Tuesday, 20 December 2022

Parliamentary Committees Amendment (Preventing Government Dominated Investigatory Committees) Bill 2022

Introduction and first reading

Samantha RATNAM (Northern Metropolitan) (17:09): I move to introduce a bill for an act to amend the Parliamentary Committees Act 2003 to ensure that the membership and chairperson of Parliament’s joint investigatory committees is sufficiently independent of the government and executive of the day when carrying out their functions and for other purposes, and I move:

That the bill be now read a first time.

Motion agreed to.

Read first time.

Samantha RATNAM: I move:

That the second reading be made an order of the day for the next day of meeting.

Motion agreed to.