About half of the total sitting time of the House is spent considering bills, that is, proposed laws. These range from comparatively minor proposals of an administrative nature to comprehensive ...

Today the Department of the House of Representatives launches Yarning, an exciting new competition for First Nations secondary school students across Australia. The Yarning competition is about ...

Today the Department of the House of Representatives launches Yarning, an exciting new competition for First Nations secondary school students across Australia. The Yarning competition is about ...

Lawyer, parliamentarian, judge, and the first Australian-born Governor-General, Isaac Isaacs (1855-1948) possessed a prodigious work ethic and passionate desire to declare himself an ‘Australian’ in ...

The Joint Standing Committee on Treaties has tabled the report on its inquiry into the Convention between Australia and the Portuguese Republic for the Elimination of Double Taxation with respect to ...

These minutes are a draft record of the proceedings of the House of Representatives as they occur, and are subject to revision. The official record of proceedings is the Votes and Proceedings. This ...

Information on previous Senate Estimates hearings relating to the work of the former committees is available from: Senate Estimates Hearings: Standing Committee on Environment, Communications and the ...

No proposed amendments have been circulated. Circulated by members and senators when they propose to make changes to the bill. For details about the outcome of proposed amendments please refer to ...

No proposed amendments have been circulated. Schedules of amendments list amendments agreed to by the second house are communicated to the first house for consideration. Subsequent action by either ...

No proposed amendments have been circulated. Circulated by members and senators when they propose to make changes to the bill. For details about the outcome of proposed amendments please refer to ...

Tabled papers include documents and artefacts presented to Parliament in the course of its proceedings. The term ‘tabled’ literally means that a document has been laid on the Table in either or both ...

Circulated by members and senators when they propose to make changes to the bill. For details about the outcome of proposed amendments please refer to either the Votes and Proceedings (House of ...