AGENDA FOR FEDERAL PARLIAMENT
* House of Representatives and Senate sitting for final week of the year.
* Final coalition and Labor party room meetings for the year on Tuesday.
* Coalition in minority government must now rely on crossbenchers or Labor to pass legislation.
* Senate does not sit on Monday until midday to allow for senators to visit Government House for a morning event with Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove.
* Government wants wants the parliament to pass laws to help police and intelligence officers access encrypted communications in terrorism investigations, but bipartisan inquiry into the bill continues.
* Senate to debate private bill on Monday to protect gay students from discrimination in faith-based schools. Labor leader Bill Shorten to introduce the same bill in the lower house.
* Bills also listed in the Senate to set up the Future Drought Fund, overhaul court processes in family violence cases, deliver business tax breaks and make changes to the welfare system.
* Senate inquiry expected to be set up into the operation of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and appointment of non-judicial members.
* Independent MP Cathy McGowan to introduce private bill to set up a federal anti-corruption watchdog.
* Greens MP Adam Bandt to introduce private bill to ban Commonwealth support for coal-fired power stations.
* Independent Kerryn Phelps to introduce a bill to provide for urgent medical transfers to Australia for critically ill men, women and children in offshore detention.
* Nationals MP Kevin Hogan to seek support for a royal commission into the supermarket and petrol retailing sectors.
* Inquiry reports due on: freedom of information laws; PFAS contamination; red tape; Australian content on TV, radio and streaming services; new citizenship commitments; electric vehicles; the Great Barrier Reef Foundation; mental health services in rural areas; the obesity epidemic; Franchising Code of Conduct; lowering the voting age.
