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Papers on Parliament
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Papers on Parliament
1 Peter O’Keeffe, Spoilt
for a Ha’p’worth of Tar. How Bureaucratic Law-making can Undermine
the Ideals of Civil Liberty, April 1988 (PDF 129KB)
2 Anne Lynch, Legislation by Proclamation - Parliamentary Nightmare,
Bureaucratic Dream;and John Vander Wyk, The Discharge of Senators
from Attendance on the Senate upon a Dissolution of the House of Representatives,
July 1988 (PDF 100KB)
3 Peter O’Keeffe, Deregulation, Merits Review and
the Withering of Parliamentary Sovereignty, December 1988(PDF 119KB)
4 Brian Galligan, No Bill of Rights for Australia, July
1989(PDF 202KB)
5 Jenny Hutchison, The Big Picture on the Small Screen,
November 1989 (PDF 86KB)
6 Senate Estimates Scrutiny of Government Finance and Expenditure.
What’s it for, does it work and at what cost? Papers presented
at a Parliamentary Workshop, October 1989, March 1990
- Introductory pages (PDF 33KB)
- Session 1—An Overview of the Scrutiny System by Watchers and
Watched (PDF 104KB)
Dr John Uhr, Estimates Committee Scrutiny of Government Appropriations
and Expenditure : Nature, Purpose and Effects
Dr Michael Keating, The standpoint of Finance : More than a Watching
Brief
Senator Bob McMullan, A Government Senator’s Standpoint
: Value for Money or Watching Ministerial Backs?
Senator John Coates, A Finance and Public Administration Perspective
: Complementing the Estimates Scrutiny Process
- Session 2—Questions and Answers Session: ‘Are There Too
Many Watchers and Not Enough Managers’? (PDF 40KB)
- Session 3—The Theory and Practice of Public Accountability—the
Views of Key Practitioners (PDF 64KB)
John Taylor, 'Auditing public expenditure and the estimates process:
the role of the Auditor-General’
Robert Tickner, 'Parliament, the Public Service and Accountable Management’
- Session 4—The Role of Opposition Senators - Politics or Auditing
(PDF 76KB)
Senator the Hon. Peter Baume, 'The Right to Hold Government to account
: Estimates Committees and the role of the Opposition’
Senator Bronwyn Bishop, 'Senate Estimates Committees: techniques
to achieve accountability - questions, answers and use of information’
- Session 5—Sounding Off and Rounding Off (PDF 71KB)
- Appendix 1—John Uhr, 'Public Expenditure and ParliamentaryAccountability:
The Debatable Role of Senate Estimates Committees’ (PDF 133KB)
- Appendix 2—John Taylor, 'Auditing Public Expenditure and the
Estimates Process: The Role of the Auditor-General’ (PDF 66KB)
- Appendix 3—Senator Bronwyn Bishop, 'Public Administration:
A Sharpening of the Focus’ (PDF 52KB)
7 Unchaining the Watch-Dogs, Parliament House, Canberra,
March 1990
- Introductory pages (PDF 19KB)
- John Taylor, ‘The Auditor-General—Ally of the People, the
Parliament and the Executive’ (PDF 127KB)
- Dennis Pearce, ‘The Commonwealth Ombudsman: Present Operation
and Future Developments’ (PDF 104KB)
- Cheryl Saunders, ‘The Role of the Administrative Review Council’
(PDF 98KB)
8 Chandran Kukathas, Democracy, Parliament and Responsible
Government, with additional observations by David Lovell and William
Maley, June 1990 (PDF 91KB)
9 A.W. Martin, Parkes and the 1890 Conference, July 1990
(PDF 156KB)
10 Peter Bayne, Tribunals in the System of Government, July
1990 (PDF 114KB)
11 Ian Marsh, The Committee System of the UK House of Commons:
Recent Developments and their Implications for Australia, March 1991
