Senate debates

Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Committees

Membership

6:04 pm

Photo of Glenn SterleGlenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | | Hansard source

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

Photo of Fiona NashFiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | | Hansard source

I move:

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

Corporations and Financial Services—Joint Statutory Committee—

Discharged—Senator Hume

Appointed—Senator Xenophon

Education and Employment Legislation Committee—

Discharged—

  Senator Farrell

  Participating member: Senator Ketter

Appointed—

  Senator Ketter

  Participating member: Senator Farrell

Funding for Research into Cancers with Low Survival Rates—Select Committee

Appointed—

  Senators Bilyk, Ketter and McCarthy

  Participating members: Senators Brown, Cameron, Carr, Chisholm, Collins, Dastyari, Dodson, Farrell, Gallacher, Gallagher, Kitching, Lines, Marshall, McAllister, Moore, O'Neill, Polley, Pratt, Singh, Sterle, Urquhart, Watt and Wong

Human Rights—Joint Statutory Committee—

Discharged—

  Senator McKim on 12 December 2016

  Senator Di Natale on 13 December 2016

  Senator McKim on 2 February 2017

  Senator Hanson-Young on 3 February 2017

  Senator Siewert on 4 February 2017

Appointed—

  Senator Di Natale on 12 December 2016

  Senator McKim on 13 December 2016

  Senator Hanson-Young on 2 February 2017

  Senator Siewert on 3 February 2017

  Senator McKim on 4 February 2017.

Question agreed to.