The President has received a letter from a party leader seeking to vary the membership of a committee, and letters from senators resigning from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services.

by leave—I move:

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

Corporations and Financial Services—Joint Statutory Committee—

Appointed—

Senator Forshaw upon the resignation of Senator Sherry—effective 8 am, 24 October 2006

Senator Sherry upon the resignation of Senator Forshaw—effective 8 am, 25 October 2006

Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts—Standing Committee—

Appointed—Substitute member: Senator Carr to replace Senator Lundy for the committee’s inquiry into the provisions of the Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2006.

Question agreed to.