Parliamentary committees

Since 1992 the committee system comprises the Joint Investigatory Committees, joint select committees of both Houses, select committees of either House and other committees which can be categorized as "domestic" or "administrative" committees.

Current

Committees
Find here committee membership, contact details, function, current inquiries, previous inquiries and progress on current investigations (monthly, pdf).

Historical committee information

Library holdings

(In publication date order)

Worthington, J.M. (1909), Index to the parliamentary papers, reports of select committees, and returns to orders, bills, etc. 1851-1909, J. Kemp, govt. printer, Melbourne.

Borchardt, D.H. (1970), Checklist of Royal Commissions, Select Committees of Parliament and Boards of Inquiry. Part III, Victoria, 1856-1960, Wentworth Books, Sydney.

Hagger, J. (1980), Consolidated index to the Checklists of Royal Commissions, Select Committees of Parliament and Boards of Inquiry, held in the Commonwealth of Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria, 1856-1960, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Borchardt, D.H. (1986), Checklist of Royal Commissions, Select Committees of Parliament and Boards of Inquiry Commonwealth, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria, 1960-1980 and South Australia, 1970-1980, La Trobe University, Bundoora.

Marshall, J. (1990), The literature on royal commissions, select committees of Parliament and boards of inquiry held in Australia 1856-1980 : a select bibliography, La Trobe University Library, Melbourne.
This publication expands on the work of Borchardt by providing references to all the comment in newspapers, books and journals surrounding major government inquiries and commissions, thus placing them in historical context.

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