Title
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Published/Presented
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First Commonwealth Conference of Delegated Legislation Committees
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The Table, 1981
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Law-making in Australia [book review]
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The Table, 1981
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Proposals for constitutional change in Australia
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The Parliamentarian, July 1982
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Australia and the ‘Westminster System’
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The Table, 1982
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Government by judges [book review]
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The House Magazine, 12 October 1982
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Professional staff and the powers of Parliament [book review]
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The House Magazine, 9 November 1982
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Questioning the tyranny: the British heritage in Australia’s system of government
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Quadrant, April 1983
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Parliamentary privilege and the press
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Australasian Study of Parliament Group, 4th Special Workshop, May 1983
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The House Magazine, 17 May 1983
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The Australian Senate: taking the initiative
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The Parliamentarian, July 1983
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Committees abroad: Senate officer looks at UK, Canada
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The House Magazine, 4 October 1983
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Parliamentary control of delegated legislation: an Australian perspective
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The Parliamentarian, October 1983
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Interparliamentary committee contacts: backbenchers of the world unite?
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Australasian Study of Parliament Group, 5th Special Workshop, Brisbane, May 1984
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Legislative Studies, Winter 1984
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‘Privilege’: what to remember and what to forget
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Australasian Study of Parliament Group, Workshop on Parliamentary Privilege, Melbourne, August 1984
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Legislative Studies, Autumn 1986
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Party government versus constitutional government
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Australian Quarterly, Spring 1984
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Australian Senate: inquiries into the conduct of a judge
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The Parliamentarian, July 1985
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Australia: Senate select committees on a judge
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The Table, 1985
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Meetings of the Australian Senate after the dissolution of the lower house
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The Table, 1985
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Is Parliament House a sanctuary? [Comments on the report of the joint select committee of the NSW Parliament on parliamentary privilege]
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The House Magazine, 16 October 1985
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Parliamentary privilege: the reasons of Mr Justice Cantor—an analysis
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Legislative Studies, Autumn 1986
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Misleading cases [parliamentary privilege]
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The House Magazine, 12 March 1986
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Reforming Parliament: a flawed view [book review]
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The House Magazine, 19 March 1986
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The ‘Murphy affair’ produces conflict between Parliament and the courts
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The Parliamentarian, April 1986
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Parliament through understanding eyes [book review]
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The House Magazine, 28 May 1986
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Senate President acts on court judgments
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The House Magazine, 19 June 1986
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Judges in error [book review]
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The House Magazine, 20 August 1986
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The British Parliament dissected [book review]
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The House Magazine, 27 August 1986
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Parliamentary practice: amendment, amendments
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The House Magazine, 26 November 1986
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The ‘Murphy affair’ ends and the Senate President acts on freedom of speech
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The Parliamentarian, January 1987
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Privileges bill passes Senate
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The House Magazine, 8 April 1987
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Parliamentary privilege: reasons of Mr Justice Hunt—an analysis
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Legislative Studies, Autumn 1987
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Parliament and the judges: the removal of federal judges under section 72 of the Constitution
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Legislative Studies, Spring 1987
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US Constitution also celebrates bicentenary
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The House Magazine, 23 September 1987
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Disagreement with the courts over freedom of speech: an Australian parliamentary commission of inquiry
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The Table, 1987
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Time to remember the revolution of 1688
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The House Magazine, 24 February 1988
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Why Plato would hate the new Parliament House
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The House Magazine, 4 May 1988
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Freedom of speech under the bill of rights: recent developments in Australia
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9th Conference of Commonwealth Speakers and Presiding Officers, London, July 1988
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Legislating and prescribing for parliamentary privilege: problems and solutions
