Joint Committee on
Publications
Committee
Activities (inquiries and reports)
43rd Parliament (September 2010 - present)
This Committee has not
yet tabled any reports
42nd
Parliament (February 2008 - July 2010)
Electronic distribution
of the Parliamentary Papers Series
Parliamentary
Paper: 160/2010; Date tabled: Thursday, 24 June 2010
Presiding Officers' response: November 2010 (PDF 48KB);
Presiding Officers' – further response June 2012 (PDF 46KB)
Government response: September 2011
(PDF 102KB)
41st
Parliament (November 2004 - October 2007)
Printing
standards for documents presented to Parliament
Parliamentary Paper: 203/2007; Date tabled: Thursday, 20 September 2007
Government response: September 2009
(PDF 63KB)
Distribution
of the Parliamentary Papers Series
Parliamentary Paper: 114/2006; Date tabled: Monday, 29 May 2006
Presiding Officers response: September
2006 (PDF 61KB)
Government response: October 2006
(PDF 219KB)
The role of
the Publications Committee
Text of speech by Senator John Watson, Deputy Chair, to the Australian
Library and Information Seminar "Digital Amnesia: the Challenges of
Government Online", held in Canberra on 21 April 2005.
40th
Parliament (February 2002 - August 2004)
No inquiries were held during
the 40th Parliament.
39th
Parliament (November 1998 - October 2001)
Certain issues related to
non-print material (lapsed)
submissions and transcripts
38th
Parliament (May 1996 - August 1998)
Future of the Parliamentary
Papers series
Presented 2 December 1997; Parliamentary Paper 416/97
Date of Presiding Officers' Response: 31 August 1998
Date of Government Response: 11 March 1999
Earlier
reports
For a list of earlier reports by
this Committee, see the Register of
Committee Reports (1901 to current day).
Copies
of reports
Reports published since May 1996
are available in PDF format - see above. For earlier reports contact the Committee Secretariat.
Copies
of submissions and transcripts of public hearings
Volumes of evidence taken at
public hearings for each of the above reports can be reviewed at the National
Library of Australia, State and most university libraries or with the
Committee Secretariat.