Educating schools, students and teachers about Parliament
What are committees? What does the Senate do?
Watch our videos about important people in Parliament.
Learn how to run a role-play in your classroom.
Learn about the history of federation, and the constitution, with our Snapshots series.
Investigate the law-making process to discover how the Australian Parliament considers ideas for laws (bills), who can introduce a bill and what the Parliament can make laws about.
Explore the history of Australia’s Parliament with our easy to use timeline. Investigate the milestones to find out how the work of the Parliament has influenced the development of Australia since federation.
The Prime Minister is the leader of the Australian government. They select members of the government to be ministers, advise the Governor-General about important issues and act as the chief government spokesperson.
Both the Prime Minister, the Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, and the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon Bill Shorten MP, made statements on the outcome of the United States presidential election. The... View the full article...
The House of Representatives has passed a bill to amend, or change, existing migration laws. The Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing Cohort) Bill 2016 will prevent people who were... View the full article...
The Plebiscite (Same-Sex Marriage) Bill 2016 has been defeated in the Senate. If passed, the bill would have allowed for a national plebiscite, or vote of the people, on the question of same-sex... View the full article...
Ms Kimberley Kitching was sworn-in as a Senator for Victoria. She takes up a casual vacancy created by the resignation of former Senator Stephen Conroy. Under section 15 of the Australian... View the full article...
The question of whether a person has met the qualification to be elected as a senator will be considered by the High Court of Australia. This follows concerns that both former South Australian... View the full article...
Our role-play gives students from all over Australia the opportunity to experience what it's like to work in the federal Parliament. Learn more about our role-play program
The Australian flag, which is flown over Parliament House 24 hours a day, seven days a week, marks the exact centre of Parliament House.
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Parliament House front entrance