Sources of Parliamentary Information
Note: This page contains links to PDF files. For more information see
Accessing files.
For a list of government sites, consult the Library's Government and
Public Administration resources page. Our Australian
Law resources page provides links to Commonwealth, State and Territory
legislative resources.
The Parliamentary Handbook
contains a wealth of current and historical parliamentary information.
Index
Australia: Current Parliament | Australian State & Territory Parliaments | Federal
Judiciary | Historical Information | Lists, Directories and Statistics | Useful Links
World: | Selection of Links to Legislatures
| Directories | Parliamentary Organisations
| Inter-Parliamentary Assemblies, Associations, Organisations
Australia
Governor-General
of the Commonwealth of Australia
State Governors
of Australia and Administrators of the Northern Territory and the Island
Territories
Sitting Schedules for 2008
Parliamentary
Information from Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet: includes
the Administrative Arrangements Order and draft legislation programs for
the Senate and House of Representatives
Administrative arrangements orders from 1901 National Archives of Australia
Hansard: access
Parliamentary Debates through indexes
ParlInfo Web Search: search
the Parliamentary Documents Repository - or Browse
Parliament: Live Broadcasting Schedule
Question Time 
Podcast (Senate) from the ABC
Question Time
Podcast (House of Representatives) from the ABC
Senator the Hon. John Hogg, President of the Senate.
Mr Harry Jenkins MP, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Senators
Members
Senators and Members - Biographies
Ministry
Shadow Ministry
The Hon Kevin Rudd MP Prime Minister, Australian Labor Party
The Hon Julia Gillard MP Deputy Prime Minister, Australian Labor Party
The Hon Dr Brendan Nelson MP Leader of the Opposition, Liberal Party of Australia
The Hon Julie Bishop MP Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Liberal Party of Australia
The Hon Warren Truss MP Leader of the Nationals
Senator the Hon Nigel Scullion Deputy Leader of the Nationals (Country Liberal Party)
Senator Bob
Brown Leader of the Australian Greens
Senator
Steve Fielding Family First Party
Standing Orders and other Orders of the Senate and Annotations, September 2006 Edition
House of
Representatives Standing and Sessional Orders
Odger's Australian
Senate Practice and Supplement: Updates to 31 December 2007
House of
Representatives Practice
Brief Guides
to Senate Procedure
House of
Representatives Guide to Procedures
Publications of the Senate
Publications of the House of Representatives
ANZACATT: Australia and New Zealand Association of Clerks-at-the-Table
Search the
publications of the Department of the Parliamentary Library, 1996+
Featured publication: S. Bennett, Parliament House and the Australian people Research Paper no. 29 2007–08, 7 May 2008.
Australian
Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
Hansard (1989+)
Hansard Search:
available for 1995+
New South Wales
Parliament
Hansard
and Papers search
Hansard
is also held in datafiles from 1988 as follows:
Legislative
Council Hansard (1988+)
Legislative Assembly (1988+)
Records of Legislative Proceedings from 1824
Northern Territory
Legislative Assembly
Hansard (1990+) and
Legislation
Hansard
Search
Queensland Parliament
Latest
Hansard
Indexes
to Hansard (1990+)
Hansard
Search
Tabled Papers
South Australian
Parliament
Hansard and Hansard
Search (1993+)
Legislative
Council Search
House
of Assembly Search
Tasmanian Parliament
Parliamentary Documents
Index Page
Legislative
Council Hansard Search (1992+)
House of
Assembly Hansard Search (1992+)
Victorian Parliament
Hansard (1991+) and Hansard
Search
Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary
Documents
Victorian
Parliamentary Chronology
re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851
Western Australian
Parliament
Hansard
Search (March 1997+
Hansard
Daily Transcripts
Hansard
Index
High Court of Australia
Federal
Court of Australia
--Australian
Competition Tribunal
--Copyright
Tribunal
--Defence
Force Discipline Appeal Tribunal
--Federal
Police Disciplinary Tribunal
--Industrial
Relations Court of Australia
Family
Court of Australia
Federal Magistrates
Court
Administrative Appeals Tribunal
Migration Review Tribunal
National
Native Title Tribunal
Refugee Review
Tribunal
This is a small sample of material available. Interested readers should
consult the Parliamentary
Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia
Australia's
Prime Ministers: informative site from the National Archives of Australia
The Federation of Australia 1901 - Timeline
Prime Ministers
of Australia Since 1901: list of names, parties and dates of office
Chronology of Parliaments
Party
Representation in Parliament: elections 1901-2004.
