Daily Program A guide to each day's expected proceedings. Notice Paper The official list of business (agenda) before the House of Representatives. Votes and Proceedings The official record of the ...

The Parliament consists of the King (represented by the Governor-General) and two Houses (the Senate and the House of Representatives). In 1901 the Australian Constitution established the Australian ...

These minutes are a draft record of the proceedings of the House of Representatives as they occur, and are subject to revision. The official record of proceedings is the Votes and Proceedings. This ...

The order of business provides for discussion of a matter of public importance (MPI) on every sitting day, except Mondays. [145] The MPI takes place following the presentation of documents shortly ...

The normal flow of the legislative process is that a bill (a draft Act, or, in the terminology of the Constitution, a proposed law) is introduced into one House of Parliament, passed by that House and ...

Tabled papers include documents and artefacts presented to Parliament in the course of its proceedings. The term ‘tabled’ literally means that a document has been laid on the Table in either or both ...

The Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committees cover the following portfolios: Attorney-General and Home Affairs.

The Senate is one of the two houses of the Australian Federal Parliament. It consists of 76 senators, twelve from each of the six states and two from each of the mainland territories. It shares the ...

At the dissolution of the Senate and the House of Representatives on 9 May 2016 for a general election on 2 July 2016, the parliamentary committees of the 44 th Parliament ceased to exist. Therefore ...

The Education and Employment Committees cover the following portfolios: Education, and Employment and Workplace Relations.

An informal listing of tabled instruments for which disallowance motions may be moved in the Senate (published for each sitting). An informal listing of tabled instruments for which disallowance ...

From its recent high in December 2022, inflation has moderated in Australia, mirroring trends in price increases globally. However, inflation remains above the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) target ...