House of Representatives Practice (5th Edition)

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Preliminary pages

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Chapters

  1. The Parliament and the role of the House (1-40)
  2. House, Government and Opposition (41-80)
  3. Elections and the electoral system (81-103)
  4. Parliament House and access to proceedings (105-129)
  5. Members (131-159)
  6. The Speaker, Deputy Speakers and officers (161-210)
  7. The parliamentary calendar (211-235)
  8. Order of business and the sitting day (237-283)
  9. Motions (285-334)
  10. Legislation (335-406)
  11. Financial legislation (407-429)
  12. Senate amendments and requests (431-450)
  13. Disagreements between the Houses (451-477)
  14. Control and conduct of debate (479-526)
  15. Questions (527-557)
  16. Non-government business (559-584)
  17. Documents (585-620)
  18. Parliamentary committees (621-706)
  19. Parliamentary privilege (707-754)

Appendixes

  1. Governors-General (757)
  2. Speakers of the House of Representatives (758-765)
  3. Deputy Speakers (766)
  4. Leaders of the Opposition (767)
  5. Clerks of the House of Representatives (768)
  6. Prime Ministers(769)
  7. Chronological list of Ministries (770)
  8. Leaders of the House (771)
  9. Number of Ministers—statutory variations (772)
  10. Party affiliations in the House of Representatives (773-774)
  11. Electoral Divisions—number at general elections (775)
  12. General elections—significant dates from 19th to 41st Parliaments (776)
  13. Election petitions—House of Representatives (777-782)
  14. Referendums to alter the Constitution (783)
  15. Chronology of Parliaments (784-788)
  16. Sittings of the House (789-791)
  17. Consideration of legislation by House (792-794)
  18. Senate requests for amendments to bills (795-829)
  19. Bills reserved for the Sovereign's assent and bills returned by the Governor-General with recommended amendments (830)
  20. Statistics on selected House proceedings (831-833)
  21. Questions 1963–2004 (834)
  22. Proportion of House time spent considering certain categories of business 1995–2004 (835)
  23. Percentage of House time spent on government business and private Members' business 1990–2004 (836)
  24. Committees of the House of Representatives and joint committees (837-839)
  25. Matters raised as matters of privilege in the House (840-881)

Attachments

  • Rules for joint sittings (883-887)
  • Parliamentary Privileges Act 1987 (889-902) (not reproduced)
  • Parliamentary Precincts Act 1988 (903-914) (not reproduced)
  • The Constitution (915-936) (not reproduced)

Index

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