The Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Honourable Milton Dick MP has received letters of resignation from the Honourable Bill Shorten and the Honourable Keith Pitt. The Speaker is now ...

2.114The committee recommends that the Department of Health and Aged Care commission research to establish a comprehensive evidence base about the impacts of menopause and perimenopause on women in ...

Under Standing Order 25(2)(a)(v) the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee will inquire into governance at Australian higher education providers, specifically: The adequacy of the ...

Download the List of Senators (PDF 366KB). Further information is available from the Senators’ parliamentary home pages. In those instances where senators prefer to be known by other than his/her ...

The Parliamentary Library Issues & Insights articles provide short analyses of issues that may be considered over the course of this Parliament. Each article gives a high-level perspective of ...

The Minister for Home Affairs, Hon Tony Burke MP, wrote to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (the Committee) on 13 January 2025 to refer the Transport Security Amendment ...

All DPS open business opportunities are available via Austender. From time to time DPS will also advertise details of tenders/expression of interest in the press for contracts within the Department.

Having temporarily filled the role following Lord Hopetoun’s sudden resignation in 1902, Hallam Tennyson (1852-1928) was formally appointed as Australia’s second Governor-General in January 1903. He ...

Government funding to major sporting codes and teams is distributed through both sports-specific programs and broader programs, including infrastructure funding. This complexity makes it difficult to ...

an overview of parliamentary remuneration, business resources and their frameworks an update on reforms through legislative and administrative changes links to relevant resources, including Bills ...

With every system of election there are two quite separate and distinct processes, the ‘voting’ process and the ‘scrutiny’ process, that is, the counting. The first is performed by the voters in the ...

A parliamentary committee is a sub-group of the Parliament that does inquiry and oversight work on behalf of the Parliament. It contains Members of the House of Representatives and/or Senators.