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19th Conference of Presiding Officers and Clerks, Darwin, July 1988
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Constitutionalism and Party Government in Australia
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Australasian Study of Parliament Group, Occasional paper no. 1, August 1988
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Parliamentary privilege: changes to the law at federal level
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The University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol. 11, no. 2, 1988
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Parliamentary privilege: legislation and resolutions in the Australian Parliament
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The Table, 1988
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The rotation of senators: republican remedies and the Australian Constitution
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B. Galligan and J.R. Nethercote (eds), The Constitutional Commission and the 1988 Referendums. Canberra, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations and Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration (ACT Division), 1989
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Keeping the Old Republic: a further appraisal of the new Parliament House
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The House Magazine, 5 April 1989
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Putting constitutionalism back in the Constitution
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Policy (St Leonards, NSW), Autumn 1989
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Refurbishing the legislative power
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20th Conference of Presiding Officers and Clerks, Apia, June 1989
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The role of parliamentary officers
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The House Magazine, 7 June 1989
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Parliament and the legislative power
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The Table, 1989
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Claims of parliamentary tradition can be a smokescreen
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The House Magazine, 16 August 1989
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Updating parliamentary privilege: more recent developments in Australia
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10th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of Commonwealth Parliaments, Harare, January 1990
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Australia’s Commonwealth Parliament 1901–1988: ten perspectives [book review]
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The Parliamentarian, January 1990
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Parliament and the constitutional design
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Australian Federal Democracy: Political Theory and Constitutional Design. Canberra, Australian National University, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, 1990
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The hidden wisdom of the West
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Quadrant, May 1990
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Parliamentary privileges committees: a rejoinder
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Legislative Studies, Autumn 1990
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Consideration of legislation by committees
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21st Conference of Presiding Officers and Clerks, Perth, June 1990
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The Table, 1990
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Reference of bills to Senate committees
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The House Magazine, 12 December 1990
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Unbogging the parliamentary reform wagon
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Legislative Studies, Summer 1991
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A Parliament votes for war
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The House Magazine, 13 February 1991
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A modest proposal addressing the question of ‘too many elections’
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The House Magazine, 15 May 1991
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The need for new procedures for dealing with legislation
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22nd Conference of Presiding Officers and Clerks, Honiara, June 1991
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Parliamentary reform: new directions and possibilities for reform of parliamentary processes
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Seminar Papers: Public Seminar on Parliamentarians, the Opposition and Scrutiny of Government. Brisbane, Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, 1991
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Papers on Parliament, no. 14, February 1992
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Rescission of order for publication of evidence
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The Table, 1991
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Information and parliamentary reform: a seminar conducted by the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission of Queensland
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The House Magazine, 21 August 1991
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Towards closer scrutiny of legislation: new procedures for examination of bills by Senate committees
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Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, October 1991
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Galligan, Nethercote & Walsh The Cabinet and Budget Processes [book review]
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Australian Journal of Political Science, November 1991
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Philip Norton, Legislatures [book review]
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Australian Journal of Political Science, November 1991
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A note on the meaning of ‘republic’
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Legislative Studies, Summer 1992
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D.W. Lovell et al (eds), The Australian Political System. Melbourne, Longman, 1995
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Referring bills to Senate committees: a rejoinder
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Legislative Studies, Summer 1992
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Rodney Brazier, Constitutional Practice [book review]
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Political Theory Newsletter, April 1992
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Parliamentary privilege and statutory secrecy provisions
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23rd Conference of Presiding Officers and Clerks, Adelaide, June 1992
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The Table, 1992
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Citizens’ initiative versus constitutional government
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Legislative Studies, Spring 1992
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Parliament: an unreformable institution?