(PDF 195KB)
12 Senate Committees and Responsible Government: Proceedings
of the Conference to mark the twentieth anniversary of Senate Legislative
and General Purpose Standing Committees and Senate Estimates Committees,
3 October 1990, September 1991
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Introductory pages (PDF 26KB)
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Session 1—‘The revolutionary proposals’
of 1970 (PDF 156KB)
Opening Address by the President of the Senate, Senator the Hon. Kerry
W. Sibraa
—Keynote address by Mr Peter Rae
—Panel of speakers: Mr Gordon Davidson, Professor Geoffrey Sawer,
Mr Alan Cumming Thom and Mr Chris Puplick
—Speech by Senator John Wheeldon when opening the exhibition,
The World of Senate Committees
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Session 2—Senate Committees - keeping Parliament
responsible (PDF 109KB)
—Keynote address by Mr David Hamer
—Panel of speakers: Senator the Hon. Peter Durack, Mr John Black,
Professor Dennis Pearce and Professor Dianne Yerbury
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Session 3—Senate Estimates Committees—do
these watchdogs bite or only bark? (PDF 106KB)
—Keynote address by Senator the Hon. Peter Baume
—Panel of speakers: Senator Bruce Childs, Dr Michael Keating,
Dr John Uhr and Ms Michelle Grattan
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Session 4—Senate Committees—can they
halt the decline of Parliament? (PDF 152KB)
—Keynote address by Dr Brian Galligan
—Panel of speakers: Senators Rod Kemp, Nick Sherry, Vicki Bourne,
William O’Chee and Mr Peter Bayne
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Speech by the Governor-General, His Excellency the
Hon. Bill Hayden, AC, made at the Conference Dinner, 3 October 1990
(PDF 35KB)
13 One People, One Destiny—Papers given at a series
of Senate Occasional Lectures to commemorate the centenary of the National
Australasian Convention 1891, November 1991
- Introductory pages (PDF 11KB)
- The Rt Hon Sir Zelman Cowen,‘ ‘‘Is it not time?’’
The National Australasian Convention of 1891—a milestone on the
road to federation’ (PDF 57KB)
- Professor Geoffrey Bolton, ‘Samuel Griffith: the Great
Provincial’ (PDF 64KB)
- Professor W.G. McMinn, ‘Politics or Statesmanship? George
Reid and the Failure of the 1891 Federation Movement’ (PDF 71KB)
- Professor Leslie Zines, ‘What the Courts have done to Australian
Federalism’ (PDF 58KB)
- Mr John McMillan, ‘Constitutional Reform in Australia’ (PDF 62KB)
- The Hon Frank Neasey, ‘Andrew Inglis Clark and Australian Federation’
(PDF 53KB)
14 Parliamentary Perspectives 1991, February 1992
- Introductory pages (PDF 10KB)
- Harry Evans, ‘Parliamentary Reform: New Directions and Possibilities
for Reform of Parliamentary Processes’ (PDF 62KB)
- John Black, Michael Macklin and Chris Puplick, ‘How Parliament
Works in Practice’ (PDF 72KB)
- John Button, ‘The Role of the Leader of the Government in the
Senate’ (PDF 44KB)
- Hugh Collins, ‘Political Literacy: Educating for Democracy’
(PDF 64KB)
- Senate Procedural Digest 1991 (PDF 104KB)
15 Stephen Argument, Parliamentary Scrutiny of Quasi-legislation,
May 1992
16 Two Historical Views of Parliaments: Ireland and Russia,
June 1992 (PDF 109KB)
- Harry Rigby, ‘Russia’s Parliaments’
- Professor Oliver MacDonagh, ‘Parnell and the Art of Politics’
17 Trust the Women: Women in Parliament, September 1992
- Introductory pages (PDF 10KB)
- Senator Patricia Giles, ‘Women in the Federal Parliament’
