Annual Report 2004–05
Appendix 4—Senate and departmental publications
The Department of the Senate maintained and updated an extensive
catalogue of ongoing publications during 2004–05, as listed
by category below. Documents which are publicly available on
the Senate
website or the Parliamentary
Education Office website are marked with the symbol 
.
Documents which are available in hard copy are marked with
the symbol
.
Contact details for each publication area are also listed.
Subject area
| The work and procedures of the Senate |
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) Journals of the Senate
(the minutes of chamber proceedings) List of Senators
(details of senators’ contact information, terms of service and state and party representation) Odgers’ Australian Senate Practice, eleventh edition
(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 107th Report—Parliamentary Privilege: Precedents, Procedures and Practice in the Australian Senate 1966–2002
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 1–14
(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 (on-line statistical databases) |
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| The work and procedures of Senate committees |
A Handbook for Senators’ Staff (an outline of Senate committee operations and procedures for staff and senators, available on the departmental intranet) Bills referred to committees (an up-to-date list of bills referred to committees) Business of Committees
(the Senate committee ‘Red’ or daily program) Consolidated Register of Senate Committee Reports (1970–2004 and annual supplements)
(a list of committee reports presented to the Senate since 1970) Delegated Legislation Monitor (information on every disallowable legislative and non-legislative instrument tabled in the Senate) Disallowance Alert (an updated list of disallowance actions initiated by the Regulations and Ordinances Committee and individual senators, together with outcomes) Guidelines for Committee Chairs (a procedural handbook for chairs of committees—available on the departmental intranet site) How to Make a Submission to a Senate Committee Inquiry
Notes for Guidance of Witnesses appearing before Senate Committees
Procedures to be observed by Senate Committees for the Protection of Witnesses
(three types of information for members of the public with an interest in participating in the work of Senate committees) Public Hearings/Meetings
(a forward program of scheduled meetings) Scrutiny of Bills Committee Alert Digests
(a document which notifies senators and members of the public about issues arising in relation to bills and acts) Scrutiny of Bills Committee Reports
(the committee’s observations and recommendations in relation to bills and acts) Scrutiny of Disallowable Instruments
(a list of disallowable legislative and non-legislative instruments on which the Regulations and Ordinances Committee has raised concerns) Senate Disallowable Instruments List (a listing of tabled instruments for which disallowance motions may be moved in the Senate, published for each sitting) Work of Committees
(a comprehensive summary of committee business) |
| Parliamentary, constitutional and historical information |
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 1–43
(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 (a general history of one committee) The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate (a multi-volume work of reference on Australia’s senators; Volume 1 covers the period 1901–1929, Volume 2 covers the period 1929–1962) |
| Parliamentary Education Office (PEO) information for schools, teachers, and students |
A Federation Musical (a play written by a PEO fellow as a Centenary of Federation project and set to music) And SOSE say all of us (full report )
(executive summary )
(summary report from the 2003 Conference into the Studies of Society and Environment Curriculum) A Short History of Parliament (origins and development of the Australian parliament) Australia’s Constitution
(a pocket-sized edition of the Constitution) Cockatoo Island (a teaching resource for lower primary school) Comparison of US and Australian Federal Legislatures (a resource for high-school students) Elections 2004
(archived)(a simple guide to the 2004 election) Fact Sheet series (nine titles on aspects of parliamentary government for primary and junior secondary school students) Fact Sheets on Parliament (seven downloadable titles on aspects of parliamentary government for primary and junior secondary school students) Facts about Parliament (a general information resource) FAQ: Questions and Answers about Australia’s Parliament (a general information resource) Glossary (a guide to parliamentary vocabulary) House at Work: ordinary people in an extraordinary building (original compositions by people working in Parliament House) Immigration Restriction Act 1901 (a role-play based on historical speeches) Kidsview (interactive resources for primary school students) Our Constitution (a booklet and teacher’s resource about the Australian Constitution for students in years 7–9) Parliament House: The Building (an in-depth look at the building) Parliamentary Government in Australia (a student’s guide to the Commonwealth Parliament) Peeling Back Parliament (a resource for upper primary and lower secondary school teachers and their students) PEO Profiler
(archived)(a discontinued PEO newsletter) Poster of House of Representatives Chamber
Poster of Senate Chamber
Project on Parliament (resources to assist school students with homework and projects on Parliament) Role-play scripts and instructions—Debating a Bill, Question Time, Committee of Inquiry (kits for running role-plays in the classroom) Scripts, Speeches and Suggestions (notes for teachers on running follow-up programs in the classroom after visiting Parliament House) Systems of Government (poster comparing the systems of government of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States) The Prime Minister and Parliament (a fact sheet outlining the Prime Minister’s main parliamentary tasks) Timeline of events leading to Federation (a summary of major dates and events in the 50 years before Federation) The Customs Tariff Acts 1901 and 1999 (two role-plays comparing the passage of two acts) The House of Representatives Photo and Seating Plan (includes a photo of the House of Representatives chamber, an indication of party numbers and a seating plan for the Forty-first Parliament) The Senate Photo and Seating Plan (includes a photo of the Senate Chamber, an indication of party numbers and a seating plan for the Forty-first Parliament) The Tom Roberts painting and the opening of the first Commonwealth Parliament (resources about the opening of the First Parliament) Two Way Street Magazine
(discontinued; back issues archived on website) (a resource for middle and upper level secondary school students that explores current issues) Units of Work (downloadable resources about parliamentary government for primary school teachers) Unravelling the Parliamentary Role Play (a publication to assist teachers who have seen the role-play program at Parliament House to replicate it in the classroom) Useful Websites (a list of on-line resources that would be useful for teachers and students) You and your ... series
(archived)(downloadable adult education resources providing information on local and state government, federal voting, democracy, law-making processes and federal government, and a glossary) |
| Departmental publications |
Annual Report of the Department of the Senate
Corporate Plan
Portfolio Budget Statements
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Contact details by subject area
| Senate Table Office | email: table.inquiries.sen@aph.gov.au | |
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| phone: 02 6277 3010 | fax: 02 6277 3448 | |
| Senate Committee Office | email: seniorclerk.committees.sen@aph.gov.au | |
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| phone: 02 6277 3555 | fax: 02 6277 3899 | |
| Procedure Office | email: research.sen@aph.gov.au | |
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| phone: 02 6277 3072 | fax: 02 6277 5838 | |
| Biographical Dictionary Unit | email: ann.millar@aph.gov.au | |
| phone: 02 6277 3061 | fax: 02 6277 5933 | |
| Parliamentary Education Office | email: info@peo.gov.au | |
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| phone: 02 6277 3147 | fax: 02 6277 5775 | |
| Black Rod’s Office | email: blackrod.sen@aph.gov.au | |
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| phone: 02 6277 3396 | fax: 02 6277 3199 | |