APPENDIX A
Family Responsibilities Board – schedule of meetings
Date of FR Board meeting	Venue	Attendees	
1 November 2016	Remote Indigenous Land and Infrastructure Program Office
Level 9 Conference Room,
15 Lake Street, Cairns

and

DATSIP
6B Conference Room,
75 William Street, Brisbane
Via videoconference	Ms Clare O’Connor, Director-General, DATSIP (Chair); Mr Troy Sloan, First Assistant Secretary, Policy, Analysis and Evaluation Division, DPMC.	
28 April 2017	DATSIP
Level 9 Conference Room,
1 William Street, Brisbane	Ms Clare O’Connor, Director-General, DATSIP (Chair); Mr Noel Pearson, Founder, CYI; Mr Troy Sloan, First Assistant Secretary, Policy, Analysis and Evaluation Division, DPMC.	

APPENDIX B – Scheduled sitting and meeting calendar
Family Responsibilities Commission 1 July 2016 to 31 December 2016
WEEK COMMENCING	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY	OTHER	
4 July							
11 July		12	13				
18 July		19	20		Public Holiday	22 Cairns Show Day	
		19		21			
25 July	25	26	27	28		25 Mossman Show, 27 Cooktown Show (Coen)	
1 August		2	3	Public Holiday for Aurukun		4 Aurukun Day	
		2		4			
8 August	8	9	10				
15 August		16	17	18			
		16		18			
22 August	22	23	24		Public Holiday	26 Doomadgee Day	
29 August		30	31	1			
		30					
5 September	5	6	7				
12 September		13	14	15			
		13		15			
19 September							
26 September							
3 October	Public Holiday		5	6		3 Queens Birthday	
		4		6			
10 October		11					
		11	12	13			
17 October		18					
		18	19				
		18		20			
24 October	24	25	26				
31 October		1		3			
		1	2				
7 November		8					
		8	9	10			
14 November		15					
		15	16				
		15		17			
21 November		22					
		22	23	24			
28 November		29	30	1			
5 December		6					
12 December							
19 December							
26 December	Public Holiday	Public Holiday				25 Christmas Day, 26 Boxing Day, 27, 28, 29, 30 Office Closed for Xmas	

Family Responsibilities Commission 1 January 2017 to 30 June 2017
WEEK COMMENCING	MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY	OTHER	
2 January	Public Holiday					2 New Year’s Day	
9 January							
16 January							
23 January		24	25	Public Holiday		26 Australia Day	
		24	25				
		24					
30 January		31					
		31	1	2			
6 February		7	8				
		7					
		7					
13 February		14	15	16			
20 February		21	22				
		21					
		21					
27 February		28	1	2			
6 March		7	8				
		7					
		7					
13 March		14					
		14	15	16			
20 March		21	22				
		21					
		21					
27 March		28	29	30			
3 April							
10 April					Public Holiday	14 Good Friday	
17 April	Public Holiday	18	19	20		17 Easter Monday	
			19	20			
24 April		Public Holiday	26	27		25 Anzac Day	
				27			
1 May	Public Holiday					1 Labour Day
Commissioner Development Week	
8 May		9	10				
		9					
		9					
15 May	15		17	18			
22 May		23	24				
		23	24				
		23					
29 May		30			Public Holiday	2 Mabo Day	
		30	31	1			
5 June		6	7				
		6					
		6					
12 June		13	14	15			
19 June		20	21				
		20	21				
		20					
26 June							

