• Sarah Cameron and Ian McAllister - Australian political opinion: from the 2019 election to COVID-19
• Charlotte Fletcher and Anita Coles - Reflections on the 10th anniversary of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights
• Dr Sarah Moulds - Committees of influence: evaluating the role and impact of parliamentary committees
• Ben Oquist and Bill Browne - The Senate's new role in protecting our democracy
• Cheryl Saunders - Accountability for cross-jurisdictional bodies
• Anne Twomey - Law and border—who has the power to control movement across state borders?

• Rosemary Laing - Richard Chaffey Baker and the shaping of the Senate
• Joo-Cheong Tham - Democracy before dollars—the problems with money in Australian politics and how to fix them
• Andrew Murray - The Senate—the struggle continues
• Maureen Weeks - Enriching democracy—Achievements of the Senate crossbench and backbench in the 45th Parliament
• Glenn Ryall - Wilkie v Commonwealth and parliamentary control of appropriations

• His Excellency Mr Chris Seed - The Anzac connection: Trans-tasman ties in the century since Beersheba
• Bret Walker SC - Justified immunity or unfinished business?
• George Megalogenis - Restoring respect
• Dr Ben Wellings - Taking back control: Parliament, sovereignty & Brexit
• Professor Kim Dovey - Architecture and power: How do buildings shape politics?
• Professor Ariadne Vromen - Political engagement in the Australian digital context

• Zareh Ghazarian - Small parties, big changes: The evolution of minor parties elected to the Australian Senate
• David Fricker - Government–Citizen engagement in the digital age
• Russell Taylor - Indigenous constitutional recognition: The 1967 Referendum and today
• Denis Strangman - The defeated 1967 Nexus Referendum
• Anthony Bergin - Parliament and national security: Challenges and opportunities
• Yee-Fui Ng - Between law and convention: Ministerial advisers in the Australian system of responsible government
• Sarah Cameron and Ian McAllister - Trust, parties and leaders: Findings from the 1987–2016 Australian Election Study

• Paul Strangio - The Australian Prime Ministership: Origins and evolution
• Anika Gauja - Party reform: Where are Australia's political parties headed in the future?
• Tom Frame - Conscription, conscience and parliament
• Anne Twomey - Parliament, the executive and vice-regal reserve powers: Heading off crises in a closely tied parliament
• Simon Jackman - Populism and discontent: Comparing the United States and Australia
• Ivan Powell - The concept of 'the same in substance': What does the Perrett judgment mean for parliamentary scrutiny?
• Glenn Ryall and Jessica Strout - Scrutiny Committees: A vehicle for safeguarding federalism and the constitutional rights of parliament

• Graeme Orr - Elections as rituals: Private, communal and public
• Stephen Argument - Australian democracy and executive law-making: Practice and principle (Part I)
• Cheryl Saunders - Australian democracy and executive law-making: Practice and principle (Part II)
• Simon Tormey - The contemporary crisis of representative democracy
• Bede Harris - An argument in favour of constitutional reform
• Leah Armstrong - Reconciliation Action Plans—Creating shared value
• Paula Waring - The pursuit of state interests in the Senate

• Welcome by Rosemary Laing and Nicholas Cowdery
• Concetta Fierravanti-Wells - Magna Carta: Enduring values for modern Australia
• Martin Krygier - Magna Carta and the rule of law tradition
• James Spigelman - Magna Carta and the Executive
• David Clark - Magna Carta in Australia 1803–2015
• Desmond Manderson - The other 1215
• Stephanie Trigg - Magna Carta in print and in English translation
• Kathleen Neal, Andrew Lynch and David Headon - Magna Carta: Personal encounters, popular culture and Australian links

• Andrew Moore - Fitzpatrick and Browne after 60 Years
• Menna Rawlings - 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta
• Jane Halton - Reforming the public sector
• Michael Macklin - Serving the Senate: The legacy of Harry Evans
• Phil Bowen - The Parliamentary Budget Office: Supporting Australian democracy
• Chris Sarra - High expectations realities through high expectations relationships: Delivering beyond the indigenous policy rhetoric
• Michael Sloane - Representation of Commonwealth Territories in the Senate
• Patrick Hodder - The Williams decisions and the implications for the Senate and its Scrutiny Committees

• Brendan Nelson - The role of Government and Parliament in the decision to go to war
• Helen Irving - Pulling the trigger: The 1914 double dissolution election and its legacy
• Colin Neave - Exploring the role of the Commonwealth Ombudsman in relation to parliament
• Ross Garnaut - Global development: The long-term context of Australian development
• Simon Longstaff - Democracy, trust and legitimacy
• Aaron Pegram - Politicians at war: The experiences of Australian parliamentarians in the First World War
• Glenn Ryall - Commonwealth executive power and accountability following Williams (No. 2)

