28th Nov 2019, 10:44 AM – Representatives Committees - Joint Select Committee on Road Safety - Appointment

The majority voted in favour of the motion below, which was introduced by Pearce MP Christian Porter (Liberal), which means it was successful.

Motion text

That:

(1) the resolution of appointment of the Joint Select Committee on Road Safety be amended to read as follows:

That:

(a) a Joint Select Committee on Road Safety be appointed to inquire into and report on:

(i) the effectiveness of existing road safety support services and programs, including opportunities to integrate Safe System principles into health, education, industry and transport policy;

(ii) the impact of road trauma on the nation, including the importance of achieving zero deaths and serious injuries in remote and regional areas;

(iii) the possible establishment of a future parliamentary Standing Committee on Road Safety and its functions;

(iv) measures to ensure state, territory and local government road infrastructure investment incorporates the Safe System principles;

(v) road trauma and incident data collection and coordination across Australia;

(vi) recommending strategies, performance measures and targets for the next National Road Safety Strategy;

(vii) recommendations for the role of the newly established Office of Road Safety; and

(viii) other measures to support the Australian Parliament’s ongoing resolve to reduce incidents on our roads, with a focus on the recommendations from the Inquiry into the effectiveness of the National Road Safety Strategy 2011–2020;

(b) the committee present an interim report on or before 31 July 2020 and its final report on or before 31 October 2020;

(c) the committee consist of nine members, four Members of the House of Representatives to be nominated by the Government Whip or Whips, two Members of the House of Representatives to be nominated by the Opposition Whip or Whips or by any minority group or independent Member, and one Senator to be nominated by the Leader of the Government in the Senate, one Senator to be nominated by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, and one Senator to be nominated by any minority group or independent Senator;

(d) participating members may

(i) be appointed to the committee on the nomination of the Government Whip in the House of Representatives, the Opposition Whip in the House of Representatives, the Leader of the Government in the Senate, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate or any minority party or independent senator or member of the House of Representatives; and

(ii) participate in hearings of evidence and deliberations of the committee, and have all the rights of members of the committee, but may not vote on any question before the committee.

(e) every nomination of a member of the committee be notified in writing to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives;

(f) the members of the committee hold office as a joint select committee until presentation of the committee’s final report or until the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires by effluxion of time, whichever is the earlier;

(g) the committee may proceed to the dispatch of business notwithstanding that not all members have been duly nominated and appointed and notwithstanding any vacancy;

(h) the committee elect:

(i) a Government member as its chair; and

(ii) a non-Government member as its deputy chair who shall act as chair of the committee at any time when the chair is not present at a meeting of the committee;

(i) at any time when the chair and deputy chair are not present at a meeting of the committee, the members present shall elect another member to act as chair at that meeting;

(j) in the event of an equally divided vote, the chair, or the deputy chair when acting as chair, have a casting vote;

(k) three members of the committee constitute a quorum of the committee provided that in a deliberative meeting the quorum shall include one Government member of either House and one non-Government member of either House;

(l) the committee:

(i) have power to appoint subcommittees consisting of three or more of its members, and to refer to any subcommittee any matter which the committee is empowered to examine; and

(ii) appoint the chair of each subcommittee who shall have a casting vote only;

(m) each subcommittee shall have at least one Government member of either House and one non-Government member of either House;

(n) at any time when the chair of a subcommittee is not present at a meeting of the subcommittee, the members of the subcommittee present shall elect another member of that subcommittee to act as chair at that meeting;

(o) two members of a subcommittee constitute the quorum of that subcommittee, provided that in a deliberative meeting the quorum shall include one Government member of either House and one non-Government member of either House;

(p) members of the committee who are not members of a subcommittee may participate in the proceedings of that subcommittee but shall not vote, move any motion or be counted for the purpose of a quorum;

(q) the committee or any subcommittee have power to:

(i) call for witnesses to attend and for documents to be produced;

(ii) conduct proceedings at any place it sees fit;

(iii) sit in public or in private;

(iv) report from time to time; and

(v) adjourn from time to time and to sit during any adjournment of the House of Representatives and the Senate;

(r) the committee or any subcommittee have power to consider and make use of the evidence and records of any former committee on related matters; and

(s) the provisions of this resolution, so far as they are inconsistent with the standing orders, have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the standing orders; and

(2) a message be sent to the Senate requesting its concurrence in the amended resolution.