Pursuant to section 5 of the Act, the Committee is comprised of 5 Senators and 5 members of the House of Representatives. As at 26 March, the membership of the Committee was:
- Senate: Senator Sean Edwards (Lib); Senator Gary Humphries (Lib); Senator Ursula Stephens (ALP); Senator Matt Thistlethwaite (ALP); Senator Penny Wright (Greens);
- House of Representatives: Mr Harry Jenkins (Chair) (ALP); Ms Melissa Parke (ALP); Mr Dan Tehan (Lib); Mr Kelvin Thomson (ALP); Mr Ken Wyatt (Deputy Chair) (Lib)
PHIL LYNCH, BEN SCHOKMAN and RACHEL BALL of the Human Rights Law Centre