Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, I want to take you to the section of the bill that talks about the appointment of members to the committee. It says:

(3) A person must not be appointed as a member of the Committee unless the person has expertise or experience in 2 or more of the following areas …

And there are eight areas listed:

(a) drought resilience measures;

(b) climate risk;

(c) the agriculture industry;

(d) rural and regional community leadership and resilience;

(e) rural and regional development;

(f) applied research;

(g) agricultural extension;

(h) economics

So the criteria for being appointed as a member is to have expertise or experience in two or more of these areas. Can you confirm that means we can't guarantee that the committee will, in fact, have expertise across all of those areas?