Lesley Clark discusses her participation on parliamentary committees and the review of the committee system in which she was involved. She outlines her involvement with the committee exploring democracy and young people.

Judy Spence discusses her role in chairing a committee on reforming the committee system of the Queensland parliament in 2010, destined to be the most far reaching reforms since the upper house was abolished in 1922. She states that this system where people can scrutinise legislation before it gets presented to parliament will be unique in Australia, shared only with New Zealand and some unicameral provincial legislatures in Canada.