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Powers, Procedures and Practices

• Senate Briefs - Introduction to the Senate and its work, covering 16 topics

• Odgers’ Australian Senate Practice - Twelfth Edition [Full description]
  • Supplement updates to 31 December 2010
    
    
• Standing Orders and Other Orders of the Senate - current edition, June 2009 [Full description]
• Explanation of changes to current edition– (PDF 15KB)
• Previous editions
• Annotated Standing Orders of the Australian Senate
  
  
• Procedural Information Bulletin [Full description]
  
  
• Brief Guides to Senate Procedure [Full description]
  
  
• Senators’ Guide to Procedures
  
  
• The Constitution (PDF 92KB)
  • Records of the Australasian Federal Conventions of the 1890s

Statistical Guides

• Business of the Senate
• Current edition (PDF 1184KB)
• Previous editions
  
  
• Work of Committees
• Current edition (PDF 1870KB)
• Previous editions
  
  
• StatsNet – detailed statistics of business

Senate Occasional Lecture Series

• Next lecture
  
  
• Previous lectures
  
  
• Papers on Parliament – Lectures in the Occasional Lecture Series and other papers
  • Current issue (PDF 624KB)
  • Previous issues

Research Papers and Conference Materials

• Articles by Harry Evans, Clerk of the Senate, 1988-2009
  
  
• Papers prepared for the Parliamentary Studies Centre, Australian National University
  
  
• Elections: Constitutional complexities and consequences
  
  
• Conferences
  • Senate Committees and Government Accountability 40th Anniversary Conference – 11 and 12 November 2010
  • Bicameralism – Australia in Comparative context (PDF 1470KB) – 9 and 10 October 2008

Departmental Publications

• Corporate Plan
  
  
• Annual Report 2010-11
  
  
• Portfolio Budget Statements 2011-2012

Publications for Sale

• Odgers' Australian Senate Practice - Twelfth Edition - Order form (PDF 56KB)
  
  
• Annotated Standing Orders of the Australian Senate - Order form (PDF 23KB)
  
  
• Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate
  
  
• Stanley Bach, Platypus and Parliament - The Australian Senate in Theory and Practice - Order form (PDF 23KB)
  
  
• David Hamer, Can Responsible Government Survive In Australia? - Order form (PDF 19KB)
  
  
• Australia’s Magna Carta - Order form (Word 35KB)

Senate Business Documents – See The Senate at Work

Tabled Papers – papers presented in the Senate

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