Senate Committees

Members of the Committee

Mr Bernie Ripoll, Chairman	QLD	ALP
Senator the Hon Brett Mason (Deputy Chair)	QLD	LP
Senator Sue Boyce	QLD	LP
Senator Don Farrell	SA	ALP
Senator the Hon Jan McLucas	QLD	ALP
Ms Sharon Grierson MP	NSW	ALP
Ms Julie Owens MP	NSW	ALP
The Hon Chris Pearce MP	VIC	LP
Mr Stuart Robert MP	QLD	LP

Dr Shona Batge, Secretary
Ms Clare Guest, Executive Assistant
Ms Kate Middleton, Executive Assistant

Suite SG.64
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Section 243 of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 sets out the Parliamentary Committee's duties as follows:

to inquire into, and report to both Houses on:
1. activities of ASIC or the Panel, or matters connected with such activities, to which, in the Parliamentary Committee's opinion, the Parliament's attention should be directed; or
2. the operation of the corporations legislation (other than the excluded provisions), or of any other law of the Commonwealth, of a State or Territory or of a foreign country that appears to the Parliamentary Committee to affect significantly the operation of the corporations legislation (other than the excluded provisions); and
to examine each annual report that is prepared by a body established by this Act and of which a copy has been laid before a House, and to report to both Houses on matters that appear in, or arise out of, that annual report and to which, in the Parliamentary Committee's opinion, the Parliament's attention should be directed; and
to inquire into any question in connection with its duties that is referred to it by a House, and to report to that House on that question.