Supporting Our Community

11 Other expenses

  2012
$000
2011
$000

Employment on-costs (i)

187 1,228

Payroll tax

7,505 6,730

Workers’ compensation

9,301 7,696

Doubtful debts expense

148 4

Notional charges for services provided by government agencies

455 361

Audit fees

170 149

Payment of infringements to consolidated account

3,052 0
20,818 16,168

(i) Includes workers’ compensation insurance and payroll tax relating to annual and long service leave. The corresponding liability is included at note 29 “Provisions’. Superannuation contributions accrued as part of the provision for leave are employee benefits and are not included in employment on-costs.