Second Reading Speeches

Parliamentary Privileges Amendment (Royal Commission Response) Bill 2022

Type
Private
Sponsor(s)
LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui
TYRRELL, Sen Tammy
Originating house
Senate
Status
Before Senate
Parliament no
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Summary

Amends the

Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987
to implement a recommendation of the interim report of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide to allow a royal commission, whose terms of reference require an examination of government, to analyse and draw inferences or conclusions from evidence that is subject to parliamentary privilege.

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