A guide to services, entitlements and facilities for senators 
(information for senators and their support staff, also available on the departmental intranet)
Bills List and Daily Bills Update 
(details of the status of bills before the parliament)
Brief Guides to Senate Procedure, Nos 1–21
(practical guides to common practices and procedures)
Business of the Senate
(a comprehensive summary of business)
Dynamic Red
(the daily Order of Business, updated online during each sitting day)
Journals of the Senate
(the minutes of chamber proceedings)
List of Senators
(senators’ contact information, terms of service and state and party representation)
Odgers’ Australian Senate Practice, eleventh edition and supplements
(a comprehensive procedural reference work)
Order of Business
(the Senate ‘Red’ or daily program)
Pocket Guide to Senate Procedure
(a consolidation of the Brief Guides)
Preparing Private Senators’ Bills, Explanatory Memoranda and Second Reading Speeches: A Guide for Senators
(information about legislation for senators and their support staff, also available on the departmental intranet)
Privileges Committee 125th Report—Parliamentary Privilege: Precedents, Procedures and Practice in the Australian Senate 1966–2005
Procedural Information Bulletin
(a regular digest of events of procedural significance)
Questions on Notice Summary
(a statistical analysis of questions placed on notice by senators)
Senate Briefs, Nos 1–16
(general introductions to aspects of the Senate, including elections, legislation, parliamentary privilege, the committee system and ministers in the Senate)
Senate Daily Summary
(a daily digest of Senate business)
Senate Notice Paper
(the Senate’s daily agenda)
Senate Statistical Summary
(weekly statistics on Senate business)
Senators’ Guide to Procedures
Standing Orders and Other Orders of the Senate
(rules and resolutions governing the Senate’s proceedings)
StatsNet
(online statistical databases)
Your Senate online here
(brochure outlining how to access information about the Senate online) |
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1903–2003: One Hundred Years of Women’s Suffrage in Australia
(poster commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first federal election at which women of all Australian states voted)
A Nation at Last: the Story of Federation
(the book based on the exhibition of the same name)
Australia’s Parliament
(a visitor guide, available in English and multilingual editions)
Business of the Senate 1901–1910 (two volumes)
(commemorative issues relating to the first parliaments)
Can Responsible Government Survive in Australia? David Hamer, revised edition, 2004
(a comparative study of the powers and procedures of 20 Commonwealth legislatures, by a former senator and member)
Eureka and the Prerogative of the People, John Molony, 2004
(booklet commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade rebellion)
Papers on Parliament, Nos 1–46
(the department’s journal, which publishes the texts of occasional lectures and other essays)
Platypus and Parliament: The Australian Senate in Theory and Practice, Stanley Bach, 2003
(a comprehensive analysis of the Senate by a former Senate Fellow)
Questions and Answers on the Commonwealth Parliament
(a general reference book about the Commonwealth Parliament)
Records of the Australasian Federal Conventions of the 1890s
(the complete transcripts of the founding debates of the nation)
Records of the Centenary of Federation Joint Commemorative Meeting of the Senate and the House of Representatives, 9 May 2001, and of the Sitting of the Senate, 10 May 2001
Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committees—The First 20 Years, 1970–1990
(a general history of the Senate’s committee system)
Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs—The Twentieth Anniversary of the Committee, 1991
(a general history of one committee)
The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate
(an ongoing multi-volume work of reference on Australia’s senators, Volume 1 covering 1901–1929, Volume 2 covering 1929–1962, volumes 3 and 4 forthcoming)
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