Senate debates

Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Committees

Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee; Meeting

12:32 pm

Photo of Helen PolleyHelen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | | Hansard source

by leave—At the request of Senator Furner, Chair of the Defence Subcommittee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, I move:

That the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade be authorised to hold a public meeting during the sitting of the Senate today, from 1 pm, to take evidence for the committee's inquiry into slavery, slavery like conditions and people trafficking.

Question agreed to.