• Antony Green - Is it time for a fundamental review of the Senate's electoral system?
• Alex Oliver - Are Australians disenchanted with democracy?
• Andrew Markus - Trust in the Australian political system
• Stephen Bartos - The Senate and public sector performance
• Judith Ireland and Greg Jericho - The impact of social media on political journalism
• Megan Davis - Competing notions of constitutional 'recognition': truth and justice or living 'off the crumbs that fall off the white Australian tables'?
• Linda Trimble - 'Abolition difficult, reform impossible, status quo unacceptable': can Canada fix its Senate?

Opening Remarks

• The Hon. Rev. Prof. Michael Tate AO - Andrew Inglis Clark, Moby Dick and the Australian Constitution

Political Thought and Practice

• Dr Rosemary Laing - Andrew Inglis Clark: A dim view of parliament?
• The Hon. Dr John Bannon AO - Shadow or illumination? Kingston's rival constitution
• Professor Henry Reynolds - Andrew Inglis Clark: From colonial patriot to radical nationalist

Intellectual Life and Capital Connections

• Dr David Headon - Four degrees of separation: Conway, the Clarks and Canberra
• Professor Marilyn Lake - Oh, to be in Boston now that Federation's here
• Dr James Warden - Andrew Inglis Clark Deserves to Be Remembered Across the Great Divide

A Few of Clark's Hidden Stories

• Professor Henry Reynolds, Professor John Williams, Dr David Headon, Dr Rosemary Laing, Professor Paul Pickering

The Law and the Constitution

• Professor Helen Irving - The Over-rated Mr Clark?: Putting Andrew Inglis Clark's Contribution to the Constitution into Perspective
• Professor John Williams - Andrew Inglis Clark: Our Constitution and His Influence
• Panel Discussion
• The Hon. Robert French AC - Inglis Clark: A Living Force

• Jack Waterford - Canberra and the Parliament: An Increasingly Uncomfortable Marriage
• James P. Pfiffner - Dysfunctional Politics in the United States: Origins and Consequences
• Aaron Martin - Political Engagement among the Young in Australia
• Rosemary Crowley, Amanda Vanstone and Laura Tingle - Women in Federal Parliament: Past, Present and Future
• Robyn Archer - Re-imagining the Capital
• Michael Maley - International Election Observation: Coming Ready or Not
• Glenn Ryall - Williams v. Commonwealth—A Turning Point for Parliamentary Accountability and Federalism in Australia?

• Margaret Fitzherbert - Liberal Women in Parliament: What Do the Numbers Tell Us and Where to from Here?
• Cheryl Saunders - The Scope of Executive Power
• Ross McMullin - Will Dyson: Australia's Radical Genius
• Ken Coghill - How Should Elected Members Learn Parliamentary Skills?
• David Headon - 'But Once in a History': Canberra's Foundation Stones and Naming Ceremonies, 12 March 1913
• Christopher Kam and Faruk Pinar - Paying for Parliament: Do We Get What We Pay For? Lessons from Canada
• Paula Waring - Is It Futile to Petition the Australian Senate?

• Anne Henderson - Joseph Lyons—Australia's Depression Prime Minister
• Andrew Banfield - Minority Report: Lessons from Canada's Minority Parliaments
• William Buss - The Strange Case of Privileges and Immunities
• Kenneth Mayer - Forecasting Presidential Elections: Obama, Romney, or What?
• Sally Young - Media Reporting of the Next Federal Election: What Can We Expect?
• Paula Waring - 'This Is a Procedure on Which We Should Not Lightly Embark': Orders for the Production of Documents in the Australian Senate, 1901 to 1988

• Don Aitkin - The Problem of Planned Cities: Canberra in Context
• Mick Dodson - Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians
• Peter Mares - Temporary Migration and its Implications for Australia
• Ian McPhee - The Evolving Role and Mandate of the Australian National Audit Office Since Federation
• Kylie Scroope - Faithful Representations': 100 Years of the Historic Memorials Collection
• Jon Stanhope - Who's Afraid of Human Rights?
• Bill Bannear - Curbing the Grand Inquest: Legislature v. Executive in the United States and Australia

• David Burchell - How Not to Do It: Reflections on the 2010 UK Elections
• David Headon - Devotion, Daring and Sense of Destiny: Surveyors of the Early Commonwealth
• Geoff Gallop - How Healthy is Australian Federalism?
• John Barry - After the Party, the Hangover?: An Analysis of 'Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland' in the light of the February 2011 Election
• Waleed Aly - Multiculturalism, Assimilation and the Politics of Terrorism
• Patrick Weller - Learning to Be a Minister
• Andrew Murray - Budgets and Finance: Sunlight and the Dark Arts

