Information about the Senate site
The Senate site is divided into several areas, each containing many links to PDF and other files (see Accessing files on the Senate Web Site).
General information about the Senate’s composition and functions, and about the web site.
Contact information and profiles for the President of the Senate and all senators; historical and demographic information; party and ministerial representation; downloadable address details.
Chamber-related information including the sitting schedule, seating plan, information about and links to the key chamber documents (Senate Red, Notice Paper, Journals of the Senate, Hansards), statistical information and information about preparing and presenting documents to the Senate.
Information about all committees administered by the Senate with links to individual committee home pages and details of public hearings, inquiries, transcripts and reports.
Access to the text of current and historic bills and related information (explanatory memoranda, second reading speeches, bills digests), information about the progress of bills and the legislative process in each House, Acts and the Constitution.
Legislative Instruments
Links to information on the parliamentary scrutiny of disallowable legislative instruments in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Links to a large range of current and historical publications including official Senate records and information about the Senate’s role and operations.
Information about the Department of the Senate including corporate publications, contact directory and employment opportunities.
Current Senate and committee schedules, forthcoming occasional lectures, recently tabled committee reports.
Information about the Parliamentary Relations Office, incoming and outgoing delegations and inter-parliamentary relations.
Website feedback: web.senate@aph.gov.au
Last reviewed 20 October 2004 by the Senate Web Administrator
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