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Home Parliamentary Business Committees Senate Committees Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills Scrutiny Digest

Scrutiny Digest

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To access the committee's consideration of legislation prior to 2017 see the committee's Alert Digests and Reports.

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Number Date Format
Number 5 17 March 2021 (PDF 1082KB)
Ministerial responses
Number 4 24 February 2021 (PDF 444KB)
Ministerial responses
Correction
Number 3 17 February 2021 (PDF 508KB)
Ministerial responses
Number 2 3 February 2021 (PDF 574KB)
Ministerial responses
Number 1 29 January 2021 (PDF 701KB)
Ministerial response

Index of bills considered by the committee (PDF 184KB) (Word 66KB)

In this section
  • Senate Committees
    • Making a submission
    • Attending a public hearing
    • Senate committee activity
    • Appropriations, Staffing and Security
    • Australian Government’s Northern Australia agenda
    • Autism
    • Community Affairs
    • COVID-19
    • Economics
    • Education and Employment
    • Environment and Communications
    • Finance and Public Administration
    • Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology
    • Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
    • Foreign Interference through Social Media
    • Job Security
    • Legal and Constitutional Affairs
    • Management and Execution of the Murray Darling Basin Plan
    • Privileges
    • Procedure
    • Publications
    • Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport
    • Scrutiny of Bills
    • Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation
    • Selection of Bills
    • Senators' Interests
    • Temporary Migration
    • Senate Committees: Upcoming Public Hearings
    • Today's Public Hearings
    • Recent Senate Committee reports
    • Former Senate Committees

About this committee

The committee publishes its Scrutiny Digest during sitting weeks which provides the committee's scrutiny comments on recently introduced bills.

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Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Phone: +61 2 62773050
Fax: +61 2 62775881
scrutiny.sen@aph.gov.au

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