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Events and Activities
The Parliamentary Studies Centre brings together politicians,
academics, parliamentary officials, and journalists at regular
events.
- Events 2009
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- Research and Activities
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‘Varieties of Unicameralism’
Friday 31 July, 2009
ACT Legislative Assembly
Canberra, Australia
Conference sponsored by
Parliamentary Studies Centre
 Conference Notice (updated 8 July 2009)
View Program (updated 6 August 2009)
Summary of Proceedings - Varieties of Unicameralism Conference
View Summary (updated 4 August 2009)
View Video (updated 7 September 2009) |
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Parliaments and Bills of Rights:
How can parliaments adapt their forms and practices to the new era of Bills of Rights?
Conference sponsored by Parliamentary Studies Centre and Centre for International and Public Law
Main Committee Room
Parliament House, Canberra
Friday 24 April, 2009
View Program (updated 20 April 2009)
Report on Parliaments and Bills of Rights Conference (updated 15 June 2009) |
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Strengthening Parliamentary Institutions
As part of the PSC’s Strengthening Parliamentary Institutions ARC project, co-sponsored by the Department of the House of Representatives and the Department of the Senate, a series of workshops has been held at Parliament House throughout 2008 reviewing papers to be published under the project’s auspices. |
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Bicameralism: Australia in Comparative Context
Sponsored by the Parliamentary Studies Centre, ANU
Parliament House, Canberra, 9-10 October 2008
Conference Notice (updated 30 September 2008)
Bicameralism Conference Report (updated 14 January 2009)
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Legislative Benchmarks and Indicators – September 21-23 2008
With international organisations aware of the role of parliaments in ensuring good governance and policy, the World Bank Institute sponsored a workshop examining ways in which performance of legislatures (and of their legislative strengthening programmes) might be assessed was held at Griffith University in Brisbane. The workshop brought together international bodies (Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, International IDEA, Inter-Parliamentary Union, UN Development Programme) with academics and parliamentary officials to review existing benchmark frameworks. Phil Larkin from the Parliamentary Studies Centre participated. |
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Architecture and Parliament: How Do Buildings Help Shape Parliamentary Business?
A Roundtable marking the 20th Anniversary of Parliament House.
Sponsored by Parliamentary Studies Centre, ANU and the Commonwealth Parliament
Parliament House, Canberra, 22 August 2008
Roundtable Notice (updated 16 August 2008)
Roundtable Final (updated 14 January 2009)
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Legislative-Executive Relations and the War on Terror – March 18-19 2008
The Parliamentary Studies Centre sponsored a workshop on executive-legislative relations and the War on Terror, held at Griffith University in Brisbane. Papers examining the capacity of legislatures to scrutinise and hold government to account a number of countries since 9/11 were presented:
Australia: Phil Larkin and John Uhr (Australian National University)
Indonesia: Edward Schnieder (CUNY, USA)
Israel: Reuven Hazan (Hebrew University, Israel)
Italy: Riccardo Pelizzo (Griffith University, Australia)
Russia: Tom Remington (Emory University, USA)
UK: Mark Shepard (Strathclyde University , UK)
USA: John Owens (University of Westminster, UK)
Versions of the papers will appear as a special edition of the Journal of Legislative Studies in 2009.
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Workshop on Parliamentary Committee Systems, 15 and 16 February 2008
Main Committee Room, Parliament House, Canberra (Held in conjunction with House of Representatives Conference on 20th Aniversary of House Committee System)
15 February Workshop Agenda
16 February Workshop Agenda
View Worshop Report
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Workshop - Public Leadership in Australia and Beyond: Political, bureaucratic and civic leadership in comparative perspective
University House, Australian National University 29-30 November 2007
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Parliament and International Conflict
- what can parliaments contribute to decisions over war-making
and peace-keeping? (part of the Govnet 2006 Conference
on ‘Transformations in Governance’), 29 November
to 1 December 2006, ANU
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Politics
of Opposition: Minor Parties and Independents,
27 October 2006, ANU
Speakers: Senator Lyn Allison, Leader of the Australian
Democrats; Norm Kelly, ANU and former WA MLC; Professor
Richard Mulgan, ANU; Peter Andren, Independent, House of
Representatives; Professor Brian Costar, Swinburne University,
Melbourne; Dr Deb Foskey, Greens, ACT Legislative Assembly;
Bob Katter, Independent, House of Representatives.
Listen to Upper House Speakers
Listent to lower House Speakers
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The Future of the Select Committee
System, 15 September 2006, National Museum of Australia,
Canberra.
Read flyer
Listen to Session 1 (mp3)
Listen to Session 2 (mp3) |
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The PSC currently hosts two
ARC-funded research projects
- 'Reconstructing Parliamentary Opposition: The Australian
Experience’, Professor John Uhr and Dr Kevin Tuffin
(Discovery grant awarded 2004)
- ‘Strengthening Parliamentary Institutions’,
Professor John Uhr (Linkage grant awarded 2006) |
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International Collaborative Research
Projects
Progress on international collaborative research
projects, such as that being conducted jointly by John Uhr
and Elizabeth McLeay comparing the experience of the Australian
and New Zealand Parliaments responding to globalization (part
of a larger comparative project being led by Dr Jennifer Curtin
of Auckland University); and between the Centre and the Constitution
Unit, University College London, on the ‘Governance
of Parliament’
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The PSC provides a focal point
for parliament-related research at the ANU. |
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Recent Research
A comprehensive bibliography of
recent research on parliament is being compiled and a discussion
paper series is planned. |
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