Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade 
      
Inquiry into Australia's Relationship with the Countries of Africa
On 21 October 2009, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, The Hon Stephen Smith MP, asked the Committee to inquire into and report on Australia's Relationship with the Countries of Africa.
On 22 November 2010, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, The Hon Kevin Rudd MP, re-referred the Inquiry into Australia's Relationship with the Countries of Africa, under the same terms of reference as the original inquiry.
A Sub-Committee was formed for this inquiry. Members are:
Senator Michael Forshaw (Chair)
 
Mrs Joanna Gash MP (Deputy Chair)
Senator Mark Bishop
Senator the Hon. Alan Ferguson
Senator Mark Furner
  Senator the Hon. Ian Macdonald 
  Senator Claire Moore
  Senator Russell Trood
  Ms Gai Brodtmann MP 
  Mr Nick Champion MP 
  The Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP
  The Hon. Alan Griffin MP
  Dr Denis Jensen MP 
  The Hon John Murphy MP 
  Ms Melissa Parke MP 
  Mr Stuart Robert MP 
  The Hon Philip Ruddock MP 
  The Hon. Bruce Scott MP 
  The Hon. Dr Sharman Stone MP 
The Committee invites interested persons and organisations to make submissions addressing the terms of reference. Please refer to our brochure called preparing a submission for more information.
In order to facilitate electronic publishing of submissions, the Committee would prefer them to be emailed to jscfadt@aph.gov.au or sent on disk or CD-ROM to the Committee Secretariat  in Microsoft Word® or Portable Document Format (PDF).
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