Publications

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General Information

• Senate Briefs
  Introduction to the Senate and its work, covering 16 topics
  
  
• Senate Daily Summary [Full description]
  • Current Issue (PDF 244KB)
  • Back Issues

Elections

• Elections: Constitutional complexities and consequences

Powers, Procedures and Practices

• Odgers' Australian Senate Practice - Twelfth Edition [Full description]
  A detailed reference work on all aspects of the Senate's powers, procedures and practices
  
  
• Standing Orders and Other Orders of the Senate - current edition, September 2006 [Full description]
  • Annotations to current edition - (PDF 11KB)
  • Previous editions
    
    
• Procedural Information Bulletin [Full description]
  
  
• Brief Guides to Senate Procedure [Full description]
  
  
• The Senators' Guide to Procedures

Senate Business Documents

Order of Business (Senate 'Red') (The "Red " provides the most up-to-date written information available concerning the business proposed to be dealt with by the Senate that day) [Full description]

• Current Order of Business (PDF 75KB) (HTML format)

Senate Dynamic Red (The Dynamic Red provides information on the proceedings of the Senate which is updated during the course of the sitting day) [Full description]

• Current issue

Journals of the Senate (the official minutes of proceedings) [Full description]

• Journals 2002-2008 (PDF format)
• Journals 1973-2008 (HTML format)

Notice Papers (the official list of all business before the Senate) [Full Description] [Publication Arrangements]

• Notice Papers 2002-2008 (PDF format)
• Notice Papers 1997-2008 (HTML format)

Hansards (the official transcript of debates) [Full description]

• Hansards 1996-2008 (PDF format)
• Hansards 1981-2008 (HTML format)

Senate Tabled Papers

• Senate Tabled Papers (pilot project 2002-04) – digital images of documents tabled in the Senate [Full description] [Tips on searching the database]

Index to papers presented to Parliament

An index to papers presented in the Senate and the House of Representatives (published twice each year).

• 40th Parliament (2001-2004) - (PDF format)
• 39th Parliament (1998-2001) - (PDF format)
• 38th Parliament (1996-1998) - (PDF format)

Senate Committees

• Consolidated Register of Senate Committee Reports
• Information Brochures - Assistance for contributing to the work of committees

Delegated Legislation

• Scrutiny of Disallowable Instruments 2005 (The 'Scrutiny of Disallowable Instruments' lists those disallowable instruments (both legislative and non-legislative) that appear to breach the Committee's principles of scrutiny.)
  
  
• Disallowance Alert (a list of disallowance notices before the Senate)
  
  
• Delegated Legislation Monitor (a list of disallowable instruments tabled in the Senate)

Scrutiny of Legislation

• Scrutiny of Bills Committee Reports and Alert Digests

The Constitution and Convention Debates

• The Constitution (PDF 92KB) (HTML format)
• Records of the Australasian Federal Conventions of the 1890s

Publications for sale

• Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate - Volume 2
• Biographical Dictionary Unit
  
  
• Platypus and Parliament - The Australian Senate in Theory and Practice by Stanley Bach
  Information about the publication - PDF 46KB
  
  
  
• Odgers' Australian Senate Practice - Twelveth Edition - Order form (PDF 41KB)

Senate Occasional Lecture Series

• Next lecture
• Previous lectures

Conferences

• Bicameralism - Australia in Comparative Context (PDF 1470KB)
  A 2-day conference to be held at Parliament House, Canberra on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th October 2008

Papers on Parliament series

• Current issue
• Previous issues

Books and other papers

• Harry Evans, Accountability and Corporate Governance in the new Parliament
• Harry Evans, ARC Research Project: The Senate, Accountability and Government Control
• Harry Evans, GetUp! Seminar on the Senate
• Harry Evans, Association of Parliamentary Libraries of Australasia Conference, 26 July 2007
• Harry Evans, Ethics and Public Service Governance
• Harry Evans, Constitutionalism, Bicameralism and the Control of Power
• Harry Evans, The Government Majority in the Senate: A Nail in the coffin of Responsible Government?
• Harry Evans, Monarchical and Parliamentary Government in Australia
• Harry Evans, Senate estimates hearings and the Government majority in the Senate, National Press Club
• PDF 23KB
• Harry Evans, Parliament in the Twenty-first Century: Institutional Reform and Emerging Roles by John Halligan, Robin Miller and John Power, Book Launch, University of Canberra
• Federalism and the Role of the Senate
• David Hamer, Can Responsible Government Survive In Australia?

Departmental Publications

• Corporate Plan
• Annual Report 2007-08
• Portfolio Budget Statements 2008-2009

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