Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights

'The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights' functions are to examine bills, Acts and legislative instruments for compatibility with human rights, and report to both Houses of the Parliament. The committee may also inquire into and report on any human rights matters referred to it by the Attorney-General.

About the committee Committee membership Committee resources

Bill assessments

The committee’s assessments of all bills introduced into the Parliament

Instrument assessments

Legislative instruments on which the committee has commented

Scrutiny reports

Reports on bills and instruments examined by the committee

Scrutiny update

A summary of committee comments from the latest scrutiny report

Ministerial responses

A list of responses not yet received, or responses received but not yet reported on

Inquiries

Inquiries undertaken by the committee

Other work of the committee

Annual reports, speeches, COVID-19 legislative scrutiny and other work

Mailing list

To receive a short update directly to your email each time the committee has tabled a new scrutiny report (approximately 12 times per year), and to be alerted of matters related to inquiries the committee is undertaking, subscribe to the committee’s mailing list.

To subscribe to the committee's mailing list, please send an email to human.rights@aph.gov.au with 'Subscribe PJCHR Mailing List' as the subject line.

Committee Secretariat contact:

Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Phone: 02 6277 3823
human.rights@aph.gov.au