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 ...

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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 ...

It is etched on the collective psyche of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today that social and economic exclusion was arbitrarily enforced upon us. The ramifications of this exclusion has ...

The term parliamentary privilege refers to special legal rights and immunities which apply to each House of the Parliament, its committees and members. These provisions are part of the law of the ...

Strictly, taxation bills are those which impose a tax or charge in the nature of a tax. [134] They cannot originate in, or be amended by, the Senate. [135] The form of a bill in this class is governed ...

Each government portfolio is allocated to a committee for the consideration of estimates, and each year the Senate adopts a schedule for the following year's estimates hearings. Additionally, cross ...

The Committee monitors and reviews the performance of the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity.

Visit Australian Parliament House and experience Australia’s robust democracy in action. You can watch Question Time, see bills being debated and sit in on committee inquiries as current issues are ...

2.1 Australia's current commercial activity in Africa is strongly focused on the extractives sector. While reported figures vary, submissions to the inquiry have indicated that at least 170 Australian ...

The normal flow of the legislative process is that a bill (a draft Act, or, in the terminology of the Constitution, a proposed law) is introduced into one House of Parliament, passed by that House and ...

The Scrutiny of Bills Committee was established in 1981. Its functions, which are set out in Senate standing order 24, are to assess bills against a set of accountability standards that focus on the ...