On 29 January 2025, under Standing Order 25(2)(a)(v), the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee agreed to inquire into the quality of governance at Australian higher education ...

On 26 March 2024, the Senate referred an inquiry into Excess Mortality to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by 30 August 2024. Further detail about the scope of ...

6.15The committee recommends that the Australian Government re-establish a governance structure under the National Cabinet architecture, bringing together representatives with responsibility for law ...

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 ...

4.1Australian households are facing significant cost of living pressures on all fronts. Compounding many Australians struggling with their energy bills, as set out in the previous chapter, the ...

This chapter explores the opportunities and challenges facing Australian agriculture in Southeast Asia. It outlines findings of the Moore report, the Australian Government’s response to it, and ...

Most formal meetings require secretariat support to ensure they are conducted according to certain rules and procedure. The Senate is no different. Every sitting day senior officers of the Department ...

Alfred Deakin (1856-1919) – first Attorney-General of the Commonwealth, and three times Prime Minister – was ‘one of the makers of Australia’. 1 A member of colonial and federal parliaments for over ...

Coal miner, unionist, and teetotaller, Andrew Fisher (1862-1928) was three times Prime Minister (and Treasurer). He was the first leader to secure a majority in both Houses of Parliament, and the ...

Why getting legal advice matters. Getting free legal advice. Finding the right lawyer to help you and why that can be hard. Choosing between redress or a civil claim. Court cases that got blocked ...

Senate standing order 23(3)(c) requires the committee to scrutinise each instrument as to whether it makes rights, liberties, obligations or interests unduly dependent on insufficiently defined ...

Although data sources show income inequality in Australia has fallen slightly in recent years, wealth is distributed much less equally than income among Australian households. Australia’s highly ...