COMMITTEES

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT ( Senator Sterle ) (17:26): A message has been received from the House of Representatives forwarding a resolution agreed to by that House proposing a variation to the resolution of appointment of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Anti-Corruption Commission and requesting the concurrence of the Senate. The House of Representatives message read as follows— That: (1) the resolution of appointment for the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Anti-Corruption Commission be amended to replace subparagraph 1(l) with the following: (l) the committee or any subcommittee have power to consider and make use of the evidence and records of the former Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Anti-Corruption Commission appointed during previous Parliaments;