Senate debates

Monday, 25 October 2010

Committees

Membership

7:32 pm

Photo of Claire MooreClaire Moore (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | | Hansard source

I have received letters from party leaders and an Independent senator requesting changes in the membership of committees.

Senator LUDWIG(Queensland—Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry)(7.32 pm)—by leave—I move:

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

Australian Crime Commission––Parliamentary Joint Committee––

Discharged––Senator Boyce

Appointed––Senator Mason

Corporations and Financial Services––Parliamentary Joint Committee––

Appointed––Senators Boyce and Cormann

Cyber Safety––Joint Select Committee on

Appointed––Senator Ludlam

Gambling Reform––Joint Select Committee––

Appointed––

Senators Back and Xenophon

Participating members: Senators Abetz, Adams, Barnett, Bernardi, Birmingham, Boswell, Boyce, Brandis, Bushby, Cash, Colbeck, Coonan, Cormann, Eggleston, Ferguson, Fierravanti-Wells, Fifield, Fisher, Heffernan, Humphries, Johnston, Joyce, Kroger, Macdonald, McGauran, Mason, Minchin, Nash, Parry, Payne, Ronaldson, Ryan, Scullion, Troeth, Trood and Williams

Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee––

Appointed––

Substitute member:

Senator Ludlam to replace Senator Siewert for the committee’s inquiry into the exposure drafts of Australian privacy amendment legislation

Participating member: Senator Siewert

Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee––

Appointed––

Substitute members:

Senator Hanson-Young to replace Senator Ludlam for the committee’s inquiry into the provisions of the Sex and Age Discrimination Legislation Amendment Bill 2010

Senator Hanson-Young to replace Senator Ludlam for the committee’s inquiry into the provisions of the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Bill 2010 and a related bill

Participating member: Senator Ludlam

National Capital and External Territories––Joint Standing Committee––

Appointed––Senator Fielding

Public Works––Parliamentary Standing Committee––

Appointed––Senator Marshall

Reform of the Australian Federation––Select Committee––

Appointed––Senator Ludlam

Scrutiny of New Taxes—Select Committee––

Appointed––Participating member: Senator Xenophon

Senators’ Interests––Standing Committee––

Discharged––Senator Bob Brown

Appointed––Senator Siewert.

Question agreed to.