Senate debates

Tuesday, 7 February 2017

Committees

Membership

7:20 pm

Photo of Gavin MarshallGavin Marshall (Victoria, Deputy-President) Share this | | Hansard source

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

Photo of Zed SeseljaZed Seselja (ACT, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | | Hansard source

by leave—I move:

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

Economics References Committee—

Appointed—

Substitute member: Senator Carr to replace Senator Dastyari for the committee's inquiries into Australia's steel industry and into the future of Australia's naval shipbuilding industry

Participating member: Senator Dastyari

Environment and Communications Legislation Committee—

Appointed—Participating member: Senator Waters

Environment and Communications References Committee—

Appointed—

Substitute member: Senator Hanson-Young to replace Senator Whish-Wilson for the committee's inquiry into the oil or gas production in the Great Australian Bight

Participating member: Senator Whish-Wilson

Exposure Draft of the Marriage Amendment (Same-Sex Marriage) Bill—Select Committee

Appointed—

Senator Kakoschke-Moore

Participating members: Senators Di Natale, Hanson-Young, Ludlam, McKim, Rhiannon, Siewert, Waters and Whish-Wilson

Law Enforcement—Joint Statutory Committee—

Appointed—Senator Kakoschke-Moore

Resilience of Electricity Infrastructure in a Warming World—Select Committee—

Appointed—Participating member: Senator Xenophon

Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee—

Appointed—

Substitute member: Senator Carr to replace Senator McCarthy for the committee's inquiry into the state of Australia's rail industry

Participating member: Senator McCarthy

Strengthening Multiculturalism—Select Committee—

Appointed—

Senator Di Natale

Participating members: Senators Hanson-Young, Ludlam, McKim, Rhiannon, Rice, Siewert, Waters and Whish-Wilson

Question agreed to.