Second Reading Speeches

Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Amendment (Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission) Bill 2024

Type
Government
Portfolio
Finance
Originating house
House of Representatives
Status
Act
Parliament no
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Summary

Gives effect to recommendations of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s

Set the Standard: Report on the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces
by amending the
Parliamentary Workplace Support Service Act 2023
to: establish the Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission (IPSC) as a workplace investigation framework for Commonwealth parliamentary workplaces; and establish the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Parliamentary Standards to provide oversight of the IPSC. Also amends 5 other Acts consequential on the establishment of the IPSC.

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