Senate debates

Wednesday, 11 September 2019

Committees

Privileges Committee; Reference

3:36 pm

Photo of Jonathon DuniamJonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

The government supports the motion to re-refer the development of a parliamentary foreign influence transparency scheme to the Senate Standing Committee of Privileges, noting that the previous committee had been briefed by the Attorney-General's Department on the implementation of the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act 2018 to support the consideration of a parliamentary scheme, and that the Attorney-General's Department held several discussions with officials from the Department of the House of Representatives and the Department of Parliamentary Services, including to explore options for a parliamentary scheme to leverage the IT infrastructure developed by the department to support the scheme they administer.

Question agreed to.

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