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Papers on Parliament, no. 18, December 1992
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Party government: the Australian disease and Australian cures
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Australasian Study of Parliament Group, 14th Conference, Canberra, 1992
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Legislative Studies, Autumn, 1993
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D.W. Lovell et al (eds), The Australian Political System. Melbourne, Longman, 1995
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Constitution, section 53, financial legislation and the houses of the Commonwealth Parliament: papers presented to the Senate and the House of Representatives
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Papers on Parliament, no. 19, May 1993
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Republicanism, continued: a brief rejoinder to Graham Maddox
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Legislative Studies, Autumn, 1993
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Republicanism and the Australian Constitution
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The House Magazine, 5 May 1993
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Parliamentary privilege
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Australian Law Journal, June 1993
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A. Lijphart, Parliamentary versus presidential government [book review]
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Australian Journal of Political Science, July 1993
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Interference with witnesses
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24th Conference of Presiding Officers and Clerks, Port Vila, July 1993
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The agenda of the true republicans
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Introduction to G. Walker, S. Ratnapala and W. Kasper, Restoring the True Republic. St Leonards, NSW, Centre for Independent Studies, 1993
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Parliamentary committees and the public interest
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Legislative Studies, Spring 1993
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Reforming the ancient constitution [book review]
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The House Magazine, 15 September 1993
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Keeping the Australian republic
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Policy (St Leonards, NSW), Spring 1993
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Interference with witnesses
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The Table, 1993
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Keeping the bastards honest
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The Reporter, March 1994
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Essentials of republican legislatures: distributed majorities and legislative control
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Legislative Studies, Autumn 1994
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Parliament’s performance as a legislature: parliamentary scrutiny of legislation
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Administrative Law Conference, Canberra, May 1994
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Issues arising in the Senate: Taxation Legislation; Constitutional issues; Equally divided votes; Members of other houses as witnesses; Orders for the production of documents
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25th Conference of Presiding Officers and Clerks, Darwin, June 1994
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Taxation legislation: equally divided votes
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The Table, 1994
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Blunt instruments: parliamentary methods of obtaining information
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Colloquium on Government and Parliamentary Information, University of New South Wales, Sydney, July 1994
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Parliamentary privilege: New Zealand’s retention of appeals to the Privy Council results in a judgement on an Australian Act of Parliament
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The House Magazine, 24 August 1994
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Essays on republicanism: small r republicanism
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Papers on Parliament, no. 24, September 1994
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Government and politics in 2098
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The House Magazine, 7–14 December 1994
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Can Parliament be reformed?
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D.W. Lovell et al (eds), The Australian Political System. Melbourne, Longman, 1995
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Reflections on the founders
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The House Magazine, 1 March 1995
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The problem with Parliament
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CCF Newsletter, Winter 1995
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Electing a President: the elite versus the public
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The House Magazine, 5 July 1995
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Recent changes to the Senate’s committee system
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26th Conference of Presiding Officers and Clerks, Port Moresby, July 1995
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Restructuring the Senate’s committee system
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Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration, August 1995
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Parliamentary committees and the executive government
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Constitutional Law Reform, Attorney-General’s Department, 16 August 1995 (Published as ‘New accountability system emerging’, Directions in Government,September 1995)
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Lessons from Livy
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Quadrant, October 1995
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Citizen initiated referendums: adjunct or antithesis of constitutional government?
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6th Samuel Griffith Society Conference, Carlton, Vic., November 1995 (published in Upholding the Australian Constitution, Proceedings of the Samuel Griffith Society Conference, vol. 6, 1995)
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1975 revisited: lost causes and lost remedies
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ANU Conference on the Constitution and Australian Democracy, Canberra, November 1995
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Quadrant, December 1995
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M. Coper and G. Williams (eds), Power, Parliament and the People. Leichhardt, NSW, Federation Press, 1997
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Power to prorogue a relic of imperial past
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The Canberra Times, 1 February 1996
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History revised
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Quadrant, April 1996
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Protection of persons who provide information to members
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27th Conference of Presiding Officers and Clerks, Hobart, July 1996 (published as ‘Members’ informants: any protection?’ in The Table, 1997)
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The Australian head of state: putting republicanism into the republic
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Agenda, vol. 3, no. 2, 1996
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Papers on Parliament, no. 28, November 1996
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Origins of the elected Senate
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The House Magazine, 11 December 1996
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Federalism and the role of the Senate
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Samuel Griffith Society Conference, Canberra, March 1997 (published in Upholding the Australian Constitution, Proceedings of the Samuel Griffith Society Conference, vol. 8, 1997)
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The House Magazine, 19 March 1997
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Federalism: an idea whose time has come?