• Charles Sampford - Parliament, Political Ethics and National Integrity Systems
• Diana Dwyre - Elections, Money and Free Speech in the United States
• Kathleen M. Burns - The Pryor Perspective: Sharply to the Point
• John Bannon - The Disillusionment of Sir John Downer
• Andrew Hutson - Square Peg in a Square Hole: Australia's Parliament House
• Scott Brenton - Minority Government: Is the House of Representatives Finally Catching Up With the Senate?
• Meg Russell - Strengthening the British House of Commons: The Unexpected Reforms of 2010
• Rosemary Laing - The Senate Committee System: Historical Perspectives

• Senator the Hon. John Hogg - Welcome and Opening Address by the President of the Senate
• Dr Rosemary Laing and Professor John Uhr - The Senate Committee System: Historical Perspectives
• Senator the Hon. John Hogg, Professor the Hon. Robert Hill and The Hon. Robert Ray - Throwing Light Into Dark Corners: Senate Estimates and Executive Accountability
• Ms Sue Knowles and Ms Vicki Bourne - Senate Committees and Legislation
• Senator the Hon. Helen Coonan and The Hon. Amanda Vanstone, - Role and Contribution of Legislative Scrutiny Committees
• Mr Andrew Bartlett and Ms Dee Margetts - Work of Senate Committees: Minor Party Perspectives
• Associate Professor Cheryl Kernot and Mr Andrew Bartlett - The Power of Select Committees
• The Hon. Robert Ray and Senator the Hon. George Brandis SC - Parliamentary Privilege and Senate Committees
• Senator Claire Moore and Senator the Hon. Nick Minchin - Committees Under a Government-Controlled Senate: Lessons From 2005–08
• Dr Phil Larkin and Mr Francis Sullivan - Can Committee Performance Be Measured?
• Senator Christine Milne, Senator Trish Crossin and Senator Gary Humphries - The Future of Senate Committees: Challenges and Opportunities

• Harry Evans - Time, Chance and Parliament: Lessons From Forty Years
• Jonathan Pincus - Commonwealth–State Financial Relations: The Case for Competitive Federalism
• John Keane - Media Decadence and Democracy
• David Day - Andrew Fisher: Triumph and Tragedy
• Yvonne Galligan - Thinking About Gender and Democracy
• John Hawkins - Two Global Crises, Two Senate Committees
• Stanley Bach - Reaching Bicameral Legislative Agreement in Canberra and Washington

• Foreword (PDF 59KB)
• Senator the Hon John Hogg - Statement to the Senate on the Retirement of Harry Evans
• Cleaver Elliott - Farewell to Harry Evans
• Parliamentary Privilege: The Reasons of Mr Justice Cantor—An Analysis
• Parliamentary Privilege: Reasons of Mr Justice Hunt—An Analysis
• Parliamentary Privilege and Statutory Secrecy Provisions
• 1975 Revisited: Lost Causes and Lost Remedies
• Protection of Persons Who Provide Information to Members
• Bad King John and the Australian Constitution
• Franca Arena and Parliamentary Privilege
• Constitution, Section 57: Comments on Article by George Williams
• The Other Metropolis: The Australian Founders' Knowledge of America
• Reasonably Necessary Powers: Parliamentary Inquiries and Egan v Willis and Cahill
• Enough of Executive Arrogance?: Egan v Chadwick and Others
• The Australian Constitution and the 1911 Myth
• The 1911 Myth Embellished, by Gough
• The Role of the Senate
• An Elected President for an Australian Republic: Problems and Solutions
• Hobbes Versus Madison and Isaacs Versus Baker: Contrary Theories and Practices in Australian Democracy
• Bryce's Bible: Why Did It Impress the Australian Founders?
• The Pedigree of the Practices: Parliamentary Manuals and Australian Government
• Fitzpatrick and Browne: Imprisonment by a House of the Parliament
• The Traditional, the Quaint and the Useful: Pitfalls of Reforming Parliamentary Procedures
• Having the Numbers Means Not Having to Explain: The Effect of the Government Majority in the Senate
• Bibliography: Articles by Harry Evans

