[2] While General Purpose Standing Committees of the House of Representatives were first established in 1987,[3] Agriculture or Primary Industries were not explicitly called out until the amendment of Standing order 28B following the election of the Howard Government in 1996.

[4] The committee has been regularly renamed since; some recent names include:[5] In the 47th parliament (July 2022 – present), the membership of the committee is the following:[7] In the 45th parliament (September 2016 – 11 April 2019), the membership of the committee was the following:[8] McVeigh and Broad lost their positions on the committee upon joining the Ministry, with Marino and Gillespie being elected to replace each respectively.

Swanson was discharged from the committee and replaced by Fitzgibbon.

Swanson was again appointed to the committee when Keay lost her seat her seat in Parliament during the parliamentary eligibility crisis.

Keay regained it at the ensuing by-election, and was reappointed to the committee in the place of Fitzgibbon.