The Biographical Dictionary Unit is part of the Department of the Senate. The Unit is responsible for the production of an ongoing work of reference entitled The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate.

The work of the Unit involves the allocation of entries to professional authors and the verification and editing of these entries, as well as the administration of the project and the archiving of extensive research files. Officers of the Unit also write a small number of the entries.

	The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Volume 1, 1901-1929 (Ann Millar, ed.) was published by Melbourne University Press in 2000.
	The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Volume 2, 1929-1962 (Ann Millar, ed.) was published by Melbourne University Press in 2004.

Work is currently in progress on Volume 3, which covered the years 1962-1983.

Further information may be obtained from:

Biographical Dictionary Unit
Department of the Senate
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Phone: (02) 6277 3001
Fax: (02) 6277 5933
Email: BDAS@aph.gov.au