A parliamentary report on parliamentary reports was handed down last month. Don’t let your eyes glaze over, it’s actually important.
As politicians return to Canberra this week, community independent MPs have a shopping list of thorny topics for the government they want to talk about. Monique Ryan has a private member’s bill for the Centre for Disease Control to treat gambling harm as a public health issue; Sophie Scamps has a bill seeking to end so-called “jobs for mates”, requiring a “cooling-off period” between working in politics and being appointed to cushy government roles; while Kate Chaney plans to highlight the dozens and dozens of parliamentary committee reports which have been left gathering dust, with the government long overdue in responding to important findings and recommendations.
