Tuesday, 14 October 2025

 The PRESIDENT (12:04): I have some updates to the house following some changes made to tabling requirements under the Financial Management Act 1994. Amendments to the act that came into effect on 20 August 2025 added a requirement for the relevant minister to report to each house the date they received any annual report tabled under section 46 of the Financial Management Act.

The clerks and the Department of Treasury and Finance have agreed that this reporting will ordinarily occur in the tabling letter provided to the Clerk with the report. The tabling letter will then be published alongside the report in the tabled documents database to inform members.

The amendments also introduced the ability for a minister to request an annual report be tabled on a day that neither house is sitting. In anticipation of the Clerk potentially receiving a large volume of reports to be tabled on a non-sitting day, the Clerk has put in place a deadline of 2 pm for ministers to submit documents required for tabling. This is to ensure the administration work required for tabling on a non-sitting day can be completed and all requests actioned. The guides for tabling on the website will be updated to reflect these changes.