This page summarises the work done in the House of Representatives and its Main Committee. It is updated weekly during sittings. For a full report of the business dealt with, including a list of papers presented, go to the Votes and Proceedings (available as PDF or HTML from ParlinfoWeb). To read the debates including question time go to Hansard.

For more information about how the House arranges its business go to the Infosheet titled A typical sitting day.

For statistics on the work of the House go to Statistical Digest.

The House will sit again in the week beginning 16 November 2009.

Legislation

• 6 Bills were introduced

• 22 Bills were debated

Reports from parliamentary committees and delegations

  Standing Committee on Climate Change, Water, Environment and the Arts

• Managing our coastal zone in a changing climate: the time to act is now

  Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade

• Review of the Defence annual report 2007-2008

  Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security

• Annual report of committee activities 2008-2009

• Review of the listing of Al-Shabaab as a terrorist organisation

Matters of Public Importance discussed

• Border protection

• Economic infrastructure

• Government spending

Debate on private Members’ motions

• Australian food labelling standards — Mr T Zappia MP (ALP, Makin, SA)

• Forgotten Australians — Mrs J Gash MP (LP, Gilmore, NSW)

• Magill Youth Training Centre — Mr J Briggs MP (LP, Mayo, SA)

• Motion for disallowance-Inclusion of ecological communities in the list of threatened ecological communities (Lowland Native Grasslands of Tasmania)(negatived on division) — Mr G Hunt MP (LP, Flinders, Vic)

• National Landcare Week — Mr D Chester MP (Nats, Gippsland, Vic)

• United Nations Day — Ms M Parke MP (ALP, Freemantle, WA)

Public Works referrals and approvals

• Additional security cameras in the Parliamentary precinct was approved