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Australian National Review, May 1997
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Government and Parliament
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G. Singleton (ed.), The Second Keating Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 1993–1996. Belconnen, ACT, University of Canberra and Institute of Public Administration Australia, 1997
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Making a nation
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Introduction to K. Dermody, A Nation at Last: the Story of Federation. Canberra, Department of the Senate, 1997
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Crossings, International Australian Studies Association, vol. 2, no. 2, 1998
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Democracy and accountability: accountability to Parliament
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Best Practice Government Symposium, Insight ’98, February 1998
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Does the government have a Wik double dissolution trigger?
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Current Affairs Bulletin, February/March 1998
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The wrong-track republic
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The Canberra Times, 2 March 1998
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Strange death of an Australian republic
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Australian Constitutional News, March/April 1998
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Franca Arena and parliamentary privilege
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Constitutional Law and Policy Review, May 1998
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Bad King John and the Australian Constitution: commemorating the 700th anniversary of the 1297 issue of Magna Carta
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Papers on Parliament,no. 31, June 1998
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A non-republican republic: the convention’s compromise model
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University of Queensland Law School, Symposium on an Australian Republic, June 1998
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Australian National Review, December/January 1998
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The University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, 1999
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Australian Constitutional News, February 1999
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Amendment of complex bills and bicameral considerations
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29th Conference of Presiding Officers and Clerks, Sydney, July 1998
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Constitution, section 57: comments on article by George Williams
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Constitutional Law and Policy Review, August 1998
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The other metropolis: the Australian founders’ knowledge of America
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The New Federalist, no. 2, December 1998
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Reasonably necessary powers: parliamentary inquiries and Egan v Willis and Cahill
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Constitutional Law and Policy Review, February 1999
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Constitutional safeguards, bicameralism, small jurisdictions and Tasmania
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Legislative Studies, Autumn 1999
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Parliament and extra-parliamentary accountability institutions
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Australian Journal of Public Administration,March 1999
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The cost of the Commonwealth Parliament: amalgamations, values and comparisons
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Australian Journal of Public Administration,March 1999
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The Senate and parliamentary accountability
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Canberra, Public Policy Program, Australian National University, 1999. Discussion paper no. 65.
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Enough of executive arrogance?: Egan v Chadwick and others
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Constitutional Law and Policy Review, May 1999
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Draft legislation for republic referendum is deficient in detail
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Australian National Review, June/July 1999
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Senate
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H. Irving (ed.), The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999
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The curse of the Westminster paradigm
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The Canberra Times,16 September 1999
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Accountability versus government control: the effect of proportional representation
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Papers on Parliament, no. 34, December 1999
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The Howard Government and the Parliament
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G. Singleton (ed.), The Howard Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 1996–1998. Sydney, UNSW Press, 2000
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The life of a state: Australia’s longevity
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The House Magazine, 10 May 2000
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The senators, the Senate and Australia, 1901–1929
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Introduction to A. Millar (ed.), The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, vol. 1, 1901–1929.Carlton, Vic., University of Melbourne Press, 2000
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Australia’s first Senate and the senators, 1901–1929
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The New Federalist, no. 5, June 2000
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Enclosing politicians: the ambitious project [book review]
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Constitutional Law and Policy Review, August 2000
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The Australian Constitution and the 1911 myth
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The House Magazine, 6 September 2000
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H.D. Irving et al, Trusting the People: An Elected President for an Australian Republic. Cottesloe, WA, Design by Design Practitioners, 2001
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Australia: the republic referendum
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The Table, 2000
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The 1911 myth embellished, by Gough
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The House Magazine, 3–5 December 2000
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Foreword
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R.P. Broinowski, Witness to History: The Life And Times of Robert Broinowski.Carlton South, Vic., Melbourne University Press, 2001
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The role of the Senate
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Reform, Australian Law Reform Commission, no. 78, Autumn 2001
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Why the Senate?
