The 30th anniversary of Australia’s Parliament House

Dr Joy McCann, Anna Hough
Politics and Public Administration Section

with Dr Dianne Heriot, Parliamentary Librarian



Appendix 4: Key sources and further reading

Bennett, S, Parliament House and the Australian people, Research paper no. 29, Parliamentary Library, 7 May 2008, http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22library%2Fprspub%2FSLDQ6%22;\

Commonwealth of Australia, The 43rd Parliament: Parliamentary Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia 2011, http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/Parliamentary_Handbook

___________, The 44th Parliament: Parliamentary Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia, 2014, http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22handbook%2Fnewhandbook%2F2014-10-31%2F0000%22

___________, The 45th Parliament: Parliamentary Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia, 2017, https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/Parliamentary_Handbook

___________, A house for the nation: 100 years of Australia's House of Representatives, 2003, http://www.houseforthenation.gov.au/

___________, House at work: ordinary people in an extraordinary building, Parliamentary Education Office, Canberra, ACT, 2001

____________, Project Parliament: the management experience, Parliament House Construction Authority, Canberra, March 1990

____________, Joint Standing Committee on the New Parliament House, Reports tabled in Parliament 1981‒89, http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=report_register/bycomlist.asp?id=180

Cope, RL, Housing a legislature: when architecture and politics meet , Papers on Parliament No. 37, November 2001.

Department of Parliamentary Services, Parliament House Heritage Management Framework 2011, Canberra, http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22library%2Flcatalog%2F00341445%22

Dow, C and J Gardiner-Garden, Overview of Indigenous Affairs: Part 1: 1901 to 1991, Background Note, Parliamentary Library, 10 May 2011, http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22library%2Fprspub%2F754712%22

Evans, H and R Laing, eds, Odgers' Australian Senate Practice, Thirteenth Edition, Department of the Senate, Canberra, 2012, http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practice_n_procedures/odgers13

Fernandes, S, ‘Addresses to joint meetings of the Australian Parliament’, FlagPost, 11 November 2011, http://parliamentflagpost.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/addresses-to-joint-meetings-of.html

Griffin, WB, 'Original report' [1912], reprinted with corrections in Senate, Report from the Select Committee appointed to inquire into and report upon the development of Canberra, September 1955.

Headon, D, Wanted: Treasure house of a nation's heart-the search for an Australian capital city, 1891‒1908, Senate Occasional Lecture Series, Parliament House, Canberra, 17 October 2008, http://www.aph.gov.au//About_Parliament/Senate/Whats_On/Senate_training_and_lectures/Senate_Lecture_Series/Transcripts/2008/171008

________, Canberra: Crystal palace to golden trowels, Canberra, 2009, http://info.cmcd.act.gov.au/Canberra100/storage/CrystalPalacetoGoldenTrowelsDavidHeadon.pdf

House of Representatives, 20th anniversary of the House committee system, 15 February 2008, http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=20_anniversary/index.htm

________, Standing Committee on Procedure, Committee activities (inquiries and reports), http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=proc/reports.htm

Hutson, A, Square peg in a square hole: Australia's Parliament House, Papers on Parliament No. 55, February 2011, http://www.aph.gov.au//About_Parliament/Senate/Publications_and_resources/Papers_and_research/Papers_on_Parliament_and_other_resources/Papers_on_Parliament/55/c05

McIntosh, G Rounding up the Flock? Executive dominance and the new Parliament House, APSA-Parliamentary Fellow Monograph, Department of the Parliamentary Library, December 1989, http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22library%2Fprspub%2F1534068%22

Macintyre, C, Parliamentary architecture and political culture, Senate Occasional Lecture Series, Parliament House, Canberra, 9 May 2008, http://www.aph.gov.au//About_Parliament/Senate/Whats_On/Senate_training_and_lectures/Senate_Lecture_Series/Transcripts/2008/090508

Marshall, D, C Burton, A Grinbergs, C Johnston and J Donkin, W Nicholls, B O'Keefe and others, Parliament House Vista Heritage Management Plan , Vol. 1, prepared for the National Capital Planning Authority, Canberra, 2010, http://www.nationalcapital.gov.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1541&Itemid=377

Millar, A and G Browne, eds, The biographical dictionary of the Australian Senate, Volumes 1‒3, University of New South Wales Press Ltd in association with the Department of the Senate, http://biography.senate.gov.au/

National Archives of Australia, Documenting a democracy, http://foundingdocs.gov.au/

National Film and Sound Archive, Open House, Film Australia Collection, Pyrmont, NSW, 1988 Produced by Tim Read and directed by Ian Walker following the construction of Australia's new Parliament House, from the turn of the first sod of earth to its official opening by HRH Queen Elizabeth II in 1988 (DVD available from Parliament House shop and NFSA, Canberra.

Parliament of Australia, Work of the Parliament, http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Work_of_the_Parliament

___________, About the building, http://www.aph.gov.au/Visit_Parliament/About_the_Building

Politics and Public Administration, The hung Commonwealth Parliament: the first year, Background Note, Parliamentary Library, 7 October 2011, http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BN/2011-2012/HungCwlthParliament

___________, The Hung Parliament: procedural changes in the House of Representatives, Research Paper, Parliamentary Library, 22 November 2013, http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22library%2Fprspub%2F2855740%22

___________, 44th Parliament in Review, Research Paper, Parliamentary Library, 24 November 2016, http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22library%2Fprspub%2F4955465%22

Senate, Report from the Select Committee appointed to inquire into and report upon the development of Canberra, Canberra, September 1955

Wilson, J and D Black, Women parliamentarians in Australia 1921‒2012, Background Note, Parliamentary Library, Updated 13 September 2012, http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22library%2Fprspub%2F7N3T6%22

Wright, BC, ed, House of Representatives Practice (6th Edition), 6 September 2012, http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/House_of_Representatives/Powers_practice_and_procedure/Practice6