The Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation assesses delegated legislation against a set of scrutiny principles that focus on compliance with statutory requirements, the ...

The Senate is one of the two houses of the Australian Federal Parliament. It consists of 76 senators, twelve from each of the six states and two from each of the mainland territories. It shares the ...

The word ‘parliament’ originally meant a talk and was derived from the French parler (to speak or parley) and the Latin parliamentum. In the latter form it was applied to the after-dinner ...

Mobile phones must not be used for voice calls and any audible signal from phones or pagers must be turned off. Members who have allowed phones to ring have been directed by the Chair to apologise to ...

The Parliament consists of two Houses (the Senate and the House of Representatives), and the King, represented in Australia by the Governor General. In 1901 the Australian Constitution established the ...

The Federal Executive Council was established by the Constitution to perform similar functions in Australia to those performed by the Privy Council in the United Kingdom, that is, to advise the Crown.

2.1 Access to adequate housing has long been viewed as a basic human right[1] and is considered to be an integral factor in the enjoyment of other economic, social and cultural rights.[2] The UN ...

With every system of election there are two quite separate and distinct processes, the ‘voting’ process and the ‘scrutiny’ process, that is, the counting. The first is performed by the voters in the ...

The accountability of the Government is demonstrated most clearly and publicly at Question Time when, for a period (usually well over an hour) on each sitting day, questions without notice are put to ...

The privilege of freedom of speech has been described as a ‘privilege of necessity’; it enables members to raise in the House matters they would not otherwise be able to bring forward (at least not ...

Each year three of the four parliamentary departments offer exciting and challenging placement opportunities to graduates of Commonwealth departments and agencies. The 2025 Parliament of Australia ...

In the Australian system of government, the ministers who together administer the executive branch of government are responsible, that is, answerable or accountable, to the Parliament for their ...