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Federal Gallery, March 2001
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An elected president for an Australian republic: problems and solutions
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H.D. Irving et al, Trusting the People: An Elected President for an Australian Republic. Cottesloe, WA, Design by Design Practitioners, 2001
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The Senate today
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13th Samuel Griffith Society Conference, Melbourne (published in Upholding the Australian Constitution, Proceedings of the Samuel Griffith Society Conference, vol. 13, September 2001)
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The Australian Senate: a question of design
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The Parliamentarian,no. 3, 2001
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Hobbes versus Madison and Isaacs versus Baker: contrary theories and practices in Australian democracy
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The University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol. 24, no. 3, 2001
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Bryce’s Bible: why did it impress the Australian founders?
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The New Federalist, no. 8, December 2001
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Public interest immunity claims in the Senate
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Public Law Review, March 2002
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Senate inquiries: who can be called?
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The Canberra Times,Public Sector Informant, 2 April 2002
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The Australian Parliament: time for reformation
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National Press Club address, 24 April 2002 (Extract published as ‘When reform adds up to a rubber stamp’ in The Age, 25 April 2002)
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The limits of parliamentary privilege: judicial confirmation
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The Canberra Times, 7 May 2002
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The pedigree of the practices: parliamentary manuals and Australian government
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33rd Conference of Australian and Pacific Presiding Officers and Clerks, Brisbane, July 2002
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Senate order for scrutinising government contracts
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33rd Conference of Australian and Pacific Presiding Officers and Clerks, Brisbane, July 2002
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The parliamentary power of inquiry: any limitations?
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Australasian Study of Parliament Group, National Conference, Melbourne, October 2002
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Australasian Parliamentary Review, Spring 2002
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Scrutinising government contracts: a continuing order for documents
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The Table, 2002
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Fitzpatrick and Browne: imprisonment by a house of the Parliament
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H.P. Lee and G. Winterton (eds), Australian Constitutional Landmarks. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003
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When in Rome, can we do as the Americans do?
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The Canberra Times, 21 October 2003
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Consultation with a closed mind
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The Courier-Mail, 28 November 2003
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Why the Prime Minister’s proposals would dismantle the Constitution
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16th Samuel Griffith Society Conference, Perth, (published in Upholding the Australian Constitution, Proceedings of the Samuel Griffith Society Conference, vol. 16, March 2004)
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Australia’s senators in the dark age of the twentieth century, 1929–1962
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Introduction to A. Millar (ed.), The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, vol. 2, 1929–1962. Carlton, Vic., University of Melbourne Press, 2004
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Unusual measures to scrutinise government spending
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The Parliamentarian, no. 2, 2004
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Constitutional change, bicameral relations and executive monopoly
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Australasian Study of Parliament Group National Conference, Perth, May 2004
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Renewing the public sphere [book review]
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The Canberra Times, 1 June 2004
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The traditional, the quaint and the useful: pitfalls of reforming parliamentary procedures
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35th Conference of Australian and Pacific Presiding Officers and Clerks, Melbourne, July 2004
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Parliamentary privilege and party discipline
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The Parliamentarian, no. 3, 2004
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Law research and parliamentary activities: a major impact
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Australian Law Librarian,Summer 2004
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The future of the Senate committee system
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Committee Bulletin, 1–15 November 2004
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Mandate theory: a bundle of fallacies
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Impact, Summer 2005
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Beware the monarchical gargoyle in our Constitution
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The Canberra Times, 25 February 2005
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The Senate after 1 July: a revolution?