• John Warhurst - The Trajectory of the Australian Republic Debate
• Anne Twomey - Cutting the Gordian Knot: Limiting Rather than Codifying the Powers of a Republican Head of State
• John Dryzek - The Australian Citizens' Parliament: a World First
• George Williams - The Role of Parliament under an Australian Charter of Human Rights
• Margaret Reynolds - Is There Life After Parliament? Reflections of a Former Senator
• Gonzalo Villalta Puig - Parliamentary Prayers and Section 116 of the Australian Constitution
• Graeme Osborne - Donald James Cameron: Senator for Victoria, 1938–1962
• Rosemary Laing - An Introduction to the Annotated Standing Orders of the Australian Senate

• Sally Young - Politics and the Media in Australia Today
• Peter Brain - Governing the Market: Threats to Australia's Stability and Security
• Geoffrey Garrett - McCain v Obama: What the 2008 US Election Means for Australia
• David Headon - Wanted: Treasure house of a Nation's Heart. The Search for an Australian Capital City, 1891-1908
• Stanley Bach - Strengthening Australia's Senate: Some Modest Proposals for Change
• John Faulkner - The Senate: Blessing or Bane?
• Harry Evans - Constitutionalism, Bicameralism and the Control of Power
• Harry Evans - The Senate's Power to Obtain Evidence

• Bernard Crick - Constitutional Politics: Is it the 'Scottish Question' or the 'English Question'?
• Patricia Sykes - Women leaders and Executive Politics: Engendering Change in Anglo-American Nations
• James Allan - Siren Songs and Myths in the Bill of Rights Debate
• Clement Macintyre - Parliamentary Architecture and Political Culture
• Anne Tiernan - The Rudd Transition. Continuity and Change in the Structures of Advice and Support to Australian Prime Ministers
• Kenneth Feinberg - Compensating Victims of Disaster: The United States Experience
• Harry Evans - Legislative Power and Executive Privilege in the Courts

• Sir Gerard Brennan - The Selection of Judges for Commonwealth Courts
• Anne Twomey - The States, the Commonwealth and the Crown-the Battle for Sovereignty
• Larissa Behrendt - What Did the 'Yes' Vote Achieve? Forty Years After the 1967 Referendum
• Stanley Bach - Mandates, Consensus, Compromise, and the Senate
• Harry Evans - The Senate, Accountability and Government Control
• Harry Evans - Parliamentary Privilege and Search Warrants: Will the US Supreme Court Legislate for Australia?

• Scott Bennett - Edward Braddon: Indian Civil Servant, Tasmanian Premier and Federalist
• Simon Evans and Carolyn Evans - Australian Parliaments and the Protection of Human Rights
• Meg Russell - Reforming the British House of Lords
• Karen Middleton - Piranhas in the Parliament
• Colin Hughes - The Independence of Electoral Administration
• Paul Reynolds - Trends in the Australian Party System
• Elizabeth Kwan - National Parliament, National Symbols: From British to Australian Identity

• Graeme Orr - Government Advertising: Parliament and Political Equality
• Scott Prasser - Providing Advice to Government
• Campbell Sharman - Citizens' Assemblies and Parliamentary Reform in Canada
• John Warhurst - Religion in 21st Century Australian National Politics
• George Williams - Victoria's Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities: Lessons for the National Debate
• Paul Strangio - Incumbency Dominance: An Unhealthy Trend?
• Marian Sawer - Red, White and Blue - What Do They Mean to You? The Significance of Political Colours
• R.L. Cope - Pictures of Parliament: Canberra and Berlin

• Transcript of a Seminar on the Work of the Senate Select Committee on Superannuation
• Ian Marsh - Can Senate Committees Contribute to 'Social Learning'?
• Wayne Hooper - The Senate Select Committee on Superannuation 1991-2003

• Ian Marsh - Australia 's Representation Gap: A Role for Parliamentary Committees?
• Ross McMullin - First in the World: Australia 's Watson Labor Government
• Jennifer Curtin - Independents in Federal Parliament: A New Challenge or a Passing Phase?
• AJ Brown - The Constitution We Were Meant To Have
• Rod Rhodes - The Court Politics of the Blair Presidency
• Elizabeth McLeay - Democratic Experiments in New Zealand
• Patricia Fitzgerald Ratcliff - The Australia Are One: John West Guiding Colonial Australia to Nationhood
• Leslie Zines - Sir Robert Garran
• Greg Craven - The New Centralism and the Collapse of the Conservative Constitution

• John Vander Wyk and Angie Lilley - Reference of Bills to Australian Senate Committees, With particular reference to the role of the Selection of Bills Committee

