Sentence examples for references committee from inspiring English sources
A references committee will conduct inquiries into policy issues referred to it by the Senate.
The Greens media spokeswoman, Sarah Hanson-Young, will ask the Senate to refer the ABC matter to the environment and communications references committee for inquiry and report by 29 March.
The Labor leader in the Senate, Penny Wong, successfully moved a motion on Tuesday afternoon to refer the oversight of associated entities to the finance and public administration references committee.
The Senate economics references committee has now demanded BHP Billiton answer its questions.
"Mark Arbib did not do it when he was requested to do so by the environment references committee.
On Thursday, a separate report into the census failure was released by the Senate economics references committee.
The references committees are responsible for conducting inquiries into topics referred to them by the chamber.
The reverse is the case for the references committees.
Because the chair has a casting vote in the event of a committee vote being tied, the government effectively controls the legislation committees, while the non-government parties control the references committees.
Dastyari, who chairs the inquiry by the Senate economics reference committee into corporate tax avoidance, said his committee would be writing to companies named in the leaks to ask for an explanation.
Jordan's detailed rebuke has prompted the Senate's economics reference committee to consider whether to recall the companies to explain the discrepancies between their evidence and statements on Wednesday by the ATO.