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Committee for Economic Development of Australia briefing, 8 April 2005
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Executive and Parliament
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C. Aulich and R. Wettenhall (eds), Howard’s Second and Third Governments: Australian Commonwealth Administration 1998–2004. Sydney, UNSW Press, 2005
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A day spent in the public gallery would shock the founding fathers
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The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 June 2005
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Abuse of majority too risky
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The Australian,21 June 2005
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Estimates hearings: the grand inquisition
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The Table, 2005
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Putting Parliament before the courts [book review]
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The Canberra Times, 4 October 2005
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The failure of the law and the superiority of politics: republicanism versus legal constitutionalism [book review]
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Constitutional Law and Policy Review, November 2005
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Parliamentary reform
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New Matilda, 15 March 2006
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Parliamentary privilege
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Address to ACT Law Society, April 2006
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Senate estimates hearings and the government majority in the Senate
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Address to Australian Marketing Institute, National Press Club, Canberra, 11 April 2006
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Corporate governance and a government Senate majority
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Institute for International Research, 9th Annual Corporate Governance in the Public Sector Conference, Canberra, April 2006
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The case for bicameralism
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University of Queensland Law School/University of Sunshine Coast Conference, Improving Government Accountability in Queensland: the Upper House Solution?, Brisbane, April 2006
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Lively, analytical history of the NSW Parliament [book review]
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Constitutional Law and Policy Review, June 2006
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Monarchical and parliamentary government in Australia
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Insurance Council of Australia, Conference, Canberra, 10 August 2006
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Best to stick with terms we’ve got
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Australian Financial Review, 28 August 2006
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Democracy: the wrong message
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Democratic Audit of Australia, Discussion paper 24/06, August 2006
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The government majority in the Senate: a nail in the coffin of responsible government?
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Australasian Study of Parliament Group, Victorian Chapter, seminar in honour of David Hamer, former Deputy President of the Senate, 3 October 2006
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Constitutionalism, bicameralism and the control of power
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Australian National University Research School of Social Sciences and Australia–New Zealand School of Government seminar, 4 October 2006
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Ethics and public service governance
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CPA Australia, ACT Congress, Canberra, 16 November 2006 (Published as ‘The estimates test: a safeguard against illegality and impropriety’, The Canberra Times, Public Sector Informant, 5 December 2006)
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The Senate
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Chapter 10 of C. Hamilton and S. Maddison (eds), Silencing Dissent: How the Australian Government is Controlling Public Opinion and Stifling Debate. Crows Nest, NSW, Allen & Unwin, 2007
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Parliamentary control of finance: bringing back the revolution
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The Table, 2007
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Brown’s reforms impact on Australia
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The Canberra Times, 9 July 2007
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The Senate, accountability and government control
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Australian Research Council Project ‘Strengthening Parliamentary Institutions’, ANU Parliamentary Studies Centre, Canberra, November 2007
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Papers on Parliament, no. 48, January 2008
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Parliamentary privilege and search warrants: will the US Supreme Court legislate for Australia?
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Papers on Parliament, no. 48, January 2008
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Refurbishing parliamentary processes
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Published as chapter entitled ‘Parliament’, in Robert Manne (ed.), Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas for a Better Australia. Melbourne, Black Inc. Agenda, 2008
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Accountability and corporate governance in the new Parliament
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Institute for International Research, 11th Annual Corporate Governance in the Public Sector Conference, Melbourne, March 2008
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The case for bicameralism
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N. Aroney, S. Prasser and J.R. Nethercote (eds), Restraining Elective Dictatorship: The Upper House Solution? Crawley, WA, University of Western Australia Press, 2008 (also published as ‘Constitutionalism, bicameralism and the control of power’ in Papers on Parliament, no. 50, March 2009)
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Legislative power and executive privilege in the courts
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Papers on Parliament, no. 49, August 2008
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Masters rule over ‘corrupt system’
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The Canberra Times, 3 October 2008
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The intertwined history of Canberra and the Parliament
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Canberra Day Oration, Canberra and District Historical Society, Canberra, March 2009
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The Senate’s power to obtain evidence
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Papers on Parliament, no. 50, March 2009
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