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Clerk's Review
Departmental Overview
Performance
Management and Accountability
Financial Statements
Appendices
Glossary
Compliance index

Annual Report 2007–08

About this report

The Department of the House of Representatives provides services that allow the House to fulfil its role as a representative and legislative body of the Australian Parliament.

This annual report details our activities during the 2007–08 financial year.

The overview section includes a report by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Ian Harris, who is also the chief executive of our department. A departmental overview describes our purpose, role, structure and outputs.

The performance section describes the main activities of our five output groups, and measures our performance against our targets during the year.

The management and accountability section spells out our approach to corporate governance, the management of our people and assets, and our obligations under various laws. This section also provides an outlook on the next financial year.

The appendixes give detailed information about our work for the House, its committees and visitors, and about our publications and our staffing.

The financial statements show how we spent the money allocated to us by the Parliament.

Finally, to aid in navigating and interpreting the report, there is a list of abbreviations and acronyms, a compliance index and a general index.

Inquiries and feedback about this report

Contact officer

The department welcomes your comments on this report. To make a comment, or to request more information, please contact:

Serjeant-at-Arms
Department of the House of Representatives
Canberra Act 2600
Telephone: +61 2 6277 4444
Fax: +61 2 6277 2006
Email: David.Elder.Reps@aph.gov.au
Website www.aph.gov.au/house/dept

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Home page image:
Clockwise, from top left, Departmental staff at the Annual Planning Day, 6 May 2008; the Prime Minister, the Hon Kevin Rudd MP, and the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon Dr Brendan Nelson MP, at the Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples,
13 February 2008; the Canadian Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper, addresses members and senators in the House, 11 September 2007; and the Speaker, Mr Harry Jenkins MP, opens the Twentieth Anniversary of the House Committee System, 15 February 2008. Pictures courtesy of Auspic.