Chapter 18 - Documents tabled in the Senate
Addresses
for documents
If the Senate requires the tabling of
a document concerning the royal prerogative or correspondence addressed to the Governor-General, it
must present an address to the Governor-General requesting that the documents
be laid before the Senate (SO 165).
This procedure has not been used for many years. On 17 June 1914 the Senate agreed
to a motion for an address to the Governor-General requesting him to allow the
publication of the communications between the Governor-General and his advisers
relating to the simultaneous dissolution of both Houses of the Parliament (J.86-8).
The Governor-General, however, in a reply to the address, stated that, on the
advice of his ministers, he was unable to accede to the request contained in
the address. (Correspondence relating to simultaneous dissolutions has been
frequently tabled since that time: see Chapter 21, Relations with the House of
Representatives, under Disagreements between the Houses.)
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