Week beginning 28 May 2024

First speech - Member for Cook - 28 May 2024 28 May 2024 - First speech by Mr Kennedy, Member for Cook. Image: AUSPIC

This page provides an overview of the key events of the last sitting week in the House of Representatives. It includes all bills presented and debated, and selected statements, debates and committee business. For the official record of proceedings, see the Votes and Proceedings. For a detailed procedural account of events, see the Procedural Digest and House Review.

Key events

  • Statements, by indulgence, on landslide in Papua New Guinea (28 May)
  • Speaker informed the House of the death of former member Hon Lou Stuart Lieberman AM (28 May)
  • First speech by Mr Kennedy, Member for Cook (28 May)
  • Speaker tabled a memorandum of understanding regarding Australian Federal Police investigations where parliamentary privilege may be involved (30 May)

Legislation

8 bills were presented, and 5 bills were passed by the House.

Matters of Public Importance

Committee and delegation business

Committee reports presented

Standing Committee on Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water

  • Drowning in waste: Plastic pollution in Australia’s oceans and waterways (28 May)

Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights

  • Inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework, incorporating dissenting reports (30 May)

Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement

  • Australia’s illicit drug problem: Challenges and opportunities for law enforcement, incoporating a dissenting report (28 May)

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works

  • Department of Defence–Facilities to support Advanced Growler Phase 6 (4th report of 2024) (28 May)

Selection Committee

  • Report No. 25 relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private Members’ business on Monday, 3 June 2024 (29 May)

Government responses

Standing Committee on Agriculture and Water Resources

  • Making every drop count: Inquiry into water use efficiency programs in agriculture (28 May)

Standing Committee on Economics

  • Report on the inquiry into impediments to business investment (28 May)

Standing Committee on Environment

  • Streamlining environmental legislation: Inquiry into streamlining environmental regulation, ‘green tape’, and one stop shops (29 May)

Standing Committee on Environment and Energy

  • Living with fruit bats: Inquiry into flying-fox management in the eastern states (28 May)

Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Transport and Cities

  • Smart ICT: Report on the inquiry into the role of smart ICT in the design and planning of infrastructure (30 May)

Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement

  • Inquiry into the trade in elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn (28 May)

Joint Standing Committee on Migration

  • Immigration detention in Australia: A new beginning–Criteria for release from immigration detention; Immigration detention in Australia: Community-based alternatives to detention; Immigration detention in Australia: Facilities, services and transparency (28 May)

Joint Standing Committee on National Capital and External Territories

  • Interim report: Inquiry into availability and access to enabling communications infrastructure in Australia’s external territories (30 May)
  • Interim report: Inquiry into economic, social and environmental sustainability in the Indian Ocean Territories (30 May)

Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Audit

  • Report 498: ‘Commitment issues’–An inquiry into Commonwealth procurement (28 May)

Select Committee on Regional Australia

  • Pride of place: Inquiry into the future of regional Australia (30 May)

Joint Select Committee on Trade and Investment Growth

  • Inquiry into Australia’s future in research and innovation (28 May)

Joint Standing Committee on Treaties

  • Report 189: Capital Increase WBG IBRD; Capital Increase WBG IFC; Amendments CMS; Termination IPPA-Indonesia (28 May)
  • Report 202: Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (28 May)

Delegation reports presented

There were no delegation reports presented.

Private Members' business

No private members' motions were moved or debated.

More information

These Infosheets provide useful information about the business of the House and Federation Chamber.

For the official record of the proceedings of the House, including a list of papers presented, go to the Votes and Proceedings. To read transcripts of the debates, go to Hansard.

More House statistics

Statistical records of the work of the House of Representatives are available on a range of business items, including legislation, questions, statements and petitions.