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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Members of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCOT) provide the following statement to clarify the Committee's role in considering decisions made by the Australian Government with respect to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The term parliamentary privilege refers to special legal rights and immunities which apply to each House of the Parliament, its committees and members. These provisions are part of the law of the ...

The Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation assesses delegated legislation against a set of scrutiny principles that focus on compliance with statutory requirements, the ...