Dean Smith (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate adopt recommendation 5 of the report of the Publications Committee of the inquiry into printing standards for documents presented to Parliament.

Recommendation 5

5.6 That the Senate and House of Representatives pass the following resolution:

That unless otherwise ordered, and provided that they conform to the printing standards, the following documents shall be made Parliamentary Papers upon their presentation to the Senate/House of Representatives:

substantive reports of parliamentary committees;

annual reports of Commonwealth entities;

a report of a royal commission;

a report of the Productivity Commission;

a report of the Auditor-General;

a report of the Australian Human Rights Commission;

a report of the Australia Law Reform Commission;

a report of the Australian Electoral Commission on the redistribution of electoral division boundaries;

Australian Government white papers;

a report in a series that has previously been included in the Parliamentary Papers Series on the recommendation of a Publications Committee; and

budget papers and ministerial statements presented following the presentation of the appropriation bills.

Question agreed to.