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Papers on Parliament
56 Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series, and other papers (PDF 624KB)
55 Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series, and other papers (PDF 4721KB)
54 Senate Committees and Government Accountability, December 2010 (PDF 873KB)
- Introductory pages (PDF 148KB)
- Senator the Hon. John Hogg 'Welcome and Opening Address by the President of the Senate' (PDF 91KB)
- Dr Rosemary Laing, Professor John Uhr 'The Senate Committee System: Historical Perspectives' (PDF 140KB)
- Senator the Hon. John Hogg, Professor the Hon. Robert Hill, The Hon. Robert Ray 'Throwing Light Into Dark Corners: Senate Estimates and Executive Accountability' (PDF 157KB)
- Ms Sue Knowles, Ms Vicki Bourne 'Senate Committees and Legislation' (PDF 126KB)
- Senator the Hon. Helen Coonan, The Hon. Amanda Vanstone, 'Role and Contribution of Legislative Scrutiny Committees' (PDF 137KB)
- Mr Andrew Bartlett, Ms Dee Margetts 'Work of Senate Committees: Minor Party Perspectives' (PDF 141KB)
- Associate Professor Cheryl Kernot, Mr Andrew Bartlett 'The Power of Select Committees' (PDF 118KB)
- The Hon. Robert Ray, Senator the Hon. George Brandis SC 'Parliamentary Privilege and Senate Committees' (PDF 166KB)
- Senator Claire Moore, Senator the Hon. Nick Minchin 'Committees Under a Government-Controlled Senate: Lessons From 2005–08' (PDF 172KB)
- Dr Phil Larkin, Mr Francis Sullivan 'Can Committee Performance Be Measured?' (PDF 121KB)
- Senator Christine Milne, Senator Trish Crossin, Senator Gary Humphries 'The Future of Senate Committees: Challenges and Opportunities' (PDF 180KB)
53 Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series, and other papers (PDF 717KB)
52 Harry Evans: Selected Writings (PDF 1351KB)
51 Republics, Citizenship and Parliament (PDF 782KB)
50 Politics and Power. Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series 2008, and other papers (PDF 952KB)
49 Constitutional Politics and other lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series, 2008 (PDF 582KB)
48 The Senate and Accountability January 2008 (PDF 708KB)
47 National Parliament, National Symbols: Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series 2006-2007 (PDF 3653KB)
46 Images, Colours and Reflections: Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series 2005-2006 (PDF 1948KB)
45 A Light of Reason: Transcript and supporting papers of a seminar on The Work of the Senate Select Committee on Superannuation (PDF 581KB)
44 Democratic Experiments: Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series 2004-2005 (PDF 1073KB)
43 Reference of Bills to Australian Senate Committees, With particular reference to the role of the
Selection of Bills Committee (PDF 4008KB)
42 The Distinctive Foundations of Australian Democracy: Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series 2003-2004 (PDF 1189KB)
41 One Hundred Years of Women’s Suffrage in Australia, Centenary Issue (PDF 500KB)
40 Bicameralism and Accountablity: Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series, 2002-2003 (PDF 706KB)
39 Senate Envy and Other Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series, 2001–2002 (PDF 1092KB)
38 Parliament and Public Opinion. Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series 2000–2001, April 2002 (PDF 1043KB)
- Introductory pages (PDF 12KB)
- Jeremy Rabkin, ‘National Sovereignty in a Globalising World’ (PDF 85KB)
- Murray Goot, ‘Distrustful, Disenchanted and Disengaged? Polled Opinion on Politics, Politicians and the Parties: an Historical Perspective’ (PDF 335KB)
- David Zussman, ‘Confidence in Public Institutions: Restoring Pride to Politics’ (PDF 78KB)
- Phillip Knightley, ‘What is Australia? Perception versus Reality’ (PDF 74KB)
- Ian McAllister, ‘Civic Education and Political Knowledge in Australia’ (PDF 139KB)
- Sir Alastair Goodlad, ‘Political Structure and Constitutional Reform in the United Kingdom’ (PDF 75KB)
- Donley T. Studlar, ‘Reflections on the Election Fiasco in the United States’ (PDF 158KB)
- Judith Brett, ‘Parliament, Meetings and Civil Society’ (PDF 105KB)
