Senate debates

Wednesday, 4 December 2013

Committees

Membership

6:39 pm

Photo of Stephen ParryStephen Parry (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | | Hansard source

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

Photo of Mitch FifieldMitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | | Hansard source

by leave—I move:

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

Appropriations and Staffing—Standing Committee

Appointed––Senator Madigan

Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity—Joint Statutory Committee—

Appointed––Senators Furner and Singh

Community Affairs References Committee—

Appointed––

  Substitute member: Senator Thorp to replace Senator Brown for the committee's inquiry into care and management of younger and older Australians living with dementia and behavioural and psychiatric symptoms of dementia (BPSD)

  Participating member: Senator Brown

Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples—Joint Select Committee—

Appointed––Senator Peris

Corporations and Financial Services—Joint Statutory Committee—

Appointed––Senators Dastyari and Singh

Education and Employment References Committee—

Appointed––

  Substitute member: Senator Wright to replace Senator Rhiannon for the committee's inquiry into the effectiveness of the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy

  Participating member: Senator Rhiannon

Electoral Matters—Joint Standing Committee—

Appointed––Senators Faulkner and Tillem

Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade—Joint Standing Committee—

Appointed––Senators Furner, Ludwig, McEwen, Singh and Stephens

Migration—Joint Standing Committee—

Appointed––Senator Dastyari

National Capital and External Territories—Joint Standing Committee—

Appointed––Senators Lundy and Peris

National Disability Insurance Scheme—Joint Standing Committee—

Appointed––Senators Stephens and Urquhart

Parliamentary Library—Joint Standing Committee—

Appointed––Senators Thorp and Tillem

Treaties—Joint Standing Committee—

Appointed––Senators Lines, Ludwig and Thorp.

Question agreed to.