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

• Statements by the Speaker—
  • Appointment of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Ms Sam Reinhardt (4 November)
  • Retirement of Mr Russell Chafer (4 November)
  • 2024 Presiding Officers’ statement regarding the condition of Parliament House (4 November)
  • Memorandum of Understanding with the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (7 November)
• Speaker informed the House of the death of former member Harry Quick (4 November)
• Statements by indulgence on the death of Mrs Fay Marles AM (4 November)
• Statements by indulgence on the US Presidential Election (7 November)

Legislation

11 bills were presented and 8 bills were passed by the House 

Matters of Public Importance

• Housing (5 November)
• Women's Health (6 November)
• Alliances (7 November)

Committee and delegation business

Committee reports presented

Standing Committee on Economics

• Flood failure to future fairness: Report on the inquiry into insurers’ responses to 2022 major floods claims, incorporating dissenting reports (5 November)

Standing Committee on Petitions

• Report 33: Petitions and Ministerial responses (4 November)

Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Audit

• Report 505: Inquiry into policy and program design and implementation (4 November)
• Report 506: Inquiry into Commonwealth financial statements 2022-23 (4 November)

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works

• Department of Defence-Explosive Ordnance Facilities Northern NSW Redevelopment project and other works (7th report of 2024) (5 November)

Selection Committee

• Report No. 32 relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private Members’ business on Monday, 18 November 2024 (6 November)

Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society

• Second interim report: digital platforms and the traditional news media, incorporating dissenting reports (4 November)

Joint Standing Committee on Treaties

• Report 222: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation (6 November)

Government responses

There were no government responses presented

Delegation reports presented

• Australian Parliamentary Delegation to the thirty-first annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum, Manila, the Philippines, 23 to 26 November 2023—Report, October 2024 (6 November)

Private Members' business

The following private members' bills were introduced on Monday, 4 November

• Accountability of Grants, Investment Mandates and Use of Public Resources Amendment (End Pork Barrelling) Bill 2024 [No. 2]—Dr Haines (Indi, VIC)
• Competition and Consumer Amendment (Tougher Penalties for Supermarket and Hardware Businesses) Bill 2024—Mr Taylor (Hume, NSW)
• Corporations Amendment (Streamlining Advice Process) Bill 2024—Mr van Manen (Forde, QLD)
• Food and Grocery (Mandatory) Code of Conduct Bill 2024—Mr Littleproud (Maranoa, QLD)
• Higher Education Support Amendment (Fair Study and Opportunity) Bill 2024—Ms Le (Fowler, NSW)

The following private members' motions were moved and debated on Monday, 4 November

• Agriculture sector—Ms Landry (Capricornia, QLD)
• Animal welfare—Mr Wilkie (Clark, TAS)
• Banking sector—Mr Hamilton (Groom, QLD)
• Education system—Ms Coker (Corangamite, VIC)
• Ezidi people of Sinjar—Mr Hamilton (Groom, QLD)
• Genetic screening—Mr Pearce (Braddon, TAS)
• Infrastructure investment—Ms Spender (Wentworth, NSW)
• Paraquat and diquat usage—Dr Webster (Mallee, VIC)
• Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day—Ms Stanley (Werriwa, NSW)
• Supermarket sector—Mr Rae (Hawke, VIC)
• Western Australia—Ms Lawrence for Ms Mascarenhas (Swan, WA)

Debate resumed on the following private members' motions on Monday, 4 November

• Early childhood education and care educators—Mrs Phillips (Gilmore, NSW)
• Workplace relations—Ms Stanley (Werriwa, NSW)