• Stuart Macintyre - Alfred Deakin. A Centenary Tribute
• Michael Coper - The High Court and the Parliament: Partners in Law-making, or Hostile Combatants?
• A.J. Brown - Constitutional Schizophrenia Then and Now
• John Molony - Eureka and the Prerogative of the People
• Sir Ninian Stephen - John Quick: a True Founding Father of Federation
• Dennis Pearce - Rules, Regulations and Red Tape: Parliamentary Scrutiny and Delegated Legislation
• Patricia Fitzgerald Ratcliff - The Australians are One: John West Guiding Colonial Australia to Nationhood
• John Hirst - The Distinctiveness of Australian Democracy
• Anthony Marinac - The Usual Suspects? Civil Society and Senate Committees

• Margaret Guilfoyle and Susan Ryan - The Trailblazers: the First Women in Cabinet
• Barbara Caine - Australian Feminism and the British Militant Suffragettes
• Moira Rayner - Public Discourse and the Power of Women
• John Uhr - The Power of One
• Marise Payne - Personal Perspectives on Parliament: Upper House
• Julia Gillard - Personal Perspectives on Parliament: Lower House
• Carry on the Fight: Women in the Australian Senate

• Don Russell - The Role of Executive Government in Australia
• Bruce Stone - Australian Bicameralism: Potential and Performance in State Upper Houses
• Stanley Bach - A Delicate Balance: the Accidental Genius of Australian Politics
• Brian Costar - Accountability or Representation? Victorian Bicameralism
• Patrick Weller - The Australian Public Service: Still Anonymous, Neutral and a Career Service?
• Michael Pusey - An Australian Story: the Troubling Experience of Economic Reform
• Ross McMullin - Vigour, Rigour and Charisma: the Remarkable Pompey Elliott, Soldier and Senator

• Julianne Schultz, - Two Cultures: Parliament and the Media
• Ted Morton - Senate Envy: Why Western Canada Wants What Australia Has
• Patrick Bishop - Democratic Equivocations: Who Wants What, When and How?
• Campbell Sharman - Politics at the Margin: Independents and the Australian Political System
• Patrick Barrett - Auditing in a Changing Governance Environment
• Gary Johns - Government and Civil Society: Which is Virtuous?
• Lord Irvine of Lairg - The Spirit of Magna Carta Continues to Resonate in Modern Law

• Jeremy Rabkin - National Sovereignty in a Globalising World
• Murray Goot - Distrustful, Disenchanted and Disengaged? Polled Opinion on Politics, Politicians and the Parties: an Historical Perspective
• David Zussman - Confidence in Public Institutions: Restoring Pride to Politics
• Phillip Knightley - What is Australia? Perception versus Reality
• Ian McAllister - Civic Education and Political Knowledge in Australia
• Sir Alastair Goodlad - Political Structure and Constitutional Reform in the United Kingdom
• Donley T. Studlar - Reflections on the Election Fiasco in the United States
• Judith Brett - Parliament, Meetings and Civil Society

• Margaret Reid and Gavin Souter - Speeches from the Launch of the Senate Exhibition For Peace, Order and Good Government, 29 March 2001
• James G Drake - An Address
• John Hirst - Federation: Destiny and Identity
• Geoffrey Blainey - The Centenary of Australia's Federation: What Should We Celebrate?
• Helen Irving - One Hundred Years of (Almost) Solitude: the Evolution of Australian Citizenship
• Marian Simms - 1901: the Forgotten Election
• Marian Sawer - Inventing the Nation Through the Ballot Box
• Russell L Cope - Housing a Legislature: When Architecture and Politics Meet

• David Solomon - A Single-Chamber Australian Parliament?
• George Williams - Legislating for a Bill of Rights Now
• Tony Harris - Auditors-General: Policies and Politics
• Richard Mulgan - Public Servants and the Public Interest
• Ken Coghill - Ministers in Office: Preparation and Performance
• John Kalokerinos - Who May Sit? An Examination of the Parliamentary Disqualification Provisions of the Commonwealth Constitution

• Howard Wilson - Ethics and Government: the Canadian Experience
• Geoffrey de Q. Walker - Rediscovering the Advantages of Federalism
• Ian Marsh - The Senate, Policy-Making and Community Consultation
• Alan J. Ward - Australia and Parliamentary Orthodoxy
• Meredith Burgmann - Constructing Legislative Codes of Conduct
• John Uhr - Making Sense of the Referendum
• Rodney Tiffen - The Scandals We Deserve?
• Kay Walsh - Survey of Literature on the First Parliament

