Summary
Gives effect to recommendations of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s
Set the Standard: Report on the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces
by amending the
Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Act 2023
to: establish the Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission (IPSC) as a workplace investigation framework for Commonwealth parliamentary workplaces; and establish the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Parliamentary Standards to provide oversight of the IPSC. Also amends 5 other Acts consequential on the establishment of the IPSC.