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Documents presented out of sitting after the Senate adjourned on 1 April 2026

Under standing orders 38 and 166, committees, ministers and the Auditor—General may present reports and documents to the President, the Deputy President or a temporary chair of committees when the Senate is not sitting. Reports and documents so presented are authorised for publication. Reports and documents listed here were presented since the Senate last met.

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Documents presented out of sitting

Committee Reports

  1. Community Affairs Legislation Committee—Additional estimates 2025–26—Report, dated March 2026. [Received 2 April 2026]
  2. Economics Legislation Committee—Additional estimates 2025–26—Report, dated March 2026. [Received 2 April 2026]
  3. Education and Employment Legislation Committee—Additional estimates 2025–26—Report, dated March 2026, documents presented to the committee and additional information. [Received 2 April 2026]
  4. Environment and Communications Legislation Committee—Environment Protection Reform Bill 2025 and related bills—Report, documents presented to the committee, additional information and submissions. [Received 2 April 2026]
  5. Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee—Additional estimates 2025–26—Report, dated March 2026, documents presented to the committee and additional information. [Received 2 April 2026]
  6. Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee—Parliamentary Joint Committee on Public Consultancy and Services Contracts Bill 2025—Report, dated March 2026, documents presented to the committee, additional information and submissions. [Received 2 April 2026]
  7. Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee—Additional estimates 2025–26—Report, dated March 2026, documents presented to the committee and additional information. [Received 2 April 2026]
  8. Public Works—Joint Statutory Committee—2nd report of 2026—Referrals made in September 2025, dated March 2026. [Received 2 April 2026]
  9. Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee—Additional estimates 2025–26—Report, dated March 2026, documents presented to the committee and additional information. [Received 2 April 2026]

Government responses to committee reports

  1. Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee—Report—Public Interest Disclosure Amendment (Review) Bill 2022 [Provisions]—Government response, dated April 2026. [Received 2 April 2026]
  2. Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee—Report—Whistleblower Protection Authority Bill 2025—Government response. [Received 2 April 2026]
  3. Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme—Select Committee—Report—Government response, dated March 2026. [Received 2 April 2026]

Responses to orders for the production of documents

  1. Antisemitism and Social Cohesion—Royal Commission—Order of 2 March 2026 (341)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Senator McAllister), dated 30 March 2026, providing an interim response to the order, and attachment. [Received 2 April 2026]
  2. Artificial intelligence—Advisory body—Order of 3 February 2026 (314)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Industry and Innovation (Senator Ayres), dated 1 April 2026, responding to the order. [Received 2 April 2026]
  3. ASIC Regulatory Guide 97—Order of 4 March 2026 (391)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Finance (Senator Gallagher), dated 31 March 2026, responding to the order, and attachments. [Received 2 April 2026]
  4. Australian Defence Force—Senior officers—Order of 5 March 2026 (393)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Senator McAllister), dated 30 March 2026, providing an interim response to the order, and attachment. [Received 2 April 2026]
  5. Australian Education Research Organisation—Order of 24 March 2026 (445)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Early Childhood Education (Senator Walsh), dated 1 April 2026, responding to the order, and attachment. [Received 2 April 2026]
  6. Epstein Files Transparency Act (US)—Order of 3 March 2026 (378)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Trade and Tourism (Senator Farrell) responding to the order and raising a public interest immunity claim, and attachments. [Received 2 April 2026]
  7. Epstein Files Transparency Act (US)—Order of 3 March 2026 (380)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Senator McAllister), dated 30 March 2026, responding to the order, and attachment. [Received 2 April 2026]
  8. eSafety Commissioner—Expenditure on legal proceedings—Order of 10 March 2026 (398)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Trade and Tourism (Senator Farrell) responding to the order, and attachment. [Received 2 April 2026]
  9. Export cost recovery implementation statements—Order of 10 March 2026 (418)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Assistant Minister for Resources (Senator Chisholm), dated 27 March 2026, responding to the order and raising a public interest immunity claim, and attachments. [Received 2 April 2026]
  10. Housing Australia—Expenditure on furniture—Order of 2 March 2026 (347)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Industry and Innovation (Senator Ayres), dated 31 March 2026, responding to the order, and attachments. [Received 2 April 2026]
  11. Information integrity—Order of 30 March 2026 (465)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Industry and Innovation (Senator Ayres), dated 1 April 2026, responding to the order. [Received 2 April 2026]
  12. Integrated assessment tool and support at home classification system—Order of 23 March 2026 (438)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Senator McAllister), dated 1 April 2026, responding to the order, and attachments. [Received 2 April 2026]
  13. Murujuga—Order of 25 March 2026 (454)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for the Environment and Water (Senator Watt), dated 31 March 2026, responding to the order, and attachments. [Received 2 April 2026]
  14. National Reconstruction Fund Corporation—Order of 26 August 2025 (86)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Industry and Innovation (Senator Ayres), dated 27 March 2026, responding to the order, and attachment. [Received 2 April 2026]
  15. New and redeveloping international ports framework review—Order of 25 March 2026 (448)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Indigenous Australians (Senator McCarthy), dated 31 March 2026, responding to the order, and attachments. [Received 2 April 2026]
  16. Parliament—Increase in representation—Order of 11 March 2026 (401)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Trade and Tourism (Senator Farrell) responding to the order. [Received 2 April 2026]
  17. Online Safety Act—Order of 11 March 2026 (402)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Trade and Tourism (Senator Farrell) responding to the order and raising public interest immunity claims, and attachment. [Received 2 April 2026]
  18. Question time brief—Department of Industry, Science and Resources—Order of 4 February 2026 (332)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Industry and Innovation (Senator Ayres), dated 30 March 2026, responding to the order and raising a public interest immunity claim. [Received 2 April 2026]
  19. Supermarket price gouging—Order of 3 February 2026 (317)—Letter to the President of the Senate from the Minister for Finance (Senator Gallagher), dated 31 March 2026, responding to the order and raising public interest immunity claims, and attachments. [Received 2 April 2026]