(PDF 24KB)
- Dr Marian Sawer, ‘Housekeeping the State: Women and Parliamentary
Politics in Australia’ (PDF 79KB)
- The Hon. Susan Ryan, AO, ‘Fishes on Bicycles’ (PDF 64KB)
- Janine Haines, ‘Suffrage to Sufferance: 100 Years of Women in
Parliament’ (PDF 71KB)
- The Hon. Dame Margaret Guilfoyle, DBE, ‘The Senate: Proportionately
Representative but Disproportionately Male’ (PDF 61KB)
18 Parliaments: Achievements and Challenges, December 1992
- Introductory pages (PDF 17KB)
- Bill Blick, ‘Accountability, the Parliament and the Executive’
(PDF 86KB)
- Harry Evans, ‘Parliament: An Unreformable Institution’ (PDF 77KB)
- Senator Bruce Childs, ‘The Truth About Parliamentary Committees’
(PDF 65KB)
- Brian Galligan, ‘Parliamentary Responsible Government and the
Protection of Rights’ (PDF 75KB)
- Senator The Hon. Terry Aulich, ‘Parliament’s Last
Stand’ (PDF 88KB)
- Senator The Hon. Peter Durack, ‘Parliament and People’ (PDF 72KB)
- Senate Procedural Digest 1992 (PDF 86KB)
19 Constitution, Section 53: Financial Legislation and the
Houses of Commonwealth Parliament, May 1993 (PDF 142KB)
- ‘Amendments and Requests: Disagreements Between the Houses’,
Clerk of the Senate
- ‘Amendments and Requests: A Background Paper’, Office of
the Clerk of the House of Representatives
- ‘The Senate: Amendment of Taxation and Appropriation Legislation’,
Clerk of the Senate
- ‘Supply’, Clerk of the Senate
20 The Future of Parliaments and Their Libraries:A Review
Article By Russell Cope, October 1993
- Introductory pages (PDF 13KB)
- Part 1—Looking at London (PDF 84KB)
- Part 2—The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be: Disputatious
Observations (PDF 88KB)
- Parliamentary Bibliography (PDF 222KB)
21 Parliament and the Constitution: Some Issues of Interest,
December 1993
- Introductory pages (PDF 10KB)
- Ian Temby QC, ‘Safeguarding Integrity in Government’ (PDF 69KB)
- Professor Geoffrey de Q Walker, ‘Constitutional Change in the
1990s: Moves for Direct Democracy’ (PDF 98KB)
- Professor Thomas J. Courchene, ‘Aboriginal Self-Government in
Canada’ (PDF 136KB)
- Professor Roger Wettenhall, ‘Corporatised Bodies Old and New:
Is Parliament Missing Out?’ (PDF 141KB)
- Professor Brian de Garis, ‘How Popular was the Popular Federation
Movement?’ (PDF 90KB)
- Dr Greg Craven, ‘The Founding Fathers: Constitutional Kings or
Colonial Knaves?’ (PDF 97KB)
22 Views of Parliamentary Democracy, February 1994
- Introductory pages (PDF 11KB)
- Ferdinand Mount, ‘Parliament and the Governance of Modern Nations’
(PDF 62KB)
- Kathy Martin Sullivan MP, ‘Women in Parliament—Yes! But
What’s It Really Like?’ (PDF 66KB)
- Professor Michael Crommelin, ‘Mabo—The Decision and the
Debate’ (PDF 59KB)
- Professor Geoffrey Brennan, ‘Australian Parliamentary Democracy:
One Cheer for the Status Quo’ (PDF 105KB)
23 Parliaments and Constitutions Under Scrutiny, September
1994
- Introductory pages (PDF 13KB)
- Derek Drinkwater, ‘Catspaw of the Minister? Membership of the
Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, 1952-1967’ (PDF 74KB)
- Professor Ulrich Klti, ‘Reform Trends in Swiss Government’
(PDF 72KB)
- Kathleen Burns, ‘A Stranger in Paradise? A Foreign Correspondent’s
View of the Parliamentary Press Gallery’ (PDF 80KB)
- Professor Kathleen Mahoney, ‘A Charter of Rights: The Canadian
Experience’ (PDF 112KB)
- Fred Chaney, ‘Parliament: Our Great Expectations’ (PDF 78KB)
- Professor James Walter, ‘What Has Happened To Political Ideas?’
