Kate Lundy (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

The minister has made arrangements for an interim joint advisory committee to play an initial oversight role for the Nauru centre as well as provide advice to both governments on the make-up of an independent and permanent oversight committee. This will be chaired by the Deputy Secretary, Dr Wendy Southern, and Nauru MP Mathew Batsua. The interim joint advisory committee includes member Paris Aristotle and the Minister's Council on Asylum Seekers in Detention members Professor Nicholas Procter, Associate Professor Mary Anne Kenny and Maryanne Loughry. Meanwhile, Mr Bowen said that preliminary entities for the processing of people in the Nauru centre will be continuing—