Appendix 2: Committee activity

2. Committee activity

This appendix tallies the activities of the House of Representatives and joint committees of the Forty-fifth Parliament in 2017–18. In previous years, joint committees supported by the Department of the Senate were included in this list. This year, only House and joint committees supported by the Department of the House of Representatives are listed.

Committee	Meetings	Inquiries active at 30 June 2018	Reports presented^a
Scrutiny committees
Agriculture and Water Resources	16	1	2
Communications and the Arts	12	0	1
Constitutional Recognition Relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples^b	13	1	0
Economics	24	4	7
Electoral Matters	34	3	3
Employment, Education and Training	10	1	2
Environment and Energy	25	1	1
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade	83	9	4
Health, Aged Care and Sport	54	2	2
Indigenous Affairs	32	1	1
Industry, Innovation, Science and Resources	32	1	2
Infrastructure, Transport and Cities	32	1	0
Intelligence and Security	78	4	18
Intergenerational Welfare Dependence^b	0	1	0
Migration	18	2	1
National Capital and External Territories	23	3	2
Northern Australia	33	0	1
Public Accounts and Audit	19	9	9
Public Works	36	3	6
Regional Development and Decentralisation^c	30	0	1
Social Policy and Legal Affairs	21	1	1
Tax and Revenue	20	2	0
Trade and Investment Growth	11	1	0
Treaties	21	8	8
Internal committees
Appropriations and Administration	3	0	2
Broadcasting of Parliamentary Proceedings	0	0	0
Petitions	16	0	1
Privileges and Members’ Interests	12	0	2
Procedure	10	1	2
Publications (House)	2	0	0
Publications (Joint)	5	0	1
Selection	15	0	14

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works and the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties often present reports that incorporate multiple completed inquiries. Statistics detailed here tally the number of reports presented only and not the number of completed inquiries.
The Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition Relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and the Select Committee on Intergenerational Welfare Dependence are select committees that were established during the reporting period. These committees will expire upon presentation of their final reports, or when the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires by effluxion of time.
The Select Committee on Regional Development and Decentralisation is a select committee that presented its final report on 28 June 2018 and has therefore expired.