The 12-member committee is chaired by South Australian Labor Senator, Dana Wortley, and deputy chair is NSW Liberal Party MP, Alex Hawke. Labor senators Kate Lundy and Guy Barnett and NSW Independent Robert Oakeshott MP are also on the panel.

Western Australia Greens Senator, Scott Ludlam, an avid filter critic, after previously losing a spot by two votes to Family First Senator Steve Feilding.

The committee will investigate:

have raged since the election of the Rudd Government in 2007.

The filter was proposed under the then Beazley-led Labor Party 12 months prior to its election, while then-Communications Minister Helen Coonan had criticised the plan and offered the now scrapped Net Alert home Internet content filter.