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Capital Monitor
This database provides up to date information on Bills, Acts Assented, Proclamations, Tax Rulings, High Court, Budget, Elections and Government information on a large number of broad subject areas. Seek information by date also. Full text documents in Adobe Acrobat format.

News
Includes a link to media releases and recent news from Commonwealth government departments and agencies

This week in Parliament
Links to Parliament sitting schedules for both Houses, latest Hansard, House Daily Program and the Senate Order of Business, Senate daily summary, Recent Committee information and What's new (see below)

What's New includes:

  • What's New from the Senate
  • What's New from the House of Representatives
  • What's New from the Parliamentary Library

House News
The online news site of the House of Representatives includes current committee information, new Bills, recent decisions and discussions in Parliament.

Media / Press releases

Media releases
Current media releases by Federal ministers and government agencies.

Library holdings

Ministerial document service: daily collation of Ministers' and Opposition Leaders' statements, (1988-2001), AGPS, Canberra.
Some issues are indexed monthly at the back of bound volume. Indexes to earlier issues are not easy to locate.

Commonwealth record, (1976-1987), AGPS, Canberra.
Weekly record of statements and speeches made by parliamentarians and opposition party leaders and ministers outside parliament. It is particularly useful for election policy speeches, memorial lecture series around Australia and press statements etc. It includes leaders of smaller parties such as the Democrats

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