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 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 ...

About half of the total sitting time of the House is spent considering bills, that is, proposed laws. These range from comparatively minor proposals of an administrative nature to comprehensive ...

I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Her heirs and successors according to law. [59] The ...

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

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

The word ‘parliament’ originally meant a talk and was derived from the French parler (to speak or parley) and the Latin parliamentum. In the latter form it was applied to the after-dinner ...

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 ...

You are currently viewing the Senate statistical archive. This site contains data to 31 December 2011. For information after that date, please see Senate StatsNet. While ministers are neither ...

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

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 ...

This infosheet describes the job of a typical backbench member of the House of Representatives—that is, a member who does not hold a parliamentary or party office. 1 The term ‘backbencher’ refers to ...