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 House Standing Committee on Economics has released its report on Australia’s four major banks, concluding a series of annual public hearings throughout the 47 th Parliament with executives from ...

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 ...

The National Food Plan should be developed in consultation with state/territory and local governments, along with relevant sectors, stakeholders, and the community.

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With every system of election there are two quite separate and distinct processes, the ‘voting’ process and the ‘scrutiny’ process, that is, the counting. The first is performed by the voters in the ...

Under the doctrine of ‘public interest immunity’, historically described as ‘Crown privilege’, the Executive Government may seek to claim immunity from requests or orders, by a court or by Parliament, ...