Annual Reports including Appendices in the total page count for uniformity (as in some earlier reports, there was significant discussion of systemics in the appendix). • Data accuracy may be affected as some annual reports have two columns per page where others were written with only one column of text. • Further, even though there was more in-depth discussion of systemics per page in the more recent Annual Reports, this was not accounted for as it counts as a single page.
