The Standing Committee on Appropriations and Administration is a
committee
A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. A committee may not itself be considered to be a form of assembly or a decision-making body. Usually, an assembly o ...
of the
Australian House of Representatives
The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Australian Senate, Senate. Its composition and powers are set out in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia.
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responsible for the funding and operations of the House of Representatives. The committee is governed by Standing Order 222A and consists of nine members, the
Speaker as chair,
ex officio
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, four government members and three non-government members. The deputy chair is appointed by the Leader of the Opposition under Standing Order 232.
Membership
47th Parliament
In the
47th parliament (July 2022 – present), the membership of the committee is the following:
See also
*
Australian House of Representatives committees
Parliamentary committees of the Australian House of Representatives are groups of Members of Parliament, appointed by the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives, to undertake certain specified tasks. They comprise governmen ...
*
United States House Committee on Appropriations
References
External links
Official website of the Australian House of Representatives
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House of Representatives committees, Australian
Australian House of Representatives