Sitting week beginning Monday, 4 November 2024 — 5th House sitting week of the 47th Parliament’s 2024 Spring sittings. This page summarises matters expected to be considered by the House of ...

The House Select Committee on Nuclear Energy was established by a resolution of appointment that passed the House of Representatives on 10 October 2024. The Committee will inquire into matters ...

When the House is debating legislation or scrutinising government activities, various phrases are used, sometimes in a shorthand way. The concepts they refer to, which describe aspects of Australia’s ...

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 ...

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2.97The Committee recommends that the Australian Government work with State and Territory Governments to ensure that all Australian schools are funded to100 per cent of the Schooling Resourcing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training will inquire into and report on the rapid development and uptake of automated decision- making and machine ...

A parliamentary committee is a sub-group of the Parliament that does inquiry and oversight work on behalf of the Parliament. It contains Members of the House of Representatives and/or Senators.