(PDF 53KB)
24 Essays on Republicanism: small r republicanism, by Harry
Evans, September 1994 (Html format)
- Introductory pages (PDF 12KB)
- A Note on the Meaning of ‘Republic’ (PDF 29KB)
- Republicanism, Continued: A brief rejoinder to Graham Maddox (PDF 12KB)
- Republicanism and the Australian Constitution (PDF 17KB)
- Introduction: The Agenda of the True Republicans (PDF 20KB)
- Keeping the Australian Republic (PDF 24KB)
- Essentials of Republican Legislatures: Distributed Majorities and
Legislative Control (PDF 24KB)
- Australia’s Real Republican Heritage (PDF 18KB)
25 Constitutions, Rights and Democracy: Past, Present and Future,
June 1995
- Introductory pages (PDF 11KB)
- Professor Peter Russell, ‘Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canada
Become a Sovereign People?’ (PDF 81KB)
- Professor Henry J. Steiner, ‘Cultural Relativism and the Attitude
of Certain Asian Countries towards the Universality of Human Rights’
(PDF 55KB)
- Senator Cheryl Kernot, ‘For Parliament or Party: Whose Democracy
is it, Anyway?’ (PDF 48KB)
- Dr James Warden, ‘Parliament, Democracy and Political Identity
in Australia’ (PDF 61KB)
- Dr Helen Irving, ‘Who are the Founding Mothers? The Role of Women
in Australian Federation’ (PDF 61KB)
26 Republicanism, Responsible Government and Human Rights,
August 1995
- Introductory pages (PDF 11KB)
- The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby, AC, CMG, ‘Human Rights—The
International Dimension’ (PDF 78KB)
- Senator Baden Teague, ‘An Australian Head of State: the Contemporary
Debate’ (PDF 62KB)
- Harry Evans, ‘Electing a President: the elite versus the public’
(PDF 20KB)
- David Hamer, DSC, ‘Can Responsible Government Survive
in Australia?’ (PDF 67KB)
- John Taylor, ‘Parliament and the Auditor-General’ (PDF 132KB)
- Dr Suri Ratnapala, ‘Westminster Democracy and the Separation
of Powers: Can they Co-exist?’ (PDF 71KB)
- Peter C. Grundy, ‘Prima Facie Native Title’ (PDF 48KB)
27 Reinventing Political Institutions, March 1996
- Introductory pages (PDF 11KB)
- Professor Beryl A. Radin, ‘Reinventing Government in the United
States: What is Happening with the National Performance Review?’
(PDF 59KB)
- Professor Neville Meaney, ‘The Commonwealth and the Republic:
an Historical Perspective’ (PDF 66KB)
- Senator the Hon. Margaret Reynolds, ‘Women, Pre-selection and
Merit: Who Decides?’ (PDF 66KB)
- Pru Goward, ‘The Medium, not the Messenger’ (PDF 59KB)
- Sir David Smith, ‘An Australian Head of State: an Historical
and Contemporary Perspective’ (PDF 82KB)
- Senator the Hon. Michael Beahan, ‘Majorities and Minorities:
Evolutionary Trends in the Australian Senate’ (PDF 64KB)
- Professor Howard Cody, ‘Australia’s Senate and Senate Reform
in Canada’ (PDF 49KB)
28 Poets, Presidents, People and Parliament: Republicanism
and other issues, November 1996
- Introductory pages (PDF 9KB)
- Harry Evans, ‘The Australian Head of State: Putting Republicanism
into the Republic’ (PDF 61KB)
- George Winterton and David Flint, ‘The Election of an Australian
President’ (PDF 60KB)
- Les A. Murray, AO, ‘And Let’s Always Call It the Commonwealth:
One Poet’s View of the Republic’ (PDF 71KB)
- K.S. Inglis, ‘Parliamentary Speech’ (PDF 67KB)
- Gwynneth Singleton, ‘Independents in a Multi-Party System: the
Experience of the Australian Senate’ (PDF 88KB)
- Jack Waterford, ‘Ministerial Responsibility for Personal Staff’
(PDF 86KB)
- Derek Drinkwater, ‘Rupert Loof: Clerk of the Senate and Man of
Many Parts’ (PDF 37KB)
29 Parliaments in Evolution: Constitutional Reform in the 1990s,
March 1997
