Senate debates

Thursday, 12 March 2009

Committees

Membership

The Acting Deputy President:

Order! The President has received letters from a party leader requesting changes in the membership of committees.

4:30 pm

Photo of Nick SherryNick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law) Share this | | Hansard source

by leave—I move:

That senators be discharged from and appointed to committees as follows:

Agricultural and Related Industries—Select Committee

Appointed––Participating member: Senator Back

Appropriations and Staffing—Standing Committee

Discharged––Senator Nash

Appointed––Senator Williams

Community Affairs—Standing Committee—

Appointed––Participating member: Senator Back

Economics—Standing Committee—

Appointed––Participating member: Senator Back

Education, Employment and Workplace Relations—Standing Committee—

Discharged––Senator Fisher

Appointed––

Senator Back

Participating member: Senator Fisher

Environment, Communications and the Arts—Standing Committee—

Appointed––Participating member: Senator Back

Finance and Public Administration—Standing Committee—

Appointed––Participating members: Senators Back and Fifield

Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade—Standing Committee—

Appointed––Participating member: Senator Back

Fuel and Energy—Select Committee—

Appointed––Participating member: Senator Back

Legal and Constitutional Affairs—Standing Committee—

Appointed––Participating member: Senator Back

Men’s Health—Select Committee—

Appointed––Participating member: Senator Back

National Broadband Network—Select Committee—

Appointed––Participating member: Senator Back

Regional and Remote Indigenous Communities—Select Committee—

Appointed––Participating member: Senator Back

Regulations and Ordinances—Standing Committee—

Appointed––Senator Back

Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport—Standing Committee—

Discharged––Senator Williams

Appointed––

Senator Nash

Participating members: Senators Back and Williams.

Question agreed to.