Preliminary Pages

Membership of the Committee

 

Chair	Mr Kelvin Thomson MP
Deputy Chair	Senator Julian McGauran
Members	Mr Jamie Briggs MP	Senator Simon Birmingham
	Mr John Forrest MP	Senator Michaelia Cash
	Ms Jill Hall MP	Senator Don Farrell
	Mrs Julia Irwin MP (from 5/2/09)	Senator Scott Ludlam
	Ms Belinda Neal MP	Senator Louise Pratt
	Ms Melissa Parke MP	Senator Dana Wortley
	Mr Luke Simpkins MP
	Mr Chris Trevor MP (until 5/2/09)
	Ms Maria Vamvakinou MP

 

Committee Secretariat

 

Secretary	Jerome Brown
Inquiry Secretaries	Sonya Fladun Julia Searle
Research Officer	Geoff Wells
Administrative Officers	Heidi Luschtinetz (from 19/1/09)
	Dorota Cooley

 

Resolution of Appointment

 

The Resolution of Appointment of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties allows it to inquire into and report on:

a)                  matters arising from treaties and related National Interest Analyses and proposed treaty actions and related Explanatory Statements presented or deemed to be presented to the Parliament;

b)                 any question relating to a treaty or other international instrument, whether or not negotiated to completion, referred to the committee by:

(i)                 either House of the Parliament, or

(ii)              a Minister; and

such other matters as may be referred to the committee by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and on such conditions as the Minister may prescribe.

 

List of abbreviations

 

ACAP	Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels
DSA	Defence Security Authority
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NIA	National Interest Analysis
UNESCO	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation

 

 

List of recommendations

2     Agreement between the Government of Australia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation on the Security of Information

Recommendation 1

The Committee supports the Agreement between the Government of Australia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation on the Security of Information and recommends that binding treaty action be taken.