Papers by Harry Evans

Harry Evans is the longest serving Clerk of the Senate (1988 – 2009). This page contains a collection of his published writing.

Title	Year
Accountability and Corporate Governance in the new Parliament	2008
The Australian Parliament: Time for reformation	2002
The Senate, accountability and government control	2008
Association of Parliamentary Libraries of Australasia Conference, 26 July 2007	2007
Canberra Day Oration 2009: The intertwined history of Canberra and the Parliament	2009
Constitutionalism, Bicameralism and the Control of Power	2006
Elections: Constitutional complexities and consequences	2007
Ethics and public service governance	2006
Federalism: an idea whose time has come?	1997
GetUp! Seminar on the Senate	2007
The government majority in the Senate: A nail in the coffin of responsible government?	2006
Monarchical and parliamentary government in Australia	2006
Parliament in the Twenty-first Century: Institutional reform and emerging roles	2007
Senate estimates hearings and the Government majority in the Senate	2006
Parliamentary privilege: The reasons of Mr Justice Cantor—an analysis	1986
Parliamentary privilege: Reasons of Mr Justice Hunt—an analysis	1987
Parliamentary privilege and statutory secrecy provisions	1992
1975 Revisited: Lost Causes and Lost Remedies	1995
Protection of persons who provide information to Members	1997
Bad King John and the Australian Constitution	1997
Franca Arena and parliamentary privilege	1998
Constitution, Section 57: Comments on Article by George Williams	1997
The other metropolis: The Australian Founders' knowledge of America	1998
Reasonably Necessary Powers: Parliamentary Inquiries and Egan v Willis and Cahill	1999
Enough of Executive Arrogance?: Egan v Chadwick and Others	1999
The Australian Constitution and the 1911 Myth	2000
The 1911 Myth Embellished, by Gough	2000
The Role of the Senate	2001
An Elected President for an Australian Republic: Problems and Solutions	2001
Hobbes Versus Madison and Isaacs Versus Baker: Contrary Theories and Practices in Australian Democracy	2001
Bryce‘s Bible: Why Did It Impress the Australian Founders?	2001
The Pedigree of the Practices: Parliamentary Manuals and Australian Government	2002
Fitzpatrick and Browne: Imprisonment by a House of the Parliament	2003
The Traditional, the Quaint and the Useful: Pitfalls of Reforming Parliamentary Procedures	2004
Having the Numbers Means Not Having to Explain: The Effect of the Government Majority in the Senate	2007
Parliamentary Reform: New Directions and Possibilities for Reform of Parliamentary Processes	1992
Parliament: An Unreformable Institution	1992
Electing a President: the elite versus the public	1995
The Australian Head of State: Putting Republicanism into the Republic	1996
Parliamentary Privilege and Search Warrants: Will the US Supreme Court Legislate for Australia?	2008
Legislative Power and Executive Privilege in the Courts	2008
The Senate's Power to Obtain Evidence	2010
Bills of Rights and Legislative Scrutiny: Two different worlds	2009

"Harry was known – notorious even in some circles – as a defender of the Senate and the rights of individual senators as he worked tirelessly to assist them to perform their constitutional duties. He was fearless in emphasising the necessary distinction between the parliament and the executive, even though that made him unpopular with various governments over the years.

Parliament is a place where words matter and Harry will long be remembered as a master wordsmith. In his numerous published and unpublished writings, he explained complex constitutional and procedural matters with clarity, logic and style."

Dr Rosemary Laing, former Clerk of the Senate

Harry Evans - Former Clerk of the Senate