Senate debates

Tuesday, 10 March 2009

Committees

Membership

Photo of Alan FergusonAlan Ferguson (SA, Deputy-President) Share this | | Hansard source

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

3:42 pm

Photo of Joe LudwigJoe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | | Hansard source

by leave—I move:

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

Community Affairs—Standing Committee

Appointed––Substitute member: Senator Fifield to replace Senator Adams from 10 March to 12 May 2009

Corporations and Financial Services—Joint Statutory Committee—

Appointed––Senator Williams for the duration of the committee’s inquiry into financial products and services in Australia

Finance and Public Administration—Standing Committee—

Discharged––Senator Fifield

Appointed––Senator Bernardi

Legal and Constitutional Affairs—Standing Committee—

Appointed––

Substitute member: Senator Ludlam to replace Senator Hanson-Young for the committee’s inquiry into Australia’s judicial system

Participating member: Senator Hanson-Young.

Question agreed to.