3.1 Term of reference (b) requires the committee to: ...review the evidence on the short- and long-term effects of viewing or buying sexualising and objectifying images and products and their ...

Rules and guides on the conduct of proceedings in the Senate and Parliament.

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 ...

Senators are elected on a different basis to Members of the House of Representatives. Key features of Senate elections are: ...

5.1 The need for governments to develop adequate legislative mechanisms to protect the environment is often highlighted in the face of development proposals that threaten the ecology of an area. The ...

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 is one of the two houses of the Australian Federal Parliament, the other being the Senate. It is sometimes called the 'people's house' or the 'house of government'. The ...

The Finance and Public Administration Committees covers the following portfolios: Finance, and Prime Minister and Cabinet. The Committee also maintains oversight over three Parliamentary Departments: ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Education and Employment Committees cover the following portfolios: Education, and Employment and Workplace Relations.

3.128The committee recommends that the Australian Government should adopt a clear, publicly available definition of wrongful detention and implement a framework which ensures cases of Australians ...