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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

2.172That the Australian Government introduce new, whole-of-economy, dedicated legislation to regulate high-risk uses of AI, in line with Option 3 presented in the government’s Introducing mandatory ...

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 ...

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 ...

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