Annual Conference
5-7 October 2016
ADELAIDE

You can access the key conference documents from the links below:

Conference theme and program: The Restoration and Enhancement of Parliaments’ Reputation

Conference papers:

Democratic Governance of Political Parties
Ralph Clarke

Budget Scrutiny in Australian State Parliaments
Kylie Coulson

Parliaments’ reputation as the ‘pre-eminent’ institution for defending rights: Do parliamentary committees always enhance this reputation?
Laura Grenfell

Australia’s Political Donations Regime: Not in the public interest–so whose? (speaking notes only)
Colleen Lewis

Lobbyists – Playing a Crucial Role in the Processes of Government: An insider’s view on the lobbying process
Wayne Matthew

Lobbyists – Playing a Crucial Role in the Processes of Government: An insider’s view on the lobbying process (Appendix)
Wayne Matthew

Committees of Influence: Parliamentary Committees with the capacity to change Australia’s counter-terrorism laws
Sarah Moulds

Out of the Bear Pit
Jonathan O’Dea

Addressing the Balance: The Executive and the Parliament
John Seal-Pollard

The Executive’s Contempt for Parliament: It’s Uncourtly Behaviour
Thomas Spencer

The Executive’s Contempt for Parliament: It’s Uncourtly Behaviour (Appendix)
Thomas Spencer

Petitioning the Australian Parliament: Reviving a Dying Democractic Tradition
Daniel Reynolds and George Williams

Bringing Australia’s first parliamentary records into the digital age
Tanja Zech