Parliamentary business, in plain words
The record on this site assumes you know what a bill, a committee or Hansard is. Here is each one in plain language, with a link to the Parliament's own page.
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Bills +
The draft of a proposed law, tracked as it moves through the House.
Open the official page ↗Committees +
Small groups of members who investigate proposed laws and how government policy, administration and spending actually work.
Open the official page ↗Questions +
Questions put to ministers, and the answers to them where available.
Open the official page ↗Standing Orders +
The rule book the House runs by.
Open the official page ↗WA acts and regulations +
The law itself: acts passed by Parliament plus the delegated rules made under them.
Open the official page ↗Tabled Papers +
Documents formally handed to the House during proceedings, which puts them on the public record.
Open the official page ↗Sitting Calendar +
The schedule of when the Houses and committees meet.
Open the official page ↗Watch and listen +
Live and recorded video of Parliament and its committees.
Open the official page ↗Hansard +
The official word-for-word record of parliamentary debates and committee proceedings.
Open the official page ↗Chamber documents +
The working papers the Houses use to run business on a sitting day.
Open the official page ↗Order of Business +
The running order for business on a sitting day.
Open the official page ↗Scrutiny of finance +
How each House checks the government's spending.
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