- Introductory pages (PDF 12KB)
- David Butler, ‘Ministerial Accountability: Lessons of the Scott
Report’ (PDF 74KB)
- Marilyn Lake, ‘Women’s Changing Conception of Political
Power’ (PDF 57KB)
- Deryck Schreuder, ‘Reshaping the Body Politic—the South
African Experience’ (PDF 29KB)
- Campbell Sharman, ‘Defining Executive Power: Constitutional Reform
for Grown-Ups’ (PDF 53KB)
- John Uhr, ‘Keeping Government Honest: Preconditions of Parliamentary
Effectiveness’ (PDF 58KB)
30 The Constitution Makers, November 1997
- Introductory pages (PDF 9KB)
- The Hon. John Bannon, ‘Towards Federation: the Role of the Smaller
Colonies’ (PDF 64KB)
- Professor Stuart Macintyre, ‘A Federal Commonwealth, an Australian
Citizenship’ (PDF 50KB)
- Professor Geoffrey Bolton, ‘The Art of Consensus: Edmund Barton
and the 1897 Federal Convention’ (PDF 63KB)
- Dr Mark McKenna, ‘Sir Richard Chaffey Baker—the Senate’s
First Republican’ (PDF 60KB)
- Professor Greg Craven, ‘The High Court and the Founders: an Unfaithful
Servant’ (PDF 115KB)
- Dr Kathleen Dermody, ‘The 1897 Federal Convention Election: a
Success or Failure?’ (PDF 124KB)
- Derek Drinkwater, ‘Federation Through the Eyes of a South Australian
Model Parliament’ (PDF 52KB)
31 Papers on Parliament No. 31, June 1998
- Introductory pages (PDF 14KB)
- Dr Anne Summers, ‘The Media and Parliament: Image-making and
Image-breaking’ (PDF 55KB)
- Hugh Mackay, ‘Three Generations: the Changing Values and Political
Outlook of Australians’ (PDF 47KB)
- Professor Marian Sawer, ‘Mirrors, Mouthpieces, Mandates and Men
of Judgement: Concepts of Representation in the Australian Federal Parliament’
(PDF 67KB)
- Harry Evans, ‘Bad King John and the Australian Constitution:
Commemorating the 700th Anniversary of the 1297 Issue of Magna Carta’
(PDF 57KB)
- Dr Henry Reynolds, ‘Aborigines and the 1967 Referendum: Thirty
Years On’ (PDF 53KB)
- Richard Broinowski, ‘Robert Arthur Broinowski: Clerk of the Senate,
Poet, Environmentalist, Broadcaster’ (PDF 29KB)
- Kelly Paxman, ‘Referral of Bills to Senate Committees: an Evaluation’
(PDF 85KB)
- Juliet Edeson, ‘Powers of Presidents in Republics’ (PDF 92KB)
32 The People’s Conventions: Corowa (1893) and Bathurst
(1896), December 1998
Corowa
- Introductory pages (PDF 24KB)
- Stuart Macintyre, ‘Corowa and the Voice of the People’ (PDF 59KB)
- Helen Irving, ‘When Quick Met Garran: the Corowa Plan’ (PDF 31KB)
- David Headon, ‘Loading the Gun: Corowa’s Role in the Federation
Debate’ (PDF 44KB)
- Jeff Brownrigg, ‘ ‘‘Melba’s Puddin’ ’’:
Corowa, Mulwala and Our Cultural Past’ (PDF 57KB)
- James Warden, ‘From Little Things Big Things Grow: Thresholds
of Citizenship (1893–1993)’ (PDF 70KB)
- Paul Keating, ‘The Prime Minister’s Centenary Dinner Speech,
Corowa, 31 July 1993’ (PDF 90KB)
Bathurst
- John Bannon, ‘Return Tickets at Single Fares: the Bathurst Convention
as a Representative National Gathering’ (PDF 43KB)
- Stuart Macintyre, ‘The Idea of the People’ (PDF 22KB)
- John Hirst, ‘Federation and the People: a Response to Stuart
Macintyre’ (PDF 19KB)
- David Headon, ‘Resurrecting the Federal Ideal: Mr Astley goes
to Bathurst’ (PDF 57KB)
- A.E. Cahill, ‘Cardinal Moran, Bathurst and the Achievement of
Federation’ (PDF 48KB)
- Tessa Milne, ‘Barton at Bathurst: ‘‘Front Stage/Backstage’’
’ (PDF 24KB)
- Mark McKenna, ‘John Napoleon Norton and the 1896 Bathurst Convention’
(PDF 24KB)
- Robin McLachlan, ‘A Foreign Agent Unmasked: Colonel Bell at Bathurst’
(PDF 57KB)
- Kevin Livingston, ‘Joseph Cook’s Contribution’ (PDF 19KB)
- Jeff Brownrigg, ‘ ‘‘The Sentiment of Nationality’’
