The Impact of State Legislation

In August 2005, the WA State Government passed the Universities Legislation Amendment Act 2005 which amended certain sections relating to the University’s governing body and which was passed and implemented in response to Federal Government funding requirements.

In December 2005, the Federal Government passed the HESA (Abolition of Compulsory Up-Front Student Union Fees) Act 2005 which removes the ability of the University to set a fee for students for amenities and services. This will impact the range of non-tuition services available from the Guild of Undergraduates and the Sports Association and may result in the cost of providing some services to students being met from the University’s budget.

Public Interest Disclosure Act

The University has appointed a Public Interest Disclosure Officer in accordance with the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2003. There were no matters of Public Interest Disclosure reported to the University in 2005.

Record Keeping

The University is committed to records management practices which comply with the relevant legislation and are in line with good professional practice. Its Record Keeping Plan has been cleared by the State Records Commission and will be fully approved pending the submission of a revised Records Disposal Authority for Student Records which will occur in the first half of 2006. Information on record keeping is now included on the University’s staff induction web site and a statement regarding each staff member’s record-keeping responsibilities is available. Significant achievements include the redevelopment of the formal record keeping training programme and the successful implementation of electronic document management for research administration records as well as some general files.

	Key Performance Indicators		2004		2005
	Number of non-academic staff with active TRIM* accounts (percentage)		486 (30%)		533 (32%)
	Number of non-academic staff who underwent records management training (percentage)		298 (18%)		292 (17%)

* TRIM is the official record-keeping and electronic document management system of the University.

Media and Advertising Expenditure

In accordance with Section 175ZE of the Electoral Act 1907 the University is required to report on expenditure incurred during the financial year in relation to advertising agencies, market research organisations, polling organisations, direct mail organisations and media advertising organisations.

Expenditure with advertising agencies		$1,309,570
Adcorp Australia Ltd Bowtell Clark & Yole Cooch Creative Pty Ltd Crossroads Advertising Hogan Media Services Horizon PRM Insight Communication & Design Management Co. Linc Integrated Marketing & Communication Luminosity Marketforce Productions Media Decisions WA The Marketing Centre
Expenditure with market research organisations		$59,161
Antenna Business Development Australia Market Intelligence Castalyse Pty Ltd
Expenditure with polling organisations		$0
Expenditure with direct mail organisations		$34,094
Stick-up Poster Distribution Zipform
Expenditure with media advertising organisations		$894,655
96FM Albany Advertiser Pty Ltd Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd Australian Publishers Association Brandconnect Australia Group Business News CD Art & Australia Pty Ltd Community Newspaper Group EMAP Construct Ltd Empire Publishing Company Ltd Energy Publications ETNCOM GDS Publishing Limited Geraldton Newspapers Ltd Hobsons Australia Pty Ltd Koorimail Marketforce Productions Media Decisions WA Media Professionals WA Pty Ltd		Mindfield Group Pty Ltd National Web Directory Pty Ltd Nationwide News Nova 93.7 Out in Perth Holdings Pty Ltd Perth Radio FM Perth Webb Post Newspapers Pty Ltd Reed Business Information Pty Ltd Rural Press Regional Media (WA) Pty Ltd RTR FM Seek Limited Span Communication (Aus) Pty Ltd Stroudgate Australasia (Pty) Ltd Text Pacific Pty Ltd The Australian The Sunday Times West Australian Newspapers Limited Wren Design Group X-Press Newspapers
Total Expenditure		$2,297,480