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Preliminary Pages

Membership of the Committee

 

Chair

Tony Windsor MP

 

Deputy Chair

Steve Gibbons MP

 

Members

Hon Justine Elliot MP

 

 

Barry Haase MP

 

 

Kirsten Livermore MP

 

 

Michael McCormack MP

 

 

Rob Mitchell MP

 

 

Dan Tehan MP

 

 

Committee Secretariat

 

Secretary

Glenn Worthington

Inquiry Secretary

Siobhán Leyne

 

List of recommendations

1     Unauthorised disclosure of confidential committee document

Recommendation 1

The Committee recommends that the Speaker of the House of Representatives refer the matter of an unauthorised disclosure of a confidential report of the Standing Committee on Regional Australia to the Standing Committee on Privileges and Members Interests for further investigation.

Recommendation 2

The Committee recommends that the House of Representatives adopt the Standing Committee on Privileges and Members’ Interests August 2012 report titled: Report concerning the possible unauthorised disclosure of the internal proceedings of the Committee in order to give guidance to the House and its committees in dealing with the unauthorised disclosure of committee proceedings and to better educate the Parliamentary Press Gallery about the prohibition on the unauthorised disclosure of committee proceedings.

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