Senate Matters

Public interest articles on the work of the Senate

Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate

Biographies of Australian senators and clerks of the Senate who completed their service between 1901 to 2002

Available for purchase

Glossary of Senate terms

A brief and simple description of terms regularly used in the Senate

Passage of legislation

An interactive website which follows the path of a bill through the law-making process of Parliament to being a law

Australia's Magna Carta

The story behind its creation, the mystery of its appearance in 1936 and the machinations leading to its purchase in 1952

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There Being No Objection... An Australian Senate Miscellany

Provides insights to some of the parliamentary puzzles that have long mystified Australians

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I seek leave to continue my remarks

This wide-ranging book retells 31 forgotten tales from the Australian Senate and the wider parliamentary world

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Constitutional Conventions

The records of the Australasian Federation Conference of 1890 and the Australasian Federal Conventions of 1891 and 1897/8 are among the most significant founding documents of the Australian nation.

Women in Federal Parliament

An archived website featuring women who served in federal Parliament between 1943 and 2019. Hosted by the National Library of Australia on TROVE

For peace, order and good government

This website tells the story of our first federal Parliament: its origins, who its members were, how it worked, and its achievements.