Bathurst and Popular Support for Federation’ (PDF 46KB)
33 The Senate and Good Government, and Other Lectures in the
Senate Occasional Lecture Series, 1998, May 1999
- Introductory pages (PDF 12KB)
- Clem Lloyd, ‘The Influence of Parliamentary Location and Space
on Australia’s Political News Media (PDF 67KB)
- Philippa Smith, ‘Red Tape and the Ombudsman’ (PDF 45KB)
- Elizabeth Evatt, ‘Meeting Universal Human Rights Standards: the
Australian Experience’ (PDF 76KB)
- Hilary Charlesworth, ‘Globalisation, the Law and Australian Sovereignty:
Dangerous Liaisons’ (PDF 92KB)
- Chandran Kukathas, ‘Tolerating the Intolerable’ (PDF 67KB)
- David Headon, ‘Republicanism, Politicians, and People’s
Conventions—Goulburn 1854 to Canberra 1998’ (PDF 78KB)
- Scott Reid, ‘Curbing Judicial Activism: the High Court, the People
and a Bill of Rights’ (PDF 92KB)
- Martin Krygier, ‘Fear, Hope, Politics and Law’ (PDF 135KB)
- Campbell Sharman, ‘The Senate and Good Government’ (PDF 72KB)
- R.L. Cope, ‘Biographical Dictionaries of Parliamentarians: Considerations
and Examples’ (PDF 56KB)
34 Representation and Institutional Change:
50 Years of Proportional Representation in the Senate, Papers from
a conference arranged by the The Political Science Program, Research School
of Social Sciences, ANU and the Department of the Senate, August 1999,
December 1999
- Introductory pages (PDF 22KB) (Html
format)
- Marion Sawer, ‘Overview: Institutional Design and the Role of
the Senate’ (PDF 1393KB) (Html format)
- John Uhr, ‘Why We Chose Proportional Representation’ (PDF 145KB) (Html format)
- Elaine Thompson, ‘The Senate and Representative Democracy’
(PDF 61KB) (Html format)
- Arend Lijphart, ‘Australian Democracy: Modifying Majoritarianism?’
(PDF 70KB) (Html format)
- Harry Evans, ‘Accountability Versus Government Control: the Effect
of Proportional Representation’ (PDF 35KB)
(Html format)
- Murray Goot, ‘Can the Senate Claim a Mandate?’ (PDF 83KB) (Html format)
- Marian Sawer, ‘Dilemmas of Representation’ (PDF 49KB) (Html format)
- Helen Coonan, ‘Survival of the Fittest: Future Directions of
the Senate’ (PDF 30KB) (Html format)
- Andrew Bartlett, ‘A Squeeze on the Balance of Power: Using Senate
‘Reform’ to Dilute Democracy’ (PDF 36KB) (Html format)
- John Faulkner, ‘ A Labor Perspective on Senate Reform’ (PDF 1086KB) (Html format)
- Fred Chaney, ‘Should Parliament be Abolished?’ (PDF 47KB) (Html format)
- Dee Margetts, ‘The Contribution of The Greens (WA) to the Australian
Senate’ (PDF 1107KB) (Html format)
- Campbell Sharman, ‘The Representation of Small Parties and Independents’
(PDF 47KB) (Html format)
- Paul Bongiorno, Michelle Grattan and Melissa Langerman, ‘Reporting
the Senate: Three Perspectives’ (PDF 47KB)
(Html format)
- Peter Sekuless and Frances Sullivan, ‘Lobbying the Senate: Two
Perspectives’ (PDF 30KB) (Html format)
- Anne Lynch, ‘Personalities versus Structure: the Fragmentation
of the Senate Committee System’ (PDF 35KB)
(Html format)
- Ian Marsh, ‘Opening Up the Policy Process’ (PDF 59KB) (Html format)
- Kate Lundy, ‘Cyberdemocracy and the Future of the Australian
Senate’ (PDF 30KB) (Html format)
- Geoffrey Brennan, ‘The Senate and Proportional Representation:
Some Concluding Observations’ (PDF 16KB)
(Html format)
35 Australia and Parliamentary Orthodoxy,
and Other Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series, 1999,
June 2000
36 Parliament and the Public Interest. Lectures
in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series, 2000, June 2001
- David Solomon, ‘A Single-Chamber Australian Parliament?’
