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Chapter 7 - Meetings
of the Senate
Place of meeting
In the
proclamation fixing the time for the Parliament to meet at the beginning of a
session, traditionally the Governor-General purports to direct the Houses as to
the place of their meeting, although this is not authorised by the
Constitution. Under its own resolution, the Senate meets in its chamber in
Parliament House in Canberra (2/6/1988, J.822). It is arguable that, under section 125 of the
Constitution, the Senate may not meet other than in the seat of government
established under that section. In 2001, however, the Senate resolved to meet
in Melbourne to commemorate the first meetings there
in 1901 (9-10/5/2001, J.4219, 4221), but no legislative business was transacted
at the commemorative meetings.
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