Annual Report 2006–07
Appendix 4—Senate and departmental publications
The Department of the Senate maintained and updated an extensive
catalogue of ongoing publications during 2006–07, as listed
by category below. Documents which are publicly available on the
Senate website (www.aph.gov.au/senate) or the Parliamentary Education
Office website (www.peo.gov.au) are marked with the symbol
.
Documents which are available in hard copy are marked with the
symbol 
. Contact details for each publication area are
also listed.
Publications by subject area
| The work and procedures of the Senate |
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| A guide to services, entitlements and facilities
for senators (information for senators and their support staff, also available on the departmental intranet) Bills List and Daily Bills Update (details of the status of bills before the parliament) Brief Guides to Senate Procedure, Nos 1–21 (practical guides to common practices and procedures) Business of the Senate (a comprehensive summary of business) Dynamic Red (the daily Order of Business, updated online during each sitting day) Journals of the Senate (the minutes of chamber proceedings) List of Senators (senators’ contact information, terms of service and state and party representation) Odgers’ Australian Senate Practice, eleventh edition and supplements (a comprehensive procedural reference work) Order of Business (the Senate ‘Red’ or daily program) Pocket Guide to Senate Procedure (a consolidation of the Brief Guides) Preparing Private Senators’ Bills, Explanatory Memoranda and Second Reading Speeches: A Guide for Senators (information about legislation for senators and their support staff, also available on the departmental intranet) Privileges Committee 125th Report—Parliamentary Privilege: Precedents, Procedures and Practice in the Australian Senate 1966–2005 Procedural Information Bulletin (a regular digest of events of procedural significance) Questions on Notice Summary (a statistical analysis of questions placed on notice by senators) Senate Briefs, Nos 1–16 (general introductions to aspects of the Senate, including elections, legislation, parliamentary privilege, the committee system and ministers in the Senate) Senate Daily Summary (a daily digest of Senate business) Senate Notice Paper (the Senate’s daily agenda) Senate Statistical Summary (weekly statistics on Senate business) Senators’ Guide to Procedures Standing Orders and Other Orders of the Senate (rules and resolutions governing the Senate’s proceedings) StatsNet (online statistical databases) Your Senate online here (brochure outlining how to access information about the Senate online) |
| The work and procedures of Senate committees |
| Bills referred to committees (an up-to-date list of bills referred to committees) Business of Committees (the Senate committee ‘Red’ or daily program) Committee style guide (style guide for the preparation of Senate committee reports) Consolidated Register of Senate Committee Reports (1970–2004 and annual supplements ); ( 1970–2007 )(a list of committee reports presented to the Senate since 1970) Delegated Legislation Monitor (information on every disallowable legislative and non-legislative instrument tabled in the Senate) Disallowance Alert (an updated list of disallowance actions initiated by the Regulations and Ordinances Committee and individual senators, together with outcomes) Guide to committee procedure and practice (an easy-reference guide for committee staff) How to make a submission to a Senate committee inquiry Notes for guidance of witnesses appearing before Senate Committees Procedures to be observed by Senate committees for the protection of witnesses (three types of information for members of the public with an interest in participating in the work of Senate committees) Public hearings/meetings (a program of scheduled meetings) RSS feeds (alert service for new Senate committee inquiries, recently tabled Senate committee reports, public hearings) Scrutiny of Bills Committee Alert Digests (a document which notifies senators and the public about issues arising in relation to bills and Acts) Scrutiny of Bills Committee Reports (the committee’s observations and recommendations in relation to bills and Acts) Scrutiny of Disallowable Instruments (a list of disallowable legislative and non-legislative instruments about which the Regulations and Ordinances Committee has raised concerns) Senate Disallowable Instruments List (a listing of tabled instruments for which disallowance motions may be moved in the Senate, published for each sitting) Work of Committees (a comprehensive summary of committee business) |
| Parliamentary, constitutional and historical information |
1903–2003: One Hundred Years of Women’s
Suffrage in Australia |
| Parliamentary Education Office (PEO) information for schools, teachers and students |
| Australia’s Constitution (a pocket-sized edition of the Australian Constitution) Closer Look—A Comparison of US and Australian Federal Legislatures (a comparison of the Australian political system and that of the Unites States) Closer Look—A Multi-tiered System: governing Australia (an explanation with examples of how Australia is governed) Closer Look—A Short History of Parliament (the origins and development of the Commonwealth Parliament) Closer Look—Australia’s Parliament House (a brief history of the buildings used by the federal Parliament) Closer Look—The First Parliament of Australia: the ceremony (details of the opening ceremony of the first Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia) Cockatoo Island series (a teaching resource for teachers and students of lower primary) DIY role-play in the classroom (hints, tips and instructions for teachers running a parliamentary role-play) Fact Sheet series (56 fact sheets covering many aspects of the role and function of the federal Parliament) FAQ (over 200 questions and answers about Australia’s federal Parliament) Friends & Colleagues (The year in review plus news from the PEO and the PEO’s professional colleagues) Hands-on Lesson Plans (12 complete lesson plans for teachers of middle to upper secondary students) House at work: ordinary people in an extraordinary building (original stories and artwork by people working in Parliament House) House of Representatives NOW (current information about the operations of the House of Representatives) Image library (over 300 photographs and diagrams describing a range of parliamentary topics) Kidsview (10 online interactive resources for students and teachers) Our Constitution (the development and workings of the Australian Constitution for teachers and students) Parliamentary glossary (parliamentary terms and definitions) Parliamentary Government in Australia (archived)(a student’s guide to the Commonwealth Parliament) Parliament NOW (current information about the 41st Parliament) Peeling back Parliament (magazine format information and activities for upper primary and lower secondary teachers and students) Poster of the House of Representatives Chamber (A2-sized colour poster of the House of Representatives chamber) Poster of the Senate Chamber (A2-sized colour poster of the Senate chamber) Role-play toolkit (role-play resources for teachers including scripts, templates, rubrics, diagrams etc) Senate NOW (current information about the operations of the Senate) Unravelling the Parliamentary Role Play (activities and instructions for using parliamentary roleplay in the classroom) |
| Departmental publications |
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Annual Report of the
Department of the Senate Corporate Plan Portfolio Budget Statements
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Contact details by subject area
| Senate Table Office | email: table.inquiries.sen@aph.gov.au | |
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| phone: 02 6277 3010 | fax: 02 6277 3448 | |
| Senate Committee Office | email: seniorclerk.committees.sen@aph.gov.au | |
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| phone: 02 6277 3555 | fax: 02 6277 3899 | |
| Procedure Office | email: research.sen@aph.gov.au | |
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| phone: 02 6277 3072 | fax: 02 6277 5838 | |
| Biographical Dictionary Unit | phone: 02 6277 3061 | fax: 02 6277 5933 |
| Parliamentary Education Office | email: info@peo.gov.au | |
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| phone: 02 6277 3147 | fax: 02 6277 5775 | |
| Black Rod’s Office | email: blackrod.sen@aph.gov.au | |
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| phone: 02 6277 3396 | fax: 02 6277 3199 | |