Mal Brough (Fisher, Liberal Party, Special Minister of State) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On behalf of the Leader of the House I move:

That:

(1) all members of the Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications be discharged from the committee;

(2) standing order 215(a) be amended to read as follows:

(a) the following general purpose standing committees shall be appointed:

  (i) Standing Committee on Agriculture and Industry;

  (ii) Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts;

  (iii) Standing Committee on Economics;

  (iv) Standing Committee on Education and Employment;

  (v) Standing Committee on the Environment;

  (vi) Standing Committee on Health;

  (vii) Standing Committee on Indigenous Affairs;

  (viii) Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Transport and Cities;

  (ix) Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs; and

  (x) Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue; and

(3) the Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts and the Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Transport and Cities have the power to consider and make use of the evidence and records of the former Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications and to continue any inquiries of that committee, as relevant.

Question agreed to.