Senate debates

Monday, 27 February 2012

Committees

Membership

5:11 pm

Photo of Christopher BackChristopher Back (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | | Hansard source

Order! I have received letters from party leaders and an independent senator requesting changes in the membership of various committees.

Photo of Joe LudwigJoe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | | Hansard source

by leave—I move:

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

Corporations and Financial Services—Joint Statutory Committee—

Discharged—Senator Hanson-Young

Gambling Reform—Joint Select Committee—

Discharged—Senator Bilyk

Appointed—

     Senator Sherry

Participating members: Senators Di Natale and Madigan

Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee—

Appointed—

Substitute member: Senator Hanson-Young to replace Senator Wright for the committee’s inquiry into the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2010

Participating member: Senator Wright.

Question agreed to.