Week beginning 10 February 2025

This page provides an overview of the key events of the last sitting week in the House of Representatives. It includes all bills presented and debated, and selected statements, debates and committee business. For the official record of proceedings, see the Votes and Proceedings. For a detailed procedural account of events, see the Procedural Digest and House Review.

Key events

  • Valedictory remarks—
    • Mr Graham Perrett MP, Member for Moreton (10 February)
    • Ms Maria Vamvakinou MP, Member for Calwell (10 February) 
    • Hon Paul Fletcher MP, Member for Bradfield (10 February)
    • Ms Kylea Tink MP, Member for North Sydney (10 February)
    • Hon Stephen Jones MP, Member for Whitlam (11 February)
  • Condolence motions relating to the deaths of—
    • Hon Kevin James Andrews AM, a former member (11 February)
    • Hon Thomas Eyre Forrest Hughes AO KC, a former member (12 February)
  • Statement on a significant matter—Women's health (12 February)
  • Statements by indulgence relating to the Queensland floods (13 February)
     

Legislation

7 bills were presented, and 8 bills were passed by the House.

Ministerial Statements

  • Seventeenth anniversary of the national apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples and the Closing the Gap annual report and implementation plan—Prime Minister (10 February)

Matters of Public Importance

Committee and delegation business

Committee reports presented

Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services

  • Financial abuse: An insidious form of domestic violence, incorporating a dissenting report—Corrigenda (11 February)
  • Wholesale investor and wholesale client tests (13 February)

Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training

  • The future of work: Inquiry into the digital transformation of workplaces (11 February)

Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights

  • Inquiry into antisemitism at Australian universities, incorporating dissenting reports (12 February)

Joint Standing Committee on National Capital and External Territories

  • Australia’s Antarctic Territory: Report on the inquiry into the importance of Antarctica to Australia’s national interests (10 February)

Standing Committee on Petitions

  • Report 37: Petitions and Ministerial responses (10 February)

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works

  • Eighty eighth annual report (11 February)
  • Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts—Command Centre and Canine Facility at Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport and other works (9th report of 2024)—Corrigendum (11 February)

Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs

Joint Standing Committee on Treaties

  • Report 225: Australia-UAE CEPA; Australia-UAE Investment Agreement, incorporating a dissenting report (12 February)

Government responses

Standing Committee on Procedure

  • Maintenance of the standing and sessional orders—Government response (13 February)
  • Maintenance of the standing and sessional orders—Speaker's response (13 February)

    Delegation reports presented

    • Joint Standing Committee on Migration Delegation to New Zealand and Vanuatu, 26 to 31 August 2024 (10 February)

    Private Members' business

    The following private members' bills were introduced on Monday, 10 February

    The following private members' motions were moved and debated on Monday, 10 February

    More information

    These Infosheets provide useful information about the business of the House and Federation Chamber.

    For the official record of the proceedings of the House, including a list of papers presented, go to the Votes and Proceedings. To read transcripts of the debates, go to Hansard.

    More House statistics

    Statistical records of the work of the House of Representatives are available on a range of business items, including legislation, questions, statements and petitions.