• Marion Sawer - Overview: Institutional Design and the Role of the Senate
• John Uhr - Why We Chose Proportional Representation
• Elaine Thompson - The Senate and Representative Democracy
• Arend Lijphart - Australian Democracy: Modifying Majoritarianism?
• Harry Evans - Accountability Versus Government Control: the Effect of Proportional Representation
• Murray Goot - Can the Senate Claim a Mandate?
• Marian Sawer - Dilemmas of Representation
• Helen Coonan - Survival of the Fittest: Future Directions of the Senate
• Andrew Bartlett - A Squeeze on the Balance of Power: Using Senate 'Reform' to Dilute Democracy'
• John Faulkner - A Labor Perspective on Senate Reform
• Fred Chaney - Should Parliament be Abolished?
• Dee Margetts - The Contribution of The Greens (WA) to the Australian Senate
• Campbell Sharman - The Representation of Small Parties and Independents
• Paul Bongiorno, Michelle Grattan and Melissa Langerman - Reporting the Senate: Three Perspectives
• Peter Sekuless and Frances Sullivan - Lobbying the Senate: Two Perspectives
• Anne Lynch - Personalities versus Structure: the Fragmentation of the Senate Committee System
• Ian Marsh - Opening Up the Policy Process
• Kate Lundy - Cyberdemocracy and the Future of the Australian Senate
• Geoffrey Brennan - The Senate and Proportional Representation: Some Concluding Observations

• Clem Lloyd - The Influence of Parliamentary Location and Space on Australia's Political News Media
• Philippa Smith - Red Tape and the Ombudsman
• Elizabeth Evatt - Meeting Universal Human Rights Standards: the Australian Experience
• Hilary Charlesworth - Globalisation, the Law and Australian Sovereignty: Dangerous Liaisons
• Chandran Kukathas - Tolerating the Intolerable
• David Headon - Republicanism, Politicians, and People's Conventions—Goulburn 1854 to Canberra 1998
• Scott Reid - Curbing Judicial Activism: the High Court, the People and a Bill of Rights
• Martin Krygier - Fear, Hope, Politics and Law
• Campbell Sharman - The Senate and Good Government
• R.L. Cope - Biographical Dictionaries of Parliamentarians: Considerations and Examples

Corowa

• Stuart Macintyre - Corowa and the Voice of the People
• Helen Irving - When Quick Met Garran: the Corowa Plan
• David Headon - Loading the Gun: Corowa's Role in the Federation Debate
• Jeff Brownrigg - "Melba's Puddin'": Corowa, Mulwala and Our Cultural Past
• James Warden - From Little Things Big Things Grow: Thresholds of Citizenship (1893–1993)
• Paul Keating - The Prime Minister's Centenary Dinner Speech, Corowa, 31 July 1993

Bathurst

• John Bannon - Return Tickets at Single Fares: the Bathurst Convention as a Representative National Gathering
• Stuart Macintyre - The Idea of the People
• John Hirst - Federation and the People: a Response to Stuart Macintyre
• David Headon - Resurrecting the Federal Ideal: Mr Astley goes to Bathurst
• A.E. Cahill - Cardinal Moran, Bathurst and the Achievement of Federation
• Tessa Milne - Barton at Bathurst: "Front Stage/Backstage"
• Mark McKenna - John Napoleon Norton and the 1896 Bathurst Convention
• Robin McLachlan - A Foreign Agent Unmasked: Colonel Bell at Bathurst
• Kevin Livingston - Joseph Cook's Contribution
• Jeff Brownrigg - "The Sentiment of Nationality" Bathurst and Popular Support for Federation

• Dr Anne Summers, - The Media and Parliament: Image-making and Image-breaking
• Hugh Mackay - Three Generations: the Changing Values and Political Outlook of Australians
• Professor Marian Sawer - Mirrors, Mouthpieces, Mandates and Men of Judgement: Concepts of Representation in the Australian Federal Parliament
• Harry Evans - Bad King John and the Australian Constitution: Commemorating the 700th Anniversary of the 1297 Issue of Magna Carta
• Dr Henry Reynolds - Aborigines and the 1967 Referendum: Thirty Years On
• Richard Broinowski - Robert Arthur Broinowski: Clerk of the Senate, Poet, Environmentalist, Broadcaster
• Kelly Paxman - Referral of Bills to Senate Committees: an Evaluation
• Juliet Edeson - Powers of Presidents in Republics

• The Hon. John Bannon - Towards Federation: the Role of the Smaller Colonies
• Professor Stuart Macintyre - A Federal Commonwealth, an Australian Citizenship
• Professor Geoffrey Bolton - The Art of Consensus: Edmund Barton and the 1897 Federal Convention
• Dr Mark McKenna - Sir Richard Chaffey Baker—the Senate's First Republican
• Professor Greg Craven, - he High Court and the Founders: an Unfaithful Servant
• Dr Kathleen Dermody - The 1897 Federal Convention Election: a Success or Failure?
• Derek Drinkwater - Federation Through the Eyes of a South Australian Model Parliament