Historical
Information from the Parliamentary Library: link to our page containing
more historical information
Politics
Internet Resources: including parliaments, parties, elections, governments
etc. Compiled by Politics and Public Administration Section, Parliamentary Library.
Australian Government Lobbyists Register
List of registered
political parties: Australian Electoral Commission
Australian elections timetable Background Note, online only 8 February 2008
Update on
Australian Political Records - A List of Parliamentary Facts, Figures
& Trivia, Research Note no. 13, 1998-99 (pdf)
Commonwealth Members of Parliament who have served in war, Research Brief no. 10, 2006–07 (pdf)
Members of Commonwealth ministries, Research Note no. 20, 2006-07 (pdf)
The 41st Parliament: middle-aged, well-educated and (mostly) male, Research Note no. 24, 2005–06 (pdf)
Find:
retrieve information from our website
Australian Electoral Commission
australia.gov.au: Access to
Australian Commonwealth Government Information and Services
Australian Government Publications
Worldwide Government Information: National
Library of Australia
ANU Parliamentary Studies Centre
World
Islamic
State of Afghanistan
Brazil: Camara Dos Deputados
| Senado Federal
Cambodia: National Assembly
of the Kingdom of Cambodia | Senate
of the Kingdom of Cambodia
Canadian Parliament
People's Republic of China: The National People's Congress
Cook Island Parliament
Denmark Folketinget
Europarl: European Parliament
Fiji. Parliament
France: Assemblee
Nationale | Senate
Germany. Deutscher Bundestag
Indian Parliament
Indonesia: House of People's Representatives
of the Republic of Indonesia (DPR) | People's
Consultative Assembly of the Republic of Indonesia (MPR)
Iran. Majlis ye-Shura-ye-Eslami (Islamic Consultative Assembly) Research
Centre
Iraq. Transitional National Assembly.
See IPU listing
Ireland Oireachtas
Parlamento Italiano
Japan: House of Councillors |
House of
Representatives
Parliament of Kiribati
Lebanese Parliament
New Zealand: Parliament |
New Zealand
Parliamentary Business: includes Hansard, parliamentary papers, select committee reports
Northern Ireland Assembly
National Parliament of Papua New
Guinea
Philippines Congress
Russia: Duma | Council
of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
The Scottish Parliament
Thailand. National Assembly of
the Kingdom of Thailand: House of Representatives and Senate
United Arab Emirates: Federal
National Council
United Kingdom | House
of Lords | House
of Commons | Hansard | Hansard Archive 1802-2004
United States of America: House of Representatives
| Senate | Congressional Record | THOMAS | Library
of Congress
Vietnam. National Assembly of the Socialist
Republic of Vietnam
The National Assembly for Wales
Use one of these directories to find national parliaments not listed
above...
Web Sites
of Parliaments: AGORA
Web Sites of National
Parliaments: IPU
Parline Database:
IPU
Worldlii: Parliaments database
Parliaments:
part of Gunnar Anzinger's Governments on the WWW
Web sites of National Parliaments:
Washington University in St Louis
World Parliaments:
the Knesset
Australasian Study of Parliament Group
(ASPG): ASPG was formed "to encourage and stimulate research, writing
and teaching about parliamentary institutions in Australia and the South
Pacific"
ASPG
2006 Annual Conference: to be held in Wellington New Zealand, October
2006
ASPG ACT Chapter
ASPG
New South Wales Chapter
ASPG New Zealand Chapter
ASPG Queensland
Chapter
ASPG Tasmanian
Chapter
ASPG
Western Australia Chapter
Hansard Society for Parliamentary
Government (UK): independent educational charity "promoting effective
parliamentary democracy"
National Association of Parliamentarians:
US based association with international membership
Parliamentarians for Global Action
Study of Parliament Group (Canada):
"a non-profit organization that brings together individuals with an interest
in the role, function and reform of parliamentary institutions"
Study of Parliament Group (UK): "to
study the working of Parliament and Parliamentary institutions, and other
related aspects of Parliamentary government and political science, and
to advance public knowledge of these subjects"
United States
Association of Former Members of Congress
For other links see Useful
links on the IPU site
Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF)
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
(CPA)
Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas
(FIPA)
NATO Parliamentary Assembly: formerly North Atlantic Assembly
Norden: Nordic Council and Nordic
Council of Ministers
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: Organization
for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Assembly of the Western
European Union (WEU): the Interparliamentary European Security and
Defence Assembly
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