Completed inquiries and reports

Report Name	Date Tabled
Recognising, valuing and supporting unpaid carers - Report of the Inquiry into the recognition of unpaid carers Government response: No response to date	27 March 2024
Inquiry into the Administrative Review Tribunal Bill 2023 and the Administrative Review Tribunal (Consequential and Transitional Provisions No.1) Bill 2023	23 February 2024
You win some, you lose more - Report of the inquiry into online gambling and its impacts on those experiencing gambling harm Government response: No response to date	26 June 2023

Report Name	Date Tabled
Protecting the age of innocence - Report of the inquiry into age verification for online wagering and online pornography Parliamentary Paper: 61/2020 Government Response: 1 June 2021	5 March 2020
Shelter in the storm - COVID-19 and homelessness - Interim report of the inquiry into homelessness in Australia Parliamentary Paper: 261/2020	7 October 2020
Inquiry into family, domestic and sexual violence Parliamentary Paper:119/2021 Government Response: 30 March 2023	31 March 2021
Ending Indefinite and Arbitrary Immigration Detention Bill 2021 The Committee Chair, Mr Andrew Wallace MP, reported to the House by oral statement. The transcript of the statement can be found by clicking here.	22 June 2021
Constitutional roundtable on fixed four-year parliamentary terms The Committee has not reported on this roundtable. Evidence from the roundtable will be considered as part of the Committee's inquiry into constitutional reform and referendums.
Final Report - Inquiry into homelessness in Australia Parliamentary Paper: 215/2021 Government Response: 17 February 2022	4 August 2021
Inquiry into constitutional reform and referendums Parliamentary Paper: 19/2022 Government Response: No response to date	22 December 2021

Report Name

Date Tabled

Breaking barriers: a national adoption framework for Australian children

Parliamentary Paper: 597/2018
Government Response: 12 September 2019

26 November2018

A better family law system to support and protect those affected by family violence: Recommendations for an accessible, equitable and responsive family law system which better prioritieses safety of those affected by family violence

Parliamentary Paper: 544/2017
Government Response: 19 September 2018

7 December 2017

Report Name	Date Tabled
*Surrogacy Matters* Inquiry into the regulatory and legislative aspects of international and domestic surrogacy arrangements Parliamentary Paper: 117/2016 Government Response: November 2018	4 May 2016
*Roundtable on Constitutional law and Australian citizenship* The Committee does not intend to report on this inquiry
From conflict to cooperation Inquiry into the Child Support Program Parliamentary Paper: 202/2015 Government Response: August 2016	20 July 2015
Reviewing Troubled Waters Consideration of the Government response to the 2012 inquiry into arrangements surrounding crimes at sea Parliamentary Paper: 171/2015 Government Response: September 2016	22 June 2015
*Roundtable on Surrogacy* Parliamentary Paper: 93/2015	24 March 2015
*Revisiting recognition* Report on the roundtable with Australian South Sea Islanders Parliamentary Paper: 92/2015	24 March 2015
*Eyes in the sky* Inquiry into drones and the regulation of air safety and privacy Parliamentary Paper: 153/2014 Government Response: December 2016	14 July 2014

Earlier reports of the Social Policy and Legal Affairs are available at the following pages:

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Register of all committee reports from 1901 to 44th Parliament

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