• David Butler - Ministerial Accountability: Lessons of the Scott Report
• Marilyn Lake - Women's Changing Conception of Political Power
• Deryck Schreuder - Reshaping the Body Politic—the South African Experience
• Campbell Sharman - Defining Executive Power: Constitutional Reform for Grown-Ups
• John Uhr - Keeping Government Honest: Preconditions of Parliamentary Effectiveness

• Harry Evans - The Australian Head of State: Putting Republicanism into the Republic
• George Winterton and David Flint - The Election of an Australian President
• Les A. Murray, AO - And Let's Always Call It the Commonwealth: One Poet's View of the Republic
• K.S. Inglis - Parliamentary Speech
• Gwynneth Singleton - Independents in a Multi-Party System: the Experience of the Australian Senate
• Jack Waterford - Ministerial Responsibility for Personal Staff
• Derek Drinkwater - Rupert Loof: Clerk of the Senate and Man of Many Parts

• Professor Beryl A. Radin - Reinventing Government in the United States: What is Happening with the National Performance Review?
• Professor Neville Meaney - The Commonwealth and the Republic: an Historical Perspective
• Senator the Hon. Margaret Reynolds - Women, Pre-selection and Merit: Who Decides?
• Pru Goward - The Medium, not the Messenger
• Sir David Smith - An Australian Head of State: an Historical and Contemporary Perspective
• Senator the Hon. Michael Beahan - Majorities and Minorities: Evolutionary Trends in the Australian Senate
• Professor Howard Cody - Australia's Senate and Senate Reform in Canada

• The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby, AC, CMG - Human Rights—The International Dimension
• Senator Baden Teague - An Australian Head of State: the Contemporary Debate
• Harry Evans - Electing a President: the elite versus the public
• David Hamer, DSC - Can Responsible Government Survive in Australia?
• John Taylor - Parliament and the Auditor-General
• Dr Suri Ratnapala - Westminster Democracy and the Separation of Powers: Can they Co-exist?
• Peter C. Grundy - Prima Facie Native Title

• Professor Peter Russell - Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canada Become a Sovereign People?
• Professor Henry J. Steiner - Cultural Relativism and the Attitude of Certain Asian Countries towards the Universality of Human Rights
• Senator Cheryl Kernot - For Parliament or Party: Whose Democracy is it, Anyway?
• Dr James Warden - Parliament, Democracy and Political Identity in Australia
• Dr Helen Irving - Who are the Founding Mothers? The Role of Women in Australian Federation

• A Note on the Meaning of 'Republic'
• Republicanism, Continued: A brief rejoinder to Graham Maddox
• Republicanism and the Australian Constitution
• Introduction: The Agenda of the True Republicans
• Keeping the Australian Republic
• Essentials of Republican Legislatures: Distributed Majorities and Legislative Control
• Australia's Real Republican Heritage

• Derek Drinkwater - Catspaw of the Minister? Membership of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, 1952-1967
• Professor Ulrich Klti - Reform Trends in Swiss Government
• Kathleen Burns - A Stranger in Paradise? A Foreign Correspondent's View of the Parliamentary Press Gallery
• Professor Kathleen Mahoney - A Charter of Rights: The Canadian Experience
• Fred Chaney - Parliament: Our Great Expectations
• Professor James Walter - What Has Happened To Political Ideas?

• Ferdinand Mount - Parliament and the Governance of Modern Nations
• Kathy Martin Sullivan MP - Women in Parliament—Yes! But What's It Really Like?
• Professor Michael Crommelin - Mabo—The Decision and the Debate
• Professor Geoffrey Brennan - Australian Parliamentary Democracy: One Cheer for the Status Quo

• Ian Temby QC - Safeguarding Integrity in Government
• Professor Geoffrey de Q Walker - Constitutional Change in the 1990s: Moves for Direct Democracy
• Professor Thomas J. Courchene - Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada
• Professor Roger Wettenhall - Corporatised Bodies Old and New: Is Parliament Missing Out?
• Professor Brian de Garis - How Popular was the Popular Federation Movement?
• Dr Greg Craven - The Founding Fathers: Constitutional Kings or Colonial Knaves?

