House of Representatives Practice (6th Ed.)

House of Representatives Practice, 6th Edition was published on 6 September 2012.

It is available to download from this page in PDF format by chapter and appendixes. Other formats including HTML and an eBook version will be available from this page soon.

Preliminary pages
Title pages, Preface and Contents PDF format
Chapter summaries PDF format
Reference guide PDF format
Chapter and title
Chapter 1: The Parliament and the role of the House PDF format
Chapter 2: House, Government and Opposition PDF format
Chapter 3: Elections and the electoral system PDF format
Chapter 4: Parliament House and access to proceedings PDF format
Chapter 5: Members PDF format
Chapter 6: The Speaker, Deputy Speakers and officers PDF format
Chapter 7: The parliamentary calendar PDF format
Chapter 8: Order of business and the sitting day PDF format
Chapter 9: Motions PDF format
Chapter 10: Legislation PDF format
Chapter 11: Financial legislation PDF format
Chapter 12: Senate amendments and requests PDF format
Chapter 13: Disagreements between the Houses PDF format
Chapter 14: Control and conduct of debate PDF format
Chapter 15: Questions PDF format
Chapter 16: Non-government business PDF format
Chapter 17: Documents PDF format
Chapter 18: Parliamentary committees PDF format
Chapter 19: Parliamentary privilege PDF format

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Appendix and title
Appendix 1: Governors-General PDF format
Appendix 2: Speakers of the House of Representatives (updated Oct 2012) PDF format
Appendix 3: Deputy Speakers (updated Oct 2012) PDF format
Appendix 4: Leaders of Opposition PDF format
Appendix 5: Clerks of the House of Representatives PDF format
Appendix 6: Prime Ministers PDF format
Appendix 7: Chronological list of Ministries PDF format
Appendix 8: Leaders of the House PDF format
Appendix 9: Number of Ministers – Statutory variations PDF format
Appendix 10: Party affiliations in the House of Representatives PDF format
Appendix 11: Electoral Divisions – number at general elections PDF format
Appendix 12: General elections – significant dates from 19th to 43rd Parliaments PDF format
Appendix 13: Election petitions – House of Representatives PDF format
Appendix 14: Referendums to alter the Constitution PDF format
Appendix 15: Chronology of Parliaments PDF format
Appendix 16: Sittings of the House PDF format
Appendix 17: Consideration of Legislation by the House PDF format
Appendix 18: Senate requests for amendments to Bills PDF format
Appendix 19: Bills reserved for the Sovereign's Assent and Bills returned by the Governor-General with recommended amendments PDF format
Appendix 20: Statistics on selected House proceedings PDF format
Appendix 21: Questions (since 1963) PDF format
Appendix 22: Proportion of House time by category of business – recent Parliaments PDF format
Appendix 23: Percentage of House time spent on Government and Private Members' business – recent Parliaments PDF format
Appendix 24: Committees of the House of Representatives and Joint Committees PDF format
Appendix 25: Matters raised as matters of privilege in the House PDF format

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Attachments
Rules for joint sittings PDF format
Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987 (external link to ComLaw.gov.au) HTML format
Parliamentary Precincts Act 1988 (external link to ComLaw.gov.au) HTML format
Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act HTML format

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Index (available in PDF only) PDF format

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