House of Representatives Practice (6th edition)

House of Representatives Practice is the comprehensive and authoritative text on the procedure and practice of the House of Representatives.

This 6th edition was published in September 2012 and links to updated information since publication, are included below. House of Representatives Practice is available in the following formats:

Preliminary pages
Title pages, Preface and Contents PDF format
Chapter summaries PDF format
Reference guide PDF format
Chapter and title
Chapter 1: The Parliament and the role of the House
(Chapter 1 updates – April 2014)
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Chapter 2: House, Government and Opposition
(Chapter 2 updates - October 2015)
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Chapter 3: Elections and the electoral system
(Chapter 3 updates – April 2014)
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Chapter 4: Parliament House and access to proceedings
(Chapter 4 updates – April 2015)
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Chapter 5: Members
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Chapter 6: The Speaker, Deputy Speakers and officers
(Chapter 6 updates – April 2014)
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Chapter 7: The parliamentary calendar
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Chapter 8: Order of business and the sitting day
(Chapter 8 updates – April 2015)
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Chapter 9: Motions
(Chapter 9 updates – April 2015)
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Chapter 10: Legislation
(Chapter 10 updates – April 2015)
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Chapter 11: Financial legislation
(Chapter 11 updates – April 2015)
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Chapter 12: Senate amendments and requests
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Chapter 13: Disagreements between the Houses
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Chapter 14: Control and conduct of debate
(Chapter 14 updates – April 2015)
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Chapter 15: Questions
(Chapter 15 updates – April 2014)
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Chapter 16: Non-government business
(Chapter 16 updates – April 2015)
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Chapter 17: Documents
(Chapter 17 updates – April 2015)
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Chapter 18: Parliamentary committees
(Chapter 18 updates – October 2015)
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Chapter 19: Parliamentary privilege
(Chapter 19 updates – April 2014)
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Appendix and title
Appendix 1: Governors-General
(PDF version updated March 2014)
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Appendix 2: Speakers of the House of Representatives
(PDF version updated September 2016)
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Appendix 3: Deputy Speakers
(PDF version updated 27 March 2018)
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Appendix 4: Leaders of Opposition
(PDF version updated October 2013)
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Appendix 5: Clerks of the House of Representatives
(PDF version updated August 2016)
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Appendix 6: Prime Ministers
(PDF version updated September 2015)
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Appendix 7: Chronological list of Ministries
(PDF version updated August 2016)
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Appendix 8: Leaders of the House
(PDF version updated August 2016)
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Appendix 9: Number of Ministers – Statutory variations
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Appendix 10: Party affiliations in the House of Representatives
(PDF version updated August 2016)
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Appendix 11: Electoral Divisions – number at general elections
(PDF version updated May 2016)
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Appendix 12: General elections – significant dates from 19th to 43rd Parliaments
(PDF version updated August 2016)
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Appendix 13: Election petitions – House of Representatives
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Appendix 14: Referendums to alter the Constitution
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Appendix 15: Chronology of Parliaments
(PDF version updated August 2016)
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Appendix 16: Sittings of the House
(PDF version updated January 2017)
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Appendix 17: Consideration of Legislation by the House
(PDF version updated January 2017)
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Appendix 18: Senate requests for amendments to Bills
(PDF version updated May 2016)
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Appendix 19: Bills reserved for the Sovereign's Assent and Bills returned by the Governor-General with recommended amendments PDF format HTML format
Appendix 20: Statistics on selected House proceedings
(PDF version updated January 2017)
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Appendix 21: Questions (since 1963)
(PDF version updated January 2017)
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Appendix 22: Proportion of House time by category of business – recent Parliaments
(PDF version updated January 2017)
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Appendix 23: Percentage of House time spent on Government and Private Members' business – recent years
(PDF version updated January 2017)
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Appendix 24: Committees of the House of Representatives and Joint Committees
(PDF version updated April 2018)
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Appendix 25: Matters raised as matters of privilege in the House
(PDF version updated May 2016)
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Attachments
Rules for joint sittings PDF format
Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987 (external link to ComLaw.gov.au) HTML format
Parliamentary Precincts Act 1988 (external link to ComLaw.gov.au) HTML format
Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act HTML format
Index
Index (available in PDF only) PDF format