Committee Details

The Education, Employment and Training Committee of the 57th Parliament was established as a portfolio committee of the Queensland Legislative Assembly on 26 November 2020. The committee has responsibility for the following portfolio areas:

• Education, Industrial Relations and Racing
• Employment, Small Business, Training, Skills Development and Youth Justice.

Responsibility for Youth Justice was shifted from the Community Support and Services Committee to the Education, Employment and Training Committee on 23 May 2023. 

In relation to its areas of responsibility, the committee:

• examines Bills and subordinate legislation to consider the policy to be enacted and the application of the fundamental legislative principles set out in section 4 of the Legislative Standards Act 1992 and compatibility with the Human Rights Act 2019.
• examines the estimates of each department
• investigates any issue referred to it by the Legislative Assembly or under an Act, whether or not the issue is within the committee’s areas of responsibility
• assesses public accounts in its portfolio area in regard to integrity, economy, efficiency and effectiveness of financial management
• assesses public works in its portfolio area in regard to the suitability of the works for the purpose.

The committee must also investigate any issue referred to it by the Legislative Assembly or under an Act, whether or not the issue is within the committee’s areas of responsibility.

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View: Report No. 10, 57th Parliament - Annual Report 2021-21 tabled 21 September 2021

View: Report No. 24, 57th Parliament - Annual Report 2021-22 tabled 6 September 2022

View: Report No. 39, 57th Parliament-Annual Report 2022-23 tabled 19 October 2023