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Committee Membership
44th Parliament
Committee Members |
|
Mr Andrew Laming MP, Chair |
QLD, LP |
Senator Glenn Lazarus, Deputy Chair |
QLD, PUP |
Senator the Hon Kim Carr |
VIC, ALP |
Senator Linda Reynolds |
WA, LP |
Senator Zed Seselja |
ACT, LP |
Ms Terri Butler MP |
QLD, ALP |
The Hon Ed Husic MP |
NSW, ALP |
Mr Keith Pitt MP |
QLD, NATS |
The Hon Christian Porter MP |
WA, LP |
Mr Andrew Wilkie MP |
TAS, IND |
Secretariat
Mr Mark Fitt, Committee
Secretary
Mr Gerry McInally, Principal
Research Officer
Ms Margie Morrison, Senior
Research Officer
Ms Natasha Rusjakovski, Acting Principal
Research Officer
Ms Fiona Gardner, Senior
Research Officer
Dr Ruth Edwards, Administrative
Officer
Ms Sarah Batts, Administrative Officer
Mr Simon Jones, Administrative
Officer
Terms of Reference
On 23 September 2014, a joint select committee was established
to inquire into the establishment of an Australia Fund for report by 30 June
2015. The terms of reference for the inquiry are as follows:
- That a joint select committee, to be known as the Joint Select
Committee on the Australia Fund Establishment, be established to inquire into
and report on:
The establishment of a fund to support rural and manufacturing
industries, with particular reference to:
- the need for a fund to assist rural and manufacturing
industries in crisis and support communities affected by natural disasters,
including the following assistance:
- emergency or ongoing financial relief,
- a loan to such a business,
- act as a guarantor for all or part of a loan or proposed
loan to such a business,
- purchase all or part of an existing
loan to such a business,
- capitalise or waive interest owed by
such a business,
- assume control of such a business for
a particular period,
- grant funds to an appropriate
industry body, and
- grant funds to such a business for the purpose of
purchasing new technology to make it more economically viable and competitive
or restructuring it; and
- whether:
- existing bankruptcy and insolvency laws should be modified or
temporarily relaxed for businesses in times of crisis, and
- any foreign bankruptcy or insolvency laws should be adopted
as laws of the Commonwealth.
- That the committee deliver its final report on or before 30
June 2015.
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