37 For Peace, Order and Good Government: the Centenary of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, November 2001
36 Parliament and the Public Interest. Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series, 2000, June 2001 (PDF KB)
35 Australia and Parliamentary Orthodoxy, and Other Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series, 1999, June 2000 (PDF 1054KB)
34 Representation and Institutional Change: 50 Years of Proportional Representation in the Senate, December 1999 (PDF 4436KB)
- Introductory pages (PDF 22KB)
- Marion Sawer, ‘Overview: Institutional Design and the Role of the Senate’ (PDF 1393KB)
- John Uhr, ‘Why We Chose Proportional Representation’ (PDF 145KB)
- Elaine Thompson, ‘The Senate and Representative Democracy’ (PDF 61KB)
- Arend Lijphart, ‘Australian Democracy: Modifying Majoritarianism?’ (PDF 70KB)
- Harry Evans, ‘Accountability Versus Government Control: the Effect of Proportional Representation’ (PDF 35KB)
- Murray Goot, ‘Can the Senate Claim a Mandate?’ (PDF 83KB)
- Marian Sawer, ‘Dilemmas of Representation’ (PDF 49KB)
- Helen Coonan, ‘Survival of the Fittest: Future Directions of the Senate’ (PDF 30KB)
- Andrew Bartlett, ‘A Squeeze on the Balance of Power: Using Senate ‘Reform’ to Dilute Democracy’ (PDF 36KB)
- John Faulkner, ‘ A Labor Perspective on Senate Reform’ (PDF 1086KB)
- Fred Chaney, ‘Should Parliament be Abolished?’ (PDF 47KB)
- Dee Margetts, ‘The Contribution of The Greens (WA) to the Australian Senate’ (PDF 1107KB)
- Campbell Sharman, ‘The Representation of Small Parties and Independents’ (PDF 47KB)
- Paul Bongiorno, Michelle Grattan and Melissa Langerman, ‘Reporting the Senate: Three Perspectives’ (PDF 47KB)
- Peter Sekuless and Frances Sullivan, ‘Lobbying the Senate: Two Perspectives’ (PDF 30KB)
- Anne Lynch, ‘Personalities versus Structure: the Fragmentation of the Senate Committee System’ (PDF 35KB)
- Ian Marsh, ‘Opening Up the Policy Process’ (PDF 59KB)
- Kate Lundy, ‘Cyberdemocracy and the Future of the Australian Senate’ (PDF 30KB)
- Geoffrey Brennan, ‘The Senate and Proportional Representation: Some Concluding Observations’ (PDF 16KB)
33 The Senate and Good Government, and Other Lectures in the Senate Occasional Lecture Series, 1998, May 1999 (PDF 929KB)
- Introductory pages (PDF 11KB)
- Clem Lloyd, ‘The Influence of Parliamentary Location and Space on Australia’s Political News Media (PDF 65KB)
- Philippa Smith, ‘Red Tape and the Ombudsman’ (PDF 59KB)
- Elizabeth Evatt, ‘Meeting Universal Human Rights Standards: the Australian Experience’ (PDF 103KB)
- Hilary Charlesworth, ‘Globalisation, the Law and Australian Sovereignty: Dangerous Liaisons’ (PDF 104KB)
- Chandran Kukathas, ‘Tolerating the Intolerable’ (PDF 78KB)
- David Headon, ‘Republicanism, Politicians, and People’s Conventions—Goulburn 1854 to Canberra 1998’ (PDF 92KB)
- Scott Reid, ‘Curbing Judicial Activism: the High Court, the People and a Bill of Rights’ (PDF 131KB)
- Martin Krygier, ‘Fear, Hope, Politics and Law’ (PDF 152KB)
- Campbell Sharman, ‘The Senate and Good Government’ (PDF 76KB)
- R.L. Cope, ‘Biographical Dictionaries of Parliamentarians: Considerations and Examples’ (PDF 63KB)
32 The People’s Conventions: Corowa (1893) and Bathurst (1896), December 1998 (PDF 735KB)
Corowa
Bathurst
- John Bannon, ‘Return Tickets at Single Fares: the Bathurst Convention as a Representative National Gathering’ (PDF 43KB)
- Stuart Macintyre, ‘The Idea of the People’ (PDF 22KB)
- John Hirst, ‘Federation and the People: a Response to Stuart Macintyre’ (PDF 19KB)
- David Headon, ‘Resurrecting the Federal Ideal: Mr Astley goes to Bathurst’ (PDF 57KB)
- A.E. Cahill, ‘Cardinal Moran, Bathurst and the Achievement of Federation’ (PDF 48KB)
- Tessa Milne, ‘Barton at Bathurst: ‘‘Front Stage/Backstage’’ ’ (PDF 24KB)
- Mark McKenna, ‘John Napoleon Norton and the 1896 Bathurst Convention’ (PDF 24KB)
- Robin McLachlan, ‘A Foreign Agent Unmasked: Colonel Bell at Bathurst’ (PDF 57KB)
- Kevin Livingston, ‘Joseph Cook’s Contribution’ (PDF 19KB)
- Jeff Brownrigg, ‘ ‘‘The Sentiment of Nationality’’ Bathurst and Popular Support for Federation’ (PDF 46KB)
31 Papers on Parliament No. 31, June 1998 (PDF 504KB)
- Introductory pages (PDF 14KB)
