Senate debates
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
Committees
Standing Committees; Allocation of Departments and Agencies
11:45 am
Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I move:
- (1)
- That standing order 25(1) be amended as follows:
Omit: ‘Employment, Workplace Relations and Education’
Substitute: ‘Education, Employment and Workplace Relations’
Omit: ‘Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts’
Substitute: ‘Environment, Communications and the Arts’.
- (2)
- That departments and agencies be allocated to legislative and general purpose standing committees as follows:
- Community Affairs
- Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
- Health and Ageing
- Economics
- Treasury
- Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
- Resources, Energy and Tourism
- Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Environment, Communications and the Arts
- Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
- Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
- Finance and Public Administration
- Parliament
- Prime Minister and Cabinet (including Climate Change)
- Finance and Deregulation
- Human Services
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
- Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Defence (including Veterans’ Affairs)
- Legal and Constitutional Affairs
- Attorney-General
- Immigration and Citizenship
- Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport
- Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
Question agreed to.