(PDF 72KB)
- George Williams, ‘Legislating for a Bill of Rights Now’
(PDF 59KB)
- Tony Harris, ‘Auditors-General: Policies and Politics’ (PDF 56KB)
- Richard Mulgan, ‘Public Servants and the Public Interest’
(PDF 58KB)
- Ken Coghill, ‘Ministers in Office: Preparation and Performance’
(PDF 72KB)
- John Kalokerinos, ‘Who May Sit? An Examination of the Parliamentary
Disqualification Provisions of the Commonwealth Constitution’ (PDF 147KB)
37 For Peace, Order and Good Government:
the Centenary of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, November
2001
- Introductory pages (PDF 11KB)
- Margaret Reid and Gavin Souter, Speeches from the Launch of the Senate
Exhibition For Peace, Order and Good Government, 29 March 2001
(PDF 26KB)
- James G Drake: An Address (PDF 35KB)
- John Hirst, ‘Federation: Destiny and Identity’ (PDF 68KB)
- Geoffrey Blainey, ‘The Centenary of Australia’s Federation:
What Should We Celebrate?’ (PDF 50KB)
- Helen Irving, ‘One Hundred Years of (Almost) Solitude: the Evolution
of Australian Citizenship’ (PDF 62KB)
- Marian Simms, ‘1901: the Forgotten Election’ (PDF 57KB)
- Marian Sawer, ‘Inventing the Nation Through the Ballot Box’
(PDF 56KB)
- Russell L Cope, ‘Housing a Legislature: When Architecture and
Politics Meet’ (PDF 220KB)
38 Parliament and Public Opinion. Lectures
in the Senate Occasional Lecture
Series 2000–2001, April 2002
- Introductory pages (PDF 11KB)
- Jeremy Rabkin, ‘National Sovereignty in a Globalising World’
(PDF 73KB)
- Murray Goot, ‘Distrustful, Disenchanted and Disengaged? Polled
Opinion on Politics, Politicians and the Parties: an Historical Perspective’
(PDF 208KB)
- David Zussman, ‘Confidence in Public Institutions: Restoring
Pride to Politics’ (PDF 63KB)
- Phillip Knightley, ‘What is Australia? Perception versus Reality’
(PDF 54KB)
- Ian McAllister, ‘Civic Education and Political Knowledge in Australia’
(PDF 83KB)
- Sir Alastair Goodlad, ‘Political Structure and Constitutional
Reform in the United Kingdom’ (PDF 56KB)
- Donley T. Studlar, ‘Reflections on the Election Fiasco in the
United States’ (PDF 80KB)
- Judith Brett, ‘Parliament, Meetings and Civil Society’ (PDF 79KB)
39 Senate Envy and Other Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture
Series, 2001–2002
- Introductory pages (PDF 13KB)
- Julianne Schultz, ‘Two Cultures: Parliament and the Media (PDF 77KB)
- Ted Morton ‘Senate Envy: Why Western Canada Wants What Australia
Has’ (PDF 91KB)
- Patrick Bishop ‘Democratic Equivocations: Who Wants What, When
and How?’ (PDF 68KB)
- Campbell Sharman ‘Politics at the Margin: Independents and the
Australian Political System’ (PDF 124KB)
- Patrick Barrett ‘Auditing in a Changing Governance Environment’
(PDF 229KB)
- Gary Johns ‘Government and Civil Society: Which is Virtuous?’
