School tours of Parliament House are available to all Australian Primary and Secondary schools. For bookings and information on school programs, please click on the links below. Both the Department of ...

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The Department of the Senate provides the Senate, its committees, the President of the Senate and Senators with a broad range of advisory and support services related to the exercise of the ...

About half of the total sitting time of the House is spent considering bills, that is, proposed laws. These range from comparatively minor proposals of an administrative nature to comprehensive ...

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Mobile phones must not be used for voice calls and any audible signal from phones or pagers must be turned off. Members who have allowed phones to ring have been directed by the Chair to apologise to ...

Review of actions in the Parliamentary Service (Word) (PDF 75KB) Parliamentary Service Commissioner Report 2022-23 (PDF 1.34MB) Parliamentary Service Commissioner Report 2021-22 (PDF 820KB) ...