- Dr Anne Summers, ‘The Media and Parliament: Image-making and Image-breaking’ (PDF 55KB)
- Hugh Mackay, ‘Three Generations: the Changing Values and Political Outlook of Australians’ (PDF 47KB)
- Professor Marian Sawer, ‘Mirrors, Mouthpieces, Mandates and Men of Judgement: Concepts of Representation in the Australian Federal Parliament’ (PDF 67KB)
- Harry Evans, ‘Bad King John and the Australian Constitution: Commemorating the 700th Anniversary of the 1297 Issue of Magna Carta’ (PDF 57KB)
- Dr Henry Reynolds, ‘Aborigines and the 1967 Referendum: Thirty Years On’ (PDF 53KB)
- Richard Broinowski, ‘Robert Arthur Broinowski: Clerk of the Senate, Poet, Environmentalist, Broadcaster’ (PDF 29KB)
- Kelly Paxman, ‘Referral of Bills to Senate Committees: an Evaluation’ (PDF 85KB)
- Juliet Edeson, ‘Powers of Presidents in Republics’ (PDF 92KB)
30 The Constitution Makers, November 1997 (PDF 550KB)
29 Parliaments in Evolution: Constitutional Reform in the 1990s, March 1997 (PDF 273KB)
28 Poets, Presidents, People and Parliament: Republicanism and other issues, November 1996 (PDF 472KB)
27 Reinventing Political Institutions, March 1996 (PDF 454KB)
26 Republicanism, Responsible Government and Human Rights, August 1995 (PDF 497KB)
- Introductory pages (PDF 11KB)
- The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby, AC, CMG, ‘Human Rights—The International Dimension’ (PDF 78KB)
- Senator Baden Teague, ‘An Australian Head of State: the Contemporary Debate’ (PDF 62KB)
- Harry Evans, ‘Electing a President: the elite versus the public’ (PDF 20KB)
- David Hamer, DSC, ‘Can Responsible Government Survive in Australia?’ (PDF 67KB)
- John Taylor, ‘Parliament and the Auditor-General’ (PDF 132KB)
- Dr Suri Ratnapala, ‘Westminster Democracy and the Separation of Powers: Can they Co-exist?’ (PDF 71KB)
- Peter C. Grundy, ‘Prima Facie Native Title’ (PDF 48KB)
25 Constitutions, Rights and Democracy: Past, Present and Future, June 1995 (PDF 307KB)
24 Essays on Republicanism: small r republicanism, by Harry Evans, September 1994 (PDF 146KB)
23 Parliaments and Constitutions Under Scrutiny, September 1994 (PDF 483KB)
22 Views of Parliamentary Democracy, February 1994 (PDF 305KB)
21 Parliament and the Constitution: Some Issues of Interest, December 1993 (PDF 624KB)
20 The Future of Parliaments and Their Libraries:A Review Article By Russell Cope, October 1993 (PDF 407KB)
19 Constitution, Section 53: Financial Legislation and the Houses of Commonwealth Parliament, May 1993 (PDF 142KB)
- ‘Amendments and Requests: Disagreements Between the Houses’, Clerk of the Senate
- ‘Amendments and Requests: A Background Paper’, Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives
- ‘The Senate: Amendment of Taxation and Appropriation Legislation’, Clerk of the Senate
- ‘Supply’, Clerk of the Senate
18 Parliaments: Achievements and Challenges, December 1992 (PDF 533KB)
17 Trust the Women: Women in Parliament, September 1992 (PDF 301KB)
16 Two Historical Views of Parliaments: Ireland and Russia, June 1992 (PDF 109KB)
- Harry Rigby, ‘Russia’s Parliaments’
- Professor Oliver MacDonagh, ‘Parnell and the Art of Politics’
15 Stephen Argument, Parliamentary Scrutiny of Quasi-legislation, May 1992 (PDF 262KB)
14 Parliamentary Perspectives 1991, February 1992 (PDF 357KB)
13 One People, One Destiny—Papers given at a series of Senate Occasional Lectures to commemorate the centenary of the National Australasian Convention 1891, November 1991 (PDF 367KB)
12 Senate Committees and Responsible Government: Proceedings of the Conference to mark the twentieth anniversary of Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committees and Senate Estimates Committees, 3 October 1990, September 1991 (PDF KB)
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Introductory pages (PDF 26KB)
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Session 1—‘The revolutionary proposals’ of 1970 (PDF 156KB)
Opening Address by the President of the Senate, Senator the Hon. Kerry W. Sibraa
—Keynote address by Mr Peter Rae
—Panel of speakers: Mr Gordon Davidson, Professor Geoffrey Sawer, Mr Alan Cumming Thom and Mr Chris Puplick
