The Senate is one of the two houses of the Australian Federal Parliament. It consists of 76 senators, twelve from each of the six states and two from each of the mainland territories. It shares the ...

Parliament House is the heart of Australian parliamentary democracy, and one of the most open parliamentary buildings in the world. Its design was chosen from more than 320 entries to an international ...

Text from the National Apology delivered by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition in the Great Hall, Parliament House on 16 November 2009 and then followed by speeches given in the House ...

It is etched on the collective psyche of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today that social and economic exclusion was arbitrarily enforced upon us. The ramifications of this exclusion has ...

When the House is debating legislation or scrutinising government activities, various phrases are used, sometimes in a shorthand way. The concepts they refer to, which describe aspects of Australia’s ...

The House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Australian Federal Parliament, the other being the Senate. It is sometimes called the 'people's house' or the 'house of government'. The ...

3.1 As the previous chapter explained, intersex is a category that includes a range of biological variations, some of which require medical intervention, and some of which do not. Medical care may ...

5.1 This chapter provides a complete listing of the recommendations of the Forgotten Australians report and the government responses. Recommendations that were not considered in chapters 2 and 3 are ...

Each government portfolio is allocated to a committee for the consideration of estimates, and each year the Senate adopts a schedule for the following year's estimates hearings. Additionally, cross ...