Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs

Completed inquiries and reports

Consult the Register of Senate Committee Reports if you are unsure when a report was tabled.

Report Name Date Tabled
Legislation Committee
Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Income Management and Cashless Welfare) Bill 2019 [Provisions]
1 April 2019
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Encouraging Self-sufficiency for Newly Arrived Migrants) Bill 2018
28 November 2018
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Maintaining Income Thresholds) Bill 2018
28 November 2018
Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Bill 2018 and related Bill
19 October 2018
My Health Records Amendment (Strengthening Privacy) Bill 2018
12 October 2018
Social Security Legislation Amendment (Community Development Program) Bill 2018
12 October 2018
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card Trial Expansion) Bill 2018
14 August 2018
Private Health Insurance Legislation Amendment Bill 2018 and related Bills
13 August 2018
National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2018 and National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2018
15 June 2018
Health Legislation Amendment (Improved Medicare Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2018
5 June 2018
Health Insurance (Approved Pathology Specimen Collection Centres) Tax Amendment Bill 2018
5 June 2018
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Drug Testing Trial) Bill 2018
7 May 2018
Commonwealth Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Bill 2017 and Commonwealth Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2017
28 March 2018
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2017 Measures No.1) Bill 2017 and related bill
2 February 2018
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Cashless Debit Card) Bill 2017
6 December 2017
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Housing Affordability) Bill 2017
6 December 2017
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Quality and Safeguards Commission and Other Measures) Bill 2017 [Provisions]
8 November 2017
Vaporised Nicotine Products Bill 2017
14 September 2017
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Payment Integrity) Bill 2017
7 September 2017
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017
6 September 2017
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Better Targeting Student Payments) Bill 2017
1 September 2017
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Ending Carbon Tax Compensation) Bill 2017
9 August 2017
Industrial Chemicals Bill 2017 and related bills
8 August 2017
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Queensland Commission Income Management Regime) Bill 2017
20 June 2017
Therapeutic Goods Amendment (2016 Measures No. 1) Bill 2016 [Provisions]
27 March 2017
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Omnibus Savings and Child Care Reform) Bill 2017
21 March 2017
Fairer Paid Parental Leave Bill 2016
15 February 2017
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Transition Mobility Allowance to the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Bill 2016 [Provisions]
24 November 2016
National Disability Insurance Scheme Savings Fund Special Account Bill 2016
7 November 2016
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Simplifying Student Payments) Bill 2016
7 November 2016
National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016 [Provisions]
National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016 [Provisions]

11 October 2016
Social Services Legislation Amendment (Budget Repair) Bill 2016 [Provisions]
10 October 2016
References Committee
Effectiveness of the Aged Care Quality Assessment and accreditation framework for protecting residents from abuse and poor practices, and ensuring proper clinical and medical care standards are maintained and practised
3 April 2019
ParentsNext, including its trial and subsequent broader rollout
29 March 2019
Support for Australia’s thalidomide survivors
22 March 2019
Accessibility and quality of mental health services in rural and remote Australia
4 December 2018
My Health Record system
18 October 2018
Science of mitochondrial donation and related matters
27 June 2018
Number of women in Australia who have had transvaginal mesh implants and related matters
28 March 2018
Availability and accessibility of diagnostic imaging equipment around Australia
9 March 2018
Value and affordability of private health insurance and out-of-pocket medical costs
19 December 2017
Delivery of outcomes under the National Disability Strategy 2010-2020 to build inclusive and accessible communities
29 November 2017
Future of rugby union in Australia
15 November 2017
Design, scope, cost-benefit analysis, contracts awarded and implementation associated with the Better Management of the Social Welfare System initiative
21 June 2017
Future of Australia's aged care sector workforce
20 June 2017
Price regulation associated with the Prostheses List Framework
11 May 2017
Complaints mechanism administered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law
10 May 2017
Growing evidence of an emerging tick-borne disease that causes a Lyme-like illness for many Australian patients
30 November 2016
Medical complaints process in Australia
30 November 2016
Indefinite detention of people with cognitive and psychiatric impairment in Australia
29 November 2016

Report on references not disposed of at the end of the 44th Parliament (PDF 28KB)