| Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Australian Capital Territory |
| Revenues, expenses, assets, and liabilities administered by
the department for the Commonwealth generally and not for the
running of the department. |
| Australian Federal Police |
| Proposals to alter a bill, which may be moved by any senator
or member. Any amendments made by one House must be agreed to
by the other House before a bill can become law. The Senate may
not amend bills imposing taxation or appropriating money for
the Commonwealth’s ordinary annual services; nor may it
amend an appropriation bill so as to increase a charge or burden
on the people. The Senate may request the House of Representatives
to make such amendments. |
| Australian National University |
| Australian Parliamentary Service |
| Australian Workplace Agreement |
| A proposal for a law that is introduced into Parliament. Bills
are considered consecutively by the two Houses of Parliament,
the House of Representatives and the Senate. The two Houses must
agree to a bill in identical terms before it can be transmitted
to the Governor-General for assent, which marks its passage into
law. |
| The departments supporting the two Houses of the Commonwealth
Parliament: namely, the Department of the Senate and the Department
of the House of Representatives. |
| Clerks, including the Clerk (the head of the department),
the Deputy Clerk, and other senior officers of the department
who sit in the chamber and provide procedural advice while taking
the minutes of Senate proceedings. |
| The daily program of Senate committee hearings held in Parliament
House; named after the Senate ‘Red’. |
| The stage in the debate on a bill in the chamber during which
each clause or group of clauses is considered in detail and during
which amendments or requests may be moved. |
| Citizenship Visits Program |
| Educational resources produced by the PEO for
senators and members are contained in facsimiles of the despatch
boxes in the House of Representatives chamber—the decorated
boxes on the central table at which the Prime Minister, ministers
and members of the Opposition executive speak. |
| A procedure by which a senator notifies the Senate that he/she
seeks to disallow certain delegated legislation. |
| The name of the Parliament House facility in which the PEO conducts
role-plays and other programs for visiting students. |
| Equal Employment Opportunity |
| A term commonly used to describe legislation committees’ consideration
of the annual and additional estimates of expenditure of government
departments and agencies. |
| Goods and services tax |
| A loop of wire installed around the perimeter of an area,
such as a committee room, and connected directly to an audio
amplifier, to assist hearing-impaired people. |
| A service run by the Table Office which provides senators,
their staff and other clients with copies of legislation, documents
tabled in the Senate and responses to inquiries about Senate
business. |
| Inter-Parliamentary Union |
| The three departments—the Department of the Parliamentary
Library, the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff
and the Joint House Department—jointly administered by
the Presiding Officers. On 1 February 2004 the joint departments
were amalgamated to form the Department of the Parliamentary
Services. |
| The company holding the contract for the department’s
internal auditing function. |
| Committees which report on bills or draft bills, the annual
and additional estimates of expenditure of government departments
and agencies, and annual reports and the performance of government
departments and agencies—the last two are standing references
which enable the committees to initiate inquiries in respect
of their scrutiny of Commonwealth Government administration.
Legislation committees effectively have government majorities. |
| A community education program run by the PEO for
community groups at lunchtime. |
| Services provided in the Senate chamber by the chamber attendants,
including distribution of documents, conveyance of messages and
supervision of chamber doors during divisions (formal votes)
and quorum calls. |
| Proposals for the Senate to agree to something, which are
required to be expressed in a way that conforms with standing
orders. |
| Memorandum of understanding |
| Occupational health and safety |
| Parliament House and the land on which it is situated, as
defined in the Parliamentary Precincts Act 1988;
the precincts are under the control and management of the Presiding
Officers. |
| Two significant aspects of the law relating to Parliament:
the privileges or immunities of the Houses of the Parliament;
and the powers of the Houses to protect the integrity of their
processes, particularly the power to punish contempts. |
| Portfolio Budget Statements |
| Parliamentary Education Office |
| Software used for the department’s human resource management
system. |
| Parliamentary Executive Professional Upgrade Program |
| The Review by the Parliamentary Service Commissioner (Mr Andrew
Podger) of Aspects of the Administration of the Parliament, the
report of which was tabled in the Senate on 23 October 2002. |
| The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives. Each presides over the proceedings of his or
her respective House. Administratively, each is responsible for
his or her respective chamber department and together they are
responsible for the Department of Parliamentary Services. |
| When referred to in the context of the Senate, these are written
questions to ministers from other senators. Questions on notice
in the context of estimates proceedings are written or oral questions
from committee members to a minister and/or the minister’s
departmental officers, which require written answers from the
department or minister. |
| Committees which report on matters referred by the Senate—generally,
policy issues—other than those referred to the legislation
committees. References committees have non-government majorities. |
| A checklist of amendments used by senators when considering
bills in the committee of the whole. Running sheets show all
proposed amendments, identified by subject matter and grouped
as needed; conflicts between amendments; relevant references
in the bills under consideration; and procedural questions to
be posed by the Chair of Committees. |
| Lists of amendments to bills, agreed to by the Senate, which
are forwarded to the House of Representatives for consideration. |
| Pro-forma procedural statements used by senators at certain
times during debates and other Senate proceedings. |
| The daily program issued to senators on sitting days as a
guide to chamber proceedings; named after the red flash printed
on the front page of the document. |
| Senior Executive Service |
| Senior Management Advisory Group |
| Procedural rules that govern the conduct of proceedings in
the Senate and its committees. |
| An extension of the PEP UP program, for senior staff. |
| A biennial survey commissioned by the Department of the Senate
and conducted by an independent research services organisation
to assess senators’ satisfaction with the quality, efficiency
and effectiveness of the services provided by the department. |
| The means through which parliamentary proceedings, including
committee hearings, are televised within Parliament House. |
| A bill which is amended by the House in which it originates
is reprinted to incorporate the amendments before it is transmitted
to the other House. The bill is therefore transmitted in the
form in which it is ‘read a third time’ in the originating
House. |
| The means through which parliamentary proceedings, including
committee hearings, are broadcast on the internet. |
| Working in the Senate, a program under which public servants
from other departments and agencies are seconded to the department
to work on committee inquiries and to gain knowledge of the Senate
and its operations, which they can apply to the benefit of their
organisations on their return. |
| Workplace Relations Committee |
