Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs

Completed inquiries and reports

Consult the Register of Senate Committee Reports if you are unsure when a report was tabled.

Report Name Date Tabled
Legislation Committee
Homelessness Bill 2013; Homelessness (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2013 12 August 2013
Social Security Legislation Amendment (Public Housing Tenants’ Support) Bill 2013 12 August 2013
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2013 Measures No. 1) Bill 2013 17 June 2013
Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Base Premium) Bill 2013 17 June 2013
Aged Care (Living Longer Living Better) Bill 2013 [Provisions] and related bills 31 May 2013
Aboriginal Land Rights and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 28 May 2013
Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2013 19 March 2013
National Disability Insurance Scheme Bill 2012 13 March 2013
Private Health Insurance Amendment (Lifetime Health Cover Loading and Other Measures) Bill 2012 12 March 2013
National Gambling Reform Bill 2012; National Gambling Reform (Related Matters) Bill (No. 1) 2012; National Gambling Reform (Related Matters) Bill (No. 2) 2012 28 November 2012
Dental Benefits Amendment Bill 2012 [Provisions] 29 October 2012
Low Aromatic Fuel Bill 2012 26 September 2012
Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Bill 2012 [Provisions]; Australian Charities and Not-for-profits
Commission (Consequential and Transitional) Bill 2012 [Provisions]; Tax Laws Amendment (Special Conditions for Not-for-profit Concessions) Bill 2012 [Provisions]
12 September 2012
Administration of Indigenous Business Australia in relation to certain evidence given to the Senate Community Affairs Committee 3 August 2012
Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (2012 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2012 [Provisions] 18 June 2012
Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Bill 2011 [Provisions]
Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011 [Provisions]
19 March 2012
Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Income Support and Other Measures) Bill 2012 [Provisions] 19 March 2012
Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory Bill 2011 and two related bills 14 March 2012
Disability Impairment Tables: Provisions of Schedule 3 of the Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2011 19 September 2011
Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling—Genetically Modified Material) Bill 2010 24 August 2011
Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2011 [Provisions] 22 June 2011
Food Standards Amendment (Truth in Labelling—Palm Oil) Bill 2010 16 June 2011
National Health Reform Amendment (National Health Performance Authority) Bill 2011 [Provisions] 9 June 2011
Human Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2010 [Provisions] 22 March 2011
National Health and Hospitals Network Bill 2010 22 November 2010
Provisions of Schedules 2 and 3 of the Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2010 22 November 2010
National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) Bill 2010 16 November 2010
Commonwealth Commissioner for Children and Young People Bill 2010 1 November 2010
References Committee
Involuntary or coerced sterilisation of people with disabilities in Australia  25 October 2013 
Impacts on health of air quality in Australia 16 August 2013
Supply of chemotherapy drugs such as Docetaxel 10 May 2013
Australia's domestic response to the World Health Organization's (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health report "Closing the gap within a generation" 20 March 2013
Palliative Care in Australia 10 October 2012
The factors affecting the supply of health services and medical professionals in rural areas 22 August 2012
The role of the Government and the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) regarding medical devices, particularly Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) breast implants 31 May 2012
Commonwealth contribution to former forced adoption policies and practices 29 February 2012
The regulatory standards for the approval of medical devices in Australia 22 November 2011
Commonwealth Funding and Administration of Mental Health Services 1 November 2011
Review of the Professional Services Review (PSR) Scheme 25 October 2011
The effectiveness of special arrangements for the supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) medicines to remote area Aboriginal Health Services 11 October 2011
Disability and Ageing: lifelong planning for a better future 6 July 2011
The Social and Economic Impact of Rural Wind Farms 23 June 2011
Gene Patents 26 November 2010
Consumer Access to Pharmaceutical Benefits 24 November 2010
The Prevalence of Interactive and Online Gambling in Australia 1 November 2010

Report on matters not disposed of at the end of the 42nd Parliament