• Part 1—Looking at London
• Part 2—The Future Isn't What It Used To Be: Disputatious Observations
• Parliamentary Bibliography

• Clerk of the Senate - Amendments and Requests: Disagreements Between the Houses
• Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives - Amendments and Requests: A Background Paper
• Clerk of the Senate - The Senate: Amendment of Taxation and Appropriation Legislation
• Clerk of the Senate - Supply

• Bill Blick - Accountability, the Parliament and the Executive
• Harry Evans - Parliament: An Unreformable Institution
• Senator Bruce Childs - The Truth About Parliamentary Committees
• Brian Galligan - Parliamentary Responsible Government and the Protection of Rights
• Senator The Hon. Terry Aulich - Parliament's Last Stand
• Senator The Hon. Peter Durack - Parliament and People
• Senate Procedural Digest 1992

• Senator Patricia Giles - Women in the Federal Parliament
• Dr Marian Sawer - Housekeeping the State: Women and Parliamentary Politics in Australia
• The Hon. Susan Ryan, AO - Fishes on Bicycles
• Janine Haines - Suffrage to Sufferance: 100 Years of Women in Parliament
• The Hon. Dame Margaret Guilfoyle, DBE - The Senate: Proportionately Representative but Disproportionately Male

• Harry Rigby - Russia's Parliaments
• Professor Oliver MacDonagh - 'Parnell and the Art of Politics'

• Parliamentary Scrutiny of Quasi-legislation – Chapters 1–4
• Parliamentary Scrutiny of Quasi-legislation – Chapters 5–8

• Harry Evans - Parliamentary Reform: New Directions and Possibilities for Reform of Parliamentary Processes
• John Black, Michael Macklin and Chris Puplick - How Parliament Works in Practice
• John Button - The Role of the Leader of the Government in the Senate
• Hugh Collins - Political Literacy: Educating for Democracy
• Senate Procedural Digest 1991

• The Rt Hon Sir Zelman Cowen - "Is it not time?" The National Australasian Convention of 1891—a milestone on the road to federation
• Professor Geoffrey Bolton - Samuel Griffith: the Great Provincial
• Professor W.G. McMinn - Politics or Statesmanship? George Reid and the Failure of the 1891 Federation Movement
• Professor Leslie Zines - What the Courts have done to Australian Federalism
• Mr John McMillan - Constitutional Reform in Australia
• The Hon Frank Neasey - Andrew Inglis Clark and Australian Federation

Proceedings of the Conference to mark the twentieth anniversary of Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committees and Senate Estimates Committees, 3 October 1990

• Session 1–'The revolutionary proposals' of 1970
  • 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
• Session 2—Senate Committees - keeping Parliament responsible
  • Keynote address by Mr David Hamer
  • Panel of speakers: Senator the Hon. Peter Durack, Mr John Black, Professor Dennis Pearce and Professor Dianne Yerbury
• Session 3—Senate Estimates Committees—do these watchdogs bite or only bark?
  • Keynote address by Senator the Hon. Peter Baume
  • Panel of speakers: Senator Bruce Childs, Dr Michael Keating, Dr John Uhr and Ms Michelle Grattan
• Session 4—Senate Committees—can they halt the decline of Parliament?
  • Keynote address by Dr Brian Galligan
  • Panel of speakers: Senators Rod Kemp, Nick Sherry, Vicki Bourne, William O'Chee and Mr Peter Bayne
• Speech by the Governor-General, His Excellency the Hon. Bill Hayden, AC, made at the Conference Dinner, 3 October 1990

• Ian Marsh - The Committee System of the UK House of Commons: Recent Developments and their Implications for Australia

• Peter Bayne - Tribunals in the System of Government

• A.W. Martin - Parkes and the 1890 Conference

• Chandran Kukathas, with additional observations by David Lovell and William Maley - Democracy, Parliament and Responsible Government

• John Taylor - The Auditor-General—Ally of the People, the Parliament and the Executive
• Dennis Pearce - The Commonwealth Ombudsman: Present Operation and Future Developments
• Cheryl Saunders - The Role of the Administrative Review Council

• Session 1—An Overview of the Scrutiny System by Watchers and Watched
  • 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'?
• Session 3—The Theory and Practice of Public Accountability—the Views of Key Practitioners
  • 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
  • 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
• Appendix 1—John Uhr - Public Expenditure and Parliamentary Accountability: The Debatable Role of Senate Estimates Committees
• Appendix 2—John Taylor - Auditing Public Expenditure and the Estimates Process: The Role of the Auditor-General
• Appendix 3—Senator Bronwyn Bishop - Public Administration: A Sharpening of the Focus

• Jenny Hutchison - The big picture on the small screen

• Brian Galligan - No Bill of Rights for Australia

• Peter O'Keeffe - Deregulation, merits review and the withering of parliamentary sovereignty

• Anne Lynch - Legislation by proclamation - Parliamentary nightmare, bureaucratic dream
• John Vander Wyk - The discharge of senators from attendance on the Senate upon a dissolution of the House of Representatives

• Peter O'Keeffe - Spoilt for a Ha'p'worth of Tar. How Bureaucratic Law-making can Undermine the Ideals of Civil Liberty