APPENDIX C

Compliance checklist
Family Responsibilities Commission 2016-2017 annual report	

Summary of requirement	Basis for requirement	Annual report reference	
Letter of compliance	•	A letter of compliance from the accountable officer or statutory body to the relevant Minister/s	ARRs – section 7	Page 4	
Accessibility	•	Table of contents
•	Glossary	ARRs – section 9.1	Page 5
Page 105	
	•	Public availability	ARRs – section 9.2	Page 2	
	•	Interpreter service statement	Queensland Government Language Services Policy
ARRs – section 9.3	Page 2	
	•	Copyright notice	Copyright Act 1968
ARRs – section 9.4	Page 2	
	•	Information licensing	QGEA – Information Licensing
ARRs – section 9.5	N/A	
General information	•	Introductory Information	ARRs – section 10.1	Pages 7-9	
	•	Agency role and main functions	ARRs – section 10.2	Pages 10-19	
	•	Operating environment	ARRs – section 10.3	Pages 46-53, 58-62, 99	
Non-financial performance	•	Government’s objectives for the community	ARRs – section 11.1	Pages 13-15	
	•	Other whole-of-government plans / specific initiatives	ARRs – section 11.2	Pages 13-14	
	•	Agency objectives and performance indicators	ARRs – section 11.3	Page 15	
	•	Agency service areas and service standards	ARRs – section 11.4	Pages 47-48	
Financial performance	•	Summary of financial performance	ARRs – section 12.1	Pages 54-56	
Governance – management and structure	•	Organisational structure	ARRs – section 13.1	Pages 64-65	
	•	Executive management	ARRs – section 13.2	Page 64	
	•	Government bodies (statutory bodies and other entities)	ARRs – section 13.3	N/A	
	•	Public Sector Ethics Act 1994	Public Sector Ethics Act 1994
ARRs – section 13.4	Pages 70-71	
	•	Queensland public service values	ARRs – section 13.5	Pages 71-72	

Summary of requirement	Basis for requirement	Annual report reference	Summary of requirement	
Governance – risk management and accountability	•	Risk management	ARRs – section 14.1	Page 72	
	•	Audit committee	ARRs – section 14.2	N/A	
	•	Internal audit	ARRs – section 14.3	Page 54	
	•	External scrutiny	ARRs – section 14.4	Pages 72-73	
	•	Information systems and record keeping	ARRs – section 14.5	Pages 69-70	
Governance – human resources	•	Workforce planning and performance	ARRs – section 15.1	Pages 66-69	
	•	Early retirement, redundancy and retrenchment	Directive No.11/12 Early Retirement, Redundancy and Retrenchment
Directive No.16/16 Early Retirement, Redundancy and Retrenchment (from 20 May 2016)
ARRs – section 15.2	Page 67	
Open Data	•	Statement advising publication of information	ARRs – section 16	Page 74	
	•	Consultancies	ARRs – section 33.1	Page 74	
	•	Overseas travel	ARRs – section 33.2	Page 74	
	•	Queensland Language Services Policy	ARRs – section 33.3	N/A	
Financial statements	•	Certification of financial statements	FAA – section 62
FPMS – sections 42, 43 and 50
ARRs – section 17.1	Page 76	
	•	Independent Auditors Report	FAA – section 62
FPMS – section 50
ARRs – section 17.2	Pages 97-98	

APPENDIX D
Welfare Reform
Welfare Reform is a partnership between five welfare reform communities, the Queensland Government, Australian Government and the Institute. Welfare Reform aims to address the collapse of social norms and passive dependence on welfare which has displaced responsibility from many Indigenous people.
The partnership communities are:
Aurukun
Aurukun is on the western coast of Cape York and is approximately 900 kilometres northwest of Cairns, and about 200 kilometres south of Weipa. The community had an estimated resident adult population of 923 people as at 30 June 2016,.
Coen
The township of Coen is approximately halfway between Cairns and the tip of Cape York. It is not a discrete Aboriginal community and is part of Cook Shire. The township had an estimated resident adult population of 241 people as at 30 June 20161,.
Doomadgee
Doomadgee lies alongside the Nicholson River, one of the permanent freshwater rivers that flow from the ranges behind Lawn Hill National Park in North West Queensland. Doomadgee is the first (or last) township on the Queensland section of the Savannah Way. It is 630 kilometres by road to Mt Isa and 1035 kilometres west of Cairns. The community had an estimated resident adult population of 845 people as at 30 June 20161,2.
Hope Vale
Hope Vale is situated on the Cape York Peninsula and is 46 kilometres northwest of Cooktown. The estimated resident adult population of Hope Vale was 654 people as at 30 June 20161,2.
Mossman Gorge
Mossman Gorge is a small Aboriginal community 75 kilometres north of Cairns, 4 kilometres from Mossman (the nearest town), and approximately 25 kilometres by road from Port Douglas. It is not a discrete Aboriginal community and is part of the Douglas Shire Council area. The community had an estimated resident population of 87 people as at 30 June 20161,3,.