—Speech by Senator John Wheeldon when opening the exhibition, The World of Senate Committees
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Session 2—Senate Committees - keeping Parliament responsible (PDF 109KB)
—Keynote address by Mr David Hamer
—Panel of speakers: Senator the Hon. Peter Durack, Mr John Black, Professor Dennis Pearce and Professor Dianne Yerbury
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Session 3—Senate Estimates Committees—do these watchdogs bite or only bark? (PDF 106KB)
—Keynote address by Senator the Hon. Peter Baume
—Panel of speakers: Senator Bruce Childs, Dr Michael Keating, Dr John Uhr and Ms Michelle Grattan
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Session 4—Senate Committees—can they halt the decline of Parliament? (PDF 152KB)
—Keynote address by Dr Brian Galligan
—Panel of speakers: Senators Rod Kemp, Nick Sherry, Vicki Bourne, William O’Chee and Mr Peter Bayne
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Speech by the Governor-General, His Excellency the Hon. Bill Hayden, AC, made at the Conference Dinner, 3 October 1990 (PDF 35KB)
11 Ian Marsh, The Committee System of the UK House of Commons: Recent Developments and their Implications for Australia, March 1991 (PDF 195KB)
10 Peter Bayne, Tribunals in the System of Government, July 1990 (PDF 114KB)
9 A.W. Martin, Parkes and the 1890 Conference, July 1990 (PDF 156KB)
8 Chandran Kukathas, Democracy, Parliament and Responsible Government, with additional observations by David Lovell and William Maley, June 1990 (PDF 91KB)
7 Unchaining the Watch-Dogs, Parliament House, Canberra, March 1990 (PDF 348KB)
6 Senate Estimates Scrutiny of Government Finance and Expenditure. What’s it for, does it work and at what cost? Papers presented at a Parliamentary Workshop, October 1989, March 1990 (PDF KB)
- Introductory pages (PDF 33KB)
- Session 1—An Overview of the Scrutiny System by Watchers and Watched (PDF 104KB)
Dr John Uhr, Estimates Committee Scrutiny of Government Appropriations and Expenditure : Nature, Purpose and Effects
Dr Michael Keating, The standpoint of Finance : More than a Watching Brief
Senator Bob McMullan, A Government Senator’s Standpoint : Value for Money or Watching Ministerial Backs?
Senator John Coates, A Finance and Public Administration Perspective : Complementing the Estimates Scrutiny Process
- Session 2—Questions and Answers Session: ‘Are There Too Many Watchers and Not Enough Managers’? (PDF 40KB)
- Session 3—The Theory and Practice of Public Accountability—the Views of Key Practitioners (PDF 64KB)
John Taylor, 'Auditing public expenditure and the estimates process: the role of the Auditor-General’
Robert Tickner, 'Parliament, the Public Service and Accountable Management’
- Session 4—The Role of Opposition Senators - Politics or Auditing (PDF 76KB)
Senator the Hon. Peter Baume, 'The Right to Hold Government to account : Estimates Committees and the role of the Opposition’
Senator Bronwyn Bishop, 'Senate Estimates Committees: techniques to achieve accountability - questions, answers and use of information’
- Session 5—Sounding Off and Rounding Off (PDF 71KB)
- Appendix 1—John Uhr, 'Public Expenditure and ParliamentaryAccountability: The Debatable Role of Senate Estimates Committees’ (PDF 133KB)
- Appendix 2—John Taylor, 'Auditing Public Expenditure and the Estimates Process: The Role of the Auditor-General’ (PDF 66KB)
- Appendix 3—Senator Bronwyn Bishop, 'Public Administration: A Sharpening of the Focus’ (PDF 52KB)
5 Jenny Hutchison, The Big Picture on the Small Screen, November 1989 (PDF 86KB)
4 Brian Galligan, No Bill of Rights for Australia, July 1989 (PDF 202KB)
3 Peter O’Keeffe, Deregulation, Merits Review and the Withering of Parliamentary Sovereignty, December 1988 (PDF 119KB)
2 Anne Lynch, Legislation by Proclamation - Parliamentary Nightmare, Bureaucratic Dream;and John Vander Wyk, The Discharge of Senators from Attendance on the Senate upon a Dissolution of the House of Representatives, July 1988 (PDF 100KB)
1 Peter O’Keeffe, Spoilt for a Ha’p’worth of Tar. How Bureaucratic Law-making can Undermine the Ideals of Civil Liberty, April 1988 (PDF 129KB)
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