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Membership and Duties of the Committee
Membership of the Committee
Senator Grant Chapman,
(Chairman)
Mr Bob Sercombe, MP,
(Deputy Chairman)
Senator
Stephen Conroy
Senator
Barney Cooney
Senator
the Hon Brian Gibson
Senator
Andrew Murray
Ms
Julie Bishop, MP
Mr
Ross Cameron, MP
Mr
Kevin Rudd, MP
Dr
Andrew Southcott, MP
Committee Staff
Mr
David Creed, Secretary
Mr
M R Priestley, Principal Research Officer
Carol
Evans, Executive Assistant
Duties
of the Committee
Section 243 of the Australian
Securities and Investments Commission Act 1989 sets out the duties of the
Committee as follows:
The Parliamentary Committee's duties
are:
- to
inquire into, and report to both Houses on:
- activities
of the Commission or the Panel, or matters connected with such activities, to
which, in the Parliamentary Committee's opinion, the Parliament's attention
should be directed; or
- the
operation of any national scheme law, or of any other law of the Commonwealth,
of a State or Territory or of a foreign country that appears to the Parliamentary
Committee to affect significantly the operation of a national scheme law;
- to
examine each annual report that is prepared by a body established by this Act
and of which a copy has been laid before a House, and to report to both Houses
on matters that appear in, or arise out of, that annual report and to which, in
the Parliamentary Committee's opinion, the Parliament's attention should be
directed; and
- to inquire into any question in connection with its duties that is
referred to it by a House, and to report to that House on that question.
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