(PDF 98KB)
- Lord Irvine of Lairg ‘The Spirit of Magna Carta Continues to
Resonate in Modern Law’ (PDF 114KB)
40 Bicameralism and Accountablity: Lectures in the Senate Occasional
Lecture Series, 2002-2003
- Introductry pages (PDF 163KB)
- Don Russell 'The Role of Executive Government in Australia' (PDF 259KB)
- Bruce Stone 'Australian Bicameralism: Potential and Performance in
State Upper Houses' (PDF 366KB)
- Stanley Bach 'A Delicate Balance: the Accidental Genius of Australian
Politics' (PDF 345KB)
- Brian Costar 'Accountability or Representation? Victorian Bicameralism'
(PDF 280KB)
- Patrick Weller 'The Australian Public Service: Still Anonymous, Neutral
and a Career Service?' (PDF 247KB)
- Michael Pusey 'An Australian Story: the Troubling Experience of Economic
Reform' (PDF 256KB)
- Ross McMullin 'Vigour, Rigour and Charisma: the Remarkable Pompey
Elliott, Soldier and Senator' (PDF 240KB)
41 One Hundred Years of Women’s Suffrage in Australia, Centenary Issue (PDF 1269KB)
- Introductory Pages (PDF 160KB)
- Margaret Guilfoyle and Susan Ryan ‘ The Trailblazers: the First Women in Cabinet’ (PDF 177KB)
- Barbara Caine ‘Australian Feminism and the British Militant Suffragettes’ (PDF 279KB)
- Moira Rayner ‘Public Discourse and the Power of Women’ (PDF 267KB)
- John Uhr ‘The Power of One’ (PDF 236KB)
- Marise Payne ‘Personal Perspectives on Parliament: Upper House’ (PDF 136KB)
- Julia Gillard ‘Personal Perspectives on Parliament: Lower House’ (PDF 136KB)
- ‘Carry on the Fight’: Women in the Australian Senate (PDF 399KB)
42 The Distinctive Foundations of Australian Democracy: Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series 2003-2004
(PDF 985KB) - Introductory Pages (PDF 56KB)
- Stuart Macintyre ‘ Alfred Deakin . A Centenary Tribute’ (PDF 90KB)
- Michael Coper ‘The High Court and the Parliament: Partners in Law-making, or Hostile Combatants?’ (PDF 144KB)
- A.J. Brown ‘Constitutional Schizophrenia Then and Now’ (PDF 308KB)
- John Molony ‘ Eureka and the Prerogative of the People’ (PDF 94KB)
- Sir Ninian Stephen ‘ John Quick : a True Founding Father of Federation’ (PDF 83KB)
- Dennis Pearce ‘Rules, Regulations and Red Tape: Parliamentary Scrutiny and Delegated Legislation’ (PDF 114KB)
- Patricia Fitzgerald Ratcliff ‘The Australians are One: John West Guiding Colonial Australia to Nationhood’ (PDF 108KB)
- John Hirst ‘The Distinctiveness of Australian Democracy’ (PDF 310KB)
- Anthony Marinac ‘The Usual Suspects? Civil Society and Senate Committees’ (PDF 90KB)
43 Reference of Bills to
Australian Senate Committees,
With particular reference to the role of the
Selection of Bills Committee (PDF 4008KB)
44Democratic Experiments: Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series 2004-2005 (PDF 853KB)
- Introductory Pages (PDF 13KB)
- Ian Marsh ‘ Australia ’s Representation Gap: A Role for Parliamentary Committees?’ (PDF 58KB)
- Ross McMullin ‘First in the World: Australia ’s Watson Labor Government’ (PDF 67KB)
- Jennifer Curtin ‘Independents in Federal Parliament: A New Challenge or a Passing Phase?’ (PDF 90KB)
- AJ Brown ‘The Constitution We Were Meant To Have’ (PDF 262KB)
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45 A Light of Reason: Transcript and supporting papers of a seminar on The Work of the Senate Select Committee on Superannuation (PDF 438KB)
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- Ian Marsh 'Can Senate Committees Contribute to 'Social Learning'?' (PDF 122KB)
- Wayne Hooper 'The Senate Select Committee on Superannuation 1991-2003' (PDF 94KB)
46 Images, Colours and Reflections: Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series 2005-2006 (PDF 8733KB)
- Introduction (PDF 123KB)
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- R.L. Cope 'Pictures of Parliament: Canberra and Berlin' (PDF 175KB)
47 National Parliament, National Symbols: Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series 2006-2007 (PDF 3730KB)
- Introduction (PDF 15KB)
- Scott Bennett 'Edward Braddon: Indian Civil Servant, Tasmanian Premier and Federalist' (PDF 222KB)
- Simon Evans and Carolyn Evans 'Australian Parliaments and the Protection of Human Rights' (PDF 182KB)
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- Elizabeth Kwan 'National Parliament, National Symbols: From British to Australian Identity' (PDF 3201KB)
48 The Senate and Accountability January 2008 (PDF 502KB)
- Introduction (PDF 16KB)
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- Anne Twomey 'The States, the Commonwealth and the Crown-the Battle for Sovereignty' (PDF 77KB)
- Larissa Behrendt 'What Did the 'Yes' Vote Achieve? Forty Years After the 1967 Referendum' (PDF 61KB)
- Stanley Bach 'Mandates, Consensus, Compromise, and the Senate' (PDF 102KB)
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- Harry Evans 'Parliamentary Privilege and Search Warrants: Will the US Supreme Court Legislate for Australia?' (PDF 33KB)
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