Ms Anna Burke (Chisholm, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

I present Report No. 63 of the Selection Committee relating to private members' business and referral of bills to committees. The report will be printed in the Hansardfor today. Copies of the report have been placed on the table.

The report read as follows—

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SELECTION COMMITTEE REPORT No. 63

Report relating to private Members’ business and the consideration of bills introduced on 22 and 23 August 2012

1. The committee met in private session on 22 and 23 August 2012.

2. The committee determined that the following bills be referred to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services for inquiry and report:

REASONS FOR REFERRAL/PRINCIPAL ISSUES FOR CONSIDERATION:

Significant changes to the not-for-profit and charity sector in Australia.

Needs a long detailed inquiry with opportunity for hearings throughout Australia from a wide range of not-for-profit and charity groups.

Referral of exposure draft to the Standing Committee on Economics for a rushed inquiry over the winter recess revealed significant concerns from the charity and not-for-profit sector.

The legislation requires further and more detailed consideration.

3. The committee recommends that the following items of private Members’ business listed on the notice paper be voted on:

Orders of the Day

Pension assistance (Ms Owens)

Victorian education system cuts (Ms Smyth)

Australia-Serbia relations (Mr Hayes).

Peter Slipper MP

Chairman

23 August 2012

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